The random picture thread

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[MrsB]

I drank a lot of coca tea during my holiday in Peru and Bolivia.

[MrsB]

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[tommyg]

The shortest and tallest men in the world have come together for the first time to launch a world records roadshow in Istanbul.

Sultan Kosen, the 27-year-old Turkish giant who stands 246cm tall got shin-to-face with tiny He Pingping, 21, who stands at just 74.61cm.

[SK]

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[Tatterdemalion]

I drank a lot of coca tea during my holiday in Peru and Bolivia.

so what's it like?

[MrsB]

It's a herbal tea and tastes like one (rather flavourless in fact), but it's a stimulant similar to coffee, without the negative effects of coffee though. It's good for your stomach and digestion, and they say that it increases the absorption of oxygen in blood, which helps you to combat altitude sickness. I thought it made me feel better as I was struggling a bit with my low blood pressure on altitudes between 3400 and 5000 meters.

[MrsB]

[MrsB]

[Tatterdemalion]

It's a herbal tea and tastes like one (rather flavourless in fact), but it's a stimulant similar to coffee, without the negative effects of coffee though. It's good for your stomach and digestion, and they say that it increases the absorption of oxygen in blood, which helps you to combat altitude sickness. I thought it made me feel better as I was struggling a bit with my low blood pressure on altitudes between 3400 and 5000 meters.

So many positive aspects to it. No wonder its illegal here...

[MrsB]

So many positive aspects to it. No wonder its illegal here...

Probably because altitude sickness isn't a big problem in England.

[MrsB]

They might look like trees on Mars, but they're not. Groups of dark brown streaks have been photographed by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on melting pinkish sand dunes covered with light frost. The above image was taken in 2008 April near the North Pole of Mars. At that time, dark sand on the interior of Martian sand dunes became more and more visible as the spring Sun melted the lighter carbon dioxide ice. When occurring near the top of a dune, dark sand may cascade down the dune leaving dark surface streaks -- streaks that might appear at first to be trees standing in front of the lighter regions, but cast no shadows. Objects about 25 centimeters across are resolved on this image spanning about one kilometer. Close ups of some parts of this image show billowing plumes indicating that the sand slides were occurring even when the image was being taken.