The amazing and cool photo thread

[nealcropper]

6 inches! we get 2-5 cm and schools start closing and college's, shops, taxi bases thats ridiculous lol

Yeah maybe I overdid it with the 6 inches. We don't need much at all.

I cannot understand it. The road are all gritted, so it just turns to mush anyway. Just drive slower.

 

[TB]

We are just so hilariously unprepared for weather like this.

That it nuts!

If it makes you feel any better, Fargo would take a bit to dig out of that much snow and we are prepared for it!

 

[Madertus]

6 inches! we get 2-5 cm and schools start closing and college's, shops, taxi bases thats ridiculous lol

Two years ago - 35 cm average.
This year - 15-20.

Nothing happens.

 

[Minty]

Here in Maryland last week schools were closed, work was canceled, shops shut down, roads were heavily salted. We ended up getting a few inches of rain and the temperature never even came close to freezing. They've done almost exactly that twice this winter. And they also said they were mistaken and the snow would be the next night. It didn't even rain the next night.

 

[PeterJB]

If you had a base that is as secretive as Area 51 supposedly is would you design it to have identifiable characteristics from above in an age of satellites?

It doesn't matter what is there or how good Google Earth images are, you won't see anything important, if it is there to see, because they won't make it that easy to see.

I've had it bookmarked on Google Earth for quite some time, only just realized how big it is. The main runway is 5 miles long!

 

[GregTheStig]

Sakurajima Volcano with Lightning: Why does a volcanic eruption sometimes create lightning? Pictured above, the Sakurajima volcano in southern Japan was caught erupting in early January. Magma bubbles so hot they glow shoot away as liquid rock bursts through the Earth's surface from below. The above image is particularly notable, however, for the lightning bolts caught near the volcano's summit. Why lightning occurs even in common thunderstorms remains a topic of research, and the cause of volcanic lightning is even less clear. Surely, lightning bolts help quench areas of opposite but separated electric charges. One hypothesis holds that catapulting magma bubbles or volcanic ash are themselves electrically charged, and by their motion create these separated areas. Other volcanic lightning episodes may be facilitated by charge-inducing collisions in volcanic dust. Lightning is usually occurring somewhere on Earth, typically over 40 times each second.

Also, C-130's view of Mt. Fuji

 

[Simple Matt]

Volcanic lightning

I saw that in FB earlier today on 'I 🤬 love science'. Would be amazing to see in person

 

[Slash]

Not going to lie I'd be a bit frightened. I think that's mostly because of several incedents I've had involving lightning before.

 

[Slash]

That's some snowstorm. We never get snow like that. We get about 6 inches and schools start closing, supermarkets start running out of bread and milk. It's ridiculous.

That's nothing. Try going for weeks at a time with no power and no food, no gas no nothing from a snow storm.

Here in NY we've had our fair share of bad weather. Between the storm in 2006 to the winter storm of 1977....when snow was snow high you could safely drive snowmobiles over the roofs of peoples houses....I never witnessed that though. Reports of over 30 foot drifts of tightly packed snow, nearly cement like were all over XD

 

[nealcropper]

That's nothing. Try going for weeks at a time with no power and no food, no gas no nothing from a snow storm.

Here in NY we've had our fair share of bad weather. Between the storm in 2006 to the winter storm of 1977....when snow was snow high you could safely drive snowmobiles over the roofs of peoples houses....I never witnessed that though. Reports of over 30 foot drifts of tightly packed snow, nearly cement like were all over XD

I couldn't imagine 30 feet of snow. How the hell would you manage?!

 

[Beerz]

Argentina, 2012

 

[Keef]

Argentina just ain't care.

 

[FoolKiller]

Argentina just ain't care.

Pope's got their back.

 

[Slash]

I couldn't imagine 30 feet of snow. How the hell would you manage?!

They did somehow. There's pictures all over of people standing on level snow touching street lights. You know, the red/yellow/green ones that hang over intersections.

Check this out. Most of these pictures show 15-18 feet of snow. Drifts of up to 30 feet were not uncommon. What happened was Lake Erie froze over very early, and by the end of January a steady 60 inches of snow had fallen. A good 3 feet was already on the lake, so when gusts of up to 70mph winds came, it blew all the snow off the lake into the surrounding area. There was so much snow, that dump trucks were actually taking it back to the lake, driving out onto the ice and dumping it back. It got to the point that the national guard was already up here cleaning up before the real blizzard even hit. Visibility driving conditions went from .75 miles to 0 miles for over 25 hours and a total driving ban was in place for over a week. Plows had to go back because they couldn't see their own plow blades and the plows were unable to push the snow because it was so compressed it was almost like cement so Earth front loaders were called in.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=blizzard+of+77

 

[FoolKiller]

They did somehow. There's pictures all over of people standing on level snow touching street lights. You know, the red/yellow/green ones that hang over intersections.

Ancient Asia has your answer.

 

[speed junkie]

 

[CodeRedR51]

Source for that? Has the Shuttle ever taken off from a mountainous area?

 

[MatskiMonk]

Source for that? Has the Shuttle ever taken off from a mountainous area?

Because USAF

Space Launch Complex 6 at Vandenberg Air Force Base

edit: You may be right, don't know if they launched from there, or just used for rig testing?

 

[Crash]

This was posted by NBC News as a comparison between the funeral of Pope John Paul II and the announcement of Pope Francis. The ubiquity of smartphones and tablets now, and their use as cameras, is absolutely stunning.

I remember another picture taken with a similar them by a newspaper during one of the 2009 Inaugural Balls. It was just a sea of camera screens taken a picture/recording President Obama walking out on stage with Michelle Obama. Just thinking about how fast technology changes and is adopted by people, it's pretty amazing.

 

[Antonisbob]

They did somehow. There's pictures all over of people standing on level snow touching street lights. You know, the red/yellow/green ones that hang over intersections.

Check this out. Most of these pictures show 15-18 feet of snow. Drifts of up to 30 feet were not uncommon. What happened was Lake Erie froze over very early, and by the end of January a steady 60 inches of snow had fallen. A good 3 feet was already on the lake, so when gusts of up to 70mph winds came, it blew all the snow off the lake into the surrounding area. There was so much snow, that dump trucks were actually taking it back to the lake, driving out onto the ice and dumping it back. It got to the point that the national guard was already up here cleaning up before the real blizzard even hit. Visibility driving conditions went from .75 miles to 0 miles for over 25 hours and a total driving ban was in place for over a week. Plows had to go back because they couldn't see their own plow blades and the plows were unable to push the snow because it was so compressed it was almost like cement so Earth front loaders were called in.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=blizzard+of+77

Wow, all those poor old nice cars buried! Pretty amazing.

 

[MarinaDiamandis]

The U.K has had some pretty heavy snowfall before - the picture above taken of a small drift in 1963. My mum says that the drifts here (she grew up on a farm a few hundred metres up the road) were up to 20-25ft, so deep that the maze of hedged lanes was completely covered over. My uncle even broke his ankle while trying to jump down a drift that had formed around the dutch barn!

 

[Sprite]

When first approaching the artwork of Japanese artist Takahiro Iwasaki it’s entirely possible you might miss it altogether. Not only are his small buildings and electrical towers excruciatingly small and delicate, but they also rest on absurdly mundane objects: rolls of tape, a haphazardly wrinkled towel, or from the bristles of a discarded toothbrush. Only on close inspection do the small details come into focus, faint hints of urbanization sprouting from disorder. My favorite pieces are his topographical maps that have been carefully cut from thick rolls of gray and blue electrical tape. Many of these objects were on view as part of the Constellations show at Cornerhouse in Manchester back in 2011 and at C24 Gallery last year. However Iwasaki currently has a new collection of much larger works at the 7th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art at GOMA in Queensland, much of which you can see over at designboom. (via artscharity.org, cornerhouse, c24 gallery, karl steel)

Edit

Just found this.

Wooden cabinet carved to look like its glitching.

 

[Beerz]

^^ Wow, that's seriously messed up.
Amazing wood work!

Speaking of wood, here's something made with toothpicks:

 

[W3H5]

That wooden cabinet almost had me refreshing the page.

 

[analog]

...

Those are all incredible.

 

[Slash]

Wow, all those poor old nice cars buried! Pretty amazing.

I know

The U.K has had some pretty heavy snowfall before - the picture above taken of a small drift in 1963. My mum says that the drifts here (she grew up on a farm a few hundred metres up the road) were up to 20-25ft, so deep that the maze of hedged lanes was completely covered over. My uncle even broke his ankle while trying to jump down a drift that had formed around the dutch barn!

Wow that is insane. I only imagine what the 30 foot drifts were like here.

Those are all incredible.

Agreed.

 

[Danoff]

 

[CodeRedR51]

👍

 

[Solid Lifters]

Speaking of osprey...

 

[axletramp]

That's one surprised fish!