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Six STEM Tweets - Best of 2024 - #3
Harshal Chhaya
December 29, 2024
Six STEM Tweets
Six tweets that celebrate engineering and all things STEM.
I scrolled so you didn’t have to.
Hi friends, Here we are. Part 3 of the ‘best of 2024’ posts.
Did I miss your favorite one? Let me know!
Here’s to more knowledge and fascination in 2025!
(all of the previous issues, all 60+ of them, are at https://sixstemtweets.beehiiv.com/)
Love, Harshal
#1 🤯
Math is indeed all around us - even in a meme
(It’s a joke on inverse functions)
#2 🤯
today i learned the Oshkosh NGDV (next generation delivery vehicle) looks like this because the USPS contract mandated that the cabin must be tall enough for a 95th percentile male (6'2) to stand up but low enough for a 5th percentile female (4'11) to see over the hood
— andi (e/alb) (@Nexuist)
4:54 PM • Jun 18, 2024
What a beautiful example of user-centered design
#3 🤯
Incredible picture of the ISS by Maxar. Shows 6 different spacecraft docked for the first time ever: SpaceX Dragon, Boeing Starliner, Cygnus, Soyuz, 2x Progress.
They did it by taking one of their Legion satellites —which normally do Earth observation— and pointing it up towards… x.com/i/web/status/1…
— John Gedmark (@Gedmark)
10:15 PM • Jun 12, 2024
Satellites taking photos of satellites that have other satellites docked to them! 😀
It’s satellites all the way up!
#4 🤯
Fun fact.
J.J. Thomson won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1906 showing that the electron is a particle.
Ironically, his son, G.P. Thomson, won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1937 showing that it is not (or rather that the electron can also behave as a wave).
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973)
9:59 AM • Jun 28, 2024
The greatest ever example of a rebellious son trying to prove his father wrong 😀
#5 🤯
the last time that every human was on earth was october 31, 2000.
ever since then, we’ve always had at least one person in space.
so if you were born after that date, you’ve never been on earth with everyone at once.— Jasmine 🌌🔭 (@astro_jaz)
3:51 PM • Jul 3, 2024
🤯
#6 🤯
#Apollo11 crew had to sign US customs' forms after returning from the moon on July 24, 1969, declaring that they brought moon dust & rock samples back. The declaration form was signed by crew members: Neil Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin & Michael Collins. contactlight.de
— ＣＯＮＴＡＣＴ ＬＩＧＨＴ 。 ◯ *・ (@contactlight69)
8:57 PM • Jul 23, 2024
Gotta fill out those forms!
Here’s a few of the special editions from 2024 |
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Best wishes,
Harshal