This is not about science as such. It’s about technology, logistics, economics, and how the modern world functions.
I recently ordered a thing from Amazon. For those interested, this is the thing I ordered:
It’s a small item - probably weighs 200 - 300 grams. When it hadn’t arrived after a week, I visited Amazon’s parcel tracking service - and this is what I found:
(Confusingly, you have to read these pages from the bottom up)
So now it’s in a depot in the UK, and probably due for delivery tomorrow. The thing is, it cost me 25 GBP (about 30 Dollars). It started life in China, travelled most of the USA, and now it’s in England - and everbody who handled it made a profit of some sort. That’s computerised logistics.
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It looks like they played a game of Hot Potato with it 
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I have this vision of Amazon shuttling the thing around the US, with Trump’s tarrif people in hot pursuit - and Amazon desperate to get the thing out of the country before the tarrif man catches them.
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It totally looks like from a computer game.
Question is, did the zoo publish that or did the author of the article just grab a random stockart??
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I wondered that too. Looks almost like Zoo Planet
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According to this article, the new exhibits were designed by PJA Architects (now Stantec).
The Gladys Porter Zoo Master Plan calls it an ‘Artistic Rendering of New Lion Exhibit’.
Cameron Craig is listed as designer, and likely made the renditions using various tools
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Today, I over heard two 11-13 year olds discussing the out come of a black hole and a white hole colliding and black holes in general. They were well versed in the topic.
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I don’t know why, but I was on the edge of my seat!!11
Okay maybe the edge of my bed. The inner edge. Under the blanket. Anyway. 
I had the ESA page open where they showed estimates and diagrams that became more and more precise. It was a great way to depict this information and how they work. They could calculate a line and say it will crash somewhere between Germany - India - west coast Australia, between this and that hour.
Its orbit went over Germany many times, so ESA reported regularly “yup, still there”, until once, it didn’t come back. So they assumed it dropped in the previous orbit – last estimate was Turkmenistan, but nobody reported seeing it.
The thing is supposed to be unkaputtable, so it would be quite the sight how much of it survived after 50 years.
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