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@Rainmaker1973

Astronomy, astronautics, meteorology, physics. Engineer, trying to build the big picture of via selected & curated pics, videos & links

Italy, North by Northwest
Liittynyt elokuu 2010

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    9. maalisk. 2021
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  2. 21 minuuttia sitten

    Gibbons' primary mode of locomotion, brachiation, involves swinging from branch to branch for distances up to 15 m, at speeds as high as 55 km/h. To do this you need very long arm and this gif visualize the size [source of the gif: ]

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  3. uudelleentwiittasi
    10 tuntia sitten

    In Iceland there are black sand beaches where the water disappears due to the filtering action of the sands [source: ] [read more about Iceland's black sand beaches: ]

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  4. uudelleentwiittasi
    5 tuntia sitten

    When you’re building a zoo disaster plan, there’s one thing to keep in mind: Murphy’s law. Anything that could go wrong, will. Just ask the flock of flamingos who weathered 1992’s Hurricane Andrew in a public restroom at Miami Zoo [read more: ]

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  5. uudelleentwiittasi
    5 tuntia sitten

    On November 30, 2017, during a dive of an Okeanos Explorer expedition, this giant deep-sea isopod measuring nearly 30 cm was spotted at a depth of ~810 meters: an example of deep-sea gigantism [video, HD: ]

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  6. uudelleentwiittasi
    3 tuntia sitten

    Going online like it's 1979 with a TRS-80 [full video by FozzTexx: ]

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  7. 51 minuuttia sitten

    While inside their egg cases, red-eyed tree frog tadpoles are easy meals for predators such as snakes or wasps. But video recorded by researchers at Boston University shows these baby frogs have a biological escape plan to avoid being eaten [full video: ]

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  8. uudelleentwiittasi
    4 tuntia sitten

    The idea that you can convert your dog's age to human years by multiplying by 7 is a total myth. Now researchers have developed a formula based on changes to DNA over time: multiply the natural logarithm of your dog's age in years by 16, then add 31

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  9. uudelleentwiittasi
    3 tuntia sitten

    There are plenty of electric tape dispensers, but this carousel model coreographically feeds and cuts tape to a definite length and a feed system elegantly places tape on carousel for easy removal

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  10. uudelleentwiittasi
    3 tuntia sitten

    This is the (logarithmic) timeline of an expanding universe. We live at the 3rd line from the left and all stars will disappear in 10¹⁴ years (4th line). Then there will be 10¹⁰⁰ year of just black holes and then, the Dark Era [read more: ]

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  11. 1 tunti sitten

    A Fibonacci shelf is the best idea for the math addicted but also a practical shelf + a nice design furniture [read more: ]

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  12. 2 tuntia sitten

    The story of the HMS Porcupine, the ship that was blown in half by a German torpedo with the two halves being towed back to the UK and recommissioned as two ships: the HMS Pork and HMS Pine [read more: ]

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  13. 2 tuntia sitten

    Astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy took a photo of every planet in our Solar System and adjusted their size to show how huge our Sun is [hi-res photo to zoom in: ] [this and other impressive astro photos by Andrew McCarthy, here: ]

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  14. uudelleentwiittasi
    4 tuntia sitten

    Meet Ameca, the popular robot by Engineered Arts that has an array of human-like facial expressions in this interview by CNET to CEO Morgan Roe [full story: ]

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  15. 3 tuntia sitten

    Going online like it's 1979 with a TRS-80 [full video by FozzTexx: ]

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  16. 3 tuntia sitten

    This is the (logarithmic) timeline of an expanding universe. We live at the 3rd line from the left and all stars will disappear in 10¹⁴ years (4th line). Then there will be 10¹⁰⁰ year of just black holes and then, the Dark Era [read more: ]

    Kumoa
  17. 3 tuntia sitten

    There are plenty of electric tape dispensers, but this carousel model coreographically feeds and cuts tape to a definite length and a feed system elegantly places tape on carousel for easy removal

    Kumoa
  18. 4 tuntia sitten

    The idea that you can convert your dog's age to human years by multiplying by 7 is a total myth. Now researchers have developed a formula based on changes to DNA over time: multiply the natural logarithm of your dog's age in years by 16, then add 31

    Kumoa
  19. uudelleentwiittasi
    8 tuntia sitten

    The giant-impact hypothesis suggests that the Moon formed out of the debris left over from a collision between Earth and a body the size of Mars, approximately 4.5 billion years ago [read more: ] [source: ]

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  20. 4 tuntia sitten

    The shaking motion of an earthquake and a tsunami are the result of a sudden release of energy [source, Trudi Kay: ]

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  21. 4 tuntia sitten

    Meet Ameca, the popular robot by Engineered Arts that has an array of human-like facial expressions in this interview by CNET to CEO Morgan Roe [full story: ]

    Kumoa

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