#glacier caves

[ardley]

Katla Ice Cave I - Iceland

Photographed by Freddie Ardley

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[northameicanblog]

Valdez Glacier, Valdez, Alaska: Valdez Glacier provides breathtaking sights and a glimpse into the local history and culture of the area. Known as the All- American Route, gold seekers traveled over the glacier into the interior of Alaska during the Gold Rush of 1898. Valdez Glacier is a 20 mile valley glacier located in the Chugach Mountains and terminates in Valdez... Valdez is a city in the Chugach Census Area in the U.S. state of Alaska. Wikipedia

[itscolossal]

Through Gripping Photos, Ryan Newburn Captures the Depths of Iceland’s Ancient Glacial Caves

[pangeen]

" The Eye of Iceland " //© Blue Mountains

Music: Sebastien Van Der Rohe - The Lord Of The Rings

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Ice caves and melt at Mendenahall Glacier

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Title

From inside

The scenery in the ice cave at Vatnajökull Glacier in Iceland was mystical and the ice was shining in all shades from transparent to dark blue. There were great light conditions in the ice cave and the beauty of the ice formations was overwhelming.

Strobel Volker

Germany

Neutral Density Photography Awards 2023

[scooby-doo-exploration]

pangeen - by Daniel Greenwood

[woodoon]

JAZZ HANDS

I'm very proud of this one actually. Extremely Proud. All the work was well worth it. Last art sale dragon for a bit, since I wanna focus on lore-driven projects! As such, she has a special bio code I made just for her (Check under cut for that)

She's being sold for 3,000g! High price because I worked very hard on this,,

Reblog will have link!

[c-kiddo]

One year, late spring, I went to a meditation retreat on a very quiet island nearby I arrived entangled in all these considerations: “Why to make a song?” “How to open the underworld?” And “Who’s thinking this, even?” And the weird, alienating, looming eerie blindspot of colonization The ignored and informative wound, showing the way through The way the roots that held the tree down left a deep hole Now full of water Reflecting sky

[pandorasboxofhorrors]

2024-#1: Weirdness in Review 2024

It is time for the annual weirdness report! This is all about science developments from the last twelve months. And there have been more news stories about the three topics of focus: new scientific knowledge for planet Earth, our solar system, and the universe beyond. This is all based on real news stories of scientific fact and astronomical observation. It’s the real deal - no fake news - the real McCoy - the genuine article - the straight hot poop!

The most important knowledge gained for this planet in the last year continues to involve global warming. The ice caps were captured water and energy frozen for eons. As they melt, all that water and energy is released, for eons. As it gets worse, the effects are more severe and obvious. The warming continues to accelerate as the enormous Thwaites Glacier speeds up melting. Right now we are on track for permanent flooding in areas requiring migration within 30 years, probably much sooner. There is so much extra water now that the core of the planet is spinning slower. This extra water and heat in the atmosphere results in heat waves, deluges of rain and flooding, as well as more frequent and violent storms. There is now pretty much a permanent hurricane season with Florida being hit every other week. It was odd watching the sequel to the tornado film, Twisters, when I live in an area that has started to have a day a year with 10 or more tornadoes on the ground. The film seemed already out of date - and needed many more tornadoes!

Since humanity has neglected its one planet, other places in the solar system are in the news for potential visits. The moon had a cave discovered in the last year which could shelter astronauts and be the location for a moon base to be built. This probably is a bad idea since the moon is more brittle than thought. When the moon was first landed on, moonquakes started due to the heat from the landing module. One large vibration could probably break the whole moon into dust. Also involving the moon, in September Earth picked up a temporary mini-moon named, 2024 PT5. This mini moon is a 30 foot long asteroid that will fly away in November and has nothing to do with being a disguised alien probe scanning our planet. It can truly be said that Earth is being mooned since there are two objects now.

Another location in the solar system with new science news is Mars. The good news is now that a spacecraft can be built which will take only two months to get to Mars. The bad news is that kidney damage is a likelihood for that much space travel – and for any extended space travel until new drugs are developed. On Mars in the last year, water was seen in the form of frost on an extinct volcano. A pit was also found on the surface of Mars, a shaft going down into possible cavern systems. This shaft is another target for a landing, since astronauts would be protected from natural radiation underground. Sending some super advanced AI robots instead of people would be much more efficient. Sometime down the road, such a visit should be followed up by an automated orbiting seeding station so Mars is habitable in a few hundred years.

At the edge of the solar system there have been new discoveries. Our solar system is now thought to be larger than expected with a second outer or an extended Kuiper Belt. There is not much there other than kuipers, as far as we know, but they are already searching for that elusive missing tenth planet. Other news about our solar system includes an expected star to be entering the solar system! The star, Gliese 710, is expected to pass through our solar system! But it is not expected to cause a massive upheaval of orbits or doom of the planets. But it will be the biggest spectacle in this solar system, perhaps ever. Mark your calendars since this is scheduled in about one million years.

There have been some new astronomical discoveries external to the solar system in the last year. Just a few days ago there was another claim that Barnard’s Star has planets. This star is close, only 6 light years away, and Earthlings could get there one day…. Since our solar system is now thought to be bigger with invisible boundaries, it is now also believed that galaxies also extend much further. Our galaxy now supposed to be larger than expected and is now understood to be already touching the Andromedra Galaxy. The two galaxies are already colliding!

A fascinating discovery was recently made about the star R Doradus which is 175 light years away. This is a red giant star 375 times larger than our Sun. Images show that it is a giant lava light sun, with bubbles on its surface the size of 50 of our suns. I wonder if those huge bubbles radiate sounds into outer space and what they might sound like.

In the last year, the Webb telescope shows more galaxies that formed about 500 million years after the Big Bang. So is the date of the Big Bang wrong? Was the Big Bang not the start of the universe, just a piddly pow, a minor explosion within a much older universe that started with something much more violent? Some of these early galaxies are very similar and glow red. These mysterious red galaxies have many stars and most have a supermassive black hole, but they are much smaller than current galaxies, like 99% smaller. So the stars were packed in, probably why they were red hot. These small red galaxies started up in a time when the universe was dark, when light did not travel due to the laws of science, the age of darkness. It is believed that they deionized themselves over time, allowing light to travel within them. Eventually they deionized the entire universe, letting there be light. Available images and theories are starting to point towards the Big Bang being the second explosion that created the known universe. After enough Webb telescope images are collected, some theories as to the nature of the universe, how it started, and where it’s going, should be soon to follow. There is already a revival of the old Tired Light theory that the light we are observing has deteriorated making distances between galaxies appear much further than what they really are.

Hopefully one day we will learn if we are holograms, in the Matrix, or just microbes stuck in some automated meaningless solar factory continuum without an operator or reason. If the secret of the universe is that there are other dimensions we cannot see, then maybe objects like stars exist differently in those dimensions, appearing more like enormous crystal cities, and black holes are glowing energy lakes. Maybe the realm we dwell in shows us only a tiny fraction of reality, like Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, with all we know being merely shadows of existence.

[rabbitcruiser]

The United States National Park Service was created on August 25, 1916.

National Park Service Founders Day    

The National Park Service was created when President Woodrow Wilson signed the Organic Act on August 25, 1916. The anniversary of its creation is known as National Park Service Founders Day, or simply as Founders Day, and is celebrated by all national parks. They offer free admission and host special programs, both in-person and virtual. The celebration happens to take place during National Parks Month.

According to the Organic Act, "the Service thus established shall promote and regulate the use of the Federal areas known as national parks, monuments and reservations" and their "purpose is to conserve the scenery and the natural and historic objects and the wild life therein and to provide for the enjoyment of the same in such manner and by such means as will leave them unimpaired for the enjoyment of future generations." This is not too far removed from the National Park Service's current mission statement: "The National Park Service preserves unimpaired the natural and cultural resources and values of the National Park System for the enjoyment, education, and inspiration of this and future generations. The Park Service cooperates with partners to extend the benefits of natural and cultural resource conservation and outdoor recreation throughout this country and the world." The National Park Service is a bureau in the U.S. Department of the Interior. It is led by a director who is nominated by the president and confirmed by the U.S. Senate.

The first national park was Yellowstone National Park. It was established on March 1, 1872, with the Yellowstone Act, "as a public park or pleasuring-ground for the benefit and enjoyment of the people." Yellowstone was administered by the U.S. Department of the Interior, as were other early parks and some monuments, while other monuments and historical areas were administered by the War Department and the Forest Service of the Department of Agriculture. When the National Park Service was created on today's date in 1916, it managed 35 parks and monuments. With an executive order in 1933, President Franklin Roosevelt brought 56 national monuments and military sites administered by the War Department and the Forest Service into the National Park Service. This move brought areas of historical, scenic, and scientific importance together. For a new park to be created, there must be an act of Congress. But, on account of the Antiquities Act of 1906, the president can proclaim national monuments on lands under federal jurisdiction.

By the 2020s, there were over 420 national park sites, or units, in the National Park System, covering over 85 million acres of land, located in every state, in the District of Columbia, and in a number of US territories. Collectively they are referred to as parks, although there are many naming designations, such as National Battlefields, National Military Parks, and National Historic Sites. There are also "related areas"—these are not managed by the National Park Service, but "are linked in importance and purpose to places managed directly by the National Park Service by preserving important segments of the nation's natural and cultural heritage." Examples are National Heritage Areas, Affiliated Areas, and trails in the National Trails System. The National Park Service employs about 20,000 people, and has almost 300,000 volunteers! With such an expanse of land in its jurisdiction and so many people involved in the land's preservation, it's apparent that the National Park Service's original goal of conservation for future generations is still being met, and this is celebrated today with National Park Service Founders Day!

How to Observe National Park Service Founders Day

There are numerous ways you could celebrate the day:

Visit a national park or other location managed by the National Park System. Remember, there is free admission today! If you can't visit in person, you could do so virtually.

Get the NPS app.

Check out the National Park Service's "Games and Challenges."

Read a book about the national parks.

Watch National Parks: America's Best Idea and read its companion book.

Learn about the past directors of the National Park Service.

Volunteer or work for the National Park Service.

Follow the National Park Service's social media accounts.

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[the-ninja-legacy-whip]

Do all Royals in the Royal!Legacy au have retainers or are Cole and Skylor just special? (Sorry to ask out of the blue, it’s just been on my mind lately!)

Np, always feel free to ask! And it is funny timing, as I’ve been working more on it recently!

Anywho, let’s break it down!

Cole: As we know, Cole only has one retainer, being Jay. For a long time, Cole didn’t need more than the direct protection of his parents (primarily his already ridiculously strong mother) as things were peaceful during their rule, but when Lilly died and unrest began to stir, Lou thought it was necessarily to have someone consistently around to keep an eye on Cole. Enter Jay, the adopted son of two kitchen attendants within the castle who worked his way up from job to job until eventually becoming close friends with the prince, and also became the best suited for the job. Jay’s position is actually a more recent change, but because he takes it so seriously, he actually is very good at it (which Cole is aware of, but sometimes fails to appreciate when it hinders his attempts at romance lol)

Antonia, meanwhile, is a mere Palace Guard, but due to inference with Jesse winds up smack in the middle of Cole’s core circle of people anyway. If anything, she could be called Jesse’s retainer with how closely she keeps an eye on him, but that would only be applicable if Jesse had any drop of Royal decree to his name, so that’s nothing more than a dream~

Skylor: Skylor has three retainers—Maggie, Meghan, and led by her jaded cousin Chad, and she has a rather excessive amount due to the insistence of her father. It’s partly for protection, partly to keep a very close eye on her (but Skylor can get around Chad very easily, if she doesn’t make a scene about it). Chad tries to do a good job because it’s the most significant role their family has given him, and Maggie wants to support Chad while Meghan wants to support Maggie…but they get a little too enthusiastic with their protection and wind up causing more problems than solving them.

Lloyd: Being the only son of the High Central Court, Lloyd also has three retainers—Brad, Gene, and Sally. They were all appointed by Garmadon due to them being around Lloyd’s age + being very supportive of Garmadon’s (evil and warmongering) agenda. Brad and Gene tend to butt heads over whether to support Lloyd’s wishes or do things that further Garmadon’s agenda, soooo Lloyd usually winds up giving them all the slip with a lil help from Sally. These three collectively also tend to clash with Skylor’s retainers, but this has yet to be seen.

Harumi: Has no retainers, only her attendant Hutchins. He’s more of a servant than a dedicated knight, but can and will happily rise to the occasion should the opportunity call for it. With Hutchins being much older and her “parents” being so strict, it has left Harumi a little starved of interaction from people closer to her age, which deep down, is partly why she chose to assist Jesse+Antonia in the first place (and also a love of causing problems on purpose, but we’ll see where that goes).

Kai and Nya: Are kind of each other’s retainers??? With their parents being far less strict, living in a calmer kingdom, and teaching both children how to wield, build, and handle a variety of weapons, the Rulers of the Southern Kingdom are not all that worried about their children in any situation. Regardless, Nya still feels the need to step before Kai sometimes because he’s “more important” while Kai will throw himself in front of Nya because “that’s my little sister dammit” sooo as long as they’re in the same area as one another, they’re probably more than fine. But just the same, their more relaxed attitudes about the general state of affairs do cause a few small rifts with members of the other kingdoms (and is partly why Kai is in the situation he is now).

Zane: Like Cole, he was only appointed a retainer very recently—a masked soldier supposedly from a noble family who goes by Samurai X. Aurora had hoped it would be an opportunity for a friendship for Zane, to give him some company and comfort after so much loss in their family, but Samurai X takes their job so seriously as Zane’s protector despite not needing to that they hardly say anything at all. Zane still speaks pleasantly with them, even if they do not always respond, but does hope that they can break the ice in the future.

[glacierruler]

Anxiety x10 today folks

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Nature's Textures Pack #2

📷: @sjscoyote , 2010-2018

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“ The Forbidden Snow Cave! “ // Evan Gerstung

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Ice Cave at Mendenhall Glacier