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[Copper]

Of the top 20 cities by population I have only been to NY.

And for some reason I don't care if I never see the other 19.

Cairo or Istanbul might be interesting.

That makes me wonder how many of the 20 have been featured in a James Bond film.

[jon-nyc]

@Copper I’ve been to 8, and lived in 3.

Cairo is the only other I’d prioritize anytime soon.

[mark]

Link to video

[Doctor Phibes]

@Aqua-Letifer said in Mildly interesting:

@jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:

@George-K

We have a less picturesque version of that, burning since you were in middle school.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centralia_mine_fire

Have you been there?

I have.

Probably the closest you can get to what Hell smells like.

You should try visiting Widnes.

[Ivorythumper]

@jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:

Idiot, imbecile, and moron were, not so long ago, used in a psychological classification system, and each one was assigned to a fairly specific range of abilities.

Idiots. —Those so defective that the mental development never exceeds that or a normal child of about two years.
Imbeciles. —Those whose development is higher than that of an idiot, but whose intelligence does not exceed that of a normal child of about seven years.
Morons. —Those whose mental development is above that of an imbecile, but does not exceed that of a normal child of about twelve years.
— Edmund Burke Huey, Backward and Feeble-Minded Children, 1912

If only Larry were alive to make a comment about liberals...

[mark]

photo captures a rare sight of Hawaii’s 65-foot-tall Lava Dome

[jon-nyc]

I've seen this before but it's pretty awesome.

[jon-nyc]

After the Big Bang there were all these hydrogen atoms everywhere and 13.8 billion years later some of them are majestic nebulas and others have turned into Cheez-Its.

[George K]

@jon-nyc you expected the universe to be fair?

[Aqua Letifer]

@jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:

After the Big Bang there were all these hydrogen atoms everywhere and 13.8 billion years later some of them are majestic nebulas and others have turned into Cheez-Its.

If you don't think Cheez-Its are magnificent then I can't help you with anything.

[mark]

Elusive glass octopus spotted in the remote Pacific Ocean

Only its eyes, optic nerve and digestive tract are opaque.

This rarely seen glass octopus bared all recently — even a view of its innards — when an underwater robot filmed it gracefully soaring through the deep waters of the Central Pacific Ocean.

More details/photos https://bit.ly/3C0rFdc

[brenda]

@mark

Poor guy. He can't even hide that he's eaten the last piece of pie from the fridge.

[George K]

@brenda said in Mildly interesting:

@mark

Poor guy. He can't even hide that he's eaten the last piece of pie from the fridge.

LOL

[Catseye3]

@Aqua-Letifer said in Mildly interesting:

If you don't think Cheez-Its are magnificent then I can't help you with anything.

And to prove that Cheez-Its have elusive mystical power over all of us that defies understanding, at the very moment I was reading Jon's post, I was eating -- yes! Cheez-Its.

From a box I'd only opened when I opened this thread.

[Catseye3]

How a 680,000-pound rock was moved from Riverside to Los Angeles to form the sculpture Levitated Mass

Full story: https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-michael-heizers-herculean-effort-move-340-ton-boulder-la (One overpass the boulder later passed under in Chino left a clearance of barely six inches.)

[Catseye3]

Here's another shot:

[jon-nyc]

@Catseye3

The “how” is interesting, but the “why” is the real mystery.

[Catseye3]

@jon-nyc
Michael Heizer is an American land artist specializing in large-scale and site-specific sculptures. Working largely outside the confines of the traditional art spaces of galleries and museums, Heizer has redefined sculpture in terms of size, mass, gesture, and process. Wikipedia

[George K]

@Catseye3 said in Mildly interesting:

Working largely outside the confines of the traditional art spaces

Understatement of the day.

[Copper]

Is there a warning sign to avoid the walkway during an earthquake?

If not, some Californian will ask for it, sooner or later.