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Saturday, July 5th, 2008
Archive for the 'Great Picture' Category
Smoke Plume
Friday, July 4th, 2008
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Can you guess what is shown in this photo? What is the plume extending upward from the ground? Why is the top of the plume brighter than its bottom? What is the bright object in the lower righthand corner of the picture, and what is the dark, cone-shaped feature that seems to be leaving the plume and converging on the bright object? Examine the picture carefully, look at the high-resolution version if you want to, and see if you can figure out the answers to these questions. Then, read the caption to test yourself.
Try Running 26.2 Miles In THIS
Friday, July 4th, 2008
Running a marathon is hard enough for most people. Some people, nonetheless, like to mix in some extra sweating and chaffing via elaborate “marathon costumes”. And there’s a Flickr photo pool about it…
餐厅 (”dining hall”)
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008[Quote:]
The Lords
Thursday, June 26th, 2008
Never give up!
Thursday, June 26th, 2008
This sign is a lie
Thursday, June 26th, 2008
Golden Ray photos of amazing mass migration
Thursday, June 26th, 2008[Quote:]
The spectacular scene was captured as the magnificent creatures made one of their biannual mass migrations to more agreeable waters.
(more pictures at the link)
The secret life of power lines
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
Martian Skies
Saturday, June 21st, 2008
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Mars’ northern orange sky and horizon, seen by NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander. The lander’s solar panel and Robotic Arm with a sample in the scoop are also visible. The image was taken by the lander’s Surface Stereo Imager looking west during Phoenix’s Sol 16 (June 10, 2008), or the 16th Martian day after landing. The image was taken just before the sample was delivered to the Optical Microscope. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona/Texas A&M University)
More great pictures at the link…
On Global Warming
Friday, June 20th, 2008[Quote:]
A Remarkable Photo From Tornado Country
Monday, June 16th, 2008
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What a picture.
When the weather turned violent and stormy on Tuesday evening, Lori Mehmen, who lives in the small farming town of Orchard in northeastern Iowa, looked out her front door and saw a funnel cloud bearing down — and evidently had the presence of mind to grab her digital camera and capture this shot before taking cover.
What if M.C. Escher built cars
Sunday, June 15th, 2008
SUV Taken Out by F-16 in Utah
Friday, June 13th, 2008
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Last April 9th, at Dugway Proving Ground in Utah, two soldiers were driving a rented SUV about five kilometers from the part of the range used for live firing. It was at night, and an F-16 that thought it was firing at something in the live fire area, lit up the SUV instead. Only 70 20mm rounds were fired. Fortunately, the two people in the SUV were only injured (both from flying glass, the passenger got a dislocated shoulder as he rapidly exited the vehicle when it quickly turned off the road and stopped.) The investigation of how this happen has not been completed.
Watershed Moment
Friday, June 13th, 2008
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This frothy flume is what 300,000 gallons of water per second looks like. A 60-hour surge of almost 75 billion gallons, it’s part of an effort to revitalize the ecosystem of the Colorado River and the Grand Canyon.
In pictures: Remnants of war
Friday, June 13th, 2008
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Laos is the most bombed country on earth. The US dropped 2.4 million tonnes of bombs on it during the Vietnam War - more than the allies dropped on Germany and Japan combined in World War II.
(more pictures at the link)
Bug
Thursday, June 12th, 2008I hear there’s a bug on this web page…
Water, Water, Everywhere
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
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In this photo released by China’s Xinhua News Agency, the water gushed out of the Tangjiashan quake lake at 9 a.m. of Tuesday, June 10, 2008 in southwest China’s Sichuan Province. China declared an end Tuesday to the crisis over the brimming lake formed by the May 12 massive earthquake that had threatened to flood downstream communities. (AP Photo/Xinhua/ Li Gang)
Check the size of the trucks in that picture!
more pictures at the link
Watching the game…
Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
The Size of Africa
Monday, June 9th, 2008[Quote:]
It shows how Africa (30,3 million km²) is larger than the combination of China (9,6 million km²), the US (9,4 million km²), Western Europe (4,9 million km²), India (3,2 million km²) and Argentina (2,8 million km²), three Scandinavian countries and the British Isles (map gives no surface for these last two areas; I’ve rounded out the figures for the aforementioned regions).
What’s also quite bizarre is the fact that a relatively sparsely populated country such as Argentina (about 38 million inhabitants) is not that much smaller than India, the world’s second-most populous nation, which currently has a population of about 1,1 billion people.
