Tonight in 1985 in Auckland, New Zealand (July 10, local time), French secret agents—in an elaborate intelligence operation codenamed Satanique—used two limpet mines to sink the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior as it prepared to return to Mururoa Atoll to protest French nuclear testing there.
I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️🌈💖
Why are watermelons priced by kilogram when they are rare and then by each item when they are plentiful? Is it to fool unwary shoppers into buying expensive watermelon at the start of the season??? Seems underhand!
Is Randall following me? Just learned about this from Wikipedia on Friday because Arrhenius is the name of the new super computer to be built in Sweden. Clever guy.
The beginning of the unloading and selection platform at Auschwitz II-Birkenau.
This is where trains with people deported to the camp - mainly Jews from Hungary - arrived from mid-May 1944. Most of them right after selection were murdered in gas chambers.
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Trees are struggling to sequester heat-trapping carbon dioxide (CO2) in warmer, drier climates, meaning that they may no longer serve as a solution for offsetting humanity's carbon footprint as the planet continues to warm, according to a new study led by Penn State researchers.