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Awesome timelapse video: Rapture. RS Part17: Appreciation. PART 17 Experiencing life is all a matter of perception: physical events exist only in our mental awareness of them. There is a popular Ch’an koan which asks: “if a tree falls in the woods, and there is no one there to hear it, does it make a sound?” The answer is no. What we call sound is only a disturbance in the atmosphere until it reaches something that can “hear” it, and a mind that can interpret it as a noise. A manmade mechanism left in the forest can detect the level of air disturbance, but it is not a sound until a mind defines the reading or recording as such. Colours exist because there are eyes to see them, and a consciousness to identify the electrical response of the cells as an image. Scents are only random molecules, without a life-form interpreting them as an odor. “One must truly appreciate what it means to have the opportunity to exist in this form.

Incredibly, impossibly beautiful time lapse video | Bad Astronomy | Discover... Watch?v=Rn90iyutb7I from youtube.com. Aystein-Lunde-Ingvaldsen2.jpg from spaceweather.com. Heaven On Earth (8 Pics) For more fun facts, click HERE. One Day on Earth: A film shot in every country in the world on a single day... - StumbleUpon. This trailer is the first glimpse of One Day on Earth, an ambitious motion picture shot by thousands of filmmakers in every country in the world on a single day: October 10, 2010.

The trailer alone includes footage from 90 individuals and organizations. The producer/director Kyle Ruddick is currently editing down 3,000 hours of film and is asking for help via Kickstarter to complete the project. I don’t know about you but it gave me chills. Crystal River - The most beautiful river on earth [Pics] Cano Cristales - Crystal River. River of five colors, as the locals call it, originates in the south of the mountain chain Macarena, Colombia, and flows eastward to its confluence with the Guayabero river. In the Cano Cristales found five colors: yellow, blue, green, black and red. All of them are waste product of many algae and, depending on time of year, color saturation, or weakened or strengthened.

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