Galactic Core

I'm reposting this video my friend Neil sent me because it is so awesome. I love my Pale Blue Dot!

Digidioramas


Yesterday I was stumbling around the California Academy of Sciences (San Francisco's Natural History Museum) and kind of scoffing at their dioramas since New York's are so legendary. (Side note: The Academy's were really nice, I was just being a dick). Then my mum pointed out the elephants in the mural behind the Zebras:



That is fantastic.

I also learned about the Pistol Shrimp and Goby's mutualist relationship, saw a Giraffe-Necked Weevil, and was terrified by a live albino alligator!



The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms



I just finished watching The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, one of the first ever Creature Features. Long story short, a nuclear test in the Arctic (what?!) awakens a hibernating dinosaur, the remains of which have only ever been found in the Hudson Canyon. It makes its way south destroying several boats and a lighthouse (stealing straight from Ray Bradbury's The Fog Horn, one of my favorite short stories as a kid and still worth reading) before rampaging through New York City (where obviously it originally lived).





Stupid cops. It doesn't count as post-apocalyptica but I still love it. Ray Harryhausen (of course) did the effects. You can watch the entire thing here if you must but it wasn't actually that good.

My Advice...



...never do a search on youtube for "Rube Goldberg" unless you've got an hour to spare.