In September 2021 A Russian photographer (Dmitry Kokh) captured a fascinating series of photos showing polar bears that took over the abandoned buildings of a meteorological station on an island between Russia and Alaska. The island is located in the Chukchi Sea, a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean.
The osprey (Pandion haliaetus), also called sea hawk, river hawk, and fish hawk, is a diurnal, fish-eating bird of prey with a cosmopolitan range. It is a large raptor, reaching more than 60 cm (24 in) in length and 180 cm (71 in) across the wings. It is brown on the upperparts and predominantly greyish on the head and...
The peacock “tail”, is known as a train, consisting not of tail quill feathers, but highly elongated upper tail coverts. These feathers are marked with eyespots, best seen when a peacock fans his tail. The peacock tail produces colours by thin-film interference....
Mateys! We have plundered the shores of tv shows and movies as these corporations flounder in stopping us seed and spread their files without regard for the flag of copyright. We have long plundered the shores of gaming and broke DRM that have been plaguing modern games, and allowing accessibility to games in countries where a...
Normally I don’t have much time to watch movies, and for the occasional one Netflix is good enough. But once a coupple of years there is a specific one I want to see which is not on Netflix....
A blazar is an active galactic nucleus (AGN) with a relativistic jet (a jet composed of ionized matter traveling at nearly the speed of light) directed towards an observer....
Arkys lancearius, the triangular spider, is an Australian spider belonging to the family Arkyidae. It is an ambush hunter, commonly found resting on leaves and ferns or hanging from just a few threads of silk....
Ryugu is a near-Earth object and a potentially hazardous asteroid of the Apollo group. It measures approximately 900 metres (3,000 ft) in diameter and is a dark object of the rare spectral type Cb, with qualities of both a C-type asteroid and a B-type asteroid....
Went to a restaurant in LA today and when I got the check I noticed that it was a bit higher than it should be. Then I noticed this 18% service charge. So… We, as customers, need to help pay for their servers instead of the owners paying their servers a living wage. And on top of that they have suggested tip. I called bs on...
The Sun doesn’t have a solid surface like Earth and the other rocky planets and moons. The part of the Sun commonly called its surface is the photosphere. The word photosphere means “light sphere” – which is apt because this is the layer that emits the most visible light. It’s what we see from Earth with our eyes....
This species of bird uses trees for winter storage, which are called granary trees and may have up to 50,000 holes, each filled with an acorn. The acorn woodpecker’s main food source is insects, but acorns serve as key nutritional backup, allowing the birds to make it through the winter....
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The average life expectancy of Japanese people declined in 2022 for the second straight year, affected significantly by the coronavirus pandemic, according to the health ministry.
I will express a very unpopular and controversional opinion, but truth can be cold and merciless: if we don’t make life interplanetary a lot of people will die of starvation from overpopulation in a few decades.
Elderly people, while being an important source of wisdom, are objectively a burden to every society, economically and sanitaryly. They can’t be the majority.
We need young and productive people to keep any form of society going. I’m not saying that coronavirus was a good thing but maybe, just maybe, reducing life expectancy is not such a tragedy, for now.
Please reply objectively and rationally, not with your gut
BOOKS WITH WIZZERDS CRANKIN OUT BOMBASS SPELLS ENCHANT ME (lemmy.world)
Photographer finds Polar Bears that took over an abandoned building (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
In September 2021 A Russian photographer (Dmitry Kokh) captured a fascinating series of photos showing polar bears that took over the abandoned buildings of a meteorological station on an island between Russia and Alaska. The island is located in the Chukchi Sea, a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean.
Firefighters fighting fire (files.catbox.moe)
A tree snapped in a half by a landslide (files.catbox.moe)
An osprey (𝘗𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘩𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘢𝘦𝘵𝘶𝘴) carrying a bonnet head shark (𝘚𝘱𝘩𝘺𝘳𝘯𝘢 𝘵𝘪𝘣𝘶𝘳𝘰) in its talons (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
The osprey (Pandion haliaetus), also called sea hawk, river hawk, and fish hawk, is a diurnal, fish-eating bird of prey with a cosmopolitan range. It is a large raptor, reaching more than 60 cm (24 in) in length and 180 cm (71 in) across the wings. It is brown on the upperparts and predominantly greyish on the head and...
A peacock astonishing train rattling (files.catbox.moe)
The peacock “tail”, is known as a train, consisting not of tail quill feathers, but highly elongated upper tail coverts. These feathers are marked with eyespots, best seen when a peacock fans his tail. The peacock tail produces colours by thin-film interference....
Visions of a larger plunder
Mateys! We have plundered the shores of tv shows and movies as these corporations flounder in stopping us seed and spread their files without regard for the flag of copyright. We have long plundered the shores of gaming and broke DRM that have been plaguing modern games, and allowing accessibility to games in countries where a...
Green meteor captured in Southern India (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Photographer Prasenjeet Yadav was taking pictures in the Western Ghats in 2015 when he captured this breathtaking shot!
Rule of sleep (feddit.nl)
Oldest known gold jewelry found in a grave in Varna (Bulgaria) (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
A bottle falls off a shelf and seamlessly repositions itself (files.catbox.moe)
Orcas attacking a Great White Shark (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
When you think of top ocean predators, you probably think of sharks. That’s wrong!...
How to pirate movies casually?
Normally I don’t have much time to watch movies, and for the occasional one Netflix is good enough. But once a coupple of years there is a specific one I want to see which is not on Netflix....
Armadillo girdled lizard (𝘖𝘶𝘳𝘰𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘶𝘴 𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘢𝘱𝘩𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘴) (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/pictrs/image/bb7f0de4-f322-429c-bf78-6180f337e228.jpeg...
Very (lemmy.ml)
The largest super-massive black hole (blazar S5 0014+81) compared to our Solar System (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
A blazar is an active galactic nucleus (AGN) with a relativistic jet (a jet composed of ionized matter traveling at nearly the speed of light) directed towards an observer....
Playtime in Rwanda (files.catbox.moe)
I would probably break my ankles if I tried that!
Metamorph-assist (pbfcomics.com)
https://beehaw.org/pictrs/image/0228f7e2-2b6f-4bc6-97e8-700874b9bd43.webp
Triangular Spider (𝘈𝘳𝘬𝘺𝘴 𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘶𝘴) (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Arkys lancearius, the triangular spider, is an Australian spider belonging to the family Arkyidae. It is an ambush hunter, commonly found resting on leaves and ferns or hanging from just a few threads of silk....
Magic man (infosec.pub)
Ryugu Asteroid Surface (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Ryugu is a near-Earth object and a potentially hazardous asteroid of the Apollo group. It measures approximately 900 metres (3,000 ft) in diameter and is a dark object of the rare spectral type Cb, with qualities of both a C-type asteroid and a B-type asteroid....
higher wages for the servers... by the customers. Fnbs (lemmy.world)
Went to a restaurant in LA today and when I got the check I noticed that it was a bit higher than it should be. Then I noticed this 18% service charge. So… We, as customers, need to help pay for their servers instead of the owners paying their servers a living wage. And on top of that they have suggested tip. I called bs on...
Supermarket evacuated after spider whose bite can cause erections or death spotted (www.independent.co.uk)
What HASN'T happened in Florida? (infosec.pub)
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Camouflaged road in Finland during the Continuation War (June 27, 1941) (i.postimg.cc)
They hung up trees with ropes about 10 kilometers from the Russian border to hide the road from airplanes....
*smiles politely* (i.imgur.com)
2023-08-09.jpg (lemmy.ml)
Did you know there’s a golf course near the Giza pyramids in Egypt? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Ultra-detailed picture of the Sun (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
The Sun doesn’t have a solid surface like Earth and the other rocky planets and moons. The part of the Sun commonly called its surface is the photosphere. The word photosphere means “light sphere” – which is apt because this is the layer that emits the most visible light. It’s what we see from Earth with our eyes....
Acorn woodpeckers (𝘔𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘱𝘦𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘷𝘰𝘳𝘶𝘴) are the ultimate hoarders of the bird world (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
This species of bird uses trees for winter storage, which are called granary trees and may have up to 50,000 holes, each filled with an acorn. The acorn woodpecker’s main food source is insects, but acorns serve as key nutritional backup, allowing the birds to make it through the winter....
Japanese life expectancy falls in 2022 for 2nd straight year - The Mainichi (mainichi.jp)
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The average life expectancy of Japanese people declined in 2022 for the second straight year, affected significantly by the coronavirus pandemic, according to the health ministry.