I Will Never Take Down The 'Fun' Culminating

SES4U Earth & Space culminating.

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The orbit of Jupiter protects the Earth from asteroids.

[tsunamiwavesurfing]

a silent guardian, a watchful protector

[funnylime]

lol look at mercury go that wild bastard

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The best T. rex is nonbinary, guys!!!

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I support them

[ofools]

I don’t want anymore nonbinary representation this is it this is the pinnacle, thank you SUE

[systlin]

Something I find incredibly cool is that they’ve found neandertal bone tools made from polished rib bones, and they couldn’t figure out what they were for for the life of them. 

Until, of course, they showed it to a traditional leatherworker and she took one look at it and said “Oh yeah sure that’s a leather burnisher, you use it to close the pores of leather and work oil into the hide to make it waterproof. Mine looks just the same.” 

“Wait you’re still using the exact same fucking thing 50,000 years later???”

“Well, yeah. We’ve tried other things. Metal scratches up and damages the hide. Wood splinters and wears out. Bone lasts forever and gives the best polish. There are new, cheaper plastic ones, but they crack and break after a couple years. A bone polisher is nearly indestructible, and only gets better with age. The more you use a bone polisher the better it works.”

It’s just. 

50,000 years. 50,000. And over that huge arc of time, we’ve been quietly using the exact same thing, unchanged, because we simply haven’t found anything better to do the job. 

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[did-you-know]

sixpenceee:

Chinese scientists have created the world’s lightest material.  

Graphene aerogel that is seven times lighter than air. It is so light that one cubic inch can be balanced on a blade of grass, the stamen of a flower, or the fluffy seed head of a dandelion. (Source & More Information)

[hardcoremagicalgirl]

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SCIENCE MAGIC.

[skunkbear]

This is one slice of an incredible high resolution, enhanced color image of Pluto, recently released by NASA. You can see the full, larger version here. 

Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI

[sixpenceee]

The World’s First Lab-Grown Limbs

Doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital have successfully grown a rat leg in a petri dish, and it could change prosthetics forever. Harald Ott spent weeks in a lab tending to a tiny rat’s forelimb. He got a special incubator for it, monitored it daily, cared for its every need. The reason a rat leg was worth all that work? There was no rat attached to it.

Ott, a researcher and thoracic surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital, is the proud parent of the world’s first lab-grown biolimb: a living, functioning, artificial leg that responds to stimuli and even circulates blood,  the hospital announced Tuesday. Though it’s still a long way off from made-to-order transplants for humans, Ott and other regeneration experts say that the tiny pink rat leg is a step toward the future of artificial limbs. (Source)

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50 Amazing Fact About the Moon

(Source)

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joshua lambus dives three to five miles out from hawaii’s big island at night, dropping about sixty feet below the surface, sans tether, with another ten thousand vertigo inducing feet below him, in order photograph these light sensitive pelagic animals.

in what is the largest migration of any group of animals on the planet, thousands of these creatures, who live in total darkness during the day, make their way to the surface at night, where they can absorb more oxygen or feed in the more nutrient dense waters.

though many of these species have never been seen before or identified, lambus considers the fourth photo to be his favourite, which, after three years of inquiry, he learned shows an octopus that has torn off the poisonous tentacles of a portugese man of war (featured here) so to ward off its own would be predators.

[nubbsgalore]

this atmospheric phenomenon is known as a circumhorizontal arc, which occurs when the sun is at least 58° above the horizon and the hexagonal ice crystals which form cirrus clouds become horizontally aligned.                     

photos by (click pic) bryce bradford, daniel m shihi, orne veien, brooke anderson, brian plonka, lisa gonnelli and angel villanueva near california’s vandenberg aerospace station, which actually shows refraction through a rocket trail.

see also: more circumhorizontal arcs, asperatus clouds, mammatus clouds, polar stratospheric clouds and cloud iridescence 

[thelandofmaps]

[maptitude1]

This soil map of the United States appeared in the Atlas of American Agriculture in 1931.

[mindblowingscience]

These 17 Women Changed The Face Of Physics

Click through to read the rest.

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Dozens of Dinosaur Eggs Discovered by Construction Workers in Chinese City

Construction workers unearthed 43 fossilized dinosaur eggs during road repair work in Heyuan city in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong on Sunday.

Nineteen of the eggs are completely intact, with the largest measuring as much as 13 centimeters (5 inches) in diameter. Researchers said they will continue to examine the fossils to determine which dinosaur species they belong to. (Source)

[blacque]

bioshock infinite is about to become reality

[astahfrith]

#nO BUT#WE TALKED ABOUT THIS IN ASTROBIO#BASICALLY VENUS’S ATMO IS LIVEAble#oxygen nitrogen some noble gases the whole shebang#and the only problem is the shITTON OF SULFURIC ACID COMING DOWN AS RAIN ALWAYS#and if you could create something secure and stable above the cloud layer but within the atmosphere#you could literally have people on venus without exosuits#and if you don’t think that’s the coolest shit then geT OUTTA MY FACE#SPAAAAAACE

(TAGS VIA SKELETEEN-OFFICIAL)

THAT IS ONE OF THE COOLEST FUCKING THINGS I HAVE EVER HEARD

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Said the person that didn’t play Bioshock Infinite. 

[guardedcrayons]

The Truth is out there

[spaceexp]

Saturn’s hexagonal storm system in it’s north pole

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thank u earth for not doing this

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This thick cloud of dust and gas may look like a dark and foreboding corner of our galaxy, but it is actually a region of star birth that exhibits a smorgasbord of stellar phenomena.

One of the more fascinating objects is the star in the center of the frame that appears to be sitting atop a column of smokey material. This is in fact a young stellar object (YSO) — basically a star’s embryo — that is slowly forming from the collapsing gas in its nebula. Called SSTC2D J033038.2+303212, this object has a disk of material seen edge-on that it continues to form from. The YSO seems to be generating its own hot jets of gas that light up the top of the dark nebulous column.

This dramatic view was captured by the Hubble Space Telescope’s Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) that views the cosmos in ultraviolet, visible and near-infrared light.

[nubbsgalore]

the waitomo limestone caves on new zealand’s northern island are home to an endemic species of bioluminescent fungus gnat (arachnocampa luminosa, or glow worm fly) who in their larval stage produce silk threads from which to hang and, using a blue light emitted from a modified excretory organ in their tails, lure in prey who then become ensnared in sticky droplets of mucus. photos by dylan toh & marianne lim, spellbound tours, martin rietze and z blue polaris