The awesome grandeur of nature

[spywareonya 37,961]

2 hours ago, steve25805 said:

Even on very small scales, nature can look awesome. This - believe it or not - is a microscopically close up view of a strawberry......

one of my favourite berries!!!

this picture summons a lot of reflections: things seen from a most visceral perspective can be scary, while indeed, after the initial shock, they are just delicious!!!!

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2 hours ago, steve25805 said:

It would be a struggle to regard this as in any way beautiful, but in it's way it is still awesome.

This is what an ant actually looks like in a microscopic close up....

I saw something of this myself back in college

it's Amazing, scary but impressive

Nature at its core is so wild, yet so  elegant...

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2 hours ago, steve25805 said:

A supernova remnant.....

It is worth reflecting that all stars pretty much function by converting hydrogen into helium via nuclear fusion. Towards the end of their lives most normal stars like our sun might convert  helium into some carbon, but that is about the end of the line in terms of matter conversion for most stars. But massive stars can attain such huge temperatures in their cores that they can convert carbon into ever heavier elements, right up to and including iron. These stars then explode in massive supernovae. All elements heavier than carbon, as well as most carbon itself, were created in such massive stars, whilst all elements heavier than iron were created in the extreme conditions of the actual supernova explosion itself, which scatters these elements across the universe. The oxygen we breathe, the water we drink, the rock and metal that our planet itself is formed from, and most of the substance that makes up our own bodies, was all created in such massive stars which went supernova. And the gold which makes up the jewellery we often yearn for, and upon which the wealth of nations is in part based, was created in the actual explosions of supernovas themselves. We owe our very existence - and the existence of our planet - to supernova eruptions billions of years ago, scattering the stuff we and our world was formed from throughout the galaxy and universe.

 

That is indeed awesome to ponder.

 

 

we are stardust

inherintance of dead lights

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2 hours ago, steve25805 said:

The Arizona meteor crater......

amazing

the power such an impact deploy is really mind-rocking

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2 hours ago, steve25805 said:

Now for the awwww factor. Some very young kittens.....

AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!😍

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2 hours ago, steve25805 said:

Woolly Mammoths.

During the last ice age we shared the planet with these creatures. In fact we used to hunt and eat them.....

rehunting them had been the first activity that forced little families to band into tribes

necessity, and violence, can make love to pop up

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2 hours ago, steve25805 said:

A fox.

This is the only naturally living wild canine living in the UK today. The last wolves were killed off here many centuries ago....

 

the arctic fox is my totem...

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1 hour ago, steve25805 said:

The white cliffs of Dover.....

 

one of the trademark marvels of England

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1 hour ago, steve25805 said:

A waterfall in the Amazon rainforest....

this is marvellous

the Amazonian Rainforest holds so many mysteries... scientist were ridiculized for adfirming they found a little dinosaur footprint not older than 100 000 years ago... sincerily speaking I believe them... little dinosaurs, smaller than modern varanoes, could have survived without problems...

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1 hour ago, steve25805 said:

This almost looks like a scene from every 1950s Hollywood western I have ever seen, lol......

 

Spectacular, though.

USA territory had Always been filled with incredibly powerful energies, that is why Natives were so spiritual, yet modern americans are so aggressive

they do not tap into it with a pure heart!!! (obviously exceptions)

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1 hour ago, steve25805 said:

Another view from the surface of Mars...

life was born there, according to most modern, ans kept hidden, researches

but its oceans were not real oceans, only seas, isolated, no DNA Exchange, so life there did not went past bacteria

when the Sun finally erased its weak atmosphere, some rocks were detached during the final scorching,  and fell on Earth, where that DNA formed new living bacteria, who this time thrived

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1 hour ago, steve25805 said:

Surfing a huge wave.......

 

I think I'd rather take my chances with the charging elephant in an earlier pic, lol.

 

a nobody now earn 30 000$ per month to simply got interviewed because a lot of years ago he survived a tsunami by surfing it,  not simply a huge wave, a tsunami, so very quick and violent 60 feet tall

 

danger breeds greatness

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Wolfe Creek, 300,000 years ago, 50,000 tonnes at 15 km per second. It would have made some echoes ring.

 

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1 hour ago, Scot_Lover said:

Wolfe Creek, 300,000 years ago, 50,000 tonnes at 15 km per second. It would have made some echoes ring.

 

incredible

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Fly Geyser, in Nevada......

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A giant tortoise.....

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25 minutes ago, steve25805 said:

Fly Geyser, in Nevada......

the look like plump big-breasted women blowing steam off of their heads!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

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21 minutes ago, steve25805 said:

A giant tortoise.....

Giant Tortoise of the Galapagos Islands

they are intelligent and love roasted meat

can live up to 300 years...

thank you for posting this....

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These flowers are confused by the cold, girls seen this on an early morning walk.

 

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1 minute ago, Scot_Lover said:

These flowers are confused by the cold, girls seen this on an early morning walk.

 

oh my Goddess they are something of unearthly beauty...

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The Severn bore......

 

The Severn estuary is a British tidal estuary funnelling gradually into a narrow tidal river. As the tide comes in, the rising water gets funnelled and a rapidly moving "tidal" wave develops, travelling for many miles up stream. This is the Severn bore. Surfers - as in this pic - like to ride the wave for miles up stream.

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6 hours ago, spywareonya said:

Giant Tortoise of the Galapagos Islands

they are intelligent and love roasted meat

can live up to 300 years...

thank you for posting this....

It is wondrous to ponder the fact that a creature such as this living today could have been around when Napoleon was rampaging through Europe, could have been around longer than the United States, at a time when they were still just 13 British colonies, and been around at a time when there were no aircraft and naval vessels were just wooden sailing ships.

Awesome to consider such a lifespan

 

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7 hours ago, steve25805 said:

It is wondrous to ponder the fact that a creature such as this living today could have been around when Napoleon was rampaging through Europe, could have been around longer than the United States, at a time when they were still just 13 British colonies, and been around at a time when there were no aircraft and naval vessels were just wooden sailing ships.

Awesome to consider such a lifespan

 

it is marvellous, plus imagine that, if she was born at the end of the XIX centure, she saw Jack the Ripper and a world illuminated by whale oil, and then the first phones, airplanes, and then the World War, and then The Roaring 20's, and then World War II, and then TV and Computers and the Man on te Moon and then iPhones and then Clonation, and will live up to see 2150 aD, colonize Mars and Artificial Intelligence

she will die in a world like Futurama when she was born in a world like Old Wild West

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Coastal cave at sunset...….

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Another view from the same spot in full daylight with the tide further out......