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🚨: A petri dish of human brain cells just learned to play DOOM

🚨: A petri dish of human brain cells just learned to play DOOM

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Quantum physics says that you can never actually touch anything.

Quantum physics says that you can never actually touch anything.

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At the atomic level, nothing ever truly touches. What we feel as ‘touch’ is our brain interpreting electromagnetic repulsion. The object is real, the sensation is a constructed illusion.

At the atomic level, nothing ever truly touches. What we feel as ‘touch’ is our brain interpreting electromagnetic repulsion. The object is real, the sensation is a constructed illusion.

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What would you do in this situation?

What would you do in this situation?

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It took 9 years and 3 billion miles to get this shot. Pluto’s icy Mountains.

It took 9 years and 3 billion miles to get this shot. Pluto’s icy Mountains.

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How Long Would It Take to Reach the Moon in a Straight Line?

How Long Would It Take to Reach the Moon in a Straight Line?

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Mars, sol 1932 captured by NASA's nuclear-powered rover. This is 140 million miles away from us!

Mars, sol 1932 captured by NASA's nuclear-powered rover. This is 140 million miles away from us!

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🚨: A civilization 2,000 light-years away pointing a powerful enough telescope at Earth right now would see the Roman Empire. They'd see Jesus alive.

🚨: A civilization 2,000 light-years away pointing a powerful enough telescope at Earth right now would see the Roman Empire. They'd see Jesus alive.

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Heartbeat visualized. A literal, "non-electronic" readout of the engine keeping you alive.

Heartbeat visualized. A literal, "non-electronic" readout of the engine keeping you alive.

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If you collapse an underwater bubble with a sound wave, light is produced, and nobody knows why.

If you collapse an underwater bubble with a sound wave, light is produced, and nobody knows why.

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This single-celled protozoan passing though another one under a microscope

This single-celled protozoan passing though another one under a microscope

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How Long Would It Take to Reach the Moon in a Straight Line?

How Long Would It Take to Reach the Moon in a Straight Line?

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After traveling 9 years and covering 3 billion miles, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft got this shot. Behold! The icy mountains of Pluto.

After traveling 9 years and covering 3 billion miles, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft got this shot. Behold! The icy mountains of Pluto.

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Watching the Moon actually rotate puts into perspective just how beat up that far side really is. It looks like a completely different planet from the back. 🪐🤯

Watching the Moon actually rotate puts into perspective just how beat up that far side really is. It looks like a completely different planet from the back. 🪐🤯

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Saturn’s moon Pan also known as flying saucer. [SpaceEngine sim]

Saturn’s moon Pan also known as flying saucer. [SpaceEngine sim]

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SpaceX Starlink satellites seen traveling over Hiroshima, Japan 😳 Credit: 藤井大地

SpaceX Starlink satellites seen traveling over Hiroshima, Japan 😳 Credit: 藤井大地

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NASA's Curiosity Rover spots strange rock on Mars. What do you think it look like?

NASA's Curiosity Rover spots strange rock on Mars. What do you think it look like?

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If you drove a car at 60 mph, it would take you over 5,700 years to reach this spot. New Horizons spacecraft got this view after traveling for 9 years and covered 3 billion miles. These mountains are 11,000 feet tall, but they aren't made of rock. At -380°F, water-ice becomes as hard as solid granite. You are looking at a world so cold that the nitrogen you breathe freezes into solid, moving glaciers. 🌍

If you drove a car at 60 mph, it would take you over 5,700 years to reach this spot. New Horizons spacecraft got this view after traveling for 9 years and covered 3 billion miles. These mountains are 11,000 feet tall, but they aren't made of rock. At -380°F, water-ice becomes as hard as solid granite. You are looking at a world so cold that the nitrogen you breathe freezes into solid, moving glaciers. 🌍

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While you slept last night, completely motionless in your bed, our galaxy shifted millions of kilometers through the cosmos. You woke up in the same room, on the same planet, but unimaginably far from where you were the night before. The Milky Way does not glide silently through the universe. It is racing through space at about 600 kilometers per second, carrying with it billions of stars, planets, and everything they contain on the journey. It is a good reminder that, even when life seems motionless, you are always in motion.

While you slept last night, completely motionless in your bed, our galaxy shifted millions of kilometers through the cosmos. You woke up in the same room, on the same planet, but unimaginably far from where you were the night before. The Milky Way does not glide silently through the universe. It is racing through space at about 600 kilometers per second, carrying with it billions of stars, planets, and everything they contain on the journey. It is a good reminder that, even when life seems motionless, you are always in motion.

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Tallest mountain in the solar system and Phobos, a moon of Mars. [SpaceEngine sim]

Tallest mountain in the solar system and Phobos, a moon of Mars. [SpaceEngine sim]

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How Bones Heal After a Fracture
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How Bones Heal After a Fracture

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"Starship will take humanity to Mars" - Elon Musk
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"Starship will take humanity to Mars" - Elon Musk

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This is Mars! 140 million miles away from us!
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This is Mars! 140 million miles away from us!

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This is Mars! 🪐🤯 It’s honestly terrifying how much this looks like a random desert on Earth. Just a casual 225 million miles away. The clarity is unreal.
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This is Mars! 🪐🤯 It’s honestly terrifying how much this looks like a random desert on Earth. Just a casual 225 million miles away. The clarity is unreal.

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22,666,230 views • 9 months ago

A living piece of history is swimming beneath the Arctic ice. This Greenland shark has been alive since 1627. It was born before Isaac Newton🦈
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A living piece of history is swimming beneath the Arctic ice. This Greenland shark has been alive since 1627. It was born before Isaac Newton🦈

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It took 9 years and 3 billion miles to get this shot. Pluto’s icy Mountains.
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It took 9 years and 3 billion miles to get this shot. Pluto’s icy Mountains.

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18,597,582 views • 9 months ago

This is Mars! 140 million miles away!
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This is Mars! 140 million miles away!

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How long could you survive Crucifixion?
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How long could you survive Crucifixion?

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The invisible Glass experiment Scientists once placed a transparent glass barrier inside an aquarium. On one side was a fierce pike, and on the other side were several smaller fish swimming freely. When the hungry pike saw the smaller fish, it immediately rushed forward to attack. Bang. It slammed straight into the glass and bounced back. Confused, the pike kept trying again and again, but every attempt ended the same way. The repeated collisions injured its head and knocked off some of its scales. Eventually, the pike became frightened and retreated to a corner of the tank. After some time, the scientists quietly removed the glass barrier. The smaller fish now swam freely throughout the aquarium, even brushing against the pike’s mouth. But the pike never tried to eat them again. Even though it was hungry, it refused to attack. In its mind, the invisible wall was still there. A few days later, the pike reportedly died of starvation, surrounded by food. This phenomenon is often referred to as the Pike Effect or Pike Syndrome. It’s often used as a metaphor for how repeated failure can create invisible limits in the mind.
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The invisible Glass experiment Scientists once placed a transparent glass barrier inside an aquarium. On one side was a fierce pike, and on the other side were several smaller fish swimming freely. When the hungry pike saw the smaller fish, it immediately rushed forward to attack. Bang. It slammed straight into the glass and bounced back. Confused, the pike kept trying again and again, but every attempt ended the same way. The repeated collisions injured its head and knocked off some of its scales. Eventually, the pike became frightened and retreated to a corner of the tank. After some time, the scientists quietly removed the glass barrier. The smaller fish now swam freely throughout the aquarium, even brushing against the pike’s mouth. But the pike never tried to eat them again. Even though it was hungry, it refused to attack. In its mind, the invisible wall was still there. A few days later, the pike reportedly died of starvation, surrounded by food. This phenomenon is often referred to as the Pike Effect or Pike Syndrome. It’s often used as a metaphor for how repeated failure can create invisible limits in the mind.

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This is Mars! 140 million miles away from us!
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This is Mars! 140 million miles away from us!

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This is what the sky from Earth might look like if TON 618, the second largest known black hole in the universe, were as close as Alpha Centauri, the closest stellar system to our Solar System. That's 25 trillion miles away from us.
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This is what the sky from Earth might look like if TON 618, the second largest known black hole in the universe, were as close as Alpha Centauri, the closest stellar system to our Solar System. That's 25 trillion miles away from us.

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Putting chemicals in a drop of water
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Putting chemicals in a drop of water

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Raw footage of the 1958 underwater Nuclear bomb test
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Raw footage of the 1958 underwater Nuclear bomb test

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2,905,466 views • 6 months ago

This is Mars! 140 million miles away from us!
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This is Mars! 140 million miles away from us!

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9,457,763 views • 1 year ago

This is Mars! 140 million miles away from us!
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This is Mars! 140 million miles away from us!

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3,980,845 views • 8 months ago

Solar eclipse from the cockpit of a jet plane ✈️ Truly a once in a lifetime experience.
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Solar eclipse from the cockpit of a jet plane ✈️ Truly a once in a lifetime experience.

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4,976,067 views • 1 year ago

Nothing prepares you for how insane this is: In 1984, astronaut Dale Gardner used a jetpack to fly completely untethered in space and capture a falling satellite with his hands.
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Nothing prepares you for how insane this is: In 1984, astronaut Dale Gardner used a jetpack to fly completely untethered in space and capture a falling satellite with his hands.

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2,273,488 views • 6 months ago

If the Milky Way was the size of North America, the Sun would be:
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If the Milky Way was the size of North America, the Sun would be:

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3,168,728 views • 8 months ago

You’ve never actually touched anything in your life. 🤯 At the atomic level, nothing ever truly touches. That feeling you get is just your brain interpreting electromagnetic repulsion between electron clouds. The object is real, but the contact is a constructed illusion.
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You’ve never actually touched anything in your life. 🤯 At the atomic level, nothing ever truly touches. That feeling you get is just your brain interpreting electromagnetic repulsion between electron clouds. The object is real, but the contact is a constructed illusion.

Curiosity

3,117,688 views • 9 months ago