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Today is the birthday of Ferdinand Porsche (3 September 1875 – 30 January 1951), Austrian-German engineer and businessman, founded Porsche. @Porsche

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Space fact:
Saturn has the lowest density of any planet, 687 kg/m³, which is less than that of water. Saturn is of such low density that it would float in a (gigantic) bathtub.

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Sunset on Mars over Gusev Crater captured by NASA's Spirit rover.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Texas A&M/Cornell

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On September 1, 1974 – The SR-71 Blackbird sets (and holds) the record for flying from New York to London in the time of 1 hour, 54 minutes and 56.4 seconds at a speed of 1,435.587 miles per hour (2,310.353 km/h).

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Re @elonmusk Let’s find out! Select all squares with 220Ω resistors if you are real!

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Doctor: Googling stuff online doesn’t make you a doctor.
Literally everyone in the IT field:

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This day on August 31, 1895 – German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin patents his navigable balloon.

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In 1969, IBM engineer Forrest Parry had the idea to affix magnetic tape to a plastic card. Every adhesive failed. He went home and his wife was ironing. She suggested he fuse the tape onto the card with the iron. This is how the magstripe card was born.
Photo: Jerome Svigals

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“I am, and ever will be, a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer, born under the second law of thermodynamics, steeped in steam tables, in love with free-body diagrams, transformed by Laplace and propelled by compressible flow.”
- Neil Armstrong

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Space fact:
In the observable universe there are an estimated 2 trillion (2,000,000,000,000) galaxies.

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By 400 BC, Persian engineers had mastered the technique of using yakhchāls to create ice in the winter and store it in the summer in the desert. Yakhchāl is an ancient type of evaporative cooler. Above ground, the structure had a domed shape, but had a subterranean storage space.

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Iris circle drawing tool ⭕️

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Russia vs Pluto

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This day on August 29, 1898 – The Goodyear tire company is founded.

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Space fact:
If a star passes too close to a black hole, it can be torn apart.

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Ok, I keep the situation under control again!

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Space fact:
The planet Uranus was discovered before the continent of Antarctica.
Image: size comparison of Earth and Uranus

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Reminder:
NASA’s biggest-ever rocket Space Launch System (SLS) is launching to the Moon on Monday morning, Aug 29, 2022.
Photo: NASA/Joel Kowsky

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