The View From Space

[fakescience]

[earthstory]

Weird methane bubbles under the Siberian Tundra

Its not just large craters being caused by methane blowouts in the boreal regions of the globe (see http://bit.ly/29Qtoq7 for photos of the large craters that have appeared in Siberia), as revealed by this video recently published by the Siberian Times. A tract of grass and soil is underlain by a bubble of gas, making it float above the frozen matter beneath and bounce around like a trampoline. The research team found 15 such blisters in their survey of Belyy Island sits in the Arctic Ocean’s Kara Sea, a long running site for research into the changing climate up north (see http://bit.ly/2a62ppE for a summary).

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Song Without a Name (Reprise) - Chapter 17 - LadyYateXel - Johnny the Homicidal Maniac [Archive of Our Own]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Organization for Transformative Works

[ladyyatexel]

Chapters: 17/?
Fandom: Johnny the Homicidal Maniac
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Johnny “Nny” C./Edgar Vargas, Devi D./Tenna
Characters: Edgar Vargas, Devi D., Jimmy “Mmy”, Johnny “Nny” C., Tenna
Additional Tags: Songfic, AU, Rewrite, Asexual Character, Asexuality
Series: Part 3 of Song Without A Name
Summary:

Sharing a bit of a personal experiment in rewriting ‘Song Without A Name’, a fanfic I began writing in 2004. It will eventually go through the whole story (just getting there differently!).

Murder, memories, mirrors, home invasions and sleepovers.

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For those of you interested in such things, here is more of this!  Things have to get horrible before they get better.  And then sometimes they only look better.

[ladyyatexel]

@reinstall-existence: #YES GOOD#didn’t Edgar vomit when he first heard his song in the original? Or am i confused? It’s been a while#dude i love swan so much

He did!  Though it was more the overwhelming context of his situation (which was intense and random and rather gross) combined with having this new thing than the song itself.  

Besides, he threw up more than enough before the song happened, he deserved a break, haha

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(via Women’s Fashion Sports Shoes Breathable Mesh Casual Hollow Mesh Running Shoes | eBay)

[earthstory]

Rome’s volcano is slowly stirring

The Alban hills sit some 30km outside Rome, and much of the tuff (consolidated volcanic ash) used to build in the Eternal City was quarried here in this volcanic field (an area with lots of small eruptions of varied types spread over time rather than a repeatedly built up and exploded cone shaped peak and crater system) out of the remnants of a series of eruptions that ended some 36,000 years ago.

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petepaintswarhammer asked:

Do you have a guilty pleasure model... One that's stupidly powerful and looked down upon that you still like to use. Or conversely something that's useless on the tabletop but you still use for reasons?

jakey-beefed-it answered:

Oh man do I ever.

The champ of “looked down upon but I still like it” has to be my Wraithknight. I modeled that thing really well and I painted it nicely, too, I want to show it off! Doesn’t hurt that it’s a jump gargantuan creature with a melee Destructor weapon and lots of stomps to kick over people’s main battle tanks. >.>

 Howling Banshees are regarded as pretty useless. I maintain that they’re not bad, they just aren’t competitive with the rest of the badass options in the Eldar codex. But I usually field a squad of 9 on foot anyhow, just because they’re a useful dancing bear for people to pour all their anti-infantry fire into. This leaves my windriders a freer hand. Alternately, if people do ignore the Banshees, they tend to charge something and make it into beef stroganoff. So that’s fun. 

The other guilty pleasure models on that score are probably my Stormraven (gets shot down alarmingly often for something that’s usually transporting my warlord, my most expensive squad, AND a venerable dreadnought) and my venerable dreadnought. Poor old Dread Brother Vannheim gets popped nine games out of ten the very turn he shows up and lays down the heavy flamer/assault cannon pain and he so rarely gets to actually charge things… but he really wants to get closer to the enemy and SQUISH them in his huge metal fists. And whenever he actually does get to smash something, it makes the game SO MUCH more fun for me, even if I lose. Because Vannheim got to CRUSH something.

[humanoidhistory]

Standing Shiva or temple guardian (dvarapala), 10th century, Kingdom of Champa (Vietnam). From the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art: “Located on a major sea route between India and China, Champa, in the central part of Vietnam, played an important role in early Southeast Asian history. This rare sculpture, which may represent either a temple guardian or the Hindu god Shiva, shows the rugged sculpting and distinctive physiognomy, particularly the prominent mustache, that typify the art of the Chams. He wears a short wrap, which features a long front pocket with an oblique upward curve, and a sash. He carries a rosary in his left hand and a club or trident in his right. An early tenth-century date is suggested by stylistic parallels to sculptures in contemporaneous buildings at Mi Son, an important site dedicated to Shiva, as well as further southeast at Khoung My.“

(Metropolitan Museum of Art)

[hinducosmos]

Rani-ki-Vav (the Queen’s Stepwell) - Top View
Patan in Gujarat, India
Photographer: Dushyant Patel (via 500px.com)

Rani-ki-Vav, on the banks of the Saraswati River, was initially built as a memorial to a king in the 11th century AD. Stepwells are a distinctive form of subterranean water resource and storage systems on the Indian subcontinent, and have been constructed since the 3rd millennium BC.
It was added to the list of UNESCO’s World Heritage Sites on 22 June 2014. unesco.org