Cool Pictures 14: no , it wasn't me who painted Mona Lisa

[Valka D'Ur]

That may be most places where you are, but I think this "bare feet are unhygienic" idea is a north american thing.

"No shirt, no shoes, no service" is common here.

Banff, Canada

Banff, Alberta, Canada. It's a beautiful photo. But please include the province when posting pictures from Canada.

 

[CKS]

That may be most places where you are, but I think this "bare feet are unhygienic" idea is a north american thing.

Strangely enough, when I was in high school in Minnesota, our school rules forbid sandals completely (unhygienic!), but you could go barefoot (if you had a doctor's note).

 

[Samson]

This image of the vast South Pole Telescope (SPT), situated at the Amundsen–Scott South Pole station, was taken six months into Aman Chokshi’s 14-month stay at the US-run Antarctic research station.

It’s too cold to be out in the open for long. But every day Chokshi and his colleague Allen Foster, then a PhD student at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, and the other ‘winterover’ scientist at the station who was focused on the SPT, made the one-kilometre walk, braving temperatures of between −50 °C and −70 °C, to clear the dish of snow.

More pictures of scientists working

 

[Valka D'Ur]

That is really beautiful!

 

[Birdjaguar]

 

[Samson]

Norway cabin owner sleeps on as cargo ship runs aground outside

 

[Samson]

Eruption on Mount Etna (Sicily) giving the illusion of a phoenix in the sky.

 

[Samson]

By Natalie Rak, also known as Rak, a Poland based street artist

 

[warpus]

My textmode art group released our 20th pack today, here is something I drew for it that was inspired by my visit to Taiwan (Jiufen more specifically)

Spoiler :

 

[bene_legionary]

I get emails from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum every now and then. I found the cover image funny:

 

[Samson]

ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2025 shortlist is out

 

[Samson]

Solar farms in China

Spoiler More :

 

[Samson]

When you're tired of duḥkha.

 

[Bonyduck Campersang]

When you're tired of duḥkha.

looks like AI, but only because the poster has an obviously AI-generated profile picture

 

[Samson]

Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia is the world's largest salt flat, which transforms into 'the world's largest mirror' (used for calibrating the altimeters of Earth observation satellites) during the rainy season, when a thin layer of water covers the surface. This creates a breathtaking natural phenomenon where the sky and clouds are perfectly reflected, offering surreal and stunning views.

 

[Samson]

Mount Fuji seen from the International Space Station.

 

[Samson]

Taken on July 29 and July 30,a registered and stacked series of exposures creates this dreamlike view of anorthern summer night.Multiple firefly flashes streak across the foreground as the luminous Milky Way arcs above the horizon in the Sierra de Órganos national park of central Mexico, The collection of bright streaks aligned across thesky toward the upper left in the time lapse image are Delta Aquariid meteors.Currently active, the annual Delta Aquarid meteor showers hares August nights though, overlapping with the better-known Perseid meteor shower. This year that makes post-midnight, mostly moonless skies in early August very popular with late night skygazers. How can you tell a Delta Aquariid from a Perseid meteor? The streaks of Perseid meteors can be traced back to an apparent radiant in the constellation Perseus. Delta Aquariids appear to emerge from the more southerly constellation Aquarius, beyond the top left of this frame. Of course, the bioluminescent flashes of fireflies are common too on these northern summer nights.