if you're particularly disturbed by the idea that you're a home to harmless parasites, maybe avoid this post
They have been linked to acne, though- in their greed for your skin oils, they block your pores and cause them to fill up with oil. Bacteria eat the oil and bam, acne.
That's a hair follicle! Those red things are mite butts wriggling inside your pores!
Plus, if you're severely infested, they're visible to the naked eye:
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FishmanPut your goddamned hand in the goddamned Box of Pain.Registered Userregular
In the email, sent to several top NASA officials, an exasperated Bolden appears to vent his frustrations about the agency’s historic involvement with the moon, going so far as to say that Earth’s lone natural satellite “all but ruins the night sky for me” and that every dollar spent on lunar exploration might as well have been “thrown straight in the trash.” Later in the email, Bolden seems to downplay the significance of the recent 45th anniversary of the historic Apollo 11 moon landing, wondering “how the hell Neil Armstrong just didn’t fall asleep walking around on that thing.”
if you're particularly disturbed by the idea that you're a home to harmless parasites, maybe avoid this post
They have been linked to acne, though- in their greed for your skin oils, they block your pores and cause them to fill up with oil. Bacteria eat the oil and bam, acne.
That's a hair follicle! Those red things are mite butts wriggling inside your pores!
I started watching Cosmos on Netflix this week. It's super cool. I learned because of this thread that the information regarding our Cosmic Address in the first episode is already outdated and it came out in March of this year! How awesome is that? Pretty dang awesome.
Just thought I'd share that with you.
~GS
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Oh, is that about the map of the galaxies and the Milky Way getting a new home supercluster?
if you're particularly disturbed by the idea that you're a home to harmless parasites, maybe avoid this post
They have been linked to acne, though- in their greed for your skin oils, they block your pores and cause them to fill up with oil. Bacteria eat the oil and bam, acne.
That's a hair follicle! Those red things are mite butts wriggling inside your pores!
Plus, if you're severely infested, they're visible to the naked eye:
This is just making me really upset that the MST3k host segment where Mike gets his eyelash mites removed isn't available on YouTube.
"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
The number of wild animals on Earth has halved in the past 40 years, according to a new analysis. Creatures across land, rivers and the seas are being decimated as humans kill them for food in unsustainable numbers, while polluting or destroying their habitats, the research by scientists at WWF and the Zoological Society of London found.
“If half the animals died in London zoo next week it would be front page news,” said Professor Ken Norris, ZSL’s director of science. “But that is happening in the great outdoors. This damage is not inevitable but a consequence of the way we choose to live.” He said nature, which provides food and clean water and air, was essential for human wellbeing.
“We have lost one half of the animal population and knowing this is driven by human consumption, this is clearly a call to arms and we must act now,” said Mike Barratt, director of science and policy at WWF. He said more of the Earth must be protected from development and deforestation, while food and energy had to be produced sustainably.
The steep decline of animal, fish and bird numbers was calculated by analysing 10,000 different populations, covering 3,000 species in total. This data was then, for the first time, used to create a representative “Living Planet Index” (LPI), reflecting the state of all 45,000 known vertebrates.
“We have all heard of the FTSE 100 index, but we have missed the ultimate indicator, the falling trend of species and ecosystems in the world,” said Professor Jonathan Baillie, ZSL’s director of conservation. “If we get [our response] right, we will have a safe and sustainable way of life for the future,” he said.
If not, he added, the overuse of resources would ultimately lead to conflicts.
Currently, the global population is cutting down trees faster than they regrow, catching fish faster than the oceans can restock, pumping water from rivers and aquifers faster than rainfall can replenish them and emitting more climate-warming carbon dioxide than oceans and forests can absorb.
The report concludes that today’s average global rate of consumption would need 1.5 planet Earths to sustain it. But four planets would be required to sustain US levels of consumption, or 2.5 Earths to match UK consumption levels.
The fastest decline among the animal populations were found in freshwater ecosystems, where numbers have plummeted by 75% since 1970. “Rivers are the bottom of the system,” said Dave Tickner, WWF’s chief freshwater adviser. “Whatever happens on the land, it all ends up in the rivers.” For example, he said, tens of billions of tonnes of effluent are dumped in the Ganges in India every year.
As well as pollution, dams and the increasing abstraction of water damage freshwater systems. There are more than 45,000 major dams – 15m or higher – around the world. “These slice rivers up into a thousand pieces,” Tickner said, preventing the healthy flow of water. While population has risen fourfold in the last century, water use has gone up sevenfold. “We are living thirstier and thirstier lives,” he said.
The biggest declines in animal numbers have been seen in low-income, developing nations, while conservation efforts in rich nations have seen small improvements overall. But the big declines in wildlife in rich nations had already occurred long before the new report’s baseline year of 1970 – the last wolf in the UK was shot in 1680.
Also, by importing food and other goods produced via habitat destruction in developing nations, rich nations are “outsourcing” wildlife decline to those countries, said Norris. For example, a third of all the products of deforestation such as timber, beef and soya were exported to the EU between 1990 and 2008.
Obviously this means we need to colonize more planets wholly with wildlife.
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Can someone explain something to me that I am not able to look up right now? Why are some clouds grey and dark, and some are white and fluffy? I'm not talking about giant storm clouds, because that seems obvious. But what about little small clouds. I'm looking out the window here, and I see some big white clouds in the background, and some smaller clouds in front of them that are smaller but way darker. They also appear dark when they are just in front of the blue sky. Whereas most of the clouds I see are whiter.
At a guess, it would be related to the density of water in the cloud. Higher densities will absorb more of the light that hits it, reducing the light that gets emitted from the cloud, causing it to appear darker
Can someone explain something to me that I am not able to look up right now? Why are some clouds grey and dark, and some are white and fluffy? I'm not talking about giant storm clouds, because that seems obvious. But what about little small clouds. I'm looking out the window here, and I see some big white clouds in the background, and some smaller clouds in front of them that are smaller but way darker. They also appear dark when they are just in front of the blue sky. Whereas most of the clouds I see are whiter.
Sunlight enters a cloud from above. The water droplets refract, reflect and disperse the sunlight in all directions preventing them from beaming a single colour like the blue sky. This combination of the whole visible spectrum comes out white by the time the light leaves the bottom of the cloud. Almost the same amount of light is leaving the bottom of the cloud as entering the top, it's just filtered in a way to make it white
As clouds become more dense, they continue to filter the light, into white, but less light leaves the bottom of the cloud and is bounced in other directions up or out. This makes the light white, but less of it reaches your eyes so it appears darker.
valhalla13013 Dark Shield Perceives the GodsRegistered Userregular
That makes perfect sense to me for giant stormclouds. They look big and dense, but I'm looking at what appear to be these tiny little clouds, and they are as dark as some stormclouds I've seen. I guess their size doesn't matter though. Thanks, guys.
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yeah size doesn't really matter to density, you can have massive cirrus clouds which take up the entire sky but are super whispy and thin. Pressure and wind systems which form clouds can be super focussed and you can have one or two small, thick clouds in an otherwise clear blue sky.
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Are you saying that they don't wax twice a month?
Well, if that's the case, I think my interest in them is waning.
God I wish I had your resolve. It's making my eye twitch trying to resist correcting him.
i bet he said it wrong on purpose just so someone could correct him and he could make his follow-up waning joke
chico is just that kind of guy
Can confirm.
Don't let them hear you say that. They'll come after you like the terminator
They have been linked to acne, though- in their greed for your skin oils, they block your pores and cause them to fill up with oil. Bacteria eat the oil and bam, acne.
That's a hair follicle! Those red things are mite butts wriggling inside your pores!
Plus, if you're severely infested, they're visible to the naked eye:
Why, smof, I had no idea you were Lunar-British. Were you born on the Moon and move to Bristol as a babe, or is your family just ethnically lunar?
NASA Administrator Resigns After Leak Of Offensive Anti-Moon Email
I hope you can find it in your heart to forgibbous.
You get one freebie; I'll take umbrage with any other puns at my expense.
Relax, it looks like they're almost dione.
I am apolloed by your lack of sensitivity.
Okay, I think we just eclipsed the rubicon.
They turned into angsty and angry teens.
I started watching Cosmos on Netflix this week. It's super cool. I learned because of this thread that the information regarding our Cosmic Address in the first episode is already outdated and it came out in March of this year! How awesome is that? Pretty dang awesome.
Just thought I'd share that with you.
~GS
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This is just making me really upset that the MST3k host segment where Mike gets his eyelash mites removed isn't available on YouTube.
"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
fucking
shit.
Earth lost 50% of its wildlife in the past 40 years, says WWF [The Guardian]
Sunlight enters a cloud from above. The water droplets refract, reflect and disperse the sunlight in all directions preventing them from beaming a single colour like the blue sky. This combination of the whole visible spectrum comes out white by the time the light leaves the bottom of the cloud. Almost the same amount of light is leaving the bottom of the cloud as entering the top, it's just filtered in a way to make it white
As clouds become more dense, they continue to filter the light, into white, but less light leaves the bottom of the cloud and is bounced in other directions up or out. This makes the light white, but less of it reaches your eyes so it appears darker.
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