Gordon doesn't need to know all that!
That is amazing ๐ชถ

Also the Wikipedia article has a link to this amazing piece: the highest-flying bird.
Also, and this is kind of morbid, turns out the reason they know it was flying so high is because one of them got sucked into an aircraft engine at that height...
P.S. look at the Mallard Duck overachieving on that list!
Could you go down low?
All the way to the flo' ?
I guess I have to count this as a type of bird!
Condition: grounded, but determined to try.
I don't get this one
The reading rainbow โค๏ธ๐งก๐๐๐๐ฉต๐๐
Temperature is a measure of the average kinetic energy of particles of a thing. In the vacuum of space, there are very few particles, and they are mostly moving very very fast, which gives them high energy and high temperature.
I forget what happens at 40,000 m that causes the shift from cold atmosphere to "this is space" but that's how the temperature is increasing -- as you climb there are fewer and fewer particles, moving faster and faster.
You might know of Organic Maps, the open source app that's an alternative to Google Maps. Recently, concerns have been raised about its governance, with many contributors questioning the project's transparency and direction.
Despite being advertised as a community-driven project, key decisions, including financial management, partnerships (with Kayak, for instance), and the inclusion of proprietary components in the code were made by a small group of shareholders, often without input from the broader contributor community.
These shareholders have reportedly used the projectโs donation funds for personal expenses, like holiday trips, raising serious concerns about financial transparency.
As a result, many contributors teamed up and forked the project, establishing CoMaps, a new alternative focused on openness and being not-for-profit.
What is this new watermark -- do you have a webcomic now?