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Here's a fresh-drained hydroelectric powerplant. Coupla local cyclists decided to drop in on it while it was still dry. Pretty impressive to be able to play in something of that size.
The amazing and cool photo thread
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Things like that terrify me. I don't know why but I have a terrible fear of big things that normally contain water that have been drained. I visited a docks once and they had an area drained with people working in it on some foundations or something. Scared the hell out of me looking into it. 
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i know what ya mean moglet, i think theres a fear of scale too. its like standing at the end of a huge jet engine, i just think, what if this were to turn on right now
though i would love to ride in that
howd they get out?
though i would love to ride in that
howd they get out? 
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Well, they did do that to some extent. Because the landscape out there is so vast, flat, and featureless, they effectively just gridded it with counties and roads. So each of those dots marks a county seat that was founded when the land was subdivided. Look for a US map that includes counties and you will see what I mean.
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Things like that terrify me. I don't know why but I have a terrible fear of big things that normally contain water that have been drained. I visited a docks once and they had an area drained with people working in it on some foundations or something. Scared the hell out of me looking into it.
That one doesn't look so bad to me but I would hate the idea of standing in the middle of a Dry Dock with the entire ocean pressing against the locks.
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http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/home...andalised/article-1100373-detail/article.html
It's a shame really, you just know it was some chavs who have nowhere near 0.01% of his talent so decided to ruin it out of jealousy. I didn't realise it was just down the road from the museum though, wish I'd have gone to see it now.
It's a shame really, you just know it was some chavs who have nowhere near 0.01% of his talent so decided to ruin it out of jealousy. I didn't realise it was just down the road from the museum though, wish I'd have gone to see it now.
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Funchal Airport's runway, in the Island of Madeira
http://gizmodo.com/5300255/i-dont-want-to-land-here
http://gizmodo.com/5300255/i-dont-want-to-land-here
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It's almost as amazing as the runway itself that it's never been posted in here before, I've never even heard of this!
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Neither had I until it popped up in my news reader today. This should have made a fun human interest story on all local news stations.
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Funchal's airport looks absolutely spectacular in person, and even from the POV of a passenger it's not scary at all (at least I didn't think so).
It's a very busy airport, since Madeira has highly turistic islands, some of the landscapes are just breathtaking.
Here's a bigger pic of a plane landing:
Well I do, but that's not the point.
It's a very busy airport, since Madeira has highly turistic islands, some of the landscapes are just breathtaking.
Here's a bigger pic of a plane landing:
Well you shouldn't. I don't laugh at Aberdeen.
Well I do, but that's not the point.
Actually, Banksy did mention (covertly) in one of the Sunday Times magazines (I believe the "Culture" from two weekends ago) that he basically hated the Bristol Rovers and preferred the other Bristol team...being Bristol United if my memory serves. Which I don't think is correct.
So you may actually be right.
But yeah, reacting to an artist who defaces public property by defacing his art? Its kinda ironic in a way.
I do actually like the way that Banksy operates. He gives much needed secretiveness and also mystique of the artists. I mean, you only ever know them by their nicknames and tags, never their real names.
Anyhow, Funchal's AMAZING from those pictures! I do have a cousin who flies Boeing's....gotta ask him if he flies there.
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That's their problem right there.
Here are some random photos:
Smoke photography
Holocaust Memorial (iirc)
45min exposure:
High speed photography:
Showing air being compressed:
Here more artsy:
This one I found very cool because I don't see nothing like this where I live.
EDIT: one more
It's so cool to have so many members turning 89 in the same day!
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exactly.... it's not the first time we point this out to you, Hugo.... getting old?
also:
I heard there's some surf going on in this pic, but I can't focus on it
http://g.imageshack.us/img205/1245796893.jpg/1/
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"High above the Indian Ocean, astronauts captured these four images (animated here) of the Aurora Australis and surrounding airglow in the Earth's atmosphere as the ISS orbits quickly past."
From the ISS collection found here: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/06/recent_scenes_from_the_iss.html
