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(August 21, 2016 at 6:15 am)pocaracas Wrote: Not exactly science porn..... more like math porn...
Not a tautology.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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August 22, 2016 at 5:57 pm (This post was last modified: August 22, 2016 at 5:58 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(August 21, 2016 at 6:15 am)pocaracas Wrote: It's called a fulgurite. When lightning strikes the sand it melts it into glass and the glass takes on the shape of the lightning:
That picture has been debunked. The fact that the branching pattern doesn't radiate in all directions, but seem to preferentially grow upwards, should raise suspicion about whether that, whatever it is, actually followed the track of current from a lightning bolt dissipating in sand.
August 22, 2016 at 6:21 pm (This post was last modified: August 22, 2016 at 6:27 pm by pocaracas.)
(August 22, 2016 at 5:57 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote:
(August 21, 2016 at 6:15 am)pocaracas Wrote: It's called a fulgurite. When lightning strikes the sand it melts it into glass and the glass takes on the shape of the lightning:
That picture has been debunked. The fact that the branching pattern doesn't radiate in all directions, but seem to preferentially grow upwards, should raise suspicion about whether that, whatever it is, actually followed the track of current from a lightning bolt dissipating in sand.
Oh... wow.... you're right.
I need to start checking everything for bunkness... damn interwebz!
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What the image really shows is a piece of driftwood with sand piled on top of it.
The structure was created and photographed by a guy who goes by the name "Sandcastle Matt" on his Flickr photostream.
He described the structure as "the biggest sandcastle I've ever made." The viral photo showed less than half of it. Here's the full thing:
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