Accidentally filming triboluminescence by shooting two air cannons loaded with glass spheres directly at each other. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triboluminescence
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MBARI sustained our commitment to ocean exploration and discovery in 2021. The year brought more challenges, but exploring our big, blue backyard always inspires awe and wonder—and curiosity about the... continue reading
posted by newtboy 2 years 5 months ago • 378 views • 3:16What is you could solve the shape puzzle with only one piece instead of 3? Modelling using Boolean Intersections may be rarely used, but the results are really interesting and well worth experimenting with!
posted by newtboy 2 years 6 months 2 weeks ago • 131 views • 6:44An excavation of a rare dinosaur fossil goes horribly wrong. It’s left to paleo technicians to try and salvage what they can.
posted by newtboy 4 years 1 week ago • 1,359 views • 4:17On a hike looking for rare limestone endemic plants in Death Valley, we spotted the wreckage of a plane! After several hours of hiking and many interesting plants, we managed to scramble over to the wreck.... continue reading
posted by eric3579 4 years 2 weeks ago • 1,776 views • 5:01Global Warming is taking a rare back seat in the news right now, as we deal with the more immediate existential crisis afflicting our civilisation and way of life. But as entire countries are getting shut... continue reading
posted by newtboy 4 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 347 views • 13:56Is Japan the perfect nation? -Rare Earth
posted by eric3579 4 years 5 months ago • 440 views • 12:43YouTube description: Kerosene Creek is a natural hot spring near Rotorua, on the North Island of New Zealand. And there have been official warnings for years: don't put your head under water. It turns... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 2 weeks ago • 423 views • 3:42YT: The Forbes Pigment Collection, at the Harvard Art Museums, is a collection of pigments, binders, and other art materials for researchers to use as standards: so they can tell originals from restorations... continue reading
posted by Fantomas 5 years 2 months ago • 446 views • 5:13YouTube description: After being diagnosed with a rare, potentially fatal brain condition known as Moyamoya, Jennifer Lee was forced to face her own mortality and consider the things in life she held... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 3 months 1 week ago • 589 views • 10:01The Hunt-Lenox globe is the second-oldest surviving terrestrial globe and also the oldest known globe to depict the Americas. The globe is covered in hidden details, including the Latin phrase, HC SVNT... continue reading
posted by newtboy 5 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 497 views • 2:26YouTube description: Until the mid 1950’s, small short-range airliners like the twin engined IL-14 were really the only type the Soviet Union produced. And that meant flying across the country’s... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 4 months 3 weeks ago • 426 views • 10:05YouTube description: At first this ghostly octopus drifted past the camera on ROV Hercules flapping wing-like fins, then inverted its webbed arms, ballooning out to reveal eight rows of suckers. This... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 499 views • 2:27Grama bay is gorgeous! Also, conversely, a place to see thousands of years of low-quality tagging from people of all backgrounds. From Pompeii Magnus to modern Albanian beach-goers, the walls ripple... continue reading
posted by nanrod 5 years 8 months 1 week ago • 177 views • 8:27Extremism is the enemy. We give it a bunch of names, put it on a fake spectrum, and rail on each other about how our extremes will be better, but it's all the same thing. Extremism is the enemy. Welcome... continue reading
posted by nanrod 5 years 8 months 2 weeks ago • 652 views • 17:35Bunkers! Albania's most visible uniqueness. A negative that's so definitive of the nation that it has almost become a positive.
posted by nanrod 5 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 623 views • 10:42An examinination of miracles/magic/science and what it takes for sainthood in a modern world.
posted by nanrod 5 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 30 views • 9:56This is the story of a rock. It was once worth fighting wars over. Now its just a rock.
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