me, to my friend, out of no where: You know whats fucked uP? the volcanology scale. Have i told you about the volcanic explosivity index?
my friend: no? What?!
me: Isnt it fun how catastrophic is only the halfway point on this exponential scale of eruption severity
“Most news outlets are only showing the blurry zoomed in picture of the black hole so I’m posting the entire zoomed-out image of the black hole and everything it is consuming. The tiny black spec in this image is 6.5 billion times the size of our sun. This thing is HUGE.” Dan Farr
cats are so beautiful and loving…. when they paw at you and ask u to pet them.. when they purr and close their eyes in content… a warm loaf … when they knead on you… thinking YOU are the bread… stupid… they are the bread… i love cats… so much….
“nothing to see here.” - The Field Museum of Natural History
museums are giving us quality quarantine content
GUYS, I HIT THE JACKPOT. So my department is in the midst of organizing all the stuff and we’re getting rid of a bunch of rocks that we’ve had lying around in bins and LOOK WHAT I FOUND. It’s a copper ore, specifically a bornite (Cu5FeS4) vein. For reference, bornite is the peacock ore, and it’s even prettier in person than in the pic. I remember collecting little pieces of bornite from rock grab bags when I was a kid, but this piece is HUGE!
I miss doing microscope work. Can we make a thread of our favourite thin section? This is mine
Actinolite Schist
I miss doing microscope work. Can we make a thread of our favourite thin section? This is mine
Actinolite Schist
growth of a seed
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Locality: Tharsis, Alosno, Huelva, Andalusia, Spain.
Specimen size: 40 x 20 mm. Extracted 1988
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