Six STEM Tweets

Six tweets that celebrate engineering and all things STEM.

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#1

It always helps to have a different way of looking at things. Perspective helps in understanding - math and everything else.

#2

My first reaction was a little surprise at these hardware choices - all off-the-shelf chips. But then I realized that it makes sense for cost reasons. And they write custom software on hardened OSs on these chips. So it’s a good engineering trade-off.

#3

Imagine the memory leak on this one. You would have to clean it up with an actual mop. 😆 

#4

What an engineering marvel! The first re-usable spacecraft.

#5

I love serendipity!

#6

😁 

I am just waiting for someone to make a version that includes the Spock variant 😃 

This is issue #38 of #SixSTEMTweets

A few fun facts about 38:

• sum of the squares of the first three primes (2² + 3² + 5² )

• The atomic number of strontium

• The 38th parallel north is the pre-Korean War boundary between North Korea and South Korea (goes through today’s DMZ)

  • (I got a chance to visit the DMZ this summer. A very unique experience.)

• The international calling code 38 was formerly assigned to Yugoslavia until its break-up in 1991 (this is the 2nd in a row of discontinued country codes. Last week’s 37 was assigned to East Germany)

We are now in the “offset by 2” months. The 9th month named after 7 and so on.

Shows that naming things has been a challenge since the ancient times… 😁 

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Harshal