Here’s a scary fact, if we just stop crude oil rigs and refineries, here is what wi happen:

1. There won’t be any gas for hot water services or gas stoves

2. There will certainly not be cars on the road, also, no diesel means no logistics via truck

3. No flights on planes (at least Tay-Tay won’t royally fuck the ozone)

4. No heavy fuels for oil tankers and cargo ships, no trucks, flights or cargo ships is a complete disruption of supply chain and logistics!

5. There will be no new roads or road maintenance! Because asphalt is made from oil!

6. No fuel for oil lamps and stuff, and there won’t be any wax or plastic or car tires…

A whole economical collapse will follow the decision to just stop oil.

So, next time you think “we need to stop oil refining” also think of the cons associated with it, because it may bring the systematic collapse of the economy, and in turn, society as a whole!

Hope you found this interesting!

Floor796 is an ever-expanding animation scene showing the life of the 796th floor of the huge space station! The goal of the project is to create as huge animation as possible, with many references to movies, games, anime and memes.

Most of the characters are clickable: you can find out what kind of character and follow the link to the source. Non-clickable characters are fictional.

A sad fact. I didn't realize it is this bad. Currently it is mostly escalation after escalation. What way out is there?

Ships used for building offshore windfarms. Some have legs for raising up off the ocean floor

The radar can detect airborne ICBM warheads up to 2500 miles away.

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Now there’s two words you don’t often see together. In fact, Google Trends lists zero occurrences of the phrase between 2004 and now. Even “German humor” produces a graph (albeit a rather flat one). But not only is there some evidence that Swiss comedy does exist, it might just be that being well-hidden is kind of its thing. Find it and laugh. Or don’t, and the joke’s on you!

That evidence, as it turns out, is cartographic. The Swiss Federal Office of National Topography, Swisstopo for short, is a decidedly serious institution. Many serious things—time and money, for starters—depend on the accuracy of its maps. In the case of its mountain maps, actual lives hang in the balance. Yet in decades past, the austere institute’s maps have served as the canvas for a series of in-jokes among its more fun-loving cartographers.

One of the most intriguing objects housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art in New York is a container for something that few people have ever heard of: the lapis de Goa, or “Goa stone.”

Goa stones were a compound of gold, crushed gemstones, herbs, bezoars, and other exotic substances popular in the 1690-1750 period. Like the bezoars they imitated, they were thought to offer a powerful protection against poisoning. Tiny flakes would be shaved off and consumed (I picture them being dropped in wine glasses) by wealthy consumers in India and Europe. As you can no doubt tell from the incredibly lavish decoration of this particular Goa stone container, they were extremely valuable.

Among all of the visual information published by the U.S. government, there may be no product with a higher information density than the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) aviation maps. Intended for pilots, the FAA publishes free detailed maps of the entire U.S. airspace, and detailed maps of airports and their surroundings and updates them frequently. The density of the critical information layered on these maps is staggering, and it is a miracle that pilots can easily decipher these maps’ at a glance. But they can.

Together, the 100 most valuable brands in the world are worth more than $5 trillion.

Brands play an important role in driving shareholder value, yet pinpointing how much a brand is worth can be challenging. Investments in brand could pay dividends for many decades, but because those financial benefits are fairly open to interpretation, most financial regulators don’t usually accept brand assets on balance sheets.

To look at it another way, Apple is missing one of its most valuable assets on its financial reporting—a brand worth $516.6 billion.

This visualization ranks the top 100 brands by brand value, based on the annual global ranking from Brand Finance.

Right in the center of the island nation of Madagascar there’s a strange, almost perfectly circular geological structure. It covers a bigger area than the city of Paris — and at first glance, it looks completely empty. But right in the center of that structure, there’s a single, isolated village: a few dozen houses, some fields of crops, and dirt roads stretching out in every direction.

When we first saw this village on Google Earth, its extreme remoteness fascinated us. Was the village full of people? How did they wind up there?

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Gallery of his works (Warning: Depictions of nudity)

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> These wasps are not single-celled organisms though, and their brains alone contain 4600 neurons. For reference, the brain of a honeybee contains ~1 million neurons. Despite their extremely small heads (again, look at that head next to the SINGLE CELLED amoeba) the wasps can still fly, seek out mates, and find thrip eggs to parasitize. So…what? How?

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Reminds me of the web back in the 90’s, before Google.

A Relay attack is a form of keyless car theft. Criminals bypass keyless entry security by extending the signal of the car key inside the house.

I didn't know, so I looked it up. Now I know. Thought you might like to know too, if you don't already. 🙂

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cited tweet !

(official source for the 25.000)

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The incident happened in Limpopo, a province in the north-east of South Africa. The truck was transporting oranges from the farm to the market. It broke down on the way.

https://t.me/c/1702333698/1275

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>An impressive feature is their bright red colored eyes with vertical slits. They do not have a true eyelid, but rather a nictitating membrane that allows light to enter the eye so that they will awaken when predators are approaching.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agalychnis_callidryas#Description

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• https://piped.video/watch?v=0srs5jZ1qdg
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0srs5jZ1qdg

WARNING - LOUD!

Gav plops down the high speed camera next to a rocket engine with 45,000lbs of thrust and the results are epic. Big thanks to Firefly for allowing us to film at their facility and BBC Click for letting us use their behind the scenes footage from the day.

Filmed at 2000fps

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefly_Aerospace#Reaver
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shock_diamond

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/4850144

> Two comments in particular stand out: > > >This is going to be a big turning point in the history and character of this country, I think. > posted by Doug at 8:51 AM on September 11, 2001 [207 favorites +] [!] > > >my greatest fear is how our government is going to respond. more erosion of freedom in the name of security. mark my words. > posted by rebeccablood at 12:10 PM on September 11, 2001 [311 favorites +] [!]