my animal behavior professor just emailed me this

@just-call-me-ishmael

They’re not wrong.

Yeah, I’m seeing no inaccuracies here.

Honestly these kids are spot on.

The 27th of March, 1977, the world’s worst air disaster, the Tenerife Disaster, took place, when two Boeing 747 jumbo jets, KLM Flight 4805, carrying 248 passengers and crew, and Pan Am Flight 1736, carrying 396 passengers and crew, collided on the runway of Las Palmas airport, killing 583 people: all the passengers of the KLM plane, and 355 people of the Pan Am, leaving only 61 survivors.

A multitude of complex factors contributed to this accident, first and foremost the diversion of the involved aircraft (among all the planes going to the Canary Islands) from the planned destination, the Gran Canaria airport, to Las Palmas airport due to a bomb explosion and thread of a second one in Gran Canaria; then the arrival to the small, understaffed and badly prepared Las Palmas airport that was never indented to receive such amount of traffic, made much worse by the heavy fog of that day; communication confusions and misunderstandings between the tower personnel and the pilots of both planes, specially since said tower personnel knew little english; and finally, the decisions of an overconfident captain,KLM’s Jacob Veldhuyzen van Zanten, who, in a hurry and out of frustration, decided to take-off without authorization.

Many changes in aviation came afterwards: Emphasis on english as the standard working language, standard radio phrasing to avoid vagueness and misunderstandings, better emphasis on crew cooperation, so a captain won’t remain unchallenged when he or she makes a mistake, and finally, harsher punishments for pilots who disobey controller’s orders. 

Let us remember the victims of this tragic event, and hope that we never have to see an accident of this magnitude again.

OTD

(original artwork by Jan Nyka)

Hello everyone! I (admin Sydney) am starting my next semester of college tomorrow and I thought I would share my favorite Chopin pieces to study to. Without further ado, here is the list:

Good luck to everyone heading back to school, and listen to some Chopin while you study!

Vanadinite on Barite - Mibladen Mine, Midelt, Khenifra Province, Meknes-Tafilalet Region, Morocco 

The white Barite is  covered by a thin veneer of grey-black Mn-Fe oxide

I was reading about superstitions and apparently if there’s a bird in the house it’s a sign of dea

“Chopin is all sadness. Furniture is a little more expensive than he had thought, so now we’re in for a whole month of worry and nerves.”

Franz Liszt 

@part-time-ravager

@zilliumgrist is this valid

yes

The Quetzalcoatlus weren’t the only giants we strung up in Kuwait this year…Our 60-foot-long reconstruction of the primitive whale Basilosaurus was installed at the same time.

Friends

IS THAT A SHARK?

if you watch any video today it needs to be this one

I LOVE THIS NEWSCAST AND IM NOT EVEN FROM AUSTRALIA.

#like that little cage is gonna help ya

Theyre so. Honest

this man is unreal

bonus:

Ginkgos feature a lot in my artwork. They are very ancient trees; many different species grew across the world for over 250 million years. Now there is only one species left, Ginkgo biloba, which very nearly became extinct, a living relic of the past.

This is the coolest thing at the Page Museum/La Brea Tar Pits: a Smilodon growth series where you can see how saberkitten baby teeth get pushed out by the adult sabers.

reblog if ur lgbt and have a bad eyesight

trying to prove a point to my oculist

i love how fast this is getting notes.. we’re all bonding over not being able to see shit

i guess you could say we’re bonding over the fact that we can’t see straight

i guess you could say we’re bonding over the fact that we can’t see straight

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