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Point Nemo: The Spacecraft Cemetery

(via Amusing Planet) Far off the east coast of New Zealand, about 3,300 kilometers out in the Pacific Ocean, lies

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(via Atlas Obscura) On February 18, 2021, if all goes to plan, NASA’s Perseverance rover will land on Mars. While

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(via Design You Trust) Nathan Shipley is a San Francisco-based graphics artist who used artificial intelligence (AI) to reimagine a

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(via Smithsonian) Designed by Grumman Iron Works, the tough little fighter kept America in the fight during those early dark

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(via Mental Floss) Secret origins aren’t just for superheroes in need of a good backstory. Many of the most popular

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(via Mental Floss) Ada Lovelace has been called the world’s first computer programmer. What she did was write the world’s

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(via Smithsonian) 800 MPH in a Jet-Powered Car – Bloodhound LSR rides the highway to the danger zone.

(via Amusing Planet) More often than not, industrial infrastructures are an eyesore, especially when they are smack in the middle

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(via Mental Floss) Some medical treatments of old will make you especially thankful for science and modern medicine.

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(via Mental Floss) In 2013, Bill Gates admitted ctrl+alt+del was a mistake and blamed IBM. Here’s the story of how

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(via Popular Science) Twenty years ago, the Earth stopped being the only place in the universe that humans can call

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(via Smithsonian) The city of Tikal purified one of its reservoirs with technology comparable to modern systems