Massimo / @Rainmaker1973 (RSS Feed) 2 years ago

At 19.13UT, April 11th, 52 years ago #Today (https://nitter.moomoo.me/search?q=%23Today), the brave crew of the Apollo 13 started their adventurous journey to the Moon \[read more: go.nasa.gov/1EmGKSA (https://go.nasa.gov/1EmGKSA)\] https://nitter.moomoo.me/Rainmaker1973/status/1645691890799460353#m

Massimo / @Rainmaker1973 (RSS Feed) 2 years ago

#Today (https://nitter.moomoo.me/search?q=%23Today) in 1943, Frank Piasecki, Philadelphia engineer and Vertol founder, flew his first (single-rotor) helicopter, his PV-2 model, the second successful American helicopter to fly \[read more: buff.ly/2v2KGvu (https://buff.ly/2v2KGvu)\] https://nitter.moomoo.me/Rainmaker1973/status/1645690035734294528#m

Massimo / @Rainmaker1973 (RSS Feed) 2 years ago

37 years ago #Today (https://nitter.moomoo.me/search?q=%23Today), Halley's Comet made its closest approach to Earth in this passage, at 63 million kilometers \[read more: bit.ly/2p4qdiy (

Halley's Comet - Wikipedia

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Massimo / @Rainmaker1973 (RSS Feed) 2 years ago

Restored footage of New York City in 1911. View from the Flatiron Building \[📹 HistoryColored, HD: buff.ly/3MuSkEK (https://buff.ly/3MuSkEK)\] https://nitter.moomoo.me/Rainmaker1973/status/1645499171519045632#m

Massimo / @Rainmaker1973 (RSS Feed) 2 years ago

The Ascento robot can move anywhere a human can, even over uneven terrain and obstacles. The robot's capabilities can be used for security services using 360-degree and thermal security cameras \[video: buff.ly/3KMUFK0 (https://buff.ly/3KMUFK0)\] https://nitter.moomoo.me/Rainmaker1973/status/1645465530592002068#m

Massimo / @Rainmaker1973 (RSS Feed) 2 years ago

The mamoris chair is a anti-earthquake two-part furniture piece with a head-shaped volume underneath, that when unattached, transforms into a head and neck protector, built out of impact resistant material \[read more: buff.ly/41hO7Zw (https://buff.ly/41hO7Zw)\] https://nitter.moomoo.me/Rainmaker1973/status/1645462331755773952#m

Massimo / @Rainmaker1973 (RSS Feed) 2 years ago

Photographer Peter Maier captured this jaw-dropping timelapse of a cloudburst over Lake Millstatt in Carinthia, Austria \[source, full video, HD: buff.ly/2Mv5n7G (https://buff.ly/2Mv5n7G)\] https://nitter.moomoo.me/Rainmaker1973/status/1645456885452087297#m

Massimo / @Rainmaker1973 (RSS Feed) 2 years ago

The hammered dulcimer is a percussion-stringed instrument which consists of strings stretched over a trapezoidal resonant sound board, played with a mallet hammer. \[read more: buff.ly/3P0u7pl (https://buff.ly/3P0u7pl)\] \[📹 Ted Yoder: buff.ly/2EhLzmW (https://buff.ly/2EhLzmW)\] https://nitter.moomoo.me/Rainmaker1973/status/1645447427317530624#m

Massimo / @Rainmaker1973 (RSS Feed) 2 years ago

One pretty cool geological fun fact is that the Scottish Highlands, the Appalachians, and the Atlas are the same mountain range, once connected as the Central Pangean Mountains \[source: buff.ly/3oAZuKP (https://buff.ly/3oAZuKP)\] \[read more: buff.ly/3VixkCM (https://buff.ly/3VixkCM)\] https://nitter.moomoo.me/Rainmaker1973/status/1645441513927725057#m

Massimo / @Rainmaker1973 (RSS Feed) 2 years ago

The strange case of the Cook pine trees, that tilt by 8.55° towards the equator, whatever the zone they live on Earth \[read more: bit.ly/2qVIizO (

New Scientist

The strange Cook pine trees that always lean towards the equator

Vertically challenged Never mind the Leaning Tower of Pisa – this is the leaning tower of pines. Cook pines are towering trees that were once res...

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Massimo / @Rainmaker1973 (RSS Feed) 2 years ago

This is a 200 kilogram preserved blue whale heart \[source, read more: buff.ly/3VDvmNk (https://buff.ly/3VDvmNk)\] https://nitter.moomoo.me/Rainmaker1973/status/1645421372582002689#m

Massimo / @Rainmaker1973 (RSS Feed) 2 years ago

A sneaker wave is a disproportionately large coastal wave that can appear in a wave train without warning. This video was shared by Marcella Ogata-Day to help bring awareness of the dangers of sneaker waves \[source, read more: bit.ly/40YnF7i (

Video shows beachgoers swept off their feet by sneaker wave at Moonstone Beach – Sonoma Index-Tribune

Beachgoers near Eureka got quite a surprise over the weekend when they were knocked off their feet while watching waves at Moonstone Beach as seen ...

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Massimo / @Rainmaker1973 (RSS Feed) 2 years ago

This remarkable cloud spotted from the summit of Mount Washington in New Hampshire on February 24, 2021 was a hybrid combination of two rare cloud species: the lenticular, and the Kelvin-Helmholtz wave cloud \[source, read more: buff.ly/2Vi4mJA (https://buff.ly/2Vi4mJA)\] https://nitter.moomoo.me/Rainmaker1973/status/1645416338976915456#m

Massimo / @Rainmaker1973 (RSS Feed) 2 years ago

That time when we saw a smiley face inside the crater of the Kilauea volcano \[full story: bbc.in/2aSEYOK (https://bbc.in/2aSEYOK)\] https://nitter.moomoo.me/Rainmaker1973/status/1645411307787808768#m

Massimo / @Rainmaker1973 (RSS Feed) 2 years ago

This ancient 20-sided crystal dice is about 2,000 years old. Like other polyhedral dice recovered from all over the Roman empire, this one is inscribed with Latin numbers and letters \[source, read more: buff.ly/3M1szsT (https://buff.ly/3M1szsT)\] https://nitter.moomoo.me/Rainmaker1973/status/1645406273289211904#m

Massimo / @Rainmaker1973 (RSS Feed) 2 years ago

Filled with non-newtonian fluid, these speed bumps behave like a fluid when a car is under the speed limit. If the vehicle exceeds the speed limit, the fluid hardens and become a speed bump \[source, video: buff.ly/2xIDxOX (https://buff.ly/2xIDxOX)\] https://nitter.moomoo.me/Rainmaker1973/status/1645378900309028864#m

Massimo / @Rainmaker1973 (RSS Feed) 2 years ago

The story of Noc, the Beluga whale that learned how to mimic human speech and told a diver to get out of his tank \[full story: buff.ly/32UgeCb (https://buff.ly/32UgeCb)\] https://nitter.moomoo.me/Rainmaker1973/status/1645365126764085248#m

Massimo / @Rainmaker1973 (RSS Feed) 2 years ago

Dolphins produce all sorts of bubbles by releasing air from their blowholes, including bubble rings. Many of these serve as visual displays, a kind of communication signal \[read more: buff.ly/3TkYrvS (https://buff.ly/3TkYrvS)\] \[📹 Aaron Rix: buff.ly/3eIU6DL (https://buff.ly/3eIU6DL)\] https://nitter.moomoo.me/Rainmaker1973/status/1645359594388979713#m

Massimo / @Rainmaker1973 (RSS Feed) 2 years ago

The Math Dance \[source: buff.ly/3ATcW24 (https://buff.ly/3ATcW24)\] #MathMonday (https://nitter.moomoo.me/search?q=%23MathMonday) https://nitter.moomoo.me/Rainmaker1973/status/1645355865103269888#m

Massimo / @Rainmaker1973 (RSS Feed) 2 years ago

This machine allows a simple, quick and effective tree relocation \[source, full video: buff.ly/2phHkPf (https://buff.ly/2phHkPf)\] https://nitter.moomoo.me/Rainmaker1973/status/1645350800292552704#m