Pictured: Spaceship-shaped cloud hovering over Earth is captured by astronauts | Daily Mail Online.
A giant, anvil-shaped cloud bubbles up towards the Earth’s stratosphere, looming over West Africa.
The amazing formation would be invisible to anyone on the ground and would even be obscure from a regular passenger jet since they can reach up to 75,000ft.
But astronauts captured the astonishing picture from hundreds of miles up as they orbited the globe on the International Space Station.
Anvil clouds are formed mostly from ice and normally form in the upper parts of thunderstorms. They get their shape from the fact that rising warm air in thunderstorms expands and spreads out as the air bumps up against the bottom of the stratosphere.
Streaks of snow are often seen falling out of the edges of anvils. This light snow usually evaporates as it falls through the relatively dry air surrounding the upper part of the thunderstorm.
As Apple suggests dire consequences could come from users hacking the iPhone, one well-publicized former App Store program has made the jump to hacked hardware only.
Ever have a catchy tune stuck in your head but have no clue what the name of the song is, never mind who sings it? Enter web site LyricRat, who searches lyrics, finds the song, and then some.
Hit up the site, enter the lyrics you know (or think you know), and click search. LyricRat will return the result, as well as some possible alternatives, along with the album info and even a sample of the song (all linking to Amazon.com). The site does well with lyrics commonly mistaken, too; we tried the commonly misheard lyrics to the song in the screenshot and LyricRat still got it right.
What sets LyricRat apart from other search engines or even just a Google search is the ability to tweet your lyrics to @LyricRat and get almost-instant results with a link to the page on LyricRat for the full information.
So while Google is still probably your quickest and easiest option, LyricRat is a fair alternative, especially for quick results on your cellphone via Twitter.
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Before Pearl Jam’s new album, ‘Backspacer,’ comes out on September 20, the band is previewing the artwork with an online scavenger hunt. Featuring images from legendary cartoonist Tom Tomorrow (of ‘This Modern World’ fame), nine different album-related pictures have been spread out across the Web, including the exclusive one below. Collect them all, the band assures us, and you’ll get a pretty sweet surprise. So what are you waiting for? Click our puzzle piece below and get to finding the rest!
Every time I go to an event, I always keep my eyes open for really great shirts. At this year’s Comic Con I happened upon this guy wearing what had to be not only the most awesome t-shirt at the Con, but definitely the gayest t-shirt at the con. Sadly, I didn’t think to ask the wearer where he had gotten it and a cursory scouring of Google has turned up no leads. If any of you can figure it out, please let the rest of us know! Everybody needs some robot on android love.
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I will admit that I love the word too!
“I say it only around men, but I love it. Cunt is in Chaucer, in Shakespeare! I say, Let’s bring it back!”
- Rob Thomason C*NT being his favorite word, to the new issue of Rolling Stone
[Image via WENN.]
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