“This melting ice sheet in the arctic is 150 miles long with 1,000 waterfalls.”
The leatherback turtle eats
your souljellyfish and the backward-pointing spines in its mouth help to keep its prey from slipping out. They go all the way down its gullet.Announcing the new Tumblr Terrifying Animal Mouths … it’s terrifying. And animal mouths.
Nature will eat you SO HARD
yep. Seaturtles have been figuring out how best to nom jellyfish since the dinosaurs were around. Too bad we dastardly humans have started ruining their system with our plastic grocery bags…
Ha! I must have seen a billion of these things already… occupy Mordor, occupy Dune, occupy whatever…. fuck the man! This one made me laugh though. I think that is because of the pure uttlerly silly impossibleness of getting those over-massed planets to share the wealth. Let me expain.
Ok. I rather support the ideas that the Occupy Wall Street. To put it simply, it’s not fair if the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, and some part of me is determined to hold on to the idea that the world *should* be fair, even if it isn’t. It’s like bullying, on a corporate level, yatta yatta… also my summer job ended 3 weeks ago and I haven’t gotten another yet, so there’s a bit of self-interest mixed in as well. I get it. I agree.
However. Living in Santa Cruz, I came in contact with a lot of protesters. Some have the right ideas, and are trying to spread some pretty good ideas. Many just seem to like yelling things and “being a rebel” and generally upsetting things to get attention. While it’s good to get publicity for a worthwhile cause, I’m not sure shouting soundbites is the best way to get things done. Especially when people promoting other issues jump on the band wagon… “Occupy Wall Street! Fight Greedy Banks! Meat is Murder! Legalize Pot! Jesus Lives! Give Me a Cookie!” Anywho, there’s my rant. While I support the cause, I sometimes think that shouting slogans without being informed about the issues is about as effective as occupying Jupiter.
(via Boing Boing)
oh, clever. Speaking of pie, my goal for this week is to learn to make it. Maybe apple or cherry.
A hidden world revealed: Saturn’s largest moon Titan mapped by infrared
Titan has an atmosphere that is impenetrable to visible light. So the Cassini orbiter has been snapping images of the moon using infrared imagery for the past several years. After many, many passes it finally captured enough to make the above composite of Titan’s surface features.
Dunes, mountains, lakes of bubbling methane … it’s all there. Sounds peachy!
What’s that? You’re more into video composites? Then check it:
(via Bad Astronomy)
Go Cassini, go! I remember when it launched, years ago. I think my dad had something to do with making one of the parts that went into it… but it was a long time ago… he might have just been really excited about it. It was a big deal, though. Physics makes me happy.
On a related note, the Pasadena Museum of CA Art has free admission this Friday, and JPL is doing an exhibit on how this technology works. They’re going to project IR images in a room full of fog. You can’t see them with the naked eye, of course, but apparently they will show up on most cell phone cameras. Ahhhh! Cool! Guess what I’ll be doing Friday night…. *nerdhorn*
b-h:
“Show your work.”
“But what if you use a calculator?”
“I still need to see what you’re putting in your calculator.”
doh.
First reaction: Oh hey! Moon jellies!!
Second reaction: Oh look! Date!
Fangirl fail.
I would expect such things from Lindsay, but I cannot accept such nonsense from you…*shakes head disapprovingly*
I got as far as “Oh hey! Moon jellies!” then “what is that anime guy doing in the picture?” Then I read the comments, and learned it was Date. 60 seconds later… “ohhhhhhh… the moon… Date…. got it.” I think I am a fangirl of the jellies, if anything.
from national geographic:
Smaller fish keep their distance when a blacktip reef shark swims amongst them in shallow water in the Maldives.
what a good picture. I want to go dive in Maldives…
Sleep paralysis is weird. Very very weird. If you haven’t heard of it, it’s the phenomenon when you feel awake, but can’t move your body. I’ve been on a “research weird things” kick today, and this has actually happened to me, so I was curious. Apparently for centuries, the go-to explanation was “possessed by demons,” but it actually is caused by your conscious brain waking up before the subconscious physical controls that keep you from physically doing all the stuff you dream about turn off. Kind of the opposite of sleep-walking, I guess.
Anyway. This has only ever happened to me when I’m napping in public places at the university, like in the library or on a lawn. Apparently some people get to have crazy hallucinations… no such luck for me. I just don’t get to move until I can break the spell. That usually requires concentrating intently on just trying to move some tiny part of me, like my pinky. Until then, I just get to lie there and worry that I’ll never get to move again whilst the library closes or the sun fries me while I sleep. I never ever want to be in a coma. Ah. Creepy.
Other interesting topics of the day: ball lightning, the amazing stuff sharks will eat, and Easter eggs in games. The internet is so full of distractions from packing and moving!
