Life on planet Earth

ghost · November 10, 2020, 2:37pm

news.msn.com/world/indian-woman- … ith-sickle

El_Bastarde · November 10, 2020, 2:37pm

That’s easily the most badass headline of the decade.

Katiemay · November 10, 2020, 2:37pm

Pilot sees ‘strange red glowing light’ while en route to Alaska

A mystifying series of events was witnessed by Dutch pilot JPC van Heijst and his co-pilot as they flew their Boeing 747 to Alaska in ‘a part of the world where there was supposed to be nothing but water.’

According to Daily Mail, the pilot saw ‘an intense flash of light like a lightning bolt, directed vertically up in the distance.’ The Huffington Post reported that 20 minutes later, he saw a collection of red glowing lights beneath him.

Here’s what Heijst told the Daily Mail:

‘Last night over the Pacific Ocean, somewhere South of the Russian peninsula Kamchatka I experienced the creepiest thing so far in my flying career,’ he said.

‘The closer we got, the more intense the glow became, illuminating the clouds and sky below us in a scary orange glow, in a part of the world where there was supposed to be nothing but water,’ he continued.

‘The only cause of this red glow that we could think of, was the explosion of a huge volcano just underneath the surface of the ocean, about 30 minutes before we overflew that exact position.’

According to discovery, instances of volcanic eruptions sparking lightning isn’t an unheard of theory – there have been proven occurrences.

While the pilot said the scenario left him and his co-pilot feeling extremely uncomfortable, he is hoping it will pay off: ‘Now I’m just hoping that if a new island has been formed there [from the eruption], at least it can be named after me as the official discovered,’ the pilot told Daily Mail.

http://www.aol.com/article/2014/08/27/pilot-glowing-red-light-mystery/20953042/

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlV3zYRvs0g[/youtube]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2734573/Mystery-glow-Pacific-Ocean-Pilots-left-baffled-strange-orange-red-lights-spotted-dead-night.html#ixzz3BhGjPRKE

El_Bastarde · November 10, 2020, 2:37pm

Pilot sees ‘strange red glowing light’ while en route to Alaska

And this may be the least badass headline of the decade.

El_Bastarde · November 10, 2020, 2:38pm

grindtv.com/outdoor/nature/p … ets-abyss/

Just watch this video until the end. Reason 1,272,289 why animals are so much more badass than humans.

El_Bastarde · November 10, 2020, 2:39pm

Another awesome animal vid. This one is where a monkey was electrocuted at some India train station and his buddy works his/her butt off to try to revive him…he pulls and bites him and even throws him into water. Pretty incredible.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AKqw62Q-kg[/youtube]

ghost · November 10, 2020, 2:40pm

This is great:
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/offbeat/incredible-photo-shows-a-weasel-riding-a-woodpecker/ar-BBi9UTj?ocid=mailsignout

Anytime I hear something about a weasel I think of this:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8n15O7TjJU[/youtube]

This article is from 2013. I have never heard anything about this.
http://qz.com/122003/plastic-recycling-china-green-fence/

Related to wastefulness and the decline of western civilization (mostly just us in the US)
http://www.wired.com/2015/02/high-end-dumpster-diving-matt-malone/
My cousin sent this to me. He read the article and then went to see for himself. He found three new vacuum cleaners in the boxes that he is going to sell.

El_Bastarde · November 10, 2020, 2:40pm

This article is from 2013. I have never heard anything about this.

This isn’t a big secret. Any local trash pick-up will give you a pamphlet or something that tells you what the recycle place really will accept. Many of these recyclable items has that little triangle on the bottom of it and it has a number on it. I believe my place will accept stuff with a #1 or #2 and maybe a #7 or something but will not accept any of the other numbers. You’re supposed to throw those away. The same goes for “printed cardboard.” You can recycle cardboard but if it’s got printing on it (like a cereal box or pizza box) it’s no good and they can’t reuse it. So you throw those out too. Though the article putting the blame on China is a bit silly…

And, yeah, I believe the dumpster diving. Places throw out stuff for the dumbest reasons, especially if a customer returns it and says it’s broken…they don’t have time to test it and can’t put that back on the shelf and many manufacturers don’t “take back” stuff, so they toss it. Of course, I’m pretty sure it’s illegal to dumpster dive, many places have cameras and all the time to sell stuff would be a pain. But to each their own.

ghost · November 10, 2020, 2:41pm

Whoa…

Love that mycelium

http://timewheel.net/Tome-Plants-Communicate-Using-An-Internet-Of-Fungus

fone · November 10, 2020, 2:41pm

Eli

Knew about mycelium, but never thought about how other plants could use it. Have a big chunk of fungus under the front lawn. When it gets close to the surface, it creates fairy rings of mushrooms and the grass actually gets greener in circular patterns where nitrogen is more plentiful from it.

The largest living organisms on earth.