RT @Rainmaker1973
On August 2, 1971, Dave Scott performed one of the most legendary experiments, literally an out of this world one: the galilean 'hammer & feather' held on the Moon [read more: http://go.nasa.gov/1mVWEHT]
RT @hughmason
@mengwong I'm just old enough to have written some of my first programs on cards. It was common to mark a diagonal stripe on a deck to show the order and edits. Wikipedia notes that columns 73-80 were sometimes used for a sequence number for sorting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_programming_in_the_punched_card_era
Pew pew pew!
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RT @qikipedia
Switzerland's remarkable 'singing lake'.
RT @ToughSf
Jetpacks to the rescue!
Flying paramedics testing mountain response in the northern UK. They arrive in 90s vs an equivalent 25 minutes of climbing.
https://youtu.be/gtvCnZqZnxc
RT @michaelharriot
”We don’t need new domestic terrorism laws...We need to take the laws we already have and apply them to white people...It tastes just like chicken!”
@ElieNYC wins television on today’s episode of the #CrossConnection
#MineralMonth
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RT @jamesdnicoll
In the spirit of lifting stuff from the real world for rpgs, what are some obscure geological or climate oddities that nevertheless happened? Like how once, Siberia was on fire for a million year or that time it rained for millions of years.
https://twitter.com/jamesdnicoll/status/1347962948405362689
CS professor, game designer, and fire dancer ordinaire.