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MrsDoyle , to pics in New Zealand shown from the International Space Station

Lovely weather just about everywhere except my home town lol.

TypicalHog , to pics in New Zealand shown from the International Space Station

Is there a word for a fear/discomfort when seeing those and similar mountain patterns from space?

AngryCommieKender ,

Spaceophobia

TypicalHog ,

No, that’s the feat of space itself, starts, etc. I love starts, galaxies, planets, asteroids and nebulae.

bradorsomething ,

Well he didn’t say startophobia or planetophobia. Space is the emptiness between all that.

TypicalHog ,

I’m not afraid of space tho.

MadBob , to pics in Alex Honnold climbing a mountain without ropes.

I believe most mountains don’t have ropes?

Adderbox76 , to pics in New Zealand shown from the International Space Station

I wonder what kind of lens they use to make the horizon curve like that…

/s obviously

kindenough , to aww in Always trying to snuggle
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Off course, that's just the way it is. The cat living with us always needs the snuggles.

How old is your cat if I may ask?

korny OP ,

We aren’t sure, neighborhood cat we welcomed in after taking her to the vet for really bad fleas. She’s been glued to us since!

kindenough ,
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You are a kind person taking her in and taking care, she made a good choice staying. She looks somewhat older to me (10+) looking at her face. Ours is 17 now, kind to everyone and still in reasonable health, limbs are getting a bit stiff though.

korny OP ,

We are guessing she’s around 2 or so. I just love looking at her eyes!

https://files.catbox.moe/2drw6c.heif

MystikIncarnate , to pics in New Zealand shown from the International Space Station

Doesn’t look very new. Are you sure this isn’t old Zealand?

Appoxo ,
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Maybe OP mistook it for New Old Zealand.

cloudless , to pics in Kummakivi is a 500.000 kg rock in Finland that has been balancing on another rock for 11.000 years

Better keep it low profile, or some tourists will try some bad ideas.

ThePantser ,
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A stick of dynamite might offset it enough to roll.

Zehzin ,
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I was thinking trucks

Thorny_Insight ,

Not gonna budge with a truck but a large bottle jack or two might do the trick

Cyclist ,

American Boy Scout leaders.

misterdoctor ,

Ruining historic natural monuments is somehow not first on the list of American Boy Scout leader atrocities 🫤

DragonTypeWyvern ,

npr.org/…/men-filmed-toppling-ancient-rock-format…

For anyone else out of the loop.

nilloc ,

en.wikipedia.org/…/Boy_Scouts_of_America_sex_abus…

For anyone out of the other loop.

rhythmisaprancer ,
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Or this more recently 🙁

Mac ,

RIP Sycamore Gap tree.

RedditWanderer ,

I feel like if this was my town idiots would have done it long ago by all means necessary

RandomLegend , to pics in Kummakivi is a 500.000 kg rock in Finland that has been balancing on another rock for 11.000 years
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My cat would go there and push it over…

Dasus ,
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There’s not a feline or a man alive who could move that without tools.

FlyingSquid ,
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If cats could read and open doors, they would collectively go to Finland to push it over with a huge mass of pure cat power.

Dasus ,
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With some levers, definitely doable. With just paws? Eh.

Also, cats can definitely open doors. Not all cats, but I know a few.

FlyingSquid ,
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I’m talking doors to the outside so they can escape to Finland to knock the rock over.

Dasus ,
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I get that’s what you meant, but technically the way it was worded…

And the cats I know are cats who frequently roam outdoors and are Finnish. Perhaps they’ve just not seen this post, as outside cats rarely doomscroll.

FlyingSquid ,
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Indeed they don’t doomscroll much. See my first point, re the fact that cats can’t read.

Dasus ,
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Being literate isn’t a requirement for scrolling though, although I do hesitate on how much “doom” applies to things like this.

But that’s clearly an indoors house-cat, so my hypothesis that outside cats doomscroll less is still valid.

RandomLegend ,
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You understimate the sheer amount of “i-want-to-push-over-things-energy” of a cat.

chris , to pics in Kummakivi is a 500.000 kg rock in Finland that has been balancing on another rock for 11.000 years
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If that was a comma, it would be way more impressive…

Pietson ,

In Europe generally commas are used for decimals and periods for marking thousands

windie ,

Then, it’s a very light rock!

Skasi ,

Having exactly 500 kg up to three decimal places would still be quite impressive!

Passerby6497 ,

Yeah, that really makes those figures more significant!

Pietson ,

Ha, I didn't even realised they used the systems interchangeably

model_tar_gz , to pics in New Zealand shown from the International Space Station

Not on my map! NZ is an Australian conspiracy!

psycho_driver , to pics in Kummakivi is a 500.000 kg rock in Finland that has been balancing on another rock for 11.000 years

Or some aliens with antigrav guns were like “Hey you know what would be funny?!?”

pumpkinseedoil ,
  1. Rock is in the floor
  2. Ice age ends, water floods dirt around the rock away
  3. Rock either rolls down or stays

We have lots of these in Austria and at least here this is how they became like that.

hemko , to pics in Kummakivi is a 500.000 kg rock in Finland that has been balancing on another rock for 11.000 years

The name “odd stone” is really deserved. There’s also a pine tree growing on top of the rock

key , to pics in Kummakivi is a 500.000 kg rock in Finland that has been balancing on another rock for 11.000 years

Is there a country that uses a different thousands separator based on unit?

Fredselfish ,
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I don’t care how long it been balancing there I wouldn’t dare stand that close to it, be just my luck it pick that moment to shrift.

4am ,

Yes, in a lot of places a period is used for order-of-magnitude separation and comma is used for decimal places.

In this title the use seems inconsistent.

Crackhappy ,
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It’s got something for everyone.

fitjazz ,

Either the rock weighs exactly 500kg to an impressive precision and has been there for eleven thousand years or it weighs five hundred thousand kg and has been there for exactly 11 years.

abysmalpoptart ,

Right, i think he’s asking if there’s some culture where the inconsistency is designed based on unit. So, for example, period for years, comma for weight.

I think it’s simply an error. Maybe AI generated?

boredtortoise ,

Finland uses space for thousands (and comma for decimals), so an article in Finnish would have 500 000 kg

Zier , to pics in Kummakivi is a 500.000 kg rock in Finland that has been balancing on another rock for 11.000 years
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This is the rock that keeps the Earth right side up. If you knock it off we flip upside down and Australia gets to rule the planet.

peopleproblems , to pics in Kummakivi is a 500.000 kg rock in Finland that has been balancing on another rock for 11.000 years

Neat. The trick rock has a pet tree

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