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- Asbads: The Original Windmills of the Middle-East » Explorerswebexplorersweb.com Asbads: The Original Windmills of the Middle-East » Explorersweb
Through Iran and Afghanistan, you can find some odd-looking structures made from clay and wood. These are the world’s oldest windmills, called "asbads."
- A Man Drank So Much Radium His Skull Literally Disintegratedwww.sciencealert.com A Man Drank So Much Radium His Skull Literally Disintegrated
Bleach and chloroquine need to take a seat.
- About the russian Memo
FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone posted it around a lot, and it sounds legit due to it being on the .gov site.
I wanted to dig into the original version since I'm a native and have some edge in using it over my homies. Even some rewards at that, kek.
Welp. Mostly it's an easily translateable basic vocab including media-specific words. I suspect it's an american or a russian-american person writing in Russian and sometimes\always using an automatic translator. And they are stupid at that, as they don't know how complex punctuation works or don't read what they post. The punctuation is kinda confusing, sometimes hinting that it's a copy paste from a translator.
- отличается от таковой - is a rare turn of words that many russians fail at, just like americans fail at they're. I don't know many persons who can correctly put it into a sentence. That's probably a translated text since they can't handle the right placement of commas.
- ставленником - is a weird archaic word that's sometimes used by nerds of polisci or other humane arts weirdos, it isn't used anywhere else. That's maybe a clue to who wrote it.
- нового глобалистского социализма - sounds weird, like a direct translation from English.
- Next, there is a division between the elephant and the donkey, both lowercase, without any punctuation to tell them they are referencing parties, not animals. It's fucking stupid. And not stupid as a result from an AI prompt that can produce a correct phrase, but from a literal translation of a literal translation that lost any indication of what it refers to.
That's just the first picture. All of that sounds weird to my ear, and my assumption, clouded by the US gov's decision to put it onto display, is that it can be legit, but it is written by a person with a political\media background, creating a draft in English, that they lazily translated into Russian. That may be on RT employes, especially international ones.
There are a handful of russian-speaking users on fediverse who can tell I'm wrong.
Ah, yeah, and it really mentions 'manga' although it doesn't make any sense.
- Page 1 of Russia's "Guerrilla media campaign in the US" memo [Translated] Exhibit 9A
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/16162312
> The rest is available to read on the justice.gov website here
- The Smallest, Lightest Solar-Powered Drone Takes Flightspectrum.ieee.org The Smallest, Lightest Solar-Powered Drone Takes Flight
It weighs less than a nickel and can fly nonstop while the sun shines
- El Guerrero - La Rebancha
Seen in the ocean off the Florida keys. According to the Coast Guard all passengers were safely picked up.
More photos here: https://imgur.com/a/XKqYAo0
- There's a fungus known as dead man's fingers... because it can literally look like the fingers of a corpse bursting out of the ground.www.allianceforthebay.org From the Grave: Dead Man's Fingers - Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay
You’re walking through the woods on a crisp, late October afternoon, smelling the sharp scent of decaying leaves and listening to the dry rustle of beech leaves in the breeze. You decide to take a break, sit on an old stump, munch an apple and observe this amazing world…but, what is that reaching up...
- There is a little-known valley in the Libyan desert known as the Valley of the Planets where rocks take on spherical and disc-shaped forms.thebrainchamber.com Valley of the Planets in Libya
Explore Valley of the Planets in Libya and find out more about its discovery, history, features, the civilization behind it and more.
Unfortunately, I can't find much more reliable information on the area. It's apparently also known as Wan Tkufi and Karakeb.
I'd love to know the geological reason for this if anyone knows it.
- Worst/Best discontinued products that are taboo now but ok yesteryear
Seeing another post about aunt Jemima products that were discounted due to racial stereotypes I was curious what's the worst product-fuckuo you have seen?
In Sweden we have a chocolate pastry ball that was called negerboll which translates to negro ball. Early 2000s it was deemed that it was not ok and it changed name to chocolate ball.
Bonus. https://www.testfakta.se/sv/livsmedel/article/bort-med-nidbild-pa-fazers-kinapuffar
- National School Fallout Shelter Design Competition Awards book (1963)
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17125580
This is a 1963 book by the American Institute of Architects awarding the best designs for school fallout shelters.
A really nice-looking book. Like they spent some good money on it.
The Internet Archive has the weirdest stuff. I've been entertaining myself by browsing text collections lately.
- Colours of the eyewww.shithot.co.uk Colours Of The Eye - Shit Hot Infographics
An infographic design by UPMC that is packed with information about eye colour which has captivated audiences throughout time.
Cool design
- Most amazing photo of Venus
The sharpest image ever taken of Venus.
From the Japanese spacecraft Akatsuki.
The dark side shines in the infrared, which is how this photo was taken.
- A column of capybaras marches through the streets of the Brazilian city of Campo Grande
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- "Hallow," a sculpture by Daniel Popper
It can be found at the Morton Arboretum in Lisle, Illinois, USA.
https://streetartutopia.com/2024/02/15/hallow-sculpture-by-daniel-popper-in-lisle-illinois/
Check Daniel Popper out with your search engine of choice, because pretty much all of his sculptures are amazing.
- Sharpest view ever of the Andromeda galaxy
This zoomable picture of the Andromeda galaxy has insane detail. It really impressed me with the crazy amount of stars visible once you fully zoom in. And that is just a small section of one galaxy! Made me realise how unfathomable the total amount of stars in the universe really is
- Microsurgery Assistance Robot Stitching a Corn Kernel
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- Building a machine to create fractals through video feedback
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This man has spend the past 30+ years perfecting a machine to create beautiful fractals through HD video feedback
!https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/edd0a9a9-b07f-46b6-9b44-06ee1b8f2eb3.gif
- Drone footage of Sinuiju City North Korea
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XiaoHao2 took these pics and videos from across the China boarder with a dgi drone in 2020. They uploaded just recently. Here's some more pics
- Rare photographs of war dogs with gas masks, 1915-1970rarehistoricalphotos.com Rare photographs of war dogs with gas masks, 1915-1970
There was nothing more terrifying in the trenches than the call of a gas attack — “Gas! Gas!”. This warning cry sent men scrambling for their masks as the poisonous fog enveloped them. Soldiers suc…
- The Jean-Pierre Ponthieu Rhomboid Automodule - Possibly the weirdest car of the 20th century.www.bubblemania.fr Jean-Pierre Ponthieu the Rhomboid Automodule, Pussycars
(1968 – 1970)He studied at Ecole Saint-Exupéry at HEM between 1971 and 1990. Inventor
- Zelensky’s phone call to Macron to inform him that the invasion startedvimeo.com A President, Europe and War - Extract
This is "A President, Europe and War - Extract" by Scorpion TV on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.
- AlphaBay: From Dark Web Kingpin to Fallen Empire
AlphaBay, once the dark web's kingpin marketplace, peddled illegal goods and fueled criminal activity. Its takedown was a victory, but the dark web's hydra keeps rising, posing new challenges for law
- New York Skyline 360 Panorama: 20 Gigapixels360gigapixels.com New York Skyline 360 Panorama: 20 Gigapixels
The largest photo ever made of New York City. This image was shot with a Canon 5Dsr with a 135mm lens. It is a 360 degree, gigapixel image of Manhattan, New York City, and the surrounding landscape. Shot from the top of the Empire State Building in October 2015.
The camera captures so much data, that you can read street signs from the top of the building just by digitally zooming!
- Stairwell in an abandoned button factory.
More info: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/stairs-abandoned-button-factory/
- After a Space Shuttle astronaut threatened to not come back unless he had more time to work on his experiment, NASA put a padlock on the airlock door and only the mission commander had the key.arstechnica.com What happens when an astronaut in orbit says he’s not coming back?
"If you guys don't give me a chance to repair my instrument, I'm not going back."
> On the second day of the mission, Wang floated over to his experiment and sought to activate the Drop Dynamics Module. But it didn't work. He asked the NASA flight controllers on the ground if he could take some time to try to troubleshoot the problem and maybe fix the experiment. But on any Shuttle mission, time is precious. Every crew member has a detailed timeline, with a long list of tasks during waking hours. The flight controllers were reluctant. > >After initially being told no, Wang pressed a bit further. "Listen, I know my system very well," he said. "Give me a shot." Still, the flight controllers demurred. Wang grew desperate. So he said something that chilled the nerves of those in Houston watching over the safety of the crew and the Shuttle mission. > >"Hey, if you guys don't give me a chance to repair my instrument, I'm not going back," Wang said.
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> So in the immediate aftermath, someone at NASA, probably within the crew office, initiated the capability of a commander to lock the hatch if he or she felt uncomfortable about a crew member. It was used frequently in subsequent missions involving payload specialists.