Learn One Thing A Day

From: I fuck loving science Image taken by the Cassini space probe showing the Earth from Saturn! " Consider again that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those general

Today, I received from a vending machine a coin that, at a first look, resembles a 2 Euro but definitely is not, and, as you can imagine it is also less worth compared to a 2 Euro (I suspect this was the all point of inserting it into the vending machine!) Anyway, I made some digging over the World Wide Web and I learned something interesting that's worth to write about. First of all: the coin looking like a 2 Euro is a 10-baht coin (the Thai currency) and, as you can see, the similarity is pretty strong... (image receiving it as change with other coins!) (For the comparison 2 Euro vs 10 baht,  I  used the German 2 Euro, showing the German coat of arms, i.e. the German eagle) The similarity is deeper that you can suspect ... Value         2 euro            10 baht Mass           8.4 g                 8.5g Diameter   25.75 mm             26 mm Thickness     2.20 mm               2 mm Why are these coins so similar? They look similar because are b