Spider silk is stronger than steel.
Gram for gram, spider silk is five times stronger than steel and even tougher than Kevlar.
Scientists have spent decades studying it for applications like surgical sutures and parachutes.
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A Hittite document records the routine. Every morning the mayor had to make sure a lord of Hatti or a commanding officer inspected the seals on the city gates before they were opened. The bolt holes are still visible in the stone. Three thousand two hundred years later the gate stands open with nobody left to check it.
Ringing stones are real and they are documented.
Above the Fourth Cataract of the Nile, archaeologists recorded a slab carrying 115 percussion marks, some 120mm across and 40mm deep, worn by centuries of people striking it. It resonates because it sits lifted off the ground on nearly all four sides. Stone instruments in the Nile valley are established archaeology.
Persepolis, founded by Darius I around 518 BC, was the ceremonial heart of the Achaemenid Persian Empire—an empire that once stretched across nearly half the known world.
To save this temple, engineers did something almost unbelievable. They picked up a mountain, moved it, and had to realign it with the sun itself.
For over 3,000 years, the rising sun pierced 60 meters into Abu Simbel twice a year to light the gods in the sanctuary, a feat of ancient astronomy Ramesses II's architects calculated by hand.
Then in the 1960s the Aswan Dam threatened to drown it. So between 1964 and 1968, a coalition of nations sawed the temple into more than 1,000 blocks, lifted it 65 meters up the cliff, and rebuilt it inside artificial mountains.
The terrifying question was whether the sun would still find its way in. On the morning of October 22, 1968, weeks after reassembly, the world watched. The light entered, crossed the sanctuary, and lit the gods exactly as before.
Humanity moved an ancient temple and kept its 3,000-year-old appointment with the sun.
Un desarrollador ucraniano creó un agujero negro en su terminal para obligarse a tomar descansos.
Cuanto más trabajas sin parar, más crece y deforma tu código con su lente gravitacional. Descansas y se encoge.