a N.E.R.D's thoughts

the deep, and intricate thoughts of a N.E.R.D. sex, love, and everything else u can think of

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All We Ever Wanted, painting by Shaun Tan

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Reflections of Hallstatt

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[zegalba]

The tallest mountain in the solar system, Olympus Mons on Mars. It has a height of 25 km, Mount Everest is 'only' 8.8 km tall.

[foone]

Olympus Mons is wild. It's gigantic, but it's so gentle a slope that you could drive up to the peak.

It's so big because it's a shield volcano: there's a hotspot under it where magma is pushing up.

But since Mars has no active tectonics, that hot spot has been under the same spot for hundreds of millions of years. On earth, the tectonic plates would have slowly shifted over that time, and it would have become a mountain range, not one big mountain. On a dead planet like Mars, it just slowly builds up every time it erupts, so it's the biggest mountain in the solar system.

And it probably hasn't stopped growing! The most recent eruption is estimated at 2 million years ago, but geologically that's recent enough that it might still be active, and may erupt again someday.

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yep

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Let it be your guide.

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Artwork by @ungfio

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Doctor Who Rose | 1.01

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