Horsehead Nebula // Barnard 33

I can see the good this could do, but all too easily this could be just another tool for Big Brother

At just 1.2 pounds and eight inches long, the camera-equipped rolling robot can be quite literally tossed like a football onto rooftops or through building windows. Its design ensures it lands upright in pretty much any situation where it hits a flat surface, and once deployed it can stealthily move under furniture, cars, or other cover and beam back live video to a command station 1,000 feet away. It is designed to be controlled by an operator working alongside it via a simple joystick control that also sports a small display that provides a ‘bots’-eye view.

These almost remind me of Elven ruins

The stereoscope was the VR headset of the 19th century.

British scientist Charles Wheatstone developed the first stereoscope in 1838, using side-by-side images and prismatic lenses. By showing the subject from two slightly different angles, the viewer’s brain is tricked into perceiving depth and being immersed in the scene.

This stereoscope was manufactured around 1900 by Brevetés Paris and is in our @cooperhewitt, which has a variety of stereoscope slides in its collection, including depictions of historical moments and camels at the zoo in London.

Sorry, little guy

Schiaparelli is scheduled to land on Mars tomorrow! Good luck, little guy.

Stay safe, you guys

Live wind map of hurricane Matthew – expected to make landfall in FL late tomorrow

science news: another incredibly smart and driven woman who discovered really important things just died without receiving recognition in her lifetime for any of her groundbreaking crucial work after decades of brutally unfair sexism click through for even more in depth accounts of the monstrous amount of sexist bullshit she had to put up with every single day of her goddamn life

science news: girls today are hesitant to go into STEM fields for some reason

James Shields (1878 - 1920) is the only person to serve in the US Senate for 3 different states – Illinois, Minnesota, and Missouri.

Pretty sure that's a tank

Tinspider’s first steps at the Exploratorium! 🕷

This awesome plane-train hybrid could revolutionize transportation, but not for another 50 years    

Imagine a future where a plane lands at an airfield that doubles as a rail yard. The cabin — one of three that cling to the underbelly of the aircraft like a baby possum to its mother — detaches, is seamlessly transferred to a nearby train, and then continues its journey toward the city center. Your multi-seat trip (taxi-to-subway-to-airtrain) from home to hotel suddenly becomes a one-seat, hassle-free ride. That’s the aim of a consortium of Swiss researchers with the conceptual Clip-Air, a bold-looking plane-train hybrid that despite its high-minded possibilities, will probably never get made.

All the vampire superstitions! Except sunlight

Nice, old-timey church in a sleepy town in Slovakia. What could possibly be interesting about this place?