20 dezembro 2014
Apollo 11 Landing Site Panorama
Have you seen a panorama from another world lately? Assembled from high-resolution scans of the original film frames, this one sweeps across the magnificent desolation of the Apollo 11 landing site on the Moon's Sea of Tranquility. Taken by Neil Armstrong looking out his window of the Eagle Lunar Module, the frame at the far left (AS11-37-5449) is the first picture taken by a person on another world. Toward the south, thruster nozzles can be seen in the foreground on the left, while at the right, the shadow of the Eagle is visible toward the west. For scale, the large, shallow crater on the right has a diameter of about 12 meters. Frames taken from the Lunar Module windows about an hour and a half after landing, before walking on the lunar surface, were intended to initially document the landing site in case an early departure was necessary.
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Nobody Remembers Michelson For A Reason
In 1903, Albert Michelson, one of the 19th century’s top physicists, commented “The more important fundamental laws and facts of physical science have all been discovered, and these are so firmly established that the possibility of their ever being supplemented in consequence of new discoveries is exceedingly remote”. Two years later, Einstein published his revolutionary Theory of Special Relativity.
An alternative-history map — what Africa might have looked...
An alternative-history map — what Africa might have looked like if it was never colonized by Europeans. Drawn with south as up, to reverse the Eurocentric bias of north-is-up maps, it was compiled using historical, linguistic, and ethnographic data by Nikolaj Cyon.
ON THIS DAY IN THE HISTORY OF PSYCHOLOGY (20th December...
ON THIS DAY IN THE HISTORY OF PSYCHOLOGY (20th December 1921)
George W. Albee was born.
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