facility:leaning tower of pisa

►https://www.arch2o.com/lego-architecture-story
The Lego sub-brand has presented us, since 2008, with 32 models of world famous landmarks from different eras, like the Villa Savoye, the Big Ben, and the Leaning Tower of Pisa. The idea for the new line was naturally inspired by the initial purpose of these blocks as toy construction set. Lego Architecture, though, was not the brand’s first product range to deal with architecture.

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The Fifth Force of Physics Is Hanging by a Thread - Issue 46: Balance
▻http://nautil.us/issue/46/balance/the-fifth-force-of-physics-is-hanging-by-a-thread

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How about that! Mr. Galileo was correct in his findings.” That conclusion wasn’t based on the most careful experiment you’ll ever see, but it was one of the most spectacular in its way—because it was performed on the moon. In 1971, Apollo 15 astronaut David Scott dropped a feather and a hammer from the same height and found that they hit the lunar surface at the same time. The acceleration due to gravity doesn’t depend on a body’s mass or composition, just as Galileo asserted from his (probably apocryphal) experiment on the Leaning Tower of Pisa. In Galileo’s Dreams: A moon-bound reprise of Galileo’s famous experiment from the leaning tower of Pisa. Nikolas Zane Or does it? Jump forward to the front-page headline of The New York Times in January 1986: “Hints of 5th Force in the Universe (...)

Laser-mapping crime scenes officially a thing (Wired UK)

▻http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2014-02/13/3d-mapping-crime-scenes

Police in Queensland, Australia are starting to use environment-scanning equipment designed for caving and mine-mapping to create 3D diagrams of crime scenes.

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The Zebedee handheld mapping scanner was developed by CSIRO, Australia’s national science research agency and has previously been used to map the interior of the Leaning Tower of Pisa, as well as other culturally significant locations and mining sites. Now, for the first time, officers will be able to walk through a crime scene with a scanner and capture data, which they’ll be able to use to generate a 3D map in about 20 minutes.

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