While the algae grow in my fur

An experiment in collecting overflow links and short takes. Pushed into this by friends; we'll see where it goes. Real blog: Three-toed sloth

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Corona-chan will get tired of winning.

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Captioned by Thomas Lumley as “Do not call up that which you cannot put down”

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Pluto in True Color

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The Moon and Jupiter over the Alps

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Oceanic Nonlinear Internal Solitary Waves

On November 1, 2016, NASA’s Aqua satellite passed over Indonesia, allowing the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on board to capture a stunning true-color image of oceanic nonlinear internal solitary waves from the Lombok Strait.

(via David Moles, who points out that Bali, on the left, is about 100 miles long)

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Kieran Healy on Twitter

“He showed him the kingdoms of the world in their glory and said, “All these things I will give to you if you will fall down and worship me."”

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Original; reconsideration

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Barbara Tozier, BTS of a portrait

{it’s amazing what you find waiting in your drafts}

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The story behind the photo only makes it better.

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This is one of the alternate command posts of the Warsaw Pact countries located on the territory of Moldavia. There are similar constructions in Belorus, Ukraine, Russia, Azerbaijan.

Object 1180 represents two cylindrical blocks each 36 m in diameter and 60 m deep divided into 10-12 levels.

The bunker was not finished and finally was abandoned, but the structure is so colossal that is truly worth visiting.

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