Bacteria's Sinister Division

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Bacteria's Sinister Division

The power of a simple division in two:
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To give you some perspective - according to some sources, if one bacteria will keep dividing like that for 36 hours - then the whole Earth will be covered in a 30 cm high surface layer of bacteria. "The Blob" movie will come true on a grand scale... We are lucky bacterias do not keep replicating like that all the rime.

Today's pictures & links:
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Bad, bad Bush:

This is Photoshop, of course, thank goodness.

This interesting picture of Bill Gates is real:

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Absolutely Gorgeous Photography

Marko Rantanen's portfolio at once terrifies and amazes. One of the best creative advertisements on the web:

Opera lives inside of us:

(images credit: Marko Rantanen)

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Cool Shot of the Day
(in cooperation with National Geographic magazine)

Lenticulars at Sunrise

(image credit: National Geographic)

Photo by Mitch Sanders -
It was early morning just north of Shishaldon Island in the Bering Sea. I was woken to 'see something'. I made my way out on the deck of our trawler, and to my surprise there was the most intense, beautiful sunrise I had ever seen at sea. The snow covered, smoking crater of Shishaldon, a still active volcano in the Aleutian Island chain, capped off this magnificent display.

Check out our gallery of lenticulars and other extreme clouds here.

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The Water Palace

Located in Jaipur, India, in the middle of a shallow lake, sometimes it's enchantingly lit up at night: