ISS astronauts are getting snow!

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Civilization Tech:

What was the first metal to be used to fashion tools by humans?

Hint: Believe it or not, it wasn’t bronze or iron.

 

(Scroll to the bottom for the answer!)

/science
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/epic
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/spooky
How horror movie soundtracks prey on our fears | Popular Science

“Spooky songs have the liberty to be more experimental because they don’t have to be pleasant. Pop tunes and gentler soundtracks typically stick to well-worn concepts like harmony. The spine-chilling stuff, though, tends to be ‘much more creative and break the mold of certain unwritten rules,’ says Ben Ma, a musician and software engineer at the music startup Rivet. Still, nightmarish scores use a few common compositional tricks to mess with listeners’ minds. ”

/yikes
NASA alarmed to see flakes drifting past space station window | The Byte

“The International Space Station's Russian segment has sprung yet another leak — the third in less than a year — raising urgent questions about the reliability of the country's space program. The leak was traced back to an 11-year-old backup radiator circuit installed on Russia's Nauka module, according to a Telegram update by Russia's space agency Roscosmos. ”

/hustle
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/play
Monster Wrestling and other weird, wonderful sports from around the world | Atlas Obscura

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/metal
The answer: Copper

The answer: Copper

According to the Britannica website: “The discovery that certain heavy ‘stones’ did not respond to hammerblows by flaking or fracturing but were instead soft and remained intact as their shapes changed marked the end of the long Stone Age. Of the pure, or native, metals, gold and silver seem to have attracted attention at an early date, but both were too soft for tools. The first metals of value for toolmaking were natural copper and meteoric iron. Although they were scarce, they were tough and potentially versatile materials that were suited for new purposes, as well as many of the old.”

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