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This tornado (later rated EF2) captured by meteorologist and storm chaser @ReedTimmerAccu north of Wray, Colorado in 2016, is still one of the best examples of an extreme weather event as seen up close
[full video, HD: buff.ly/3F3QwLO]
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The SCMaglev is a magnetic levitation (maglev) railway system developed by Central Japan Railway Company and the Railway Technical Research Institute. On 21 April 2015, a manned seven-car L0 Series SCMaglev train reached a speed of 603 km/h (375 mph): buff.ly/2RQeEZy
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Hemiscyllium halmahera is a species of bamboo shark discovered in 2013. It uses its pectoral fins to walk along the ocean floor [full video by Mark Erdmann: buff.ly/36t2yOQ]
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A LEGO gyroscope unicycle
[source, diamabolo: buff.ly/3Idv247]
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Striped Indian mackerels open their cavernous mouths as they swim, sieving zooplankton with gill rakers like a net. This picture by Alex Mustard is possibly one of the most explanatory of this behavior
[source: buff.ly/2RHCJaw]
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High diving is the act of diving into water from relatively great heights. Rick Charls succeded in diving 52.4 m at Sea World on the show Wide World of Sports, 1983. Apparently, no one has ever jumped this high without injury buff.ly/2yWdyrc
[📹 ow.ly/1qFs30ocbuu]
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When a cat discovers refraction
[source of the gif: buff.ly/3XDTOQn]
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Russia and the United States are only 2 miles apart, and during the winter, you can still walk between the two nations. There have been Chinese proposals to build highways and high-speed rail connecting Asia and North America the Bering Strait buff.ly/30c07zy
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How to find tardigrades in moss
[🔬: Olympus CX31]
[📹 Adolfo Sánchez-Blanco: buff.ly/3WiFKdp]
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This is a streetcar traveling in New Orleans. Photographer Don Chamblee held the camera against the window sill, making sure to divide the image equally between the inside and the outside, giving us a representation of relativity [source: buff.ly/2KsZh6K]
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The iconic nighttime thunderstorm photo over the Pacific Ocean captured by photographer and pilot, Santiago Borja in 2016
[source, full story: buff.ly/29gtqr1]
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The Largest crane from Liebherr, "LR13000" can lift 3,000 tons. The second largest "LR11350" can lift 1350 tons. The third largest "LR 1350" 350 tons. And the "smallest" "LTR 1100" 100 tons. This was done on Customer Days 2012 [how it was done, video: buff.ly/2nxCO20]
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Scotoplanes, alos known as sea pigs, live on deep ocean bottoms typically at depths of over 1,200–5,000 meters
[read more: buff.ly/3wWM3sT]
[📹: buff.ly/3RzzZFR]
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This roundabout in Khobar City, Saudi Arabia uses the barrier grid animation principle to transform into a macroscopic kinegram and make the horses appear as gallopping
[read more: buff.ly/3648EXo]
[source: buff.ly/3BTqHi2]
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This simple experiment shows the importance of pressure in siphoning. The middle bottle is capped and the air inside it takes space: that's why the fluid level cannot increase until the cap is removed
[source: buff.ly/3gyawzS]
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Sphalerite ((Zn, Fe)S) is a mineral that is the chief ore of zinc: the colors spectrum of its gems is awesome
[read more: bit.ly/2wUGKJo]
[📹: buff.ly/3GlJmE9]
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How many stars we can see in the night sky with the naked eye (Andromeda galaxy excluded)? About 9,096, or 0.000004% of all the stars in the Milky Way [source, read more: buff.ly/33VEEMK] Reddit user u/KSPoz visualized that in this chart [source: buff.ly/3CnPucP]
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This generative art by TikTok's recursiveidentity shows a mandelbulb fractal with an impressive cathedral-like level of details while zooming in
[📹 + more videos: buff.ly/3zUNwAP]
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These cups are made of linear mirrors with 24 sides: when put on the saucer the anamorphic design reveals a hidden image. Bonus: some of them also use a moiré effect, to give an even more impressive, animated result buff.ly/3RClrWt
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The cardiac cycle and the ECG, explained
[source: bit.ly/2gM4b14]
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This spectacular display of a great white shark jumping out of the water is called breaching. They do that during hunting, to stagger and catch fast moving prey. This clip was filmed by Chris Fallows in 2020 [source, read more: buff.ly/3pUspe5]
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46 years ago #Today, this iconic photo was shot at the first Shuttle showing: its name was #Enterprise [read more: bit.ly/2d8WnH5] #StarTrek
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There were over 158,962,555,217,826,360,000 combinations to the Enigma Machine, regarding the codes it could use for messages. Yet, Alan Turing's Bombe machine, through trial & error, was able to decode messages sent by Germans in 20 minutes
[video: ow.ly/QjlS30nM0Fr]
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This is footage of a pseudo - melanistic tiger from a camera trap in Odisha Similipal National Park
[read more: buff.ly/3j5Gvsh]
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When you think of a typewriter, you might have in mind a very simple, standard model, but when it comes to a Japanese machine, the number of characters makes it completely different. This MAC-M45 has 2200 characters [full video: buff.ly/3aWmNbM]
Astronomy, astronautics, meteorology, physics. Engineer, trying to build the big picture of #science via selected & curated pics, videos & links