Russian Space Probes, Astronaut Food, & Old School Bookbinding
Welcome back to Science Goes Boom. This week we'll get the party started by defying a little gravity:
Who’s got the best eyes in the animal kingdom? Hint, it isn’t an eagle:
Silly wabbit, TNT and Dynamite are diffewent.
[Note: there are few seconds of an AC/DC concert in the final twenty seconds. They don’t do anything inappropriate; it’s just a lame song.]
How many Russian probes does it take to get a few snapshots of the surface of Venus? Nine, and with surprisingly good image quality, I must say. If it’s real it begs the question: Why we don’t have better images of Mars and the Moon by now?
This the story of a bug…a bug who couldn’t tell up from down:
Ever wonder what they eat and drink in space? Well, it’s not that nasty, freeze dried ice cream, that’s for sure:
Yes, you can make a several-thousand-degree thermite fire out of soda cans. And you’ll also create some surprising elements in the process:
Typesetters are the unsung heroes of history. I can only imagine how many times Charles Dickens’ typesetters wanted to throw a plate through a wall when previewing his manuscripts:
And finally, let’s take a ride in a Chinook, the workhorse of the U.S. military:
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U.S. Military History
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