Explore fascinating comparisons, surprising perspectives, and curious scientific endeavors, including how wood has changed, the unseen side of a peacock, historical city transformations, artistic legacies, ingenious solutions for sunlight deprivation, and a message cast into the cosmos by the Voyager spacecraft.
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This is what a cross-section of wood from the 1950s looks like compared with a cross-section of wood from today:
Now, you're obviously familiar with the front side of a peacock. It's majestic. Glorious, even! But have you ever seen a peacock's back side? Now you have:
This is what the city of Seattle used to be like before a major regrading project changed it, flattening hills and reshaping the landscape to'open up the city to more
This is artist Dario Campanile next to the painting he made for Paramount's 75th anniversary. The painting would go on to be the source of the company's subsequent logos:
There's a place in Norway named Rjukan that, because it's wedged between a bunch of tall mountains, only gets sun for less than half a year:
In order to get the residents some of that sweet, sweet vitamin D, a series of giant mirrors were built to reflect sunlight into the town. You can see them at work here:'
'This Voyager spacecraft was constructed by the United States of America. We are a community of 240 million human beings among the more than 4 billion who inhabit the planet Earth. We human beings are still divided into nation states, but these states are rapidly becoming a single global civilization. '
‘We cast this message into the cosmos. It is likely to survive a billion years into our future, when our civilization is profoundly altered and the surface of the Earth may be vastly changed. Of the 200 billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy, some — perhaps many — may have inhabited planets and spacefaring civilizations. If one such civilization intercepts Voyager and can understand these recorded contents, here is our message: 'This is a present from a small distant world, a token of our sounds, our science, our images, our music, our thoughts, and our feelings. We are attempting to survive our time so we may live into yours. We hope someday, having solved the problems we face, to join a community of galactic civilizations. This record represents our hope and our determination, and our good will in a vast and awesome universe.'
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