Alaska's glacial ponds can be so small, and at the same time so deep and clear that really look like a portal to another dimension.

[📹 John Derting]


- Massimo -


@letsseemore

the largest diesel engine in the world
The massive monster Wärtsilä-Sulzer RTA96-C is 13.4 meters high, 27 meters long and weighs 2,300 tons. It consumes more than 6,000 liters of fuel per hour and produces 109,000 horsepower. These engines are designed for container ships.


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@letsseemore

The evolution of spiders has been ongoing for at least 380 million years.

Spider webs have existed for at more than 100 million years. To date, there are five types of spider webs: orb web, cobweb, funnel web, tubular web, and sheet web.


- Massimo -


@letsseemore

Amazing


- Science -


@letsseemore

In 1969, BBC News spoke to Mr Glynne Wood - who had a pigeon living on his head…


- Tansu YEĞEN -


@letsseemore

The moment Paul McCartney played ‘Let It Be’ to the rest of The Beatles, 1969


- Historic Vids -

#art

@letsseemore

A new fountain has been unveiled in Vienna, celebrating 150 years of the city's spring water supply.

This is what they came up with, at a cost of €1.8 million of taxpayers' money...


- Culture Critic -


@letsseemore

Dubbed as the highway above the clouds, the Tianlongshan Highway is located in Shanxi Province, Northern China.

Its elevation gain is 350 m. It’s equivalent to a 116 floor building with a 3-meter story height.


- Massimo -


@letsseemore

Gantt template in #excel .


- The Cheat Sheets -


@letsseemore

"When it aint broke, don't fix it!"...
The Achimedes Screw named after the Greek mathematician is a pumping device for raising water from a low to a high point through the screws thread by rotating a handle.
The classical author Strabo described the Hanging Gardens of Babylon as being watered by 'screws'....


- WhatdoIknow -


@letsseemore

This vein visualization technology uses near-infrared light, which is absorbed by blood but reflected by the surrounding tissue, to locate veins up to 15mm deep, and then projects the results back on the skin.


- Wonder of Science -


@letsseemore

One-Pan Chicken Fajita Bombs


- Tasty UK -

#recipe

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Before movies had sound, playing background music was key for developing a particular mood for a certain scene. The photoplayer, an automatic mechanical orchestra, was frequently used in theaters

[ 🎹 Joe Rinaudo]
[📹 Alex Heflin: https://buff.ly/3BwATgv]


- Massimo -

#art

@letsseemore

Planting hacks.


- Skills -

#lifehack #plant

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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

[📹 Aaron Rix]


- Massimo -


@letsseemore

This is how to solve Rubik’s cube


- Learn Something -


@letsseemore

New trick in #Photoshop


- Learn Something -


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Honda developed a hands-free wheelchair named UNI-ONE that glides as users tilt their bodies in the direction they want to move. The chair design lets people with mobility problems use their hands while moving, for example in sports

[📹 SupercarBlondie]

- Massimo -


@letsseemore

How pangolin mums carry their babies

this way she can curl up in a ball around her baby to protect it, a mother acting as a shield for her infant 


- Science girl -


@letsseemore

The Playa Crawler is a kinetic sculpture by artist Mark Ellis that uses the Jansen linkage mechanism to walk, the same that moves Theo Jansen's Strandbeest creations


- Massimo -

#art

@letsseemore

The story of the Cookie cutter shark, video has sound


- Science girl -


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