A thread -- which world leaders are calling for a shift to clean energy as a security investment in light of Iran War?
First up, French President Macron: "...everything we do to more toward the transition is also about reducing our dependence.." (1/x)
#cleanenergyisnationalsecurity
“Since the full-scale invasion, Ukraine has added over 3 GW of new renewable energy capacity.
Wind and solar arrays with independent transmission lines are scattered over the landscape, which makes them harder to hit and easier to repair”
This is a cliff on comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko.
It's about 1 km tall.
If you jumped from the top, it would take you 47 minutes to reach the bottom, and you'd probably be OK.
Guten Morgen zusammen - wie gewohnt mit einem aktuellen Bild der Sonne per Satellit GOES-19. Credit: NOAA
Si notre nez pouvait la détecter, on ne sentirait plus que ça...
➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/O94
🐚 Spécies général et iconographie des coquilles vivantes
Paris: Chez Rousseau: [1834-1880]
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Mont Blanc tonight from Bauges massif! 🤩
Thursdays are quite a LOT with a good six hours of teaching so here a confectionary selection of impractical footwear (at least for my huge feet) to soothe a tired brain. All late #1950s Roger Vivier for Dior @metmuseum.org #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
🚀 Sublimes vidéos du dernier lancement d'Ariane 6, et premier vol de la version à 4 boosters 🤩 Du décollage au ralenti, jusqu'à la séparation de l'étage principal, en passant par le largage des boosters et de la coiffe, c'est splendide 😍
youtube.com/watch?v=NWSB...
Matterhorn, Dent d'Hérens, Tête Blanche, Sommet N des Bouquetins and Mont Miné Glacier from Col Bertol (3265 m) today! 😍
📷 @lomdumtblanc.bsky.social 🙏
Magnifique vidéo (en accéléré) de l'éclipse de Lune du 31 janvier 2018.
Les étoiles se déplacent en arrière-plan parce que la Lune orbite autour de la Terre pendant l'éclipse.
On voit parfaitement l'ombre circulaire de la Terre se déplacer sur la Lune.
Source : www.luckwlt.com/Lunar%20Ecli...
gambling monk, germany, 15th century
Just another Monday…
A Roman mosaic depicting a somewhat whimsical owl 🦉, found in Uzès, southern France, dating second half of the 1st century BC.
📷 Denis Gliksman, Inrap
🏺 #MosaicMonday
The perspective looks all wrong. You're staring straight at this barmaid, but her reflection in the mirror is way off to right. Even worse, her reflection is facing a guy who doesn't appear in the main view!
But in 2000, a researcher showed this perspective is actually possible!
(1/n)
Winter may be over, but for Ukraine’s energy workers, the work never stops.
Roman never planned to live in #Kyiv. His life was in Mariupol. After surviving more than a month under russian occupation with no food, no water, and constant shelling, he evacuated his family.
Things used in everyday life are the real archaeological treasures!
This sewing needle was made from animal bone some 13,000 years ago.
Some designs simply don't need to be improved, because form and functions were perfectly matched from the start
Length: 5.6 cm
📷 Landesmuseum Württemberg 🏺
Cette image du télescope Hubble montre, vu par la tranche, un énorme disque de formation planétaire autour d'une jeune étoile.
Il s'étend sur près de 640 milliards de kilomètres.
(dans notre Système solaire, Neptune, la dernière planète, n'est qu'à 4,5 milliards de km du Soleil)
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i made a starter back of beautiful and unique manuscripts you can browse online! (with links) for anyone that wants a good way to spend an afternoon :)
open.substack.com/pub/weirdmed...
A terracotta antefix with the head of Medusa, the snake-haired creature whose sight turns everyone to stone.
Medusa’s head was a popular motif and used to ward off any evil.
Antifixes were used to conceal the ends of the tiles that ran along the edge of roofs. Ca. 480 BC
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Good afternoon from Sunny London! I spot some spots!
#astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social
Japanese artist Masayo Fukuda hand-cut this life-sized octopus from one sheet of paper. Known as Kirie in Japanese (translated as “cut picture”), the art form involves cutting intricate forms from a single sheet of white paper and then contrasting it against a black background to reveal the design.
Guten Morgen zusammen - wie üblich mit einem aktuellen Bild der Sonne, heute wieder per Satellit SDO.
Via a friend in the know: gpsjam.org A free site with data from airline pilots showing where GPS jamming (a good sign of other types of electronic warfare as well) is occurring in semi-real time.
The total lunar eclipse last night from Fairbanks, Alaska with a searing bright aurora right overhead. Insane combo.
It's striking to me that the earliest examples of rock art are hand stencils. Someone outline their fingers to announce: "I exist! I am here."
This one, from Sulawesi island in Indonesia, is ~68,000 years old, making it the oldest known cave art in the world. 🧪
www.johnhawks.net/p/rock-art-m...
'O’clock’ is a contraction of "of the clock."
‘Clock’ comes from the Medieval Latin ‘clocca,’ which meant “bell.”
Church towers would ring bells to mark the passing hours.
‘Cloak’ also comes from ‘clocca’ as the garment takes a bell-like shape around the body.
Guten Morgen zusammen - wie gewohnt mit einem aktuellen Bild der Sonne per Satellit SDO.
Guten Morgen zusammen - wie gewohnt mit einem aktuellen Bild der Sonne per Satellit SDO.
Guten Morgen zusammen - wie gewohnt mit einem aktuellen Bild der Sonne per Satellit SDO.
