this blog is a visual notebook of inspirations for a group of bandit bloggers. we post things we see and like. our lives don’t revolve around singular topics and neither does our blog. sorry! nothing is in-or-out of context here. enjoy xx
very fascinating, especially given the knowledge that a comet will intersect earth at some point in the future. perhaps this will not occur in our lifetime, but certainly within a few hundred years.
the event, known as the tunguska event or tunguska explosion, was a powerful mysterious explosion in 1908 that occurred near the tunguska river in what is now krasnoyarsk krai in russia. although the cause of the explosion is the subject of debate to this date, it is commonly believed to have been caused by the air burst of a large meteoroid or comet fragment at an altitude of 5–10 kilometers above the earth’s surface. the explosion registered on seismic stations across eurasia. in some places, the shock wave would have been equivalent to an earthquake of 5.0 on the richter scale. what’s more, is that it produced fluctuations in atmospheric pressure strong enough to be detected in great britain. more recent discoveries here. by dd
one of ivan’s, and our favorite blogs, the JJJJound blog from montreal, canada.
yours truely, tomorrow started, from a planet not so far away
keehnan konyha the 2thewalls blog
ivan terestchenko has been gathering and posting his favorite bloggers pads for all to see. it is a very personal approach to a very faceless hobby. here are 2 of our favs and one we are rather familiar with. check out ivans blog for this and much more. by dd
“why can’t I see them now?” is the daughter’s question that’s said to have inspired edwin land to devise the instant camera eventually produced by his polaroid corporation. the camera was announced in 1947 and hit the market in 1948. sixty years later (2008) the company stopped production of its film-based cameras and then of its self-developing film. the last polaroid film expired on October 9 2009. by bh
can you pronounce the above number? i always wondered what a trillion looked like? now we know, its a 1 plus 12 zeros. the above number is 1.3 trillion and reflects the current US national debt (currently at 1.239 and rising). the deficit is the fiscal year difference between what the United States Government takes in from taxes and other revenues, called receipts, and the amount of money the Government spends. we got one lousy bookkeeper if you ask me. to understand that, here’s a breakdown: estimated population of the United States is 307,620,632 so if each person was to pitch in to payoff this debt today that would be approximately $39,940.93 per person including children (born) and elderly (alive). everyone.
one family name looks suspiciously linked to the red lines on this chart
now in case you are interested i was shocked to find out they actually have a place for you to send your check : “how to make contribution to reduce the debt: make your check payable to the bureau of the public debt, and in the memo section, notate that it is a gift to reduce the debt held by the public. mail your check to: Attn Dept G, Bureau of the Public Debt, P. O. Box 2188, Parkersburg, WV 26106-2188”… can you believe that? by jb
“any advertisement in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. it belongs to you. it’s yours to take, re-arrange, and re-use.
asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.”
– banksy
o.k. this has to be the funniest take on the self-obsessed poser of the century, hilarious. the only thing this blog lacks is perfectly composed/cropped/edited pictures of the owner plastered around in seemingly “unaware moments” pondering life in general and his gargantuan tasks ahead of him, otherwise dead on. one of the posts on the catorialist reads:
“you may remember the first shot I did of burnie a couple of months ago. at the time, i did not know her name nor anything else about her but i was taken by her overall look (little did i know of that which she was capable!) i found her this time enjoying the sun on a warm los angeles morning walking seemingly without a care in the world.” by zz
“the magnetic field inside the earth is turning independently at a rate different from that of the earth. during a potential reversal, the magnetic field does not vanish. they just gets more complicated. a south magnetic pole might emerge over africa, for instance, or a north pole over tahiti.” you can throw away your compasses now.
this is not the sci-fi film you watched last weekend, its NASA and BBC reporting: “the earth’s magnetic field is changing: compass needles in Africa are drifting about 1 degree per decade. this shift has accelerated in the recent years and at this rate there could be a complete reversal of earths poles.” what would that mean for it inhabitants? the poles continued to shift during the 20th century, at an average speed of 10 km per year, in recent years accelerating to 40 km per year. at this rate the north pole will exit north america and reach siberia in just a few decades.
in case your plan B was to escape using your miles on virgin galactic here’s some bad weather reports from mars: “data from NASA’s mars global surveyor and odyssey missions revealed that the carbon dioxide “ice caps” near mars’ south pole are diminishing for three summers in a row.”
the magnetic fields on earth have completely reversed in the past. meaning the north and the south poles swap places. such reversals are recorded in the magnetism of ancient rocks. they come at irregular intervals averaging about 300,000 years; the last one was 780,000 years ago. sounds like its about time?
some background: “james ross located the pole for the first time in 1831 after an exhausting arctic journey during which his ship got stuck in the ice for four years. no one returned until the next century. In 1904, 73 years later, roald amundsen found the pole again and discovered that it had moved–at least 50 km since the days of Ross. 50 km in 70+ years.” and now 40k in just 1 year. yikes!!! lady gaga seems like a real important topic suddenly!!! excerpts from www.nasa.gov. also see BBC: is the earth preparing to flip? by dd
it’s a topic no one wants to deal with, but we all have to, eventually. recycling, saving whales, forests, carbon foot print, organic, oil, water, jesus, micheal jackson… nothing will help unless this is addressed in some way. Ooouch! by xy
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