Massimo
@Rainmaker1973
Engineer. Selecting and curating pictures and videos trying to awaken your sense of wonder. Science, tech, art, weather, space, the unusual around us.
Did you know? There's a pyramid in Scotland. It was erected by Queen Victoria within the Balmoral estate in the heart of Royal Deeside, Aberdeenshire, to commemorate the passing of Prince Albert. [📹 Chris Henry]
Timeline of the Universe We live in the yellow period, the Stelliferous Era. By the end of this era, bright stars as we know them will be gone, followed by 10⁸⁸ trillion years of darkness. A very short bright moment vs an eternity of darkness.
‘Interstellar' score playing in the Cologne Cathedral, performed by organist Anna Lapwood.
Man finds a red lynx and a baby alligator fighting in his backyard
In 2003, these two men stole a Boeing 727 from Angola-took off erratically, vanished without a trace. No crash site or plane found despite extensive searches.
San Francisco based programmer Stefan Thomas has over $220 million in Bitcoin locked on an IronKey USB drive. He was paid 7,002 BTC in 2011 for making an educational video, back when it was worth just a few thousand dollars. He lost the password in 2012 and has used 8 of his 10…
Sylvester Stallone still has the turtles from Rocky. They are 49 years old.
Flight of the Shima Enaga, a Japanese bird who looks like a cotton ball
A humpback whale swallowed a 20-year-old man while he was packrafting with his father in Águila Bay, Punta Arenas, Chile, then spat him out a few seconds later,