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death-by-lulz: tastefullyoffensive: The cat who sits like a...

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 16:08:01 -0400

tastefullyoffensive:

The cat who sits like a dude.

ikenbot: Somewhere On This Planet This moonscape view of the...

Sat, 02 Feb 2013 08:36:27 -0500

Somewhere On This Planet

This moonscape view of the Milky Way features a bizarre geological formation (called Panaca formation) in Cathedral Gorge State Park, Nevada.

This place was covered by a lake nearly a million years ago. The richly colored canyons are remnants of this ancient lakebed. Over centuries the lake began to gradually drain. Erosion on the exposed parts of sediment and gravel carved rivulets, splitting tiny cracks and fissures into larger and larger gullies and canyons. — Wally Pacholka

“Twisted by the Dark Side, young Skywalker has become. The boy...

Sat, 02 Feb 2013 08:35:29 -0500

“Twisted by the Dark Side, young Skywalker has become. The boy you trained, gone he is… Consumed by Darth Vader.”

inthedark1791: HR Giger’s artwork for Poltergeist 2

Sat, 02 Feb 2013 08:34:40 -0500

inthedark1791:

HR Giger’s artwork for Poltergeist 2

pizza-maniac: sovietsky: In Victorian times they invented a tea...

Sat, 02 Feb 2013 08:21:02 -0500

pizza-maniac:

sovietsky:

In Victorian times they invented a tea cup to prevent your moustache from getting wet.

laughingsquid: Street Art Inspired by Video Games by Aiden...

Sun, 20 Jan 2013 15:56:43 -0500

laughingsquid:

Street Art Inspired by Video Games by Aiden Glynn

matthew-comer: Hehehehe

Sat, 19 Jan 2013 18:49:29 -0500

matthew-comer:

Hehehehe

death-by-lulz: Via/Follow The Absolute Greatest Posts…ever.

Sat, 19 Jan 2013 18:46:35 -0500

death-by-lulz:

Via/Follow The Absolute Greatest Posts…ever.

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Sat, 19 Jan 2013 18:45:34 -0500

wo1verines: this is perfect

Sat, 19 Jan 2013 18:45:28 -0500

wo1verines:

this is perfect

My Top Favorite Suicide Girls ► Tangerine

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 04:31:57 -0500

My Top Favorite Suicide Girls ► Tangerine

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Happy Xmas eve everyone!!

Mon, 24 Dec 2012 08:12:15 -0500

Happy Xmas eve everyone!!

earth-song: by nadeika

Sat, 24 Nov 2012 09:15:26 -0500

earth-song:

by nadeika

sciencesoup: Transparent-Headed Fish First described in 1939,...

Sat, 24 Nov 2012 09:14:38 -0500

sciencesoup:

Transparent-Headed Fish

First described in 1939, the unusual Pacific barreleye (Macropinna microstoma) is instantly recognisable by the transparent, fluid-filled dome that curves over its head like the cockpit of a fighter jet. The two green spheres within are actually the fish’s tubular eyes, while the dark capsules in front are the fish’s olfactory organs, responsible for smell. The barreleye lives in inky depths of over 600 metres, where sunlight fades to darkness, and its eyes have adapted remarkably. They’re so sensitive that they can detect faint silhouettes of prey passing overhead, and their green pigments are thought to filter out sunlight, allowing the barreleye to focus on its preys’ bioluminescent glow. It’s long been thought that these eyes are fixed, so the fish only has a tunnel-vision view of whatever is above its head, but researchers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute have shown that the eyes can rotate around 75 degrees, from a vertical to a horizontal position. Along with its large flat fins, this amazing vision allows the 15 cm fish maneuver precisely and capture prey with its small pointed mouth. Interestingly, the barreleye shares its deep-sea habitat with many kinds of jellies, including the siphonophore, which grows to over 10 metres and trails out thousands of stinging tentacles like drift nets to capture prey. Researchers think that one of the barreleye’s feeding methods is to carefully manoeuvre among the siphonophore’s tentacles to steal its prey, and the transparent dome shields the fish’s eyes from the stinging tentacles.

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ikenbot: Messier 33: The Triangulum Galaxy

Sat, 24 Nov 2012 09:13:06 -0500

ikenbot:

Messier 33: The Triangulum Galaxy

ikenbot: Sky During Totality “There is much to see and...

Sat, 24 Nov 2012 09:12:47 -0500

ikenbot:

Sky During Totality

“There is much to see and experience during a total Solar eclipse, but the brief darkness of totality is never enough to absorb it all.

As the Sun’s corona becomes visible from behind the dark of the Moon, the sky has got as dark as twilight hours about 40 minutes after sunset. But unlike a normal dusk or dawn, the twilight colors can be seen all around the horizon in every direction with the daylight from the distant locations outside the shadow of the Moon. Brightest stars and planets can also be seen during the short minutes of totality.

In fact, if Venus is above the horizon, it can be seen even before the start of total eclipse. This all-sky panorama was photographed during the total Solar eclipse of 2012 November 14 from James Earl Lookout near Lakeland, in Queensland, Australia.

As the center of the shadow of the Moon passed 30 km south of this location, the southern (right) half of the sky got darker than the northern (left) half. The eclipsed Sun can be seen close to the eastern horizon, just above passing clouds. Bright Venus is easily visible higher in the eastern sky, to the upper left of the Sun.” — Tunc Tezel