You may not know that when Robert Ballard announced a mission to find the Titanic, it was a cover story for a classified mission to search for lost nuclear submarines. They finished earlier & spent the extra time looking for the Titanic & actually found it https://t.co/0SStTNeeYz
The Humber Refinery in NE England. This place looks and smells like a ghost of fossil fuel history. It's where they turn crude oil into petrol, jet fuel & many other petrochemical products. It won't seem the obvious place to start a thread abt batteries. But bear with me 🧵
The Tacoma Narrows Bridge's collapse on November 7, 1940 has been described as "spectacular" and in subsequent decades has attracted the attention of engineers, physicists, and mathematicians [read more: https://t.co/ZvEiTPdJPW [watch the video: https://t.co/0DZ7DwFLyQ]
This Geologic Time Scale drawn by Ray Troll shows how life has evolved and changed over the eons of time, giving each period a distinct group of fossils that can be recognized worldwide [source: https://t.co/SfYXsWQtNA]
Me: Bitcoin solves a problem that is only a problem for a very narrow segment of the population
Internet rando: What about all the people who don't trust sovereign currency and would rather place their trust in a decentralized network
Me: Same answer as before