Steve: ""Meow, meow, meow, meow..."
Tatt: "Lol, binky mic stand works perfect for the feline virtuoso. Rock On!"
Julie: " 'Hey-hey, mama, said the way you move. Gonna make you sweat,
gonna make you groove' That's what I hear when I look at that picture!"
This is the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope [FAST aka
Tianyan] located in the Dawodang depression, a natural basin in Pingtang
County, Guizhou, southwest China. It measures 500 m [1,600 ft] in
diameter making it the world's largest filled-aperture radio telescope and the
second-largest single-dish aperture, after the sparsely-filled RATAN-600 in Russia.
FAST's surface is made of 4450 triangular panels connected to 2225 winches
located underneath which pull on joints between panels, deforming the flexible
steel cable support into a parabolic antenna aligned with the desired sky direction. Wiki Page
This is a Portuguese Man o' War [Physalia physalis]. When I was about 9 years old,
I lived in Kailua, Oahu, Hawaii which is located on the north eastern side of the island.
Occasionally, these things would float in and cover the beach forcing people to stay away.
Most of the time though, you would just spot one floating around and try to avoid it.
In my case, I failed to avoid one when I was paddling around on a rubber mattress.
The sting is horrible! They're not fatal (unless there's a reaction) so you just pour some
alcohol on the sting and sit it out for about 45 mins, I was in agony.
Here's a
wiki page
on these cute little critters.
This is not that unusual in Columbia. If you've seen 'Narcos' on Netflix, the first two
seasons were about Pablo Escobar who was making so much money, his
organization was burying it all over the country. Most of these dump sites were
forgotten as the money was becoming basically meaningless and they
didn't bother to keep track. This was most likely one of those dump sites.
There's a great scene in the series where the Escobar family has to flee to another
one of their houses in the mountains. There's no electricty or firewood and it's very
cold. So, Pablo pulls a panel off a wall and inside, from floor to ceiling, are
bundles of cash. He just starts burning the cash in the fireplace to keep them warm.