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Taken by an astronaut on the international space station, NASA says the sparkling channels in the top right of this picture are (mostly illegal) gold-mining pits in Peru's Amazon Rainforest, illuminated by reflected sunlight.
here is an explanation of the image:
and here's the BBC story
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That is one wiggly, braided son-of-a-gun river.
I thought rivers did that at their other end.
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I can't decide if it's more reminiscent of an umbilical chord or a failed knitting project.
It's the trajectory of coronavirus particles from a cough.
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I feel that would be more like golden showers