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Carl-August W.

@basaltweaver.bsky.social

Basalt Weaver aka Paleo Edits. Earth-science artist & fan-editor. All my links: https://linktr.ee/carlaugustw

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Cabel Sasser@cabel.panic.com · 3mo ago

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

Nereide@drnereide.bsky.social · 4mo ago

From #Apollo (left) to #Artemis (right), two glances at our only home, 54 years apart. One was our Blue Marble — full and vibrant. The other seems like a tiny, solitary jewel in the black cosmic ocean. Yet it’s always the same #Earth. The same heartbeat. That’s us… in both.❤️ 🔭 🧪

This is Earth as photographed by the Apollo 17 crew on December 7, 1972. The whole planet pretty much fills the picture — you see the deep blue oceans, those swirling white clouds, and Africa standing out as this big brown landmass right from the center to the upper left. It’s the famous Blue Marble shot. Credit: NASAFull view of Earth from the Orion spacecraft during Artemis II. Pale blue planet with white clouds, Africa visible on the left with the Iberian Peninsula twinkling with city lights along the curved edge. A soft green aurora glows near the top right. Taken against the blackness of space. Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman
Joschua Knüppe@joschuaknuppe.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🚨 New paper I had the honor to illustrate! 🚨 Guilherme Hermanson and Serjoscha W. Evers take a look at the survivors of the K-Pg event among the turtles and besides size note that especially diet is something that sets them apart: many of them very shell crusher! paper below:

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Alan Stedman@alanjstedman.bsky.social · 7mo ago

This photo was taken in 1911 using glass plate technology by Herbert Ponting who was part of Scott's Antarctic expedition, The composition and detail are exquisite with the band of white snow/ice creating a perfect frame around the two people and the ship in the distance Iconic imo

Photograph from 1911 taken by Herbert Ponting whilst with Scott's Antarctic Expedition The monochrome photo is taken from within a cave. The walls of the cave are made of ice. The cave entrance is in the mid distance with two figures standing looking out towards a distant ship. Between them and the ship there is first a 'beach' of ice before the sea itself. The ship could be up to 800 metres away What makes the photo so special is that where the figures are at the cave entrance there is a band of very white snow and ice (contrasting with the comparatively dark inside of the cave) that creates a stark framework in which the men and the ship are captured. It is made even more dramatic by the fact that the cave entrance is at least 30 metres high and is in the shape of a distorted elipse with the tail sloping off to the right at the top of the elipse The photo being in monochrome in a largely white environment makes the photographers skill all the more laudable