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mission complete
status says world domination complete. log ends at "unable to turn cupboard handle"
Voyager 1's Pale Blue Dot
NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft photographed Earth on 14 February 1990 from about 6 billion kilometres from the Sun. Earth appears as roughly a single pixel in the image known as the Pale Blue Dot.
Taumata Hill
New Zealand's Taumata Hill has an 85-letter Māori name. The name describes a man named Tamatea playing his flute to a loved one.
Turritopsis dohrnii
Under stress, an adult Turritopsis dohrnii jellyfish can return to its juvenile polyp stage and begin its life cycle again.
The Hymn to Ninkasi
A Sumerian hymn to Ninkasi, the beer goddess, describes recognizable stages of brewing with grain, bread and fermentation.
The Wow! Signal
In 1977, Ohio State's Big Ear telescope recorded a strong radio signal for 72 seconds. Astronomer Jerry Ehman wrote 'Wow!' beside the printout, giving the signal its name.
listen quietly
checking a mix? try one listen at low volume. can you still follow the vocal or main melody?
The Taos Hum
Some residents of Taos, New Mexico, reported hearing a persistent low hum. In 1993, researchers searched for matching sound and other physical signals but found none that matched the reports.
Ships and Magnetic Mines
Naval degaussing runs electric current through cables around a ship's hull to reduce its magnetic field. This helps prevent magnetic mines from detecting the ship.
Zero as a Number
Several cultures used placeholders for an empty position, but Indian mathematicians developed zero as a number with its own arithmetic rules. Brahmagupta described rules for calculating with zero in the seventh century.
New Haven's First Directory
The first telephone directory listed subscribers but no telephone numbers. In 1878, callers asked an operator to connect them by name.
Life in Sloth Fur
Grooves in a sloth's fur host algae, and the coat can shelter moths, ticks and beetles. The animal carries a small ecosystem.
An Unopened Moon Sample
NASA opened a sealed sample of Moon soil in 2022, nearly fifty years after Apollo 17 astronauts collected it in 1972. It had been saved so future scientists could study it with better tools.
the timetable stayed lit
last bus gone. empty stop. the timetable keeps shining as if waiting is still an option
Deep Blue
IBM's Deep Blue chess computer could evaluate 200 million chess positions per second. In 1997 it beat world champion Garry Kasparov in a six-game match.
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The King's Lion Hunt
Assyrian palace carvings show lions being released from cages and driven toward King Ashurbanipal's chariot. These royal hunts were staged events in game parks.
Kicks
Having hardcore gabber kicks with beeps is like censoring your own kicks.
Plague at Caffa
A fourteenth-century account says attackers threw plague-stricken bodies into the besieged Crimean port of Caffa in 1346. Historians still debate whether the event happened as described and what role it played in spreading plague.
Bermuda Triangle
The U.S. ocean agency NOAA says there is no evidence that mysterious disappearances occur more often in the Bermuda Triangle than in other busy ocean areas. The region does not even have an official boundary.
In 5th-century BCE Athens, eligible male citizens voted directly in the Assembly. Women, enslaved people and resident foreigners were excluded.
A European Medicine Cabinet
In early-modern Europe, human blood, bone and fat were used as medicines. Patients swallowed remedies made from human remains or rubbed them onto their skin.
Six Million in the Catacombs
The Catacombs of Paris contain the remains of about six million people, moved from overcrowded cemeteries into former quarry tunnels beginning in the late eighteenth century.
Moving a Lighthouse
In 1999, engineers moved North Carolina's Cape Hatteras Lighthouse intact 2,900 feet to protect it from coastal erosion. Hydraulic jacks drove the tower along a steel track.
multifunctio.nl
Need a quick sum, word count or unit conversion? Visit multifunctio.nl. A few useful tools, all on one page.
Antarctica Is a Desert
Antarctica is considered a desert because it receives very little rain or snowfall. Deserts are defined by dryness, not heat.
Ashurbanipal's Library
King Ashurbanipal's library in ancient Assyria stored its texts on clay tablets. A fire around 612 BCE baked many of them harder, helping preserve their writing for more than 2,600 years.
Wombat cubes
Wombats shape their cube-like droppings inside the intestine. Alternating stiff and flexible sections help form flat sides as the contents dry out.
Blue Sunsets on Mars
Dust in the Martian atmosphere scatters blue light forward, so sunsets around the Sun often appear blue.
Oregon's Giant Fungus
A single Armillaria fungus in Oregon covers roughly 2,385 acres beneath a forest and may be thousands of years old.
The Ammonia Clock
The first atomic clock, unveiled in 1949, used ammonia but was no more accurate than the best existing clocks. Its great success was proving that atomic timekeeping worked.
Zhang Heng's Quake Detector
Zhang Heng described an earthquake detector in 132 CE with dragons arranged around a vessel. A ball falling from a dragon's mouth into a toad below indicated the direction of the earthquake.
More guns than people
Small Arms Survey estimated 393 million civilian-held firearms in the United States in 2017, or about 120.5 firearms for every 100 residents. This was the highest estimated rate in the survey.
mediajour.nl
Find Dutch films, series and documentaries at mediajour.nl. Browse the titles or look up the people who made them.
Global Hunger in 2023
The UN's food agency estimated that about 733 million people faced hunger in 2023, roughly one person in eleven worldwide.
dune
DUNE is de Dutch Underground Network Engine. Zin om een onderwerp wat verder uit te pluizen? Neem een kijkje op dune.wtf en schuif aan op het forum.
Hummingbirds in Reverse
Hummingbirds can hover and fly backwards. Unlike most birds, they generate power on both the upward and downward strokes of their wings.
Lightning's Glass Tubes
A lightning strike can melt and fuse sand into glass tubes called fulgurites.
An underwater waterfall
Earth's largest waterfall is underwater, between Greenland and Iceland. Cold, dense water flows beneath warmer water and descends along the seafloor in the Denmark Strait.
