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A squishy physics rock-climbing game.

In 1977, NASA launched space probes Voyagers 1 and 2 to photograph the solar system.

Each probe includes a gold-plated copper phonograph record, containing voices, music, and analog-encoded images representing our species.

This is an attempt to re-create what an alien species would see and hear if they were to find and decode the record.

Shows how traffic from your device made it all the way to this website.

This pretty instantly goes above my head, but it’s pretty cool that there’s a visualization for this technology.

Generating multi-view optical illusions with diffusion models.

Just what.

Even includes real-time subways!

And here’s real-time trains in North America.