Cave Exploring, Thailand

The Titanoboa, is a 48ft long snake dating from around 60-58million years ago. It had a rib cage 2ft wide, allowing it to eat whole crocodiles, and surrounding the ribcage were muscles so powerful that it could crush a rhino. Titanoboa was so big it couldn’t even spend long amounts of time on land, because the force of gravity acting on it would cause it to suffocate under its own weight.

me, to my friend, out of no where: You know whats fucked uP? the volcanology scale. Have i told you about the volcanic explosivity index?

my friend: no? What?!

me: Isnt it fun how catastrophic is only the halfway point on this exponential scale of eruption severity

Me, just an unstoppable juggernaut of geology fun facts once I get started: And did you know that Frankenstein and Dracula were written during the year without a summer? A time when Ash from a big volcanic eruption covered much of Europe for the whole summer forcing it into a dark volcanic winter and so the Gothic Mood was influenced by a geological catastrophe at the time. Our art and culture are and have always been heavily influenced by the changes of the shifting rocks beneath our feet and the interplay of how we interact with and react to the world around us is fascinating.

yall we went to the most beautiful lake spring today. LOOK at this water 😭

GUYS, I HIT THE JACKPOT. So my department is in the midst of organizing all the stuff and we’re getting rid of a bunch of rocks that we’ve had lying around in bins and LOOK WHAT I FOUND. It’s a copper ore, specifically a bornite (Cu5FeS4) vein. For reference, bornite is the peacock ore, and it’s even prettier in person than in the pic. I remember collecting little pieces of bornite from rock grab bags when I was a kid, but this piece is HUGE!

How the media depicts the Apollo 11 mission:

Actual quotes from the Apollo 11 mission:

A Highland Coo and her calf wandering down an empty road, Argyll and the Isles, Scotland. Credit: Andy Maclachlan.

Let him wander around the house. Thought I lost him but he was next to the potatoes

Ecola State Park. Cannon Beach, Oregon. (Instagram: @williambernardlucia)