Putting My Saved R/196 Posts On Tumblr

It’s too late to save the world

Ash trees sprout in cracks in the asphalt. The gutters collect leaves, which become soil, in which dandelions sprout.

There’s nothing you can do

A man plants an entire forest. A young girl teaches a drone to deliver saplings. The elderly volunteer to clean up radioactive waste.

You might as well give up

Wolves return to ancestral hunting grounds. Bison return to the prairie. Otters return to the kelp beds. Young oaks push roots deep into reclaimed farmland.

Who cares anyway?

Children draw pictures of flowers. Festivals are held for cherry blossoms and pecans and apples. A crowd cheers as the last line is cut away from the ensnared creature.

I have disobeyed worse than you

The world does not die on my watch

Jumping spider, Phiale guttata, Salticidae

Found from Mexico down through Brazil

Photos 1-2 by jorgearrestre4, 3-5 by benoit_segerer, 6-7 by mason_s, 8 by b_louboutin, and 9-10 (for scale) by isaof

No fucking way

Wake up, slut! New spider just dropped!

Hello everyone. It is my honor, and privilege to formally introduce you too: Hotwheels sisyphus.

This, lovely specimen, is named after the fact, it's genitalia resemble a Hotwheels track! The second bit, of its name, of course comes from the ancient legend of Sisyphus, a man who is forever cursed with rolling a boulder, up a hill. This divine punishment, reminded the researchers Bo Liu and Feng Zhang, who discovered it, of the circular copulatory tube, of the spider, which is basically like a spider uterus. It has only been found in China, and it was discovered this year! They are the only species in the genus Hotwheels. And they are a sort, of ground spider! Unfortunately, not much is known about them, since they are a relatively new species.

i was gonna call your screenshots useless for not having the right poem but i'm crying on the bus so i'll let you get away with it for now

Where the hell is that poem by that welsh poet about laika............

Hi i wanted to share this fucking insane moment I read today

I know people on tumblr looove stories of underwater cave diving, but I haven't seen anyone talk about nitrogen narcosis aka "raptures of the deep"

basically when you want to get your advanced scuba certification (allowing you to go more than 60 feet deep) you have to undergo a very specific test: your instructor takes you down past the 60+ foot threshold, and she brings a little underwater white board with her.

she writes a very basic math problem on that board. 6 + 15. she shows it to you, and you have to solve it.

if you can solve it, you're good. that is the hardest part of the test.

because here's what happens: there is a subset of people, and we have no real idea why this happens only to them, who lose their minds at depth. they're not dying, they're not running out of oxygen, they just completely lose their sense of identity when deep in the sea.

a woman on a dive my instructor led once vanished during the course of the excursion. they were diving near this dropoff point, beyond which the depth exceeded 60 feet and he'd told them not to go down that way. the instructor made his way over to look for her and found a guy sitting at the edge of the dropoff (an underwater cliff situation) just staring down into the dark. the guy is okay, but he's at the threshold, spacing out, and mentally difficult to reach. they try to communicate, and finally the guy just points down into the dark, knowing he can't go down there, but he saw the woman go.

instructor is deep water certified and he goes down. he shines his light into the dark, down onto the seafloor which is at 90 feet below the surface. he sees the woman, her arms locked to her sides, moving like a fish, swimming furiously in circles in the pitch black.

she is hard to catch but he stops her and checks her remaining oxygen: she is almost out, on account of swimming a marathon for absolutely no reason. he is able to drag her back up, get her to a stable depth to decompress, and bring her to the surface safely.

when their masks are off and he finally asks her what happened, and why was she swimming like that, she says she fully, 100% believed she was a mermaid, had always been a mermaid, and something was hunting her in the dark 👍

why is hideki naganuma insane. who is teaching a middle aged japanese man to say shit like this

thought this was neat

I’m crying over this picture

I bet octopuses think bones are horrific. I bet all their cosmic horror stories involve rigid-limbs and hinged joints.