Set Up Like A Deck Of Cards

Dashboard Coincidence

Bin Laden’s Compound on Google Maps

Three Planes and a Bird

(See the little black dot that the middle plane is flying towards? That’s the bird.)

(by astronaut Nicole Stott)

Nicole Stott took a photo of the Isle of Man. From space!

(Full-size FTW)

Sailing stones, sliding rocks, and moving rocks all refer to a geological phenomenon where rocks move in long tracks along a smooth valley floor without human or animal intervention. They have been recorded and studied in a number of places around Racetrack Playa, Death Valley, where the number and length of travel grooves are notable. The force behind their movement is not understood and is the subject of research.

(from Wikipedia)

File this under ‘cool things I learned today’.

up-schist-creek:

It’s a bird.

True story: During my lunchbreak today, as I was walking down the road, a bird flew overhead and I swear it was singing the first line to Nellie the Elephant. When I heard it, I sang the next line (“and said goodbye to the circus…”) quietly to myself and then ended up with the song stuck in my head for the rest of the day.

usagov:

Antarctica is roughly the size of the United States and Mexico combined.

Initial thoughts:

1. Antarctica is bigger than I thought.
2. Is it just me, or does this mean that Mexico is also a lot bigger than I thought. You could fit two Mexicos in the free space there, right?
3. Those Antarctic explorers in the early 20th Century were awesome.
4. I’ve always liked that sticky-out bit of Antarctica. It’s like the continent’s winking at us.