The amazing and cool photo thread

[gnomefromnome]

 

[TB]

I find it amazing though how one city and it's suburbs can be bigger than Wales.

I know whales are the largest living things on the planet, but they're not that big!

 

[BobK]

Wow never knew it was that big.

Not sure if Tokyo area is big or England is small. A bit of both, perhaps.

 

[kikie]

 

[Touring Mars]

Wow never knew it was that big.

And I never realised I could get there on the M1!

Is this from a UKIP leaflet about immigration by any chance?

 

[Liquid]

Not sure if Tokyo area is big or England is small. A bit of both, perhaps.

Great Britain is a smidge smaller than Florida, I think. Which makes Tokyo metropolitan area big anyway.

 

[MatskiMonk]

Great Britain is a smidge smaller than Florida, I think. Which makes Tokyo metropolitan area big anyway.

I believe England is a couple of thousand square miles short of Florida, but GB is obviously quite a lot more.

 

[PeterJB]

Surprisingly enough New York City and Los Angeles are both smaller than Greater London.

 

[BobK]

Great Britain is a smidge smaller than Florida, I think. Which makes Tokyo metropolitan area big anyway.

Ah. Like Orlando. Orlando would shrink back to a reasonable size if Disney World weren't there though.

 

[Liquid]

If your computer can handle it, you can get a zoomable, 1.5 billion pixel photograph of Andromeda.

 

[Ken]

 

[Touring Mars]

These images of a wasp's wing were collected in the building across the road from my lab at Glasgow University. Two things are remarkable about these images, firstly the number of photons required to make the image... less than 50,000 using a single pixel camera. But, perhaps the more amazing thing about these pictures is the fact that the photons detected by the camera have never interacted with the object itself. Instead, these images were collected by exploiting quantum entanglement. Photons from an ultra-violet laser are split into two infra-red photons which are 'entangled', essentially meaning that what happens to one photon happens to the other, regardless of the fact that they are spatially separate (Einstein refered to this effect as 'spooky action from a distance'). One photon hits the sample while the other photon is detected by the camera... I won't pretend to understand the physics of it, but the article is open access if you want to take a closer look at how it is done.

Full article here:

http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2015/150105/ncomms6913/full/ncomms6913.html

 

[Dennisch]

quantum entanglement

Through the wormhole with Morgan Freeman had an episode about that I think.

Sub atomic particles kilometers apart reacting to the same stimulation.

Very cool nerd stuff.

 

[GregTheStig]

I found this pretty amazing. Paris from earlier tonight.

 

[Speedy Samurai]

Great Britain is a smidge smaller than Florida, I think. Which makes Tokyo metropolitan area big anyway.

Interestingly, Tokyo itself is very small yet they include neighbouring prefectures as part of 'greater tokyo'.

I live in Saitama. Nowhere in my home address is the word 'Tokyo'.

 

[FoolKiller]

I live in Saitama. Nowhere in my home address is the word 'Tokyo'.

Same thing for places like Los Angeles. The city has sprawled to incorporate many communities, some in other counties.

Heck, even in Kentucky, Louisville is considered as far out as other counties. If not for an occasional sign you would have no clue you were technically in another city, so everyone just calls the whole area Louisville. The most notable town absorbed into the city is Middletown, so named due to being in the middle between Louisville and Shelbyville. Now, it isn't even considered on the edge of Louisville.

 

[Omnis]

Great Britain is a smidge smaller than Florida, I think. Which makes Tokyo metropolitan area big anyway.

It's actually bigger. And believe it or not, Florida is still mostly woods, groves, and swampland.

These images of a wasp's wing were collected in the building across the road from my lab at Glasgow University. Two things are remarkable about these images, firstly the number of photons required to make the image... less than 50,000 using a single pixel camera. But, perhaps the more amazing thing about these pictures is the fact that the photons detected by the camera have never interacted with the object itself. Instead, these images were collected by exploiting quantum entanglement. Photons from an ultra-violet laser are split into two infra-red photons which are 'entangled', essentially meaning that what happens to one photon happens to the other, regardless of the fact that they are spatially separate (Einstein refered to this effect as 'spooky action from a distance'). One photon hits the sample while the other photon is detected by the camera... I won't pretend to understand the physics of it, but the article is open access if you want to take a closer look at how it is done.

Full article here:

http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2015/150105/ncomms6913/full/ncomms6913.html

Own up to it: they were really just trying to shoot down that pesky wasp with their fancy lazorz beemz

 

[PeterJB]

Interestingly, Tokyo itself is very small yet they include neighbouring prefectures as part of 'greater tokyo'.

I live in Saitama. Nowhere in my home address is the word 'Tokyo'.

I find this quite annoying because it makes making true definitions of a city's size annoyingly difficult. New York City for example is split into five separate boroughs, so it has a consistent size. But a lot of other cities can be defined as the city itself, then all the boroughs, and then the metropolitan area which often includes other cities. But if you said to someone that the City of London has a population of 1,000, they'd look at you as if you were daft, because for most people 'London' is the county of Greater London which includes boroughs such as Ealing, Wimbledon, Stratford, Croydon etc.

 

[Speedy Samurai]

I find this quite annoying because it makes making true definitions of a city's size annoyingly difficult. New York City for example is split into five separate boroughs, so it has a consistent size. But a lot of other cities can be defined as the city itself, then all the boroughs, and then the metropolitan area which often includes other cities. But if you said to someone that the City of London has a population of 1,000, they'd look at you as if you were daft, because for most people 'London' is the county of Greater London which includes boroughs such as Ealing, Wimbledon, Stratford, Croydon etc.

If you were to ask anyone who lived in Saitama, Chiba, or Kanagawa where they lived no one would say Tokyo. In fact, I've lived here 10 years and this is the first I've heard of something known as Greater Tokyo.

 

[Dennisch]

More of the kill

 

[Liquid]

I find this quite annoying because it makes making true definitions of a city's size annoyingly difficult. New York City for example is split into five separate boroughs, so it has a consistent size. But a lot of other cities can be defined as the city itself, then all the boroughs, and then the metropolitan area which often includes other cities. But if you said to someone that the City of London has a population of 1,000, they'd look at you as if you were daft, because for most people 'London' is the county of Greater London which includes boroughs such as Ealing, Wimbledon, Stratford, Croydon etc.

Don't forget that Westminster is a city within London but not London itself.

 

[PeterJB]

Don't forget that Westminster is a city within London but not London itself.

Though you wouldn't think it based on its size because, like Chichester which is the size of a large market town, it has city status because it has a Cathedral.

Even locally for me at Bristol you can see several large town and villages such as Warmley, Fishponds and Kingswood which 100 or more years ago wouldn't have been their own entities some distance from Bristol, but now they've been absorbed into it and are just part of the suburbs.

 

[Liquid]

Even locally for me at Bristol you can see several large town and villages such as Warmley, Fishponds and Kingswood which 100 or more years ago wouldn't have been their own entities some distance from Bristol, but now they've been absorbed into it and are just part of the suburbs.

In the original Encyclopaedia Britannica (1770) most of the boroughs of what we now call 'London' are described as villages a few miles outside of London. I wonder what the 'true' size of Tokyo is; ask people further and further out whether they even feel that they live in Tokyo or the Tokyo catchment area.

 

[TRLWNC7396]

More of the kill

I'd like to know how thoroughly that was chewed. Normally, if it isn't well chewed, the suction cups can attach to a throat....

 

[Jedi2016]

I would imagine they're used to it, probably know how to eat it properly.

 

[kennylmao]

 

[Beerz]

What am I looking at here?

 

[kennylmao]

What am I looking at here?

A toy in sorta-cool lighting.

 

[ProjectWHaT]

here's how he took these photos

 

[Wiegert]

Sunday January 19th: Holuhraun lava field easily visible against a snow-covered Iceland. The field covering an area larger than Manhattan.

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