#The Great Rift Valley

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Africa Underway - Trouble On The Streets Of Nairobi

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📷 Jacob Kushner

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The Great Rift Valley or when the Earth is torn apart

by LegendesCarto

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“Daughters of the Rift”

Osborne Macharia

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The Great Divide: A massive fissure in Kenya's Great Rift Valley is A crack in Kenya could split Africa into two a historic geological event with global implications

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MAGICAL KENYA

Kenya is located  in east Africa bordered by the Indian ocean to the southeast it shares its borders with several countries , including Uganda South Sudan ,Ethiopia and Somalia .The country is known for its diverse geography ,ranging from coastal areas and savannahs to mountains and Great Rift Valley lakes. Kenya is famous for its rich wildlife and is a prime destination for safari enthusiasts…

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 Great Rift Valley in Kenya

The Great Rift Valley in Kenya is a geological wonder that stretches for over 6000 kilometers, extending from the Middle East to Africa. In Kenya, it is a breathtaking natural feature that captivates visitors with its stunning landscapes and unique biodiversity. This vast trench encompasses a diverse range of ecosystems, including expansive savannahs, volcanic peaks, freshwater lakes, and lush forests.

The valley is home to several remarkable lakes, such as Lake Turkana, Lake Nakuru, and Lake Naivasha, each boasting its distinct characteristics and supporting a rich array of wildlife. Kenya's Great Rift Valley is also a significant paleontological site, with numerous fossil discoveries providing valuable insights into the history of human evolution.

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Top 10 Beautiful Waterfalls in the World

Top 10 amazing waterfalls in the world

Waterfalls are some of the most awe-inspiring natural wonders on the planet, and there are countless breathtaking examples all around the world. From the towering heights of Niagara Falls to the stunning beauty of Iguazu Falls, these top 10 waterfalls are sure to leave you in awe and wonder. So pack your bags and get ready to experience the power and majesty of these incredible natural…

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The Great Rift Valley: evocative words that immediately suggest origins.

"Human Universe" - Professor Brian Cox and Andrew Cohen

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(via The Our Galaxies 🔭 on Instagram: “The African continent is slowly separating and forming new small tectonic plates in the region that extends through the East African rift…”)

The problem with the map is that it still shows everything else in its current position. All of that other stuff will be moving too as the Great Rift Valley continues to spread. 

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Imagine Dreamlight Reader x Twst boys

This idea was stuck in my mind since talking with my friends. So I'm putting it there in case I may want to develop the idea . Don't know if I will do a series tho.

Imagine Reader who fell in a rift and are now stuck in Twisted wonderland. They appeared in middle of the ceremony through the coffin. The talking cat who opened/burned the coffin squashed under them before exploring.

Imagine the mirror recognizing you have magic but are unable to put you in any house. Your magic is also unknown for this world so you can't really go into a dorm. Plus you reveal you are not a student anyway. You got here on accident.

Imagine discovering that Dreamlight valley doesn't exist in this world. But you don't despair as you just have to find the door or another rift to go back. Reader isn't even surprised when they saw Ramshackle and comments passively how they saw worse.

Imagine after the Chandelier incident, Reader is quite confident that they could easily found magic stone. Ace and Deuce are confused when they just pick a pickaxe appear out of nowhere. After the whole ordeal, remember they had some Dreamlight shard and gem stone that could be used for repairing the chandelier. Also use some to repair the dorm.

Imagine Reader who couldn't help but laugh at the introduction of the great seven. Ace sometime look at them weirdly as they talk about them like they knew each historical figures personally.

Imagine Reader who couldn't help but comment how Malleus ressemble Maleficent but more friendly. They don't know who he is but can tell he is related to the fairy.

Imagine Reader who are the only one who can actually purify blot. Reader who love to go back to the mines and are actually able to get some gem in it.

Imagine Reader who use the mirror in Ramshackle to talk with Mickey and explain the situation. Also reader who turned a part of the garden into a vegetable garden and sell them both to Sam and Monstro lounge.

Imagine Reader who overall are so used to deal with other people problem and big crisis that they act like it's another Tuesday morning.

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Asmara, Eritrea: Asmara is the capital and most populous city of Eritrea, in the country's Central Region. It sits at an elevation of 2,325 metres, making it the sixth highest capital in the world by altitude and the second highest capital in Africa. The city is located at the tip of an escarpment that is both the northwestern edge of the Eritrean Highlands and the Great Rift Valley in neighbouring Ethiopia. In 2017, the city was declared as a UNESCO World Heritage Site for its well-preserved modernist architecture. Wikipedia

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The western arm of Africa’s Great Rift Valley—the Albertine Rift—embraces such rich and varied habitats that its wildlife diversity is unparalleled on the continent. The Albertine spans mountains, marshes, savannas, and active volcanoes. November 2011 NatGeo Magazine supplement.

by @NatGeoMaps

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Asmara, Eritrea: Asmara is the capital and most populous city of Eritrea, in the country's Central Region. It sits at an elevation of 2,325 metres, making it the sixth highest capital in the world by altitude and the second highest capital in Africa. The city is located at the tip of an escarpment that is both the northwestern edge of the Eritrean Highlands and the Great Rift Valley in neighbouring Ethiopia. In 2017, the city was declared as a UNESCO World Heritage Site for its well-preserved modernist architecture. Wikipedia

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Yarragardee Basin, Mangala, 7995 A.D.

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Accompanying music: You’re On Fire by They Might Be Giants. Summer road trip music of all time, in my opinion.

Here’s a little expository write-up on the history and geography of the worlds shown here. Someday I’ll have more to show of the personal story of these two critters and their travels; until then, a more macro-level description.

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(most of this info has become outdated as modeling invalidated some original assumptions and I changed my mind on what I wanted here; future art of Mangala will reflect this)

Mangala and its sister world Kahira (visible in the background) are binary planets, orbiting one another in a manner not entirely unlike that of Pluto and Charon in the Solar System. Mangala is a relatively small world - just about twenty percent the mass of the Earth, something like if you took two copies of Mars and smushed them together; without the internal heat to drive a carbonate cycle long term, it had long been a frozen, dusty, and arid place when transhumanity first established a permanent presence in the Tahoka system almost a thousand years ago. Since those early days, terraforming using a Birchian soletta system (a huge but foil-thin Fresnel lens of mirrors, with a secondary focal lens for burning atmospheric gasses out of the regolith) has rendered it shirtsleeve habitable to baseline humans across much of the surface, although the global water inventory remains low* and the air in the “continental” uplands is stratospheric, with only the hardiest lichens establishing a foothold. Most of Mangala’s major metropolitan areas are located in the deep rift valleys and basins, where air pressure is highest.

Kahira on the other hand, a rock almost a fifth the mass of its sister world (a little under the mass of old Mercury), remains only slightly terraformed - surface conditions are persistently cold, with a thin barely-Martian atmosphere. Some of its larger rift valleys and craters have been tented over, aerated, and planted with tall low-gravity forest and grassland, a style of habitat construction dating back to the first Mars colonists almost six thousand years ago. Industrial complexes and buried cities sprawl out across the bare surface of the moon, with huge low-gravity lava tubes seeing extensive urban development.

The Yarragardee Basin, pictured above, is a graben basin in Mangala’s northern hemisphere, notable for the historic industrial city of Tirupati - here we see two road-trippers between cities on the basin’s great plain, taking a break in the long late afternoon of a sunset-day***. Having stopped for a night at a motel near Tirupati’s aerospace complex, they’re now continuing their journey to the city of Redmond-Tonasket, located in the Woronora Valles trench system about two thousand kilometers to the southwest.

* While plenty of water could have been imported from Tahoka’s cometary halo, it was decided not to do so in order to avoid inundating pre-existing cities in the valleys and deep basins. The extremely humid hothouse conditions that come after slamming dismantled ice moons through the stratosphere at over six kilometers a second were also broadly considered unacceptable.

** Smaller worlds have been terraformed in transhuman space, both by worldhouse and more open-air methods, but it’s largely the kind of thing that much more energy-rich systems do as a vanity project. Kahira may someday see blue skies, but likely not for a thousand years at least. (edit, one year later: I actually changed up some of this while simulating this system for stability. I’ll be posting more about this soon.)

*** Mangala and Kahira, being tidally locked to each other such that they always show one another the same face as they orbit their common center of mass, both have days exactly as long as their orbital periods - 403 kiloseconds, or roughly 112 hours. This is for convenience divided into month-weeks comprising four “circadian days” of 100 kiloseconds (~26 hours), with the remaining three kiloseconds added on to the last day of a month-week to keep synchronization.