Cool Pictures 12: "Every picture tells a story!"

[cardgame]

Howl's Stationary Castle

 

[hobbsyoyo]

The White Knight 2 carries the smaller SpaceShipTwo on a test flight near the new spaceport at Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. They recently announced another delay to the beginning of service for this space tourism rocket plane.

 

[The_J]

I like it when buildings expand like skin diseases.

I think you know about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kowloon_Walled_City , right?

 

[cardgame]

The duality of cat

 

[Birdjaguar]

^^^ Very cool pics!

 

[Paul in Saudi]

Does this count as a "picture?"

 

[hobbsyoyo]

The duality of cat

Wasn't the first one @Synsensa's avatar?

 

[Arakhor]

Does this count as a "picture?"

Technically, it would fit better in Funniest Webcomics.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

The duality of cat

If you're not using the Dark CFC theme, switch over and have a look at this post. It's side-to-side black background, with cat eyes, nose, and mouth and you can't see where the picture and regular part of the forum meet.

Wasn't the first one @Synsensa's avatar?

Yes.

 

[Cutlass]

 

[Samson]

In a 340-litre aquarium, researchers smashed vortices of coloured fluid together to study turbulence. They discovered a cascading cycle of propagating, ever-smaller vortices — “a Russian nesting doll of disorder”. (Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences press release)

 

[hobbsyoyo]

I feel smarter just watching it

 

[Kyriakos]

Brutalist building in Belgrade:

 

[Birdjaguar]

^^^ It isn't aging well.

 

[Cutlass]

Brutalist building in Belgrade:

That doesn't even look like it was designed and built like that. It looks like it was modified and added to by 100 different people.

 

[Kyriakos]

To me it looks like a statue of Satan

 

[Valka D'Ur]

It's hideous.

 

[cardgame]

Only because of the lack of symmetry imo

 

[Samson]

As the photographer was preparing to drive to work, refraction, reflection, and even diffraction of moonlight from millions of falling ice crystals turned the familiar icon of our Moon into a menagerie of other-worldly halos and arcs. The featured scene was captured with three combined exposures two weeks ago on a cold winter morning in Manitoba, Canada. The colorful rings are a corona caused by quantum diffraction by small drops of water or ice near the direction of the Moon. Outside of that, a 22-degree halo was created by moonlight refracting through six-sided cylindrical ice crystals. To the sides are moon dogs, caused by light refracting through thin, flat, six-sided ice platelets as they flittered toward the ground. Visible at the top and bottom of the 22-degree halo are upper and lower tangent arcs, created by moonlight refracting through nearly horizontal hexagonal ice cylinders. A few minutes later, from a field just off the road to work, the halo and arcs had disappeared, the sky had returned to normal -- with the exception of a single faint moon dog.

And a shout out to the NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day page.

 

[AdamCrock]

To me it looks like a statue of Satan

For me it looks beau blyatiful in it's ugliness. Strangely compelling.

Only because of the lack of symmetry imo

This building looks a lot like one I saw in GTA Vice City !