Some of the Incredible Things That Science Has Taught Us (47 pics)

Posted in INTERESTING       2 Jul 2013       15885       5 GALLERY VIEW

Sandcastles can be an art form, but there actually is a lot of science behind them. When making a sand mixture, it must be by volume 99 dry sand, 1 water. If you add much more water than that, youll be in danger of creating landslides

Artists Bill Pechet and Chris Pekar designed an amazing giant flask that is on display at Winnipeg's Millennium Library Plaza. It drizzles water and creates a fog and the lights even change color.

Have you ever wondered why a cat's tongue feels so rough?

Grover Krantz was an eccentric anthropologist and devoted pet lover. Before he lost his battle with pancreatic cancer in 2002, Krantz decided to donate his body to the Smithsonian. He said, "Ive been a teacher all my life and I think I might as well be a teacher after Im dead, so why dont I just give you my body. But theres one catch: You have to keep my dogs with me.

Scanning electron microscopy image of regular salt and pepper.

The blue whale is not only the largest animal alive currently, but is likely the largest animal ever to have lived.

The number plate is the chemical equation for Glucose, and the car is a white Cube.

Z-Machines is a new band in Japan composed of robots created by students at Tokyo University. Mach center plays lead guitar with 12 picks and 78 fingers. Cosmo left plays keyboard and shoots lasers from its eyes. Ashura right is on drums and uses 21 sticks.



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rikki_doxx 10 year s ago
#21 - The equation is unsolvable. Much to the chagrin of the Australian Air Force that put it out.
       
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2Cool4Ice 10 year s ago
Noobrikki_doxx,
       
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Gorfian 10 year s ago
#12 the micro SD is either 64000 MB or 61035 MB depending on whether you are using decimal MB or binary MiB.

Sandisk's declaration of 64GB means it has approx 64,000,000,000 bytes
       
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Lacesso 10 year s ago
1024MB to a GB and 64GB.
1024MB * 64 = 65536MB.
       
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Sabrina 7 month s ago
might want to change the one about the machine that detects diseases from one drop of blood. Kind of kills the credibility of the rest.
       
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