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The World’s Smartest Men
Beyond the rock stars like Neil DeGrasse Tyson and multi-billion dollar, cutting-edge facilities like CERN, a lot of physics (especially the theoretical sort) is still done the same way it was at the turn of the last century — by hand, on blackboards. Our friends at Oobject have assembled a gallery of history’s brightest minds…
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Why The USSR Never Got To The Moon
While the Saturn V made headlines shuttling US astronauts to the moon, the Soviet N1 rocket was made famous for a slightly different reason — when it blew up on takeoff it resulted in the largest, non-nuclear, man-made explosion of all time. This week’s Oobject showcases the N1 and 11 other pieces of Soviet Moon…
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15 Human Cocoons
See, unlike human-centipedes, human-caterpillars spin gorgeous human-cocoons like these to protect themselves as they grow into human-butterflies. It’s the circle of life and it moves us all.
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The Engineering Behind History’s Greatest Airships
Zeppelins are actually quite an impressive species of aeronautical engineering — you know, when they aren’t on fire. That’s especially true considering the level of technological prowess in the 1920’s. Our friends at Oobject have assembled 12 shots of these magnificent air-borne cruisers before they ever lifted off.