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Map showing Armstrong and Aldrin’s activity on the moon
Here is a cool map showing the astronaut activity on the first lunar landing back in 1969 (yes it really happened – don’t be a daft conspiracy theorist). Produced by NASA it basically shows the activity of the astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on that first landing.
The map has been superimposed on a soccer/football pitch to give an idea of scale – these guys didn’t walk very far.
A chunk of ice the size of a small country has broken off the Antarctic
There is quite a lot of news at the moment about a large piece (a little smaller than Swaziland) of ice shelf that recently broke off Antarctica. You can read about it here: National Geographic, Wired, BBC.
Ice shelves are made of ice already floating on the ocean so this incident won’t raise sea levels, but these shelves are holding back glaciers which will raise see levels. As the floating ice shelves break away there is nothing to hold back the land based glaciers which run faster and do raise sea levels.
These ice shelves are notoriously sensitive to warming (another one broke off during a brief warming period around 1920) so they do act as good early indicators of global warming happening – apparently “average Antarctic temperatures have risen 3 degrees (Celsius) over the past 50 years!”
If you are interested there is an busy debate going on in the comments section of the Wired article. Even if you aren’t that interested, I think you should be worried.
Dummy almost nailed by saltwater croc
Here is an report about a dummy tourist in Australia who spotted a 4m saltwater croc approaching his boat. He wanted a good photo with the thing so he leaned out of his boat and started “teasing it”. Long story short, he got his good picture but almost lost an arm! Stupid…
Before and after satellite photos of our impact on the environment
This is an interesting gallery before and after satellite photos of mankind’s impact on the environment. They come from a new book called Fragile Earth and are pretty interesting. It can be quite sobering to see what a real impact we are having on our environments
This one shows a rainforest ecosystem around the Iguacu falls in South America getting nailed. Feb 1973 to May 2003
This is Lake Chad in Africa disappearing between 1972 and 1987 – largely due to irrigation projects. Things have actually gotten worse since the second photo was taken… I have blogged on this one before.
Finally, this is jungle in Bolivia getting turned into a major agricultural area.
Symonds drops a streaker
Today Australia lost another cricket final when they were beaten by India. That’s pretty pleasing, but what I really enjoyed was a moment when a streaker running past Andrew Symonds was dropped by a deadly shoulder charge.
The force of Symonds’ shoulder sent the man to the ground and security and police swarmed before taking him from the field.
The Aussie cricketers are often extremely annoying but this incident has given me an excuse to like a great player like Symonds. Here is a report from Cricinfo.
Update: I saw this series showing the incident which I liked. The second image is awesome – the guy is flying!
Pipe track photos
Jules and I went for a quick walk on the Pipe Track last night to have a little wine and watch the sun go down on a fun weekend.
We got a couple of nice photos too. This is Table Mountain viewed from the side – the Pipe Track passes above the Camps Bay area so you get interesting angles on Table Mountain.
Another pools post – swimming pool illusion
Yet another blog post about pools! This time there is a round up of “cool pools”.
The best by far is this “inverse pool” illusion created by having a shallow pool with a glass bottom above a room. To people above the pool it looks like others are walking around underwater. To those inside it looks like they are in the pool too. Pretty cool effect.
Photos taken at the right time or from the right angle
I recently found three blog postings with some pretty cool photos:
- 20 Photographs Taken at the Exact Right Angle
- 20 More Photographs Taken at the Exact Right Angle
- 25 Photographs Taken at the Exact Right Time
There are a few rubbish pics, but most of them are worth a look (note that you may have seen some of these in forwarded mails). Here are some of my favorites to whet your appetite.
Tiger jumping off a boat
I really like this photo from National Geographic showing a Bengal tiger jumping off a boat in India. The tiger had escaped the reserve she was from and landed up in a village bordering the park.
That didn’t go so well for her because the villagers got together and started throwing burning sticks and stones at her. In an effort to escape she hastily climbed a date palm where she was eventually tranquilized and captured by rangers (here is a video of the action – I haven’t watched it).
They saw to her wounds and then released her back into the reserve – which is what you are seeing above. Apparently there are only 1,400 Bengal tigers left in the wild so it’s cool that they saved this one – and she was pregnant!