Moonrise at The Fortress
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charlesleo: Ralph Waldo Pickle chips is the key. I love Catbug so much!
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electronicsquid: Princeton Chemistry professor Dr. Hubert Alyea lectures on “What is Explosive?” (Yale Joe. 1953)
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anditslove: At first glance it seems this boat has been blasted into space and its crew is floating amongst the stars. But this picture was actually taken 150ft underground - in a pitch-black cave illuminated by glow-worms. The breathtaking limestone caves in Waitomo, New Zealand, are home to hundreds of thousands of the beetles - which light up the caverns like bright blue stars.
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wildcat2030: NASA: “We’ve discovered a previously unknown surprise circling Earth” This is wild. NASA’s recently deployed Van Allen probes — a pair of robotic spacecraft launched just last August to investigate Earth’s eponymous pair of radiation belts — are already turning out some very unexpected findings. Chief among them: an ephemeral third ring of radiation, previously unknown to science, surrounding our planet. NASA says the discovery was a lucky one. Just three days after the Van Allen probes launched, a team of researchers led by planetary scientist Daniel Baker made an unusual last-minute request that their Relativistic Electron Proton Telescope (REPT) be turned on earlier than scheduled, in hopes that their observations would overlap with those of another mission called SAMPEX. What happened next was entirely unexpected. Almost immediately, the REPT instrument caught sight of a number of additional high energy particles trapped in the two previously established Allen Belts — but over the next several days, those particles began to settle into a never-before-seen configuration: a third, high-energy band embedded in the outer Van Allen belt, about 11,900 to 13,900 miles above Earth’s surface. (via NASA: “We’ve discovered a previously unknown surprise circling Earth”) Ya. So neat. :)
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opticoverload: A crystal cave on the Jordanian shore of the Dead Sea near Zara 
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angelique-walter: “I kept breathing until the light came down”
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edwardspoonhands: dftbarecords: What would Sagan do? Check out this new poster available from CrashCourse! Guys…Carl Sagan is the best…
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sacraments: A New York office building lobby in the ’80s
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