1726
If you remember this robot, you're no longer young, but this is a fully functioning, screen accurate, full size replica of Johnny 5 from the movie Short Circuit (1986)
[more clips on IG: buff.ly/3OigEJ2]
1727
The Incas never invented the wheel, never figured out the arch, and never discovered iron. But they were masters of fiber. They built ships out of fiber, armors, weapons and even bridges. This is the last Incan suspension bridge, made entirely out of grass ow.ly/RX9R50EfXiU
1728
Sloth's claws work the opposite way that human hand does. The default position is a tight strong grip, and sloths must exert effort to open them up. This is why sloths don't fall out of trees when they're asleep [read more: buff.ly/3zDNBsC]
1729
After chasing a severe storm across the Kansas plains for several hours, photographer Mitch Dobrowner was rewarded with this shot of upside-down clouds growing down and cascading across the sky [source, read more: buff.ly/2cOsWHF]
1730
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]
1731
The BullseyeBore is a drill attachment using lasers to tell you if you’re drilling straight. The attachment can be affixed to any drill and works in any orientation. The laser projections even provide visual cues on drill bit depth [read more: bullseyebore.com]
1732
This is a 300-year-old book wheel kept in the Biblioteca Palafoxiana, Puebla, Mexico: it allowed 18th century researchers to have up to seven books open at once
[source, read more: buff.ly/3xCkxka]
1733
Photographer Mark Cowan was travelling through the Amazon studying reptile and amphibian diversity when he stumbled upon an unusual sight… A caiman wearing a crown of butterflies, which documents lachryphagy buff.ly/2LM9A9G [source of the photo: buff.ly/35vimPD]
1734
The popular Pythagorean theorem water demo visualizes the equation
a² + b² = c²
using water. The two smaller squares of water pour perfectly and equally into the area of the larger square on the longer side
[full video: buff.ly/2Ei7Rqg]
1735
Mario soundtrack on something that Nikola Tesla would like very much
[source, magic_beat: buff.ly/3TKbPZX]
1736
In 1993, AT&T launched an advertising campaign directed by David Fincher that somehow predicted pretty much everything about how we work and live today: tablets, smart watches, GPS, on-demand entertainment, and more
[read more: buff.ly/3F6SbDR]
1737
This is what installing 2 Petabytes (2048 Terabytes) of storage looks like.
There are 20 shelves with 12 HHDs each in the rack, for a total of 240 HDDs.
[source: buff.ly/3z1w5i9]
1738
In 1984, high above the Earth's surface, an astronaut captured a satellite. Dale A. Gardner flew free using the Manned Maneuvering Unit and began to attach a control device dubbed the Stinger to the rotating Westar 6 satellite [read more: buff.ly/2V1wCN7]
1739
413 years ago #Today, Galileo Galilei revealed his telescope to a group of Venetian lawmakers included the Doge bit.ly/2vokIOB
1740
Crops under solar panels can be a win-win, and in dry places, photovoltaic shade can even reduce water use, suggests a recent study. Cherry tomatoes saw a 65% increase in CO₂ uptake, a 65% increase in water-use efficiency, and produced twice as much fruit buff.ly/2ZQCdW8
1741
The American Meteor Society has received 793 reports about a very bright fireball spotted over northern England and Scotland on Setpember 14, 2022
[more info + videos: buff.ly/3qGiEjg]
1742
Bryan Sanders is a magician touring North and South Carolina and surrounding areas. He delivers impressive performances and this one with iPhones is particularly brilliant
[📹 buff.ly/3C3fHib]
[site: magicisbryansanders.com]
1743
The vaquita is a rare species of porpoise endemic to the northern part of the Gulf of California. It's the most endangered cetacean in the world. A 2019 estimate reported that a maximum of 22 and a minimum of 6 vaquita porpoises remain buff.ly/2J7gem2
1744
A rainbow is an optical illuson, it's not an object & cannot be physically approached. Even if an observer sees another observer who seems "at the end of" a rainbow, the second observer will see a different rainbow-farther off
[📹 buff.ly/3I2Q1GQ]
1745
If the taste of kale makes you screw up your face, you are not alone: researchers have observed foetuses pull a crying expression when exposed to the greens in the womb: twice as likely for kale than carrot [read more: buff.ly/3qVPFIq]
1746
A closed wing is a wing that effectively has two main planes which merge at their ends so that there are no conventional wing tips. This video by Anderson Rayner shows a test of annular wing [read more: buff.ly/3sUGAyj] [full video: buff.ly/3qo79dR]
1747
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
1748
The attractive bumblebee orchid or ophrys bombyliflora flowers grow in Canary Islands, Turkey and Lebanon. The large sepals, small bronze colored petals and brownish lip of this unusual flower resemble an attractive (laughing) female bee
[read more: ow.ly/vXsA30o8oPi]
1749
The Singing Ringing Tree is a wind powered sound sculpture resembling a tree set in the landscape of the Pennine hill range overlooking Burnley, in Lancashire, England. When the wind blows, it produces a slightly discordant and penetrating choral sound ow.ly/LdGk50obHqt
1750
When permafrost melts in Siberia, it releases large amounts of methane which can blow holes like this one in the tundra [source, read more: buff.ly/2qkbhz7]
Astronomy, astronautics, meteorology, physics. Engineer, trying to build the big picture of #science via selected & curated pics, videos & links