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  • jon-nycJ 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.

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    @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.

    Please love yourself.

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      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

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        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

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        @mark

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

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          @mark

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

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          @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

          "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

          The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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            @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.

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            @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.

            Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace. – Mike Ditka

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

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              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.)

              Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace. – Mike Ditka

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                Here's another shot:

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                Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace. – Mike Ditka

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                  Here's another shot:

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                  @Catseye3

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

                  Only non-witches get due process.

                  • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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                  • jon-nycJ jon-nyc

                    @Catseye3

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

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                    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

                    Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace. – Mike Ditka

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                      @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

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                      @Catseye3 said in Mildly interesting:

                      Working largely outside the confines of the traditional art spaces

                      Understatement of the day.

                      "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                      The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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

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

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                          Striped Icebergs in Antarctica Look Like Candy
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                            New salt-grain sized micro camera

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                            https://www.freethink.com/hard-tech/salt-grain-micro-camera?utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=echobox_freethink&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR2ueitg7HjAoGNXUyHPu9yyWDTlDuW-6b6YwzaBuo3v1uJ1zLk16wm28sc#Echobox=1671224925

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                              @jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:

                              @Catseye3

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

                              I think you'd get it if you walked underneath it.

                              Please love yourself.

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                                So the Beatles ended at the Polynesian Resort at Disneyworld

                                Today in 1974, while vacationing with Julian at Walt Disney World's Polynesian Village Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, May Pang photographed John adding his signature to those of George, Paul and Ringo on a mass of documents dissolving The Beatles' partnership.

                                10 days earlier, after Ringo had already signed in the UK, John had failed to seal the deal with Paul and George in New York because "the stars aren't right".

                                Now, at the urging of an Apple lawyer, John was ready.

                                “Take out your camera,” he told May before calling his own attorney, Harold Seider, to go over some final points.

                                "When John hung up the phone, he looked wistfully out the window," May would recall. "I could almost see him replaying the entire Beatles experience in his mind."

                                Eventually, he picked up the pen - and, in Goons parlance, The Beatles were "deaded".

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                                Link to video

                                https://www.facebook.com/BuskinWithTheBeatles

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                                  New salt-grain sized micro camera

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                                  https://www.freethink.com/hard-tech/salt-grain-micro-camera?utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=echobox_freethink&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR2ueitg7HjAoGNXUyHPu9yyWDTlDuW-6b6YwzaBuo3v1uJ1zLk16wm28sc#Echobox=1671224925

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                                  @mark said in Mildly interesting:

                                  New salt-grain sized micro camera

                                  alt text

                                  https://www.freethink.com/hard-tech/salt-grain-micro-camera?utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=echobox_freethink&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR2ueitg7HjAoGNXUyHPu9yyWDTlDuW-6b6YwzaBuo3v1uJ1zLk16wm28sc#Echobox=1671224925

                                  "Makes it even easier and faster to lose it," says hubby.

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                                    Only non-witches get due process.

                                    • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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                                      @jon-nyc "i love how no matter what continent you are in, you cannot escape the horror of France"

                                      "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                                      The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                                        "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                                        The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                                          Ten examples of prohibited baby names reportedly include King, Queen, Jesus Christ, III, Santa Claus, Majesty, Adolf Hitler, Messiah, the symbol @ and 1069.

                                          I went to high school with a guy named King. He set the state scoring record in basketball, so it worked for him.

                                          https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/baby-names-reportedly-banned-america-what-to-know

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