Samsung deepfake AI could fabricate a video clip of you from a single photo5yr ⋅ Mass1m01973 ⋅ r/Damnthatsinteresting
How the power lines at Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana, USA simply and clearly show the curvature of the Earth5yr ⋅ Mass1m01973 ⋅ r/pics
This shot comes from photographer Sean Scott off a remote West Australian beach. He was flying his drone over a large school of bait fish that was attracting whaler sharks and managed to get this shot with two sharks inside a wave5yr ⋅ Mass1m01973 ⋅ r/pics
How oysters are able to filter (and ultimately clean out) water through their digestive system5yr ⋅ Mass1m01973 ⋅ r/gifs
This photo was taken by Nathan Province from a C-17 at about 40 minutes from Oahu, Hawaii in July 2018. The unusual glow is from a sun angle below the horizontal plane illuminating shallow altocumulus clouds, generating a remarkable, unexpected view5yr ⋅ Mass1m01973 ⋅ r/pics
Photographer Steve Biro was lucky enough to capture a remarkable symmetrical reflection of this beautiful Bald Eagle at the Canadian Raptor Conservancy5yr ⋅ Mass1m01973 ⋅ r/pics
What photography can do with science: the World in a drop of water, by Markus Reugels5yr ⋅ Mass1m01973 ⋅ r/pics
In the 20 years before Einstein died, he almost never accepted invitations to speak at universities. In 1946 he broke his self-imposed rule to give an address in Philadelphia6yr ⋅ Mass1m01973 ⋅ r/pics
This gif, created by Google product developer Clay Bavor, puts the 747 and SR-71 aircraft speeds into perspective compared to New Horizons spacecraft. 36,000 mph ~ 58,000 km/h was the speed reached at launch (Atlas V third stage cut off)5yr ⋅ Mass1m01973 ⋅ r/space
From Mount Tschirgant in the Alps, you can see not only nearby towns and distant Tyrolean peaks, but also, weather permitting, stars, nebulas, & the band of the Milky Way Galaxy. And if you climbed during the Perseids Meteor Shower, like photographer Nicholas Roemmelt did, also a marvel like this5yr ⋅ Mass1m01973 ⋅ r/space
The sky over Rome looked like on February 22, 2018: thousands and thousands of starlings turned the sky into the densest TV static5yr ⋅ Mass1m01973 ⋅ r/pics
This is what you obtain if you take a long exposure photo of bugs under a streetlamp5yr ⋅ Mass1m01973 ⋅ r/pics
🔥 Many birds don't have prominent eyelashes, but some have: secretary birds sport wonderful ones5yr ⋅ Mass1m01973 ⋅ r/NatureIsFuckingLit
Some species of porcupinefish use a neurotoxin which is 1200 times stronger than cyanide, but they have a nice smile5yr ⋅ Mass1m01973 ⋅ r/Damnthatsinteresting
Nothing particularly remarkable about this dusty sunset, except it's been captured by a robot working on Mars few hours ago6yr ⋅ Mass1m01973 ⋅ r/space
When you think of Antarctica, pristine white icebergs usually come to mind; probably the last thing you’d expect are humbug-like striped icebergs with blue, green, yellow and even brown. But this is what Øyvind Tangen saw in 20135yr ⋅ Mass1m01973 ⋅ r/Damnthatsinteresting
They didn't make it to the Moon, but through their efforts and sacrifice we all did. The Apollo1 tragedy happened 52 years ago today and this is a cartoon by Wayne Stayskal published after the Apollo 11 Moon landing5yr ⋅ Mass1m01973 ⋅ r/space
Photographer Josh Anon captured the perfect moment in which the rising sun made this polar bear's backlit breath look like fire5yr ⋅ Mass1m01973 ⋅ r/pics
There's a giant sculpture in New Zealand that gives the illusion of being a cartoon piece of paper on a hilltop5yr ⋅ Mass1m01973 ⋅ r/Damnthatsinteresting
A considerable portion of an owl body volume is made up by feathers: as a consequence, the length of their legs is never correctly estimated5yr ⋅ Mass1m01973 ⋅ r/BeAmazed
This is a music typewriter: how music was typed before computers5yr ⋅ Mass1m01973 ⋅ r/Damnthatsinteresting
Mount Taranaki National Park has an almost perfectly circular boundary: the change in vegetation is so sharply delineated that the photos from above show an incredibly neat base5yr ⋅ Mass1m01973 ⋅ r/BeAmazed
The first space selfie was taken by Buzz Aldrin exactly 52 years ago today during the Gemini XII mission5yr ⋅ Mass1m01973 ⋅ r/space
You may think it's just a sheet covering an old clock, but then you read the plaque5yr ⋅ Mass1m01973 ⋅ r/Damnthatsinteresting
Jacinto Convit, the scientist who developed the vaccine to fight leprosy and was still working to find a vaccine for cancer on his 100th birthday. Described as a popular hero, he never charged a person for the care he gave5yr ⋅ Mass1m01973 ⋅ r/Damnthatsinteresting
The 'Virgin Rainbow' is one of the world's rarest and most expensive opals and it literally glows in the dark5yr ⋅ Mass1m01973 ⋅ r/BeAmazed
Mosaic is an often forgotten form of art, but still capable to brilliantly meet the eye6yr ⋅ Mass1m01973 ⋅ r/pics
Whilst out snorkelling one afternoon in Jervis Bay, photographer Jordan Robins stumbled across this common stingaree slowly hovering above the shallow sand flats. He managed to take this amazing photo where you can see above and below the water5yr ⋅ Mass1m01973 ⋅ r/pics
At birth, a common bottlenose dolphin calf is typically 39 to 53 inches long6yr ⋅ Mass1m01973 ⋅ r/Damnthatsinteresting
This is the first accurate image of the appearance of a black hole, made 40 years ago using punch cards on an IBM 7040 http://5yr ⋅ Mass1m01973 ⋅ r/space
Mount Roraima and the other tabletop mountains in Canaima National Park are considered to be the oldest geological formations on Earth, dating back around two billion years to the Precambrian Era5yr ⋅ Mass1m01973 ⋅ r/Damnthatsinteresting
Photographer Daniel Biber was trying to capture the murmuration of starlings for 4 days when he finally succeeded: but he didn't realize the starlings had created a giant bird in the sky until he got home and reviewed the pictures6yr ⋅ Mass1m01973 ⋅ r/BeAmazed
🔥 This is Japan’s largest wisteria, whose foliage covers 1,990 square meters and it's 147 years old5yr ⋅ Mass1m01973 ⋅ r/NatureIsFuckingLit
🔥 Manatees are known as 'sea cows' because of their similar size, peaceful temperament and diet of plants and weeds. When a herd of about ten of them calmly swims below, you can just silently watch them go by6yr ⋅ Mass1m01973 ⋅ r/NatureIsFuckingLit
The Spinning Dancer is a kinetic, bistable optical illusion resembling a pirouetting female dancer. If you look at the left image, all 3 dancers will rotate clockwise. But if you look at the right image, all 3 dancers will rotate counterclockwise6yr ⋅ Mass1m01973 ⋅ r/educationalgifs
This Vietnamese woman making a fishing net looks as if she's swimming in a sea of green fire [photo by Danny Yen Sin Wong]5yr ⋅ Mass1m01973 ⋅ r/pics
The northern cardinal is probably the most 'romantic' bird species: they mate for life, travel together, sing before nesting, and during courtship, feed seed beak-to-beak6yr ⋅ Mass1m01973 ⋅ r/Awwducational
The Aurora Tree: a visual coincidence between the dark branches of a nearby tree and bright glow of a distant aurora5yr ⋅ Mass1m01973 ⋅ r/space
🔥 The Sebright chicken gives you the impression it needs to be colored in5yr ⋅ Mass1m01973 ⋅ r/NatureIsFuckingLit
Just outside the city of Klevan in Ukraine, a nearly two-mile stretch of private railway has turned the surrounding trees into an enchanting natural tunnel. It's called the Tunnel of Love5yr ⋅ Mass1m01973 ⋅ r/Damnthatsinteresting
Aardwolves are shy and nocturnal, sleeping in underground burrows by day. They have often been mistaken for solitary animals. In fact, they live as monogamous pairs with their young.5yr ⋅ Mass1m01973 ⋅ r/Awwducational
In 2003 Adam Nieman created this image, illustrating the volume of the world’s oceans and atmosphere (if the air were all at sea-level density) by rendering them as spheres sitting next to the Earth instead of spread out over its surface5yr ⋅ Mass1m01973 ⋅ r/space
The average life span of a wombat in the wild is estimated to be 15 years and 20 years in captivity. Patrick, a wombat of the Ballarat Wildlife Park in Australia, lived for 31 years, which is like a human that lived for about 130 years5yr ⋅ Mass1m01973 ⋅ r/Awwducational
The armadillo girdled lizard is a species of lizard in the family Cordylidae and its size can range from 7.5 to 9 cm (3.0 to 3.5 in)5yr ⋅ Mass1m01973 ⋅ r/Damnthatsinteresting
Like many fruit-eating pigeons, the pink-necked green pigeon is thought to be an important disperser of fruit seeds in forests and woodlands and is thought to be one of those responsible for helping the return of many of the Ficus species to the islands of Krakatoa5yr ⋅ Mass1m01973 ⋅ r/Awwducational
Lithops are Namibian and South African plants that have evolved to look like stones5yr ⋅ Mass1m01973 ⋅ r/Damnthatsinteresting
The pygmy falcon is the smallest raptor on the African continent and it barely reaches 20 cm in length6yr ⋅ Mass1m01973 ⋅ r/Awwducational
In the mornings the ring-tailed lemurs sunbath to warm themselves. They face the sun sitting in what is frequently described as a sun-worshipping posture or lotus position5yr ⋅ Mass1m01973 ⋅ r/Awwducational
🔥 The parrotfish can ingest a coral’s calcium carbonate and poop out up to 800 pounds of sand each year, which makes the parrotfish the most important 'creator' of the beautiful white-sand beaches of Hawaii6yr ⋅ Mass1m01973 ⋅ r/NatureIsFuckingLit
The milk of pinnipeds consist of up to 60% fat, allowing the young to grow fairly quickly. Pups can gain over 2.2 kg (4.9 lb) per day while nursing6yr ⋅ Mass1m01973 ⋅ r/Awwducational
How simple pieces of wood and hinges makes a basic mechanical binary counter6yr ⋅ Mass1m01973 ⋅ r/mechanical_gifs
What happens when you swing a string of glow sticks with burning steel wool at the end and take a long exposure photo [photo by Chris Matthew Brady]5yr ⋅ Mass1m01973 ⋅ r/pics
The lilac-breasted roller is an African member of the roller family of birds. Usually found alone or in pairs, it perches conspicuously at the tops of trees, poles or other high vantage points from where it can spot insects, lizards, scorpions, snails5yr ⋅ Mass1m01973 ⋅ r/Awwducational
The tanker Amoco Cadiz ran aground off the coast of Brittany in 1978 and it looked like a giant whale surfacing5yr ⋅ Mass1m01973 ⋅ r/pics
🔥 Golden Plover chicks are some of the most beautifully coloured wader chicks, perfectly matched to their hiding places up on the high mossy plateaux in the Arctic tundra and other palearctic areas5yr ⋅ Mass1m01973 ⋅ r/NatureIsFuckingLit
There's something behind those clouds: a super thin crescent daylight Moon with a crescent Venus [photo: Ivan Eder]5yr ⋅ Mass1m01973 ⋅ r/space
The Honey Possum is the only non flying animal in the world to live solely on a diet of nectar and pollen. Honey Possum males have the largest sperm of any mammal in the world (0.36 mm), whilst their young are born weighing only 0.005 grams5yr ⋅ Mass1m01973 ⋅ r/Awwducational
Very little is known about 19th century Italian sculptor Giovanni Strazza, but his marble sculpture Veiled Virgin’s striking transparency is testament to his virtuosity.5yr ⋅ Mass1m01973 ⋅ r/Damnthatsinteresting
The almost perfectly spherical shape and prolonged stillness of a huddled Arctic hare are part of its winter strategy for keeping warm. Hares assume this posture when they finish feeding, tucking extremities in tightly in order to conserve warmth by folding their tails down between their hind legs5yr ⋅ Mass1m01973 ⋅ r/Awwducational
The bearded vulture is the only known animal whose diet is almost exclusively bone. In fact, It usually disdains the actual meat and lives on a diet that is typically 85–90% bone marrow5yr ⋅ Mass1m01973 ⋅ r/Awwducational
The Taiwan blue magpie is a species of bird of the crow family. Also known as “long-tailed mountain lady”, is considered a rare and valuable species and has been protected by Taiwan. They are not afraid of people and can be found near human residences5yr ⋅ Mass1m01973 ⋅ r/Awwducational
🔥 The Virgin Islands dwarf sphaero is a species of gecko has only been found on three of the British Virgin Islands. On average, it measures 18 mm (0.71 in) from its snout to its vent, and is nearly as small as a U.S. dime5yr ⋅ Mass1m01973 ⋅ r/NatureIsFuckingLit
Killer whales are notable for their complex societies only comparable to elephants & higher primates. Unlike any other mammal, killer whales live with their mothers for their entire lives & as they can reach age 90, as many as 4 generations travel together5yr ⋅ Mass1m01973 ⋅ r/Awwducational
Flamingos aside, you do not get to see the color pink in the animal kingdom a great deal. A notable exception is the pink katydid. Similar to and rare like albinism, erythrism is a condition that causes a curious reddish pigmentation in animals5yr ⋅ Mass1m01973 ⋅ r/Awwducational
Svalbard Reindeer are the smallest subspecies of Reindeer, standing only 80 cm tall. This is due to insular dwarfism: they remain short-legged and have a relatively small, rounded head5yr ⋅ Mass1m01973 ⋅ r/Awwducational
Hummingbird's nests are tiny and perfect, yet very hard to spot. The female build them alone and decorates (or camouflages) the outside with lichen, moss, and bark. Finished nests are about 5 cm across on the outside and the eggs rarely exceed 1.5 cm in diameter.5yr ⋅ Mass1m01973 ⋅ r/Awwducational
Sculptor creates a life-size statue of Arnold Schwarzenegger out of tree trunk6yr ⋅ Mass1m01973 ⋅ r/pics
Pangolins are the only mammals covered in scales. They tend to be solitary animals, meeting only to mate and produce a litter of one to three offspring, which are raised for about two years5yr ⋅ Mass1m01973 ⋅ r/Awwducational
🔥 The bearded vulture is the only known animal whose diet is almost exclusively bone5yr ⋅ Mass1m01973 ⋅ r/NatureIsFuckingLit
Golden moles are small, insectivorous burrowing mammals endemic to Southern Africa. Thye have eyeballs, but they are covered by skin and non-functional. They literally swim through the loose sand, using their broad claws to paddle5yr ⋅ Mass1m01973 ⋅ r/Awwducational
Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, and Harrison Ford trying to replicate the poster art for #StarWars A New Hope in 19776yr ⋅ Mass1m01973 ⋅ r/geek
The color makes this 128-year-old photo of the construction of London Tower Bridge feel like it was taken yesterday6yr ⋅ Mass1m01973 ⋅ r/pics
This is what the Lincoln penny that works as calibration target for Mars Curiosity looks like after nearly 4 months of dust storms, on September 4, 20186yr ⋅ Mass1m01973 ⋅ r/space
Luzon bleeding-heart is a species of ground dove with a reddish hue extending down the belly, furthering the illusion of blood having run down the bird's breast. They are shy and secretive, and very quiet, and rarely leave the ground except when nesting.5yr ⋅ Mass1m01973 ⋅ r/Awwducational
A penguin's mouth has no teeth. Instead, its mouth and tongue are lined with sharp, backward-pointing spines. The spines help the penguin hold on to food and, which it swallows whole5yr ⋅ Mass1m01973 ⋅ r/Awwducational
These books are not out of focus. It's just a band on the front of the books' pages5yr ⋅ Mass1m01973 ⋅ r/confusing_perspective
Axolotls are technically babies throughout their lifespan; unlike most other amphibians, they keep their “juvenile” gills throughout their lives6yr ⋅ Mass1m01973 ⋅ r/Awwducational
The black heron uses a hunting method called canopy feeding—it uses its wings like an umbrella, creating shade that attracts fish5yr ⋅ Mass1m01973 ⋅ r/Awwducational
Bees can be blue. Xylocopa caerulea, the blue carpenter bee, is non-aggressive and semi-solitary. They do not build hives like honeybees but instead prefer to live inside dead wood5yr ⋅ Mass1m01973 ⋅ r/Awwducational
This funny looking squid is about the size of a small avocado and can be found most commonly in the deepwater (greater than 100 m or 320 ft) of virtually all oceans. Due to its aspect, Helicocranchia pfefferi is called the piglet squid5yr ⋅ Mass1m01973 ⋅ r/Awwducational
Very rarely a roll cloud can turn into a spherical cloud, like this one observed over Japan in December 20165yr ⋅ Mass1m01973 ⋅ r/Damnthatsinteresting
This is Earth's quietest place: inside the room it’s so silent that the background noise measured is actually negative decibels and you can actually hear your own heartbeat and your bones moving5yr ⋅ Mass1m01973 ⋅ r/Damnthatsinteresting
This 1940s mechanism ingeniously sharpened razor blades so you didn't have to buy new ones6yr ⋅ Mass1m01973 ⋅ r/mechanical_gifs
18 years ago today, while en route to Saturn, the Cassini spacecraft made its closest approach to Jupiter. This view of Io against the gas giant's clouds was sent to Earth two days later5yr ⋅ Mass1m01973 ⋅ r/space
The common goldeneye (Bucephala clangula) is a medium-sized sea duck of the genus Bucephala. Their young are so precocial that they remain in the nest for about 24–36 hours only, then they start to test their skills5yr ⋅ Mass1m01973 ⋅ r/Awwducational
The Virgin Islands dwarf sphaero is a species of gecko has only been found on three of the British Virgin Islands. On average, it measures 18 mm (0.71 in) from its snout to its vent, and is nearly as small as a U.S. dime5yr ⋅ Mass1m01973 ⋅ r/Awwducational
Similar to other members of the crow family, the Taiwan blue magpies have a raucous call which is described as a high-pitched cackling chatter, kyak-kyak-kyak-kyak. The Taiwan blue magpie is monogamous. Females incubate eggs while males help with nest building and feeding.5yr ⋅ Mass1m01973 ⋅ r/Awwducational
A blowhole is essential the nostril of a whale. Similar to a human the whale’s blowhole is attached to their trachea and is connected to the lungs. In some whales' species, their appearance is definitely similar to a human nose, like this humpback whale5yr ⋅ Mass1m01973 ⋅ r/Awwducational
Despite their cute appearance, slow lorises (of the genus Nycticebus) are accepted as the only known venomous primate6yr ⋅ Mass1m01973 ⋅ r/Awwducational
Sociable weavers construct permanent nests on trees and other tall objects. These nests are the largest built by any bird, and are large enough to house over a hundred pairs of birds, containing several generations at a time5yr ⋅ Mass1m01973 ⋅ r/Awwducational
It looks like the Moon, but it's actually Arizona: the Arizona Meteor Crater in early morning light5yr ⋅ Mass1m01973 ⋅ r/space
One of the rarest monkey species in the world, Francois's langurs are born with bright orange hair that eventually turns black as they grow. The running theory is that the orange babies are easier for their parents to keep track of in their treetop habitat6yr ⋅ Mass1m01973 ⋅ r/Awwducational
There's something behind those clouds: a super thin crescent daylight Moon with a crescent Venus, in a remarkable shot by Ivan Eder5yr ⋅ Mass1m01973 ⋅ r/pics
Liomera rugata is a crab which inhabits in coral reefs of the Red Sea and Pacific Ocean and it's ultra-pinkish6yr ⋅ Mass1m01973 ⋅ r/Awwducational
A young tapir, called a calf, is born after a gestation of about 13 months. The natural lifespan of a tapir is about 25 to 30 years, both in the wild and in zoos. Apart from mothers and their young offspring, tapirs lead almost exclusively solitary lives6yr ⋅ Mass1m01973 ⋅ r/Awwducational
In the Mediterranean sea, you can happen to spot a majestic view like this: three waterspouts in the sunset6yr ⋅ Mass1m01973 ⋅ r/pics
The olinguito is a mammal of the raccoon family Procyonidae that lives in montane forests in the Andes of western Colombia and Ecuador. The species was described as new in 2013. Its average weight is 900 grams (2 lb), making it the smallest procyonid5yr ⋅ Mass1m01973 ⋅ r/Awwducational
Ghost crabs have the ability to change colors to match their surroundings by adjusting the concentration of pigments within their chromatophores. They can even match the specific colors of the grains of sand in their habitats. This is a young one5yr ⋅ Mass1m01973 ⋅ r/Awwducational
The harpy eagle is the largest and most powerful raptor found in the rainforest, and among the largest extant species of eagles in the world. Adult females can weigh up to 10 kg, be 86.5–107 cm long and have a wingspan of max 2.24 m5yr ⋅ Mass1m01973 ⋅ r/Awwducational
The oncillas (Leopardus tigrinus) produce 1 to 3 kittens (usually only one), after a gestation of 74 to 76 days. The kittens do not begin to take solid food until they are 38 to 56 days old5yr ⋅ Mass1m01973 ⋅ r/Awwducational
The bee hummingbird is the smallest living bird. Females weigh 2.6 g (0.092 oz) and are 6.1 cm (2.4 in) long, and are slightly larger than males, with an average weight of 1.95 g5yr ⋅ Mass1m01973 ⋅ r/Awwducational
Compare smooth tubes (left) vs corrugated tubes (right). See how corrugation creates turbulence, breaks the laminar flow and hence provides better heat transfer rates than smooth tubes5yr ⋅ Mass1m01973 ⋅ r/educationalgifs
Lithops are Namibian and South African plants that have evolved to look like stones5yr ⋅ Mass1m01973 ⋅ r/pics
