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[operator kos]

[elfismiles]

[Jeff]

[operator kos]

[Jeff]

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[MinM]

[Jeff]

[Byrne]

From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of particular interest.
But for us, it's different.
Consider again that dot.
That's here, that's home, that's us.
On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives.
The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

[justdrew]

[Nordic]

[Gouda]

All images by Mike Hollingshead, extremeinstability.com

[Gouda]

Time for some finger getting zapped close ups. The object in the front here is a drill bit...not a real big one. The zap is fanning out as it gets my finger. Not sure what those balls of light are in the zap. It's interesting how much they look like veins when it does it to your finger.

Right about now is when I noticed something happening. I went to touch the needle and saw the part where it is taped to the metal flickering. I wasn't getting the zap yet though. I then saw on the stills the blue fanning off the top, without a discharge/zap! You had to be really really careful and slow to get it to do it. Had to get your finger close, but not close enough to have the zap happen. I got pretty good at it. I could walk over and "pull some electrons off there".

All images and text by Mike Hollingshead, extremeinstability.com

[foistlastus]

[Cordelia]

http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/wilder ... /dragonfly

[Allegro]

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^^ Thanks, Cordelia. I hope you don’t mind that I grabbed the dragonfly photo to put it directly into this thread. At first glance, I felt numb seeing the dragonfly’s fragile presence.

NOTES. A dragonfly tries to clean itself on May 18 as it sticks to
marsh grass covered in oil in Garden Island Bay on the Gulf
Coast of Louisiana near Venice. Thick oil — described in
various reports as having the consistency of latex paint —
is creeping deeper into the marshes of the Mississippi Delta.