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Rare happnings/ wonders in Nature……. part- 2

Blue Holes

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Blue holes are giant and sudden drops in underwater elevation that get their name from the dark and foreboding blue tone they exhibit when viewed from above in relationship to surrounding waters. They can be hundreds of feet deep and while divers are able to explore some of them they are largely devoid of oxygen that would support sea life due to poor water circulation - leaving them eerily empty. Some blue holes, however, contain ancient fossil remains that have been discovered, preserved in their depths.

Red Tides
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Red tides are also known as algal blooms - sudden influxes of massive amounts of colored single-cell algae that can convert entire areas of an ocean or beach into a blood red color. While some of these can be relatively harmless, others can be harbingers of deadly toxins that cause the deaths of fish, birds and marine mammals. In some cases, even humans have been harmed by red tides though no human exposure are known to have been fatal. While they can be fatal, the constituent phytoplankton in ride tides are not harmful in small numbers.
 
Rare happnings/ wonders in Nature……. part- 3

Ice Circles
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While many see these apparently perfect ice circles as worthy of conspiracy theorizing, scientists generally accept that they are formed by eddies in the water that spin a sizable piece of ice in a circular motion. As a result of this rotation, other pieces of ice and flotsam wear relatively evenly at the edges of the ice until it slowly forms into an essentially ideal circle. Ice circles have been seen with diameters of over 500 feet and can also at times be found in clusters and groups at different sizes as shown above.

Mammatus Clouds
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True to their ominous appearance, mammatus clouds are often harbingers of a coming storm or other extreme weather system. Typically composed primarily of ice, they can extend for hundreds of miles in each direction and individual formations can remain visibly static for ten to fifteen minutes at a time. While they may appear foreboding they are merely the messengers - appearing around, before or even after severe weather.

Fire Rainbows
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'Hand of God'

This beautiful image of a "cosmic hand" reaching for the stars has been captured by a Nasa observatory.


The X-ray image was recorded by Nasa's Chandra observatory which is circling 360 miles above Earth Photo: PA
 
Cops get a raise!! The dancing cops!
 

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Australian motorcyclist Cam Sinclair performs a double back flip into the harbour in Sydney

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A cargo plane which slid off the runway at the Brussels Zaventem airport. The plane broke in two, but there were no casualties

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Alexei Latotskikh performs a stunt during an exhibition in Rostov-on-Don, Russia

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Flames come off of a stunt runway model during the 2007 Taurus World Stunt Awards at Paramount Pictures in Hollywood
 
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Excellent collection!! Can't decide which one is the best! I am leaning toward the flaming stuntman.
 
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