amazing science/nature images

[juice]

That is cool.

But it’s missing Pluto.

[ukimalefu]

[DukeofNuke]

I know, I know.
It's Jane Goodall. She and the chimp know each other. Chimps can feel affection for humans they know, and they are saying goodby. but ...

THOSE THINGS CAN KILL YOU WITH ONE HAND!

[obvs]

I mean, a human being can kill you with one hand, too.

[Metacell]

I mean, a human being can kill you with one hand, too.

That's what I was gonna' say! (well, I was actually going to say that I could).

[ukimalefu]

Chimps can use weapons, and also have big sharp canines

https://www.livescience.com/4395-chimps ... abies.html

They can also get friends to help

Just like humans

[macnuke]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Vpuh6q2O_c
yes.... sometimes they get help and sometimes they are driven to it.

[ukimalefu]

you want planet of the apes? because that's how you get planet of the apes

[TOS]

weird "impactor" phenomenon discovered in our galaxy that displays phenomenal power

[juice]

Thor's hammer?

[ukimalefu]

[ukimalefu]

uhm... the bigger the hit, the bigger the shockwave?

[TOS]

meanwhile, nasa has begun applying for grants in a desperate bid for funding

trump had just boasted about boosting their budget (so they can get back to the moon "IN A BIG WAY") but it was really just them applying for a pell grant worth $1.6 billion

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics ... story.html

[macnuke]

now THAT's a blunt

[ukimalefu]

now THAT's a blunt

And now I'll never unsee it. Thanks.

But a blunt shouldn't be associated with a destroyer of worlds.

[Metacell]

now THAT's a blunt

And now I'll never unsee it. Thanks.

But a blunt shouldn't be associated with a destroyer of worlds.

Oh no?

[ukimalefu]

now THAT's a blunt

And now I'll never unsee it. Thanks.

But a blunt shouldn't be associated with a destroyer of worlds.

Oh no?

Meh, semantics. Shiva destroys the old to create something new. Some translations specify "destroyer of evil".

Star Trek's planet killer basically just eats the planets, as fuel, so it can reach other planets to eat.

[Metacell]

now THAT's a blunt

And now I'll never unsee it. Thanks.

But a blunt shouldn't be associated with a destroyer of worlds.

Oh no?

Meh, semantics. Shiva destroys the old to create something new. Some translations specify "destroyer of evil".

This is true, but very specifically, at the end of each final Manvantara, Shiva destroys the entire universe, so the next one can be created.

[ukimalefu]

Earth is round

[juice]

Earth is round

It's a cylinder.

[Séamas]

Isn't God created by psychedelics?

[TOS]

Isn't God created by psychedelics?

duuuude

[ukimalefu]

Honey in space

[ukimalefu]

Using ground-penetrating radar, scientists detected a massive reservoir of frozen water sandwiched by layers of sand beneath the northern polar ice cap on Mars. This reservoir contains so much ice that, if melted and brought to the surface, it would submerge the entire planet.

obligatory

[ukimalefu]

Poor Yorick

[ukimalefu]

The Walking River of Ice in Russia

https://twitter.com/siberian_times/stat ... 0877918208

[ukimalefu]

Pulling apart duct tape causes chemical bonds to break which indirectly gives rise to a faint blue glow in an effect called triboluminescence

Here's the video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6yil1rw1xo

I'm torn. It's hard to believe, but I want to try it, but I don't want to waste duct tape, not even just a little...

[maurvir]

Pulling apart duct tape causes chemical bonds to break which indirectly gives rise to a faint blue glow in an effect called triboluminescence

Here's the video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6yil1rw1xo

I'm torn. It's hard to believe, but I want to try it, but I don't want to waste duct tape, not even just a little...

If that excites you...

[Ribtor]

I see that effect in the darkroom when I remove the tape that holds the film to the spool.

It can expose a few mm of film on the edge but that film gets cut off after development anyway.

[TOS]

Using ground-penetrating radar, scientists detected a massive reservoir of frozen water sandwiched by layers of sand beneath the northern polar ice cap on Mars. This reservoir contains so much ice that, if melted and brought to the surface, it would submerge the entire planet.

obligatory

weird ... that's exactly the plot of total recall

[maurvir]

Using ground-penetrating radar, scientists detected a massive reservoir of frozen water sandwiched by layers of sand beneath the northern polar ice cap on Mars. This reservoir contains so much ice that, if melted and brought to the surface, it would submerge the entire planet.

obligatory

weird ... that's exactly the plot of total recall

Not quite - TR's giant ice berg created a breathable atmosphere, not ridiculously deep ocean. Of course, Total Recall was a 2.5 hour ad for a product that doesn't even exist yet, so there is that.

[DEyncourt]

Using ground-penetrating radar, scientists detected a massive reservoir of frozen water sandwiched by layers of sand beneath the northern polar ice cap on Mars. This reservoir contains so much ice that, if melted and brought to the surface, it would submerge the entire planet

[snip]

Hang on, that bit about "it would submerge the entire planet" is misleading.

First, the author clarified this later in that article:

As noted in the press release, if melted and brought to the surface, “the newly discovered polar ice would be equivalent to a global layer of water around Mars at least 1.5 meters (5 feet) deep.” That’s a lot of water.

That IS a lot of water, but that is only an average depth of about 5 feet across the entire surface of Mars.

Second, the surface of Mars is considerably uneven in height from its center with much of its northern hemisphere in a considerable depression such that now artists depict the planet at some time in the past looking like this:



This could help explain why that northern reservoir of water exists at all. While Mars was losing its atmosphere the only area which retained enough atmosphere to allow liquid water was in that northern depression with its higher atmospheric pressure. Perhaps the drop in temperature due to less atmosphere eventually caused that northern pool to freeze solid.

[maurvir]

Damn, and here I was hoping we could eventually turn Mars into Phloston Paradise...

[maurvir]

[TOS]

machine learning at work



https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/22/mona- ... s-to-life/

[ukimalefu]

Volcano in Bali

[ukimalefu]

[ukimalefu]

machine learning at work



https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/22/mona- ... s-to-life/

wake up

nothing is real anymore

[C. Ives]

machine learning at work



https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/22/mona- ... s-to-life/

wake up

nothing is real anymore

And it will be used for only two things: Politics and Porn. Mostly porn.

[j_tso]

I'm torn. It's hard to believe, but I want to try it, but I don't want to waste duct tape, not even just a little...

It works. And the tape gets a little warm.