Posted at 09:00PM on July 30, 2022 by \tPopkin @ Boing Boing
Send a Message to Space
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t t t t tThis website allows users to send a message to space via a parabolic radio transmitter. When you send the message, it will fly through space at the speed of light for eternity. There'...
Posted at 08:13PM on January 28, 2022 by Jason Weisberger @ Boing Boing
First Order officer handles an anti-masker on Disney's 'Rise of the Resistance'
People attending Disneyland and refusing to wear their masks when required is such a baffling pain in the ass. It is the anti-maskers who are quite literally ruining it for everyone.
@tadfirtrail #riseoftheresistance #starwars #disneyland #maskup #staysafe #disney #disneypar...
Posted at 04:51PM on October 11, 2021 by Mark Frauenfelder @ Boing Boing
This excellent video from 1947 uses a grapefruit to show map distortion
Flat maps distort the spherical Earth. By how much, exactly? This 1947 film draws a world map on a grapefruit and unpeels it in various ways to show how the land masses' sizes and shapes change when they get projected on a flat surface.Even if you use a globe, you can't real...
Posted at 01:57PM on July 06, 2021 by Rob Beschizza @ Boing Boing
Short documentary about why championship chess sets are so expensive
When the narrator says "less than 10 people are entrusted to carve the knights for world championship sets", one's mind may wander to the fact that chess authorities are among the most blatantly corrupt sporting bodies on Earth, so perhaps something hinky is at hand. But if ...
Posted at 03:30PM on December 08, 2020 by Andrea James @ Boing Boing
Have you met one of your unrelated identical twins?
Experts estimate you have about half a dozen unrelated "twins" roaming the earth. Origin profiled a few who met each other.Ever wondered if there's someone out there who looks exactly like you? Well, statistically, it is estimated that for every face there are 7 doppelganger...
Posted at 03:39PM on October 16, 2020 by Kevin Reome @ Boing Boing
Tiny corpse-hands reaching from the earth turn out to be armadillo legs
When you see skeletal hands reaching up through the earth, is it wise to poke them with your bare fingers to see if anything happens? Is a corpse? from Unexpected
Fortunately, it's just a sleeping armadillo, happy to return to its ground cover after being disturbed, and not ...
Posted at 04:44PM on July 30, 2020 by Mark Frauenfelder @ Boing Boing
This video helps you envision very large numbers
This video starts by helping you visualize 1 million. A thick book has about 1 million alphanumeric characters. It moves to 1 billion — it would take 32 years to count to 1 billion. A trillion bacteria can fit in a single cube of sugar. About 1 quadrillion ants live on earth...
Posted at 03:29PM on October 29, 2019 by Mark Frauenfelder @ Boing Boing
This video shows that "natural" produce is anything but natural
"Most of the foods found in the grocery store at one point were much smaller, bitter, sour or unpalatable," says the host of the Earth Titan YouTube channel. In this video he compares supermarket produce with the wild ancestors they were cultivated from.Image: YouTube...
