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ramnath@nerdpol.ch
ramnath

Just in from the BBC:

Whole pod of 77 #whales die in 'biggest mass stranding in decades'

Even more. It's awful to see.

#Shocking Rise in Whale, #Dolphin, & #Porpoise Strandings as #Wind #Farms #Proliferate around #British #Coast

https://youtube.com/watch?v=rphBWk15_h4

"A new #film by #AbbyMartin exposing the world's biggest polluter: the US military.
#Earth's Greatest Enemy is a new #documentary film investigating the Pentagon's catastrophic toll on the planet–from carbon emissions, to toxic dumping, to habitat destruction and more, while highlighting the struggles against it. This will be the first ever piece of media that puts every facet of the Pentagon's pollution together into one indictment. But funds are needed to complete post-production. "

And here's a chart showing the #chemical #weapons dumped at sea. Just look at how many surround the UK:
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and of course our #once #beautiful #oceans are #now one huge #rubbish #tip:
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ramnath@nerdpol.ch
ramnath

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"This amazing #stone #artifact, found in the 80s in a #tunnel #system in #Ecuador depicts a roughly etched #world-map, and its thought to be at least 10,000 years old. Here you can see the last remnants of the Atlantean continent in the #Atlantic off the #Florida #coast.

#Cayce. He purports that at this time there were two civilizations on #earth: one very primitive, #ancient #Man that we know about, mere hunter gatherers who populated most of the #world; and an isolationist group, the Atlanteans on their #island who were #extremely #advanced.

Atlantis was real, Cayce was correct, and as a continent civilization it existed for over a hundred thousand years, until about 12,000 years ago" #history
#quote from #pa

mkwadee@diasp.eu
Khurram Wadee

Last week, we had a day trip to #Torquay but rather than drive or take the train, we decided on a different route. The first leg was a #cycle trip to #Exmouth, about 17 km, followed by a boat trip around the #Devon #coast. The weather was a bit changeable but there were only prospects of short showers.

Well the first shower- didn't take long to arrive and here you can see the drops falling into the #EnglishChannel in the #wake of the #boat. An interesting combination of periodicity and irregularity on the water's surface.
Rain falling on the sea

But soon the rain cleared up and the Sun poked through the broken clouds.
Sunshine filtering through clouds

The first part of the #coast travelling #west is primarily #sandstone with its distinctive orange colour. You can see the layers tilted through geological action. #Erosion is always evident at the surface but on the action is the sea. The rocks are dated at about 250 million years.
Sandstone cliff
Sandstone cliff with erosion

On to a bit of #EngineeringGeology and #GeotechnicalEngineering, the erosion is a serious problem for any structures built on or near the coast and there is a mainline railway track on the route to London which runs along it on this stretch. #NetworkRail is busy trying to stabilize and strengthen the cliffs using #RockAnchor, #RockBolts and #meshing to retard the process. Here you can see workers #abseiling as part of their work.
Workers working on cliff face to stabilize the slope
Train going past a sandstone cliff

The erosion causes all manner of interesting irregular shapes in the rocks which make ideal place for #Seabirds to live. These include #Cormorants, #Shags and #Gulls.
Eroded sandstone cliff with a large void
Cormorants on a sandstone cliff
Sandstone cliff
Sandstone formation with large void

As you travel further west, the stratum abruptly changes to #limestone which is over 300 million years old. The form of erosion is also different as limestone is also chemically eroded by slightly acidic water. You can also see that the colour of the sea here is a very deep green.
Limestone cliffs
Limestone eroded to resemble a giant seat
Limestone with brightly coloured vegetation
Limestone with brightly coloured vegetation
Titled layers of limestone in a cliff

The #limestone also forms small #islets just off the #coast, again on which birds alight.
Cormorants on a limestone islet
Larger islet

A close approach to an islet reveals the beautiful detailed patterns of #rock and #vegetation.
Limestone islet
Bright vegetation at the waterline
Limestone cliff edge

Approaching our destination, some brave souls were clambering over this islet and perhaps were preparing to dive into the water.
People on a jagged islet

#MyWork #MyPhoto #CCBYSA #DSLR #Nikon #D7000 #Summer #Devon

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nowisthetime@pod.automat.click
nowisthetime

MP and furious locals in desperate last-ditch bid to stop Bibby Stockholm barge that will house 500 male asylum seekers for 18 months off the #Dorset #coast – with migrants given free mobiles, healthcare and an hourly bus service into the seaside town
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MP and furious locals in desperate last-ditch bid to stop Bibby Stockholm barge that will house 500 male asylum seekers for 18 months off the Dorset coast – with migrants given free mobiles, healthcare and an hourly bus service into the seaside town

An MP has launched a last-ditch attempt to stop an accommodation barge being used to house 500 male asylum seekers, after it belatedly arrived at a port on the Dorset coast today to jeers from protesters who shouted and waved placards. The Bibby...

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nowisthetime

#StCiarán of #Saighir is depicted in a window in #StBrendan's #Church, Birr, Co #Offaly. Picture by Andreas Franz Borchert
#St #Ciarán of Saighir
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Reputed to have been the #first saint #born in #reland, #Ciarán was a native of #CapeClear #Island off the #coast of #Cork.

He became the bishop of Saighir (Seir-Kieran) in the foothills of the #SlieveBloom #mountains in modern-day Co Offaly and remains the patron saint of the Diocese of #Ossory.

Lives of the saint relate #how he #lived in a #forest surrounded by #animals and wearing nothing but skins.

This corresponds to the image of him as a western John the Baptist, and thus like St Ibar, a precursor of the national apostle.

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anonymiss@despora.de
anonymiss

You can watch the series "The Swarm" for free via German #TV server in 4k if you want...

In #Germany, you have a publicly financed #television program where you can #stream everything ad-free. Sounds fantastic, but that's how it is. All you have to do is bypass the #geoblocking.

If you have a #VPN to Germany then use it. Otherwise use the #TOR #browser with an exit node in Germany.

Here are the download URIs for the first 3 episodes

The Swarm 1 English audio:
* 4k (very big)
* hd (1.18 GB)
* sd (219 MB)

The Swarm 2 English audio:
* 4k (very big)
* hd (1.88 GB)
* sd (224 MB)

The Swarm 3 English audio:
* 4k (very big)
* hd (1.92 GB)
* sd (231 MB)

The other episodes will follow next week ...

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The Swarm

Mysterious events are piling up in the oceans around the world: whales destroy boats, deep-sea crabs attack beaches, mussels paralyze container ships. A previously unknown ice worm destabilizes continental slopes in the oceans and triggers...

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