Eleven Interactive Fractals in 2D & 3D
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@libertymints The Gee Bee was the perfect example of sticking the biggest motor you could on a brick.
If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.
(via brittbutterfly21)
This map shows the percent of residents of each state who own passports.
You know, many people think that mathematics is so complicated. This is wrong. Mathematics is an extremely simple approximation of the world. The world itself is more complicated than anything we can think of.
Cédric Villani, 2010 Fields Medal winner for “his work on developing equations to describe the movement of gas and plasma” [Science Show] (via we-are-star-stuff)
Fifty years of space exploration. Well, American space exploration at least. Originally published by National Geographic back in 2008, a few things have changed:
Several new missions have embarked to our Moon since 2008, including the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, GRAIL (mission complete, RIP) and LADEE, just launched last week.
The Mars Curiosity rover, duh!
Juno, launched in 2011, is only halfway to Jupiter today. That big planet is far away.
The Solar Dynamics Observatory has given us beautiful solar spectra to stare at.
New Horizons is set to be the first spacecraft to fly by Pluto and its moons in 2015. It rode on the fastest launch vehicle ever in order to begin its epic journey.
And Voyager has left the building …
Embigginate this beautiful piece of work here.
my teacher could give me a year to do an assignment and ill still end up doing it the night before
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