75 years ago the Soviet #SpaceDogs Dezik and Tsygan became the first vertebrates to survive a spaceflight, if only a suborbital one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dezik_and_Tsygan (and see https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2024/06/11/allgemeines-live-blog-ab-dem-11-juni-2024/ for the first vertebrate to reach space but didn't make it back alive two years earlier).
if you're going to operate a Skyjack, you better not try any of these dumb moves
"coffee"
having delivered a fresh load, the driver hoses down and brushes off his shiny new concrete mixer
this is 1067 Yonge, a heritage property built in 1914, nearing the end of its renovation project
full background here -- https://1067yonge.ca/
update: it's gonna be a Shake Shack
le sigh
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rip out your grass lawn, they said, and replace it with astroturf
you'll never have to weed again, they said
it'll be fun, they said
Thinking about @jalefkowit “adorable car alerts” when I passed this just now, somebody in my neighborhood is having their garage find day of the year.
in case you missed it, i wrote this in the ALT text --
i like this pic because it shows the actual size of the moon in the sky, and i really have to smile at people who believe they can tell the difference in size between this and a "supermoon" (at perigee) which is all of 14% bigger
"Will the lady with the lucky number come and get me please"
(exactly how i feel, Larry)
Larry was the most underrated of the six Three Stooges
🦌 Arctic reindeer are the only mammals whose eyes change color seasonally - gold in summer, deep blue in winter. They physically restructure a nanoscale photonic mirror inside their eyes to match Arctic twilight wavelengths, boosting night vision during months of polar darkness. #science #nature https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2022.1002
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#silentsunday
Happy Birthday to John Glenn (July 18, 1921 – Dec 8, 2016) - American Marine Corps aviator, astronaut, and 4-term U.S. Senator (D-OH, 1974-1998).
On Feb. 20, 1962, John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth during the Mercury-Atlas 6 mission, aboard the spacecraft he named Friendship 7. He was the 3rd American in space and the first American to orbit Earth, circling it 3 times.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2explore/albums/72157635068326615/with/9351748492
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apparently today is #WorldListeningDay, so may i suggest you sample some radio stations from around the world
Your fingers have fingertips but your toes don't have toetips. Yet, you can tiptoe but not tipfinger.
you know one of these days i'll be right
got some bubbly saved up to celebrate
maybe
it will happen
today
#OTD July 17 1981, a walkway collapses at the Hyatt Regency in Kansas City MO, killing 114 people and injuring 216
@TimHarford tells the tragic story in this episode of Cautionary Tales
https://omny.fm/shows/cautionary-tales-with-tim-harford/death-on-the-dance-floor
