Amazing picture thread

[Moonraker]

Starlings flocking in Scotland

Collective noun for starlings is a murmuration, just as for sparrows it's a susuration.

Just saying.
great thread...started at the beginning.

It's a murmuration when they're flocking in the air. Makes for quite a spectacle when it's a large one.

[BaitongBoy]

George Washington?...

[Neo]

This is How You Quickly Plop an Olympic Swimming Pool Into a Basketball Stadium | Gizmodo UK

[Maanaam]

Starlings flocking in Scotland

Collective noun for starlings is a murmuration, just as for sparrows it's a susuration.

Just saying.
great thread...started at the beginning.

Thanks for the red on this post Lulu. It was quite innocuous, and maybe even informative, so once again you are showing just how childishly nasty you are.

[birding]

[Luigi]

^ Needs to be bigger. Here's 1280x631

[Luigi]

Room with a view.

432 Park Avenue.

[bobo746]

Lightning strikes Lower Manhattan as a thunderstorm passes through New York City

[birding]

Or working on a Darwin award.

[Luigi]

when a wind turbine goes on fire and, for wont of a better pun, fans its own flames.

[bobo746]

People walk on a sightseeing platform in Zhangjiajie, Hunan Province, China

[bobo746]

Shi'en, Hubei Province, China,

[bobo746]

Christ the Redeemer above Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,

[Takeovers]

Shi'en, Hubei Province, China,

Beautiful, can't green you.

[Latindancer]

^^^^ Good to see those guys finished their walkway !

[bobo746]

Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi in Italy

[bobo746]

[Takeovers]

I copy my Space News post here. It is a video but I think it does qualify as amazing.

A new video with amazing pictures.

At 10 seconds into the video there is a scene taken with a new type of high speed camera. It has a dynamic range that they show details in the engine flames where up to now it was just overexposed white. This camera has been used for the first time only days ago on a test of a solid booster for the NASA SLS rocket.

At 26 seconds you see the effect of the 9 engine arrangement with one in the center. The exhaust of the outer engines act on the central engine exhaust and you see it appear a long distance behind the rocket. The effect is not only an amazing optical one it also increases engine efficiency.

At 30 seconds you see the rocket leaving the dense lower atmosphere and the near vacuum conditions allow the exhaust of the outer 8 engines to expand forming the petals you see.

At 37 seconds you see the engine exhaust of the second stage interacting with the engine exhaust of the first stage doing its boostback burn to land on the launch site. This interaction has never happened before. Many observers thought at the moment the rocket has blown up.

At 50 seconds you see Saurons eye. It's the effect of the reentry burn of the returning first stage when it reenters the atmosphere and needs to brake so it does not burn up.

At 58 seconds you see how the engine flames get blown back at the rocket as it gets near landing.

[Luigi]

^^ where's the Belay Bunny?

[Luigi]

[Dillinger]

^Where are you finding all these amazing and amusing photos lately?

Have you joined some kind of repo arse licking forum?

[Luigi]

Yup. You get signed up with every 2L purchase of mont clair silicone.

[misskit]

Lake Moraine, Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada.

[bobo746]

[BaitongBoy]

^^ Been there, done that...Just knew it had to be Canada...