Back in the AOL CD via postal mail days, the Internet was the AOL home page. News feeds, email, dumb games, chat rooms, message boards.... and rotten.com for everything else.
A 2022 study identified 45 known natural whale falls, 38 implanted ones, and 78 fossil ones, mostly in the Pacific, but a significant number, particularly of fossil ones, in the Atlantic.
The cool thing about this is, (non-wiki links) we now know of 50+ more off the coast of Southern California, as of this year. Scripps was tasked with finding sunken WWII munitions with their ROVs and the sonar scans came back with all this new whale fall data, conveniently located right next to an oceanographic research institution. I hope they have live streams online somewhere.
Not exactly a one-to-one, but western North America has a huge variety of volcanic fields to explore. I had sandwiches on top of a cinder cone north of Flagstaff this spring, and Craters of the Moon is on the bucket list, too.
Joel Schumacher's Batmen movies, especially the Clooney one, were so awful they changed the tone of superhero movies from that point on.
I watched them both very recently during an extended Arnold Schwarzenegger movie binge, and it's absolutely worth hate-watching them again for the sheer wonkiness and absurdity of... everything. Try tallying the Dutch angles. And girl power platitudes.
I read it the first time right around 9/11, and I still have it on my shelf. Feels like a good time to dust it off....
If you can find full text of the article The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved, it's absolutely worth a read.
Not Connecticut. I've been here a looong time and I've never heard of this.
I miss everything because of clouds and light pollution. And I forget.
But- (non-wiki links)NASA and EarthSky are great to have bookmarked for sky stuff.
And subscribe to sciencey instances and communities across the fediverse. I am subscribed to astrophotography, science, and climate stuff on Lemmy, and that helps keep me informed.
I read the no editorializing request in regards to the link title, but adding a bit for clarification is fine. If you like putting a salient quote or a quick synopsis within the optional text of the post, there's nothing wrong with that choice. But I'd hate for it to be mandatory. Some articles speak for themselves, and the comments are always open for community engagement.
But I'm not a mod, and I don't speak for our resident clam man.
They do look similar in this photo, but they're very different things.
Gegenschein is reflected sunlight backscattered back to our eyes from dust particles close(ish) to Earth.
The Milky Way is the cross sectional view of our spiral galaxy that rises and sets like other constellations and has viewing seasons- its more visible in the northern hemisphere summer.
My first playthrough, I didn't understand that you could recruit everybody. I thought, since my party is full that's all I get. I never met Karl, never invited Wyll to camp, never rescued Lazy. So it was just Shart, Astarion, and Creepy Wizard for the first two acts.
Everybody ran out of stuff to talk about in act 2, which really made the tone even gloomier... until the creep started talking about his suicide mission. Not only did he skeeve me the whole time, he was now an active threat.
I abandoned him at camp the instant I could grab Papa Halsin and never looked back. So of course he was abducted and murdered by Orin. Lol. Sucks to suck, Gale.
Now, it is my stupid goal to do an honor mode playthrough with Gale as my origin character, so he and Astarion can both be the worst versions of themselves and ruin the world..... but he's such a butthole and I keep dying. Oh well.