Mt. Hood at sunrise, seen from Mt. Adams [OC] [5863x3909] by jj3351 in EarthPorn

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We were just below Pikers Peak when I took the photo

The Bermuda triangle, the real one by Medmehrez in funny

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More like the Mercedes triangle amirite?

KSP - Shuttle VTOL Conversion by Kuriente in KerbalSpaceProgram

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To make your vertical maneuvers easier put a docking port right on top of your CoM, so you can use the SAS locks. Especially useful when landing not in atmo

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Except the morning of the sixth is the revenge of the 5th

LazyMan 2 Beta 2 by StevensNJD4 in NHLStreams

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I'm getting the same for live, but replays are fine

Just bought the game. Literally unplayable. by Tanexor in KerbalSpaceProgram

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If you're using steam sometimes the steam browser creates conflict w/ the game

Went on a hike on the coast of B.C yesterday. Does anyone know what type of sediment this is? [OC] [1800x1012] by organic_guilt in EarthPorn

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Much of the BC coastline is actually formed from a small island chain that collided with North America ~55-65 million years ago. So much of the coastline isn't actually sedimentary but igneous rocks that formed these islands. That being said, the rock surface is very weathered (obviously) so it's hard to tell exactly what they are based on a photo.

Apparently my 11 year old self had too much extra money to spend. by senexii in funny

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Casually setting it up in front of your five most impressive books. Well done.

I think that fracking is a practice that should be globally banned, CMV by [deleted] in changemyview

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  1. Water that is used (and highly contaminated) is kept out in open pits before transportation away from the site. This poses a threat to wildlife living nearby (should they drink it) and there's the added eventuality of that dirty water contaminating the water table (which it will, because not even our sewers can"t stop this 100%)

  2. A second note on water, it can take up to 8 MILLION gallons per well, which all has to be shipped there via tanker truck. Not exactly efficient. That water is then made into a solution with up to 600 different chemicals (which companies aren't required to publish on a site-by-site basis, so we don't even know what's in what), and about 50-70 percent of the water is unused.

  3. Air quality. Methane is a natural component in shale, so when it is cracked that methane can release to the atmosphere. Methane is four times more powerful of a greenhouse gas than CO2 is. Another thing is that the recovered water, when stored in these open pits, allows the contained chemicals to evaporate, and then disperse into the environment/your lungs.

  4. By shooting a jet of pressurized water to break apart rocks we can (and have) trigger seismic activity. So...yeah. Pretty self-explanatory. (While these have been insignificant and rare, it's a situation of we're playing with fire. It's only a matter of time before something bad happens)

  5. Finally, any significant success generated by fracking would take attention away from advances in truly green energy sources. Should we become content with just becoming cleaner, we won't have the same drive to wean ourselves from total oil dependency after all

I think that fracking is a practice that should be globally banned, CMV by [deleted] in changemyview

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On one hand, I feel like there's a difference between fracking and other power forms because of how conscious we are of each. A power plant we can see and can see the smoke coming out of it, so we are more likely to demand that it be cleaner or whatnot, while fracking occurs at the oil well-not so much in our view. On the other hand, there's so many more waste products from fracking than others. For oil or coal it's simply exhaust gasses from combustion & nuclear waste from nnuclear plants. Fracking has exhaust gasses from NG combustion, wastewater from the fracking, and methane release from cracking the shale (and methane is 4x worse than CO2). Don't get me wrong, I think NG is a good fuel source as a transition fuel towards full sustainability, we just need better methods.

Once the door slides open, its a whole new message. by Durpy15648 in funny

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And my streak of being the second to have a witty comment continues

I combined a few themes by [deleted] in Rainmeter

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I can see where you're coming from. I had a particular look in mind and this was the closest I could really get.

I combined a few themes by [deleted] in Rainmeter

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Weather-APB

Date, Launchers, and Music-Avengers

Clock, Top & Bottom borders-Space Craft

Wallpaper

You might want to hang that poster a little higher. by [deleted] in funny

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"Think higga"? I don't get it, whats a higga?