Mildly interesting

[jon-nyc]

@Horace lol

[Horace]

Living his best life

[Doctor Phibes]

@Horace that's awesome. I love the look she gave him at the end.

[George K]

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

[jon-nyc]

@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

[Aqua Letifer]

@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.

When I was there, there was a decent layer of snow on the ground. ...Except for the patches where the sulfur was heating up the ground, which was about half the town. That was bare.

[jon-nyc]

Cool visualization.

[George K]

[George K]

[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