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I trade my cardinal for a hummingbird any-day. This is what I wake up to everyday... everyday:angry:!!! Cardinals are prone to attacking their own reflection. Nice birds otherwise: Northern Cardinal, Identification, All About Birds - Cornell Lab of Ornithology Size & Shape The Northern...

Stop trying to cut NASA's budget:pissed:!!!!!! Here's How Planet Hunters Are Going to Find the Next Earth Twenty years ago, discovering another Earth sounded like a science fictional dream. But within a generation, astronomers now believe we might do just that. “Finding evidence of life...

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It's on! Pole Dancing:bunny: And my personal favorite:triniti:

Spaceflight is a dangerous game, sh** happens sometimes. Happens to everyone. I hope Russia can get its space program back on track, the competition is good for our industry too, plus space exploration seems to be the one industry the US and Russia can still cooperate on. Mexican Satellite...

SpaceX Just Dropped These Amazing Retro Mars Travel Posters Everybody wants to go to Mars these days, not least of all Elon Musk, who might very well be hoping to retire there after he turns into a cyborg. But for those of you who haven’t jumped on the bandwagon yet, SpaceX just dropped some...

Japanese H-IIA Rocket successfully launches IGS Reconnaissance Satellite March 26, 2015 A Japanese H-IIA launch vehicle lifted off from the country's picturesque launch site on Tanegashima Island at 1:21 UTC on Thursday, embarking on a mission to deliver the classified IGS Optical-5 satellite...

Watch These Nimble Robotic Arms Perform Surgery On A Grape Robots are poised to revolutionize surgery, as demonstrated by this astounding—and even touching—promotional video showcasing the da Vinci Surgical System as it sutures a damaged grape. There’s a reason these robotic arms’ actions...

The Final Oculus Rift Will Need an $800 Gaming PC We’ve always known that good virtual reality wouldn’t come cheap. From the beginning, Oculus used beefy gaming PCs to show off its VR headset. Now, the company is revealing the specs you’ll need to get those experiences on the final Oculus...

Look at This Shockwave Caught in Action In this image, MATRA air-ground bombs hit a target during a close air support exercise on the military training area in Munster, Germany, on May 5th 2015. Captured the exact moment of explosion, the visible patterns of the following shock wave make for...

Watch the Entire History of US County Boundaries Evolve in 30 Seconds U.S. state and county boundaries have changed a lot since 1629. This wonderfully simple animation shows how they’ve been drawn and redrawn over almost 400 years. Flowing Data points out that you can actually grab the data...

:taz:I don't look like that! :lol:, well, maybe just a little:partay:.

Here's Why Dynamic Mongoose Is NATO's Biggest Anti-Sub Exercise Ever Operation Dynamic Mongoose is the biggest anti-submarine exercise NATO has ever conducted, and it reflects both deep-seated fears and the effort to catch up on years of management mistakes. And yeah, Dynamic Mongoose is a...

:o: :taz::taz::taz: :angry: One of many famous Finnish snipers, "White Death," Simo Hayha in this case. Finland's a nice place, a bit too sunny though. My Nordic eyes can't take the brightness8-):

Still a proud warrior tradition though. Manly, if often inebriated people. Poland might be a better insult:rofl::

Very! As @Gabriel92 pointed out, the Finns are actually ethical similar to native Russians and not Nords, though they do have Swedish influence too. FENNIA 2002 The "Strong Minority" in Finland's ethnic makeup is of Swedish speaking decent, but many Finns take their roots from the Uralic...

Somewhat, they largely left Finland alone: Map showing area of Scandinavian settlement in the eighth (dark red), ninth (red), tenth (orange) centuries. Green denotes areas subjected to frequent Viking raids. Note : the yellow colour in England and in the south of Italy does not have anything...

No Finland, they aren't Vikings. Sweden, Iceland (a colony of Norway), Denmark and Norway. Scandinavia is a historical and cultural-linguistic region in Northern Europe characterized by a common ethno-cultural Germanic heritage and related languages. It comprises the three kingdoms of Norway...