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Big Eye
Some pictures are stunning. Some pictures are terrifying. I find this particular composite image to be both:
That storm has already hit the Philippines. We already know what it's done. But sometimes it's impossible for the human mind to comprehend just how large things are. The true scope of nature's power exceeds the human scope of comprehension by such a magnitude that what is going to be profoundly devastating becomes merely pretty.
(Image is from Goddard, composite from NASA, EUMETSAT, and the JMA, from flickr)
That storm has already hit the Philippines. We already know what it's done. But sometimes it's impossible for the human mind to comprehend just how large things are. The true scope of nature's power exceeds the human scope of comprehension by such a magnitude that what is going to be profoundly devastating becomes merely pretty.
(Image is from Goddard, composite from NASA, EUMETSAT, and the JMA, from flickr)