people act like Pluto was dealt a bad hand bc they thought it was a planet but later classified it as a dwarf but consider this: there are 4 other dwarf planets in the solar system that most people don’t even know the names of so Think Again before you think Pluto is underrepresented
Tim the elephant seeks human help when hit by a spear
When poachers hit Tim in the ear with a spear Tim knew where he could find help. Sadly this is not the first time Tim had been speared. He had been hit in the rump once before. His wound got infected. Rangers tranquilized Tim and treated his wound. Tim knew they would likely help him again. He sought out conservationist for help with his wound. African elephants ears have many blood vessels. They use their massive ears to cool themselves in the staggering heat. Blood flows thru their ears and is cooled very much like a car radiator. (Source)
This adorable little robot is designed to make sure its photosynthesising passenger is well taken care of. It moves towards brighter light if it needs, or hides in the shade to keep cool. When in the light, it rotates to make sure the plant gets plenty of light. It even likes to play with humans.
Oh, and apparently, it gets antsy when it’s thirsty.
The robot is actually an art project called “Sharing Human Technology with Plants” by a roboticist named Sun Tianqi. It’s made from a modified version of a Vincross HEXA robot, and in his own words, it’s purpose is “to explore the relationship between living beings and robots.”
The Morris worm or Internet worm of November 2, 1988 was one of the first computer worms distributed via the Internet. It was written by a student at Cornell University, Robert Tappan Morris, and launched on November 2, 1988 from MIT.
It’s trapped on a floppy tho this is some dark shit it has been denied its purpose forever bound to this obsolete storage
am i glad it’s in there and we’re out here
people reading fantasy novels ask “why did the ancient ones seal the evil away for ten thousand years instead of just killing it” but then we go ahead and do this shit
We have learned nothing from every fantasy novel ever O.O
The best part, from the wiki article: “According to its creator, the Morris worm was not written to cause damage, but to gauge the size of the Internet.”
It was intended to do good, but the programmer made a mistake and it got out of hand, becoming viral.
my cousin is 16 (he was born in 2002) and he was asking me about computers and antivirus programs
and i mentioned “the worm” offhand and he was so incredibly confused he thought i was literally talking about a mythical worm
i had to tell him the entire story about an MIT student who created the worm to measure the internet, but failed to program the virus in a way that your computer couldn’t become infected multiple times at once, so the worm would “eat” your system by essentially taking it over with multiple infections
and honestly i’ve never held his attention that long before, it was like i was telling him about some ancient mythos he never heard before
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