1551
How do you track a SpaceX rocket moving at over 5,000 km/h at a distance of perhaps 60 km away from the camera to produce such a clear and detailed imagery? You use Kineto Tracking Mounts [read more: buff.ly/3DQzaT5]
1552
Many fractals can be made up by the union of several copies of itself, resulting in self similar systems. A very interesting example is this "magic lake" by Matt Henderson
[read more: buff.ly/3T039iJ]
1553
𝗘𝗺𝗼𝗷𝗶 𝗟𝗼𝗴𝗮𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗺𝘀 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀
log(👀) = log(👁️) + log (👁️)
log(🧇 / 👨👨👧👦) = log(🧇) - log(👨👨👧👦)
log(🏇) = log(🏃🏻♂️) - log(🐎)
log(🌩️) = log(☁️) - log(⚡️)
log(😅) =💧log(😄)
log(💕) = ❤️log(❤️)
log(🙃) = - log(🙂)
1554
Owston's palm civet is native to South Asia and is currently listed as endangered, mainly due to habitat loss. It feeds on earthworms and other invertebrates
[read more: buff.ly/3F9qAiL]
[full video by SCARCE WORLDWIDE: buff.ly/3F8kCP6]
1555
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
1556
Living off the coast of south Australia, weedy seadragons (Phyllopteryx taeniolatus) resemble swaying seaweed making them difficult to find in their natural habitats, even though they can grow to about 46 cm in length [source, full video: buff.ly/2BJHGEK]
1557
Jason Sims is a visual artist working in the realm of perceptual art. Primarily using mirror, reflective glass and lighting, he produces piece wall works, freestanding sculptures and large scale installations that create the illusion of space and form jasonsims.com.au
1558
Rainbow and blue parrotfish are two species in the genus Scarus. In Florida, they can be frequently seen surface-feeding, as in this clip filmed by Lawrence Kent in Islamorada [read more: buff.ly/3H08O1Y] [source: buff.ly/3yKLIcK]
1559
75 years ago #Today, Chuck Yeager became the first person to break the sound barrier flying the Bell X-1 rocket plane bit.ly/2d3rRgE
1560
A series of camel sculptures carved into rock faces in Saudi Arabia are likely to be the oldest large-scale animal reliefs in the world. Initially dated back to 2,000 years ago, they have been now estimated to be 7,000-8,000 old [read more: buff.ly/2YOaAlJ]
1561
Typically found growing on the stumps and logs of rotting hardwoods, Rhodotus palmatus or wrinkled peach, is a mushroom species with a moderate antibacterial activity against Bacillus subtilis buff.ly/3g7bb91 [photo by Vadim Sumariuk: buff.ly/3fY26Pw]
1562
These are folded banded iron formation with shale interbeds, exposed in a pavement near Soudan, Minnesota, photographed by Haaken Fossen of the University of Bergen, Norway [source, read more, AGU: buff.ly/3FcQsKu]
1563
Airplane wings aren't some rigid chunks of metal: in fact, they probably have a bit more flex than you'd expect. This is the behavior of a Boeing 747's wing in a turbulence
[read more: buff.ly/3E4n73u]
[source: buff.ly/3Ea123u]
1564
Meet the Gastric-Brooding Frog. After laying her eggs, the female swallowed them whole. Weeks later after hatching and metamorphosing, tiny froglets would emerge from her mouth. Sadly, this species went extinct in 1981 [read more: buff.ly/2wAIjAF]
1565
This is what an empty 787 looks like [source, read more: bit.ly/2x0M5mE]
1566
Believe it or not, this is the Casio AT-552 Janus, a touchscreen and gesture-controlled calculator watch. From 1984
[full video, by ChromeFD: buff.ly/2SqavAU]
[read more: buff.ly/2N52pYA]
1567
Elephants help each other in distress, grieve for their dead, feel emotions like us. This is Nosey making her first new friend at her sanctuary after working in a circus for 29 years
[story: buff.ly/3CyhsE4]
[read more: buff.ly/3ENmkrT]
1568
Magnetic aligners are suitable for aligning long, slender ferromagnetic objects like nails so they can be packaged compactly
[read more: buff.ly/2IXodHy]
[📹: buff.ly/3eA8YV1]
1569
With 12,500 parking places, the Bicycle parking Stationsplein in Utrecht, The Netherlands, is the world's largest bicycle parking
[read more: buff.ly/3CzdCur]
[📹 De Filmende Fietser]
1570
Despite their extremely futuristic appearance, skeletonics extend the movement of a humans arms and legs without the aid of any motor and it's not powered by electricity
[read more: skeletonics-us.com]
1571
The first direct observation of gravitational waves captured the merging of 2 black holes which emitted 36 septillion yottawatts of power (3.6×10⁴⁹ watts), greater than the combined power of all light radiated by all the stars in the observable universe ow.ly/JGIh30mudbE
1572
This video uses a live imaging technique to visualize mouse T-cells killing mouse tumor cells. Cells were imaged for over 6 hours at a frequency of 1 image every 20 seconds
[source, read more: buff.ly/2WToyNK]
1573
This is when the US Navy launched trucks (actually weighted sleds) off the USS Gerald Ford aircraft carrier to test its jet catapult system
[source, full story: ow.ly/wDt150l2gMf]
1574
Shenzhou 14 astronauts delivered their first lecture from the Tiangong space station
[full video: buff.ly/3ewPOPN]
1575
A car-to-car test between a 2015 Nissan Tsuru and a 2016 Nissan Versa. Travelling at 64 km/h the test highlights the significant differences in safety standards between these two baseline models sold by the same manufacturer in different markets [video: buff.ly/2PlxsCg]
Astronomy, astronautics, meteorology, physics. Engineer, trying to build the big picture of #science via selected & curated pics, videos & links