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melyzard · 1 month

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The World is Amazing, Actually (Part 11 or 12, I lost count)

It's been awhile since I made a post about how fucking rad the world actually is, and amidst all the pandemics and climate change and economic troubles, I felt the need.

So:

Today’s Wild Place (The Earth is An Alien Planet):

The Danakil Depression, Ethiopia:

The Danakil Depression is probably the closest you'll ever be able to come to standing on the surface of Venus (without the crushing atmosphere, of course). Choking sulphuric acid and chlorine gases fill the air, while acid ponds and geysers pepper the landscape.

- Daisy Dobrijevic, published July 4, 2022

(BTW scientists recently discovered microbes capable of surviving in this toxic, extremely hot environment, which means...well, even if we kick the bucket, life will continue. There's something comforting in knowing that no matter how bad we screw up...life will go on.)

Today’s Incredible Feat of Engineering (look! at what! we made!):

Ouarzazate Solar Power Station in Morocco, which has gone solar in a big way.

(Which means they are making a huge contribution to helping fight toxic pollution, noise pollution, water use, land destruction, and carbon emissions. No really, there are charts. Reducing carbon emissions charts. Reducing irresponsible land use charts. Charts! Graphs! Data samples!)

Today’s Cool Life Form (the rare, the weird, the beautiful):

The Hispaniolan Solenodon.

A very rare, nocturnal, shrew-like creature that is one of the few mammals able to produce venom. Look at him! Look at his snout! He's just a little guy! He will bite you and run away on his back legs! He's rare, and endangered, but not gone! Not gone yet, bitches!

(Bonus: 10 Fun Facts About the Solenodon)

Today’s Bizarre Mystery (no, seriously, wtf?):

The Great Unconformity.

Hey, remember the Grand Canyon? Remember how we can see the passage of time through each layer, going back hundreds of thousands of years?

Did you know that apparently, on this massive record of earth's geological history, there's a chunk of time missing? Science has some hypotheses about how and why this happens (and yes, it's been found in more than one place), but they are really only hypotheses, and no one's really sure what happened to, oh, 1.6 billion years, give or take.

Today’s Act of Humanity (yes, we are worth the effort):

After fleeing a war, Ukrainians rush to help Mississippi tornado victims.

"They made the 16-hour drive south to donate bottled water and volunteer with aid workers, buoyed by the idea that they could help a community facing a similar struggle to theirs.

“We had to leave our home,” Pavliuk told The Washington Post in Ukrainian, in an interview interpreted by Hrebenyk. “And they don’t have a place to go back, either.”"

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Today's Good News About The Future (No, It's Not Too Late and Anyone Who Says Otherwise is Selling Something):

The Saiga Antelope, a species critical to the continued survival of huge swathes of grassland, that in 2003 was down to 6% of it's population and already extinct in it's natural habitat of China and Ukraine, has rebounded back to almost 2 million strong thanks to conservation efforts.

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pianokantzart · 3 months

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The fact mario and luigi dont blame each other for their misadventures.

Bad first day on the job: Happens

The warp pipe excursion: Curiosity vs cat

Not that pointing fingers would do them any good anyways, but yeah, they'd probably hesitate to blame each other even for things that actually were their fault.

Doesn't stop them from blaming themselves though, especially Mario.

Mostly Mario.

#not that Luigi probably doesn't blame himself every so often #but Mario's got that ol' big brother sense or responsibility #The world is a tornado and they are but two cows being flung around for dramatic effect. They know this.#Mario Movie #askbox #anon #Mario #Luigi #Super Mario Brothers #Super Mario Bros

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mothsakura · 8 months

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#rw #rain world #iterator #5 pebbles #rw five pebbles #rw fp #five pebbles #i am so sorry but i HAD to draw this #i sure do hope i tornado doesn't come and pick him up and carry him away... that would surely not be cool!#i sure do hope he doesn't drown in a flash flood... that would be terrible!!#i sure do hope-

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eorzeas-okayest-smn · 7 months

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garuda, lady of the vortex !

#ff14 garuda #ffxiv garuda #ff14 #ffxiv #i love the weird greenish light shes always in during arr cutscenes. reminds me of the sky during tornado warnings.#and got the cool wind effect using flame painter which i got on sale forever ago and havent really used #dude holy shit i finally got on adhd meds and finished two projects in two days #that i gave up on and couldnt seem to get any traction on #shit yall!!! wtf!!!!!!!!#HOOO HOOOOOO gonna go thru my sketchbook and see if i can get a garuda p2 or somethin. maybe draw some fire emblem gals idk.#the world is my oyster rn frrr #my art

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blowingoffsteam2 · 4 months

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Still sitting here stewing in the fact that the manga skipped Riku’s sacrifice

#soriku #for context the manga skipped the entire fall of the guardians and the whole demon tornado thing and the final world #so it’s not like Riku’s sacrifice was singled out #BUT IM STILL UPSET I really wanted to see all of it 😔#There’s a chance the whole guardian fall will be revealed in the remind section bc sora basically erased that timeline #so it makes sense to skip it rn if we are seeing things from Sora’s perspective of his memory kinda?#but even if they do show the guardian fall as seen in remind it still skips Riku’s sacrifice 😭#not to mention the whole tunnel scene stuff and saving everyone’s hearts #I just don’t understand how anything is going to be explained #like that whole sequence is fundamental to the plot #it’s the reason Sora disappeared #can’t believe we got robbed of both the gayblade and Riku’s sacrifice #I’m not even mad just baffled by the decisions here #I guess we’ll see how the rest plays out

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evilhorse · 6 months

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Batman/Superman: World’s Finest #17

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lorstandian · 22 days

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people say world of warcraft players are heartless and mean but this random person in a battleground informed me theres a tornado where i live today. so i think they wanted me to live <3

#world of warcraft #THE GAMERS RISE UP FOLLOWED BY THE TORNADO LINE WAS FOUL.#i laughjed.

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batcavescolony · 6 months

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I love how Kon and Cissie would beat the shit out of anyone for Traya. It takes six girls to hold Cissie back, and Kon broke the sound barrier to get to her