Post something Weird or Random

[NDR2]

 

[Caiman]

I took a picture of a beetle that looks like it would make a good indie album cover

 

[Judge]

What’s a cheque? Is it a type of doggie?

Nope. It's a kind of "ball" that bounced a little too often in Oz.

Other than to pay bills through the mail, I can't even recall the last time I wrote one in person.

 

[Outdated]

Religion on the move:

Photos: Entire church moved in Sweden’s Kiruna city for mine expansion

 

[Shevek]

Gad! That looks like it was designed by AI, especially the flying buttresses. Is the space completely clear inside to justify them?

 

[Outdated]

Gad! That looks like it was designed by AI, especially the flying buttresses. Is the space completely clear inside to justify them?

No idea, amazing feat of engineering to be able to pick a whole building up like that though. Notice all the glass still in the windows, no panes are broken.

 

[Captain Jigglypuff]

I messed with another Cashapp scammer on Thursday. I kept answering her questions with more question and bizarre answers. My favorite is when she asked me to send her address and I replied, “What’s an address? Is it a type of Kitty? I like kitties. Especially when they say Woof!” She then said “Your house address,” and I replied, “What’s a house? Is it a type of birdie?” She stopped talking to me after that.

 

[Shevek]

No idea, amazing feat of engineering to be able to pick a whole building up like that though. Notice all the glass still in the windows, no panes are broken.

I like the pictures of the Amish moving whole barns by carrying them with a large crew. I once got about 40 people to come over and move a section of a stage 30 cm. I just marked chalk Xs where I wanted the feet to go, and counted down for everyone to lift in unison.

 

[Shevek]

 

[RemyZee]

 

[Yeshuasdaughter]

 

[Shevek]

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The amount of carbon on Earth is indeed a constant. The issue is how much of it is in circulation in the atmosphere. Grazing cattle typically involves not only eliminating predators, some endangered, but cutting down forest and replacing it with grassland. Grass only turns to peat if not eaten. The bovine digestive system of four stomachs is basically a bio-processor to speed up the natural breakdown of cellulose. This not only returns the carbon to the air as quickly as possible, it returns it as methane which is 80 times as potent a greenhouse gas, albeit with less persistence than CO2. The current amount of warming is now melting ancient methane ices, which is now into positive feedback. For the last 10,000 years, we have had just the right amount of ice on earth to produce the most mild, predictable weather we can have, and we built to suit it. Now, the mountain top glaciers are too small to direct the winds and rains in their old paths, and the rivers they feed are failing. Thus the news we see about many weather-related disasters.