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"I’ve never fell off a big chimney. You only fall off one of them once."
#OnThisDay 1979: Extraordinary steeplejack Fred Dibnah was introduced to the nation.
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The life cycle of a monarch butterfly
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I see all the cool kids are sub stacking nowadays, so here's my first one. Available to all, but please subscribe
Comedy, Ricky Gervais, Robin Ince, Gender Ideology and where ‘the power lies’. sknight.substack.com/p/comed…
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Watch this endless river of bats emerging from this cave
This is Cueva de los Murciélagos in Mexico
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If you held a grain of sand up to the sky at arm’s length, that tiny speck is the size of Webb’s view in this image. Imagine — galaxies galore within a grain, including light from galaxies that traveled billions of years to us!
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👀 Sneak a peek at the deepest & sharpest infrared image of the early universe ever taken — all in a day’s work for the Webb telescope. (Literally, capturing it took less than a day!) This is Webb’s first image released as we begin to #UnfoldTheUniverse: nasa.gov/webbfirstimages/
ALT The background of space is black. Thousands of galaxies appear all across the view. Their shapes and colors vary. Some are various shades of orange, others are white. Most stars appear blue, and are sometimes as large as more distant galaxies that appear next to them. A very bright star is just above and left of center. It has eight bright blue, long diffraction spikes. Between 4 o’clock and 6 o’clock in its spikes are several very bright galaxies. A group of three are in the middle, and two are closer to 4 o’clock. These galaxies are part of the galaxy cluster SMACS 0723, and they are warping the appearances of galaxies seen around them. Long orange arcs appear at left and right toward the center.
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Look at the wings of this fly
It’s called Goniurellia tridens, and each wing has a detailed image of an ant, most of its predators would want to avoid a confrontation with the painful stings of ants 1/🧵
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It’s a good job watching comedy & listening to podcasts isn’t compulsory, otherwise we’d see a lot of complaining I imagine.
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I can't stop watching. This scene is close to miraculous. So rare to witness a genius creating something entirely new. And it's all on tape.
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The existence of such power should give us pause, make us look at ourselves. We are not Taliban, but could our minds be taken over by powerful delusions of our own? Might we be sincerely and honestly deluded without knowing it? How could we tell? By scientific critical thinking.
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The power that religion is capable of exerting over the human mind is monstrous. So powerful it can make even obvious evil, like that of the Taliban, seem righteous to the perpetrators. They sincerely believe God approves their cruelty, honestly believe they are heaven-bound.
