Photo Of The Day

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19648095

These are quite nice. Make me wander if I could do it with all our stuff. Too much stuff.

There was (I think) a calendar made years ago with pics from all over the world of exactly that, illustrating the differences between rich and poor. (Also, between cold and hot climates).

thought this should be posted here, recent floods washed foundations of this building away.

Jesus - that's frightening. Imagine living there looking out of your window.

The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has produced one of its most extraordinary views of the Universe to date.
Called the eXtreme Deep Field, the picture captures a mass of galaxies stretching back almost to the time when the first stars began to shine. The view required Hubble to stare at a tiny patch of sky for more than 500 hours to detect all the light

It's not every day that a space shuttle lands at LAX. Although this was a first for the major Los Angeles airport hub, it was a last for the space shuttle Endeavour, as it completed its tour of California skies and landed, albeit atop a 747, for the last time. During its last flight the iconic shuttle and its chase planes were photographed near several of California's own icons including the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, the Hollywood Sign, and the skyline of Los Angeles. Previously, in May, the space shuttle Enterprise was captured passing behind several of New York City's icons on its way to the Intrepid Sea, Air, & Space Museum. Pictured above, the piggybacking shuttle was snapped on approach last week to LAX as it crossed above and beyond a major Los Angeles street. Now retired, the space shuttles are all museum pieces, with the above shuttle scheduled to be towed along the streets of LA to the California Science Center.

Stephen Confer

Giovani Cordioli, My Shot

Wild Wonders of Europe
very nice

Monza '54

Gerroff our velodrome!

Oops.

Skydiving into Burning Man festival

Fuckyeahness!

That's a Death Star coming out of the ground, right?

loads of good stuff here http://imgur.com/a/vnwC2

loads of good stuff here http://imgur.com/a/vnwC2

On the before and after of the nuke, I've always preferred this from the first world war:

Warning, 14.1MB image:
https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/csi-studies/studies/vol51no4/images/Figure99Passchendaele1917beforeandafter.jpg

It's a before and after of Passchendaele using conventional munitions. This covered the time in which the front line swept through the town.

It's the only image that fully conveyed to me why so many people died.

Right in the midst of that, men stood in primitive lines with rifles. No wonder the numbers were so high, who could possibly have survived that!

Fuck. It's just soil afterwards. Like a farmer been over it with a giant plough.

mud. not soil. Just checked the wikipedia article. heavy stuff.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2209779/The-best-photobomb-Bikini-clad-women-shriek-terror-pounced-STINGRAY.html

^ I thought it was The Sun page 2, but no, it's much better.

There's some skillful snappers about.

'Just sit here Mr Osborne, that's right... now tilt your head a bit... smile... hold it.... hold it... SNAP! I think I've caught your true personality perfectly, Mr Osborne. Goodbye.'

Why do his hands look wrong?

^^ another crap picture in the magnificent collection. BTW, I dunno who he is, but he looks like the prefect servant, in that picture.

He's going to get whacked in the nutsack when Ellie wants to breath.

gun being photographed underwater, thought it looked cool

Robert Marchand, the first 100 year old known to cycle 100 km, he finished in 4 hours and 17 minutes

Chapeau, monsieur!
More here