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recently i learned there are entire online communities dedicated to archiving those patterns inside of envelopes that exist to obscure the information, so when you hold it up to light, you can't read the contents. people even make art out of it (creds in alt text)
ALT more than i could have imagined 1 by amber williams
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inspo friday
ALT Tall green portal jib cranes against a blue sky at the Gdansk Shipyard
ALT Pale green reactor control panel with a grid of nine large round gauges, indicator lights and chart recorders
ALT Rusted bow section of a decommissioned submarine on a transporter, its outer hull cut open to show the cylindrical sonar array inside
ALT Early centrifugal turbojet engine on a museum stand, with a ring of pale combustion cans around its core
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The biggest US transit story of this year has been the massive growth of Seattle Link Light Rail in the wake of the 1 & 2 lines connecting
The Link moved more than 5M passengers last month, up 49% from last year, and keeps expanding, with a new station at Pinehurst just opened
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Crew Members working on an Engine Gantry during a Submarine Patrol off the British Coast
1918
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Visiting your friends in Ballard counts as a tax deductible charitable contribution
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The monsoon-resistant bioengineered bridges made out of living trees gotta be one of the most magical structures on the planet
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"we are so focused on accountability that we are immediately ruling out this major tool designed to bring accountability"
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Moon guns from 1965:
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What would handheld weapons look like if they had to operate in vacuum, needed to minimize recoil and had to be usable with a spacesuit glove?
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Over the past 5 years the Lucy spacecraft flew by 3 asteroids. Over the next 7 years it will visit 8 more, exploring the mysterious Trojan asteroids that share an orbit with Jupiter.
Lucy will set a record for most objects visited by one spacecraft.
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