on earth

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chi1.jpg

Somewhere in China

[Elyris]

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015 ... t-science/


ooooooohhhhh








So cute

[Kiyevanie]

Awwww - poor little things... yeah, looks cute even after all that time in the big earth freezer

That's totally amazing!

[Elyris]

First sad, then gross, then heartbreaking and in the end miraculous.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcfUdNfb808

[Xacoon]

First:

Second:

Third:

[Bogo]

Gee. That sent ripples up my spine. Anyone that can watch that and not feel something is brain dead. Hats off to the people that rescued the dog and gave him a chance to live. Most people wouldn't think the costs are worth the life of a companion.

[Kiyevanie]

God, this dog must have had half an army of guardian angels... alright, now I'm sitting in my office, trying to blink those tears away - watching that poor guy made my heart break.
How could he even survive? That's really a miracle happening.

Those people rescuing him were awesome and he's such a beautiful and loving dog now. Sometimes miracles do happen, don't they?

[flighter]

Worth looking at:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/30/world ... .html?_r=1

[Xacoon]

That's interesting!



Also, check this guy's work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P73REgj-3UE

[Elyris]

@boss: Ooooh

Also: Markus Lanz???? bwahahaha

[Elyris]

http://distractify.com/old-school/2013/ ... 1197620875

[flighter]

http://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/claim ... ca-ecuador

[Elyris]

I'd totally wear this.

http://www.archaeologyhub.info/40000-ye ... ies-found/

[Elyris]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ ... ounds.html


Uuuuhhh - nerdy





BTW: Does anyone read this thread ?

[Kiyevanie]

Yepp - I definitely do

I like the bracelet...

That language theory is interesting. Of course there's a lot of speculation about it, but it's well founded speculation, I think.

[Elyris]

What I really liked about the article is that it really pointed out those groups of words who really have those pronounciation/spell similarities and are concerning the same basic 'idea'. That didn't occured to be before to me and I find it really fascinating and also entertaining.

[Elyris]

Holy friggin moly

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Karachay

[flighter]

They
Killed
Their
Mother

I rest my case.

[Elyris]

And people wonder about if it's possible to survive on Mars .... this place is much more dangerous.

I got to know of that after watching a (very artsy) documentary about the region and the people living there. It is really astonishing how many humans actually survive there, just going on their daily buiseness.

One women said that the day when the large explosion (of the waste tank) was there was also heavy fog in the village. The rubber boots she wore instantly and completely changed their colour to green as soon as she stepped outside. The fog turned so dark that it seemed like it was night and it was really hard to breathe. She's an old women now - but how did she made it that far ?
It's just hard to fathom for me how we were able to produce such a huge damage in a rather short time.

[flighter]

The whole story reminds me of Fallout (3, 4) games... about post-apocalyptic era in the USA... Almost everything is radio-active, hard to find something edible, etc... Literally every piece of infrastructure damaged or destroyed etc...

[Elyris]

Thing is: It doesn't look like that. Sure - things are not in a good shape, but not more or less than anywhere else on the countryside there. That's the trick wiht radiation: none of your senses can detect it (except for really high concentrations and even then it seems like something else).
Without a Geigerzähler the only thing you'll see there are old warning sings from time to time around the Tetscha and that's it. Wiht a device it ticks like mad though. Totally crazy.

[Kiyevanie]

And yet somehow nature manages to take those places back... I've seen pictures from Tchernobyl with thriving, healthy looking flora there. I'm sure nature will take back that place too. Somehow.
But for humans it's ruined... well, it's humans who ruined it in the first place.

[Elyris]

Yes - nature indeed is astonishing. Whenever we 'thought' we understood and could foresee we were suprised.
As for humans there - I guess many won't get very old and many will suffer from the damages the radiation does before their birth. But also some will survive. I always remeber thas (I think he was french) photographer who made photos of the poor shmocks who had to clean the biggest mess on the roof of the Tschernobyl reactor (Liquidators, they were called, I think). And while every one of the monly could work for 3 to 8 minutes or so he stayed up there, shooting photos. I don't know how things are now but a few years back he was pretty alive and also not ill at all. His doctors (of course he's under constant observation) were just flabbergasted. So there are such people too. Evolution at work, I guess (after all we all developed to withstand the usual amount of radiation on this planet, so we never notice.
The only thing we can actually see is that if we just give it time, nature can fix an awful lot of stuff.
We shouldn't interfere so much - it never actually came out good.

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[Elyris]

That's a small picture of ... ?

edit: Just looked it up. There were there during the cold months so everything was covered insnow or mud and the trees and bushes looked dead, but that's the case pretty much anywhere in that climatic zone. In addition the whole documentary was filmed in black and white so there were no colours in there anyway. Interestingly enough I think one just had to wait for long enough to let life and green come back to even such places. (Given there is enough water and the temperatures are not too low all the time, of course.)