From a Click-bait Site, But Interesting Perspectives.

[Subdeacon Joe]

All the text below is taken from the site.  

Facts first - in 2019, a researcher from a university in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, created the world's smallest gingerbread house. Complete with a Canadian flag as a welcome mat, the home rests atop a snowman and is actually dwarfed by a human hair (as seen in the photo on the left).
The house was etched from silicon, with the researcher using a beam of charged gallium ions that acted like a sandblaster to shape its many intricate details. The house-snowman combo is only visible using a powerful electron microscope, and we gotta say their grant money was well spent.

 

The box on the left is being sold for 99 cents at Target. The box on the right, meanwhile, goes for $11.98 at an undisclosed college bookstore. And doesn't that 1,200% markup just tell you everything there is to know about American student life?

 

When we think of drones, especially military ones, we usually think about hulking machines that rain down destruction from above. There certainly are some large military drones... but not all of them are. Take the pocket-sized FLIR Black Hornet, seen here.

While it's not made for direct participation in war, it's able to capture HD photos and video, providing valuable reconnaissance for soldiers who no longer have to risk their lives to obtain it. The Black Hornet is about the size of a cellphone and weighs 33 grams - just about the weight of a Cadbury Creme Egg.

 

This just seems like a pretty cool photo of a guy's diving vacation at first. The ocean is beautiful and he's probably having the time of his life - that's all there is to it, right? Nope. This photo's special because the diver is technically touching both Europe and North America simultaneously.

How's that even possible? Meet the Silfra crack. This fissure, located in Iceland, is the exact place where the American and Eurasian tectonic plates almost meet. In fact, it's believed to be the only place in the world where two continents can be touched at once.

 

 

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If it had not been for Theodore Roosevelt digging the big ditch, you could have straddled, with one leg in North America and the other one in South America.

[Pat Riot]

That photo of the diver gives me the willies for some reason. Perhaps claustrophobia? Not sure. 

That little drone is very cool. Here’s a link to check out. 
https://www.flir.com/products/black-hornet-prs/

 

They aren’t cheap: https://www.droningon.co/2017/06/01/flir-pd-100-40k-nano-reconnaissance-drone/

 

Thanks Joe.