
blizzard cones.
For those who ask me what my notifications look like when I turn them on 🙈💃🏻🤗 #IloveYouAll
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Perhaps inspired by footballer Demy de Zeeuw, who made a video of his notifications that went modestly viral last week, Selter decided to see what would happen if she switched on notifications. With 8.4 million followers, and hundreds of thousands of likes and comments on every photo she posts, this is what her notifications looked like on Monday. (via)
This is too beautiful to exist pic.twitter.com/4wthedFs8A
— Andrew (@henryevil) January 15, 2016
Elephant posing for the perfect picture! pic.twitter.com/4gdgutAiBh
— Animal Gifs (@BabyAnimalGifs) January 15, 2016
Land dog bullies sun-bathing sea dogs off his dock. https://t.co/wta45zDu2r pic.twitter.com/hhf2QiSDuO
— Mashable (@mashable) January 14, 2016
This task—inserting a replica of the biggest creature to ever walk the planet—is made easier by modern manufacturing methods. Because the museum only has around 40 percent of the dinosaur’s bones, they have to make the remaining 60 percent from scratch. Fortunately, dinosaurs are symmetrical; if a bone on one side of the body is missing its complement, paleontologists can replicate its mirror image and use it to fill in the gap. In the old days, curators would create casts and fill them with plaster or fiberglass. Today, they can take surface scans and then digitally flip the bone around, once it’s a file on a computer. The pieces get 3-D printed with a foam milling machine, and then coated in resin or fiberglass, “like a surfboard,” Norell says. The result is a much lighter set of bones, which allows for a more agile rigging method. “This one will appear like it’s floating.” (via)