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There will come one day in the future. Relatively and astronomically speaking, it might come sooner than we think. It could happen way before we realize that there is no turning back. The day when mother Earth will simply say - sorry guys, I have no more energy to sustain this kind of life anymore and when most of biodiversity cocoons on Earth will reach the ultimate hazard and start imploding back into themselves. Air and water pollution will help a lot and not even planet's regular motions will be able to take us into another interglacial cycle. It is as much inevitable as what we are going to do next. We will take a long look toward the stars and say: "Well, we have to do this sooner or later. It's time to leave the Earth. Time to jump into Christopher Columbus's shoes again. And find the new home." But we will not get far. There will be no warp drives, "phasers on stun", robots, AIs or artificial gravity like in Sci-Fi blockbusters and there will b...

This is maybe the biggest optical illusion everybody has seen it. The Moon is huge on the horizon and couple of hours later it shrinks to it's 'normal' size. Of many hypotheses proposed, the one defined as 'apparent distance hypothesis' is the most accurate explanation - it's simply because we humans perceive the sky as a flat or gently curved than it is in reality. But you cannot fool the camera, cause of the simple fact that it does not have the brain and therefore if you fix  it on the tripod and take the image near the horizon and the one couple of hours later the Moon should be the same size. I always wanted to test this myself and finally my new Coolpix came with a feature of self taking images and I did it last night. Moonrise, HDR image created by Picturenaut So, in a nutshell, after couple of hours of shooting I took about 500 images (triggered every half a minute) and this is the result, maybe not so clear and perfect images, still this is n...