It’s so much easier to jump to conclusions than it is to have awareness.
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posted by ant 4 months 1 week ago • 12 views • 29 secsNasa's take on a popular question, driven by the Discover supercomputer. There are multiple runthroughs, covering first the simple video then a full explanation, a deep dive into some of the details,... continue reading
posted by noims 5 months 3 weeks ago • 73 views • 4:20Why were climate models so wrong about 2023? Neil deGrasse Tyson learns about why 2023 was hotter than we expected it to be and what effects need to be factored into future climate modeling with climatologist... continue reading
posted by newtboy 9 months ago • 137 views • 16:39Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), in his capacity as Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Federal Courts, Oversight, Agency Action, and Federal Rights, co-led a hearing of the full Judiciary... continue reading
posted by newtboy 1 year 6 months ago • 278 views • 5:49"Joe Biden put an empty picture frame in the Oval Office and it's got a lot of people asking questions. Has a photo been removed? Is something being censored and hidden from the public? I have the answer!... continue reading
posted by ant 1 year 7 months ago • 43 views • 7:34From YouTube, "Here in the Kurzgesagt labs, we test very important ideas to see what happens when you blow things up or play with black holes. Many of you suggested that we look into an idea that sounds... continue reading
posted by w1ndex 1 year 11 months 3 weeks ago • 89 views • 10:55Look around you. Where are you? Where is this place you are occupying? Somewhere in a room, maybe in a city on a continent on a planet orbiting a star in a galaxy among billions. But… where is all of... continue reading
posted by eric3579 2 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 225 views • 9:55"The answer may surprise you..." From https://www.dslreports.com/forum/r33237492-Holey-Plugs-Batman-But-what-are-they-for.
posted by ant 3 years 1 week ago • 23 views • 20:32This is a bit of a mind-bender, but entirely worth the watch if you're at all interested in mathematics or computer science. Possibly even if you're not, but I'm uncertain. I had previously learned... continue reading
posted by moonsammy 3 years 5 months 1 week ago • 634 viewsFrom Youtube, "Black holes are the most powerful and extreme things in the universe and they are wildly weird and complicated. What would happen if you fell inside one and what are they really?"
posted by w1ndex 3 years 6 months ago • 235 views • 12:15From Youtube, "Neutron stars are one of the most extreme and violent things in the universe. Giant atomic nuclei, only a few kilometers in diameter but as massive as stars. And they owe their existence... continue reading
posted by w1ndex 4 years 11 months 3 weeks ago • 766 views • 8:41So you want to visit a black hole? Before you do, here's one piece of advice from NASA.
posted by noims 5 years 3 weeks ago • 111 views • 2:40The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration observed the supermassive black holes at the center of M87 and our Milky Way galaxy (SgrA*) finding the dark central shadow in accordance with General Relativity,... continue reading
posted by eric3579 5 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 332 views • 5:24YouTube description: You can make a movable hole in soap film with a loop of thread. It's surprising when you first see and it's fun to think about why it behaves the way it does. It's also a useful... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 7 months 2 weeks ago • 512 views • 6:03YouTube description: The Great Blue Hole is a massive underwater sinkhole off the coast of Belize. In the winter of 2018, a submarine crew from Aquatica Submarines ventured to the bottom of the hole... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 8 months ago • 1,683 views • 3:38"NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover has already descended from Vera Rubin Ridge, a region of Mount Sharp that it has been exploring for more than a year. But before it left, the rover took a 360-degree panorama... continue reading
posted by ant 5 years 8 months 2 weeks ago • 10 views • 1:31