2401
Elephant's toothpaste
[read more: buff.ly/2KTc4SI]
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2402
The making of a Penrose triangle by Hassan Abu-Izmero
[full video: buff.ly/3j4YIG3]
2403
Impressive upward lightning over Burleigh Heads, Queensland
[📹 Hayden Milne: buff.ly/3W6ofxz]
2404
In 1418 Filippo Brunelleschi was tasked with building the largest dome ever seen at the time. He had no formal architecture training. Yet experts still don't fully understand the methods he used in contructing the dome of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence buff.ly/3dsJIdg
2405
This is what baby jellyfish look like
Planular larvae of Chrysaora hysoscella, the compass jellyfish: they are released to later develop into a sessile polyp which develops into immature medusae
[📹 Jellyfishfarm: buff.ly/3F0mV76]
2406
Created by MIT CSAIL, this shape-shifting robot can walk, roll, sail, and glide using recyclable exoskeletons
[read more: bit.ly/2xDaH4y]
2407
What actually happens underground at a gas station? This video by Franklin Fueling explains all the technical details you normally ignore during a refueling stop [source, full video by FranklinFueling: buff.ly/2AMbbJi]
2408
The Buoyant Airborne Turbine is a concept of flying inflatable wind turbine which could generate consistent, low cost energy for the remote power and microgrid market, including remote and island communities [source, full video: buff.ly/3CvmcZd]
2409
This short video footage shows a Martin RB-57D bomber observing a nuclear test explosion during Operation Hardtack, in the Pacific Proving Grounds, on July 12, 1958
[source: buff.ly/2qVjPvM]
[clip: buff.ly/3eTLeZN]
2410
There are two bars in Swizterland whose interior is themed along the Alien movies and modelled by the Swiss artist H. R. Giger [read more: buff.ly/2IiNu9v]
2411
"Captured! by Robots" is a grindcore band founded by Jason "JBOT" Vance, but he programs two animatronic robots named "GTRBOT666" and "DRMBOT 0110" to perform guitar and drums both on record and in a live context
[Instagram: buff.ly/3W7EI4P]
2412
Chromatophores contain pigment sacs that become more visible as small radial muscles pull the sac open making the pigment expand under the skin
[read more: buff.ly/2KHEZvb]
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2413
With its colorful soils, salt caves and mountains, and ocher-stained streams and beaches, Iran’s Hormuz island is rich with memorable geology. Famous is its silver and glittering sand [read more: buff.ly/3m5rSUP] [source, Mohammad Davood Asadi: buff.ly/3juF9Vf]
2414
The 2022 December Solstice, the first day of winter in planet Earth's northern hemisphere and summer in the southern one, is #Today at 21:48 UTC
[read more: buff.ly/2A2nwUZ ]
[you can see a solstice from space: buff.ly/30ZoaBV]
2415
This video shows the stars orbiting the black hole at the center of our galaxy.
S0-2 has the fastest known ballistic orbit, reaching speeds exceeding 5,000 km/s (11,000,000 mph, or 1⁄60 the speed of light)
[source: buff.ly/2UCPUsS]
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2416
This cube extrusion fractal was made by Reddit user u/TheDarksideofSnow using Blender. At the end of the iterations, it has 2,691,544 faces and interestingly, you can see the Sierpinski triangle pattern in it
[source, read more: buff.ly/3roLg1Z-]
2417
When a star strays too close to a black hole, intense tides break it apart into a stream of gas. The tail of the stream escapes the system, while the rest of it swings back around, surrounding the black hole with a disk of debris [source, NASA: buff.ly/2m0ysiY]
2418
Sperm whales need to be on the lookout for predators, and sleeping in a vertical position helps them to do this. Moreover, their blowhole is above the water, so they can take a quick breath if they need to
[📹 Nadya Ali: buff.ly/3QiarxP]
2419
There are many different ways of forming an ellipse. With a Trammel of Archimides, constructing it as a special case of a hypotrochoid, with the Van Schooten method and as the curve surrounding two foci
[source: buff.ly/2PQzuZT]
2420
Sometime around 30,000 years before the current era, somewhere in the midst of the land that would become Germany, a human sat in a cave and sculpted a horse. Later, we’d call it the Vogelherd horse: the earliest horse sculpture ever found [ read more: buff.ly/2NNHMoy]
2421
Morpho peleides hatching, showing off its brilliant blue color, caused by the diffraction of the light from millions of tiny scales on its wings
[read more: buff.ly/2uHu49R]
[📹 Adrian Kozakiewicz: buff.ly/3HOJgIz]
2422
The most iconic: a group photo of engineers and technicians in the cleanroom at NASA Goddard, captured in the spring of 2017, before the telescope was transported to NASA Johnson for cryogenic testing [Photo by NASA/Desiree Stover; source, read more: buff.ly/3qA1svd]
2423
On December 10, 1985, the Senate Environment and Public Works Subcommittee held a hearing to discuss how the greenhouse effect might change the global climate system and possible solutions
This is Carl Sagan testifying
[full 📹: buff.ly/3Mi40si]
2424
Dr Tatiana Erukhimova from @TAMUPhysAstr explains the intertial potato
[📹 TAMU Physics & Astronomy videos: buff.ly/3Qm5YJ2]
2425
This is what WW I trenches look like today. This is a report of how nature claimed back warfare structures and what is the new geology of Europe where the war was fought [source, read more: buff.ly/2kx3R8m]
Astronomy, astronautics, meteorology, physics. Engineer, trying to build the big picture of #science via selected & curated pics, videos & links