Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (or Memes)

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Anna Fisher in 1985 - one of the first US women in space, and the longest running active NASA astronaut.
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Time to drive 10 km: 10 km/h — 60 min 20 km/h — 30 min 30 km/h — 20 min 40 km/h — 15 min 50 km/h — 12 min 60 km/h — 10 min 70 km/h — 8:34 80 km/h — 7:30 90 km/h — 6:40 100 km/h — 6:00 110 km/h — 5:27 120 km/h — 5:00 130 km/h — 4:37 Going from 10 to 20 saves 30 minutes. Going from 120 to 130 saves 23 seconds.
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ISS with the lights out.
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The clearest picture of Mars ever taken!
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*Compact* Color TV Tape Recorder, the 1960s
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Plymouth Savoy push button automatic, 1963.
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Leyat Hélica, a French automobile produced between 1919 and 1925.
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"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom." - Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)
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in 1965, the Ranger 9 spacecraft made a planned impact on the Moon. This video shows Ranger's last couple of seconds before impact.
National Air and Space Museum
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Pierce built single and 4-cylinder motorcycles from 1909 until 1914.
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Marie Curie working in her laboratory.
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This is Mimas a moon of Saturn, not the Death Star
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Australian city uses drainage nets to stop waste from polluting waterways.
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Between the time it was discovered and the time it was declassified as a planet, Pluto did not even complete one revolution around the sun!
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Soviet spacecraft "Soyuz", photo from the ship "Apollo". The Soyuz and Apollo spacecraft docked on July 17, 1975, in a demonstration of how well the rendezvous and docking systems of each spacecraft would work with each other.
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Model T 'Elevator Garage', Chicago 1936.
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2020 was 2020 days ago.
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Nikola Tesla predicting smartphones more than 100 years ago:
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A 2-3-2 Soviet super-speed steam locomotive. Moscow, USSR, 1939.
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What came first? Egg or chicken?
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