Latest posts tagged with #KnowledgeBit on Bluesky
#KnowledgeBit: In number theory, a #Happy #Number is a number which eventually reaches 1 when replaced by the sum of the square of each digit.
For instance, 13 is a happy number because 1^2+3^2=10, and 1^2+0^2=1. So is 19 (check it out) - but not 4.
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#KnowledgeBit: Carbon sequestration is an important process that helps to mitigate the effects of climate change by locking carbon in the soil.
Enhanced Rock Weathering is one of the sustainable solutions that have been proposed to achieve carbon sequestration.
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#KnowledgeBit: #Belphegor's prime is the palindromic prime number 1000000000000066600000000000001, named after the demon Belphegor, due to its containing "666" (the Number of the Beast) and being surrounded by thirteen zeroes on either side.
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#KnowledgeBit: The #Grandfather #Paradox states that if one were to travel back in time and kill their grandfather before their parent's conception, they would cease to exist, thus preventing their own time travel.
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#KnowledgeBit: "Blue Mach diamonds," or shock diamonds, are alternating bright and dark patches in the exhaust plume of supersonic rockets and jets, indicating a complex interplay of pressure and temperature changes in the exhaust stream.
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#KnowledgeBit: The #Hoba #Meteorite is the world's largest known meteorite, located near Grootfontein, Namibia.
The meteorite was discovered accidentally in 1920 when a farmer's plow hit it, and it has since been designated a national monument.
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#KnowledgeBit: Post office on High Street in #Sanquhar, Scotland opened its door in 1712.
Sanquhar is recognised as the world's #Oldest by both the Universal Postal Union and the #Guinness Book of World Records.
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#KnowledgeBit: 51 Pegasi b, officially named #Dimidium, is an extrasolar planet approximately 50 light-years (15 parsecs) away in the constellation of Pegasus.
It was the first #Exoplanet to be discovered orbiting a main-sequence star.
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#KnowledgeBit: Ring galaxies are galaxies with a distinctive, circular, ring-like appearance, often formed from the impact of a smaller galaxy passing through the center of a larger one.
This collision creates a wave of star formation.
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#KnowledgeBit: #Olivine is one of the primary components of the Earth's upper mantle. It is a common mineral in Earth's subsurface, but weathers quickly on the surface.
It is proposed as a good candidate for accelerated weathering to sequester carbon dioxide.
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#KnowledgeBit: In biology, #Homology is similarity due to shared ancestry between a pair of structures or genes in different taxa.
A common example of homologous structures is the forelimbs of vertebrates.
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#KnowledgeBit: #Pioneer 10 is an American space probe launched in 1972 that completed the first mission to the planet Jupiter.
Between July 15, 1972, and February 15, 1973, it became the first spacecraft to traverse the #AsteroidBelt.
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#KnowledgeBit: A #Subsun is an #Optical #Phenomenon that appears as a bright spot directly below the Sun.
It's a type of halo, similar to a sun dog, but formed by reflection off ice crystals rather than refraction.
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#KnowledgeBit: The #Genesis #Rock is a lunar sample collected by the Apollo 15 astronauts in 1971. It's the first sample of the moon's early crust.
It played a key role in supporting the "magma ocean" hypothesis.
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#KnowledgeBit: The #Sistine #Chapel of the ancients is an eight-mile stretch of cliff in Colombia that is covered by tens of thousands of paintings created up to 12,500 years ago.
It is one of the world's largest collections of prehistoric #RockArt.
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#KnowledgeBit: A #Langford pairing is a sequence of numbers 1 through n, each appearing twice, where the two occurrences of each number are separated by a distance equal to that number.
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#KnowledgeBit: #Mons (plural: montes, from the Latin word) is a mountain on a celestial body. The term is used in planetary nomenclature: it is a part of the international names of such features.
Examples: Mons Huygens (Moon) and Olympus Mons (Mars).
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#KnowledgeBit: In #Information theory, the #Kolmogorov #Complexity of a string is defined as the length of the #Shortest #Program that can generate that string as output.
It provides a way to quantify the information content of a string
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#KnowledgeBit: Pale Blue Dot is a photograph of planet Earth taken on February 14, 1990, by the Voyager 1 space probe from a record distance of about 6 billion kilometers.
The phrase "Pale Blue Dot" was coined by Carl Sagan.
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#KnowledgeBit: The #Ponzo #Illusion is a visual illusion where two lines of equal length appear to be different lengths when placed between converging lines, similar to railroad tracks receding into the distance.
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#KnowledgeBit: #Arctic #BlueCorridors are migration #Superhighways that allow whales, seals, walrus and other marine animals to move between locations to find the conditions they need for feeding, giving birth and mating.
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#KnowledgeBit: #Orogeny, or mountain building, is the result of collision between two landmasses.
This may occur via collision of continental crust (continent-continent collision) or when oceanic and continental crust collide (ocean-continent collision).
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#KnowledgeBit: Mount Fanjing, or Fanjingshan, is part of the Wuling mountain range in southwestern China.
Named as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the mountain is home to a conservation area, a nature reserve, and a number of Buddhist temples.
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#KnowledgeBit: Russian chemist Dmitri #Mendeleev was the first to arrange elements in the structure we know as the periodic table. Mendeleev used a solitaire sorting strategy to help arrange the elements.
Periodic Table of the Elements: Origins of the Elements.
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#KnowledgeBit: #Sigiriya (#LionRock Sinhala) is an ancient rock fortress in the Central Province, #SriLanka.
Sigiriya today is a #UNESCO listed World Heritage Site. It is one of the best preserved examples of ancient urban planning.
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#KnowledgeBit: The #Carrington Event was the most powerful solar storm ever recorded, occurring in September 1859.
It was named after the British astronomer Richard Carrington, who witnessed and documented the solar flare that triggered the event.
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#KnowledgeBit: #Maraya Concert Hall in AlUla, #SaudiArabia is the world's largest #Mirrored building, according to Guinness World Records.
The name Maraya comes from the Arabic word for "mirror" or "reflection".
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#KnowledgeBit: A Fata Morgana is a complex form of superior mirage that is seen in a narrow band right above the horizon.
These mirages were believed to be fairy castles in the air or false land created by witchcraft to lure sailors.
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#KnowledgeBit: The #Kessler #Syndrome is a scenario proposed by NASA scientist Donald J. Kessler in 1978.
It describes a self-sustaining cascade of collisions in low Earth orbit (LEO) caused by the increasing density of space debris.
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#KnowledgeBit: The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (#OEIS) is a freely accessible online database of integer sequences.
It's a fantastic resource for anyone working with numbers.
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