The Cool Picture Thread

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[zerostao]

interesting

 

nice aura

[joeblast]

wow, and wow. everest in 2 billion pixels. I would love to make a pilgrimage to base camp someday.

 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2012/12/18/photo-mount-everest-in-two-billion-pixels/

 

[Desert Eagle]

[Desert Eagle]

sand under a microscope

 

[Desert Eagle]

 

christmas spider. (note: i dont know the details but i heard it's harmless to play with and only comes out during christmas.

Edited December 26, 2012 by Desert Eagle

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http://www.cracked.com/blog/13-awesome-photos-that-will-make-you-happy-to-be-alive/

[joeblast]

good stuff sinfest had to paste in my favs outta there

 

[konchog uma]

i need a llama right fucking now

 

and who doesnt

[joeblast]

you can just about make out the number on the side of the car

[konchog uma]

i need a llama by tomorrow morning, do you airmail?!

 

[konchog uma]

on second thought that should go in the 'what made you laugh today' thread.

 

sorry, next time.

[joeblast]

"Llama always with you, fur come later"

[joeblast]

[Desert Eagle]

ivanpah largest solar thermal power plant

 

 

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[Desert Eagle]

(moving pictures with sound)

 

Edited January 5, 2013 by Desert Eagle

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[Protector]

http://ca-tsuka.tumblr.com/post/39505718756/my-life-as-a-teenage-robot-tribute-animations-by

 

http://ca-tsuka.tumblr.com/post/39506032525/powerpuff-girls-tribute-animations-by-japanese

 

[joeblast]

cool hurricane on saturn

 

 

The spinning vortex of Saturn's north polar storm resembles a deep red rose of giant proportions surrounded by green foliage in this false-color image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Measurements have sized the eye at a staggering 1,250 miles (2,000 kilometers) across with cloud speeds as fast as 330 miles per hour (150 meters per second).

This image is among the first sunlit views of Saturn's north pole captured by Cassini's imaging cameras. When the spacecraft arrived in the Saturnian system in 2004, it was northern winter and the north pole was in darkness. Saturn's north pole was last imaged under sunlight by NASA's Voyager 2 in 1981; however, the observation geometry did not allow for detailed views of the poles. Consequently, it is not known how long this newly discovered north-polar hurricane has been active.

The images were taken with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Nov. 27, 2012, using a combination of spectral filters sensitive to wavelengths of near-infrared light. The images filtered at 890 nanometers are projected as blue. The images filtered at 728 nanometers are projected as green, and images filtered at 752 nanometers are projected as red. In this scheme, red indicates low clouds and green indicates high ones.

The view was acquired at a distance of approximately 261,000 miles (419,000 kilometers) from Saturn and at a sun-Saturn-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 94 degrees. Image scale is 1 mile (2 kilometers) per pixel. The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging operations center is based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colo.

For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/cassini and http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov. The Cassini imaging team homepage is at http://ciclops.org.

Edited May 2, 2013 by joeblast

[joeblast]

its funny they call it a hurricane - a polar vortex isnt quite the same - those usually form when some threshold is dropped beneath and the normal mixing that takes place between upper latitudes and the pole stalls, resulting in less mixing and a huge depression forms. we had a similar thing happen on earth, that's why the jet streams are acting funny.

 

[joeblast]

seein any auroras up there in MN, drew?

 

 

A fast (~550 km/s) solar wind stream is blowing around Earth. The gentle buffeting is not enough to spark a full-fledged geomagnetic storm, but it is igniting auroras around the poles. Early this morning, May 7th, the display reached all the way down to Minnesota

 

 

also,

 

RING OF FIRE SOLAR ECLIPSE: On May 9-10, the Moon will pass directly in front of the sun over the South Pacific, producing a "ring of fire" solar eclipse. At greatest eclipse, 98% of the sun's surface will be covered. The Coca-Cola Space Science Center is hosting a live webcast of the event from Australia! Tune in on May 9th beginning at 5 pm EDT. More: animation, map, details.

 

best spot for viewing, right in the middle of the pacific

[Vanir Thunder Dojo Tan]

Hawaii is the pupil of the Pacific Eye.

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[joeblast]

eclipsin'!!!