
Bluntly Put Philosopher (BPP)
@SocraticScribe • 35,894 subscribers
Long OPTX, AISP,& DFSC. I research & post about trends, companies/stocks, and science/tech videos with low views for entertainment. Not financial advice. DYODD
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A drone flying with no battery tether sounds impossible until you see it. GuRu wirelessly transmitted power through the air to directly run an untethered drone from 30 feet away and has kept one flying for 96 hours straight. Power beaming is moving out of science fiction fast.
Bluntly Put Philosopher (BPP)164,946 görüntüleme • 6 gün önce

A dead trout placed in a vortex wake swims upstream without muscle movement, and it won the 2024 IG Nobel Physics Prize. The fish’s flexible body resonates with swirling water patterns, passively extracting energy. Live trout use the same trick, reducing muscle effort by ~50%.
Bluntly Put Philosopher (BPP)3,610,205 görüntüleme • 4 ay önce

I forget how many miss that when a propeller spins fast,it creates extreme low pressure on the blade’s back that water vaporizes. The collapsing bubbles create micro-jets at 100+ m/s. The bubbles are mini explosions. Reminder that there’s a lot beneath the surface.
Bluntly Put Philosopher (BPP)336,581 görüntüleme • 19 gün önce

Watching Galinstan react in a copper ion acid solution felt strangely philosophical. I couldn’t believe how the liquid metal suddenly spread and moved almost like it was alive, as if matter itself only needs the right conditions to reveal hidden behavior.
Bluntly Put Philosopher (BPP)176,676 görüntüleme • 16 gün önce

People don’t realize the Air Force Research Laboratory is weaponizing cavitation. QUICKSINK does not hit the ship directly it detonates a 2,000 lb bomb in the water beside/under a ship, creating a massive bubble void; the water’s return force can break the ship in half.
Bluntly Put Philosopher (BPP)344,853 görüntüleme • 1 ay önce

The fractal symmetry of a honey bee under an electron microscope is unreal, microscopic geometry layered with near-mathematical precision. A creature once thought to “defy physics” in flight turns out to be engineered by physics at every scale.
Bluntly Put Philosopher (BPP)110,129 görüntüleme • 11 gün önce

When light inside water hits the surface at a steep enough angle, it stops escaping and reflects completely back into the water. It’s called total internal reflection, and it’s a reminder that even light doesn’t always travel the path we expect.
Bluntly Put Philosopher (BPP)54,560 görüntüleme • 7 gün önce

Pretty awesome mini Tesla coil demonstration, bottle cap to syringe
Bluntly Put Philosopher (BPP)442,011 görüntüleme • 4 ay önce

The Galton board + Pascal’s Triangle shows how randomness leads to order. It’s a physical glimpse into probability, entropy, and the foundations of statistical mechanics,core to how physics understands everything from gas particles to quantum states.
Bluntly Put Philosopher (BPP)510,101 görüntüleme • 5 ay önce

The Dzhanibekov Effect: Spin any object with three different moments of inertia in zero gravity. The object will spin stably for a few seconds, then suddenly flip 180° while continuing its rotation, then flip back a few seconds later. It does this indefinitely.
Bluntly Put Philosopher (BPP)63,658 görüntüleme • 20 gün önce

Dude put a speaker in a lake playing the Schumann resonance. The fish like it
Bluntly Put Philosopher (BPP)850,807 görüntüleme • 10 ay önce