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I'd freak out if I was in his position. Imagine the thrill of doing that though 
The amazing and cool photo thread
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I'm imagining his crew-mates waving goodbye from behind the camera after successfully ditching the annoying effing space-clown who kept saying 'pull my finger' 
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It's the Russian Matua Island. The picture shown as some color adjustments to meet a wallpaper criteria.
The original can be found at NASA website. 👍
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If it is the same picture I saw in Tom's Astronomy blog (and it appears to be) it is a picture of one of the very first untethered space walks, taken in 1984. It is former astronaut Bruce McCandless II, and he is roughly 100 meters from the Challenger.
Nope. Astronauts can use little jetpack like devices to maneuver in space.
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It's a manned maneuvering unit they stopped using them after the Challenger accident if I'm not mistaken.
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It's Navagio Bay, Zakynthos, Greece. You can only get to the beach by boat trip. The boat was marooned there on purpose for effect.
boiltheocean
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Found these while researching my next photography assignment. Source and More. All NASA images of earth.
EDIT: Woah Sorry about the large size. I copied the links to the thumbnails but it obviously didn't work.
EDIT: Woah Sorry about the large size. I copied the links to the thumbnails but it obviously didn't work.
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I don't think I want to know why you know this
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I love this thread...
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It looks pretty accessible from the cliff on either side. Getting back up is the tricky part
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Because MrsCracker lived in Greece for 4 years and knows the islands quite well. Zakynthos is a popular holiday spot for Brits and other Europeans, this bay is it's most recognizable tourist spot. Try typing Zakynthos into Google images and see how many pages you have to scroll through before you find a picture not of that bay (or a map of the island).
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Because MrsCracker lived in Greece for 4 years and knows the islands quite well. Zakynthos is a popular holiday spot for Brits and other Europeans, this bay is it's most recognizable tourist spot. Try typing Zakynthos into Google images and see how many pages you have to scroll through before you find a picture not of that bay (or a map of the island).
I'm liking Mrs Cracker more and more. My family on my mum's side originally came from a Greek island called Pyrgos... my great grandparent's names were something like Anastasios Dimantis and Panagiota Spetseris... too bad I didn't get a name like that.
I didn't know you were as traveled... I thought your longest trip was to Newark
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Alright no theme this time, just a big jumble of photos.
Roo
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Does anyone else look at that and expect a metal monster to run along and eat the guy at the front?
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Another smaller jumble of photos, just to get them off my desktop:
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So the photo is taken from the Japanese Coast Guard's ship? I can't imagine that either of the two chinese trawler survivors managed to keep hold of and keep dry a camera with seas like that?
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I think the picture is real, but it isn't of that incident...
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Provided this guy is correct, the picture isn't real. The event obviously was, but other than that the pieces don't match up. You have a freighter headed towards you and you stop to take a picture of it? Then you happen to be one of the 2 that survived. And your camera wasn't lost/destroyed? Unlikely.
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Yeh, I saw that site too 
I think he might be wrong through, possibly because he is looking at a compressed version of the image and not the full-size version, which looks alot cleaner. That site also says that the image is from 2007, and is a tug approaching the tanker. The ship used to be called "Golden Stream", but has since been renamed and repainted, although it has exactly the same features. You can even see some of the original blue paint on the front of the hull in the 2007 pic of the "Shinyo Sawako".
It's been a slow afternoon here
I think he might be wrong through, possibly because he is looking at a compressed version of the image and not the full-size version, which looks alot cleaner. That site also says that the image is from 2007, and is a tug approaching the tanker. The ship used to be called "Golden Stream", but has since been renamed and repainted, although it has exactly the same features. You can even see some of the original blue paint on the front of the hull in the 2007 pic of the "Shinyo Sawako". It's been a slow afternoon here
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Excuse the dodgy image! I got it from a blog that caries a lot of photo manipulation work...
In return, enjoy some more amazing or cool images!
These are from a 1911 expedition:
Some interesting images that show unfamiliar perspectives of familiar personalities:
This last section would be so much cooler if the image I had of Einstein playing guitar wasn't a 'shop.
In return, enjoy some more amazing or cool images!
These are from a 1911 expedition:
Some interesting images that show unfamiliar perspectives of familiar personalities:
This last section would be so much cooler if the image I had of Einstein playing guitar wasn't a 'shop.
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Once again the best city in the world to take pictures in, IMO.
Indeed Quiet Noises has a great gallery
I saved these two
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Indeed Quiet Noises has a great gallery
Just things I've collected over the last year or two. Most of the interesting photography I will share in this thread, but a lot of general design work has no real place on GTP. I've recently created a photoblog to share that world too. I'll be updating it regularly for a long time as I've got a crap-ton of things saved. I'd recommend it:
http://mintyy.tumblr.com/
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Where!?
