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Olhe para a imagem acima e me diga se você duvidaria se eu te dissesse que ela é proveniente e uma sonda enviada para um mundo nos confins do sistema solar.

Obviamente que isso aqui não é outro planeta que não o nosso. A terra tem paisagens incríveis, algumas com claras aparências extraterrestres, só não estamos habituados a ver elas. Sabemos que no espaço distante e insondável deve haver infinitos planetas com paisagens semelhantes, porque essas paisagens são formadas em circunstâncias de elementos químicos e temperaturas, somados à ação do vento, a erosão e outros efeitos climáticos que não são um privilégio da Terra.

Vamos ver mais algumas fotos antes de eu te contar que lugar curioso é este:

 

 

 

Bom, isso aí é considerado o lugar mais quente da Terra. É basicamente a panela de um vulcão, e fica na Àfrica.

Trata-se do vulcão Dallol um dos mais baixos do mundo. Ele está localizado a 48 metros ABAIXO do nível do mar e tem um diâmetro de cratera de 1,450 metros. Sabe-se que sua cratera foi formada no planeta há mais de 900 milhões de anos atrás. A temperatura média anual em Dallol também é única. Nos anos 60, a média anual era de 34 ° Celsius, que até hoje continua a ser a mais alta temperatura média anual do mundo (tirando Itaperuna hahahahaha).

 

Você pode se perguntar, como é que se formam essas cores tão incríveis?

A explicação científica é que após a explosão e erupção do Dallol em 1926 o lago da cratera se encheu de ÁCIDO.

 

 

Essa cristalização formou curiosos padrões de cores brancas, amarelas e vermelhas. Eles não são mais do que um resultado de coloração causados por variações iônicas do enxofre e potássio. Some a isso uma constante emissão de gases que surgem das fumarolas permanentes na cratera e temos os ingredientes para um mundo inóspito e belíssimo, que nos lembra como pode ter sido uma Terra primitiva.

Os cientistas que analisam o lugar dizem que ele se assemelha geologicamente ao satélite Io, de Júpiter. Acredita-se que o vulcão foi formado pela erupção do magma basáltico abaixo do vulcão, que por isso tem uma forma bizarra. A boca do Dallol fica em uma região remota da Etiópia, cercado de colinas que elevam-se a 50-60 metros acima das planícies, estas, são inteiramente cobertas com áreas de sal.

Acredita-se que tendo um tamanho de perímetro de 1,5 km x 3 km a cratera do Dallol está localizado no topo dos sedimentos quaternários, incluindo um grande depósito de sais de potássio, e as colinas são remanescentes das paredes da cratera preservada. Mas a idade destes montes e o processo de sua origem ainda permanece um mistério até mesmo para os cientistas e geólogos que investigam o lugar.

Visitando o vulcão neste exato minuto, você certamente poderia testemunhar os processos de atividade vulcânica. Você veria como o sal é lavado e transportado das profundezas do vulcão para se dissolver e recristalizar em nascentes termais gerando formas arredondadas bizarras com tons de amarelo, vermelho, branco e até verde.

No Dallol podem ser encontradas várias áreas de fumarolas, assoreamento de finas camadas de sal, formando elevações brancas e ovais que se assemelham-se a grandes ovos.

O Dallol tem apenas dois lagos de lava, um dos quais está localizado na cratera do vulcão.

 

 

 

Não muito longe de Dallol, perto de Blackrock há uma mina de extração de sal. Anualmente cerca de 1.000 toneladas de sal, são cortadas em lajes retangulares e transportados por camelos para as grandes cidades mais próximas. Estas placas são posteriormente são vendidas em Mekele para a transformação em sal de cozinha.

Existe uma lenda que a boca de um vulcão Dallol seja uma das portas do inferno.
Isso apareceria no “Livro de Enoque”. Ao que parece isso tem origem em escrituras etíopes muito antigas, datadas por peritos do ano 1 A.C. Também há registros do patriarca Enoque onde ele menciona pessoas que guardam as portas do inferno. Apesar do fato de que Enoque não indica a posição geográfica deste lugar terrível, alguns estudiosos sugerem que é lógico que ele pode muito bem ser Dallol. Seria então o Enoque um etíope?

O fato é que quando você bate o olho neste lugar incrível, você esquece de tudo, de enoque, dos problemas mundanos… Você se sente imerso num cenário de Ficção Científica.
Visitar o lugar é tarefa que exige sacrifícios. Localizado no norte da Etiópia, simplesmnete não tem estrada que leve a ele. Imagina a buraqueira poeirenta desgraçada!

 

Você só pode chegar aqui por meio de trilhas de caravanas, que foram construídas no passado para coletar e entregar o sal. Além disso, este é com certeza um dos mais distantes lugares da civilização. Obviamente que não preciso dizer que o lugar é quase completamente desabitado. Se perder ali é morte garantida.

Talvez por isso o vulcão siga sendo pouco conhecido e apreciado.

O vulcão está localizado na região de Afar, a uma distância de viagem de um dia a partir de Mekele e 2 dias a partir da estrada principal para Adis Ababa, Djibouti. Os viajantes que têm a sorte de visitar Erta Ale, visitam também o Dallol e o consideram um dos lugares mais extraordinários do planeta.

Coordenadas: 14 ° 14 ’30 “N, 40 ° 18 ’0″ E

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It goes without saying that one of the most ubiquitous sightings on the web are millions upon trillions of pet photos. Cat gifs, funny dog videos, puppy memes, and even an entire currency. But every once in a while an animal (or group of animals), paired with the right photographer, rises above the mammalian fray and enters the realm of art. We’ve seen it here on Colossal with the works of Carli Davidson, Seth Casteel, Theron Humphrey & Maddie, and Sonya Yu & Trotter. Enter the latest contenders: self-taught photographer Elke Vogelsang and her three dogs Noodles, Scout and Loli.

Based in Hildesheim, Germany, Vogelsang is a professional photographer who mostly shoots portraits of people and pets, but in her spare time spends plenty of time with her trio of rescue dogs who frequently find themselves in front of the camera. Two of the dogs are Galgo Español mixes and the youngest, Loli, is a bonafide mut. Regardless of their pedigree, Vogelsang has a knack for capturing the dogs at their most expressive moments, resulting in photos that are equally heartwarming and humorous.

You can follow Vogelsang’s work on Facebook and 500px and she has prints of almost every photo available in her shop. (via Bored Panda)

Update: Vogelsang shares some tips with SLR Lounge on getting the most out of your pet photoshoot.

“Glass brain” (video)

This is an anatomically-realistic 3D brain visualization depicting real-time source-localized activity (power and “effective” connectivity) from EEG (electroencephalographic) signals. Each color represents source power and connectivity in a different frequency band (theta, alpha, beta, gamma) and the golden lines are white matter anatomical fiber tracts. Estimated information transfer between brain regions is visualized as pulses of light flowing along the fiber tracts connecting the regions.

All photos courtesy S. Morita

Japan is a country full of amazing art. Some of it is housed within museums and galleries while others are right underneath our feet. I’m talking, of course, about Japan’s peculiar obsession with manhole covers. Just about anywhere in the country you can find stylized manhole covers, each more beautiful and intricate than the next. For the past several years photographer S. Morita has traveled around Japan photographing artistic manhole covers.

As to why this phenomenon developed, signs point to a high-ranking bureaucrat in the construction ministry who, in 1985, came up with the idea of allowing municipalities to design their own manhole covers. His objective was to raise awareness for costly sewage projects and make them more palatable for taxpayers.

Thanks to a few design contests and subsequent publications, the manhole craze took off and municipalities were soon competing with each other to see who could come up with the best designs. According to the Japan Society of Manhole Covers (yes, that’s a thing) today there are almost 6000 artistic manhole covers throughout Japan. And according to their latest findings, the largest single category are trees, followed by landscapes, floral designs and birds – all symbols that could, and surely did, boost local appeal.

You can see hundreds more of Morita’s photos right here. (via A Green Thought in a Green Shade)

Update: Remo Camerota has an entire book on the design of Japanese manhole covers, aptly titled Drainspotting.

How to suppress women's coding.:

dailydot:

Last week, GitHub’s first female developer, Julie Ann Horvath, quit the company over a staggering string of allegations that while working there she was subjected to harassment, intimidation, and sexism in the workplace. Considering Horvath also launched GitHub’s Passion Projects initiative to recruit more women into the Open Source community, this was quite a loss. GitHub has responded by putting the founder at the source of her claims on leave pending an investigation.

In discussing what to do in response to the GitHub debacle, we floated the inevitable idea: write about how every woman who ever makes an issue of sexism in tech culture or geek culture is routinely subjected to backlash or harassment.

I didn’t want to write that article. I always write those articles, and I am exhausted.

In the days to come, you’ll read think pieces that examine sexism in Open Source communities. You’ll read roundups of similar issues in tech and geek culture, like the ones we’ve written many times over. You might even hear of the inevitable backlash and harassment that always seems to follow whenever a woman speaks about sexism in tech or geek culture.

But if there’s one thing to take away from what happened to Horvath, it’s a glimpse of a culture in which women’s voices are silenced, the same thing we learned from Joanna Russ’s landmark exploration of the systemic marginalization of women in publishing.

Here’s a guide for the uninitiated.

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The legend says that every spirit must pass through there on the way to perfection….

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Love this

But this will make the aliens think we are an advanced and peaceful race when we’re really a bunch of shitheads.

IMAGE: Great Divide’s Orabelle, Ninkasi’s Spring Reign, Sierra Nevada’s Southern Hemisphere Harvest, and Southampton’s Bière de Mars beers.

I spent some trying to track down traditional spring beers for Gizmodo, and ended up finding that, unlike the other seasons, there isn’t really any such thing. I did find a Lenten beer that you can live on for forty-six days without noticeable harm (medieval monks used to, and a journalist managed it in 2011), as well as a delightful-sounding Franco-Belgian style called bière de Mars that we’ve sadly forgotten how to make altogether (a drinking buddy of mine, Daniel Fromson, just wrote about it for Modern Farmer).

I also talked to Jeff Alworth, Portland-based author of the Beervana blog and The Beer Bible (forthcoming in Spring 2015), who shared some interesting insights into how the seasonal American craft brew market works. Taken as a whole, seasonal releases are an extremely popular category of craft beer, with a supermarket sales volume second only to IPA. Typically, each brewery will be allocated one SKU or shelf slot for their seasonal offering, so you’re unlikely see an Oktoberfest and a winter ale from the same company side-by-side.

The problem, as Jamie Emmerson of Oregon’s Full Sail brewery (one of my personal favourites) told Alworth, is that American consumers won’t buy a winter beer after January 1st.

Winter beer sales just completely drop off the map, even though January 1st is still the dead of winter. If they have winter beers sitting out on the shelf in that slot on January 1, they just don’t sell. And so then they have to come up with some kind of beer that’s sort of a spring seasonal, but, you know, it’s still January.

This leads to the free-for-all I describe in my Gizmodo post, with springiness translating into everything from a dark brown ale to a hazy, refreshing saison. Alworth added that true beer nerds get quite wound up about this kind of season inflation, accusing breweries of pursuing novelty for the sake of novelty — to which brewers simply throw their hands in the air and point at the sales figures.

It doesn’t help that spring is not unified by any shared cultural imagery in America: while the pumpkins and corncobs of Thanksgiving and autumn or the snowy, Christmassy sense of winter seem equally seasonally appropriate in Southern California or coastal New England, spring is largely a climatic event, and the country’s climate is extremely diverse. As Alworth concluded:

People just respond to spring as an actual season and it really varies. So, especially if you’re a national beer company, trying to figure out what beer will suit those different seasons is probably tough. I don’t know. This is the thing with spring beers. Nobody knows. Maybe you can promote coherence in the spring beer category?

Unfortunately, I think my post probably added to the incoherence rather than vice versa, but I did find it interesting to reflect that spring is perhaps the one time of year when you can drink a beer-based interpretation of your local terrestrial conditions, rather than a riff on the country’s shared seasonal shorthand.

You can read my post in full here; be sure to also check out Daniel Fromson’s take on bière de Mars and Jeff Alworth’s Beervana blog. I’ll be contributing a handful of Friday evening, booze-related “Happy Hour” posts to Gizmodo going forward, so if you have any suggestions for my forthcoming alcoholic adventures, please get in touch!

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The first thing you have to realize about Facebook: Nothing you put there is truly private.

Yes, you can control how users see or don’t see your profile. But every time you like a product or even look at a page, the company itself is taking note. This doesn’t mean that some day Facebook will malevolently release your every click to the world. But it does mean that Facebook is not your private diary, and what you do on the website gets collected and catalogued. That's worth keeping in mind whenever you use the service.

So let’s go over the various settings you can change to ensure pictures of your wacky jaunt to Vegas don’t end up at the top of your boss's news feed... (more)

this is not to say haters, as they are traditionally defined, don’t exist! there is energy and action in hate, there is a sense of power. i know people who hate things because it’s fun to hate them. i’ve also indulged in this. there are people who live to be cruel, because they are powerless in every other area of their life.

but the other side of the coin is to disregard all negativity as hate. and i have always thought negativity was allowed to be part of the conversation — depending on how it’s expressed. this is why i love parody and satire. good satire destroys its target from within — and the only way it got inside is because its originator loved the thing they took apart. it demands self-reflection, which is always useful. no one is immune to it. and something stronger and more bulletproof can emerge.

it’s too easy to discount detractors as haters, or just jealous. it is really, really hard to read negative comments. a single one can obliterate 100 positive ones. but amid the hate, maybe someone has a good point. you have to wade through it from time to time. it can keep you humble. 

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Group GECKOS has released dvdrip of 2013 movie “Knights of Badassdom”. Enjoy!

Plot: Live-action role players conjure up a demon from Hell by mistake and they must deal with the consequences.

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Computer program crudely predicts a facial structure from genetic variations.

Nature News doi: 10.1038/nature.2014.14899

Pra tentar dar mais vida ao herói que já tem 75 anos de histórias publicadas, o tumblr Made By ABVH resolveu animar algumas capas clássicas das hqs do Homem Morcego. Em movimento, tudo fica ainda mais sombrio na vida do Batman.

Principalmente quando o Coringa é a estrela de capa…

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Batman Vol. 2 #15

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Detective Comics Vol. 1 #880

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Batman and Robin Vol. 2 #14

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Batman Vol. 1 #681

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Batman Vol. 1 #404

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Animar a morte dos pais do Bátima foi cruel =(

O post 10 capas de HQs do Batman animadas apareceu primeiro em Amigos do Fórum.

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Hell-aciously busy with work, but I really wanted to draw this comic.

I love comics like this.

Hulk was my favorite, too.

Thank you, whoever you are, for this. 

Startup notebook maker Baron Fig last year far surpassed its goal to crowdfund a first manufacturing order. Last week it opened an online store to sell its flagship notebook, “The Confidant.”

Co-founder Joey Cofone sat down with Quartz to walk through how that product differs from other notebooks. Cofone also discussed how his two-man company is different than its competitors in the $4.3 billion US stationery industry. (pdf)

Quartz: Let’s start off with the most basic notebook, the regular spiral. How is this different than your notebook?

Joey Cofone: Yeah so there’s a lot of stuff to take a look at with this book. I’ve used a few of these. Right off the bat, spiral falls apart pretty quickly. I’m not a big fan of spiral in that sense. The construction is weaker. But you can fold it all the way back, and that’s something we’re paying attention to in terms of version two and how to kind of bring this awesome functionality to the Confidant’s awesome structure.

Quartz: Do you think you can achieve that in a hard-bound, closed-spine, type of book?

Cofone: Yes, I believe there’s a way. I don’t know that way yet but I do know already that [the Confidant] gets really close to getting there. What we did was, we took out the board that’s in most spines. The boards are great because they protect it, but it’s harder to open flat because you don’t have a lot of flexibility with the signatures [the folded packets of bound paper.] We added more signatures and took out the boards. Basically more signatures means more joints and the more joints you have the more you can flex. There’s 12 signatures in the Baron Fig. I think standard in the books we’re looking at in comparable size and price have eight signatures.

Quartz: And do you have the same number of pages as similarly sized and priced books?

Cofone: They actually have slightly more pages. We have 192. I believe they have 220, but they have thinner paper. We went with a thicker, better-quality paper and cut down the pages a bit. People are loving our paper. There’s a ton of great reviews from fountain-pen enthusiasts. That was a surprise. A happy accident, but it wasn’t the goal.

Then using the cloth instead of straight cardboard to cover the book, people loved that too.

Quartz: Did you consider using leather like this book?

Cofone: We did. I’m not a big fan of leather.

Quartz: Is the plan for the Confidant 2 to be a second product or will it replace the first?

Cofone: We’re treating it like it’s in the middle between a tech product and an analog product. A product like Facebook or Nike Fuelband, they just iterate. We’re going to go that route and keep things simple and see what happens.

Quartz: Why is thinking of Baron Fig as a ‘tech company’ and treating the Confidant like a ‘tech product’ important?

Cofone: We’re expected to put this book out into the world and for it to stay static. Moleskine put their book out in 1997 and their flagship book has stayed the same the whole time. I think that’d be a missed opportunity for us and for people who use it to see a product they love grow and develop over time.

Quartz: Here is a pocket-sized version of a Moleskine—what are your thoughts?

Cofone: If you check out moleskine.com, you’ll see they advertise their books with zero humans, number one. And the other thing, is that they really feature visual art.

I’ve noticed that a lot of people, a lot of entrepreneurs, teachers, all sorts of non-visual artists, carry Moleskine and they don’t do visual art in their Moleskine. So there’s this separation, this disconnect, between how Moleskine is displaying their brand and how people are using them. And it’s vast.

When you’re displaying it a certain way then you tend to design it that certain way. You tend to appeal to that certain crowd.

Quartz: How did you decide on the size?

Cofone: Trial and error. It had to be small enough that I could throw in my bag but big enough that I could work in all day.

The ratio of the page is really important. I like Moleskine—they’re not bad—but I greatly dislike how tall they are. When I started showing people some of the early prototypes, they would pick it up and go, ‘Wow, this is wider, this is awesome.’

Quartz: Why not a book sized for throwing it in your breast pocket?

Cofone: It’s definitely something we’ve considered. And we can only do one thing at a time being so small. But it’s something we are considering. I used to have a Field Notes that I would keep in my breast pocket all the time and I love that size.

We found that the size of the Confidant is the most preferred and also the most versatile. This is something you can jot quick notes down and also use to do some more detailed work. Whereas with Field Notes, I pulled it out to take notes in it and put it back.

Quartz: Here are some books made from reused paper and other materials. Is the Confidant all-new materials? Is there any effort to create a less environmentally impacting book?

Cofone: It’s not as optimized as it can be right now and that’s unfortunately because we’re so small we can’t afford to do it the way we wish we could. We’re aiming to do that as soon as it makes sense financially. So right now we just at standard environmentally impactful. It’s not the best that it could be.

Quartz: Do you want to sell in stores?

Cofone: Right now, online only. I don’t have a lot of interest in doing retail. It’s just right now it doesn’t seem that useful.

Quartz: Not that useful to you as a business, or to you in the landscape of selling notebooks?

Cofone: More in the landscape of new products. We’re a tech company that sells an analog product and we want to do more technically interesting things on our website and take a step up. Right now people have no problem with e-commerce. When Moleskine launched in 1996 e-commerce was non-existent.

Quartz: If you look at books like Field Notes, they started on a similar trajectory, online only, but now you see them in stores. Is there no value in that?

Cofone: Yeah, you see them everywhere. I think there is value. But there’s not a lot of interest by me or my co-founder Adam in going that route right now. The way we figure it is, if we build our site, we build our presence online that reaches as far as the internet reaches.

We have a limited amount of cash as well, so that restricts our options on how many things we can do simultaneously.

Quartz: So why not get an investor to give you more cash or have another Kickstarter project?

Cofone: I would love to just have all the time in the world, all the money in the world, and make everything I’ve ever dreamed of with Baron Fig. You have to first make sure what you’re doing right now has your full attention and make it good, because if I don’t do this right it doesn’t matter.

Quartz: How big was your first production run?

Cofone: With our Kickstarter we sold—in 30 days—8,760. We ordered three times that, roughly.

Quartz: Your first goal was just shipping the books people bought on Kickstarter on time. What’s your next goal?

Cofone: We have a daily goal of selling X-number of books. We’re just trying to figure out how to sell books now steady.

Quartz: Do you expect to sell through your inventory this year? You have about 20,000 books left?

Cofone: Yeah, I think that we’re going to sell them all sooner rather than later. Maybe I’m just being positive but we’re placing an order in two days for more books.

This interview has been condensed and edited for clarity

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An anonymous reader writes "Speaking to The Verge, author and Microsoft Researcher Danah Boyd put words to a feeling I've had about Facebook and other social networking sites for a while, now: 'The era of Facebook is an anomaly.' She continues, 'The idea of everybody going to one site is just weird. Give me one other part of history where everybody shows up to the same social space. Fragmentation is a more natural state of being. Is your social dynamic interest-driven or is it friendship-driven? Are you going there because there's this place where other folks are really into anime, or is this the place you're going because it's where your pals from school are hanging out? That first [question] is a driving function.' Personally, I hope this idea continues to propagate — it's always seemed odd that our social network identities are locked into certain websites. Imagine being a Comcast customer and being unable to email somebody using Time Warner, or a T-Mobile subscriber who can't call somebody who's on Verizon. Why do we allow this with our social networks?"

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