Where Animal Poop Is Turning into Deadly Ammonia Pollution
This map of atmospheric ammonia fluxes based on 9 years of satellite data shows 242 ammonia hot spots (surrounded by black circles) and 178 wider emission zones (framed by white rectangles). According to a new study, about two thirds of these hot spots were previously unknown.
CT scans of a 30-year old calcified fetus inside the uterus of a 73-year old woman
This phenomenon is called Lithopedion, which means “stone baby”. It
occurs after an abnormal pregnancy and death of the fetus, when for some
reason it is retained by the mother’s body. The fetus is too big to be
reabsorbed, so it gets calcified by the mother’s body, to shield her
from the dead tissue. This is extremely rare (Source)
Point Nemo is the furthest point from land on Earth. Its officially known as the oceanic point of inaccessibility and is located in the center of the triangle made by Ducie Island, Motu Nui (Eastern Island Chain) and Maher Island near Antartica. It’s so far from land that the closest humans to Point Nemo are actually astronauts.
Shock diamonds in rocket engine exhaust. Shock diamonds are a formation of standing wave patterns that appears in the supersonic exhaust plume of an aerospace propulsion system
Let’s say someone is looking for porn and they put “wife caught her husband cheating,” into Google. There are a lot of porn sites (and some news sites) with that title. So Google has to decide which order to show them in, because most of the time, people pick something off the first few pages of Google.
Google wants to have the very best “wife caught her husband cheating” (or whatever else you search for) sites on the first page of the search. Google has several ways to try and decide which site are the best, but one of them is that it looks at how popular it is by seeing how many other websites link to it. If a lot of other sites are linking to it, it was probably useful to them, so Google will put it on the front page.
So if I’m a sleazy pornsite owner, I could create like a thousand websites and make them all link to my “wife caught her husband cheating” site, and act like a whole bunch of different websites thought it was pretty great. They’d be like “xdfgt .com”, “xdfgy .com”, “xdfgh .com,” just nonsense addresses nobody else was using, or whatever. I’d try to make Google think my site was awesome, because all these other websites are linking to it.
But Google has already caught on to that. Google would know “xdfgt .com” was a crappy fake website, because nobody else is linking to “xdfgt .com”. Any website that is only linked to by crap websites is also crap, as far as Google is concerned. Google won’t put it on the first pages of search results.
So instead let’s imagine the sleazy pornsite owner creates a thousand fake tumblrs instead, like “xdfgt.tumblr .com” and “xdfgy.tumblr .com” and “xdfgh.tumblr .com” and just puts one or two posts on them to add links to the “wife caught her husband cheating” porn site. Google can still tell those tumblrs are crap websites, because nobody else is linking to them. But the difference is … on tumblr, the sleazy pornsite owner can make your website link to him.
Let’s say your tumblr is “mostlyaestheticandfunny.tumblr .com”. If “xdfgt.tumblr .com” likes one of your posts, there’s link on your blogto “xdfgt.tumblr .com.” Somewhere on “mostlyaestheticandfunny.tumblr .com” it will say “xdfgt liked this” with a link from your blog to “xdfgt.tumblr .com.”
Google’s bot looks at “mostlyaestheticandfunny.tumblr .com” and it sees that your blog is a good website. People are linking to it (talking to you or reblogging from you), you write like an actual human being, you have nice pictures, you update sometimes, you aren’t a bot. So Google decides your blog isn’t a crappy scam website. Then it sees the link to “xdfgt.tumblr .com” and it thinks “oh hey, a nice website with good stuff written by a real human linked to this “xdfgt.tumblr .com” I guess maybe “xdfgt.tumblr .com” is a decent website too.”
Then it looks at “xdfgt.tumblr .com” and it sees the link to the porn site with “wife caught her husband cheating”, and it says, “well, I guess that “wife caught her husband cheating” site is a good site. I know that because there’s a good site linking to it here at “xdfgt.tumblr .com.” I know “xdfgt.tumblr .com” is a good site because “mostlyaestheticandfunny.tumblr .com” linked to it, and I know “mostlyaestheticandfunny.tumblr .com” is a good site because it is updated and writes like a real person and people talk to it and link to it.”
So basically the porn bots are using the fact that you have a good blog to make themselves look better and to try and trick Google’s bot into thinking they’re very popular and it should put them at the top of its list when people search Google for porn.
It’s really annoying! It would be really nice if the people running tumblr figured out a way to not be free advertising for every sleazy porn site on the internet
hey wow thats actually really useful! and its written in a way that i (a bird with no knowledge of the wizardly internal workings of a website) can understand!
One of my favourite anecdotes about the first Golden Age of Piracy is that, at one point, Captain Henry Morgan left England in one ship, and arrived in the Caribbean commanding a completely different ship, and nobody knows why. What happened to the first ship and how he acquired the second one are entirely unrecorded.
At some point in his short career (1715 until 1718), the English pirate Ben Hornigold attacked a sloop near Honduras just to steal all the hats of the crew, because his own crew had gotten drunk the night before and they had tossed every single one of their own hats overboard.
Bartholomew Roberts, arguably the most successful pirate in history by ships captured (a whopping 470 in 3 years), didn’t actually want to be a pirate. His ship was captured and he was forced to join the pirate crew.
Like the Tibetan monks, Indian Yogis seem to have an unusual talent
for manipulating their physiological processes while in deep meditation.
After hearing stories of yogis spending 28 days underground and
surviving, in 1936, a French cardiologist named Therese Brosse
traveled to India to see if the yogis truly did have such talents. In
her experiments, the yogis reportedly slowed their heart down so slow
that it was only detectable via an EKG machine.
In the 1950s Brosse’s study was expanded by another group of
researchers who traveled through India with an eight-channel
electro-encephalograph and various other instruments, which they used to
monitor the yogis’ brain activity, respirations, skin temperature,
blood-volume changes, and skin conductance. Two of their test subjects
were placed in air-tight sealed boxes, on two separate occasions, and
were monitored for 8 to 10 hours. During that time the Yogis showed
biological characteristics similar to sleep and were able to slow down
their heart rate and respiration to low enough levels that oxygen and
carbon dioxide quantities inside the box remained virtually in the same
proportions as found in air at sea level. Thus, it was shown that by
slowing down their bodily processes and not panicking (as most would do)
the Yogis could survive a live-burial for far longer than the average
person, possibly even weeks longer. (Source)
🔥 There is beauty in destruction🔥 