1576
This is possibly one of the most awesome pictures taken on the Moon: Jack Schmitt, (the only scientist who practiced geology on another world), with the US flag and the Earth (plus Gene Cernan reflected in his visor), 50 years ago #Today go.nasa.gov/2iU2AYp #Apollo17
1577
Iron Pyrite Nautilus specimen. They swam the Jurassic seas around 185 million years ago but autilus are still alive today, which is possibly the most striking aspect of all this
[📹: buff.ly/3UKfgR2]
1578
The Jastrow illusion typically involves two toy railway tracks (or similar shapes) where the lower one appears to be larger. However, both are identical in shape and size [read more: buff.ly/3m2tzyT]
1579
Douin artist zsx_6666666 draws anamorphic art on the road, obtaining impressive 3D effects
[📹 more videos: buff.ly/3P5X9nv]
1580
An Eiffel Tower model made with extremely high accuracy by a 5 axis CNC machine
[source, full video, Hermle: buff.ly/3I29BD7]
1581
The Gathering for Gardner Dragon is probably one of the most captivating examples of the hollow-face optical illusion, but this big version in a street of Beijing is even more mesmerizing
[read more: buff.ly/2GE7QKN
[📹: buff.ly/2sm8QjA]
1582
A real time view of Aurora Borealis. Its bright "dance" is due to the collision between electrically charged particles that enter the earth's atmosphere at ~400 km/s and to magnetic reconnection
[read more: buff.ly/3CFMREu]
[📹 Matt Robinson]
1583
The size of a wolf.
Brittany Allen rescued Yuki from being euthanized in 2019. DNA tests showed that Yuki was 87.5% Gray Wolf, 8.6% Siberian husky, and 3.9% German shepherd.
[source: buff.ly/3UpCrQp]
[full story: buff.ly/3gSJRho]
1584
A waterspout is an intense columnar vortex over a body of water connected to cumuliform clouds. More than one waterspout can occur in the same vicinity at the same time, as Raney Frederick filmed in 2020 in Louisiana [source: buff.ly/3jwhmnY-]
1585
Adam Pickard took DALL-E 2's inpainting feature & 57 prompts, asking the AI to draw its impressions, then combined the results in Adobe After Effects obtaining this: an AI version of Eames' «Powers of Ten»
[read more + original: buff.ly/3QBWs4A]
1586
How ultrasonic cleaning works on jewelry.
The ultrasonic machine removes any dirt and dust even in holes and cracks through cavitation bubbles created by high frequency waves
[The Forbidden Cleaner: buff.ly/3jEzejk]
1587
Happy birthday to Linus Torvalds, creator and lead developer of the Linux kernel
[read more: buff.ly/3Z4zSa6]
1588
If M.C. Escher wrote IKEA instructions
[source + read more: buff.ly/3TJypTk]
1589
For more than 20 years, Christian Moullec has flown with birds. With his microlight aircraft he guides migrating flocks of vulnerable species and orphaned birds
[video, read more, National Geographic: buff.ly/3CfBHoY]
1590
Rubik’s cube solving robots like this one are entirely made of LEGO and based on a LEGO MINDSTORMS® NXT 2.0 kit Robot designed for this purpose
[read more: buff.ly/3zDGL6i]
1591
Nothing actually surprising. This is what happens to a small plane in strong headwinds. Airspeed is positive, but groundspeed is zero (sometimes even flying backwards)
[video explanation: buff.ly/3AzMADf]
[clip by TikTok's Jenniferireneotto]
1592
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]
1593
The surge wrasse, Thalassoma purpureum, is a species of wrasse native to the southeast Atlantic Ocean through the Indian and Pacific Oceans and it's one of the most beautiful fish in the world [source, read more: buff.ly/2G3qQoI]
1594
The spider-tailed horned viper is a superb mimic. Its tail resembles a spider and it's used as a lure to attract insectivorous birds to within striking range.
[read more: buff.ly/3qi6FrS]
[📹 BB Earth]
1595
This is a coloured scanning electron micrograph of a sweat gland pore opening onto the surface of a human palm. Sweat pores bring sweat from a sweat gland to the skin surface. The sweat evaporates, removing heat and playing a vital role in cooling the body buff.ly/2qXFMOC
1596
Familiar fruits and veggies like watermelon or corn didn't always look and taste this way. From bananas to eggplant, here are some of the foods that looked totally different before humans first started growing them for food
[source, read more: ow.ly/uCVi50xgrSj]
1597
Born #Today in 1815, Ada Lovelace was mathematician and writer, chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's proposed mechanical general-purpose computer. She is often regarded as the first computer programmer
[read more: buff.ly/2Pop1Do]
1598
Yes, the 1950s were definitely a simpler time
[read more on snopes.com: bit.ly/2aPjHUw]
1599
A broken sea? It's actually a crack in the ice of lake Baikal, captured by photographer Alexey Trofimov
[source: buff.ly/3KAWrf6]
[author's site: en.trofimov-photo.com]
1600
This is how the Meteor Camera on the International Space Station sees meteors
[source: ow.ly/cvXh30mYL12]
Astronomy, astronautics, meteorology, physics. Engineer, trying to build the big picture of #science via selected & curated pics, videos & links