I found a little better version of that video here. Good article and other pictures, too. Actually, it was two trees falling side-by-side. I'm wondering if the process of their growing together also caused them to snap each other's supporting roots to the point they collapsed.
for all you ski bums who keep saying there isn't enough snow or you have to go to the distant resort to find a good run, just check out what your neighborhood has to offer.
Amazing! Crazy! Like a skateboard on snow and ice.
CaT
If future generations are to remember us with gratitude rather than contempt, we must leave them more than the miracle of technology. We must leave them a glimpse of the world as it was in the beginning, not just after we got through with it.
- Lyndon Johnson, on signing the Wilderness Act into law (1964)
As a science undergrad, my prof recommended I study Russian so that I could read the original scientific papers.
Now the USA has no manned space lifting capacity & must rely on the Russians - whose launch is run in English, in a capsule captained by an American astronaut.
I'm confused!
And did you notice that Curiosity was powered by a Russian motor?
Verum audaces non gerunt indusia alba. - Ipsi dixit MCMLXXII
She hasn't seen it yet, Joe - she's too busy ooohing and aaahing over YouTube videos of Alex Honnold. If I hear "He's cute!" one more time, I'm going to scream. My daughter's fixated on the best climber in the world over his looks . . .
If future generations are to remember us with gratitude rather than contempt, we must leave them more than the miracle of technology. We must leave them a glimpse of the world as it was in the beginning, not just after we got through with it.
- Lyndon Johnson, on signing the Wilderness Act into law (1964)
"Turtles, Frogs & other Environmental Sculpture"