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SpaceX installed 29 Raptor engines on a Super Heavy rocket last night arstechnica.com/science/2021… by @SciGuySpace
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Still a little over 3 weeks on the Summer of Math Exposition. Since announcing, @brilliantorg generously reached out to offer $5k in cash prizes.
If you've ever thought about doing a math explainer online, take this as a chance to give it a go!
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You shouldn't store currency in floats, but that's just my $0.02000000000000000042
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The Tehachapi Loop is a 1.17 km long spiral, or helix, on the Union Pacific Railroad through Tehachapi Pass, of the Tehachapi Mountains in Kern County, south-central California. Seen in aerial footages with a train passing, it's quite mesmerizing buff.ly/2Abe8Sp
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I find that by tracking the shadow instead of the Moon it is much easier to visualize what is happening during an eclipse. Watch it simply drift through Earth's waiting shadow. #astrophotography #space #opteam
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Impossibly Fast Fan-Assisted RC Car Can Out-Accelerate a Tesla Roadster's 0-60 Time dlvr.it/S0Jd0q
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There is an inland island in Canada that is larger in area than the lake in which it is situated [read more: bit.ly/2zBqpLJ]
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Magnetically assisted gears work with no mechanical contact. The input shaft never touches the output shaft unless the gear box is overloaded [video: buff.ly/3e8dqHB] [read more: buff.ly/3vBVbQQ]
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Dubins’ paths (i.e. shortest path for a car which cannot go backward) define a distance which depends on the starting/ending direction. It is in general not continuous. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubins…
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Some drone video from last week in Iceland at the volcano. Trying to edit down my best shots into one video. I’ve gotten the 6+ hours of drone video edited down to 1 hour (I flew 15 batteries worth!). #icelanderuption #icelandvolcano #volcano #iceland #lava
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One week later, but finally it is the day! Today RAD Basic Kickstarter campaign has launched. Just updated roadmap to adjust the month delay (alpha release to June 2021).
Please, support this project for returning VB6:
kickstarter.com/projects/kos…
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If you take a Petri dish, fill it up with castor oil, then put in metal bearings, apply a negative charge to the metal ring on the edge of the dish & a large voltage to a wire hanging over the top of the setup, you obtain something like this [full video: buff.ly/3utG23e]
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New blog post: Speech to birdsong conversion windytan.com/2021/03/speech-…
