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Book of Hours, Last Judgment, Walters Manuscript W.246, fol. 88v by Walters Art Museum Illuminated Manuscripts http://flic.kr/p/oV7tHR

How to deal with science denialists

#nasa #nebula #supernova #hubble

Semyorka R7

#soviet union #rocket #space

Saturn, raw image from Cassini. N00238864.jpg was taken on May 02, 2015 and received on Earth May 02, 2015. The camera was pointing toward TITAN

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

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Typhoon Maysak, photos from the ISS (Samantha Cristoforetti, Terry Virts)

#iss #typhoon

This vibrant image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope (detected by the multiband imaging photometer) shows the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy to our own Milky Way galaxy.

Opportunity's Northward View of 'Wdowiak Ridge'

This vista from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows 'Wdowiak Ridge,' from left foreground to center, as part of a northward look with the rover's tracks visible at right.

Oct. 16, 2014

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::reflecting at days end::

Lost Lagoon/November 2014

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Hallucinogenic Plants by Richard Evans Schultes

Illustrated by Elmer W. Smith

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A very famous resaercher; to write this? whoo hoo!!

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Why

My mind is full of useless internet culture and knowledge that is only applicable online. If I live long enough, and have a successful enough life to have grandchildren, I suppose I’ll tell them about all the dank memes and how different the internet was when you still had to use a physical monitor to access it.

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::which way?::

Coal Harbour/December 2014

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"Okay, okay, I’ve got one. ‘Sloths.’"

"Sloths?"

"Sloths! They’ll live in trees and climb around and eat leaves."

"That sounds pretty cute, evolution. But leaves aren’t all that nutritious, are they? How are they going to get enough energy to climb around?"

"Oh, I thought of that! They’ll supplement their diets with algae that they grow in their own fur. I even put special channels in their hairs to collect rainwater and keep the algae moist."

"Huh, okay… but then what are the algae going to feed on?"

"Thought of that too. They’ll be fertilized by all the moths that also live in the sloth’s fur."

"Wait, what? Seriously? Moths? And how are the moths going to reproduce? Their larvae need to eat something too, you know."

"Yup, thought of that. Once a week, when the sloth needs to poop, it’ll climb down from the tree and poop on the ground. Then the moths can lay their eggs in the dung, and the larvae will eat that.”

"Okay, this is ridiculous. I mean, doesn’t climbing down to poop defeat the whole purpose of living in a tree? Won’t that make it stupidly easy for a jaguar or something to come along and eat them?"

"Well, yeah, that does happen. Kind of a lot, actually."

"And?"

"Look, no system’s perfect."

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