mspandrew:

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steveagee:

please watch this and don’t click “like”, click “reblog”. 

I had to pause this a couple times to cry for 5 minutes. You need to watch this. It’s beyond important.

as much as i may make fun of tumblr, if this site has shown me anything its that people know how to spread the word effectively

so reblog if you can, dudes

Gave me a strong case of the “Paladin Rage”.

But no, in all seriousness, this is important.

Stop Joseph Kony 2012

This is important viewing for everybody. Many of us focus primarily on what goes on in our personal sphere and forget there are serious problems in the world that just aren’t talked about every day. Guilty as charged, here. At the very least, it’s good for our worldliness and sense of humanity to take a moment and educate ourselves once in a while. This is a very worthy moment for a very worthy cause.

I’m putting this on my primary blog rather than my personal blog, not only because I feel it is an important cause, but because I would like to appeal to the Homestuck community. We’ll be celebrating global friendship on the comic’s third anniversary this April, the same month the Kony 2012 campaign culminates its awareness efforts. We come together all the time to help our fandom family, the children and family of acquaintances, and teenagers we don’t even know who are struggling with their sense of self-worth. With our numbers and compassion, I think we can contribute a lot to a movement like this.

Take a few minutes to watch the video. It’s well-made, informative, and non-confrontational. Check out the website for more information if you’re interested in getting involved, but you can actively help just by reblogging and spreading the word.

Thanks for watching <3

Here’s a well done video piece that’s been getting some attention today around the web. It’s worth watching.

Consider reblogging if you have not already.

Source: steveagee

theseablog:

The forgotten fish?

Shark finning is a massive, multi million dollar industry. But there’s another fish that’s more endangered (in fact, the IUCN once described this as one of the most endangered species on earth) that’s also being killed illegally for one small component of its body. Above is the beluga, or Huso huso. Not the whale, but the sturgeon. Growing up to some massive sizes of 1500 kilos and 7.2 meters long (as one specimen caught in 1827) and living for up to 100 years it is also the oldest living family of bony fish. It is hunted for its roe. Beluga caviar is one of the most exclusive and sought after types of caviar, and severe overfishing has caused this beautiful fish to be classified as critically endangered by the IUCN.

Beluga caviar can sell for as much as 10,000$ per kilo depending on the quality, with a special sort (harvested exclusively from females at least a 100 years of age) going for some 25,000$ per kilo.

Much like the shark, the beluga is an apex predator in its environment, and it would be a shame to see such a beautiful fish disappear.

Source: theseablog

theseablog:

Through the ice!

After having drilled through 3623 meters of ice, the Russians have finally reached the sub-glacial Lake Vostok. This could prove to be incredibly interesting: It’s thought that if life, at any level, is found in a lake of this type it may very well be that there is life on Europa (one of jupiter’s moons, thought to have life) and on other similarly constructed planets and moons.

Lake Vostok is interesting for a number of reasons: It is thought to be supersaturated with oxygen and nitrogen, that is, it contains about 50 times the amount you’d find on earth, and even though the Lake Vostok base station has recorded the record low temperature of all time on earth (-89c), the lake remains liquid due to geothermal activity beneath the 3 kilometers of ice. Because of all these conditions; the supersaturation of oxygen, the complete lack of light and the geothermal energy it is thought that life may be found there that has never been observed before. Although it is under 3.6 km of ice, in 2005, researchers also recorded tides with a range of about 12 mm.

On another note, while things like these may lead to new insights about many different things, is it really right for us to drill down and pollute an environment like this that hasn’t been touched for 20 million years? You never know how sensitive ecosystems like these are. Something to think about.

Above: the Lake Vostok Station, location of Lake Vostok, & diagram of Lake Vostok.

Tagged: lakevostokrussiadrillingscienceantarcticnewsfeature

Source: theseablog