The amazing and cool photo thread

[TB]

You can provide the link. It's up to us whether we want to click it!

Click - if you dare!!!

 

[Alex.]

I clicked some time in the pre war era and it hasn't loaded yet.

 

[TB]

I clicked some time in the pre war era and it hasn't loaded yet.

You're better off right-clicking and saving the behemoth. After 10 minutes last night, Firefox was only half done. I stopped it and downloaded it with DAP in under 2 minutes.

Edit: Honestly, the über image does't look different enough to warrant it, in my opinion.

 

[opendriver]

 

[Serge.D]

I clicked some time in the pre war era and it hasn't loaded yet.

You're better off right-clicking and saving the behemoth. After 10 minutes last night, Firefox was only half done. I stopped it and downloaded it with DAP in under 2 minutes.

Edit: Honestly, the über image does't look different enough to warrant it, in my opinion.

I clicked it and after 2 minutes I saw the image.

12000X7200 (108MB)

 

[homeforsummer]

The planets picture is amazing!

 

[Barracuda]

If you want big pictures I have this one:

The original picture is 689mb and 22620X15200

 

[MagpieRacer]

Holy Crap..

 

[hellnback]

LOL, waving wands are you people???

'Mines bigger than yours...'

I've always enjoyed big space pictures, the detail can be fascinating... Hubble Deep Field is still my favourite and most mind blowing when you put it into context

 

[DQuaN]

Linky!!

 

[TB]

Links/pictures only, please. It is called the amazing and cool picture thread, not the amazing description of a cool picture thread.

 

[Metar]

Although, this thread isn't just 56k-unsafe, but rather anything-with-less-than-fibre-connections-and-lotsa-RAM-unsafe... Perhaps links with a description would enable my computer to display the page, and allow me to pick? I'm not quite interested in thousands of pixels worth of gargantuan buildings... And having the browser freeze every time I see a new reply isn't too pleasant.


Sorry if this came off so harsh, I didn't intend to rant quite that much.

 

[UnoMOTO]

I actually think it's funny to post up the biggest pictures we can. A linky just doesn't give the WOW factor.

Sorry about your early 1990's internet connection Metar.

 

[Metar]

The connection is fine, the PC isn't.

 

[hellnback]

Hubble Ultra Deep Field

http://www.forskning.no/images/2004/mars/1079019678.73.jpg

About the shot (from Wiki): The Hubble Ultra Deep Field, or HUDF, is an image of a small region of space in the constellation Fornax, composited from Hubble Space Telescope data accumulated over a period from September 24, 2003 through January 16, 2004. It is the deepest image of the universe ever taken in visible light, looking back (to when the universe is thought to have been 800 million years old) approximately 13 billion years ago.[citation needed] The HUDF contains an estimated 10,000 galaxies[1]. The patch of sky in which the galaxies reside (just one-tenth the diameter of the full moon as viewed from Earth) was chosen because it had a low density of bright stars in the near-field. Although most of the targets visible in the Hubble image can also be seen at infrared wavelengths by ground-based telescopes, Hubble is the only instrument which can make observations of these distant targets at visible wavelengths. Located southwest of Orion in the Southern-Hemisphere constellation Fornax at right ascension 3h 32m 40.0s, declination -27° 47' 29" (J2000), the image covers 11.5 square arcminutes. This is smaller than a 1 mm by 1 mm square of paper held 1 meter away, and equal to roughly one thirteen-millionth of the total area of the sky. The image is oriented such that the upper left corner points toward north (-46.4°) on the celestial sphere. The star near the center of the field is USNO-A2.0 0600-01400432 with apparent magnitude of 18.95.

So in laymans terms this is what be seen when Hubble is pointed at a point in the sky that appears to have no stars with the naked eye.

Now think of that behind everything also, then think of the amount of celestial objects overall, and not just in the picture...

By memory there is a link to a 60MB pic on GTP somewhere...

 

[Touring Mars]

The HUDF image is fantastic ...

I have this as my wallpaper at the moment...

I find it quite mind-blowing that an entire galaxy (like the spiral in the bottom left of the image) can be obscured
from my view by a folder containing my mp3s
To think of the possibility of that galaxy teaming with life, past and present, was enough to make me clear my desktop of icons altogether

 

[Metar]

Yeah, there's a link to a 60MB version on NASA's website, though someone mentioned there's also a 600MB version somewhere...


I used to have galaxy stuff, but I'm pretty much settled on that train picture Pupik posted on one of the first pages.

 

[UnoMOTO]

I just hit the photo jackpot with amazing shots. I'll post a few a day to entertain ya'll.

Sand dune in the heart of vegetation on Fraser island, Queensland, Australia. Fraser Island, named after Eliza Fraser, who was shipwrecked on the island in 1836, is the world's largest sand island. On top of this rather infertile substratum, a humid tropical forest has developed in the midst of which wide dunes intrude, moving with the wind.

Icebreaker Louis Saint Laurent in Resolute Bay, Nunavut Territory, Canada.

Worker resting on bales of cotton, Thonakaha, Korhogo, Ivory Coast. Cotton crops occupy approximately 335,000 square klilometers worldwide, and use nearly one quarter of all pesticides sold.

plenty more to come soon.

 

[Omnis]

Please please please please tell me all of that isn't cotton.

 

[UnoMOTO]

The rest of the story

Worker resting on bales of cotton, Thonakaha, Korhogo, Ivory Coast. Cotton crops occupy approximately 335,000 square klilometers worldwide, and use nearly one quarter of all pesticides sold.

 

[Slick Rick]

Got a wallpaper size of the icebreaker Uno?

 

[Omnis]

The rest of the story

Oh, that is funny.

 

[TsukubaTrueno]

Those look like giant rice balls.

 

[TB]

I just hit the photo jackpot with amazing shots. I'll post a few a day to entertain ya'll.

Wouldn't perchance have 38 pictures for us, would ya?

 

[UnoMOTO]

You Bastard...you killed Kenny!!!

 

[TB]

You Bastard...you killed Kenny!!!

Unfortunately I could only afford a wiffle bat so this may take a while.

 

[TB]

I was messing around with Stellarium and thought this came out looking pretty cool:

 

[Omnis]

 

[UnoMOTO]

Despite TB’s attempt to pee in my Cheerios I will post up the pictures that I promised. Which BTW is only 10 now not 38 and I didn't save them before the rest where taken down.

Mountainous countryside near Maelifellssandur, Myrdalsjökull Region, Iceland. Once the young lava fields of Iceland cool down, life begins anew little by little. Ice, wind and water flatten and carve out shapes to begin with, then, during the summer, bacteria, lichen and fungi prepare the soil for plants, in particular mosses which adapt to an environment which remains difficult. These plants colonise the most favourable sites and terrain little by little, forming a new ecosystem

"Tree of life", Tsavo national park, Kenya. This acacia is a symbol of life in the vast expanses of thorny savanna, where wild animals come to take advantage of its leaves or its shade. Tsavo National Park in southeastern Kenya, crossed by the Nairobi-Mombasa road and railway axis, is the country's largest protected area (8,200 square miles, or 21,000 square kilometers) and was declared a national park in 1948.

Iraqi tank graveyard in the desert near Al Jahrah, Kuwait. This graveyard of tanks will bear witness for many years to the damage that war causes both to the environment and to human health. In 1991, during the first Gulf War, a million depleted uranium shells were fired at Iraqi forces, spreading toxic, radioactive dust for miles around. Such dust is known to have lasting effects on the environment and to cause various forms of cancer and other serious illnesses among humans.

 

[TB]

Despite TB’s attempt to pee in my Cheerios I will post up the pictures that I promised.

I DID NO SUCH THING!!!

Now if I would have posted them, that would have been different.