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Torbernite

Cu(UO2)2(PO4)2·12H2O

Locality:

Clara Mine, Rankach valley, Oberwolfach, Wolfach, Black Forest, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Field of View: 2.10 mm

Often dehydrated to metatorbernite (note that also transparent crystals can already be metatorbernite). Visually indistinguishable from zeunerite (or metazeunerite).

Photo: Michael Förch

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Bursts of Dazzling Shapes Create Technicolor Orbits in GIFs by Marcus Martinez

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Dont be surprised how quickly the Universe moves once you’ve decided.

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Abandoned buildings

Stewart, BC // Hyder, AK

30.09.2015

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C. Keelan 1967

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To save the Earth, stack humans in green cities and leave the wilderness for other animals

Science fiction writer and ecologist Kim Stanley Robinson (previously) writes that we need to “empty half the Earth of its humans” to save the planet – but not by the Green Left’s usual (and potentially genocidal) tactic of reducing our population by 50%.

Rather, Robinson takes a “promethean left” approach: build giant, high-tech, efficient cities that minimize the energy costs of transport, concentrate waste treatment and use vertical farms and other techniques to heal the “metabolic rift” where food is grown in one place and consumed somewhere else, preventing the waste product from returning to the soil.

The world is already urbanizing, so really Robinson is just talking about how to take best advantage of this phenomenon to preserve our world and the other living things we share it with.

https://boingboing.net/2018/03/21/soleris-ghost.html

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Gloomy Sunday

Latest addition to Memo Akten’s ongoing ‘Learning to See’ project demonstrates a neural network powered realtime image translation framework, presenting possibilites for visual poetry:

A pre-trained deep neural network making predictions on live camera input, trying to make sense of what it sees, in context of what it’s seen before. It can see only what it already knows, just like us.

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