Wednesday Wanderings: Lifesaver Lightning, Spacewalk, Whale Photos, and Oldest Photos of New York City

We have all heard that biting into a wintergreen Lifesaver makes lightning, right? Well, here’s a slo-motion video of that effect- called triboluminescence- that is quite cool:

Lifesaver Lightning

Here’s some looped video of an actual spacewalk by ISS astronauts. “Planet Earth is blue..”:

Spacewalk

Some really gorgeous photos of whales of all types:

Whales

These are some of the oldest existing photographs of New York City:

NYC Photos

(Image from youtube.com)

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