Take some time away from you FB feed while locked down and expand your horizons. Check out something on the Internet that might make you think. Here are a few ways to expand your online horizons.
Neal Agarwal at neal.fun is trying to make the web more fun. The developer created The Deep Sea. With the interactive visualization of the ocean, you can scroll, scroll, and then scroll some more to see what sea life (and other things) reside at various depths of the Oceans.
The deep-sea
Thanks to the site, you can see how deep-sea critters can dive.
- Manatees live 6 meters deep.
- Polar Bears can dive to nearly 30 meters.
- Headless Chicken Fish live 2,964 meters deep.
- Sea Pigs can be found 4,518 meters under the surface.
- Humans have been 10,924 meters – over a kilometer deeper than the peak of Mt. Everest. Jacques Piccard and Don Walsh, dove into the Mariana Trench, in the Pacific Ocean on board the Bathyscaphe Trieste a specially designed research submarine on January 23rd, 1960.
The size of space
Another site Mr. Agarwal developed is The Size of Space. This one is an interactive visualization of the scale of the universe.
At this site, you can compare the size of a Saturn 5 rocket that took NASA astronauts to the moon to Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy, our home.
Detroit Industry
The Detroit Institute of Arts has an online presence. One magnificent artifact is “Detroit Industry.” The murals depict the development of industry history and Detroit. You can see the four-wall mural created by Diego Rivera in 1932-1933 online via Google’s Arts and Culture project.
Toilet Paper Calculator
Of course, we can’t ignore current events. The Toilet Paper Calculator by Nathan Yau offers a tool to estimate how TP much you need to hoard buy to survive the COVID lock-down.
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Ralph Bach has been in IT long enough to know better and has blogged from his Bach Seat about IT, careers, and anything else that catches his attention since 2005. You can follow him on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter. Email the Bach Seat here.