1751
The comet moth is one of the world's largest silk moths, with a wingspan of 20 cm and a tail span of 15 cm
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1752
A 3.6MW wind turbine off the Irish coast was struck by lightning and bursts into flames on October 20, 2022
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1753
The coast around Benagil, Portugal, is made up of Miocene limestone sitting on much older rocks created in the Mesozoic: over time, the limestone built up, with the layers that make up the Benagil Sea Cave forming about 20 million years ago
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1754
This is an excerpt from the original US Patent number 3005282 A, issued 61 years ago #Today, proposing a design for a "Toy building brick", from a company named LEGO. That brick became much more than a simple toy buff.ly/2W9C0gy
1755
The Typhoon is a class of nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines built by the Soviet Union. With a submerged displacement of 48,000 tonnes, the Typhoons are the largest submarines ever built. This picture gives an idea of their scale vs the crew buff.ly/2oNliRT
1756
The Zanclean flood or Zanclean Deluge is a flood theorized to have refilled the Mediterranean Sea 5.33 million years ago. According to this model, water from the Atlantic Ocean refilled the dried up basin through the modern-day Strait of Gibraltar buff.ly/2KFkCJt
1757
Floating soaked loops of thread onto a soap film. How surface tension pulls the thread into round loops
[source: buff.ly/2rXZJ5y]
1758
Manatees are herbivores and eat over 60 different freshwater and saltwater plants, but they are often spotted while eating land grass. In other words, sea cows being cows
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1759
The most common estimates of the humans who have ever lived on Earth are around 108 billion people. Using that assumption, a little under 7% of all people who have ever lived are alive right now
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1760
Iceland is an amazing land, where you can even happen to spot a nightsky split between the cold green of an aurora and the fiery red of a distant volcanic eruption, like in this impressive photo by Hörður Finnbogason
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1761
The giant oceanic manta ray is the largest type of ray in the world. It can grow to a disc size of up to 7 m (23 ft) across with a weight of about 3,000 kg (6,600 lb)
[📹 Shiva Selwyn]
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1762
The world’s 7.95 billion people represent just 0.01% of all living things, yet since the dawn of civilisation, humanity has caused the loss of 83% of all wild mammals and half of plants
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1763
Photographer David Orias is specialized in pictures of surfing, waves, and water reflections using slow shutter speeds and panning the camera to create a more painterly look, which produces remarkable results
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1764
Photographer Dimitar Karanikolov piloted a drone over the waters near Oslob in the province of Cebu, Philippines, to get this stunning view of whale sharks seen from above
[source: buff.ly/3HbFoxD]
[author's Instagram: buff.ly/3qlbd0i]
1765
Elephants learn to fully control their trunk around 9 months - 1 year of age. This video collage by National Geographic show some glimpses of this process
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1766
If enough speed is built up in the water, an African butterflyfish can jump and glide a small distance above the surface. These are three young specimens
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1767
Valonia ventricosa is one of the largest known unicellular organisms, if not the largest. This means that what you see in the image, a sea-algae that can get to 5 cm in diameter, is actually a single living cell
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1768
The parking assist feature on modern cars might seem like a recent innovation, but if Brooks Walker had his way we would have been using it since the 1930s
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1769
Cape penduline tits build a globular nest made of spider webs and silken fibers. They have a false entry and chamber below the actual entrance. This is a defence against snakes and other nest predators
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1770
This photo of Kuala Lampur during a lightning storm is a stack of 32 shots taken over the course of 40 minutes by photographer Fendy Gan in May 2020
[source, more photos: buff.ly/3yA6Ljz]
1771
This performance by dancer and coreographer Yoann Bourgeois ("Success isn't linear") is also a good visualization of how potential, kinetic and elastic energy are exchanged
[animated scheme: buff.ly/2qhkllZ]
1772
These fabolous Star Trek effects with the starship Enterprise seen from from various angles, come from a drone light show held in Sydney this year
[full video, HD by Dave Cue: buff.ly/3AnQM9M]
1773
During thunderstorms, leaves from trees and other plants create mini electric discharges that can significantly alter the surrounding air quality through the emission of hydroxyl (OH) and hydroperoxyl (HO2)
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1774
The Cistercian numerals are a forgotten number system, developed by the Cistercian monastic order in the early thirteenth century, much more compact than Arabic or Roman numerals: with a single character you could write any integer from 1 to 9999 [more: buff.ly/2LDj1Kg]
1775
All these are "cognate linkages", which means that, while being dimensionally dissimilar, they all produce the same output curve
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