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A boy between two mounted lobsters caught off the New Jersey coast, February 1915.Photograph by Walter L. Beasley, National Geographic
(via androphilia)
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“I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.”
(Source: talltyrion, via whateverijustliketohavefun)
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what a great day to go outside and D I E
hahahaha
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Red Sprite Lightning with Aurora
What’s that in the sky? It is a rarely seen form of lightning confirmed only about 25 years ago: a red sprite.
Recent research has shown that following a powerful positive cloud-to-ground lightning strike, red sprites may start as 100-meter balls of ionized air that shoot down from about 80-km high at 10 percent the speed of light and are quickly followed by a group of upward streaking ionized balls.
The above image, taken a few days ago above central South Dakota, USA, captured a bright red sprite, and is a candidate for the first color image ever recorded of a sprite and aurora together.
Distant storm clouds cross the bottom of the image, while streaks of colorful aurora are visible in the background. Red sprites take only a fraction of a second to occur and are best seen when powerful thunderstorms are visible from the side.
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