A security camera catches the scene in a cruise ship dining room as the ship hits some bad weather:
(If you don't have time for the whole video watch the first 2 minutes and then skip to 5 minute mark and watch for another minute)
Bonus: a cruise ship almost tips over in bad weather
I recently posted some videos of cruise ships in stormy seas . Yesterday, this video showing the security camera footage of another cruise ship getting rocked got released and made it's way around the internet. Mother nature is bad ass...
From Wikipedia:
In metamorphosis, within the body of the caterpillar little things that biologists call imaginal discs or imaginal cells begin to crop up in the body of the caterpillar. They aren't recognized by the immune system so the caterpillar's immune system wipes them out as they pop up. It isn't until they begin to link forces and join up with each other that they get stronger and are able to resist the onslaught of the immune system, until the immune system itself breaks down and the imaginal cells form the body of the butterfly.
Even though I'm not scared of heights and have done some multi-pitch climbs before, just watching this video still got my heart rate up. I have a hard time believing that for a good portion of this climb they are not tied in with safety ropes.
I've met a lot of great people in my life. Of couse, not all of them are on Facebook; but I figured posting this collage of Facebook friend profile images would be a good representation of the people I have met in this world and my gratefulness for having met them
Sometimes, I wonder about Utopia. If the world could be any way you want it right now, what would that look like? That question is intimately tied to what truth is. Not long ago, truth for some people was that black people were meant to be slaves and people literally fought for a world with slaves in it.
So the question about what is true is a very important one. Followed all the way it, it leads us to the great wisdom traditions that have been pondering the question since the beginning of thought. Yes, many dogmatic religions have warped, twisted, and abused the traditional wisdom but we shouldn't throw out the baby with the bathwater.
The wisdom traditions generally suggest an Ultimate Truth, an Ultimate Beauty, an Ultimate Goodness; a God, a Spirit, a Source, an Omega Point that has always existed, right now, forever. And we, you and me, are THAT. We are not separate from God. Everything is perfect NOW. In certain states of being I have felt this to be true.
The tricky part is that held within this perfection is all things dark and, so called, evil. Cancer, slums, slavery, disease, poverty, injustice; these things exist within perfection; pushing us to question; pushing us to evolve. It is with the aforementioned wisdom, however, that darkness can be met and even embraced. This is especially important when it comes to ourselves but applies to the larger social issues as well.
Things are getting worse and things are getting better at the same time. It's a paradox; no matter how much light we bring into the world, darkness will continue because we need it...we are it. With darkness embraced (not aloofly accepted!) we can have Utopia, right now, in this moment that we are always striving to improve and is perfect just the way it is.
You see crazy stuff like big jars with random and strange contents prominently displayed in the windows.
The nasal passages are assulted with the smells of meats cooking, vegetables rotting, and herbal remedies wafting their pungentness.
And every time I wander into one of the many gift shops, I expect to find some mysterious and magical item hidden in the back. Maybe I watched "Gremlins" too much as a kid.
I know almost everybody has already seen this video but it's so awesome that I have to post it again here.
This was taken by an amateur photographer with a telescope, a web cam, a high end filter, and some image processing to manage the lighting. It turned out pretty well I'd say:
