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• 2012-12-08 74 notes

      The Buzludzha Monument, completed 1981 in Bulgaria, commemorates the formation of a formal socialist movement in 1891. It was built during the rule of communism in Bulgaria. Today, 1441 metres up, it lies abandoned.

• 2012-11-19 16 notes

  Some things about Saturn:

  • The Main rings average only about 10 metres thick 
  • Saturn is less dense than water
  • Wind speeds at the Equator can reach up to 1800 kilometres an hour
  • The planet is gaseous, and therefore it does not rotate evenly making it difficult to measure the length of a day. 

• 2012-10-17 62 notes

      Harold Edgerton’s Photos of the Trinity nuclear test, the first nuclear detonation. The photos were taken from 7 miles away, with a specially built ten foot long lens and exposure times of 1/1,000,000,000th of a second. 

• 2012-09-22 50 notes

  Tardigrades, also called water bears or moss piglets are tiny 1mm long animals that can survive in unbelievably hostile conditions. 

  They are capable of surviving…

  • 6000 metres up a mountain, and 4000 metres below the sea
  • temperatures as high as 150 degrees Celsius and almost as low as absolute zero
  • crushing pressures of up to 6000 atmospheres, six times that of the deepest trench in the ocean   
  • 10 years without water
  • thousands of times more radiation than humans can survive
  • The Vacuum and solar radiation of open SPACE for ten days 

• 2012-09-17 8 notes

  Anonymous asked: post stuff!

  So sorry for the lack of posts! school has started up and I got caught up in all the work. 

  Here are some cool extinct animals 

  This is the Paraceratherium, the largest land mammal ever to live. It was an 18 ton hornless rhino that stood almost 5 metres tall at the shoulder. 

  

  And this is the skull of the heavily armoured Dunkleosteus. It was a hypercarnivorous, 33 foot long fish that weighed 4 tons and had no natural predators. 

• 2012-08-17 283 notes

  Fallstreak holes, or hole punch clouds, are formed when the water in the air has been super cooled but has not frozen. When it does finally freeze, it starts a chain reaction and the frozen water falls from the cloud. 

• 2012-07-31 76 notes

      Eisriesenwelt, in Werfen, Austria is the largest ice cave in the world, over 40 kilometres long. The cave was not explored until 1879 because the locals saw it as an entrance to hell. 

• 2012-07-24 136 notes

      The Leshan Giant Buddha in Sichuan province of China. Construction of this massive statue began in 713 AD, and was completed in 803 AD. So much excavated stone was  deposited in the river, that the water currents were changed and the river became safe for boats. 

• 2012-07-10 237 notes

  The Barreleye fish has a transparent shield that covers the top of its head, and its large green lensed eyes. 

• 2012-06-27 323 notes

      Mantis shrimp are named for their very fast and powerful front claws. When the claws strike forward at prey, they have the same acceleration as a .22 calibre bullet. Even if the claw itself misses, just the resulting shock wave is often enough to kill prey. They have been known to break through aquarium glass in a single punch.

      The shrimp also has the most complex eyes in the animal kingdom, capable of seeing 12 primary colours, compared to the 3 that humans can see.

• 2012-06-21 133 notes

  Fly Geyser, in Washoe county, Nevada. The geyser was actually created by accident when a water well was drilled in 1916. Some geothermally heated water broke into the well in the 1960s and rushed to the surface, carrying with it different minerals that built up into the colourful formation. 

• 2012-06-18 67 notes

  Trolltunga (troll’s tongue in English) in Odda, Norway.  

• 2012-06-14 93 notes

      Pamukkale, Turkey, is home to hot springs that flow downhill and leave mineral deposits that build up into terraced pools. These pools have served as baths for thousands of years. 

• 2012-06-09 144 notes

      Living root bridges in Cherrapunji, India. The Ficus elastica tree has secondary roots that can be guided hundreds of feet across rivers. In time they grow into bridges strong enough to support dozens of people at once. These bridges continually grow and strengthen over time, some are hundreds of years old and are still used daily.   

• 2012-06-08 203 notes

  Ultraviolet images of auroras on Jupiter and Saturn.