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Digital content creator Fabio Comparelli uses Deforum to make animations with successive images generated by the Stable Diffusion AI, from a video or image reference and text descriptions
This is Human Evolution
[read more: buff.ly/3Tqpwy8]
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There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery
— Enrico Fermi
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2278
Meet the bowerbird - one of the most flamboyant birds in the natural world. Bowerbirds go to extreme efforts to attract a mate, constructing delicate nests and decorating them with what humans might throw away [source, BBC Earth: buff.ly/3FEBwEG]
2279
A zombie bug.
While it's not alive, it's not dead either. A large number of mind controlling fungi leads insects to assume the strangest behaviors in order to spread their spores and infect more insects to survive.
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[📹 Ryan Andrews]
2280
A long exposure of an extremely violent volcano eruption can return stunning visual results. This stunning, large electrical storm during the first hours of the Calbuco eruption in April 2015, was captured by Francisco Negroni
[this one and more photos: francisconegroni.com]
2281
This very popular video by Jane Hunter shows how corvids share an interesting set of behaviors with humans, especially because they a so playful animals' family
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2282
How long until it's gone? The decomposition times of marine debris
[source: ow.ly/FdV450xuI7b]
2283
Even though the Boeing 787 has a maximum landing weight (201.8 tons), the landing gear is strong enough to absorb the impact of a landing up to the 250.8-ton maximum takeoff weight.
[📹 david_dar: buff.ly/3v6HgUv]
2284
The flexible shell of soft shell turtles allows them to move more easily in open water and muddy lake bottoms, allowing them to move much faster on land than most turtles
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[📹 Manny Vizcaya: buff.ly/3cqqEkU]
2285
This lenticular post card simulates the prop from “Back to the Future" and it was created for the 35th anniversary of the movie [source, read more: buff.ly/3xl69x7]
2286
Koalas, cute marsupials that climb trees with babies on their backs, have fingerprints that are almost identical to human ones. Not even careful analysis under a microscope can easily distinguish the loopy, whirling ridges on koalas' fingers from our own ow.ly/6L4430nWpKm
2287
The Tacoma Narrows Bridge's collapse on November 7, 1940 has been described as "spectacular" and in subsequent decades has attracted the attention of engineers, physicists, and mathematicians [read more: bit.ly/1VFh2T2 [watch the video: buff.ly/2HiRjzt]
2288
This clip shared by the Sister Bay/Liberty Grove Fire Department in May 2020 clearly shows the value of sleeping with your doors closed [source: buff.ly/3yM7Qn2] #FireSafety
2289
It's something temporary, but the Moon is 1/400th the size of the Sun & also 1/400th the distance from Earth which results in the Moon and the Sun being the same size in the sky, a coincidence not shared by any other known planet-moon combination [source: buff.ly/2xm2qDe]
2290
The Vortex Turbine by Turbulent Hydro is an eco-friendly way to harness energy from rivers and canals with a low height difference. A single turbine can generate from 15 to 70 kW of constant energy around the clock [read more: turbulent.be]
2291
Citizen scientist, professional mathematician and software developer Gerald Eichstädt used data from Juno spacecraft to plot a 3D elevation landscape of Jupiter, revealing delicately textured swirls and peaks that resemble the frosting on top of a cupcake buff.ly/3BZmUAW
2292
«It doesn’t make any difference how beautiful your guess is, it doesn’t matter how smart you are who made the guess, or what his name is … If it disagrees with experiment, it’s wrong»
— Richard Feynman
[source: buff.ly/3VnufRx]
2293
Frank Drake, the eminent radio astronomer known for his pioneering efforts in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, among which the Arecibo message and the Drake equation, died #Today at his home in Aptos, California. He was 92 buff.ly/3e82xb4
2294
Why does the yolk of an overcooked hard-boiled egg become green? It's because every egg yolk contains iron, which is released when the egg is heated long enough
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2295
Around 85% of humans only breathe out of one nostril at a time. Even more interesting is that the pattern of switching from breathing out of one nostril to the other happens in a cyclical fashion, with about four hours between each switch
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2296
Can a triangle have three right angles? Yes, on a curved space like a sphere. This is also one of the reasons we know the Earth is round
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2297
Huernia zebrina, the little owl, is a species of flowering plant in the family Apocynaceae, native to Africa. Its shiny, large flowers may look like plastic [photo by Reddit user u/7-methyltheophylline: buff.ly/3m9GsKH]
2298
The BMW Iso Isetta was the top-selling single-cylinder car in the world, with 161,728 units sold
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[📹, Petrolicious: buff.ly/2JcGVtj]
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Jupiter radiates more heat than it receives from the Sun. This heat is generated by the Kelvin–Helmholtz mechanism through contraction, which causes Jupiter to shrink by about 2 cm/year. When it was first formed Jupiter was about twice its current diameter buff.ly/2tEq2gW
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Check out this £2,500 high tech luxury bed from 1959. It is chock full of gadgets and everyday conveniences from the headboard to the foot of the bed, most importantly a space for your cup of tea
[read more, British Pathé: buff.ly/3AKrl0w]
Astronomy, astronautics, meteorology, physics. Engineer, trying to build the big picture of #science via selected & curated pics, videos & links