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The Yoshimoto Cube is a polyhedral mechanical puzzle toy invented [1] in 1971 by Naoki Yoshimoto (吉本直貴, Yoshimoto Naoki), who discovered that two stellated rhombic dodecahedra could be pieced together into a cube when he was finding different ways he could split a cube equally in half. Yoshimoto first introduced his cube in 1972 at a ...
An Infinity cube made of dice being played with An animation showing different moves and states of the Infinity cube (click to animate) An Infinity cube is a kind of mechanical puzzle toy with mathematical principles. Its shape is similar to a 2×2 Rubik's cube. It can be opened and put back together from different directions, thus creating a ...
Fisher’s Golden Cubes, initially intended to be released as the Millennium Cube, began production in the early 2000s. [2] Created by modifying the Skewb , it is the first example of a rotational puzzle that features just one colour scheme, requiring the solver to restore the cube’s shape without the visual aid of having separate colours for ...
The impossible cube or irrational cube is an impossible object invented by M.C. Escher for his print Belvedere. It is a two-dimensional figure that superficially resembles a perspective drawing of a three-dimensional cube , with its features drawn inconsistently from the way they would appear in an actual cube.
The company was named "Space Exploration Technologies Corporation", originally with "S.E.T." as a shortened name, but it was quickly changed to be "SpaceX". [ 1 ] : 12–14 According to filings, SpaceX was incorporated on 14 March 2002, [ 6 ] but according to various sources SpaceX's de facto founding date might instead be 6 May [ 1 ] or around ...
A draft first space ship by Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, 1883. In 1964, The Monument to the Conquerors of Space was erected to celebrate the achievements of the Soviet people in space exploration. Located in Moscow, the monument is 107 meters (350 feet) tall and covered with titanium cladding.
NASA astronaut Anne McClain with Astrobee robot "Bumble" in the Kibo module of the International Space Station. Astrobee is a robotic system developed by the US space agency NASA to assist astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Astrobee consists of three 12.5-inch cube-shaped robots named Honey, Queen, and Bumble, along with ...
James P. Starlin (born October 9, 1949) [1] is an American comics artist and writer. Beginning his career in the early 1970s, he is best known for space opera stories, for revamping the Marvel Comics characters Captain Marvel and Adam Warlock, and for creating or co-creating the Marvel characters Thanos, Drax the Destroyer, Gamora, and Shang-Chi, as well as writing the miniseries The Infinity ...