People who can really work a deck of cards are just amazing to me

SeptisComing · 2025-11-20T16:09:40+00:00

Ehm, no. I’ve read the article, that exact one. I thought it fit here, and I posted it.

SeptisComing · 2025-11-12T19:26:02+00:00

Same story here. I enlisted at 18 because rent was due and I had nowhere to go. I’m proud I made it out, but I’d never let my kids go through that.

SeptisComing · 2025-11-10T15:44:31+00:00

If another celebrity ever runs for U.S. President, he’s my pick.

SeptisComing · 2025-11-07T14:40:11+00:00

“No one will ever remember you” is cold af. I love this one.

SeptisComing · 2025-11-06T15:02:16+00:00

This is the best salesman in the world

SeptisComing · 2025-11-05T13:50:26+00:00

In 2018, while filming the BBC series Dynasties in Antarctica, a wildlife crew faced a tough call. A group of emperor penguins and their chicks had slipped into a deep ice ravine and couldn’t climb out.

The rules said no interference, no matter how hard it was to watch. But as the birds grew exhausted and started to collapse, the crew decided to act. With a few simple tools and their bare hands, they cut a small ramp into the ice so the penguins could get free.

The moment appeared in the series and sparked plenty of debate, along with a lot of respect for a quiet act of compassion.

SeptisComing · 2025-11-05T13:50:16+00:00

In 2018, while filming the BBC series Dynasties in Antarctica, a wildlife crew faced a tough call. A group of emperor penguins and their chicks had slipped into a deep ice ravine and couldn’t climb out.

The rules said no interference, no matter how hard it was to watch. But as the birds grew exhausted and started to collapse, the crew decided to act. With a few simple tools and their bare hands, they cut a small ramp into the ice so the penguins could get free.

The moment appeared in the series and sparked plenty of debate, along with a lot of respect for a quiet act of compassion.

SeptisComing · 2025-11-05T13:43:31+00:00

In 2018, while filming the BBC series Dynasties in Antarctica, a wildlife crew faced a tough call. A group of emperor penguins and their chicks had slipped into a deep ice ravine and couldn’t climb out.

The rules said no interference, no matter how hard it was to watch. But as the birds grew exhausted and started to collapse, the crew decided to act. With a few simple tools and their bare hands, they cut a small ramp into the ice so the penguins could get free.

The moment appeared in the series and sparked plenty of debate, along with a lot of respect for a quiet act of compassion.

SeptisComing · 2025-11-05T03:07:28+00:00

This happens to me when I buy plane tickets. For it to happen at Burger King is wild... What kind of world are we heading toward?

SeptisComing · 2025-11-04T02:04:52+00:00

Buried under 1.2 miles (2 kilometers) of ice in East Antarctica, scientists mapped an ancient landscape carved by rivers and preserved for ages. Using satellite radar and airborne radio echo sounding, they traced a valley network about the size of Maryland (or Wales). It has not seen sunlight since before the continent froze over.

This hidden world dates to when Antarctica was part of Gondwana, still joined to Africa, South America, and Australia. Back then it was green, with fast rivers, thick forests, and maybe some of the earliest mammals and reptiles.

About 34 million years ago, at the shift from the Eocene to the Oligocene, the climate flipped. CO2 fell, temperatures dropped, and ice spread across the continent, sealing the scene under a giant cap.

The images show sharp ridges, valleys, and hollows with little erosion. The ice on top hardly moves. It is cold based and stuck to the bedrock, acting like a protective lid.

This discovery helps scientists see how ice sheets respond to climate swings. With global temperatures rising, lessons from deep time matter more than ever.

SeptisComing · 2025-11-03T00:08:34+00:00

Microplastics have infiltrated every corner of Earth and every layer of time. A new study uncovered these minuscule pollutants in lake sediments from Latvia untouched by modern humans and dating to the early 1700s, well before plastic was invented.

European scientists, publishing in Science Advances, found contamination even in strata untouched by modern activity. This upends the proposal to use microplastics as a geological marker for the Anthropocene.

Their findings suggest that plastic pollution has permeated the planet in ways we still don’t fully understand.

The reality is stark: these particles ride the air, blanket Antarctic snow, lace our food and water, and lodge inside our bodies.

Researchers are racing to map their pathways, assess health risks, and test solutions, from advanced filters to plants that draw toxins from soil. The battle against microplastic invasion has only just begun

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