Uploaded November 2011 | Updated September 2026, 6 days ago
Four coons come around each night, as do skunks, possums, coyotes, bats, and even a few owls... and I live in the middle of L.A! The coons are surprisingly cheeky. They like corn chips and cat food. The cat fights with them most nights, defending his bowls- follow the drama in a gif animation-box.net/shared/static/c8rmqg9dly.gif
Its interesting the way nature hasnt relented after butthead humans rolled in and slopped it all up.
Racoons make unbelievably ferocious sounds when fighting (or fornicating, not sure) that sound like a much larger beast. A neighbor with a missing cat knocked at the door one day, concerned about the wild animal she overheard in my backyard the nite before, and wanted to check if there were remains of her cat eaten by the mountain lion or whatever was in my yard. She was skeptical at my explanation of raucous racoons.
Four coons come around each night, as do skunks, possums, coyotes, bats, and even a few owls... and I live in the middle of L.A! The coons are surprisingly cheeky. They like corn chips and cat food. The cat fights with them most nights, defending his bowls- follow the drama in a gif animation-box.net/shared/static/c8rmqg9dly.gif
Its interesting the way nature hasnt relented after butthead humans rolled in and slopped it all up.
Racoons make unbelievably ferocious sounds when fighting (or fornicating, not sure) that sound like a much larger beast. A neighbor with a missing cat knocked at the door one day, concerned about the wild animal she overheard in my backyard the nite before, and wanted to check if there were remains of her cat eaten by the mountain lion or whatever was in my yard. She was skeptical at my explanation of raucous racoons.









![Earth curvature demonstration
Comments with reply disabled will be deleted. Some people wonder why the horizon doesnt look curved. The Earth is simply too wide to make out curvature unless you get really high up. But a telephoto lens (or telescope) allows us to view curvature along Z-depth, across several miles at sea level. And a Soyuz rocket allows us to see the entire journey from ground to over 200 km.
Alt camera view from Soyuz launch- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhqclpAa208
Also see how ships disappear over the horizon bottom-first- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dV0h68YU0iQ
and here- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNGorPyX9OQ
Mahrai Ziller gives a detailed example of Earth-to-human scale- https://youtu.be/RIZbh3g16-8?t=1540 If Earth were the size of a soccer ball (22cm), a human would be .000000297cm tall, or 297 nanometers. That is smaller than some bacteria.
More views from launch to space:
2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeuBLIHr5CI
2013- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsYMBMAK9qw This shows a distinctly convex horizon that cannot be attributed to barrel distortion.
Sources:
View of Toronto from Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ShUmY-INVY
Toronto Viewed Across Lake Ontario From New York State - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdIlq_Xfdng
Onboard camera view: launch and separation of Sentinel-1A - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHWDNrrfhnI
A Soyuz Rocket Launch Explained - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oG5fJ8n6jB8
Earth Seen From Space Station ISS [Real Speed HD] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XG90YYHCSeA Earth curvature demonstration](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/n1CJZx4llto/mqdefault.jpg)
