Cool Pictures IV: The Awesomeness is Volatile

[Cutlass]

I would have to see that damned thing working Looks fake to me.

 

[Monsterzuma]

Link to video.

Clearly doesn't work the way that picture depicts it. Still pretty neat, though.

 

[Cutlass]

OK, I get it. The machine is not sorting and arranging the bricks, men do that by hand. The machine just facilitates it and lays them down. That makes a lot more sense to me.

 

[Monsterzuma]

This one's too big to post here:

http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gall...0120705a/PIA15689_Greeley_Pan_wDeck_L257F.jpg

NASA is calling this incredible 360-view of Mars recently beamed down by agency's Opportunity rover the"next best thing to being there."

http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/press/opportunity/20120705a.html

 

[cardgame]

That pic is 125MB you sadist

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[Meteor Man]

That pic is 125MB you sadist

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seriously. It took me a half an hour to open. >.<

Awesome photo, btw.

 

[Cutlass]

Computer glitch caused a whole fireworks show to be shot off at once.

 

[cardgame]

I have cropped it to fit as a desktop image if you'd like. I know I'm adding it to my rotation.

 

[PlutonianEmpire]

OK, I get it. The machine is not sorting and arranging the bricks, men do that by hand. The machine just facilitates it and lays them down. That makes a lot more sense to me.

I actually thought it was some sort of brick path removal machine, instead of the other way around.

 

[mythmonster2]

Googling that fireworks image led me to this site, which has a whole bunch of very interesting images. Some of my favorites in the spoiler

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Fireworks in Perth, along with a comet and lightning.

The Milky Way over Mt. Everest.

 

[Meteor Man]

Computer glitch caused a whole fireworks show to be shot off at once.

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Happened in San Diego apparently. Look it up on youtube, its funny as all hell.

 

[Arakhor]

That must cost a fortune to set right (if at all).

 

[Cutlass]

The city will probably sue the company putting on the display for a refund of some sort. I wonder if that is something the company's even insurance covers?

 

[gangleri2001]

Didn't know if I had to put it on Abaddon's weird news of the world or here.

 

[Monsterzuma]

 

[Monsterzuma]

 

[Meteor Man]

The city will probably sue the company putting on the display for a refund of some sort. I wonder if that is something the company's even insurance covers?

$500,000, apparently. I don't think the insurance will cover that. XD

Didn't know if I had to put it on Abaddon's weird news of the world or here.

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I don't think I believe that.

 

[Radio Noer]

Blowing up the Fort Steuben Bridge in Ohio

 

[W|M]

 

[edse]

Have you seen these images before? One can't believe that they were taken about 100 years ago.

Tbilisi

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A picture of the photographer himself, Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii.

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A teacher in Samarkand

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some more pictures http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/08/russia_in_color_a_century_ago.html