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One might think that there’s not much left to explore or discover on Earth, which is why we began putting people in space. However, that’s not quite the truth, as around 58% of our world remains unknown to humans. This means that we can still come across mind-blowing things when we least expect them.
Some of them can be found in this list below collected by our Bored Panda team. Scroll down to find them, and don’t forget to upvote the ones that surprised you the most.
While you're at it, make sure to check out a conversation with conservation photographer and writer Marisa Marulli and wildlife and landscape photographer Melissa Alves, who kindly agreed to chat with us how they capture their incredible works. Read on to find their insights in between the photos!
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#1
Saturn Through My 6" Telescope
Kirsten Kerkhof 8 months ago
Oh wow! There is something so awesome about Saturn and its rings. What a gorgeous picture.
Chewie Baron 8 months ago
All the Gas Giants have Ring Systems. Mars will have one in around 5 million years time.
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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 8 months ago
NICE! I remember seeing that the first time. Must have been almost 40 years ago now.
Forrest Hobbs 8 months ago
Voyager I, 1980 - first hi-res close-up shots of Saturn: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_1#Flyby_of_Saturn. Not sure how you can get a shot like that of Saturn from Earth, given that the rings (so I thought) are always edge-on to us. Maybe the OP is one of the lucky few with access to a telescope aboard a space probe? Read up on the Voyager programme with awe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_program (seriously - these ancient machines are *still* operating, just about, despite the incredibly hostile environment they're in, and the enormous time they've been going. Bow and and recite: "We are not worthy!" I jest, but my god! You have no idea how impressed I am.)
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Tim Douglass 8 months ago
My 7th grade science teacher brought in his telescope and we looked at various planets. I remember staring at Saturn and being utterly mesmerized. I kept thinking "It's a million miles out there but it looks like you could just reach out and touch it." There was something so strange about seeing with my own eyes something I'd only seen in pictures.
CatD 8 months ago (edited)
I got to take Astronomy in high school. Loved that class.
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Riley Quinn 8 months ago
How I miss seeing all the astronomical events now I'm in a brightly lit city. Unfortunately, my neighborhood is too sketchy at night to walk up to the bus stop to get out where it's darker. Just glad I got to see some dazzling wonders when I lived in areas without light.
RC Hinrichs 8 months ago
There's something amazing about viewing the planets thru your own telescope. It really makes it real. Thanks for posting.
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#2
This Is Narwhal. He Was Born With An Extra Tail On His Forehead. It Hasn’t Wagged Yet But He’s Working On It. 14/10 Always Read The Instructions Before Assembling Your Puppy
Riley Quinn 8 months ago
I'm guessing this is part of its twin. When an embryo splits late in development, the animal/human born usually contains parts of its parasitic twin.
#3
I Found A Baby Albino Oak In My Garden Some Years Ago, And Realized That Plants Can Be Albinos Too, But They Do Not Live Long Since They Cannot Photosynthesize
LeighAnne Brown-Pedersen 8 months ago
Do not deny beauty for lack of permanency. We are meant to cherish what we have how ever long that is.
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CatD 8 months ago
Some albino plants can survive by parasitism on other plants or fungus networks
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Helen Rohrlach 8 months ago
I wonder if you could graft it onto an ordinary oak. You would have to leave some of the original but it might work.
WindySwede 8 months ago
But what if we would inject it with sugar? But it also gets oxygen from PS, so might not work out anyway?
Tom Brincefield 8 months ago
They need carbon dioxide to breathe in. They expel oxygen as a waste product.
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RC Hinrichs 8 months ago
That's very interesting. It's amazing they can even get that big. Nice pic.
Conservation photographer and writer Marisa Marulli tells Bored Panda that she got into nature photography after realizing that she didn't know what she wanted to do with her life.
"And that bothered me. I wanted a clear path, like the lawyers and the doctors. I didn’t want to ’stumble’ my way through life without answers! Thinking that way about it is funny now. I’m so glad I stumbled," she shared.
"I’m so glad I took a breather when I was so peeved in an office cubicle, not knowing what I wanted with my life, that I finally took a career and personality test and began to get some answers in some areas of work that might be of interest to me. Photography showed up as one of them, believe it or not."
#4
I Found A Bug Adorned With Gold Markings
Inigo Montoya 8 months ago
The Gold Passionvine Hopper, native to Australia. They are a pest that is damaging to crops and ornamental plantings.
Riley Quinn 8 months ago
Passion-vine Hopper (Scolypopa australis) are planthoppers that look like a cross between a cicada and a moth. The nickname for nymphs is fluffy bums. The are pretty pests that require Neem oil controlling methods. https://www.brisbaneinsects.com/brisbane_planthoppers/PassionVineHopper.htm Reminds me of the golden tortoise beetle or goldbugs that lived on my morning glories. Unlike planthoppers, goldbugs damage is confined to aesthetic appearance and doesn't hurt the plant.
#5
Made This Today. The Black Dot On The Stem Is Me
LNB87 8 months ago
My brain: ok... he drew a potted flower.. and he's symbolizing how small he feels by pointing out the small speck... oh.. OH!!! OH MY GOSH THAT'S SNOW!!! \facepalm
Michelle 5 months ago
Thank goodness you wrote that as I was clueless and wouldn't have picked it.
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Karl der Große 8 months ago
I need to see the selfie stick you used to take this picture. You must have one strong arm!
Just Another Karen 8 months ago
I was confused for a while, but then I understood. Great photo, drawing and comparison
#6
This Transparent Butterfly
KatSaidWhat 5 months ago
They are well camouflaged - our guide was impressed that I had spotted it.
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Along with photography, the personality test presented her with about 20 other lines of work that she might like best, but after trying some of them, photography was the one that stuck with her.
"All of the forward motion into those few careers sort of stopped either due to my own disinterest or because I hit an exterior block. Photography stayed. In the beginning months of pursuing it, I took a photography workshop in Iceland. Now, this is an important piece of the story because I hadn’t been out of the country in over 10 years, and I was pretty scared of flying," she continued telling us.
"But the camera, the pursuit of photography of nature and animals in Iceland, weighed more than my fear. That was a victory. I found something I loved enough to jump over the fear of getting there. And it continues today, putting me in front of some of the largest bears in the wild, on the edge of cliffs when I am not a fan of ledges, even on multiple flights to get across the world to Siberia, and most recently, into the ocean to understand and explore the conservation of sea turtles."
#7
A Lightning Strike Happened The Moment I Took A Photo And Made It Look Like Daytime. I Took The Second Photo 10 Seconds Later
#8
This Water In Sweden Is So Clear It Looks Like There's None At All
M B 8 months ago
Wut?! Wait you one of those "I find it funny to troll" ? I'm one of those "cool..now go away"-reactionary
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Riley Quinn 8 months ago
I know this is real, that it's authentic, but in the short time AI photos have been online, I'm becoming more skeptical.
Spacey Stacey 8 months ago
If it was AI you could probably bet that there'd be a couple extra fingers.
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A Rare Optic Sight, The “Brocken Spectre,” Which Occurs When A Person Stands At A Higher Altitude In The Mountains And Sees His Shadow Cast On A Cloud At A Lower Altitude
Riley Quinn 8 months ago
Y'all know it was scientifically explained phenomena, like the one explained here, that started all the fantastical, mythical, fanciful legends that way too many people still believe. Now, I'm not gonna lie if I unexpectedly saw this. First visceral reaction would be terror, then eventually logic would take over, but I'd still need to change my pants.
9fhtcm7swg 8 months ago
This doesn’t only happen in the mountains! I was walking to work once in Edmonton, Alberta in the early morning and had to cross a bridge over the valley. The valley was full of fog that hadn’t burned off, the top of the fog was about 3m below the bridge. I saw my shadow like this!
Bill Swallow 8 months ago
Also known as a 'Glory'. James Burke discussed them in one of the episodes of his 'Connections'.
"Now, I will say, I always knew ‘I just want to save all the animals.’ The way that phrase comes off may sound childish, but I still allow myself to say it, just like that, today. It may be one of the few childish pieces I still allow in myself (I tend to be quite a serious person). And I honor that," she added, concluding the story of how her life revealed her career in nature photography.
#10
Saw A Snail Today While I Was Outside And It’s Shell Is Crystal Clear
Tom Brincefield 8 months ago
Stones aren't the only downside to glass houses.
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lisa_l_ross58 8 months ago
Trying to correct spelling and grammar mistakes is a full time job.
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Anxious Aardvark 8 months ago (edited)
Thanks for this...led me off on a search. This doesn't appear to be the cave dwelling "Zospeum tholussum." Size and shell are off. It's not a true albino, as the body has color. If the photo was taken in Europe it could be a Clear Glass Snail - "Aegopinella pura" or, more broadly, any of the "glass snails." And after entirely too long, the answer might be in Robert Cameron 2016. Slugs and Snails HarperCollins, apparently in Chapter 4. Or, WAG here, it could be a thermo regulation mechanism or, less likely, living in an environment without visual predators.
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#11
You Might Have Seen It Before, But Here's That One Place In Indonesia With A Volcano Behind Waterfalls
Linda Johnson 7 months ago
OMG! to just be there in person and see such an amazing sight !!!! It just doesn't look real...more like a watercolor or CGI.....God and Mother Nature are amazing artists !!!!!!
#12
Dinosaur Footprints On An Eroded Beach
Itsmeagain 7 months ago
Ohhhh.....I'd be hiding behind a rock. I wonder where they were going, and where they came from?
KatSaidWhat 5 months ago
Yeah, rocks are a sensitive subject for the dinosaurs...
Load More Replies... Whereas wildlife and landscape photographer Melissa Alves tells us that what led her to nature photography was her love for nature.
"I have loved nature for as long as I can remember. I used to watch nature documentaries with my dad and imagine being one of the presenters in the show. I didn’t come across a lot of representation for women in nature photography when I was growing up, so I didn’t consider it as much more than a hobby until much later in life," she shared.
"I also recall my dad telling me as a kid to enjoy the tigers I was seeing on TV because they probably wouldn't be around when I grew up, and that had quite an impression on me. Photography has the power to change people’s hearts, and if even just one person sees a photo I’ve taken and wants to take better care of the environment, I feel successful."
#13
Holy Toebeans Big Foot
Joshua David 8 months ago
Or just a cat with big feet and in that case it'd be equally amazing!
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#14
Lightning Highlighting A Tornado - Fort Worth, Tx
Hippopotamuses 8 months ago (edited)
You guys are kind of lucky, if that's the right word! NZ ones just appear, wipe out a few houses, and then disappear. Enough for insurance companies to say "Not a tornado. Just a strong circular wind!"
nottheactualphoto 8 months ago
It's good from an insurance perspective, but I generally don't consider anyone lucky for living in Texas,
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Uncle Panda 8 months ago
I watched a tornado hit a power substation that lit it up from the inside with a greenish-yellow color. Looked cool from my comfortable distance away.
#15
This Red Only Rainbow I Saw At Midnight In Finland
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 8 months ago (edited)
Red sky at night, sailor's delight. Red sky at dawn sailors beware. Not sure what a red rainbow in the North means.
Sue User 8 months ago
I learned it as " Red sky at night, sailor's delight. Red sky at morning, sailor's warning"
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Riley Quinn 8 months ago
A monochrome rainbow is very rare. You have to catch the sun near the horizon and the wavelengths cause this effect.
Janissary35680 8 months ago
Rusty iron. Copper would have turned green long ago.
Load More Replies... During her career, the most mind-blowing and once-in-a-lifetime pictures that Marisa was able to capture were a close-up of an adult bear in Alaska and sea turtles in the ocean and at the Loggerhead Marinelife Center.
"When I was staying at Silver Salmon Creek Lodge in Lake Clark National Park, Alaska, we went out to the wild to observe and photograph some of the largest bears in the world: the coastal brown bear (see here). At one point, a very large adult decided to walk our way. The bear continued and ended up walking right past us. It was absolutely amazing. It passed so close that I had too much of a telephoto (zoom) lens to capture it at one point!" she exclaims.
"When I was snorkeling and photographing in the ocean, I noticed there were a few jellyfish in the area. A young sea turtle approached one nearby me, and began eating it! I remember staying fairly still so I would not disrupt the sea turtle and sure enough it stayed long enough that its meal crumbs — little pieces of jellyfish — floated around and lightly stung me a bit!"
#16
Never Have I Ever Seen Something Quite As Magnificent As Jadayupara - A Mythical Eagle That Just So Happens To Be The Largest Bird Sculpture In The World
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 8 months ago
Largest bird sculpture for now... Here's my idea! We build a gigantic statue, the size of the Statue of Liberty and it will be BIG BIRD! Who's with me?
WindySwede 8 months ago
The statue of liberty is 46 meters in height, including the foundation it's 93 meters. This bird is "200 feet (61 m) long, 150 feet (46 m) wide, 70 feet (21 m) in height and occupies 15,000 square feet (1,400 m2)" - wiki 🤓
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Riley Quinn 8 months ago
Jatayu, the Glorious Bird of Ramayana. It's a tourist attraction that would be fun if you're ever in the neighborhood.
Jay Scales 8 months ago
According to Wiki, the creature is supposed to symbolize the protection of women. So... squawking, looking helpless on it's back, with it's legs in the air? Nope.
Artsy Bookworm 8 months ago (edited)
It's a reference to the epic Ramayana. Jatayu was a vulture who fought valiantly and ended up sacrificing his life in trying to save Sita from Raavan. Please know what you're talking about before disrespecting somethings
Load More Replies... Panda Kicki 8 months ago
There is a eagle nearby (repeated until someone hits you. Angry Bird fans knows 😆)
Bob Connely 8 months ago
So, HERE'S an idea: let's walk around on it until it crumbles... (shaking my head sadly)
#17
I Went For A Walk In The Forest And Came Upon This Ponderosa Pine Tree That Had Been Struck By Lightning
I Called The Forest Service And They Eventually Extinguished It, But Not Before I Had Time To Get Some Photos. Near Flagstaff, Arizona, USA
Michael Figueiredo 7 months ago
And glad you were walking in the forest at night during a storm
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Leslie Victor 8 months ago
What ever will happen now that the orange monkey fired everybody....
#18
Rainbow Wrasse Caught Off Christmas Island
WindySwede 8 months ago
I feel especially sorry for the fish if catch and release, actually. Fighting for their lives just for a photo-op.. 🤦♂️ even if the fish lives afterwards, why not just use an underwater camera to snap a photo in their habitat?
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#19
This Baby Praying Mantis
Anacan 8 months ago
I wonder how many of her siblings she ate to make it this far??
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MAKtheknife 8 months ago
I love them. They watch you. I bought an egg case to hatch in my green house. Little ones were everywhere.
"Volunteering photography at Loggerhead Marinelife Center, an amazing force for conserving endangered sea turtles, I have witnessed so many beautiful moments; from sea turtles taking their first solo breath after being intubated during surgery, to the slow progress of emaciated turtles getting so large that they give the hospital team a bit of a challenge during check ups, to a sea turtle being released to its ocean home after almost a year of rehabilitating in the hospital (see here)," she adds.
#20
Found The End Of The Rainbow. Rangarping Eystra, Iceland
S. E. in Indiana 8 months ago
Where is that pot of gold? Not even a bowl of Lucky Charms cereal.
Kristen Woehlke 8 months ago
Followed a rainbow once. It was in the parking lot of this place I used to work at. And there was actually gold at the end! No lie, I can't make this s**t up! It was an old Pinto car spray painted gold. I felt so damned gipped!
#21
The Way These Water Droplets Collected On The Edge Of My Strawberry Plant
Linda Johnson 7 months ago
looks like little diamond rhinestones stuck to the edges for decoration !! ahhh....Nature....
#22
My Nails Pushing The Chemo Out Of My Fingertips
BlackestDawn 8 months ago
Considering how the nails look overall I would assume they are well enough to stop chemo.
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Bob Connely 8 months ago
May the Supreme Deity of your choice bless your journey through cancer and all its ravages... hugs from this cancer survivor
WubiDubi 8 months ago
You can also melt plastic toilet seats with your pee (over several weeks) on some of the stronger ones. Also the body trying to dump the toxins.
Irishwoman abroad 8 months ago
The one I was on made you pee dark orange while you were getting it - the nurses have to warn, otherwise you might thinking you were bleeding profusely! And then, thanks to the drip afterwards, it disappears very quickly. Amazing what our bodies can do to get rid of toxins.
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MygrandsonscallmeNia 7 months ago
I have it, and didn't know what it was! Thank you for posting! I couldn't figure it out ... I do hope you are in remission!
Meanwhile, the once-in-a-lifetime photo Melissa captured was of shorebirds perfectly flying in front of Mount Baker (which you can find here).
"In December of 2023, I photographed some shorebirds (too far away to properly identify) taking off as a group in front of Mount Baker. I have seen the shorebirds in the area fly in massive flocks before, but I had never seen them leave the bay to continue on their migration in such large numbers, and directly in front of the mountain," she says.
"It was incredible, and I still have yet to see them fly perfectly in front of the mountain like that again. Because of the distance between the bay where me and the birds were and Mount Baker it appeared as though the birds were flying high above the mountain at some points."
#23
Whole Other World I Found In A Beer Bottle Laying In The Woods
Elizabeth Butler 8 months ago (edited)
I have had this in my desktop wallpaper album for years. Fairy Garden in a broken beer bottle. Wonderful find by someone.
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Panda Cat 8 months ago
I recently read about a woman who was part of a team surveying for building artificial reefs. Along the way she saw a beer bottle, picked it up and found a mama octopus and her baby octopud inside. Here’s my big question though- who drinks beer in bottles?
Anxious Aardvark 8 months ago
Guilty. Especially on a hot day, when pouring a pilsner into a room temp glass makes the beer less refreshing.
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#24
Caught This Incredible Exploding Meteor When I Went To Rattlesnake Lake In Washington, USA Last Weekend. Zoom In To See The Exact Moment It Explodes In Two
Pyla 8 months ago
I've swum across that lake. It's full of stumps so no boats. There was a drought back in the 90's and you can see the old town that was there, even a corduroy road.....the mountain now has a trail, but my friends used to scramble up and run down the mountain. Ah the early 90's. Now it's all a suburban sprawl.
Marnie 8 months ago
I hate when people mis-use the word "explode". It seems so common now that I guess the meaning of the word is changing (for the worse). People talking about their shower doors "exploding" or their car window "exploding". It's just exaggerating for no need.
Becky Samuel 8 months ago
Language changes. It always has and it always will.
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This Purely Golden Bee Landed On My Car Today
KatSaidWhat 5 months ago
But not most... I believe that goes to Sweden...
Load More Replies... To be able to capture such amazing moments in images, Marisa says that light is the most crucial part. "It is all about the light, as much as possible. When capturing landscape photos, I aim to photograph during sunrise and sunset, when everything lights up in a special way than the rest of the day. For animal photography, natural light is important (and critical when it comes to an endangered species), as you do not want to disturb the animal. For night sky photography, lack of light pollution is super important," she explains.
For Melissa, her technique usually differs depending on what subject she tries to capture. "For example, when I photograph owls, I often use long-exposures, since the owls don’t tend to move much and it allows me to let a little more light in when I am already at a maximum aperture for my lens and do not want to bump up the ISO settings too much. For something like a macro shot of a mushroom, I take multiple images and stack them together in Photoshop later to get as much detail as possible."
#26
I Put Over 1,500 Blocks Of Jenga On 1, Creating A New World Record
ocean todd 8 months ago
Had to look it up… https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2023/11/teen-who-broke-records-with-jenga-skills-inspires-heartwarming-hallmark-christmas-760834
#27
Ants Build A Bridge To Cross A Gap
Krd 8 months ago
Ever seen them build rafts? It's amazing, they actually trap air inside the mass of ants so they can breath.
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KatSaidWhat 5 months ago
Because they walk/climb over each other. not often I advocate youtube but go look at some videos of them doing bridges/"rafts"
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Christine Wild 8 months ago
I never understood how the front of the bridge..The ants get over there. Amazing
#28
Found This ‘Veiled Lady’ Mushroom On A Hike This Morning Near Seoul, South Korea
ShortAttnSpanTheatre 8 months ago
Amazing! So delicate and intricate, and just hanging out unprotected in a forest.
B Jean the Jelly Bean 8 months ago
Its an edible mushroom featured as an ingredient in Chinese haute cuisine, it is used in stir-fries and chicken soups.
Even after years of capturing breathtaking photos of our world, photographers say that nature never ceases to amaze them. "I can see the same trees and moss every day and still have more to learn about them," says Melissa. "Nature is always changing too, so there is definitely always a surprise waiting every time I go out."
"It manages to surprise me every time I am out with it," agrees Marisa. "That is the point, I think. When you love what you do (whether it’s your career or a hobby or on a vacation), you will be enlivened inside, open-minded with a childlike wonder, and see things that perhaps others do not. After all, beauty is in the eye of the beholder."
#29
This Bee Hive I Found This Morning
Dusty's mom 8 months ago
It looks abandoned. Was it cold outdoors? A hive should be a "beehive" of activity. Hope the Colony Collapse epidemic didn't get them!
WindySwede 8 months ago
OP:"This was really early morning, just about sunrise & there were a few bees hanging about. I didn't hang around long...!"
Load More Replies... Huddo's sister 8 months ago
On a gum tree. Apparently honey from bees that pollinate eucalypts taste really nice (I'm allergic to eucalyptus and honey so haven't tried it).
michael reid 8 months ago
The internal structure and form are enormous. We should honour and worship this thing.
#30
The Size Of A Full Grown Adult Male Moose
Bravia Kimyi 8 months ago
I wish that was how you pluralized “moose”… the pluralization of “moose” is just “moose”
Load More Replies... Panda Kicki 8 months ago
In Sweden a man was arrested for killing his wife with blunt force trauma in the woods. He said she went for a walk alone. He could have been convicted until someone started to wonder where the foamy stuff on her came from, as well as short hairs.Then the moose attacked another person walking alone and the man was acquitted. .
CatD 8 months ago
I saw a video of a mother moose CLOG DANCING on top of this poor person who got too close to her calf.😳
Load More Replies... Rosecrucian Roeth 8 months ago
Picture yourself driving along the Trans Canada Highway through Northern Ontario at night and suddenly this decides to cross the road in front of you.....................
KittyMommy 8 months ago
Friend of mine is Canadian, he hit a moose and had to have major facial reconstructive surgeries. Basically crushed his face, knocked most of his teeth out. Only plus side was he was early 20s and healed up nicely
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Michael Largey 8 months ago
Here’s the banana. Just go on over and measure him.
Load More Replies... tracy black 8 months ago
hes beautiful im g oing up north this year i hope to see one in person they are my fav animal
Rafael 8 months ago
Moose are definitely huge and can f**k us up if we look at them wrong, but they're not THIS huge, there's some perspective trickery here. Moose are about 2.3m (7"6' American I think), so for instance Gwendolyne Christie would be about the size of this guy's shoulder
January Tempis 7 months ago
Thank you. I had to scroll through comments until I found somebody who could explain. This didn't seem likely to be.
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This Morning I Found By Far The Smallest Frog I Have Ever Seen In My Entire Life (My Average-Sized Fingernail For Scale)
Peter Kovak 8 months ago
I'm used to see bananas for scale, but it seems that fingernails also work!!
#32
Sea Lions In My Hometown Sleeping On San Carlos Beach Due To Orca Sightings Nearby
brookeannsimmer 8 months ago
This reads almost as if the the sea lions read about the orca sightings too
#33
Went In For Teeth Cleaning Last Month & Mentioned A Numb Feeling In A Tooth- I Was Shocked To Find A Tumor Eating My Jaw Bone. This Photo Is My Ct Scan. Biopsy Surgery Results Were Non-Cancerous, Thankfully
I had surgery last week to take a biopsy to rule out bone cancer. Results came back as a central large cell granuloma. Next step are more tests and a surgery to remove the tumor/lesion completely. Possibly bone transplant/stem cell procedure later to help regrow some bone and pretty sure those teeth will need help later down the line too. 15-20% chance this thing could come back, too.
Upstaged75 8 months ago
Reminds me of the Radium Girls who had their jaws disintegrate after repeatedly putting radium-tipped paint brushes in their mouths.
Lee451 Henderson 8 months ago
I had a large cell tumor in my left femur. During surgery to replace my knee I contracted MRSA. Finally had to amputate the leg.
okpkpkp 8 months ago
Use a cadaver bone if possible. 3 guys I know had a neck surgery and two said take my own bone and one said use a cadaver bone graft. The two were in recovery much longer. Weeks longer. Don't take my advise, BTW. Take your own doctor's advise.
Marcellus II 8 months ago
Upvote for the last sentence... don't take medical advice from Reddit/BP/etc.
Load More Replies... Bob Connely 8 months ago
Best wishes to you... from this cancer survivor (so far - one day at a time!)
Veronica Jean 8 months ago
That is terrible. On the other hand, I am right now snuggling with my dog who has bone cancer that popped up and spread to his lungs in a matter of three days. He has three months to live. I am SO GLAD it wasn't bone cancer 💜
D.G. Sifuentes 8 months ago
I had a similar issue and the cyst was creating a recurring abscess in my jaw. Had it removed and a bone graft from a cadaver. It hasn’t returned, but the damage was not as much as your jaw.
Lyone Fein 8 months ago
Good thing you acted on that numbness instead of waiting for it to get worse.
#34
Just In Case People Are Getting Confused, Here Is A Husky Next To A Wolf
olaff 422 8 months ago
I love when the alpha chuds think they could fight a wolf and win because all they know of wolves are the huskeys in movies.
Bill Swallow 8 months ago
Does it count if I have my Anatolian Shepherd fight the wolf for me?
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Rich Black 8 months ago (edited)
Photoshop may be involved. Adult gray wolves are 70-100 pounds. Not the size of a cow.
Bill Swallow 8 months ago
Depends on the subspecies. The biggest get up to 175 lbs. Turkish livestock guardian dogs, bred to fight wolves, range from 140 to 180 lbs for a healthy adult male. And a healthy adult dairy cow can reach 1000 lbs.
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Max Fox 8 months ago
They took a large wolf and a small husky. The largest subspecies of wolf are between 2.25 and 3 feet at the shoulder, and weigh 85-135 lb. A Husky is between 19 and 24 inches at the shoulder and weigh between 35 and 60 lb. So they put a three foot tall wolf with a 19 inch husky, and pretend that they are comparing an average wolf with an average husky. Also, when people in the USA envision a husky, they're actually envisioning a malamute, which a larger dog. Huskies are medium dog, at best.
#35
It's A Little Unnerving When You Wake Up In The Morning And Find These Right Outside Your Tent... Gates Of The Arctic National Park, Alaska
BlitheSpirit 8 months ago
For me, the camping trip would be over about .08 seconds after seeing that 😳
Mike Ray 8 months ago (edited)
That is the correct answer. I was backpacking in Yosemite and woke up to the same thing. I was immediately outta there. Trip over
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DuckDuckGooseberry 8 months ago
Aaaand that would be my trip over, I'd even wait to change my trousers until I was back in the car
Joanne Hudson 8 months ago
With all the job cuts, it probably was the Park Ranger checking on you.
Mountainslady1 8 months ago
When you camp in their house, you should be prepared for meeting them. Should have took a pic of the prints next to your hand for scale.
#36
This Blue Lizard I Saw On The Island Of San Andrés, Colombia
#37
This Lizard I Found "Standing" On Water In My Pool
Bob Jones 8 months ago
There is a rock band named after it https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jesus_Lizard
For All Pedernity 8 months ago
The actual Jesus lizard is a different animal.
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#38
This Is Not Ice It's A Transparent Leaf
Snowkit 8 months ago (edited)
Ok, pls spare me! I’m gonna die of laughter! lol!!!!!🤣
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#39
Chullpi, The Original Sweet Corn From Peru, Grows In A Ball Shape And Is Still Grown Today
JenniB 8 months ago
I live in Canada and we get some of the BEST produce in our stores from Peru. I bought green grapes the other day that were each the size of a small plum!
fly on the wall 8 months ago
And they are so firm and sweet. Best grapes I have eaten. Hope we get them on a regular basis!
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Don't people EVER get tired of posting buIIsh!t that somebody made up because it sounded good? Maize was domesticated in Mexico lowlands, and this is a breed of corn that was bred by indigenous peoples to survive in the highlands of the southern Andes. It is likely a few thousand years old, but Maiez was domesticated thousands of years before this breed ever existed. Typical ignorant Reddit BS, by people who are too lazy to do even the most basic research, and are to stupid to run a fvcking Google search. The Reddit BS is then copied here by people who don't spend even a minute doing minimal verification.
Max Fox 8 months ago
Oh, and sweet corn was created by the Iroquois in the 18th century and it was possibly created to be sold to White people. Yes, the Iroquois understood how to breed maize to create cultivars with specific desired characteristics.
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A Polar Bears Paw Print Compared To A Human Hand
CooperDooper81 8 months ago
That and they're always going on about their Crossfit training.
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Beak Hookage 8 months ago
Easy to see why you're that completely screwed if one decides you look tasty.
#41
I Had A Brain Tumor Removed, And Now I’m A Bit Absent Minded
Sue User 8 months ago
I dont know why, but i sort of assummed the part left would " fill in the gap" . But I guess brain matter is not so fluid.
Scarlett O'Hara's Ghost 8 months ago
Brain matter is absolutely that fluid! People can have an entire hemisphere removed and recover quite normally most of the time
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Stephanie Did It 8 months ago
I have a similar image of my brain after a stroke. Big blank void on the side, and I was surprisingly unaffected. I think.
#42
A House Made Entirely Out Of Tree Branches
Sam Trudeau 8 months ago
His business is with Isengard tonight. With Rock and Stone!
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Crafts in America has an episode where people are creating structures out of plant material like this as a way to get people involved with nature.
KatSaidWhat 5 months ago
Zulus used to make huts out of branches. Google them - they're stunning!
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Cosmos in your eyes 8 months ago
I'll huff! and I'll puff! And I'll blow your whole house down!
#43
I Drove By A Training School For Telephone Linemen
Christine Wild 8 months ago
I never considered they had training. I guess I would suck that they said that the interview can you run up there? Prove it. Good, you’ve got the job
Marie BellaDonna 8 months ago
Reminds me of that scene in Mulan, where they have try to climb the poles.
#44
The Sun Hit This Freshly-Paved Tarmac Just Right And Made A Real-Life Rainbow Road Through Polarized Lenses
#45
Ir Light And My Veins. Behind The Hand Is A Source Of 850nm Ir Light And It Can Pass Though Flesh More Easily Than The Deoxygenated Blood Present In The Vein
Sarah Belt 8 months ago
I've seen some LED pool lights that do this. Had a blast looking at the inside of my foot, haha.
Ilan Elron 8 months ago
there must be more in the spectrum of that source - 850nm itself is not visible to normal eyes
Lyone Fein 8 months ago
Infared light is all around us all the time. It’s part of the natural light spectrum, but it is beyond what the human eye is generally able to perceive.
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#46
Rabbits Fighting Mid-Air In Kyushu, Japan
ShortAttnSpanTheatre 8 months ago
Every bunny was Kung-Fu fighting! da na na na na na na na nahhh
David Beaulieu 8 months ago
Japanese rabbits, probably karate not kung fu.
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TotallyNOTAFox 8 months ago (edited)
It's handy to have Brother Maynard on speed dial in regions with a high bunny population
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CD Mills 7 months ago
Here in the Desert Southwest, (SE New Mexico for me) our Jackrabbits are well-known scrappers. I've seen them fighting, and the screams and cries they make while whooping a*s are kind of freaky. Once, two of our boss's sons were out spotlighting Jackrabbits, and they had one Jackrabbit jump up into the truck(the door was open), and he tore hell out of the seat covers, their clothes, and them, then it chased both of them out of the truck! Their dad was pissed when they walked back to the house with no truck, and no guns!
#47
The Way These Caterpillars Are Eating This Leaf
Becky Samuel 8 months ago
Birch sawfly larvae. Not strictly speaking caterpillars as they turn into flies.
Richard Pennington 8 months ago
I had this in my garden - rose sawfly larvae eating a rose leaf. They will strip the leaf down to a skeleton. The adult looks like a housefly but with a bright yellow abdomen.
Richard Pennington 7 months ago
Large Rose Sawfly: Images left to right: (1) Adult; (2) Damage caused by eggs laid in a rose stem; (3) larvae eating a rose leaf. Rose-sawfl...710f8d.jpg 
#48
This Is What An Elephant's Tail Looks Like
Pyla 8 months ago
I have two bracelets made of one hair each. I found it on top of a beam in our old tudor art room, asked around, no one knew who it belonged to. They are joined with a tube of gold. I keep them in my safe deposit box, I just can't throw them away and I can't wear them.
Panda Cat 8 months ago
I imagine they shed their fur like the rest of us mammals.
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Vanessa Steis 8 months ago
Elephants are not very hairy creatures. But their tails certainly are an exception to this rule, with thick, coarse, black tail hairs that can reach a length of up to 100cm – all the better to scatter those flies. Research shows that the tail hairs of elephants are significantly different to their body hairs, and more like rhino horn or horse hoof keratins. In the case of albino calf, Khanyisa, her tail hairs, while growing steadily, lack any pigment and are the same light blondish hue of the fuzz that covers her trunk and chin. =)
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Gorilla Hands Up Close
Brian Droste 8 months ago
I would like to see the size of gorilla hand print to compare it to the polar bear paw print further up.
Tanya Robinson 7 months ago
Yep, gorillas are very big. Now, why are you wearing 3 very thin rings on 3 different fingers?
somnomania (she/her, queer) 8 months ago
from the background of the photos, it is very clearly not in a cage. there are necessary barriers between zookeepers and animals, and many, including gorillas, are trained to come up to the barrier and present themselves so that blood can be drawn, vaccines given, etc from a place of safety for both.
Load More Replies... Lyone Fein 8 months ago
Like many other non-human animals, gorillas face many dangers from poachers (due to the lucrative trade in body parts believed to have magical properties), as well as environmental encroachment. Unfortunately, for many endangered populations like gorillas living in controlled environments under expert human protection (such as in nature preserves or in zoos) may be their best chance for survival.
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#50
A Prop Used For Close UPS Of The One Ring In The Lord Of The Ring Movies
nottheactualphoto 8 months ago
"Close UPS" ... United Parcel Service? Uninterruptible Power Supply?
CrunChewy McSandybutt 8 months ago
At first, I read this as "Prop used for close ups on the onion ring..."
#51
Gecko's Ears Are Just A Hole That Goes Straight Through Their Head
For All Pedernity 8 months ago
Haha! I'll claim I'm part gecko from now on.
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This Elephant Ears Plant At A Plant Store
#53
Very Rare Twin Headed Turtle
#54
Fish Trapped In A Jellyfish
Bill Swallow 8 months ago
That's his spacesuit. He's an explorer, headed up above the water to outer space. See James Blish's 'Surface Tension'.
#55
These Bendy Trees I Saw On My Walk This Afternoon
OneHappyPuppy 8 months ago
I read somewhere that this indicates the land the trees are on is unstable - frequent landslides or other earth moving activities going on
Uncle Panda 8 months ago
That's what trees look like when they're running in full flight. Something must have startled them.
#56
Inside Of A Pine Cone
Uncle Panda 8 months ago (edited)
I have about 10,000 fresh pine cones in the backyard if anybody wants to drop by. Must take all.
Nad.nad 8 months ago
Pine nuts are expensive and delicious! You might collect them and sell them! Or use them to make a lot of pesto..
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Southern Los Angeles Looks Like A Computer Motherboard
#58
While Walking On The Beach In Hawaii My Wife And I Found This Glass Ball That Had Become The Home Of Small Marine Ecosystem
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 8 months ago
I hope they put it back instead of keeping it as a souvenir.
Cosmos in your eyes 8 months ago
Looks like it could be one of the planets from The Little Prince.
Kabuki Kitsune 8 months ago
It's trash. Specifically, it's an old net float. Problem is, these confuse animals and often end up getting broken with turtles, and marine mammals eating them then dying. So, you're saying you hope someone threw garbage back in the water, to potentially k**l animals.
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Uncle Panda 8 months ago (edited)
I don't know on this one. Usually I'd say leave it be but its immediate destiny was to become sand. I think I'd have viewed it as a gift from the ocean that needs to be protected, fostered, given more time to grow.
#59
Concentrated Solar Farm I Saw On A Plane To Vegas
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 8 months ago (edited)
Ivanpah Solar Power Facility. I've never seen it from above and never realized it's not perfectly round. It makes sense because it's in the Northern Hemisphere and the mirrors on the north side would have to be spaced further apart to get the best angle.
Tom Brincefield 8 months ago
It's the Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Project, about 190 miles north of Vegas. It uses molten salt to store the thermal energy instead of water like Ivanpah.
Load More Replies... TotallyNOTAFox 8 months ago (edited)
If somebody wonders how it works: The mirrors direct sunlight towards the tower in the middle, heating up oil or liquid salt that passes through a heat exchanger and heats up water into steam which passes through a turbine to generate power
Pyla 8 months ago
I’ve read about the lake effect, where birds will think it’s water and injuries can occur. The berkley pit, leftover from the mine is so toxic, it cooks birds with its strong acids, so they have created a warning system that tries to waive off the birds. Energy has issues
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Strange Patterns In Mountain Lake
#61
Wolf Spider And Her Many Spiderlings
Almost an identical encounter to last year’s wolf spider mama, I spotted this mom and her babies in the same stretch of paved park path at about the same time in the early morning.
Judy Reynolds 8 months ago
But if you are into spiders, I can understand your fascination!
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#62
31 Years Old And Today I Learnt Pink Grasshoppers Exist
Magenta Blu 8 months ago
Those were not uncommon some time ago. My grandpa had a insectarium with plenty of those and people used to eat them too. Supposedly taste like lobster
#63
An Unaltered Picture Near The Fires That Were In Mendocino County, California
luci (he/fae) 8 months ago
definitely not the same level, but i live in the northeastern US, and during the 2022 canada wildfires, the sky was literally orange for weeks.
#64
Street Light Size Was Put Into Perspective This Morning. They’re Huge
#65
Glass Beach Kauai. It's Sea Glass, So You Can Walk On It Bearfoot
BookFanatic 8 months ago
Were you the one leaving the pawprints outside the other poster's tent?
Load More Replies... Huddo's sister 8 months ago
I'm so jealous of places that have a lot of sea glass. I've only ever found one piece at the beaches I've been to.
Panda Cat 8 months ago
Here’s a secret- but keep it to yourself … you can make your own sea glass and not by throwing glass into the ocean and waiting. No, all you need is a bunch of broken glass and a rock tumbler.
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Dont Sellmyinfo 8 months ago (edited)
No, so I have so idea why the person wouldn’t wear shoes. Also all sea glass are not created equal. There are a lot of pieces that still will be sharp if they haven’t tumbled in the water long enough
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I Found This Caterpillar With Yellow Eyes
#67
What A 4 Megabyte Harddrive Looked Like In 1965 (iPhone X For Scale)
Bill Swallow 8 months ago
Be glad it's a disk, and not Drum Memory. The FASTRAND drum storage device (Big honking metal drum coated with magnetic oxide spinning at ungodly speed - axis of rotation parallel to the floor; it was a steamroller - and with read-write heads around the surface) was described as 'a device for storing angular momentum. Momentum storage was slightly reduced if the optional data read-write mechanism was installed, due to the braking effect of the heads'. They were only *slightly* joking. Back in those days, the data storage density was quite low, so the drum had to be humongous to be useful. As a drum, the mass was concentrated on the rim. There are documented cases of mounting bearings failing and the drum taking off like a juggernaut and crashing through walls.
Bored Sailor 8 months ago
If you see the cases behind it, they are six disks a lot smaller but similar appearance. Those were 40 Mb when I started my first job in the Navy, remember when we got the 80 Mb, haha what an upgrade. They were still in use late 90s early 2000.
Forrest Hobbs 8 months ago
Being picky: those are just the discs. The actual drives they were used in were a lot bigger - and in use, they were protected from the outside air one way or another. Not that I ever met any such - I'm also from the 1960s. They seem to be displayed in front of hard disc drives meant to use similar discs, only I've ever only seen such things loaded with disc stacks (in photos) - memory says they were always enclosed somehow.
Inigo Montoya 8 months ago
Apple instead of banana. It's nice to get a variety of fruits once in a while
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Saw This Bug In Sri Lanka That Was Using An Air Bubble To Breath Under Water
#69
People Cheering For This Turtle At Loggerhead Marinelife Center
#70
Escalator Steps That Have Been Removed From The Escalator
Marianne 8 months ago
Here in Germany, you will usually find a sign in front of them, saying "This escalator is temporarily out of order."
Val 8 months ago
An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs. You should never see an ‘Escalator Temporarily Out Of Order sign,’ just ‘Escalator Temporarily Stairs. Sorry for the convenience.
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This Tree Has A Curved Limb And In 2.5 Years I've Never Seen The Leaves Fall Off Of It
#72
How Much A Ballerina's Foot Can Stretch
Scarlett O'Hara's Ghost 8 months ago
This dancer started the process of hyperextension as early as 7 years old to have achieved the level she did in these pictures. It's borderline barbaric. She'll have her career. Retire at the ripe age of 30 and by 35 be in so much pain that she'll crippled by it mid life
Upstaged75 8 months ago
Are you a dancer? Because I am you mostly made that up. Some people are naturally flexible. But there's no need to force hyperextension and NO ONE is teaching it or pushing it on dancers. Well, maybe in China or Russia they are. But it's NOT part of regular ballet training.
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StrangeOne 8 months ago
Hyperextension. While it can be a result of pointe dancing, not all dancers have this extreme of an arch, and it's not necessarily good in the long run for the dancers, as it comes with a lot of health problems later. A nice line, with alignment, is all that's needed.
Panda Cat 8 months ago
I didn’t take dance classes until I was an undergrad. I couldn’t follow choreography at all and it took me \~3 years before it clicked. I took Modern then ballet because I needed the vocabulary and muscle knowledge. I used dance, especially ballet for strength and stamina and could ski like a telemark goddess because of it. It wasn’t my goal to perform or go on pointe yet I knew someone who thought she could go on pointe during her 40s. Guess how that worked out? Major injuries to her back and ankles but she persisted anyway. I guarantee I derived more pleasure from ballet than she did, and I still dance, but she can’t. I’m really flexible, too, but I have terrible turnout, which means there are some things that are so far impossible for me to do in figure skating. I guess my point is that some people are willing to destroy their body and some aren’t.
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 8 months ago
I've known people who would pay good money to go to the ballet and not hear a single note of music. Not kink shaming, just not into it.
Leafy Dawn 8 months ago
I'm not a dancer, but am hypermobile, and my feet do that naturally. Can confirm it's not great now I'm older as it causes a lot of pain in my entire body.
Mimi M 8 months ago
Dad (RIP) was a music critic (SF Chronicle) and took me to Balanchine when I was little - maybe 5 or 6. He pointed out the hyperextended feet of the dancers and told me that George Balanchine chose them and then trained them that way - the way he said it was more a condemnation than a compliment.
#74
Levitating Tree. Saw This While Walking The Other Day. So Crazy
Wombat 8 months ago
This is a real thing! The one I read about has its upper branches supported by another tree, and somehow stays alive. It must get all the nutrients it needs through its leaves.
Kira Okah 8 months ago
Looked this up the last time it was on here. These don't get nutrients from anything, the tree is very much dead and was a severe danger of dropping from the canopy at any time. The OP called someone after taking photos, because this needed removing before it fell onto something or someone.
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I've Never Seen That Color Ladybug Before
#76
Captured The Lenght Of A Hummingbird's Tongue
#77
The Sun Through Prismatic Glasses
Magenta Blu 8 months ago (edited)
Very fragmented.. reminds me when I was really struggling with severe depression.. going out to sunny days looked almost like this.. but it hurt. Daylight hurt my eyes, sounds were unbearable and the feeling of running water on my skin felt like burning acid regardless the water temperature. I'm not sure if I got better.. or just got used to it. Now open spaces, specially full of people are really uncomfortable and draining. I wish I just could stay at home all day long and never having to go outside again
Panda Cat 8 months ago
I’m so, so, sorry. I hope you won’t be offended if I mention what came to mind that might help. Have you tried sunglasses? I don’t know if there are specific types that are better for depression or if any high-quality lenses might work. I get migraines on cloudy days, but sunglasses help. My son sometimes wears headphones around his neck in case He needs to escape sound. My partner bought Beats headphones that I use more than him, and they are very comfortable. I use cloth covers because I sweat a lot so they’re even better. The heightened feeling on your skin sounds like what some people experience with fibromyalgia. People with fibromyalgia are often depressed. Go figure. I’ve known some people who do dry brushing to desensitize themselves enough that they can tolerate having anything touch them. Can you explore open spaces when they’re empty?
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Giant 13’ Tall Mounds Of Broken Glass Outside Of A Glass Manufacturer
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 8 months ago
After a decade working on a bottling line, I hate glass. I really hate glass.
Uncle Panda 8 months ago (edited)
That's what it's there for. Such shards are called cullet and many industries do it to strengthen a new batch.
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Longest Eyelashes. You Jianxia's Eyelashes Are Eight Inches Long
KnightOwl 8 months ago
I'm the only one freaked out by this? It makes me so uncomfortable, it must feel so strange. I keep imagining them getting tangled up or caught on things. I hate anything to do with eyes, it always freaks me out.
Miles Mawyer 8 months ago
The thought of them being in my vision.. that would drive me bananas
Load More Replies... Magenta Blu 8 months ago
Looks 1 million times better than those fake caterpillar eyelashes people is wearing nowadays
#80
What Would You Do If You Saw This On A Beach?
#81
What The Inside Of A Bowling Ball Looks Like
#82
Waterfalls Will Never Seize To Amaze Me
#83
The Sheer Size Of This Eagle!
#84
Some Skin Peeled Off My Tongue
Ineke Pronk 8 months ago
Oh I had the same thing one. Had the flu and was sucking on vitamin C tablets. got to pull of a large section just like that. Also feels weird feeling it come off.
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