This is very much not how I remember it being reported around the time of the repair mission. I'm sure that at the time it was incorrectly reported as being due to the effect of grinding the mirror under... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 9 months ago • 1,190 views • 7:52Videos (194) | Sift Talk (1) | Blogs (0) | Comments (1000) |
https://youtu.be/Zm6X77ShHa8 Beavers have done more to shape North American landscapes than any animal beside humans. We don’t notice them much today because there aren’t many left, but before colonization,... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 1,121 views • 5:19Let's say you're traveling at 17,500 miles per hour (28,000 km/h) in low earth orbit, your main engines are out of fuel, and it's your job to guide the spaceship through a fiery re-entry without burning... continue reading
posted by Ashenkase 6 years 9 months 3 weeks ago • 114 views • 17:49YouTube: This video is about why it's harder to successfully land spacecraft and landers and rovers on Mars than on Earth, or Venus, or the Moon, or Titan, or asteroids. It all comes down to atmospheric... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 6 years 9 months 3 weeks ago • 582 views • 2:02For nearly 700 years, the shrimpers of Oostduinkerke, Belgium, have been training draft horses to help them pursue the local catch. Typically weighing more than 2,000 pounds, these horses are well suited... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 10 months ago • 95 views • 2:39YouTube: Go see if Eons is for you: http://www.youtube.com/eons Other cool things about Trilobites People have been collecting them for at least tens of thousands of years, as they've been found in... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 6 years 10 months 1 week ago • 103 views • 3:39Most of us think about erosion on the surface of the earth, but erosion can occur in the subsurface as well. In fact, scientist and engineers have a very creative name for just such a process: internal... continue reading
posted by Mekanikal 6 years 10 months 2 weeks ago • 105 views • 6:41YouTube: Which marvel of nature can build a 2 metre Orb Web with a silk that ranks as the World's toughest natural fibre? - The answer is the Darwin's Bark Spider and this real life "Spider Woman", no... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 6 years 10 months 2 weeks ago • 1,549 views • 4:09YouTube description: The Tusked Weta is New Zealand's equivalent of a Mouse and a worthy snack for a Foraging Pig. This Weta however is an escape artist and when necessary can take quite extreme action... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 10 months 2 weeks ago • 458 views • 3:07Netflix has a Documentary on this The Barkley Marathons: The Race That Eats Its Young
posted by bobknight33 6 years 10 months 3 weeks ago • 231 views • 4:34Humans emit roughly 30 to 40 billion tons of the greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide, into the atmosphere each year. If we keep it up, Earth will continue to heat up and ultimately devastate our way of life. ... continue reading
posted by newtboy 6 years 11 months 1 week ago • 107 views • 2:18Brilliant Earth has scammed thousands of customers They claim to: 1) Provide their customers with the exact origin of their diamonds, and 2) Track their diamonds from mine to consumer- making sure... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 1 week ago • 1,739 views • 5:02The Voyager 1 space probe is the furthest man-made object from Earth, and the fastest. But right now, it's moving towards us. Relatively speaking. At Mission Control for the Deep Space Network, inside... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 2 weeks ago • 656 views • 3:26YouTube description: Google Earth is the most photorealistic, digital version of our planet. But how?! Where do the images come from? How are they they put together? And how often are they updated?... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 2 weeks ago • 678 views • 8:09Known for his Emmy-winning children’s show “Bill Nye the Science Guy,” Bill Nye returns to TODAY to test viewers’ knowledge about some little-known science facts. Are raisins alive? Do black flowers... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 2 weeks ago • 15 views • 5:02If 100 people lived on Earth ...
posted by Warren E. Hale (MrFisk) 7 years 1 month 1 week ago • 396 views • 2:19YouTube: Deep in the forests of New Guinea there is a rich variety of life, each more bizarre than the last. One such spectacle is the male Bird of Paradise who appears to go to extraordinary lengths to... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 1 month 1 week ago • 245 views • 3:24