#molas lake

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[ksjanes]

"Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let the pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place."

Iain Thomas

Little Molas Lake, near Silverton Co.

[thelostcanyon]

Pine Grosbeak (Pinicola enucleator), Little Molas Lake, San Juan Mountains, Colorado.

[timberwind]

It's a little sad to me just how limited the topographic map data we have of Titan is. The strips of yellow-brown across the map pictured above are the only areas where we have real radar altimetry, assembled as the Cassini spacecraft made fly-by measurements - everything in between is a best-guess interpolation. There's plenty of unanswered questions about the in-depth specifics of tectonism and cryovolcanism and the possibility that Titan's currently in a dry period and may have had bona-fide seas of liquid ethane (as opposed to the lakes we see today covering ~1% of the surface at the north pole) in the not too distant past here that we can barely even begin to tackle because our dataset is such a patchwork...

Of course, the Cassini data is of orders of magnitude better than being completely in the dark as to what things are like under Titan's global haze layer, as we were before the Cassini fly-bys and Huygens probe landing. The paper linked above applies a similar dataset sampling to Earth and successfully reconstructs the existence of all the continents, but does miss the Tibetan plateau and derive continental shapes that are... wonky. I really hope we send an orbiter with a suite of mapping instruments (2-micron IR LIDAR might actually work through the haze fairly well, plausibly with at least MOLA-level performance) sooner rather than later, so we can get data back before like 2050.

[coelacat]

top five fish GO!

number one is the coelacanth. really hard to tell with the username isnt it. sorry i just cant deny the appeal of the coelacanth. every interaction we've ever had with them has been so peaceful and watching them move is elegant and godly. they certainly feel like living fossils, its an apt title for them. theyre blue. they have stars in their scales. theyre gorgeous. such a charming fish

number 2 is the epaulette shark!!! this little guy is learning to WALK. they can crawl out of the water into shallower pools on their fins!! they waddle around like if seals only used their flippers to move, instead of throwing their whole bodies around. not to mention theyre cute as HELL. i find them comparable to the dachshunds of the sea i mean look at this widdol guy

number 3 is the ocean sunfish / mola mola!! holy shit getta load of these guys. while theyre insanely goofy looking, and while st first, many people may mistake them for brainless, lazy fish, mola mola are actually quite active! we as humans mostly just see them when they come to the surface to warm themselves back up after hunting in the deep ocean. these guys are also filled to the brim with a shit ton of parasites, and allow a lt of parasitic animals to thrive. mola mola r really cool. and very big.

the next is tricky.. its a total tossup, but i think hagfish take the spot. insanely charming animals to me. their little moustaches really endear me to them!! not to mention they have one of the coolest non lethal methods to shake predators off them! they secrete a disgusting slime from their skin when distressed. whenever a predator may go to bite down or get a mouthful of hagfish, the hagfish will release a bunch of slime, completely filling the predators mouth, and wiggle free. they also tie themselves into knots to position their own digestive tract better!! literally instead of just forming their intestines better they opted to evolve their bodies to be able to tie into a knot to be more efficient at eating. they fucking rule. 10/10 would eat next to at the whale fall

and last isssss....

YOU AND ME BABY!!! yeahh!! we're all fish!!!!! every animal that isnt a bug is a fish. isnt that neat :) we did all come from them after all!

im lying though. final answer is the beluga sturgeon

i mean. look at these guys. theyre absolutely massive! and these arent even the largest theyve gone on record to get!!

sturgeons are best described as the freshwater whales of the great lakes. they are absolutely huge, theyre armored, and theyve even got the cutest little noses to top it all off!! beluga sturgeons specifically, though, are just absolutely humongous fish. they can grow to absolutely insane sizes, as you can probably see. gosh i love em though. unfortunately, they dont get as big due to our affinity for fishing them. they just dont get old enough to get that big.

honorable mentions go to most plecos, those catfish are pretty high up there, and most gourami species. sheepshead wrasse are also really cool, theyve got teeth and can change sexes. and i also like groupers. and electric eels (not eels. theyre fish.), and wobbegongs, and seashorses and ough god there are too many fish to pick 5. i gotta podt this now or else im gonna be arguing with myself over ranking fish for hours

the real honorable mention goes to the giant isopod though. not a fish but literally my fav sea creature

[a-spoonful-o-generosity]

Hmm, if he had that strength he probably would not have been kept in cage over a pit of lava for the entirety of the film until he was nearly human sacrificed with three other entire races of people as a wedding gift for the woman he stalked and tried to shotgun marry.

I'm sorry, did I forget to mention spoilers for both the movie and for your reasons for shipping these two based on said film?

Dragon turtle dude tried to sacrifice your OTP in a literal lake of fire, like fucking Mola Ram!

He tries

[thorsenmark]

Ponds and a Grassy Meadow with a Mountain Backdrop by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: While at the Molas Overlook and roadside pullout along US Route 550 (San Juan Skyway Scenic and Historic Byway) with a view looking to the northeast across the grassy meadow with ponds and lakes to more distant peaks and ridges of the East-Central and North-Central San Juan Mountains. This is in San Juan National Forest with a setting including Kendall Peak, Mount Rhoda, Storm Peak, Tower Mountain, and Dome Mountain based on the PeakVisor app on my iPhone.

[underzemilkyway]

Stars over the Grenadiers (2015) - by Matt Payne

Molas Lake, Colorado

In my first month of living in Durango, Colorado, I took a trip to Molas Lake north of Durango to get some photographs of the Grenadier Range at sunset and at night. The Grenadier Range is my absolute favorite in Colorado and includes the impressive summits of Arrow Peak, Vestal Peak, and the Trinities. I had some really interesting airglow as well as some awesome views of the stars. I started with a very long exposure at f/11 for 2 minutes using long exposure noise reduction for the foreground. I then shot about 30 sequences at 30 seconds each for the star trails at f/2.8 and 52mm and edited them in such a way as to make them appear like they are meteors falling above the mountains in the sky. Photo © copyright by Matt Payne.

[bienaldolivrosp]

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[benonceandthefankettes]

Molas Lake, Colorado

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[texagon]

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[ksjanes]

Enjoyed the cooler mountains about 8 miles south of Silverton, Co.. Andrews Lake sits at 10,800 feet above sea level in the San Juan National Forest. Near Molas Pass, the small alpine lake is roughly 12 acres wide with a maximum depth of 19 feet.

[le-venturesome]

Molas Lake, Colorado

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[fieryartemisproductions]

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[frogsmetamorphosis]

Molas Lake, Colorado Alistair Nicol

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