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A meteor over Loch Ness
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Right, hold onto your hats, I've been gone a while...
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“The Architect” is the latest photo manipulation by artist and photographer Erik Johansson (featured previously). According to comments by Erik on his official Faecbook page, the image was created over the course of two months and involves numerous individual elements photographed and put together piece by piece.
Johansson also says that all parts of the image were real, most were shot outdoors but some of the finer details were shot indoor as well.
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In this breathtaking aerial photograph by Jialiang Gao, we see the amazing terraced rice terraces of Yunnan, China. Yunnan’s Yuanyang County is a popular destination with photographers due to the vast areas of nearby mountains which have been cultivated into terraced rice paddies for at least the past 1300 years by the Hani people.
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Curiosity takes a selfie from Mars
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Kim gets a 'Guile'. SONIC BOOOM!
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How wild is this? A viewer sent this picture to WITN of a perfect ice imprint of the front of a Jeep Cherokee. The ice remained after the car had driven away from the visitor’s parking lot at the Vidant Medical Center in Greenville, North Carolina.
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During a race in Moab, Utah, members of Team Rwanda Cycling stop to touch some snow as it was the team’s first time ever seeing it! The photo was taken back in 2007 and the photo perfectly captures a moment they will never forget.
According to the original post on Facebook, some members of the team put snow in their pockets trying to take it with them!
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World class hang-glider pilot Matjaž Klemenčič successfully executes a touch-and-go landing on the wing of a sail plane flown by Nejc Faganelj as the two soar over the Soča valley in Slovenia. In a post on Red Bull, Matjaž says the biggest challenges were speed and timing.
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In this adorable before and after shot, we see two newly adopted dogs go from sad to happy as they take a joyous ride to their new home
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In this 360 ‘tiny planet’ panorama by Stephanie Alexis, we see her and a friend appearing to sail on a tiny water planet. The photo was recently featured by GoPro as their Photo of the Day.
The photo is actually a composite of two images: the sailboat pic, taken with a GoPro on a selfie stick; and the 360 ‘tiny planet’ panorama created with an iPhone and an app.
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In Seoul, South Korea the government has begun to replace old street lights with new LED lamps. The goal is reduce electricity costs and light pollution. In the fascinating picture above by reddit user alreadytakenusername, the difference is quite dramatic. Not only are the LED lights more efficient and reducing light pollution, but they seem to illuminate the road much more effectively, making roads safer to drive at night.
^Superb shots - nice one.
Wow talk about having your camera pointed in the right direction at the right time.Quote:
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Awesome.
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While visiting Stonehenge, astronaut Buzz Aldrin sent a “message” to the Cosmos, urging NASA to “get their ass to Mars”. Aldrin was the Lunar Module Pilot on Apollo 11 and became the second person to ever walk on the moon at 03:15:16 (UTC) on July 21, 1969.
In June 2013, Aldrin wrote an opinion published in The New York Times supporting a manned mission to Mars and views the moon “not as a destination but more a point of departure, one that places humankind on a trajectory to homestead Mars and become a two-planet species.”
His book Mission to Mars was published in May 2013.
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Here is Danny MacAskill on his home soil, Isle of Skye, during the eclipse the other day. Sure beats all the pictures of clouds that swamped my fb feed.
Anyone not familiar with Danny MacAskill here is a video of him called 'Way Back Home'. I play it from time to time in my bar as it also has a cracking soundtrack to boot.
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Photographer Thierry Legault shot what may be the coolest view yet of yesterday's solar eclipse: the International Space Station's weird little silhouette flying across a thin sliver of visible sun.
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Earlier today, Mark Zuckerberg shared this aerial photo of the amazing 9-acre green roof at Facebook’s brand new headquarters in Menlo Park, California. Zuckerberg adds:
“Today we moved into our new Facebook building in Menlo Park, California. Our goal was to create the perfect engineering space for our teams to work together. We wanted our space to create the same sense of community and connection among our teams that we try to enable with our services across the world.
To do this, we designed the largest open floor plan in the world — a single room that fits thousands of people. There are lots of small spaces where people can work together, and it’s easy for people to move around and collaborate with anyone here. On the roof is a 9-acre park with walking trails and many outdoor spaces to sit and work.
The building itself is pretty simple and isn’t fancy. That’s on purpose. We want our space to feel like a work in progress. When you enter our buildings, we want you to feel how much left there is to be done in our mission to connect the world
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In this jaw-dropping panoramic by Trey Ratcliff, we see the incredible landscape of the northern region of Guangxi, just to the south of the Guizhou and Hunan provinces of China.
In a post on Google+, Ratcliff explains:
“It was a muggy day, the sort where you feel your t-shirt sticking to you before you even realize it. We hired some local guides, who then hired some even more local guides to help show the way to the spire we wanted to ascend. Boy was it grueling! Jagged rocks, thorny bushes, all-fours most of the way. Sometimes the only thing to hold onto was a thorn bush or a glassy-evil-jaded rock. At the top, I looked down to see all kinds of grisly lacerations… but gathered my wits to get this photo! This photo is a panorama, which I don’t normally do, but the Dr. Seuss countryside there is so vast and overpowering, it was kind of the only way to bring it all together.”
Great, dirk...I can see the dinosaurs in that valley...
For the zoomable 19,000 pixel version, click below.
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Clouds gather over the Suleymaniye Mosque during a storm on August 7, 2014, in Istanbul, Turkey
A meteor caught on dashcam in Tauranga, New Zealand.
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A sculpture of a woman
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This picture is not photoshopped. The sculpture is actual size and actually placed where you see it. If you have not noticed, the sculpture is standing on a human hair, so you can imagine the size of the sculpture.
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^ A Spanish Dancer if I do not miss my guess
^^ Beautiful creatures.
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Why the Newest Discovered Mineral Has the Science Community So Excited - See more at: http://dailylounge.com/the-daily/ent....tUayMERQ.dpuf
What exactly is putnisite? It’s a recently discovered (and especially pretty) mineral that has the science community at a fever pitch of excitement. Miners found it while prospecting for nickel and gold in the volcanic rock of western Australia. The bright purple rock caught their eyes; never having seen anything like it, the crystallized rocks were sent to labs for testing. The results proved it was like no other naturally-occurring substance, that’s stable at room temperature, can be represented by a chemical formula, and has an ordered atomic arrangement (which is the definition of a mineral by the way) and got scientists psyched.
So what’s the big deal with putnisite? It’s admittedly an asthetically appealing enough mineral, but in the age of lasers and space travel, should a rock really inspire so much excitement? After all, approximately 100 new minerals have been discovered over the past few years without any sort of fanfare. But putnisite is different from those over minerals; in fact, putnisite is different from anything scientists have ever seen before. Out of over 4,000 known minerals in the world, putnisite stands alone as being wholly unique — and entirely fascinating.
“A mineral is different from currently known minerals if it has either a different chemical composition or it has a different crystal structure, or sometimes both,” scientist Peter Elliot recently explained to Live Science. “Occasionally, a new mineral will have a chemistry that is very different to other minerals, or it will have a crystal structure that is very different to other minerals. Putnisite, a strontium calcium chromium sulfate carbonate, has both a unique chemical composition and a unique crystal structure.”
Even for those of us who didn’t excel in chemistry, the discovery of a substance never before seen on Earth is pretty damn cool. Scientists are surprised by both the makeup of putnisite, which has never been witnessed, and the fact that miners discovered it. Most mineral discoveries require specialized equipment not commonly found in mining camps, and very few minerals have been immediately noticed by the naked eye. Experts are theorizing that the location of putnisite — buried deep in volcanic rocks — plays a significant role in its unusual makeup.
“When the rocks in the Lake Cowan area were deposited millions of years ago, they contained small concentrations of strontium calcium chromium and sulfur,” Elliot said in the same Live Science piece. “Over time, weathering released these elements and concentrated them, allowing putnisite to crystallize.” This helps to explain the remarkable chemical composition of putnisite, as well as why it has not been discovered until now. Scientists are unsure if putnisite will be present at other volcanic sites throughout the world, or if the new mineral is exclusive to the Australian mines.
Nobody is quite sure if putnisite has any practical applications — after all, the mineral was just discovered. It may prove to be nothing more than another pretty rock in an appealing shade of purple. But putnisite’s remarkable makeup and unusual discovery reminds us that the world is still full of wonders and surprises — sometimes, buried beneath our very feet.
“Most minerals belong to a family or small group of related minerals, or if they aren’t related to other minerals they often are to a synthetic compound – but putnisite is completely unique and unrelated to anything.”
Putnisite combines the elements strontium, calcium, chromium, sulfur, carbon, oxygen and hydrogen:
SrCa4Cr83+(CO3)8SO4(OH)16•25H2OThe mineral has a Mohs hardness of 1.5–2, a measured density of 2.20 g/cm3 and a calculated density of 2.23 g/cm3. It was discovered during prospecting by a mining company in Western Australi
Volcano Calbuco in southern Chile erupted for the first time in more than five decades on Wednesday, sending a thick plume of ash and smoke several kilometers into the sky.
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article and more photos: Chilean Volcano Calbuco erupts for the first time in five decades
Dubai From Above...
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Electron micrograph of a centriole.
Scientists have discover that certain cell structures, the centrioles, could act as information carriers throughout cell generations. The discovery raises the possibility that transmission of biological information could involve more than just genes. Centrioles may actually be carriers of information, which holds profound implications for biology and disease treatment.
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Zebrafish embryo - The zebrafish, Danio rerio, is a tropical freshwater fish originating from eastern Asia and is a member of the minnow family. The zebrafish embryo has gained ground as a disease model, an assay system for drug screening and is used in cancer research. Picture: Annie Cavanagh
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Head louse egg attached to a strand of hair. Head lice (Pediculus) feed on human blood and live in close proximity to the scalp. They lay eggs (nits) in sacs which firmly attach to individual strands of hair near the base of the shaft. Horizontal image width is 1.5 mm. Picture: Kevin Mackenzie, University of Aberdeen
A Japanese War Bonnet
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^ Renndølsetra, Norway. About 100km south west of Trondheim
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^ Chile in Summer
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People with suicidal tendencies in Siberia
Nutters!
@Latindancer
Sorry, can't green you beautiful pictures.
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Love green roofs. I would like to have one like this. It should keep a house cool in hot climate and warm in cold.
Just imagine what it'd be like at different times of day ! Sunrise.......sunset.........full moon on a Summer's night. Wow !
I believe it's a cuttlefish. Weird eyes.
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An oasis in Libya.
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Pulpit Rock, Norway
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Playing cricket in Queenstown
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Not a fukkin chance in hell of me stepping foot on that fukker!
^ I'd have a crack at it!
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Painful kidney stones form when salts, minerals and chemicals in the urine (for example calcium, oxalate and uric acid) crystallise and solidify. Small kidney stones are often passed naturally but larger stones can sometimes get lodged in the kidney or other parts of the urinary tract. Size of stone is 2 mm.
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Arabidopsis thaliana flower, also commonly known as thale cress. Some of the anthers are open, revealing pollen grains ready for dispersal. Arabidopsis was the first plant to have its entire genome sequenced and is widely used as a model organism in molecular and plant biology. Horizontal width of image is 1200 microns. Magnification 100x.
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Have you taken yours today? This is a close up image of a the humble vitamin C.