The Show's Not Over Yet (on G+)
Posts
This is why it is important to choose your fish wisely - and why factory ships are such a menace.
This is why it is important to choose your fish wisely - and why factory ships are such a menace. h/t to Alicia Smith for the share. Originally shared by XL Catlin Seaview Survey Five Decades of Overfishing Between 1950 and 2014 the #ocean has seen a lot of changes. For example, Pacific Bluefin #Tuna, #sharks, and North Atlantic Cod were all almost fished to extinction. Only between 5% and 10% remain. This #infographic #gif is from the Mission Blue documentary on the life and work of ocean legend Sylvia A. Earle.
Science! We get gravitational acceleration, tidal stringing, and redshifting all in one!
Science! We get gravitational acceleration, tidal stringing, and redshifting all in one! Originally shared by Solar VPS How a Black Hole Consumes a Star This amazing footage (from NASA - who else?) shows just how devastatingly powerful a #blackhole truly is. Shot over the course of 139 days , this visualization footage shows a supermassive black hole that is approximately 2.7 billion light years away from earth decimating a star. From SPACE.com: "In this visualization, some of the murdered star's debris falls into the void, but some is spun up and shot out at high velocities.Credit: NASA, S. Gezari (The Johns Hopkins University), and J. Guillochon (University of California, Santa Cruz)." The arc of stardust that is flung out into the #cosmos is unbelievable. It's a #gif like this that reminds us here at www.solarvps.com that #space is not only mind boggingly big, but also mind-boggingly violent and treacherous, even for objects as massive as stars. #cool ...