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treasured8elief
Jul 25, 2011

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Polaron posted:

A video, not a picture, but an Australian tourist captures a volcano erupting in Papua New Guinea from far enough away that you can see the shockwave.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUREX8aFbMs

Simply spectacular. :aaa:

Did they know there was an eruption due at that moment, or was their perfect framing and timing simply good luck?

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I'm sorry for how many pics my post has, but lets follow these candles and see where we end up!

























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Shah Cheragh mausoleum and mosque, in Shiraz, Iran. When Queen Tashi Khatun expanded the building into a mosque and theological college in the 1340s, she had the ceiling and walls covered in a mosaic of mirrored glass. :yayclod: :sparkles:

























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Solice Kirsk posted:

Thought the first picture was broccoli. Now I'm googling ethanol trees.

I think their pattern is called canopy or crown shyness.
https://twitter.com/CGdrawing/status/898931121928290304

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el dingo posted:

What the gently caress is a haboob







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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pL7yQr2Njc

People driving down a highway during a duststorm, they pass by a six car pile up. It's something that scares me if I have to go through one. I think the speed limit right there is 75 miles an hour, so my worry was someone behind me not slowing down before driving into it.

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Snowmankilla posted:

Good lord. Where is that?

Kyauk Ka Lat Buddhist monastery, in Hpa-an, Myanmar!


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https://i.imgur.com/7OI4iuc.gifv

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Animal-Mother posted:

Wow. What is that?

Wonderful animals called sea lilies/feather stars/crinoids.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0kO6QNrdLA









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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5X1hL_TfEGI&t=20s

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RCarr posted:

I've got a trip booked to there for next year, I can't wait! :)

:yayclod: I'm jealous

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSlHYlbVh1c

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https://twitter.com/BirdingBeijing/status/837171987256528898

The Guardian posted:

New research suggests that after they leave their nests for the first time, the Beijing swifts spend up to three years in the air, eating, drinking and mating on the wing.

They come down to earth only to rear their own chicks, having already made a 16,000-mile round trip to their winter homes at least twice. Over the course of their lives, the average Beijing swift will travel nearly 124,000 miles.

National Geographic posted:

Every July, young common swifts leave their European roosts and migrate to western and central Africa. They’ll only be back in the following June, and they’ll spend the intervening 10 months almost continuously in the air. They might travel to Africa, but their feet never meet African soil.

“They feed in the air, they mate in the air, they get nest material in the air,” says Susanne Åkesson from Lund University in Sweden. “They can land on nest boxes, branches, or houses, but they can’t really land on the ground.” That's because their wings are too long and their legs are too short to easily take off from a flat surface.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMCLF7hK1Mg

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Jul 25, 2011

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quote:

Cormorant fishing is a traditional fishing method in which fishermen use trained cormorants to fish in rivers.




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