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- Six STEM Tweets - July 18 2024
Six STEM Tweets - July 18 2024
Apollo11 🚀, Geometric pies and more
Six STEM Tweets
Six tweets that celebrate engineering and all things STEM.
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FF wrote to me that he liked the joke about Planck’s constant in the last issue. It’s the small things, you know…
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Let’s create curiosity!
The components of yesterday’s date - July 17 ‘24 - had an arithmetic connection.
7 + 17 = 24
Or if you write dates like a rational person, 17 + 7 = 24
#1
Liftoff! July 16, 1969, 13:32 UTC – 55 years ago today – #Apollo11 launched from Earth, bound for the Moon. Years of research, testing, development, and all prior programs and missions came together to generate this moment. Neil, Mike and I may have been atop the rocket – but the… x.com/i/web/status/1…
— Dr. Buzz Aldrin (@TheRealBuzz)
2:36 PM • Jul 16, 2024
#2
While Marie Curie is well-known for her Nobel Prizes, few are aware of Maria Goeppert Mayer, the second female physicist to win the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1963 for her work on the nuclear shell model of atomic nuclei. Her achievement remained relatively overshadowed in the… x.com/i/web/status/1…
— Physics In History (@PhysInHistory)
9:01 AM • Jul 17, 2024
#3
Deepfakes can be spotted because AI doesn't know physics and screws up light reflections in eyes
With a tool originally developed by astronomers to measure light distribution of galaxies
Great case of an unexpected application of fundamental research
ras.ac.uk/news-and-press…
— Martin Bauer (@martinmbauer)
11:40 AM • Jul 17, 2024
#4
currently obsessed with geometrically satisfying pies
— “paula” (@paularambles)
11:38 AM • Jul 16, 2024
#5
For those who love calculus ✍️
— Physics In History (@PhysInHistory)
12:44 PM • Jul 16, 2024
#6
This time 55 years ago, President Nixon's speechwriter was preparing a pre-written eulogy for the Apollo 11 astronauts on a trajectory towards the moon.
It's maybe the most beautiful never-delivered speech.
Buzz Aldrin, 94 years old now, has outlived his eulogy by 55 years.
— Alan Cole (@AlanMCole)
5:34 PM • Jul 17, 2024
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Best wishes,
Harshal