The amazing and cool photo thread

[Digital-Nitrate]

Super Collider FTW!

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[FoolKiller]

Those super collider pictures are lacking in Gordon Freeman goodness.

 

[Prosthetic]

Wow, that totally is the one free man!

 

[Omnis]

Name the city:

Looks like La Paz.

 

[exigeracer]

Yes guy.

 

[zoxxy]

I hope this hasn't been posted.

 

[exigeracer]

Check out these shots. They're called Gigapan, which is a robotic mount that takes a huge range of shots with any camera and stitched them into one ginormous shot. Here's a couple:

http://gigapan.org/viewGigapanFullscreen.php?auth=033ef14483ee899496648c2b4b06233c

Most popular ones:

http://gigapan.org/searchGigapansList.php?keywords=&sort=popular

 

[Digital-Nitrate]

Check out these shots. They're called Gigapan, which is a robotic mount that takes a huge range of shots with any camera and stitched them into one ginormous shot. Here's a couple:

http://gigapan.org/viewGigapanFullscreen.php?auth=033ef14483ee899496648c2b4b06233c

Most popular ones:

http://gigapan.org/searchGigapansList.php?keywords=&sort=popular

If you like those you might enjoy the following thread as it has both gigapan and even multi-gigapixel images from single photographs and not stitched ones, although both techniques are quite impressive:

• Gigapixels (1,000+ megapixels) Photo Galleries - Update: 14GP Images on Google Earth Digital

 

[exigeracer]

The work of aerial photographer Alex Maclean.

The definition of rape?

 

[FoolKiller]

Are circular neighborhoods very resourceful? It just seems like you could get better use out of square grid patterns.

 

[Loon]

Are circular neighborhoods very resourceful? It just seems like you could get better use out of square grid patterns.

They sure look a lot cooler.

 

[UnoMOTO]

All of those are very cool. I'll take one of those houses in the roundy water neighborhood.

In other news...

The TVCC building (Mandarin Oriental) in beijing is no more. Fireworks are to blame

 

[Beerz]

Holy crap!

And I wanted to go there...

 

[Legendary]

Reminds me of the puzzle "Get the red car out of the car park" by moving various vehicles around.

 

[Digital-Nitrate]

Reminds me of the puzzle "Get the red car out of the car park" by moving various vehicles around.

Rush Hour 👍

My kids love that game. They also love a similar puzzle game called TipOver:

I prefer TipOver as it has more complex variables, but they are both really good puzzle games and are a great way to introduce kids to problem solving puzzles, and some of the advanced cards can be very challenging even for experienced puzzle solvers, and it's also relatively easy to make your own puzzle cards for others to try and solve. 👍

 

[Steele_obsidion]

The work of aerial photographer Alex Maclean.

Hey! My cars in there! 3rd row! the white one on the left! lol

 

[buickgnx88]

So what was it like in the 70's?

 

[Nicksfix]

exigeracer awesome job , I like this one :

 

[Syntax error]

Rush Hour 👍

wow... if it wasn't already frustrating enough in real life! Although I'm surprised Maxis neglected this corner of the market!

 

[Slick6]

Cool, a bunch of B-52's. If you've never seen nor head about the aircraft graveyard in Arizona you owe it to your self to check it out. Most of the stuff is to the NE of the marker.

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=aircr...857072&spn=0.008633,0.019226&t=h&z=16&iwloc=A

 

[PARAGON GT]

Wow, Tomcats, Phantoms and even Fa-18 hornets already in the junkyard. Thats pretty cool!!

 

[Digital-Nitrate]

Wow, Tomcats, Phantoms and even Fa-18 hornets already in the junkyard. Thats pretty cool!!

or sad...


Not to mention the reality check that the amount of money spent on all those planes far exceeds our national debt.


BTW: I love seeing satellite shots of A-10's.... such distinctive aircraft... and of course that awesomely huge C-5 Galaxy.

 

[Metar]

I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one who finds these huge engineering-graveyards a sad sight, D-N. So many feats of engineering left to rot and disintegrate, so many interesting aircraft removed from the public.

 

[TheCracker]

I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one who finds these huge engineering-graveyards a sad sight, D-N. So many feats of engineering left to rot and disintegrate, so many interesting aircraft removed from the public.

They're machines. Like all machines they have a certain operating life after which they become scrap. You could argue that because a huge proportion of these aircraft are stored and slowly dismantled in the same, well publicised location, they are infact still in the public's eye.

 

[Duke]

Man, there is some interesting old stuff sitting around there. Who knew there were that many P-80s left in the world? Of course, they are carcasses by now, but still.

 

[Slick6]

MSN Live Map shows the planes alot better. Except you can't zoom out at all, so you'll have to use it in conjunction with Google to look at what you really want.

This area here seems to be a collection of different planes, perhaps saved from the scrap heap?
http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v...ss=yp.aircraft graveyard~pg.1~sst.0&encType=1

*Edit* Maybe we should start a thread about this place, it seems there's a lot of people that don't know about and before too long we'll be off-topic in here. Somebody can go ahead if they want.

 

[Digital-Nitrate]

I saw this image that Keef posted in CF's recent Funny Pic thread:

It reminded me of a story I read about a few months ago about the female trainers that swim with young tigers... and while looking for it, I ran into this shot...

And here is what I was looking for:

There are other shots that can be found here.

 

[livemusic]

I envy those tigers!

 

[VEXD]

Surely wearing a leopard-print bikini while trying to drag a large cat underwater is just asking for it?


I see two women, one tiger and a camel's toe.

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[ND4SPD]

I see two women, one tiger and a camel's toe.

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I was gonna mention the toe, but I decided not too haha.