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This video compares the size of tsunamis from the smallest wave to the biggest tsunami
[📹 HD, Red Side: buff.ly/3R8UrNA]
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Egg-eating snakes (genus Dasypeltis) live in Africa and feed on bird eggs. Watch one swallowing a egg bigger than its head breaking its shell with its cervical vertebrae. The entire process took 2 hours [full video, Living Zoology: buff.ly/30LaFIm-]
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Archerfish shoot their prey down with water droplets from their mouths. They are remarkably accurate and can bring down insects and other small animals up to 3 m above the water's surface
[📹 buff.ly/3RfpGqz]
[read more: buff.ly/3Kn98uh]
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Gears, couplings, and drives - all made with LEGO
[source, Brick Experiment Channel, full video: buff.ly/3fCMe77]
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The mineral pyrite also known as fool's gold, is an iron sulfide with the chemical formula FeS₂. It can be found in nature with almost perfect cubic formations like these ones
[read more: buff.ly/2Llz1Lw]
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Artist Lai Yuesen (赖跃森) is mostly known for his super-realistic oil paintings, generally impressive still life perfomances that look like anything but still.
[artist's account: buff.ly/3xw0OmW]
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Of the many structures Leonardo da Vinci designed, perhaps none made more ingenious use of materials than his practical design for an easy-to-assemble, self-supporting bridge
[read more: buff.ly/3PUNnEY]
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This requires a mandatory center of mass analysis
[📹 ellariya_bohdanova & karinasandovich: buff.ly/3Chdvot]
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The 2011 Tōhoku earthquake triggered a tsunami wave that reached heights of up to 40.5 meters. It traveled at 700 km/h (435 mph) and up to 10 km (6 mi) inland. This video shows its devastating speed and power [read more: buff.ly/2vKev0C]
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Thanks to its lightweight construction, the buoyancy of helium and the wing drive, FESTO Air_Ray moves through the air like its natural role model through the water [read more: buff.ly/3mBokJ7] [📽️ source: buff.ly/3zsZlj0]
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Micro Hovercraft Laboratory owner Hideyasu Ito demonstrates his latest micro hovercraft which has four air skirts at an annual DIY exhibition Maker Faire Tokyo 2022
[read more, video (JP): buff.ly/3PSgIA7]
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Boxabl folding house is 40 square meters—about the size of a studio apartment—and they’re calling it the Casita. It costs $49,500 and can be set up in a day once it’s delivered [read more: buff.ly/37bRNle]
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Bald eagle courtship involves elaborate, spectacular flight displays. These include swoops, chases, and cartwheels, in which they fly high, lock talons, and free-fall, separating just before hitting the ground
[📹 Mark Smith: buff.ly/3WnOijV]
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A woodpecker's tongue is so long that it wraps around its skull to protect its brain from over 1000g of acceleration when it's hammering away
[read more: buff.ly/2KlKivH, buff.ly/3qZfyHk]
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The Pickaso Guitar Bow is a revolutionary way to imitate violin/cello sounds on an acoustic guitar
This is Marcus Eaton giving a demostration, playing the Games of Thrones theme with Matera in the background
[Marcus' TikTok: buff.ly/3hN76K8]
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Slow motion art
[📹 仙奴视角: buff.ly/3GiaXak]
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In 1663, the skull of a woolly rhinoceros was discovered along with the tusk from a narwhale & the front legs of a mammoth in Germany. This is how the “Magdeburg Unicorn” was assembled, one of the worst fossil reconstructions in human history
[read more: buff.ly/3VqGAEC]
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There’s a tiny, innocent-looking rodent called the grasshopper mouse who kills highly venomous arthropods like scorpions and forcipules and it howls at the moon to claim its territory
[videos + read more: buff.ly/3RnIkNh]
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Marg Leehane, owner of Great Bear Lodge in Port Hardy, British Columbia, decided it was worth waking up the guests at 6 a.m. to show them two humpback whales in the bay [source, HD: buff.ly/3JKlZ9M] twitter.com/Gabriele_Corno…
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Debbie Parker captured the exact moment a lightning hit a tree in Moorefield, Hardy County, West Virginia on June 23, 2022 [source: buff.ly/3A6G47h]
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There are several ways to scan a book. This kind of scanners allows most gentle book scanning with no overstrechting of the books providing automatic page turning (up to 2,500 pph)
[read more: buff.ly/3hz35ZQ]
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These flames are touchable. They are not even flames, actually as they are made by water vapor lit by LED lights [source: ow.ly/DZf230n7xFw]
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This glimpse into Paris in the 1830s is an example of peepshow or tunnel book, a kind of virtual reality of the time capable of giving the illusion of depth and perspective.
[read more: buff.ly/3Vmh3fl]
[the book: buff.ly/3HZX4A4]
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Nothing remarkable, just a small rotating card dealing robot
#SaturdayFun
[source: buff.ly/3hN98Kg]
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Hitting and launching molten iron into the air with a shovel is a very dangerous activity and must not be tried anywhere, but (with the proper protection equipment) it can produce surprising beauty [source, SUSHI RAMEN【Riku】: buff.ly/3KcE5zz]
Astronomy, astronautics, meteorology, physics. Engineer, trying to build the big picture of #science via selected & curated pics, videos & links