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China is building a hotel in an abandoned rock quarry

Reminds me of the Mexican underground inverted pyramid earthscraper.

http://designbuildsource.com.au/underground-skyscraper

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allthingseurope:

Upper Austria (by SIsifo73)

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A full-size replica of the largest flying bird ever discovered. Argentavis magnificens (literally “magnificent Argentine bird") had a wingspan of 23 feet (7 meters) and lived 6 million years ago.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentavis

(via reddit)

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Dinosaur Ridge, South Korea

(via http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1h3te2/dinosaur_ridge_in_south_korea/)

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Flight deck of the space shuttle Endeavor

(via http://www.reddit.com/r/woahdude/comments/1h4763/flight_deck_of_the_space_shuttle_endeavour_pic/)

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The Rumps Point – Cornwall (by markgeorgephotography.co.uk)

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Leaving work at 8 PM but the sky is beautiful (at Bohler Engineering)

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Last night’s supermoon.

A supermoon is the coincidence of a full moon or a new moon with the closest approach the Moon makes to the Earth on its elliptical orbit, resulting in the largest apparent size of the moon’s disk as seen from Earth. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermoon)

(Image source http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1gwl58/my_attempt_at_photographing_tonights_supermoon/

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Peacock

(source http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1gdkv0/my_grandfather_raises_peacocks_heres_one_of_his/)

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Thickness of the ice sheets at various locations 21,000 years ago compared with modern skylines

(source http://xkcd.com/1225/)