Space Junk, Dams, & An Electrified River (yep, you read that right)
Welcome back to Science Goes Boom. Let’s get the flywheel spinning with a little creative junkyard engineering:
Did you know NASA has a whole database for tracking objects that get lost into space? Seriously, someone out there is plotting the orbit of an errant zip tie as we speak:
If you go through the bother of making a robot crab, you’d best give it an enemy worthy of a robot. Enter the Peacock Mantis shrimp:
Move over, VY Canis Majoris, there’s a new champion in town:
Try to ignore the obvious AI narrator as you enjoy this little exploration of the Hoover Dam:
And now let’s see one made out of Legos:
We always need something going boom, so here’s a lovely little collection of atomic booms. Soooo pretty:
Confession Time: I LOVE roundabouts. We’ve gotten a few of them installed in Alaska over the past decade and the more the better, I say. It’s like survival of the fittest at an intersection. And yet, here’s the science of why they’re so much safer (apologies for sharing something from CNBC):
A trip around the globe to examine some of the world’s deepest holes:
And finally, why in the world would the city of Chicago electrify a body of water? Because unintended long-term consequences of meddling with nature, of course, that’s why:
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