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Spotter, which one are you:

a) Student
b) Unemployed
c) Multimillionaire
d) Have your own business

Spotter, which one are you:

a) Student
b) Unemployed
c) Multimillionaire
d) Have your own business

e) IT crowd

Malaysian wins the cuddly toy!

This high-resolution picture from the HiRISE camera on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows twisting dark trails criss-crossing light-colored terrain on the Martian surface. Newly formed trails like these had presented researchers with a tantalizing mystery but are now known to be the work of miniature wind vortices known to occur on the red planet, in other words Martian dust devils. Such spinning columns of rising air heated by the warm surface are also common in dry and desert areas on planet Earth. Typically lasting only a few minutes, dust devils become visible as they pick up loose red-colored dust leaving the darker and heavier sand beneath intact. Ironically, dust devils have been credited with unexpectedly cleaning the solar panels of the Mars rovers.

*The Soiling of Old Glory* is a Pulitzer Prize–winning photograph taken for the Boston Herald American in 1976 by Stanley Forman.

The photograph depicts a white teenager, Joseph Rakes, about to assault black lawyer and civil-rights activist Ted Landsmark with a flagpole bearing the American flag. It was taken in Boston on April 5, 1976, during one in a series of protests against court-ordered desegregation busing. It ran on the front page of the Herald American the next day, and also appeared in several newspapers across the country. It won the 1977 Pulitzer Prize for Spot Photography. According to Landsmark, Rakes was swinging the flag at him, not trying to spear him as it appears in the photo, and he narrowly missed.

That caption is wrong. Its actually a shot that they managed to get of the inside of mt doom dont you know

A man and a boy, displaced by floods, walk through flood waters on Aug. 22, 2010 in the village of Baseera near Muzaffargarh in Punjab, Pakistan.
[B]*Daniel Berehulak / Getty Images*[/B]

Fucking SCIENCE! YESSSS! Must. Spread. Rep...

Just fucking cool!

I don't know anything else about it.

I don't know anything

Fortunately, somebody does
http://blog.davidgreer.ca/2010/01/25/sailing-marketing-and-technology/
http://www.yachtingworld.com/blogs/elaine-bunting/428165/keel-surfing-the-story-behind-the-shot

My favourite picture on this whole thread.

Just reposting a pic I saw elsewhere, so I have no knowledge of it.

The Mildred Shipwreck at Gurnard’s Head, April 6th, 1912, higher res here and more info here.

Fortunately, somebody does
http://blog.davidgreer.ca/2010/01/25/sailing-marketing-and-technology/

This guy appears to know as much about sailing as he does photography. Granted they had to ballast the starboard side to get that much of the keel out the water but they certainly dont sail 'upright' and you do see the keel with main and jib out. I may also be talking bollocks

[]The Boss logo is on the bottom of the boat as well as the sails. Normally, sailboats sail upright.
[]You are not supposed to see the keels of sailboats when they are sailing. The shock of seeing the keel highlights the uniqueness of the image.

Video:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/B2PQfJ2SAg4

*Granted they had to ballast the starboard side to get that much of the keel out the water *
Canting Keel.

Another great shot of it, really shows the knife edge balance.

Beautiful.

^^^ http://www.timmckennaphoto.com/us/features/page-207-tahiti%20tilted.html

this whole tilt shift thing has gone a bit too far I think. That shot would be fantastic without it, if not better.

Yeah, i think the way it mimics a miniature scene makes the wave size less impressive

Teaupoo is terrifying, I have always been fascinated by this pic. The amount of water being drawn up from the reef leaves a marked drop between the impact zone and the pit. There a huge amount of power there and you know that these waves break in about 2.5ft of water. Click for hi res