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This fucking guy. Louis Theroux es el mejor.
Extreme Geology: The Giant’s Causeway, Ireland and Staffa, Scotland
→ Credit for photos: one, two, and three.These amazing basalt columns can be found on Staffa, Scotland, and Giant’s Causeway in Nothern Ireland. These geological structures formed from volcanic activity over 50 mya where the slow cooling of basalt creates the hexagonal columns you see today; a process known as “columnar jointing”. It occurs where the basalt rapidly cools from the outside towards the centre, causing it to contract and form these structures.
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No lo sabía, ¿el que salió el año pasado?, ¿por qué tan caro?
Corrección: ¡Ah! Está bien. Saldría muy caro con los vídeo-juegos. Mira cuánto cuestan nuevos… http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=snes+games&_sacat=0&_odkw=snes+gamesw&_osacat=0&_trksid=p3286.c0.m270.l1313
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An Overview of Chaos Theory
In its simplest form chaos theory is simply describes a system that is very sensitive to initial conditions. That’s not so hard is it? The term is often used in reference to the butterfly effect which postulates that something so seemingly insignificant as a butterfly flapping its wings can generate a storm on the other side of the planet. While that may be a bit of an overstatement, many real life systems, including the weather, display chaotic behavior. The effect is best seen in a double pendulum system (a pendulum attached to the end of another pendulum) which generates the image above (a long exposure image tracked with LEDS). Small changes, such as changing the angle between the two pendulums when released, would generate a gratuitous amount of widely different pathways.
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The Mars Express took this photo of a crater on Mars filled with water ice.
Credit: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin (G. Neukum)
There wasn’t much color photography in Darwin’s day, so all the photos we have of him are in black and white (or sepia). Here’s a site with some skillful retouching of old photos to add color…and a new version of a familiar image. (vía Pharyngula)
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Lenticular Cloud Over New Zealand
Image Credit: Chris Picking
What’s happening above those mountains?
Several clouds are stacked up into one striking lenticular cloud. Normally, air moves much more horizontally than it does vertically. Sometimes, however, such as when wind comes off of a mountain or a hill, relatively strong vertical oscillations take place as the air stabilizes.
The dry air at the top of an oscillation may be quite stratified in moisture content, and hence forms clouds at each layer where the air saturates with moisture. The result can be a lenticular cloud with a strongly layered appearance. The above picture was taken in 2002 looking southwest over the Tararua Range mountains from North Island, New Zealand.
PANGAEA:
when the continents were cuddling.
