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That time NASA remotely crashed a Boeing 720 in the name of science

Posted on 2022/02/15 by Carl Robitaille

That time NASA remotely crashed a Boeing 720 in the name of science
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— A3 🥷🏻 (@latestinsec) February 7, 2022

Peculiar Musical Instruments

Posted on 2022/02/15 by Carl Robitaille

Secteur du marché Champlain vers 1920

Posted on 2022/02/15 by Carl Robitaille

Secteur du marché Champlain vers 1920 #histoire #villedeQuebec #CapitaleNationale #vieuxQuebec #QuebecCity #archives #RetourverslePassévilledeQuebec pour voir aujourd'hui cliquer sur ce lien :https://t.co/5EpbjY9vBI pic.twitter.com/GZNveHpOhK
— Retour vers le Passé (ville de Québec) (@ArchVillequebec) February 4, 2022

Freeman Dyson got the final insight that led him to the unification of quantum electrodynamics while returning by Greyhound bus from Berkeley to Chicago.

Posted on 2022/02/15 by Carl Robitaille

Freeman Dyson got the final insight that led him to the unification of quantum electrodynamics while returning by Greyhound bus from Berkeley to Chicago. pic.twitter.com/omeqTJFSZY
— Fermat's Library (@fermatslibrary) February 4, 2022

Timeline of early human migrations

Posted on 2022/02/15 by Carl Robitaille

Timeline of early human migrations

Map shows the timeline of early human migrations. There are several theories of how this played out exactly. The funky detail that stands out here is that Madagascar appears to have been settled from Indonesia rather than the African mainland? Source: https://t.co/nu8NysRRlh pic.twitter.com/rL4v0Gd7qw
— Simon Kuestenmacher (@simongerman600) February 1, 2022

‘It may happen that small differences in initial conditions produce very great ones in the final phenomena.’ — Henri Poincaré

Posted on 2022/02/15 by Carl Robitaille

'It may happen that small differences in initial conditions produce very great ones in the final phenomena.' — Henri Poincaré
— Analysis Fact (@AnalysisFact) February 1, 2022

During a bomb test in 1952, American Physicist Ted Taylor made the “world’s first atomic cigarette lighter”.

Posted on 2022/02/15 by Carl Robitaille

During a bomb test in 1952, American Physicist Ted Taylor made the "world’s first atomic cigarette lighter". pic.twitter.com/Em6B0GncXt
— Fermat's Library (@fermatslibrary) February 1, 2022

“Where there is matter, there is geometry” – Johannes Kepler

Posted on 2022/01/29 by Carl Robitaille

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— The Fields Institute (@FieldsInstitute) January 28, 2022

J.J. Thomson and his son G. P. Thomson won the Nobel Prize in Physics

Posted on 2022/01/29 by Carl Robitaille

FUN FACT

J.J. Thomson won the Nobel in Physics in 1906 when he showed electrons were particles. 🔴

His son G. P. Thomson won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1937 for showing that electrons are waves. 🌊 pic.twitter.com/9n8jCoHwE8
— Fermat's Library (@fermatslibrary) January 27, 2022

Syria before and now

Posted on 2022/01/29 by Carl Robitaille

https://twitter.com/PastAndPresennt/status/1486184208913813508?s=20&t=NwoVY4TqeEaCgS8jP80BAw