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[George K]

https://dinopedia.fandom.com/wiki/Quetzalcoatlus

Quetzalcoatlus northropi is the largest known animal to have ever been able to fly. When it was first discovered, scientists estimated that the fossil came from a pterosaur with a wingspan of up to 45 feet (13.7 meters), choosing the middle between three extrapolations from the proportions of other pterosaurs that gave an estimate of 40, 50 and 70 feet respectively. in 1981, a further study showed that this estimate was too large, and lowered the estimated wingspan to 50 feet (15 meters). More recently, the wingspan estimated has been reduced yet again, this time to 36 feet (10.9 meters).

[mark]

Lightning in a volcanic eruption from Chile.

[Aqua Letifer]

@mark said in Mildly interesting:

Lightning in a volcanic eruption from Chile.

Epic long exposure.

[jon-nyc]

[jon-nyc]

From the Wikipedia article on Arturo Toscanini:

At the end of his final season with the Metropolitan Opera in May 1915, Toscanini was set to return to Europe aboard the doomed RMS Lusitania, but instead cut his concert schedule short and left a week early, aboard the Italian liner Duca degli Abruzzi.

[mark]

Eruption on Mount Etna (Sicily) gives the illusion of a Phoenix in the sky.

[jon-nyc]

You see size comparisons all the time but this shows tilt and rotation speed too.

[Aqua Letifer]

@mark said in Mildly interesting:

Eruption on Mount Etna (Sicily) gives the illusion of a Phoenix in the sky.

Or more appropriately Smaug but y'know whatever.

[jon-nyc]

[mark]

@Aqua-Letifer said in Mildly interesting:

@mark said in Mildly interesting:

Eruption on Mount Etna (Sicily) gives the illusion of a Phoenix in the sky.

Or more appropriately Smaug but y'know whatever.

Yes! Of course!

[mark]

@jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:

Cool!

[Copper]

@mark said in Mildly interesting:

@jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:
Mercury is so dense an iron anvil floats in it.

Cool, and by the same token I assume it would float on Mr. Biden.

[Copper]

Who remembers the 1986 Oldsmobile Incas?

[George K]

@Copper said in Mildly interesting:

Who remembers the 1986 Oldsmobile Incas?

God, you're old.

[Copper]

It reminds me a little of the Isuzu Impulse I owned around that time, it had a similar fancy dashboard

[Ivorythumper]

[George K]

@Ivorythumper this is something, in all my years, that I never thought about.

Thanks for fulfilling my life.

[Horace]

@George-K said in Mildly interesting:

@Ivorythumper this is something, in all my years, that I never thought about.

Thanks for fulfilling my life.

It would be nice to imagine the vomit force being due to a rifling action of the neck, but alas, it's just boring ol' gravity.

[George K]

@Horace said in Mildly interesting:

It would be nice to imagine the vomit force being due to a rifling action of the neck, but alas, it's just boring ol' gravity.

As someone who, presumably, has never had someone literally vomit into your (unmasked) face*, you have no standing to comment in this thread, @Horace.

*1993, Sunday afternoon, ICU. Yeah, that was more than special.

[Horace]

@George-K said in Mildly interesting:

@Horace said in Mildly interesting:

It would be nice to imagine the vomit force being due to a rifling action of the neck, but alas, it's just boring ol' gravity.

As someone who, presumably, has never had someone literally vomit into your (unmasked) face*, you have no standing to comment in this thread, @Horace.

*1993, Sunday afternoon, ICU. Yeah, that was more than special.

On the bright side, it's not the worst way to get acid thrown on your face.