Christian Arvi

Geologist | Wanderer

[Christian Arvi @calarvirite]

Permanently dismissed from UP Diliman's BS Geology program after just three semesters because of failing grades. Applied as shiftee and transferee at different universities but got rejected multiple times.

FFWD to 2019: I'm a licensed geologist for nearly two years now.

[Julia Di @astroboticist]

Struggled w/ math in HS. Got an F on my first engineering exam in undergrad. Nearly dropped out of grad school this year because of self-doubt / mental health.

But I’m still here. Magna cum laude from an Ivy, roboticist at NASA, and going to finish the degree I started. 💪

[Masoud Pezeshkian @drpezeshkian]

To the people of the United States of America

[Justin Dizon @iamjustindizon]

Kapag may Kiko Pangilinan at Bam Aquino sa balota, DAPAT may Heidi Mendoza na kasama.

We NEED this trio in the Senate. Gawin na natin package deal ang Kiko-Bam-Heidi trio. 🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭

[Aika Robredo @aikarobredo]

Important to note that Storm Warning Signals pertain to wind strength, and NOT rainfall. For rainfall, we look at red, orange and yellow warning levels.

[ً @leinpop]

“atat na atat kayo makakuha ng pera sa fans hanggang maingay pa sila without having any idea how to handle an idol group.”

“minamadali niyo lahat, and the quality is getting compromised because of it. Do better.”

go gurl get them!

[Rappler @rapplerdotcom]

DOUBLE OLYMPIC GOLD FOR THE PHILIPPINES! 🇵🇭🥇🥇

BREAKING NEWS. Carlos Yulo makes history anew as he becomes the Philippines' first double Olympic gold medalist after reigning in the men's artistic gymnastics vault final in the Paris Games.

Yulo, who also won gold in floor exercise, gets the job done after settling for fourth in vault in the Tokyo Olympics. Congratulations, Caloy! 💪🏼 #Paris2024

[The Olympic Games @Olympics]

Carlos Yulo secures Philippines first GOLD medal at #Paris2024! 🇵🇭🥇

[SportsCenter @SportsCenter]

THE CELTICS’ LEGENDS TABLE JUST GOT A LITTLE BIGGER ☘️

Tatum and Brown are the latest to bring hardware back to Boston 🤝

[ESPN @espn]

BOSTON RETURNS TO THE MOUNTAIN TOP 🔥

THE CELTICS NOW HAVE THE MOST CHAMPIONSHIPS OF ANY NBA FRANCHISE WITH 18! ☘️

[NBA @NBA]

The @celtics are the 2023-24 NBA Champions!

[Boston Celtics @celtics]

BEST RECORD IN THE @NBA CLINCHED 😤

[Fuck You I Quit @fuckyouiquit]

Once all the boomers are retired you wanna switch to a 32 hour 4 day work week or nah?

[Taylor Swift @taylorswift13]

All’s fair in love and poetry... New album THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT. Out April 19 🤍

https://t.co/WdrCmvLHyA

📷: Beth Garrabrant

[the big wave @makjako]

If my wife died she would not have to worry about me moving on because I would die minutes upon receiving the news

[Tony Leachon MD @DrTonyLeachon]

People who wear face masks 😷aren't weak. It’s about respect towards another person ‘s safety. And ..

It takes a heart of steel to go against the flow of a whole society.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A new ocean is forming in Africa along a 35-mile crack that opened up in Ethiopia in 2005. The crack, which has been expanding ever since, is a result of three tectonic plates pulling away from each other.

It’s thought that Africa’s new ocean will take at least 5 million to 10 million years to form, but the Afar region’s fortuitous location at the boundaries of the Nubian, Somali and Arabian plates makes it a unique laboratory to study elaborate tectonic processes.

There are still some big unknowns, including what is causing the continent to rift apart. Some think that a massive plume of superheated rocks rising from the mantle beneath East Africa could be driving the region’s continental rift.

Each plate boundary in the Afar region is spreading at different speeds, but the combined forces of these separating plates is creating what’s known as a mid-ocean ridge system, where eventually a new ocean will form.

The three plates are separating at different speeds. The Arabian plate is moving away from Africa at a rate of about 1 inch per year, while the two African plates are separating even slower, between half an inch to 0.2 inches per year.

[📷 Anthony Philpotts]

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

Known as the "Chernobyl Three," engineers Alexei Ananenko, Valeri Bespalov, and Boris Baranov risked their lives to prevent an apocalyptic catastrophe just days after the historic explosion at the nuclear power plant in 1986.

Almost as soon as firefighters started pumping water into the reactor, it began flooding a basement room directly below. The basement contained the valves that controlled the coolant liquid that normally kept the reactor stable. But as the reactor rose to 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit, it began to melt the protective concrete floor below.

Experts feared that if the molten nuclear material came into contact with the water, it would unleash a gigantic steam explosion that would destroy the entire power plant, level Kyiv 60 miles away, and release so much radiation into the air that most of Eastern Europe would be uninhabitable for at least 100 years.

So on April 28, 1986, Ananenko, Bespalov, and Baranov volunteered to descend into the basement, locate the valves, and drain the tank. Protected only with diving suits and respirators while armed with a single flashlight, they waded through the radioactive water in near pitch-black darkness.

It took several days of many descents for them to find the valve and turn it enough to begin the draining process, and by May 8, a full 20,000 tons of water had been pumped out, sparing millions of lives from a nuclear winter.