Hyperlexia

stovn:

shield-agent-merrick:

bilbosama:

confirm3dkill:

xkrankhaus:

Is this real?! It’s not tagged with anything! :(

Yea these are real, its a Lightning storm crossing paths with the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull’s eruption column. 

Here’s a link to the National Geographic Article

Nature is freaking metal

Iceland?

You start to realize why a god of storms & thunder featured so heavily in Norse myth

Never not cool seeing these.

I’d like to chime in and add that this volcano, relatively speaking, is tiny. Eyjafjallajokull is a baby compared to its three neighbors…the largest of which may well have been disturbed into activity by Eyja’s 2010 eruption.

(Source: , via oftfrustrated)

Why I’m glad I no longer live in Pierce County.

grumpycakes:

the-psychotic-biotic:

APPARENTLY THIS IS HOW ZOOLOGISTS WEIGH TINY BIRDS

#oh ok

This bird is me

(via oftfrustrated)

scinerds:

Amazing Volcanic Photography of Martin Rietze

IIIIINSTA-REBLOG

No you guys don’t understand.

It’s a bunch of tiny robot quad-rotor helicopters playing the James Bond Theme.

nevver:

Mars is cold as Hell

If you go online and find the full-sized high-res version of this shot, you can actually see Opportunity’s tracks around the edge of the left side of the crater.

(via icarus-suraki)

colchrishadfield:

Spacesuit, like a one-person spaceship. Ready to go outside, just needs gloves and a volunteer.

You…are…my…lucky…star…

infinity-imagined:

City lights photographed from the International Space Station and Neurons imaged with fluorescence microscopy.

Source images; Cities (1) (2) (3) (4) (5), Neurons (1) (2) (3) (4) (5)

I cannot properly express my love of this photoset.

(via icarus-suraki)

house-of-gnar:

fossil by Caroline Collett on Flickr.

Crinoids!  These dudes still exist, too, and pretty much in exactly the same form.

(via icarus-suraki)

icarus-suraki:

mydetheturk:

lizzy-lue:

did-you-kno:

Source

Yes please. Warp.

Warp 3

Hopefully without all that tedious mucking about in hyperspace…

LibEraTE tUteMe eX inFErNis…

fyeahdresdenfiles:

fuckdavee:

a-negative-age:

thegrizzlysong:

o m g

Not okay.

thats nuts

Looks like Dresden is in town…

Dresden Files references aside (which did get a lol out of me), I would like to reiterate my opinion that Midwesterners are fucking hardcore.  I have lived on the West Coast my entire life, where extreme weather is not a thing (I see lightning maybe once or twice a year, if even), and I can’t even imagine living in a place where supercell thunderstorms like this one are SOP every spring and summer.

(Source: entropybegets, via ensignw)

This is a closeup of the tentacles of Portuguese Man O’War (Physalia physalis)
Photo by Simon de Glanville 

The coolest thing about Physalia?  It’s not a jellyfish.  It’s actually a composite organism called a siphonophore, made up of four separate organisms merged together in a colony.  Each different shape of tentacle is literally a different creature, and they work together to feed the whole.

Nature is goddamn amazing.

(Source: , via icarus-suraki)

Volcanic lightning in the eruption of Mt. Pyuehue in Chile.

themineralogist:

iodine crystals (by fluor_doublet)

This is gorgeous.

(via icarus-suraki)

themirr:

colchrishadfield:

For comparison, here’s Las Vegas late at night. Even my NightPod camera found the lights too bright.

Clearly Vegas has become ground zero of a massive rip in the fabric of the universe.

eeeeeeeeeeeeeeEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeEEEEEEEEeeeeeeee…