The possibilities that lie in the future are infinite. When I say โIt is our duty to remain optimists,โ this includes not only the openness of the future but also that which all of us contribute to it by everything we do: we are all responsible for what the future holds in store. Thus it is our duty, not to prophesy evil but, rather, to fight for a better world. โ Karl Popper, The Myth of the Framework (1994)
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The average cloud weighs around 1.1 million pounds (nearly half a million kg).
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"You must not compare yourself to others, and if nature has created you as a bat, you must not try to make yourself an ostrich. You consider yourself strange; you blame yourself for walking different paths than other people. That's what you need to unlearn. Gaze into the flames, gaze into the clouds, and when you hear the voices in your soul speak to you, surrender to them, and don't ask first whether this would please your teacher, or your father, or God! Doing so will ruin you."
Hermann Hesse, Demian
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"You could fit more than a thousand Earths inside Jupiter and a thousand Jupiters inside the sun" - Tim Urban.
Actually I'm not sure if Tim Urban is the one who came up with that, but I read that quote on an article written by him yesterday so here we go
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Cant even imagine how big space actually is. Welcome
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" So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itselfโnameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance."
Platypus and Echidnae are a very ancient form of mammal called monotremes. This means they have one hole to do all their business like a bird instead of more advanced mammals. They also have an archaic form of milk that they just sweat out for their young instead of true mammary glands and nipples. It really is fascinating that proto-mammals that lay eggs still exist. :)
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Quote reminded me of dota 2 terroblade voice line "Fear he who fears nothing"
Also had no idea these mammals still exist. Welcome to WL
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fun fact: Cats bring humans dead animals because they think we're bad hunters that can't survive on our own
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Also they think we are good hunters if we bring full bags when coming home. Welcome
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All the planets in the Solar System would fit between the Earth and the Moon :)
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I like to believe there are a lot of undiscovered secrets in the nature. Let's take a road for example, like in the picture.
Roads that allow people to travel to another city. You can travel hundreds and hundreds of kilometers of distance and for the most part of the time, the only scenario is the endless nature. You see forests, and grass until the end of the horizon. However, in those hundreds of kilometers traveled imagine if, in the middle of the trip, you simply decide to stop your car, and start walking in the direction of the nature. You would be in the middle of nowhere. And somewhere you might find a house hidden within the thousands of kilometers of nature, a small cave within the woods, You may find buried treasures or... bodies.
The thing is, I like to believe, that in those giant fields of nature around roads, there might be spots where no one has ever been or only in the past leaving only traces of their existence, objects, clothes, or even bones of things that lived thousands of years ago. If you dig random spots in a random forest you just walked into the middle of nowhere, you most likely will find nothing but statistically the chances are not zero. I like to believe undiscovered histories are somewhere out there.
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Well definitely there is some undiscovered places around. Welcome
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"...for Brazil to accept the French scientific thesis that a lobster would be considered a fish when it "leaps" on the seafloor, it would be required in the same way to accept the Brazilian premise that when a kangaroo "hops", it would be considered a bird."
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"We walk with each other for a part of the way." - handwritten note at the end of a random letter I found in my uncles office drawer a month after his funeral.
Science fact: A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus: Venus takes about 243 Earth days to complete one rotation, but it only takes 225 Earth days to orbit the Sun.
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Been inactive for long time, so most people from my whitelist are inactive and need some new active members. As title says, no other special reqruiments.
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