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- Six STEM Tweets - April 19 2024
Six STEM Tweets - April 19 2024
Radioactive isotopes, mimicking nature and more
Harshal Chhaya
April 19, 2024
Six STEM Tweets
Six tweets that celebrate engineering and all things STEM.
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#1
Humans flying a helicopter on another planet ranks as one of our most successful engineering accomplishments!
The #MarsHelicoper is now grounded but will continue to do data collection.
A long goodbye. 🚁
Ingenuity's team received their final message from the #MarsHelicopter, which will now serve as a stationary testbed, collecting data that could benefit future explorers of the Red Planet. go.nasa.gov/3U0rTsW
— NASA JPL (@NASAJPL)
1:08 AM • Apr 17, 2024
#2
The Beatles were right
#3
There's enough DNA in the body of a human to stretch from the Sun to Pluto and back 17 times.
— Fermat's Library (@fermatslibrary)
12:58 PM • Apr 13, 2024
#4
Evolution has optimized design over millions of years.
The best argument against rejecting nature completely is that we keep inventing advanced algorithms and running them on hyperscale supercomputers to find the most optimized solution for a problem and the end result is just like. A bird. You could've just drawn a bird instead
— andi (e/alb) (@Nexuist)
6:39 PM • Apr 12, 2024
#5
This is a really good example of the impact of mentors. A good mentor can far outweigh other factors (education, upbringing etc.)
1. Where do superstar scientists come from? Other superstar scientists.
Even when you control for everything resume-wise, protégés of soon-to-be-famous scientific mentors (orange) had way more future research impact than their IQ-matched peers (blue)
— Erik Hoel (@erikphoel)
2:46 PM • Apr 16, 2024
#6
I had no idea you could buy radioactive isotopes for personal use.
That’s wild!
Follow-on thought: Do I really want these around me?
What do you think? Would you buy these? Or not? Hit ‘reply’ and tell me more.
So these arrived. Still wild you can just buy radioactive isotopes, but I've got a very special collection here. Each releases different unique type of radiation. Alpha, beta, gamma, and Antimatter!!
— The Thought Emporium 🌻 (@EmporiumThought)
3:16 PM • Apr 12, 2024
That’s it for this issue.
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Let’s all celebrate science and engineering and curiosity.
Best wishes,
Harshal