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lurid-curiosities:

Dante’s Inferno: a guide to hell

Take the test here and see which level of Hell you’d be in! I got level eight. Go figure. ;) 

I got 8

I got level 7 for being too violent :)

7 oh well

6th. YOLO.

Whoo! Purgatory! Goodie two shoes I am~

6th level, here I come!

Purgatory. Wow I’m dull.

7th level. Last time I took this I got 6th, I guess I’m getting wrathful in my old age.

I got 7th level too! *high five*

I got “extreme” on that one, though my next highest score was “very high” for Level 2 (Lustful).

Level 2 - Lustful. No surprise there.

Two. Um.

7th level of hell…

wallacegardens:

The “Island Vessel Vivarium” is a terrarium inside an aquarium. Designed by artist Alberto J. Almarza, show-cased at the Geek Arts / Green Innovators Festival in April 2010. Glass blower: Pittsburgh Glass Center.

“As a passionate nature lover, there is nothing more gratifying than observing this active and thriving little ecosystem as if seen through a magnifying glass.” ~Almarza

Living ingredients include moss, violets, a spider, and a centipede for the terrarium, and for the aquarium: Java moss, banana plant, barnacles, ghost shrimp, and zebra danios. 

theomeganerd:

Xbox Hardware Evolution Chart

the-science-llama:

If Earth Had Rings

First off, they would be really pretty to look at. They would also dominate the sky in both night and day at exactly the same place as they would never rise nor set. And at night you would see the Earth’s shadow swing across the rings, like in the 4th photo here.

However, life would be very different on Earth if this were the case. Nocturnal animals would have a hard time being nocturnal, as the light reflecting from the rings would illuminate the night.

Because we are closer to the Sun than Saturn is, the rings would be more rocky than ice, making them less bright but still pretty bright. In fact, you would see far less stars at night (living anywhere other than the equator or the arctic circle) because of the light pollution and not to mention ruin most meteor showers because of that.

During the day the rings would block sunlight in certain regions of the planet creating wild weather cycles and effecting plant life as well. So basically, they would be definitely pretty to look at but they would also make a whole lot of things screwy.

Illustrations by Ron Miller // io9
— Click the photos for captions

cj-sewers:

nomobsessions:

thecakebar:

Smores + Oreos = Smoreos

what the holy ever living fuck

vegan dandies for the marshmallows, this caramel sauce recipe, ghirardelli’s semi-sweet chocolate (yup they’re vegan) chips oooor your fav. brand of vegan chocolate chips and vegan butter o’course. 

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pappubahry:

Jupiter’s moon Io, photographed by Voyager 2, 10 July 1979.

The end of this blog’s Io-thon follows on from yesterday’s post.  The photos used in this gif were taken with longer exposures than yesterday’s, so there is a better contrast between Io and the background.  Two volcanic eruptions are clearly visible in the top-left: I think that they are from Amirani and Maui.  There’s also an eruption on the right-hand side, but as its only lit by reflected light from Jupiter, it requires a lot of brightening to see (NASA’s photojournal shows it here).

You can also see a volcano in the south, tall enough to stay in sunlight even as the surrounding areas fall into darkness.

Yesterday I mentioned the bright spot glinting near the equator.  I asked Jason Perry (who used to write an Io blog) about it on Twitter and he said that it “looks like specular reflection off of glassy, cooled lava near Hi’iaka Patera.”  So there you go.