Fascinating true stories from science, history, and psychology since 2005. Managed by @AlanBellows. No longer maintained. @DamnInteresting@mastodon.cloud
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Early #moon #space suit prototypes featured a "man in a can" design.
The #design which ultimately won the #NASA contract was submitted by Playtex, the widely known manufacturer of women’s bras and girdles, sewn by hand by the Playtex seamstresses.
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You'll need to put aside a few hours before diving into this site!
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One of the most fascinating things I've read.
An evolutionary algorithm optimized a circuit a bit too much, utilizing electromagnetic quirks that don't even generalized to 'identical' components.
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#Debate. Do Or Don't Bring Extinct Creatures Back to Life. Watch now. #itiscolossal #science #extinction
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Similar to how the Soviet MiGs shot down US Genetrix spy balloons in the past 🙂
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Those images were also developed in the probe and faxed back to Earth, at about 2 images per hour. damninteresting.com/faxes-fr…
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Pretty interesting read:
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99% Invisible (@99piorg). Cerebral and fun. Design oriented.
20,000Hz (@20korg). Also cerebral and fun. Sound oriented.
Damn Interesting (@DamnInteresting). Wacky stories. Great on road trip.
Also:
Spikes Car Radio (you prob already know)
Smartless (funny with great guests)
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"Wilson was left with the same question as the countless other men returning from the war, their youth and innocence gone, their bodies and minds battered: What to do next?"
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The Cessna 172 gets ~15 MPG so this 150k mile (6x around the world!) journey used 10,000 gallons of gas.
At the time, it was only $0.31/gallon, so it was a remarkably cheap part of the trip ($3k, $30k in todays $)
pretty freaking wild.
read more: damninteresting.com/the-unce…
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Hi, I wrote a book.
Off-Earth: Ethical Questions and Quandaries for Living in Outer Space is about all the ethics & human rights challenges facing us in space. It asks: What can we learn from our past mistakes to build a better future in space?
mitpress.mit.edu/97802620475…
ALT The book cover of Off-Earth, showing a cartoon orange planet against a blue-green background, with the title text in white
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"i trained an ai chatbot on my childhood journal entries - so that i could engage in real-time dialogue with my 'inner child'" xitter.cf/michellehuang42/status…
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First view of the lunar farside, seen by the Soviet Luna 3 on Oct 6, 1959, and yesterday's view from Artemis 1.
Luna 3 took actual photos (using captured American radiation-hardened film), developed onboard & sent home via radio fax!
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ALT First image of the lunar farside, taken by the Soviet Luna 3 probe.
ALT View of the Moon's farside taken by Artemis I.
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This just reminded me of how much I used to enjoy Damn Interesting back in the day, and apparently it still exists! damninteresting.com/
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If you're on the road today, re-upping my favourite longform true story.
"The story of a treacherous contraption that appeared mysteriously in a Lake Tahoe casino."
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The story can be read in far more detail on my favorite website in the whole world (which is the source for this thread!) at damninteresting.com/operatio…
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I learned this story from the one and only @DamnInteresting (which has recently become my favorite blog in the world).
The piece below was written brilliantly by @michaelpdurbin:
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