Category: Open thread

This week’s photo was taken by Eggs the other day. Have at it.

Hangin’ Around

Photograph by Douglas Gimesy, National Geographic Your Shot

“After the rain, it sometimes rains again, and when it does, what else is one to do except just hang?” asks Your Shot member Douglas Gimesy. He submitted this image of a fruit bat resting in a tree during a rain shower in Melbourne, Australia, its wings wrapped around its body for warmth. Fruit bats, as their name suggests, eat fruit and play an important environmental role in seed dispersal and pollination.

Here’s your weekend open thread. I’m out of ideas

Skippy sends a picture of a burrowing owl doing his best impression of TSO.

Dan Bernath has ordered me to post a weekend open thread and I always do what Dan tells me.

thebesig sends us our weekend picture. He found this and wants to know if he can move it or not, and I figure that someone out there would know better than me about that.

Proof that hindsight is 20/20;

New CBS poll: Americans divided over use of atomic bomb in Hiroshima & Nagasaki in 1945. 43% approve and 44% disapprove.

— ReenaCBS (@reenaninan) May 27, 2016

I’m thinking a poll in 1945, which would be more relevant, anyway, would have quite different results. Folks with actual skin in the game would probably have vastly different opinions. But, these days, Americans are more comfortable having no skin in any game – their opinions reflect that attitude.

I hear that the next CBS poll will be ask Americans if the Revolution was really necessary.

Anyway, our picture for the weekend thread comes from a joint effort of Frankie and Ex-PH2

Patagonian Paradise

Photograph by Roger Smith, National Geographic Your Shot

The renowned beauty of Chile’s Patagonia region is exemplified in this photo of French Valley in Torres del Paine National Park, submitted by Your Shot member Roger Smith. The valley is ringed by the soaring granite peaks of the 19-mile Cordillera del Paine and is located at the center point of the park’s popular W circuit hike.