The amazing and cool photo thread

[GregTheStig]

Was this actually on your friends camera?

I've just seen it in Nuts magazine in the UK with the caption "on a recent surfing trip to Australia..."

So someone has poached it!

Just like matty said that was the caption I got from the source (which was reddit) Not at all surprised that it's been making the rounds elsewhere.

 

[Minty]

And then that guy never went surfing again...


Or at least I wouldn't.

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It looks big already, yeah.


But then you notice the guy standing in the bottom left.

 

[CoffeeGrunt]

Pretty rusty for something so new.

 

[Carlos]

Wow!

edit;
Looking at it again, nature really makes us look 'small'.

 

[Jay]

The Australian dust storm made it all the way to the US!!

 

[CodeRedR51]

That's Phoenix, and we get those just about every day during monsoon season.

Edit: 16 Gigapixel image of Machu Micchu

 

[terminator363]

Reminds me of:

Budapest Panorama

 

[CodeRedR51]

Gah, can't view that at work. Need Silverlight plug-in and can't download things without bosses approval.

 

[Beerz]

Just an average day on this spot:

Yup. It's that big. 👍

 

[TB]

Yup. It's that big. 👍

That's what she said!

 

[speed junkie]

 

[Madertus]

^Dammit TB, I wanted to say this

 

[Beerz]

That's what she said!

 

[Minty]

Wonder what's going through that Penguin's head right now.....

It's about to be teeth, but I mean at that exact moment.

 

[niky]

Probably canines...

 

[Carlos]

I never use Facebook but I'm going to change my wall photo right now!

 

[W3H5]

I guess this is pretty cool:

 

[Wiegert]

When snow melted and flash froze down a mountain somewhere in Russia, a photographer captured this impressive natural phenomenon.

 

[Beerz]

Wow

All of this page: 👍

 

[Minty]

That's pretty cool. I remember hearing about that, but I've never seen a photo.


Also,

Is this for real?

 

[Dennisch]

He is Dutch. What kind of cloud do you think it is?

 

[Minty]

"The mysterious "Relámpago del Catatumbo" (Catatumbo lightning) is a natural phenomenon located at the mouth of the Catatumbo river in Venezuela.
Cloud to cloud lighting forms above the area 140-160 nights a year, for up to ten hours a night. Lightning may travel from one cloud to another up to 280 times an HOUR.

Several different explanations have been proposed for the near constantly lightning storm, including methane produced from local swamps, oil deposits, uranium in the bedrock and local air currents. No one explanation has so far been universally accepted and the cause is still debated today.

Photograph by Chris Kotsiopoulos."

Holy 🤬

 

[Carlos]

he is dutch. What kind of cloud do you think it is?

And that's a pretty sick photo Minty!

Despite being tens of millions of years old, some beetle fossils appear almost as they did in life. Not only are their shape and structure preserved, but so are the actual colors of their shells, which have changed only slightly in the intervening eons.

Though relatively little-known, these fossils represent the purest of biological colors retrieved from deep time, far richer than much-celebrated pigment traces of dinosaur plumage and more varied than the hues of a few ancient plants.

From the fossil pits in Messel, Germany. Approximately 47 million years old.

From Eckfeld, Germany. Approximately 40 million years old.

 

[dudeondacouch]

"The mysterious "Relámpago del Catatumbo" (Catatumbo lightning) is a natural phenomenon located at the mouth of the Catatumbo river in Venezuela.
Cloud to cloud lighting forms above the area 140-160 nights a year, for up to ten hours a night. Lightning may travel from one cloud to another up to 280 times an HOUR.

Several different explanations have been proposed for the near constantly lightning storm, including methane produced from local swamps, oil deposits, uranium in the bedrock and local air currents. No one explanation has so far been universally accepted and the cause is still debated today.

Photograph by Chris Kotsiopoulos."

Holy 🤬

you mean that isn't from Flight of the Navigator?

 

[Minty]

Just one more post in here for the day:

"Fallstreak hole /hole punch cloud over Novokosino, Moscow, Russia.

Fallstreak holes are cloud formations that occurs as gaps in mid or high level cloud layers with trails of ice crystals dangling below. In order for a fallstreak hole to form, the cloud layer must be composed of supercooled droplets (liquid water), despite the temperatures at cloud level being well below 0°C. When one region of the cloud begins to freeze, the fallstreak hole forms. This begins a chain reaction whereby all the moisture from the supercooled droplets in the nearby area is drawn in and joins the ice crystals. These then grow big enough to fall beneath the hole. Fallstreak holes have been known to reach 50 kilometres across just an hour after the hole began to form."

These were all from the Facebook page, I :censored:ing Love Science, btw.





And the colored insect fossils are awesome.👍

 

[Carlos]

These were all from the Facebook page, I :censored:ing Love Science, btw.

You are not alone!

But 50km in just an hour is pretty impressive. I've never seen something like this but weather can sure be awesome!

edit;

America’s cats, including housecats that adventure outdoors and feral cats, kill between 1.4 billion and 3.7 billion birds in a year, says Peter Marra of the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in Washington, D.C., who led the team that performed the analysis. Previous estimates of bird kills have varied, he says, but “500 million is a number that has been thrown around a lot.”

So a few days ago when I was sitting at home I made this photo;

I thought that was a lot of birds, but imagin 1.4 billion!!

 

[CodeRedR51]

I wanted to watch this launch, then remembered it 5 minutes after launch time.

 

[Minty]

I wanted to as well. But I have data limits and can't do videos. ;_;



Also,

Bubbles of methane trapped in a frozen lake.

 

[TB]

That's a lot of fish farts.

 

[toymdngn]

Hey, I :censored:ing love science too!