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Six STEM Tweets #63
Lunar Firefly, hand-drawn Radium. Raman effect and more
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#1 🤯
Just in, our #GhostRiders downlinked another incredible Moon shot following a successful touchdown! Image shows the Moon's surface and Earth on the horizon. Blue Ghost's solar panel, X-band antenna (left), and LEXI payload (right) are also in view. #BGM1
— Firefly Aerospace (@Firefly_Space)
10:31 AM • Mar 2, 2025
A private lander on the moon! 🤯
More details: https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/touchdown-carrying-nasa-science-fireflys-blue-ghost-lands-on-moon/
#2 🤯
On this day in 1928 Sir CV Raman discovered Raman Effect. Day now celebrated as #NationalScienceDay.
For this CV Raman became first Indian & first non-white person to win the Nobel Prize in sciences for his illustrious discovery in 1930.
— Parveen Kaswan, IFS (@ParveenKaswan)
2:54 AM • Feb 28, 2025
#3 🤯
Seymour Cray, founder of the early super computer company, dug tunnels (by hand, for fun) under his Wisconsin home.
He said "elves" visited him underground, whispering suggestions to complex computing problems.
— Bandy (@VeganSundayWed)
3:26 AM • Feb 25, 2025
#4 🤯
Niels Bohr's original drawing of the structure of the Radium atom [1922]
— Paul Prudence (@MrPrudence)
6:30 PM • Mar 1, 2025
#5 🤯
1956 2025
5mb 1 TB
— Dhaboy 😎 (@dhaboy01)
4:18 PM • Feb 24, 2025
#6 🤯
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This is issue #63. Here’s some interesting things about 63:
63 is the sum of the first six powers of 2 (20 + 21 + ... 25 )
It is a palindromic number is base 2 (binary) and base 8 (octal)
Binary: 1111112
Octal: 778
+63, telephone country code for the Philippines
63 is the atomic number of Europium, a silvery-white metal of the lanthanide series. Europium is the most chemically reactive, least dense, and softest of the lanthanides.
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