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This is the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope [FAST aka
Tianyan] located in the Dawodang depression, a natural basin in Pingtang
County, Guizhou, southwest China. It measures 500 m [1,600 ft] in
diameter making it the world's largest filled-aperture radio telescope and the
second-largest single-dish aperture, after the sparsely-filled RATAN-600 in Russia.
FAST's surface is made of 4450 triangular panels connected to 2225 winches
located underneath which pull on joints between panels, deforming the flexible
steel cable support into a parabolic antenna aligned with the desired sky direction.
Wiki Page
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It's estimated that there are less than 100 people worldwide that have this ability
with 60 confirmed cases ...including Marilu Henner, who was used as a consultant
on the TV Series Unforgettable. Good show, btw.
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This is a shot of the Taiyuan Tianlong Mountain Highway located in Shanxi
Province in Northwestern China. As can be seen here, it contains a 3-storey
loop. Quite a marvel of engineering, here's a cool video on it:
Fre: "I had to search further into this highway and i found all kinds of interesting
things about it. To sum it up, people do it for pleasure and excitement. Some of it is
like riding a roller coaster and for phenomenal views. I would totally dig driving it
and i love vids that have a way of making you feel like you are there."
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Located in the Phoenix Cluster, about 8.6 billion light years away, is Phoenix A, the largest black
hole that has been discovered. A previous record holder was TON 618 which was thought to be
right around the theoritical size limit. Guess we were wrong about that.
It's estimated that Phoenix A contains 1 billion times the mass of our sun and 24,100 times the mass
of our own local black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy, Sagittarius A. It's so large that,
even traveling at light speed, it would take you 71 days, 14 hours to circumvent.
Wiki Page
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This is a full-disk multiwavelength extreme ultraviolet image of the sun taken by
the Solar Dynamics Observatory on March 30, 2010. False colors trace different
gas temperatures. Reds are relatively cool (about 60,000 Kelvin, or 107,540 F);
blues and greens are hotter (greater than 1 million Kelvin, or 1,799,540 F).
Ironically, the surface temperature of the sun is about 5,800 Kelvin or
10,000 Fahrenheit. The corona (sun atmosphere) is much hotter as noted by
the figures above. If your curious, the center core of the sun burns at about
15,000,000 kelvins or 27,000,000 Fahrenheit. Bring your sunscreen.
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Also known as NGC 6164, here's the Wiki Page
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The man in question is Tony Signorini, a local mechanic who created the cryptid
known as the "Clearwater Beach Monster" and he continued the hoax for over a decade,
producing tracks on multiple beaches from Honeymoon Island to St. Pete Beach.
And, as the picture states, the hoax was finally revealed in 1988.
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The value of the pearl is only an estimate at it still has not been authenticated by international
gemologists. Currently displayed in Puerto Princesa City, awaiting official gemological testing
to confirm its status as the world's largest natural pearl. Wiki Page. I Wonder why it's taking so long.
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Now that she's got a record, she'll never get a descent job.
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Here's Valles Marineris, the largest canyon in the solar system, on the planet Mars. You'll
note its astounding size compared to a map of the U.S. and renders the Grand Canyon
(which I marked as a yellow dot) as nothing more than an insignificantly teeny creek.
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No, these are not ships floating in the air. This is a mirage known as Fata Morgana,
named after Morgan le Fay, a sorceress from Arthurian legend. This optical illusion is
caused by the bending of light as it passes through air layers of differing temperatures.
There's an excellent, fun article on this phenomenon at Mental Bomb
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Here's a picture of the surface of Venus. This was taken by the Russian exploration
lander, Venera 14, on March 5, 1982. Using a large variety of instruments, it had a
multitude of experiments to do in a very short time. They planned on a lifespan of
roughly 32 minutes but, surprisingly, it lasted 57 minutes before succumbing to the
465c (869f) degree heat and atmospheric pressure of 94 Earth atmospheres which is
roughly equal to being a kilometer underwater. In these conditions, a human
would be instantly squashed flat and boil away within seconds.
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