Scientists may have found the real life SpongeBob and Patrick nearly 6,200 feet below the Atlantic.
A NOAA expedition captured a yellow sponge and pink sea star sitting side by side, and marine biologist Christopher Mah pointed out the obvious comparison.
[🎥: via/ NOAA]
In December 2001, just three months after the September 11 attacks, Elton John appeared on “Live by Request,” an A&E special where viewers called in live to request songs. Among the callers, a woman shared that her husband had been one of the first responders to die at the World Trade Center, and that “Rocket Man” was his favorite song.
Elton, visibly moved by the request, sat down at the piano and began playing that 1972 classic that everyone had heard a thousand times before. But that night, in that context, the lyrics about loneliness and distance took on a completely different weight.
Sweating and with his voice breaking on every note, he managed to completely silence the audience for the four minutes the song lasted.
A man had worked at a factory for nearly twenty years without so much as a scratch.
One afternoon, while working on the production line, a machine suddenly malfunctioned.
There was a loud grinding noise, followed by a sharp metallic bang.
The other workers immediately turned toward the sound.
Then came the screaming.
By the time his coworkers reached him and shut down the machine, the man’s hand had been badly injured.
He was rushed to the hospital, where doctors worked for hours to treat his injuries.
When he finally woke up, his hand was heavily bandaged.
The doctor came into the room to check on him.
“Well?” the man asked nervously. “How bad is it?”
The doctor pulled up a chair.
“I’m afraid we weren’t able to save three of your fingers.”
The man looked down at his bandaged hand and went quiet.
After a moment, he asked, “So… once this heals, will I still be able to drive with this hand?”
The doctor thought about it for a moment.
“Maybe,” he said. “But I wouldn’t count on it.”
This is what a carrier landing looks like from the pilot’s seat.
From the cockpit of a U.S. Navy F/A-18 Hornet, watch a precise final approach to USS Abraham Lincoln and the controlled touchdown on its moving flight deck.
A carrier landing demands exceptional timing and precision: line up with a narrow landing area, hold the glide path, and catch an arresting wire at high speed.
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A home theater installer has calibrated over 3,000 TVs in 12 years from $400 budget sets to $15,000 flagship OLEDs in custom media rooms.
He walks into people's homes, looks at their TV for 5 seconds, and can tell them exactly what's wrong.
He told me: "Almost every TV I see is running in the same mode Best Buy uses under fluorescent showroom lights. The motion smoothing is on. The sharpness is cranked. The eco dimmer is cutting brightness by 30–40%. And the TV is taking a screenshot of the screen every few seconds and selling the viewing data to advertisers. People are watching a $1,500 panel the same way it looked on the store shelf and that's the worst possible way to watch it."
He said a properly calibrated TV doesn't look "better." It looks like a completely different television.
He changed 9 settings on my TV in 15 minutes.
The soap opera effect disappeared. The colors became natural. Skin tones stopped looking plastic.
Dark scenes became visible. The TV stopped spying on me. And a movie finally looked like a movie instead of a daytime talk show.
"TV manufacturers ship every set optimized for a showroom, not a living room. Then they bury the settings that fix it inside 6 menus nobody opens."
Here are the 9 things he changed: