Or at least, it was until someone pointed out that this picture of tidal channels in Iran looked like a giant squid. I thought it looked like nerves and axons inside the brain. One is much less gross than the other. You can decide.
Giant squid (hint: gross)
Brain (hint: surprisingly, not gross)
More pictures from the International Space Station here, should you be interested. Normally I would not stoop to posting links, especially to places I have never been, but this is one place I don't think I will probably ever take personal photos of. Unless they get that space elevator working!
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Sneaky date finagler!
Those space station photos are terrific! Thanks for the link.
Not sure I could choose between the squid and the dendrites as a comparison for the river delta - it could be a slightly idealized version of either one.
I laughed at the crop irrigation circles - it made me think that we could have accidentally been sending digital signals to the space aliens all these years.
I think the farmers should rotate crops so that, over decades, the circles would create a stop motion video!
DENDRITES. That's the word I wanted! My reverse dictionary does not have an entry for "parts of brain."
....Dendrites: I always considered that word to be one of the benefits of pursuing a Biology major ...
Regardless, the delta looks very science fictiony (or would that be fictionee, or perhaps fiction-ee?) and kind of slippery, slimy (or slimee for consistency!).
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