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WEBHoly smoking Toledos indeed. On Reddit, a user details how loud a Saturn V rocket is and what the effects would be at different distances.At very close range, the sound from the Saturn V measures an incredible 220 db, loud enough to melt concrete just from the sound.. At 500 meters, 155 db you would experience painful, violent shaking in your entire body, you would feel compressed, as though ...
Behold Our Dazzling Night Sky When the Milky Way Collides with ...
WEBOct 21, 2019 · Using data from the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers at NASA have predicted that our own Milky Way galaxy and the nearby Andromeda galaxy (M31) will collide about 4 billion years from now. As part of the announcement from 2012, they produced a video of what the collision would look like and a series of illustrations of what our sky will look ...
The Kottke.org Archives
WEBA growing number of posts on kottke.org have been "tagged" with keywords. Some of the tag pages have dozens or even hundreds of entries, almost like they're slow-moving topical blogs. Warning: you will get lost down some rabbit holes with these. Some recommended starting points. Recently popular topics. All-time popular subjects.
About Kottke.org
WEBFounded in 1998, kottke.org is one of the oldest blogs on the web. It’s written and produced by Jason Kottke and covers the essential people, inventions, performances, and ideas that increase the collective adjacent possible of humanity. Frequent topics of interest among the 26,000+ posts include art, technology, science, visual culture ...
Meet Aerospace Engineer Judith Love Cohen - kottke.org
WEBMay 14, 2019 · Judith Love Cohen was, at various times in her fascinating life, an engineer who worked on the Pioneer, Apollo, and Hubble missions, an author & publisher of books about women in STEM and environmentalism in the 90s, a ballet dancer with the New York Metropolitan Opera Ballet Company, an advocate for better treatment of …
Black History in Two Minutes (or so) - kottke.org
WEBFeb 7, 2024 · Black History in Two Minutes (or so) This video series written and narrated by Henry Louis Gates Jr. presents short 2-4 minute lessons about how Black people shaped American history. Here are a few videos to get you started: There are almost 100 videos in all — what a treasure trove. I found this via The Kid Should See This, which has a great ...
Database of old book illustrations - kottke.org
WEBFeb 7, 2020 · Database of old book illustrations. Here’s an enormous library of thousands of old book illustrations, with searchable name, artist, source, date, which book it was in, etc. There are also a number of collections to browse through, and each are tagged with multiple keywords so you can also get lost in there in that manner. Though the team ...
Silkscreen font - kottke.org
WEBSilkscreen is a typeface for your Web graphics created by Jason Kottke. Silkscreen works on the Mac, Linux, and Windows and is free for personal and corporate use.There is more information about Silkscreen in the FAQ below.
The most beautiful suicide - kottke.org
WEBJul 16, 2008 · The most beautiful suicide. On May 1, 1947, Evelyn McHale leapt to her death from the observation deck of the Empire State Building. Photographer Robert Wiles took a photo of McHale a few minutes after her death. The photo ran a couple of weeks later in Life magazine accompanied by the following caption:
kottke.org posts about Star Wars
WEBJun 17, 2024 · The story begins 10 years after the dramatic events of “Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith” where Obi-Wan Kenobi faced his greatest defeat — the downfall and corruption of his best friend and Jedi apprentice, Anakin Skywalker, who turned to the dark side as evil Sith Lord Darth Vader. posted Oct 21, 2021 by Jason Kottke.