#ThisDayInScience #Science1970: The Oregon Highway Division attempts to destroy a rotting beached Sperm whale with explosives, leading to the now infamous “exploding whale” incident.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploding%20Whale#Oregon1980: The NASA space probe Voyager 1 makes its closest approach to Saturn and takes the first images of its rings.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager%201

#ThisDayInScience #Science 1572: Tycho Brahe observes the supernova SN 1572https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tycho%20Brahehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SN%201572

#ThisDayInScience #Science 1861: Robert T. A. Innes bornhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20T.%20A.%20Innes1983: Bill Gates introduces Windows 1.0https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows%201.0

#ThisDayInScience #Science1934: Astronomer Carl Sagan bornhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl%20Sagan1994: The chemical element darmstadium is discoveredhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/darmstadium

@marcus Just curious what amazes you about manjaro over arch. Personally I like that they hold back packages for extra testing.

#ThisDayInScience 1656: Edmund Halley born https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund%20Halley1895: While experimenting with electricity, Wilhelm Rontgen discovers X-rays https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm%20Rontgenhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-rays

#ThisDayInScience 1492: The Ensisheim meteorite, the oldest meteorite with a known date of impact, strikes the Earth around noon in a wheat field outside the village of Ensisheim, Alsace, France. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ensisheim_meteorite1857: Marie Curie born https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Curie

@mighty_orbot Thank you. I'll give them a try.

#ThisDayInScience 1981: Black footed ferret rediscovered (previously thought extinct)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-footed_ferret

Stop the world. I want to get off.

This is a really good thread on octopuses! Enjoy!https://kind.social/@El_/113429890162434940

#ThisDayInScience Soviets launch the dog Liaka into space.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laika

#ThisDayInScience 1988 The first computer worm, the Morris Worm.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_worm

#ThisDayInScience 1952 US tests first thermonuclear device: Ivy Mike

Kids know that "Fun Size" candy is really "Disappointment Size".#Halloween

Sadly they don't mention Proton, but here's some good information on degoogling:https://mastodon.social/@Tutanota/113380857849213083

If you haven't read *Animal Farm*, you should. It's short, but strong.https://universeodon.com/@SrRochardBunson/113351742145211124

@anubis2814 Oh no! Here comes a snowspeeder! *THUD* *BOOM*

Be nice to your instance admins. Contribute a couple of bucks a month. It costs money to run these things, and if everyone who could just threw in a buck or two it would cover costs.