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jtotheizzoe: Geological Layers Cake

Sun, 09 Jan 2011 00:41:03 -0500

Geological Layers Cake

daleksontumblr: An estimated one-quarter of all black swans...

Sun, 09 Jan 2011 00:34:16 -0500

An estimated one-quarter of all black swans pairings are homosexual and they steal nests, or form temporary threesomes with females to obtain eggs, driving away the female after she lays the eggs. More of their cygnets survive to adulthood than those of different-sex pairs, possibly due to their superior ability to defend large portions of land. The same reasoning has been applied to male flamingo pairs raising chicks.

pursuitofny: We’re approaching the twenty-first anniversary of...

Sun, 09 Jan 2011 00:30:33 -0500

pursuitofny:

We’re approaching the twenty-first anniversary of the famous “pale blue dot” photo – Earth as seen from Voyager 1 while on the edge of our solar system (approximately 3,762,136,324 miles from home). Sagan’s words are always worth remembering:

“Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every ‘superstar,’ every ‘supreme leader,’ every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there — on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.

It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known.

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Sun, 09 Jan 2011 00:27:33 -0500

cellophanejelly: how have i never thought of this

Sat, 08 Jan 2011 23:47:03 -0500

cellophanejelly:

how have i never thought of this

loveyourchaos: (by Lieke Romeijn)

Mon, 03 Jan 2011 14:10:02 -0500

loveyourchaos:

(by Lieke Romeijn)

thingsorganizedneatly: Pictures of the day: 31 December 2010 -...

Mon, 03 Jan 2011 14:06:47 -0500

thingsorganizedneatly:

Pictures of the day: 31 December 2010 - Telegraph

Artist Harwinder Singh Gill displays a special new year message he carved into the tips of coloured pencils in Amritsar, India

(via peetypassion)

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Sun, 02 Jan 2011 22:08:52 -0500

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Sun, 02 Jan 2011 22:06:19 -0500

This is also hilarious, but I suppose a part of me feels sorry...

Mon, 08 Nov 2010 23:26:17 -0500

This is also hilarious, but I suppose a part of me feels sorry for her. It’s also been stuck in my head for several days.

This is all sorts of ridiculous, and hilarious. Why don’t...

Mon, 08 Nov 2010 23:23:52 -0500

This is all sorts of ridiculous, and hilarious. Why don’t they play this one along with her other songs on the radio??

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Tue, 02 Nov 2010 19:07:19 -0400

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Tue, 12 Oct 2010 18:13:18 -0400

Chill out people...

Sun, 10 Oct 2010 18:25:07 -0400

-bitemealienboy:

acciodesiree:

homemadedarkmark:

stfuconservatives:

sequinedk:

I don’t understand why so many people seem to think that Obama should have changed everything bad that ever happened in America EVER as soon as he stepped foot into the White House. I mean, it took Harry Potter 7 years to kill Voldemort and that dude had magic. Magic! Obama only has Joe Biden. Shit takes time.

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discodirt: Yeah I just made this okay.

Sun, 10 Oct 2010 00:01:40 -0400

discodirt:

Yeah I just made this okay.

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Fri, 08 Oct 2010 23:45:01 -0400

We gotta get out of this hamper.

Fri, 08 Oct 2010 23:39:48 -0400

We gotta get out of this hamper.

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Fri, 08 Oct 2010 23:37:59 -0400

This one might be my favorite.

Fri, 08 Oct 2010 23:37:38 -0400

This one might be my favorite.

I love Etsy!!

Fri, 08 Oct 2010 23:25:22 -0400

I love Etsy!!