Amazing picture thread

[Eliminator]

I would like to know why I cannot view my photos and control what is on the different pages I have on here. I can no longer even look at my photos here.

[Latindancer]

^ It seems that since the forum upgrade, our photo galleries cannot be used in the same way that we were once used to.

I complained about this once and Neverna sent me a link to mine. If he does not notice our posts here, perhaps you might send him a P.M.

[Neverna]

I just tried to re-post one of Bobo's fantastic shots (which I saved on my computer) and it appears as a link below, but not as a photo as it usually does. And I cannot delete it either.

Just click on the link in your post to open the image up in another window/browser tab, copy the image url from that tab, then post the image url into [img ] tags into your post. It should work.

Test below using the link from your post.

[Latindancer]

So you're saying that from now on, I have to post a link, then edit my post to get the pic to show ? I'd rather fix the basic problem.

Also, the link only showed for Bobo's pic, above......I cannot get the links to appear for the 3 photos I want to post.

[Latindancer]

FFS. It's now so utterly laborious. This took me frigging forever ! And I was posting pics fine till a couple of days ago. Can anyone enlighten me as to what has occurred ? I blame my computer....I think.


Anyway, these are quite surreal.

The earth pyramids of South Tyrol.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_...of_South_Tyrol

[Neverna]

So you're saying that from now on, I have to post a link, then edit my post to get the pic to show ? I'd rather fix the basic problem.

No, I'm not. I was just trying to help you, FFS. Work it out for yourself next time then.

[happynz]

For the engineers here.

[SKkin]

Kilauea's Newest Lava Fissures on Hawaii's Big Island

Thanks bobo...

[OhOh]

^Unusual design.

The dead load exceeds the live load. Moisture loss would induce sagging. But mostly Beaver bovver.

The Tsar got his trans-continental railway, if only for a short time, but long enough for him to announce his dream was completed.

Only saving grace is that the construction materials are plentiful for construction and repairs, a minimum of, imported, expensive, intelligent labour and specialist tools required.

Try building a train suspension bridge without a wind tunnel, expensive FEA, expensive on-site plant and international design and construction teams.

[Latindancer]

No, I'm not. I was just trying to help you, FFS. Work it out for yourself next time then.

I'm taking my photos and going home, to give you the sulking of your life.

[Neverna]

Bye

[Luigi]

[Latindancer]

No, I'm not. I was just trying to help you, FFS. Work it out for yourself next time then.

A bit touchy, aren't you ?

[Takeovers]

It is getting harder to find new amazing perspectives on rocket launch with the huge number of photos taken during launches. But there are some. From the launch of the SES-12 satellite today by SpaceX. Photographer @johnkrausphotos.

[Luigi]

On the theme of amazing space/rocket/shuttle pics, I always loved these shuttle docking with the ISS series.




Especially when you think that a hundred years or so before, man hadn't even been able to fly.


For some reason the shuttle looks so vulnerable, or 'dead', compared to how we usually see it. Like it's been captured by an alien that's sucking the life out of it.

At least to me.


Full size is about 6000 pixels btw

https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/f...36716_full.jpg

[grasshopper]

Point of order: Man still cannot fly but has built contraptions to obviate that.

[Takeovers]

Violin concert before departure to Mars.

[bobo746]

[Latindancer]

^ I got this photo from a National Geographic site of some kind, but from what the bird is standing on, it appears to be a compilation. Presumably the bird's colours are real though.

[Latindancer]

Like most pit vipers they are a typical "sit-and-wait" ambush type predator, attacking their prey by surprise and injecting their highly toxic hemotoxic and neurotoxic venom. Then they wait for the prey to die before swallowing it whole.

Reproduction

The eyelash pit viper reaches sexual maturity at around 2 years of age, and they reproduce throughout the year in warm environments. They are a polygynous species, and mating usually takes place at night.

The males engage in an amazing courtship ritual called “dance of the adders". In it, the 2 males try to intimidate one another with the head and the forepart of the body held upright in a “cobra-like” stance. This sometimes can go on for several hours, until one is pushed away to the ground, there is no biting in the ritual.

The eyelash pit viper is an ovoviviparous species, the females incubate the eggs internally during the gestation period of approximately 6 months. After the gestation, the eggs hatch inside the mother's body, and the hatchlings are born live.

Except for their body size, around 15 to 20 cm, the younglings are physically similar to adult snakes and are fully equipped and independent from birth. Females typically bear anywhere from 2 to 20 live young, per brood.

[Luigi]

Massive iceberg threatens Greenland village as residents are evacuated

https://news.sky.com/story/massive-i...uated-11436668

[Latindancer]

The actual reality of being there with an enormous iceberg suddenly on your doorstep would be a tad intimidating.

Wasn't there a huge traveling building in a Monty Python movie ? Haven't seen it since the 70s.

[happynz]

drawn with a cheap Bic pen.

[Luigi]

^ now there's a person with talent.


^^ it must be a bit unnerving to come out in the morning and see an iceberg that's 10 times taller than your house.


And then consider that 90% of it is under the water.

[Lantern]

^I thought it was 70%.