Amazing picture thread

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Mk2 Golf in all it's glory.

[Boon Mee]

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House on Fire Ruin - Mule Canyon

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The City is Mine - New York. Taken from Empire State Building



In this mind-blowing photograph, taken 12 February 1984, Mission Specialist Bruce McCandless II, is seen further away from the confines and safety of his ship than any previous astronaut had ever been. This ‘space first’ was made possible by the Manned Maneuvering Unit or MMU, a nitrogen jet propelled backpack.

[misskit]

Juvenile planthopper

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Full story - Amazing Miniature Scenes Shot with Model Cars, Forced Perspective and a $250 P&S

[Boon Mee]

Gay post for the Ladies

[misskit]

Jumping spider

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As in, you see it and you jump? Freaky.

Here is my offering for today, anybody been here?



A PLACE TO PONDER Photograph by Warachai Krengwirat/Photos of Thailand Seen here is a beautiful outlook point at Sai-Thong National Park in Chaiyaphum province, Thailand.

[Necron99]

Bushfire approaching Katoomba NSW.

[Cujo]

Bushfire approaching Katoomba NSW.

Scary stuff.

[Takeovers]

Remember the hype about fractal structures a few years back? I downloaded a fractal software and this is one of the sample structures that came with it.

Who says math cannot be beautiful?



The software is called fractalizer.

I actually uploaded a 1920x960 pixel version I made as a wallpaper but it seems the forum software castrated it to 1024x960 even before that yellow sign reduced it further for display.

[J Davies]

^ What math does it do?

Or do you need a smoke of crack to understand it.

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^ What math does it do? Or do you need a smoke of crack to understand it.

Fortunately I don't have to understand it. The picture I showed is made using the Mandelbrot set, as you can easily see.

Fractal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

From Wikipedia

The general consensus is that theoretical fractals are infinitely self-similar, iterated, and detailed mathematical constructs having fractal dimensions, of which many examples have been formulated and studied in great depth

If you want to play with it, here the link.

Fractalizer fractal program, Mandelbrot-set fractals zoom images

It has a number of tips how to get interesting designs. Once you have one fractal calculated you can zoom into it indefinitely and ever more details can be seen even when zooming in 1.000.000.000.000 times.

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On the space theme:



NASA ISS023-E-058455 (29 May 2010) – Aurora Australis is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 23 crew member on the International Space Station. Among the views of Earth afforded crew members aboard the ISS, surely one of the most spectacular is of the aurora. These ever-shifting displays of colored ribbons, curtains, rays, and spots are most visible near the North (Aurora Borealis) and South (Aurora Australis) Poles as charged particles streaming from the sun (the solar wind) interact with Earth’s magnetic field, resulting in collisions with atoms of oxygen and nitrogen in the upper atmosphere.



In this breathtaking 18-picture panorama by Justin Kern, we see the Milky Way Galaxy in the night sky from ‘Tunnel View’ at Yosemite National Park in California. Oh and that bright looking star just to the right of the bottom-middle of the image is Jupiter

[Boon Mee]

Asteroids That Orbit The Earth...



One of the reasons we prepare - hopefully...

[Takeovers]

Asteroids That Orbit The Earth...

They orbit the sun. Some of them are crossing the earth orbit. Those can be dangerous.

But a nice display of the dynamics of the asteroid belt. I had not seen that before.

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Glow sticks and ceiling fan.

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Asteroids That Orbit The Earth...



One of the reasons we prepare - hopefully...

Could you tell me, how you found this? I would like to know more about the source. I cannot get to any other content of that blog using the URL.

I never expected the asteroids to follow that kind of trajectory fixed to the Trojan/L-points of Jupiter.

[dirk diggler]

If the center dot is the Sun then it's basically saying Earth orbits the Sun once per year. Or am I being a spastic?

[Takeovers]

The graph is really about those tiny red and green spots. Most interesting and I must say surprising to me.

If the center dot is the Sun then it's basically saying Earth orbits the Sun once per year.

Spot on.

Or am I being a spastic?

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