Supermoon Rises Behind a Tree — Nikolakakos Panagiotis
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Min Jeong Seo - To Live On, 2005
The stalks these flowers are already dried up but their blossoms are preserved and kept fresh by the medical infusion bags. The life-span of every living creature is limited.The infusion bags stand for the progress in medicine and the prolongation of human life.They somehow carry an ambivalent message as they refer to both death and life an the same time. Both states are immanent here. To preserve the beauty of the flowers artificially with the help of the infusion bags points out man’s inclination to repress the fact having to die and to postpone death.
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There’s something wonderfully serene about watching water droplets skate their way across the surface of a pool. Here the pool of water is being vibrated at a frequency just below the Faraday instability - meaning that no standing waves form on the surface. Instead, the bounce is just enough to create a thin layer of air between the droplet and the pool to prevent coalescence. With each bounce, gravity’s effect on the water tries to drain the air away, but each rebound lets more air rush in to hold the droplet up. Eventually, gravity wins and the droplets coalesce into the pool. In high-speed that process is mesmerizing, too. (Video credit: K. Welch)
They just kind of blip out of existence.
Hot smokestack exhaust streams in the harsh wind across a central Asian winter landscape.
This is not a monster holding hands with a little girl. This is Adolf Hitler, a man, holding hands with a little girl. Yeah. It’s freaking scary. It really is. Do you know why? It’s because you’re seeing that he wasn’t, in fact, a monster. You’re seeing in this picture that he was a man. He was a man, and that’s really the saddest part of it all.
NO I’M PRETTY SURE THE SADDEST PART WAS THE GENOCIDE
What the fuck am I reading? That’s all you need to wave off someone’s atrocities nowadays? Pic of them holding the hand of a little girl?
You don’t write off genocide. All these Hitler lovers are tiring as hell pulling stunts like this. Like how do you first sympathize with a killer before you even acknowledge the killed. All this psychopathic killer glorification and victimisation is so fucking corny.
I don’t think that’s the point being made. Of course the Holocaust was an atrocity. Of course genocide is bad. But this picture is doing something different. It’s focusing on the man. Hitler was a man. A man capable of committing the unspeakable. It’s a comment on the human condition and the thin line between good and evil. Hitler might have had a capacity to love but was also able to promote such evil in the world. So yes, the genocide is certainly the saddest part on the larger scale. But on the smaller, more personal scale, it’s upsetting to try and understand how a human being had the ability to embody both love and pure hatred. We all posses the capacity for both. Hitler just represents an extreme case.
Here’s my concern: who gives a flying fuck about the smaller, more personal scale though? Like what’s the point of trying to take Hitler out of the context of genocide? What are you doing? Just stop. You can’t just focus on his humanity without dealing with his history and deeds.
Hitler was another racist asshat like any other, aint nothing special about him worth being defended and presented in this way and if you are you better also talk about his shittiness. You want to understand psychos like him? study some racism, it’s what made him. You have better chances of an insightful look at him by understanding and bringing up racism than you would by trying to understand how much of a human he was capable of being. Fuck out of here with all of this nonsense.
You have to give a fuck about the smaller scale because we live it every day. No one lives in the big scale of their lives. What this person is trying to do it make you realize that yes, Adolf Hitler was a human being, and so are you, look at what we are, and what we have the ability of becoming. Hitler had some good, he also had some bad, and you are the same way.
Yeah, a gentle picture of Hitler does not negate the fact that he killed millions of people, it just portrays a human.
And being a “racist asshat” does not dehumanize a person, nor does murder or genocide.
“If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it’s your duty to be reduced to ashes by it. Any other form of existence will be yet another dull book in the library of life.”
—Charles Bukowski
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If Earth Had Rings
First off, they would be really pretty to look at. They would also dominate the sky in both night and day at exactly the same place as they would never rise nor set. And at night you would see the Earth’s shadow swing across the rings, like in the 4th photo here.
However, life would be very different on Earth if this were the case. Nocturnal animals would have a hard time being nocturnal, as the light reflecting from the rings would illuminate the night.
Because we are closer to the Sun than Saturn is, the rings would be more rocky than ice, making them less bright but still pretty bright. In fact, you would see far less stars at night (living anywhere other than the equator or the arctic circle) because of the light pollution and not to mention ruin most meteor showers because of that.
During the day the rings would block sunlight in certain regions of the planet creating wild weather cycles and effecting plant life as well. So basically, they would be definitely pretty to look at but they would also make a whole lot of things screwy.
Illustrations by Ron Miller // io9
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Rare Nacreous Clouds
Also called polar stratospheric clouds or mother of pearl clouds, nacreous clouds are mostly visible within two hours after sunset or before dawn. They blaze unbelievably bright with vivid, iridescent colors. These clouds are rare and occur in the polar stratosphere at altitudes of 15,000–25,000 meters. They are so bright because at those heights, they are still sunlit.
Although incredibly beautiful, they have a negative impact on our atmosphere. They create ozone holes by supporting chemical reactions that produce active chlorine which catalyzes ozone destruction.
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