Photo Of The Day

What goes up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mEvovWoqF8

Wuppertal's Schwebebahn in 2005--still there.

And the inevitable:

Transatlantic Sub-Marine Cables Reaching Land
VSNL International
Avon, New Jersey
These VSNL sub-marine telecommunications cables extend 8,037.4 miles across the Atlantic Ocean. Capable of transmitting over 60 million simultaneous voice conversations, these underwater fiber-optic cables stretch from Saunton Sands in the United Kingdom to the coast of New Jersey. The cables run below ground and emerge directly into the VSNL International headquarters, where signals are amplified and split into distinctive wavelengths enabling transatlantic phone calls and internet transmissions.

Chromogenic print, 37-1/4 x 44-1/2 inches framed (94.6 x 113 cm), Edition of 7

© Taryn Simon

Raytheon SM-3 missile launch from the Aegis class cruiser USS Lake Erie

one for bickman...

Blast Furnace, Magnitogorsk Metallurgical Industrial Complex, USSR

photo by Margaret Bourke-White, 1931

YO DAWG!

different views here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MTquSJ8Yuc

the ATREX mission from 3 days ago. As an applied mathematician I just get turned on by vapour trails.

Assumed that floating tram was some retrofuturist photoshopping.

I thought so, the old Kaiserwagen from 1900 is stunning and still running;

Klaus Leidorf

^Great picture,although i'm getting tyred looking at it.?

Made me think of this for some reason

bonkers

http://www.urban75.org/railway/brighton-sea-railway.html

the ATREX mission from 3 days ago. As an applied mathematician I just get turned on by vapour trails.

^repped

Glad Im not the only one who's head is almost exploding trying to understand the boat pile.

Left to right, Fabio Parra (best first-timer/young rider), Alfonso Florez (overall winner), and Fernando Cruz (intermediate sprints jersey) at the Vuelta a Colombia podium in 1979.
Small detail: Notice that the Colombian flag on their sleeves is upside down (unlike the collar), since these jerseys were for the podium, and meant to be worn with your arms up, as you celebrated victory.

Love that detail about the stripes on the arms.

http://www.worldpressphoto.org/photo/2012niclashammarstromsns2-al?gallery=2634&category=57

http://www.worldpressphoto.org/photo/2012niclashammarstromsns2-al?gallery=2634&category=57

that's a gutting series of photos. but also very good

Bingham Canyon Copper Mine 12-11-2009

Kennecott Copper's Bingham Canyon Mine from a commercial aircraft in December with snow cover. The mine is the world's largest man-made excavation. Located 28 miles southwest of Salt Lake City, the mine is 2 3/4-miles across and 3/4-mile deep. It is so big that it can be seen from outer space. You can see better detail in the large size.

Kennecott is the second largest copper producer in the United States, providing approximately 13 percent of the country's copper needs. Kennecott produces approximately 300,000 tons of refined copper each year. In addition to copper, the mine also produces about 400,000 ounces of gold, 4 million ounces of silver and 20 million pounds of molybdenum.

The mine is open 24 hours per day, 365 days a year.

-Michael Lynch

• Frank Solomon
  

After the Battle - David Leeson