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Coolest use of a drone

Paris has long been one of the greatest cities in the world. A 1328 register, made for tax purposes, records that there were 61,098 households in the city; at 3.5–4.5 persons per household, this means that the population of Paris at the time stood at 210,000–270,000 people.

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Wer Klimaanlagen im Sommer ächtet, aber Wärmepumpen im Winter fordert, ist – um es freundlich auszudrücken – nicht ganz dicht. Technisch besteht zwischen beiden Geräten kein Unterschied: Sie nutzen denselben Kompressionskältekreislauf. Die Wärmepumpe entzieht der Außenwelt Wärme und transportiert sie nach drinnen; die Klimaanlage entzieht dem Innenraum Wärme und leitet sie nach draußen. Es handelt sich um dieselbe Technik, lediglich ein Ventil kehrt die Fließrichtung des Kältemittels um. Dieselbe Technik einerseits als Klimakiller zu verteufeln und andererseits als Klimaretter zu subventionieren, ist einfach nur irre.

Ahmad Mansour @AhmadMansour__

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So eine Debatte, an so einem Tag – das gibt es nur in Deutschland. Nirgendwo sonst auf der Welt.

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I can’t believe the germans built a minecraft fall damage exp farm

In 2020, two men managed to turn Earth into a giant “sandwich” by placing slices of bread on exact opposite points of the planet. In January 2020, two men successfully turned Earth into a giant “sandwich” by placing slices of bread on exact opposite sides of the planet at the same time. The project was organized by New Zealand student Etienne Naude, who used online mapping tools to locate his geographic antipode in Málaga, Spain. He then teamed up with Spanish chef Ángel Sierra through Reddit, and with the help of GPS coordinates and laser pointers, they aligned their positions to sandwich roughly 12,724 kilometers of Earth between two pieces of bread. Although internet creator Ze Frank first carried out the idea in 2006, the 2020 recreation drew worldwide attention because of its remarkable geographic precision. Since most land on Earth is opposite open ocean, finding a true land-to-land antipode is extremely rare. The playful experiment quickly went viral across major news outlets and became a memorable symbol of global connection just before pandemic lockdowns began around the world.

I sat down, opened PS and then started drawing and here we are, a new isometric map and ready for adventure. You can get the clean, nice version over at my Patreon page at the Tier 2 level. #dungeonsanddragons patreon.com/alexthemapmaker

The original Star Wars movies were so loved because: -Spaceships and laser swords are cool. -It's WW2 in space mixed with a Western in space. All-American tropes like gunslinger and fighter pilot, but in a space opera. -It has a religion that is real. Yes its kind of cringey 1970's California Buddhism but it's still in there. Plus the religion assists with laser sword fights. -The setting has a delightful archaeo-futurist tone. It's after the fall of a cleaner, better civilisation ("an elegant weapon....from a more civilised time...") and it has a mix of hard sci-fi tech and scrappy junkyard tech plus all kinds of aliens that just exist as a kind of backdrop. -The acting is fine, the pacing is excellent, the dialogue has just enough exposition to let you figure out what's going on but not too much to ruin the mystery. -Nothing like it had ever been made. It felt genuinely new. And the scale of the story was so large, it felt impossibly epic. For the 70's it really did blow people's minds.

Martin Lorentz, a 29-year-old carpenter who spent three years helping rebuild Notre-Dame’s medieval wooden framework (the “forest” of beams) after the April 2019 fire, married his fiancée Jade inside the cathedral.

Q: How many Ukrainians does it take to change a light bulb? A: None.

A German carpenter reportedly left a pencil in the rafters while building a house in the 1600s, and it is now considered the oldest known surviving pencil in existence.

hier mal ein Blick ins Rechenzentrum von OBI

nothing like a good Tolkien map

Rare picture of a tree sneaking out of the woods.

This watershed map of Spain shows whether a drop of water ends up in the Atlantic or in the Mediterranean. Beautiful visualization by @joewdavies.

Happy Easter! Here’s a lovely Romano-British brooch in the form of a cheerful little hare! 😍 Copper alloy decorated with enamel, 2nd-3rd century AD. 📷 British Museum britishmuseum.org/collection/obj… #Archaeology

How could I not share this map today?

Lorenz Beckhardt, der in den Tagesthemen forderte, fliegen so verdammt teuer zu machen, dass wir davon runter kommen, macht gerade Urlaub in Indonesien. #OerrBlog

Gollum bites off Frodo’s finger. Holding both finger and Ring aloft, he squeals, ‘My Precious!’ Stepping back, he falls with the Ring into the chasm. Fire leaps up. Sam carries Frodo out. As they watch, the shadows around the distant Barad-dûr lift, then the tower crumbles.

Today is Tolkien Reading Day! Founded by the Society and held on 25 March, the date the Ring was destroyed, Tolkien Reading Day is an opportunity to read your favourite Tolkien passages. This year's theme is "Unlikely Heroes" - what will you be reading? tolkiensociety.org/2026/03/today-…