Amazing picture thread

[Cujo]

Much better when resized.

[Cujo]

[Cujo]

[Latindancer]

During the cold winters, the Alaskan Wood Frog becomes a frog-shaped block of ice. It stops breathing, and its heart stops beating. When Spring arrives the frog thaws and returns to normal going along its merry way.

Wood frogs can tolerate the freezing of their blood and other tissues. Urea is accumulated in tissues in preparation for overwintering, and liver glycogen is converted in large quantities to glucose in response to internal ice formation. Both urea and glucose act as cryoprotectants to limit the amount of ice that forms and to reduce osmotic shrinkage of cells. Frogs can survive many freeze/thaw events during winter if no more than about 65% of the total body water freezes.

[Cujo]

^That one looks like the cold snap caught him by surprise.

[bobo746]

[Boon Mee]

Artistic Vision

[Boon Mee]

Amazing corona



During a total solar eclipse, the Sun's extensive outer atmosphere, or corona, is an inspirational sight. Streamers and shimmering features that engage the eye span a brightness range of over 10,000 to 1, making them notoriously difficult to capture in a single photograph. But this composite of 29 telescopic images covers a wide range of exposure times to reveal the crown of the Sun in all its glory. The aligned and stacked digital frames were recorded in the cold, clear skies above the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard, Norway during the Sun's total eclipse on March 20 and also show solar prominences extending just beyond the edge of the solar disk. Remarkably, even small details on the dark night side of the New Moon can be made out, illuminated by sunlight reflected from a Full Earth. Of course, fortunes will be reversed on April 4 as a Full Moon plunges into the shadow of a New Earth, during a total lunar eclipse.

[Latindancer]

The Australian Maratus volans is a species in the jumping spider family, belonging to the Peacock Spider genus.














They have become popular in recent years only, and someone has a Facebook page dedicated to them. Check out the Youtube clip.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maratus_volans



Incredibly detailed photos of the tiny - and beautiful - Australian peacock spider | Business Insider

[Sumbitch]

[Boon Mee]

[Sumbitch]

^^ how many of you all saw a man in both pics of the gif? If so, what was the color of the suits they were wearing?

[nidhogg]

Blue.

[Sumbitch]

Actually, two toned. Green top, blue pants

[Sumbitch]

Oh, and it's the same man in both pics. (but you prolly knew that)

[TizMe]

who took the second film... There's no one ahead of him in the first film...

[palexxxx]

who took the second film... There's no one ahead of him in the first film...

The man in the helicopter.

[Sumbitch]

The gif is just a few frames of a vid, which is about 3.5 min. long. It is the same guy in both frames and the vid was taken by a drone. Visit Beautiful Drone Videos // Curious Above He was following in someone else's footsteps at one point but he had the whole mountain to himself that day. God, you should see it. Anyway, the guy was climbing the Ledge Route of Ben Nevis. I had no fcukin' idea there was anything resembling a real mountain in the UK.

[Boon Mee]

[bobo746]

[Takeovers]

Don't remember that scene from Avatar.

[Boon Mee]

A map showing tribes of Britain in 600AD is almost identical to a new chart showing genetic variability throughout the UK, suggesting that local communities have stayed put for the past 1415 years.

The most striking genetic split can be seen between people living in Cornwall and Devon, where the division lies exactly along the county border. It means that people living on either side of the River Tamar, which separates the two counties, have different DNA.



Interesting article here: Britons still live in Anglo-Saxon tribal kingdoms, Oxford University finds - Telegraph

[Boon Mee]

Chayni Chamberlain age 9



Aboard her horse Flo Joe,

The American rodeo qualifying at AT&T Stadium Arlington, Texas, Sunday, March 1, 2015

Kid like this are why America is great.

[Boon Mee]

No amount of dramamine will help here.

[Boon Mee]

Not where I'd want to be.



"I dropped Sean at the top of the reef, and the ocean went flat, like someone had turned off the tap. It takes a big set to light this slab up, and as Sean sat patiently I saw a big lump coming. I started yelling, but he had no reference as to where he was on the reef so he waited and paddled for this first wave of the set. He just missed it, and when I looked back, this deep blue lump just started draining out, almost sucking him under the wave. He took one big duckdive and got under the breaking lip. On a normal wave this is fine but this thing didn't have a back -- the reef drops to 200m out the back of this place so when it breaks it really folds. The wave had just too much power and sucked him back over the falls, it's pretty much a surfer's worst nightmare position, so many people claim this is photoshopped, but it certainly is not!"

Winners of the Red Bull Illume Photo Contest 2013 - The Atlantic