The Aimless Musings of a College Sophomore

the-science-llama:

Galaxy Coast
— Bill Shupp // Flickr

Taken near Bixby Bridge north of Big Sur, CA, this is a 12 shot vertical panorama taken around 4 am this past Monday, when the Milky Way was pretty high in the sky. The glow near the horizon is a lighthouse just around the bend.

All shots are 20 seconds, except the bottom one, which is 3 minutes

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llbwwb:

Beneath our Southern Skies (by Xenedis)

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fairy-wren:

Fiery Throated Hummingbird

(photos by Sam Bobbing

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edwardspoonhands:

the-science-llama:

If Earth Had Rings

First off, they would be really pretty to look at. They would also dominate the sky in both night and day at exactly the same place as they would never rise nor set. And at night you would see the Earth’s shadow swing across the rings, like in the 4th photo here.

However, life would be very different on Earth if this were the case. Nocturnal animals would have a hard time being nocturnal, as the light reflecting from the rings would illuminate the night.

Because we are closer to the Sun than Saturn is, the rings would be more rocky than ice, making them less bright but still pretty bright. In fact, you would see far less stars at night (living anywhere other than the equator or the arctic circle) because of the light pollution and not to mention ruin most meteor showers because of that.

During the day the rings would block sunlight in certain regions of the planet creating wild weather cycles and effecting plant life as well. So basically, they would be definitely pretty to look at but they would also make a whole lot of things screwy.

Illustrations by Ron Miller // io9
— Click the photos for captions

DANGIT EARTH! WHY YOU NO HAVE RINGS!

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tsundere-sheep:

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slenclerman:

Spaghettihos u rope

nailed it

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yesysabella:

vagosphere:

And their names are texas tornado and johnny football.

WHAT THE FUCK ARE THESE FLUFFY ASS COWS!

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imgildingthelily:

I like how Bobby built the panic room in case anything terrible happened but in the end it’s just been used as the Sammy time out zone. 

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thefrogman:

Eat More Bikes drawn by Nathan Bulmer [tumblr]

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The stray car that we feed on our back porch. We’ve named her Katze, which means “cat” in German (very creative, right?). She used to freak out if we even opened the door to the porch, but now she lets me pet her!

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Ninh Binh, Vietnam

TAMCOC paddy field (by tu_geo)

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videohall:

Bird reacts to dubstep

#best four seconds of my life tbh

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