Massimo / @Rainmaker1973 (RSS Feed) 2 years ago

Humans aren’t the only species that enjoy sunbathing. Turtles sunbathe too. While humans may sunbathe as a way of receiving a tan, turtles do (scientifically known as basking) to regulate their internal body temperature \[source: buff.ly/3M9x5FK (https://buff.ly/3M9x5FK)\] https://nitter.moomoo.me/Rainmaker1973/status/1646078301788577797#m

Massimo / @Rainmaker1973 (RSS Feed) 2 years ago

How the number of spirals in a sunflower match up with the integers 34, 55, 89 and 144 -- numbers found in the famous Fibonacci Sequence \[video: buff.ly/2QTzkjZ (https://buff.ly/2QTzkjZ)\] https://nitter.moomoo.me/Rainmaker1973/status/1646061114554298372#m

Massimo / @Rainmaker1973 (RSS Feed) 2 years ago

This video shows a group of three U.S. Air Force personnel taking two cats and three pigeons up on a flight in a C-131 Samaritan plane to test their behavior in micro-gravity, on Sept 26, 1947 \[full video: bit.ly/1VFkt7k (https://bit.ly/1VFkt7k)\] https://nitter.moomoo.me/Rainmaker1973/status/1646057246772588547#m

Massimo / @Rainmaker1973 (RSS Feed) 2 years ago

This robotic Rubik’s Cube has a custom 3D-printed core attached to servo motors that are programmed to solve the cube \[video: buff.ly/2MOd3RD (https://buff.ly/2MOd3RD)\] https://nitter.moomoo.me/Rainmaker1973/status/1646053354496315393#m

Massimo / @Rainmaker1973 (RSS Feed) 2 years ago

A miniature, perfectly working, W-32 engine \[source, read more: buff.ly/2PUhMTO (https://buff.ly/2PUhMTO)\] https://nitter.moomoo.me/Rainmaker1973/status/1646048929736261633#m

Massimo / @Rainmaker1973 (RSS Feed) 2 years ago

42 years ago #Today (https://nitter.moomoo.me/search?q=%23Today), the Shuttle era began with the launch of Columbia STS-1: the only time a first launch was crewed \[video: buff.ly/2p5oTiq (https://buff.ly/2p5oTiq)\] https://nitter.moomoo.me/Rainmaker1973/status/1646041954382229506#m

Massimo / @Rainmaker1973 (RSS Feed) 2 years ago

125 years ago #Today (https://nitter.moomoo.me/search?q=%23Today), Marie Curie observed a meeting of the French Academy of Sciences, where one of her teachers, Prof. Gabriel Lippmann announced her discovery of substances much more radioactive than uranium. She was 30 \[read more: buff.ly/2EFJbCQ (https://buff.ly/2EFJbCQ)\] https://nitter.moomoo.me/Rainmaker1973/status/1646038674486722560#m

Massimo / @Rainmaker1973 (RSS Feed) 2 years ago

68 years ago #Today (https://nitter.moomoo.me/search?q=%23Today), Jonas Salk's polio vaccine was declared safe and successful, Salk was hailed as a "miracle worker" and the day almost became a U.S. national holiday \[read more: buff.ly/2Jjhkgt (https://buff.ly/2Jjhkgt)\] https://nitter.moomoo.me/Rainmaker1973/status/1646033886583967744#m

Massimo / @Rainmaker1973 (RSS Feed) 2 years ago

62 years ago #Today (https://nitter.moomoo.me/search?q=%23Today), Yuri Gagarin was the first man to fly in space. "First Orbit" is a movie available in 30 languages that recreates the pioneering first orbit with shots from the International Space Station \[full movie: buff.ly/2v9VgR9 (https://buff.ly/2v9VgR9)\] https://nitter.moomoo.me/Rainmaker1973/status/1646032831607439360#m

Massimo / @Rainmaker1973 (RSS Feed) 2 years ago

The Falkirk wheel in Scotland is the world's first and only rotating boat lift \[read more: buff.ly/2IHrXfe (https://buff.ly/2IHrXfe)\] \[full video, HD: bit.ly/2uBMAyU (https://bit.ly/2uBMAyU)\] https://nitter.moomoo.me/Rainmaker1973/status/1645849649775886336#m

Massimo / @Rainmaker1973 (RSS Feed) 2 years ago

This collision between two cherries depicts a fundamental property of classical mechanics: conservation of momentum \[read more: bit.ly/1ICtvkp (

Momentum Conservation Principle

Two colliding object experience equal-strength forces that endure for equal-length times and result ini equal amounts of impulse and momentum chang...

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Massimo / @Rainmaker1973 (RSS Feed) 2 years ago

Studies have found that babies tend to develop better when they find their mother cheerful and happy. Laughing helps the baby develop in a better way. Yet, the mechanics of this is definitely seismic \[📹 lilblessings4dhd: buff.ly/3zUvRta (https://buff.ly/3zUvRta)\] https://nitter.moomoo.me/Rainmaker1973/status/1645819854543355906#m

Massimo / @Rainmaker1973 (RSS Feed) 2 years ago

How The Q created a bike with fully working square wheels (capable of making turns) \[full video: buff.ly/3ZXCRAf (https://buff.ly/3ZXCRAf)\] https://nitter.moomoo.me/Rainmaker1973/status/1645813733225291777#m

Massimo / @Rainmaker1973 (RSS Feed) 2 years ago

This orchid is named like a vampire, but it strongly resembles a monkey's face \[read more: bit.ly/2tZlCUw (

Dracula simia - Wikipedia

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Massimo / @Rainmaker1973 (RSS Feed) 2 years ago

People in a 3D wrap around visual booth can experience vertigo and a loss of equilibrium as their brains receive conflicting signals from their bodies and senses \[read more: buff.ly/43h8Z4R (https://buff.ly/43h8Z4R)\] \[📹 buff.ly/402PFW2 (https://buff.ly/402PFW2)\] https://nitter.moomoo.me/Rainmaker1973/status/1645712522656325636#m

Massimo / @Rainmaker1973 (RSS Feed) 2 years ago

No matter how you choose to place the red points on the circumference, the three blue points will lie on a straight line. This is Pascal’s theorem \[source, archimedes-lab.org (https://archimedes-lab.org): buff.ly/39OHJmY (https://buff.ly/39OHJmY)\] \[read more: buff.ly/31r1lF5 (https://buff.ly/31r1lF5)\] https://nitter.moomoo.me/Rainmaker1973/status/1645707906187243523#m

Massimo / @Rainmaker1973 (RSS Feed) 2 years ago

With 891,163 km² of wetlands, Canada has about 25% of the world's freshwater – the largest wetland area in the world. Plus it is surrounded by 3 oceans, and has over 2 million lakes \[read more: buff.ly/2xBW1Rg (https://buff.ly/2xBW1Rg)\] https://nitter.moomoo.me/Rainmaker1973/status/1645702585137987584#m

Massimo / @Rainmaker1973 (RSS Feed) 2 years ago

Due to a political climate becoming increasingly hostile to scientists and teachers, in 1954 Einstein wrote were he a young man again, he'd choose to be a plumber or a peddler, to which many plumbing companies responded by making him the honorary plumber buff.ly/3fg6qaC (https://buff.ly/3fg6qaC) https://nitter.moomoo.me/Rainmaker1973/status/1645698541157773312#m

Massimo / @Rainmaker1973 (RSS Feed) 2 years ago

#Today (https://nitter.moomoo.me/search?q=%23Today) in 1957, a Ryan X-13 Vertijet became the first jet to take-off and land vertically. The airplane made history when it completed a first full-cycle flight at Edwards Air Force Base, California \[read more: buff.ly/2HezRvc (https://buff.ly/2HezRvc)\] https://nitter.moomoo.me/Rainmaker1973/status/1645695703815995392#m

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