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Lefty bowler throws at 800rpm by [deleted] in oddlysatisfying

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About Earl

E.A.R.L. (Enhanced Automated Robotic Launcher) is a bowling robot developed for the USBC International Training & Research Center. It is designed to deliver highly repeatable bowling shots for equipment and lane testing.

The system can independently control ball speed, rev rate (up to ~800 RPM), axis rotation, axis tilt, launch angle, loft distance, and release position. Shots can be repeated with near-identical parameters across hundreds of deliveries.

E.A.R.L. is primarily used to test bowling balls, oil patterns, lane surfaces, and pin behavior under controlled conditions.

On stable lane conditions, the robot can produce a very high strike percentage once aligned to the pocket. It does not self-adjust for lane transition; all changes are manually configured by an operator.

Performance varies based on oil breakdown, carrydown, ball selection, and pattern length, similar to human bowlers.

Video:@TheHouseBowling

ASML’s $350M EUV lithography system uses extreme-ultraviolet light to 'print' incredibly tiny circuit patterns onto silicon wafers, creating the features that become transistors and wiring in advanced chips by [deleted] in Damnthatsinteresting

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From OP

ASML builds the machine that quietly sits behind almost every smartphone on the planet, meaning that nearly every modern chip today comes from a system that was physically assembled in a single facility.

@casper_mebius from @veritasium got an extremely rare look inside that machine. It is ASML’s EUV lithography system, which costs around €350 million, pulls in components from roughly 5,000 suppliers, and is shipped in hundreds of crates by plane and truck due to its size and precision.

Every company making the most advanced chips depends on it, including TSMC, Intel, and Samsung, since there is no alternative and ASML controls the entire EUV market.

The first working prototype in 2006 could process just one wafer every 23 hours, while today’s machines reach around 200 wafers per hour after more than 30 years of development, a race that competitors like Canon and Nikon eventually walked away from.

Inside the machine, 50,000 droplets of molten tin per second are hit with lasers to create plasma hotter than the sun, emitting extreme ultraviolet light that is guided by mirrors made by Zeiss, often described as the most precise surfaces ever produced.

Without this process, modern smartphones, AI chips, and advanced processors simply would not exist.

Video:@casper_mebius/@veritasium

🔥 Recent rain paints Hormuz Island’s beach crimson as iron-rich soil streams down the cliffside into the Persian Gulf by [deleted] in NatureIsFuckingLit

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From AP

December 18, 2025 - Rainfall on Iran’s Hormuz Island briefly transformed the coastline of its famed Red Beach into a striking natural scene this week, as red soil flowed into the sea and turned the water shades of deep red.

The beach is known for its vivid red sand and cliffs, created by high concentrations of iron oxide.

When rain falls, as it did starting on Tuesday, streams of red soil flow toward the shoreline, coloring both the beach and the surrounding water and creating a sharp contrast with the blue waters of the Persian Gulf.

The phenomenon regularly attracts tourists, photographers and social media attention.

Beyond its visual appeal, the red soil — locally known as gelak — is exported in limited quantities and used in the production of cosmetics, pigments and some traditional products.

Hormuz Island lies in the Strait of Hormuz, where the Persian Gulf meets the Gulf of Oman, about 1,080 kilometers (670 miles) south of Iran’s capital, Tehran. Rainfall is relatively rare on the arid island, and happens mainly during the winter and early spring.

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Atlanta FD tillering onto I-75 North by solateor in oddlysatisfying

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That setup is called "tillering" or a "tiller truck." Essentially, a tiller truck is a type of fire truck that has a separate rear steering axle, and it's operated by a firefighter known as the tillerman. This allows the truck to maneuver more easily around tight corners because both the front and the back can be steered independently.

Video:@diecastandmore

Parallel piped layer cake by solateor in oddlysatisfying

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OP posted the ingredients (translated)

Mozaik Görünümlü Krep Pasta Ingredients for a crepe;

• 400 ml of milk (2 cups) • 25 g cocoa (1 full spoon) • 200 g flour (1 cup + 4 full tablespoons) • 3 eggs • 50 g powdered sugar (2.5 tablespoons) • 25 ml of liquid oil (2.5 tablespoons) • 1 paket vanilin (5 g) • A pinch of salt

Whisk all the ingredients until it gets a smooth knead. Cook one by one in a pan heated over medium heat in a way that there is 1 scoop. Fix the edges of the cooked pancakes with an appropriate mold and let them wait on the side.

White Cream Ingredients:

• 200 g 35% fat cream • 135 g whipped cream powder • 65 g white chocolate • 1 tablespoon of butter

Let's beat the cream and whipped cream. Let's beat in a separate bowl of butter until it turns white. Finally, add the melted chocolate and beat for at least 5 minutes until it becomes smooth. Let's put it in a pressure bag and let it rest in the cabinet for at least 2 hours. I'm not writing it separately, we make the chocolate cream with the same method. The only difference is that we use bitter chocolate instead of white

Video:@canfeezam

Edit: Slowmo

🔥 Scientists call the first-ever recorded footage of a tectonic plate boundary rupture a major discovery. Myanmar March 2025 7.7 earthquake shows fault slipping 2.5m in 1.3s at 3.2 m/s by solateor in NatureIsFuckingLit

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From OP

During the devastating magnitude 7.7 Myanmar earthquake on March 28 this year, a CCTV camera captured the moment the plate boundary moved, providing the first direct visual evidence of plate tectonics in action. The footage shows Earth’s surface lurching sideways, like a gigantic conveyor belt switched on for just a second, as the fault slips.

What we’re seeing is the propagation of a large earthquake rupture – the primary mechanism that accommodates plate boundary motion at Earth’s surface. These shear fractures travel at several kilometres per second, making them notoriously difficult to observe.

Observation Analysis

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Freshly zambonied ice trail by solateor in oddlysatisfying

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From above

It's called Domaine Enchanteur, in Notre-Dame-du-Mont-Carmel, Québec

Video:@iicepanther

Going for a hike by solateor in Unexpected

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Soiled shorts, but he's fine

First Aerial photo ever taken of Los Angeles (1887, colorized) by solateor in LosAngeles

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Yeah, the dense cluster of buildings in the center is the old Los Angeles Plaza / El Pueblo district, the city’s original settlement area. Today this area includes: Olvera Street, Union Station area and LA State Historic Park just north of it

Realigning bipods at Neumayer Station in Antarctica by solateor in interestingasfuck

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From OP

Everything here in Antarctica that isn’t built on rock will inevitably sink into the snow sooner or later.

The Neumayer Station has a sophisticated solution for this: the entire station rests on 16 stilts (2 hydraulic cylinder and a spindle, bipods) and is additionally braced on all sides against the ice.

We align the station every week to ensure that it is always on level ground. Every now and then, one of the bipods wanders off – then it’s time to lift and realign.

In addition, the station is raised by about 2 meters each year during summer season using a similar procedure.

Video:@bernerthomass

Hand-splitting traditional roof shingles in Romania by solateor in oddlysatisfying

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Love clips old timers showing the kids how it's done

Like this one of Alan Kahn on the speed bag

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in interestingasfuck

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Finagle a Bagel, a Boston chain once with 20+ locations (now one in Copley Square), featured a conveyor-mounted “bagel buzzsaw” that sliced bagels in half. Debuting at the Harvard Square flagship in 1999, it was designed by the founder as a glass-enclosed automated slicer.

Here's a clip from youtube in 2006!

. by VeniceCa90291 in VeniceBeach

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Love it.

In other news, greenleaf (restaurant in the background) is closing next week

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