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The deep sea is radical. Two miles below the surface and not yet to the bottom, this Paraphyllina sp. jellyfish hovers in the vastness of inner-space. At home in the dark water world that covers most of the planet, the beautiful, bizarre beasties that the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) discovers in our backyard give us sunlit surface-dwellers a run for what it means to be an “Earthling.”

My hobbies include

petting my cat

holding my cat

burying my face in my cat

kissing my cat

meowing at my cat

Bad Gastein, Salzburg, Austria by Johann 50

Big trays of fossil sea urchins

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it is starting to bloom outside!!! smell like earth and worms!! the grass is tall and awake!!! flowers are here and scattered everywhere!!! it’s raining and humid and fresh!!! i know i say this every other day!!! i love!!! spring!!!

Derwentwater, Lake District, England by Peter Wilman

Barnes and Nobles is gonna start serving food and alcohol.

Everybody’s cracking jokes about how it’s a desperate attempt to stay relevant in the age of Amazon.

But you know what? Props to them. This is exactly what Blockbuster didn’t do. At no point was Blockbuster like “Hey, movie rentals aren’t the lucrative enterprise they once were. Perhaps it’s time we become known for our cheesy garlic bread.”

i love cats. like we as a species just really go out of our way to obtain fat little house goblins in the hopes that they will occasionally acknowledge us

This world isn't ready for geocore. This world can't handle it. It's too powerful. Imagine turning every aspect of geology and geologists into a fun aesthetic... All the nerdy rock puns, sciencey bits, dirt digging, bone and stone hoarding glory of geology turned into a fun little collection of pics and beautiful writing to perfectly capture the feelings of geology.

We can make beautiful poetry about the gorgeous array of colors inside a single stone or silly little ones like "hot hot rock, rock so hot, bake on it potatoe tot". Y'all. Geocore would fucking slap as an aesthetic thing. It'd be like normal geology but with more.

What can you see from the space station? Can you see stars, the moon and sun, and Earth weather like lightening storms?