opelgt1969
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Nice pictures of Vegas, if you haven't left yet stick a dollar in a slot and think this ones for that crazy opelgt1969 guy. Hope its a winner! Don't even need to share.
The amazing and cool photo thread
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RocZX
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I'm not sure if these pictures are "cool" or "amazing" but I took them over 10 years ago after a large fire swept through my area.
Note: These pictures were taken over 10 years ago with a cheapo single use camera and recently scanned, which would explain why they may look strange.
Upper right corner: Old oval window VW bug (the exact year is escaping me). Before the fire it was in pretty good condition, body was straight, even had both glass bowl headlight covers, just needed a new engine. Torched Celica GT liftback behind it.
Upper left corner: I believe that was an old school bus. The pools of aluminum in front of it are what used to be pistons.
Lower right corner: The headlight melted out making it look like that low mileage (but totaled) FJ40 Land Cruiser was shedding a tear.
Lower left corner: That "thing" in the foreground used to be a boat on a trailer. The Porsche 914 behind it had recently been restored.
These four pictures are of my Datsun 620 King Cab that burned up in the fire. I had parked it up at my buddies house when it was deemed a "gross polluter" and I bought my first MR2. Don't ask me about the funky VW next to it...
This set of pictures is what amazed me about the whole situation. These two vehicles, a VW Bus and a 1979 Chevrolet Caprice Wagon, pretty much survived the fire that burned ~40 other cars on my friends property.
The only signs of damage to these cars was: The windshields started to separate between the two layers of glass and a couple of the side markers started to melt. You can see how close these vehicles were to the rest of the ones that burned up in the top set of pictures, they are just behind and to the right of the VW Bug and Celica liftback.
The fire known as the "Poe Fire" in Butte County, California took out 103 homes and 8000 acres of foothills. All of this was caused by a dry tree branch falling on to a live PG&E power pole...
Note: These pictures were taken over 10 years ago with a cheapo single use camera and recently scanned, which would explain why they may look strange.
Upper right corner: Old oval window VW bug (the exact year is escaping me). Before the fire it was in pretty good condition, body was straight, even had both glass bowl headlight covers, just needed a new engine. Torched Celica GT liftback behind it.
Upper left corner: I believe that was an old school bus. The pools of aluminum in front of it are what used to be pistons.
Lower right corner: The headlight melted out making it look like that low mileage (but totaled) FJ40 Land Cruiser was shedding a tear.
Lower left corner: That "thing" in the foreground used to be a boat on a trailer. The Porsche 914 behind it had recently been restored.
These four pictures are of my Datsun 620 King Cab that burned up in the fire. I had parked it up at my buddies house when it was deemed a "gross polluter" and I bought my first MR2. Don't ask me about the funky VW next to it...
This set of pictures is what amazed me about the whole situation. These two vehicles, a VW Bus and a 1979 Chevrolet Caprice Wagon, pretty much survived the fire that burned ~40 other cars on my friends property.
The only signs of damage to these cars was: The windshields started to separate between the two layers of glass and a couple of the side markers started to melt. You can see how close these vehicles were to the rest of the ones that burned up in the top set of pictures, they are just behind and to the right of the VW Bug and Celica liftback.
The fire known as the "Poe Fire" in Butte County, California took out 103 homes and 8000 acres of foothills. All of this was caused by a dry tree branch falling on to a live PG&E power pole...
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Long exposure shots from the ISS
jsc2012e052676 by NASA_JSC_Photo, on Flickr
jsc2012e052684 by NASA_JSC_Photo, on Flickr
View from the ISS observation deck
jsc2012e053865_alt by NASA_JSC_Photo, on Flickr
jsc2012e053861_alt by NASA_JSC_Photo, on Flickr
The full album from NASA is on Flickr in higher resolution
jsc2012e052676 by NASA_JSC_Photo, on Flickr
jsc2012e052684 by NASA_JSC_Photo, on Flickr
View from the ISS observation deck
jsc2012e053865_alt by NASA_JSC_Photo, on Flickr
jsc2012e053861_alt by NASA_JSC_Photo, on Flickr
The full album from NASA is on Flickr in higher resolution
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And the shell it fires:
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Long exposure shots from the ISS
Super cool. 👍 Almost don't know where to look first!
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I can't tell whether the last photo is a real place, or a scale model 
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Today's Colorado fire damage. We went through this about 10 years ago here in SoCal.
CodeRedR51
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Link to more? I have a thread in the Current Events section for that as well.
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This is my favorite thread in all of the internet.
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Yes it is pretty cool!!
I've been there.. in fact, I think I took a photo from almost the same angle.And the shell it fires:
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Today's Colorado fire damage. We went through this about 10 years ago here in SoCal.
In 2008 we had the triangle fire down here. Horrible, luckily we havent had a big wild fire since that.
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I've been there twice now. Though the second time was spent pretty much entirely in the Holocaust section.
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It wouldn't be worth a thing without all the great posters on GTP.
