Seen and Heard

Earth: 10/10

This would be the best one. First you got the crunchy outer layer filled with a bunch of life so a variety of tastes as well, moving into the gooey centre YUUMMMMY. You have to consider water on it as well so you’re also getting hydrated it’s the best. It’s basically a molten cake and if I could only choose one planet to eat it would be Earth

Mercury: 4/10

This has the potential to be good as well, its core is really big and crust is thin. Now while you might go but John Earth got such a high score because of that no? WRONG mercury is too small wouldn’t be filling enough and there’s too much core you don’t want it to overwhelm the crust

Venus: 7/10

The hottest planet in the solar system gets its points because sometimes you want a spicy food and I think this would work

Mars: 5/10

I am fond of Mars but I think it would be too dry to eat. Maybe if you have it after you’ve drunk something then it could work and I could see it being a fun little snack

Jupiter: 6/10

Okay this is a gas giant so it would be difficult to eat and I think the red spot would be a nice place to bite into however it could be too big and you might not be able to finish in one sitting. Now this could be a downside or a positive, either urgh I have to eat the rest of this later, and if you like it there’s not much of it left, or yay I have more food for later. It wouldn’t be my first choice to eat I think it’s too large

Saturn: 9/10

Now this is tricky because do you count saturns rings and yes I will. This makes Saturn so much more fun to eat because you have the planet itself to eat as your main course and the ring as a snack you can munch on when you get bored of the planet itself. This would probably be my second choice of planet to eat it makes eating fun. Saturn without its rings would probably be a 2/10 because other planets have its gimmick

Neptune: 7/10

Okay you might be thinking John! What? But Neptune is a gas ice giant so it provides a nice cool refreshing meal after some of the others you might have eaten. I’d pair this with Venus

Pluto: 10/10

ITS STILL A PLANET I DONT CARE WHAT YOU SAY

Uranus: 10/10

Four images from Man Ray's 1931 portfolio Électricité, commissioned by the Paris electric company as a promotional album celebrating electricity in the home.

Arts et métiers graphiques. July 15, 1931.

The scarred Birmingham white cub recently.

Flamingos can survive in low oxygen, high altitude, high temperatures, low temperatures, high alkaline, they can and will drink boiling water and they can be completely frozen at night and still get up the next morning

(animal death) this is a real undoctored photograph (*though the body was stood up for the shot) of a dead flamingo on the surface of lake natron, a lake so salty and so alkaline that it’s naturally carbonated like soda and would eat through your stomach lining if you drank from it.

When this photo went viral years ago, most people assumed this poor flamingo must have been killed by the lake.

It is actually the lake where 75% of its global population are hatched. This is a photo from the same lake:

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Flamingos can survive in high altitudes, hypersaline conditions, and caustic lakes.

Source: ‘All flamingo species have evolved to live in some of the planet’s most extreme wetlands, like caustic “soda lakes”, hypersaline lagoons or high-altitude salt flats.’

They can survive water so alkaline it burns human skin.

Source: ‘More than a million lesser flamingos breed in Tanzania’s Lake Natron, for instance, a lake fed by hot springs with water so alkaline that it can strip away human skin (one pioneering flamingo researcher named Leslie Brown spent months in Nairobi General Hospital after burning his legs wading out to observe where the birds nested).’

They can drink water at near-boiling temperatures.

Source: ‘They can drink water at near boiling point to collect freshwater from springs and geysers at lake edges. If no freshwater is available, flamingos can use glands in their head that remove salt, draining it out from their nasal cavity.’

The lakes they inhabit can freeze overnight, and the flamingos can survive once it thaws in the morning.

Source: ‘The birds may seem to epitomize the tropics, but they also live in the Andes, 15,000 feet above sea level, where they rest on lakes that freeze around them overnight.

“You’ll see them sitting there like snowballs, frozen on ice,” Dr. Arengo said. “And as the temperature warms up, they thaw out, fluff themselves up and go about their business.”’

The photo is indeed from Lake Natron, taken by photographer Nick Brandt. The content of the lake chemically preserves animal corpses that die there. You can see more photos of this here.

It is also true that 75% of Lesser Flamingos are hatches on Lake Natron.

Source: ‘The lake’s landscape is surreal and deadly—and made even more bizarre by the fact that it’s the place where nearly 75 percent of the world’s lesser flamingos are born.’

Some species of Flamingo eat cyanobacteria or algae.