The Fox's Den

roxanneritchi:

WHY DON’T THEY HAVE THESE FOR GROWN-UPS? You guys don’t even realize how much I miss playing on playgrounds and jungle gyms and running up and down and through these mazes and rope stuff and slides and monkey bars and DANG. I just want to run around screaming and playing sometimes, is all.

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discoverynews:

Spectacular Aurorae Erupt Over Norway

Over the weekend, the Earth’s magnetic field was struck by a coronal mass ejection (CME). The CME — a vast bubble of solar plasma that had erupted from the sun on Jan. 19 — took longer than expected to travel through interplanetary space, but on Sunday it made contact.

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theworldwelivein:

Kiruna Aurora | Kiruna, Norrbotten, Sweden
© antonyspencer

For those who wonder why some of the aurora is blue and some of it is green, the blue is created by nitrogen and the green by oxygen.

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hugginangryfeminist:

This is the “smoke ring” a strange phenomenon that happens in volcanoes and it has only been documented 3 times. Two from Mt. Etna in 1970 and 2000, and another from Eyjafjallajokull in Iceland, in May 2010.

too cool not to reblog. 

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aquamirage:

astronautalis:

i could literally watch this till i die.

A time-lapse taken from the front of the International Space Station as it orbits our planet at night.

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Why I Play Sims 2, part 1:

The interior decorating. This room is a work-in-progress, mind you.

sunsurfer:

Indoor Pool Swing, Manhattan, New York City

photo via yahoo

I wonder if I can make this in Sims.

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latimes:

Saturn’s Great White Spot, which occurs about once every 30 Earth years, is a windy, towering cloud of ammonia and water spewing out super jolts of thunder and lightning. The storm is about 10,000 times stronger than those on Earth.

Photo credit: NASA

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landscapelifescape:

Xitang, Zhejiang Province, China

Serenity (by tianxiaozhang)

sunsurfer:

Above the Water, Kishwaukee River, Rockford, Illinois

photo via morningstar

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lickypickysticky:

This up to 1000 years old snow has metamorphosed into highly pressurized glacier ice that contains almost no air bubbles. Thus it absorbs the visible light despite the scattered shortest blue fraction, giving it its distinct deep blue waved appearance. This cavity in the glacier ice formed as a result of a glacial mill, or moulin.

Rain and meltwater on the glacier surface is channelled into streams that enter the glacier at crevices. The waterfall melts a hole into the glacier while the ponded water drains towards lower elevations by forming long ice caves with an outlet at the terminus of the glacier. The fine grained sediments in the water along with wind blown sediments cause the frozen meltwater stream to appear in a muddy colour while the top of the cave exhibits the deep blue colour.

Due to the fast movement of the glacier of about 1 m per day over uneven terrain this ice cave cracked up at its end into a deep vertical crevice, called cerrac. This causes the indirect daylight to enter the ice cave from both ends resulting in homogeneous lighting of the ice tunnel.

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See also: the Tsingy in Madagascar.

instrumentalsftw:

resurrectedrule:

thejasminedragon:

avoiceasbigasthesea:

violetmemories:

The geological formations known as the Lena Pillars have fascinated travellers since the 17th century. About 140km upriver from Yakutsk, the rock of the cliffs alongside the river has been eroded away into delicate shapes of a reddish brown colour. The extremely steep columns are made of kimbery limestone with the surrounding softer rock being eroded over the millennium. Today the stone rocks look like amazing creatures and towers, pillars and columns, towering over 150 meters high. The Lena Pillars extend along the river for about 80km.

YOU GUYS

SOZIN’S COMET BATTLE IN REAL LYF.

omg

the geology nerd in me just 

brb researching the fuck out of this for the rest of the night 

^

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roxanneritchi:hotblooded-sleuth

PUT. THIS. IN. MY. EYES. NOW.

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