This Landsat image of 3 October 2011 shows the Mississippi River Delta, where the largest river in the United States empties into the Gulf of Mexico. In this false-colour image, land vegetation appears pink, while the sediment in the surrounding waters are bright blue and green. The delta is known as the ‘bird-foot’ delta because of the shape created by the channels extending outward.
The size of the Mississippi River Delta built over millions of years owing to sediment deposition. The tons of sediment carried by the river system created the wetlands in southern Louisiana, which are home to many endangered species and help to protect the mainland from hurricane winds by acting like speed bumps.
Over the last several decades, however, the delta’s sediment load has been drastically reduced by natural and man-made factors. Extensive oil and gas extraction causes the subsidence of the delta and wetlands, and rising sea levels increase erosion as the fresh water vegetation dies due to the influx of salt water.
Currently, a chunk of land the size of a football field is lost about every half an hour.
Measuring 175,000 miles wide but as little as 30 feet thick, Saturn’s rings contain debris of varying ages and composition, all revolving at different speeds.
2. THREE MOONS
Titan and Dione, along with speck-sized Prometheus appear in rare alignment. Tiny so-called shepherd moons help shape the rings and prevent them from dispersing.
3. TITAN
Concentric rings wind in front of Satrun’s biggest moon, Titan, with tiny Janus in teh foreground. The rings are so massive that they have their own atmosphere, separate from Saturn’s. Cassini found evidence of oxygen all around the icy rings.
no seriously, I like to keep all my models labeled and named correctly, but I can’t for the life of me figure out how to name the model for this thing.
I just named it “furniture_brownthing” as a placeholder.
I’m feeling feelings that I didn’t know I had feels forrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr *inhale* aaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Claus! Mmeeehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Lucas!
Is there a place where I can go and find the people who have played the game and hug it out cus I need to hug it out so bad I’ve forgotten how to punctuate.
the moonside-fever one is, I’m just in a country who’s internet doesn’t love tumblr, so I don’t update often. Also I can’t downlload programs from here cus my OS is rather picky, so I haven’t been able to update suddenly queer rockfish in forever.
So with the SOPA talks being pushed to the 21st of this month (December). Kind of sneaky but it doesn’t surprise me. Congress tends to do that to very controversial issues that come up. If you are not familar with SOPA, then please watch the video. It is important.
On a side note, please do not forget the new provisions to the NDAA that allow U.S. Citizens to be arrested by the military and imprisoned with out a trial if suspected of terrorism. If doesn’t raise suspicion then maybe you should know that according to the DoD, Protesting is a form of low-level terrorism. Now the question has been removed but that alone should raise some awareness. What I don’t get is why this bill doesn’t get as much as SOPA. The Internet is very important but so are our freedoms. I am not saying stopping SOPA is not important but what I am saying is both need to be addressed because they are both important issues. If SOPA passes how will you protest it when you could be considered a threat by protesting? Both should get the same attention. That is all!!
They’re related bills. They’re both aimed at increasing state power and using available means of communication as means of surveillance. NDAA is on the streets, but SOPA, and any other intellectual property law, are really censorship bills in disguise. They’re all aimed at stopping the free flow of information and raising red tape where there should be discourse.
These bills are related.
Bradley Manning’s trial is related.
It’s all a matter of policing. They’re finding new ways to police us.
Despite the fact that Congress was supposed to be out of session until the end of January, the Judiciary Committee has just announced plans to come back to continue the markup this coming Wednesday. This is rather unusual and totally unnecessary. But it shows just how desperate Hollywood is to pass this bill as quickly as possible, before the momentum of opposition builds up even further.
