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The story of the first and only aircraft that shot a (malfunctioning) satellite out of orbit with a missile in 1985 [read more: buff.ly/2GLXY1u]
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A Gauss rifle, is a type of mass driver consisting of one or more coils used as electromagnets in the configuration of a linear motor that accelerate a ferromagnetic or conducting projectile to high velocity. This is how YT channel Magnetic Games made it: buff.ly/3qfQ3zt
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The size of Earth compared to the size of the rings of Saturn [source: buff.ly/2DGi1LA]
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What would the worker need in order to escape the hole? Centripetal acceleration = v^2/r: increasing r means you have to increase v to compensate, so more velocity and a larger frictional force [read more: ow.ly/aNyY30n00jv]
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This is what Soyuz astronauts see through their window upon a reentry in the atmosphere. The video was recorded by Mike Hopkins at the end of Expedition 38 in 2014 [source, read more: buff.ly/3pFHxfK]
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41 years ago #Today, the IBM PC was introduced: it quickly became market's standard de facto [read more: bit.ly/2bospiQ]
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Under specific conditions, the exhaust gas plume of a rocket can put on an amazing show of light and clouds, like this SpaceX Falcon 9 on October 8, 2018 captured in this remarkable timelapse by @EmericTimelapse [IG: buff.ly/3pdFKKN] [explanation: buff.ly/38aNyFD]
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45 years ago #Today, the Shuttle Enterprise made its first free flight piloted by Apollo 13's Fred Haise bit.ly/1U5nZwz
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Born 135 years ago #Today, Erwin Schrödinger was physicist and father of the quantum theory. He formulated the wave equation and revealed the identity of his development of the formalism and matrix mechanics bit.ly/1SgOYi8 [gif: buff.ly/3lXGPZq]
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In 2018, the telecommunications company NTT DoCoMo sponsored an advertising campaign bringing ninja on an LCD screen in Shibuya, Tokio [source: buff.ly/3ahZvwD] [how the screen appeared from farther away: buff.ly/3qjWqBQ]
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Recent severe rains in Death Valley that flushed debris across roadways, damaged infrastructure and carried away cars are being described by meteorologists and park officials as a once-in 1,000-year event [read more: buff.ly/3w0ntH5]
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'Denny' is the only known individual whose parents were two different species of human. The 13-year-old Neanderthal-Denisovan hybrid girl lived 90,000 years ago in central Asia, where a fragment of her bone was found in 2012 buff.ly/3AgYcee [📷buff.ly/2BuOExP]
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This is still one of the most impressive time lapse videos of a SpaceX Falcon 9 first-stage landing: this happened after the rocket boosted the THAICOM-8 satellite into space on May 30, 2016 [video is sped up, source: bit.ly/1qQNIem]
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Zhen Xian Bao or Chinese thread book is a yarn collection box made using paperfolding techniques developed from a fascinating tradition from remote South West China. Boxes are basically everywhere in it [source: buff.ly/2NltNWi] [tutorial: buff.ly/3qodaYO]
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Inspired by solar furnaces, this parabolic mirror concentrates light onto a focal point, and can be consequently used for more mundane tasks in place of industrial purposes
[how it works: buff.ly/3vZapSz]
[📹 buff.ly/3vZJYvU]
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If you own, manage or operate a livestock operation, counting your animals and monitoring the movement of your livestock is a critical part of your business. See how Vision AI can help improve the process [source , read more: buff.ly/3AgRDIB]
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In information visualization and graphic design, Truchet tiles are square tiles decorated with patterns that are not rotationally symmetric buff.ly/2Xfn7vn [source of the gif, by Xah Lee: buff.ly/2ZPLRfd]
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Discover the functions of the nervous system, and how it can be divided into the central nervous system and peripheral nervous system
[full video, 3D4Medical: buff.ly/3QlULJ3]
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Ranakpur Jain temple in Ranakpur, India is a grand white marble structure spread over 4,500 m2 with 1444 marble pillars carved in exquisite detail, twenty-nine halls, eighty domes and 426 columns [📷 Sabhi Khan, read more: buff.ly/2B8b0aJ]
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If you think dragons are just imaginary creatures look at this draco lizard. While it's certainly smaller than you probably expect, it's nothing short of impressive
[source, read more: buff.ly/3BYfUo7]
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What looks like an awful dispute between neighbors underwater is actually a behavior that many fish show, especially gobies. They dig burrows, sift sand and they're territorial. So, this.
[source, HD: buff.ly/3Pt03Bm]
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Lactation
When a baby suckles, it stimulates the mom's body to release prolactin & oxytocin. Oxytocin causes muscle contractions that push out the milk of the alveoli & prolactin causes the alveoli to make milk
[📹 design_cells: buff.ly/3QyoU7O]
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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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Polyrhythm is the simultaneous use of two or more rhythms. Tapping exercises with the metronome are important to master the most basic of polyrhythms. While apparently easy, it's something that requires huge coordination [source: buff.ly/3Qk7vzD]
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The village in Germany whose houses are built on giant tree stumps (but not real trees).
[source, read more: buff.ly/3PmVgkP]
Astronomy, astronautics, meteorology, physics. Engineer, trying to build the big picture of #science via selected & curated pics, videos & links