Amazing picture thread

[bobo746]

"Huangshan Falls." in early morning in the Yellow Mountains of China

[Chittychangchang]

A tourist has captured a beachside photo bearing a striking resemblance to the outline of Australia.
Kelly Matthews took the sunset image looking between branches and leaves on Darwin Esplanade in the Northern Territory.

[Sumbitch]

The Kansas City public library in USA.

[david44]

A tourist has captured a beachside photo bearing a striking resemblance to the outline of Australia.
Kelly Matthews took the sunset image looking between branches and leaves on Darwin Esplanade in the Northern Territory.

Nice and like Sydney's been sent off for rude behaviour

[Chittychangchang]

Poor Tasmanias been left out again.
Someone should have a cut a hole in the hedge.

[david44]

Poor Tasmanias been left out again.

tiz the devil's work

[Luigi]

Soyuz Rocket launch long exposure.





(not the photographer, just another cool shot)

[Latindancer]

A Pharaoh Eagle Owl :










Two storms colliding :




Apparently not photoshopped :







Melted right through :

[birding]

Storm over Copenhagen.

[Lantern]

^^ I reckon that's photo shopped.

[misskit]

Not photoshopped. Sørvágsvatn, Faroe Islands



Amazing.

[Luigi]

Comet Lovejoy, as seen from the ISS.

[Luigi]

A lion in a sidecar in a 'Wall of Death' - 1930s

Circuses ain't what they used to be.

[hick]

I read that if you hold up a grain of sand to the nightsky, the area that it blocks holds 10,000 galaxies.

I was watching one of those space-science programs recently that was focused on the trails and tribulations they went through getting Hubble out there and functioning.

Major complications, as you can well imagine...and once it was in place, the fucking mirror was backwards or some such.

At any rate, once they were ready to roll - one scientist was lobbying for pointing at a tiny little increment of space that had not been observed yet,....and they ended up placing the telescope on what everyone else considered to be 'nothing,' and just let it sit and focus for a month or something.

In a month or so, everyone was blown away.

As you said, it revealed 10s of 1000s of galaxies in the tiniest space that no one had ever considered before.

[hick]

Images of six of the 767 dusty galaxies as seen by Hubble Space Telescope, with the time that light has taken to travel to us marked in billions ("bn") of light years.

[Luigi]

they ended up placing the telescope on what everyone else considered to be 'nothing,' and just let it sit and focus for a month or something.

In a month or so, everyone was blown away.

As you said, it revealed 10s of 1000s of galaxies in the tiniest space that no one had ever considered before.

Yeah, it's quite a well known image.



When you say, pick one of the spiral galaxies in it, and consider it may have a billion or a trillion stars or solar systems in it, and that these numbers of galaxies are in every millimeter of space from our pov, the number of intelligent civilizations out there must be utterly staggering. Which means that right now, there's probably quite a few intergalactic battles going on between some of them. There's also probably a mirror image of you out there, and even one where Daffodil isn't a big fatty or Manfan actually has a sense of humour.

[Latindancer]

An ordinary armadillo :



A Pink Fairy Armadillo :





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


A saucepan of water in really cold weather (my guess from reading Jack London is minus 50 or more) :

[hick]

^ nice!

[Luigi]

A zoom up of Andromeda galaxy.




"There are over 500 Million stars/solar systems in this picture."

[hick]

Macro photography of a Japanese kiwi pie.

[hick]

[Luigi]

From micro to macro.

[Neverna]

^ A bit more cream required, methinks. I hope the itching subsides soon for you, mate.

[Luigi]

Cheers bud, typing with me nose at the moment.

[Latindancer]

The Thorny Devil (Moloch horridus) can gather all the water it needs directly from rain, standing water, or from soil moisture, against gravity without using energy or a pumping device. Water is conveyed to this desert lizard’s mouth by capillary action through a circulatory system on the surface of its skin, comprised of semi-enclosed channels 5-150 µm wide running between cutaneous scales. Channel surfaces are heavily convoluted, greatly increasing the effective surface area to which water can hydrogen-bond and hence capillary action force. Passive collection and distribution systems of naturally distilled water could help provide clean water supplies to the 1 billion people estimated to lack this vital resource, reduce the energy consumption required in collecting and transporting water by pump action (e.g., to the tops of buildings), and provide a variety of other inexpensive technological solutions such as managing heat through evaporative cooling systems, protecting structures from fire through on-demand water barriers, etc.

https://www.newscientist.com/article...feet-and-back/