Post something Weird or Random

[Jumpinbare]

 

[Crossbreed]

Ten hours of rain and... thunder.

Beans, beans, the musical fruit...

 

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Clouds of locusts seen from the air:

'Millions' of locusts devour feed on outback cattle properties

 

[VictorR]

 

[tree]

These Skulls Look Purple and Orange. They Are Both Red.

 

[Dagan]

Roughly 70% of the planet is covered by water. Algaes and such grow in the waters more than most know.
Roughly 85% of the land on the planet is covered with trees and/or vegetation (grass, plants, etc.)
In all of these areas with forms of greenery, photosynthesis occurs constantly - in mass amounts, carbon dioxide is taken in by all of this greenery and turned into oxygen for all of us with lungs to breathe and stay alive - also, sugars and soil nutrients are formed in the same process, which just provides for better harboring and/or growing more of said greenery.

Those are proven facts. I know that I first learned them around 5th or 6th grade.

Despite this knowledge, there are seriously people being hired for jobs that, all they do or focus on, are trying to reduce our carbon footprint in the world. It's nowhere near an actual problem. The problem is ignorance once again being exploited, and it's incredibly weird to me that the majority of people don't understand this.

 

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Roughly 70% of the planet is covered by water. Algaes and such grow in the waters more than most know.

South Australia has been having a problem with a large algal bloom on our coast for the past 6 months. The bloom has now expanded up in to the gulf and has people worried that it has now become a mass extinction event.

They never stop to wonder if it's caused by the salmon farm on the coast of Kangaroo Island though, I'd like to see that investigated.

Adelaide residents rally to collect deluge of dead marine life from algal bloom

 

[Kisa the tea]

 

[Shevek]

Roughly 70% of the planet is covered by water. Algaes and such grow in the waters more than most know.
Roughly 85% of the land on the planet is covered with trees and/or vegetation (grass, plants, etc.)
In all of these areas with forms of greenery, photosynthesis occurs constantly - in mass amounts, carbon dioxide is taken in by all of this greenery and turned into oxygen for all of us with lungs to breathe and stay alive - also, sugars and soil nutrients are formed in the same process, which just provides for better harboring and/or growing more of said greenery.

Those are proven facts. I know that I first learned them around 5th or 6th grade.

Despite this knowledge, there are seriously people being hired for jobs that, all they do or focus on, are trying to reduce our carbon footprint in the world. It's nowhere near an actual problem. The problem is ignorance once again being exploited, and it's incredibly weird to me that the majority of people don't understand this.

Our plants evolved to work with low concentrations of CO2. They also evolved and migrated to fit consistent weather patterns. The recent jump in CO2 is swiftly destroying that balance. I have seen the Banff glacier turn into a scrap on the horizon, far from the stone hotel built to overlook the place where it had ended in Lake Louise since time immemorial. Those mountain glaciers used to moderate and direct the winds, and feed the rivers all summer. This is all failing now.

 

[Dagan]

The poles constantly shift, though. They always have. For every instance that someone can actually get a boat into the area where the ice / glaciers are melting because it's warmer there for once......there's the areas they can't get to like they previously could because that's where it's colder and freezing up instead. This is why airports always have to stay on top of recalculating for true magnetic North, and it's why fuel freeze points have to be changed / met differently by fuel farms a lot, as well.

During covid when next to no flights occurred and much of factory productions were also close to nil, the planet actually heated up quite a bit and even rained less. It was discovered that what bit of pollution we do create actually helped us better handle hot climates. In this same time, evergreens started browning and even invasive ivy's and such were dormant a lot longer than usual. The ability / swiftness of the planet to balance itself out / evolve is seemingly way, way faster than most would perceive (as soon as covid lockdowns released, the climate and greenery went pretty quickly back to usual).

 

[Shevek]

The poles constantly shift, though. They always have. For every instance that someone can actually get a boat into the area where the ice / glaciers are melting because it's warmer there for once......there's the areas they can't get to like they previously could because that's where it's colder and freezing up instead. This is why airports always have to stay on top of recalculating for true magnetic North, and it's why fuel freeze points have to be changed / met differently by fuel farms a lot, as well.

During covid when next to no flights occurred and much of factory productions were also close to nil, the planet actually heated up quite a bit and even rained less. It was discovered that what bit of pollution we do create actually helped us better handle hot climates. In this same time, evergreens started browning and even invasive ivy's and such were dormant a lot longer than usual. The ability / swiftness of the planet to balance itself out / evolve is seemingly way, way faster than most would perceive (as soon as covid lockdowns released, the climate and greenery went pretty quickly back to usual).

You have your time periods confused. The magnetic pole shifts a lot, but continents drift faster than the actual poles move. Glaciers have been quite stable overall for all of recorded history, but now a Northwest Passage is opening up and both Greenland and Antarctica are seeing huge changes. Locally, our farmers say that the frost-free season has gained a month in their lifetimes, and I've seen a hundred miles of ancient forest decimated by a beetle that used to die of cold.

 

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The magnetic pole shifts a lot, but continents drift faster than the actual poles move.

 

[tree]

Spoiler

Mr Blobby - Wikipedia

 

[VictorR]

 

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An Arch to Nowhere

Arch to nowhere is a Tassie landmark and relic of a 19th-century school

 

[Jumpinbare]

An Arch to Nowhere

Arch to nowhere is a Tassie landmark and relic of a 19th-century school

Nah, that's clearly an Iconian Gateway.

 

[Tired]

The day Sweden switched which side of the road they drive on, 1967.

 

[Outdated]

This is a sad story but there's some lessons in it. The first of those is that if your car breaks down in a remote area you do not leave your vehicle under any circumstances. Do not go walking thinking to find help, you can't walk that far in our climate. When your blood gets too hot it loses it's ability to carry oxygen and your brain starts to become oxygen starved, you get delirious and disoriented like being drunk. In that state you could get lost in your own back yard and not be able to find your house.

Her first mistake of course was in leaving the main highways. She was in Perth and decided she wanted to drive to Queensland. She could have taken the northern route up through Broome and Darwin, or she could have taken the southern route via Adelaide. Instead it looks like she's decided she could shave several thousand kilometres off her journey by cutting across the middle of the country. In a vehicle completely unsuited to rough roads and extreme temperatures.

There's a fair chance that she used Google Maps to plot her route as well. Never trust google maps outside of city regions.

She did have enough food and water in her van to keep herself alive and well for over a week, but she walked away from that.

What we know about missing backpacker Carolina Wilga’s movements

 

[Ronald Zeeman]

At work fire alarm goes off, just drill standing out, side truck full of propane containers pulls in, just comely, unloads his truck at storage cage next to building. I just watch this is surreal.

 

[Shevek]

At my dad's office, a live cigarette got into a waste paper basket, and it caught fire. It was quickly smothered with a handy cover, and everyone went back to work, except an odd fellow who was visiting, and seemed very concerned. Dad tried to soothe him with "It happens all the time" but that really got him going.
"Why are you so worried about it?" asked Dad.
"I'm the Fire Inspector."