Rhizostoma pulmo (barrel jellyfish) captured by Arne Kuilman via flickr
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I will never get tired of how funny it is when people respond to the posts they don't like by turning it into blackout poetry. What sheer fucking splendour, grabbing something you loathe and then turning it into art as an expression of your utter disrespect and disregard of this person's stupid-ass opinions. It's not simply contempt, but an elaborate display of how little it matters to you.
What a way to show that you find this person so beneath your respect that you won't argue their stupid opinions, you won't even gracefully ignore them like you would politely and tactfully turn a blind eye to the embarrassing mishaps of some fool who doesn't know better. No, you choose to turn it into a plaything, making it your arts and crafts material.
The hilarious indignity of having someone pick up something you thought were bold and fine statements, the pinnacle of truth, and saying "this block of stupid text is as worthless as a rock, but allow me to carve it into art, so that it could perhaps be turned into something that possesses worth and beauty."
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Bottle green and pale gold sea. Details: Stormy Seas, 1922, by Diyarbakirli Tahsin.
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a house in the dunes
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(pls reblog I want to see what the world thinks of my embarrassing behaviors)
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Between the waves, Ivan Aivazovsky, 1898
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Did you know that 4000 metres bellow the ocean there are chemosynthetic bacteria that are specifically evolved to digest the wood of trees that have grown on land?
The wood on the sea floor can come from trees that fall into lakes and end up in the ocean, or wooden ships that have sunken. (Called 'Wood-falls')
The reason why deep marine organisms are able to digest wood despite never seeing the light of day, let alone a plant - since plants are unable to grow in the deep ocean because of a lack of sunlight - is because the ocean is so isolated and scarce of food that when a new food source is suddenly available, organisms rapidly evolve to be able to eat it.
This is called 'Adaptive Radiation', and can also occur on isolated islands.
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people who want to live in lighthouse - i hear you, i understand you
but i raise you
living in water tower
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Lines.
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a journey towards infinity | víctor m. alonso
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Can you believe that there are people who live so close to the ocean that they can just think “hey, I should go to the ocean” and then they just do???
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