Consider this: You can see less than 1% of the electromagnetic spectrum and hear less than 1% of the acoustic spectrum. As you read this, you are traveling at 220 km/sec across the galaxy. 90% of the cells in your body carry their own microbial DNA and are not “you.” The atoms in your body are 99.9999999999999999% empty space and none of them are the ones you were born with, but they all originated in the belly of a star. Human beings have 46 chromosomes, 2 less than the common potato. The existence of the rainbow depends on the conical photo-receptors in your eyes; to animals without cones, the rainbow does not exist. So you don’t just look at a rainbow, you create it.
NASA Lunar Science Institute, 2012
(via laughing-treeees)
Aufs Meer laden uns
friedliche Wogen.
Vom Himmel wehen
günstige Winde.
Und alles jubelt
in unserem Herzen.
Schicksalhafte Gestade!
Unheilvolle Strände!
Für immer führe uns
weit fort voneinander
ein freundliches Schicksal,
barmherzige Liebe.
Imaged mauled a bit for the purpose of tumblr posting; view them all in order here!
(Almost) Every cat in the felidae family! There are of course, always debates among taxonomists about which cat is in which subfamily, and whether subspecies actually deserve to be a species in of themselves. This is a simplification. Of course kitties here aren’t to scale and color tweaked/caricatured to give them more appeal.
As with almost everything I’ve been posting lately, I’ll be selling this as a poster at Ottawa Comiccon~