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[PantherLotus]

Residents crowd in a swimming pool to escape the summer heat during a hot weather spell in Daying county of Suining, China, on July 4, 2010. (Reuters/Stringer)

Favela Joaquim de Queiros, a hillside neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, viewed from above via Google Earth. (© Google)

The power plant of Kardia, Greece, viewed through a destroyed house in the village of Charavgi, some 500 km north of Athens, on September 29, 2011. According to a May 2007 WWF survey called "Dirty Thirty", the Greek Public Power Corporation's (PPC) power plants of Kardia and Agios Dimitrios are the EU's top two polluting stations. The once flourishing nearby villages of Charavgi and Kleitos have been gradually abandoned since PPC opened the two mines. The company "bought" the villages and relocated residents elsewhere. The only person who now lives in Kleitos is an Indian immigrant, Jangdip Pal, 45, who works as a nightguard at the mine. And only one shepherd and his family live in Charavgi. The power plants produce 70 percent of Greece's electricity. (Reuters/Yannis Behrakis)

Thousands of Bangladeshi Muslims board overcrowded trains as they try to return home after attending a three-day Islamic Congregation on the banks of the river Turag in Tongi, outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh, on January 23, 2011. The congregation held each year since 1966, is among the world's largest religious gatherings. (AP Photo/Pavel Rahman)

POPULATION: SEVEN BILLION

 

[Harry Potter]

Earth is so fucked.

 

[MilesWebber]

Half beagle! Half cougar!

COUBEAGLE!

 

[MetalAlien]

Earth is so fucked.

Don't worry, this problem will sort itself out.

 

[East Lake]

I need to see that train shit on video. How are the trains not squashing people like bugs?

 

[Laughing Banana]

 

[PantherLotus]

I see we read the same tublrs

 

[East Lake]

Postin' new Nick Brandt photos.

More here.

 

[Grinchy]

This page is awesome.

 

[dudeworld]

I love those chinese apartment building photos, and those gifs

 

[way more]

A densely populated neighborhood in West Delhi, India, seen from above via Google Earth. (© Google, GeoEye)

One of the most amazing sights I've witnessed, up there with a Grand Canyon sunset, is flying over Mesa, Arizona into Phoenix.

It would take maybe a 5x5 arrangement of these pictures in a grid to convey how massive it felt.

Suburbs and with houses and schools and charter schools and highschools and hospitals and community pools with highways, expressways, and parkways spread to beyond the horizon. And it just keeps coming. All of earth seems covered but it never stops.

And then you realize you have landed and you are in the middle of it.

 

[PantherLotus]

I've seen that and can confirm the horrific beauty of it all. Something a bit more inspiring was flying into Denver from KC in the morning, with the sun at our backs. Caught the clouds underneath just right, and then the rockies poking through the clouds in the distance? Yeah. Beautiful.

 

[RedSwirl]

More at this blog.

Some other cool stuff here that I can't post:
Color photos of Americans from 1939 to 1943.

 

[MetalAlien]

posted this in the funny pics thread but I think it works here too.

 

[Melchiah]

Flight of the Rays

“During an aerial expedition I came across something I had never seen before. Not even my pilot, who has surveyed this area for 20 years, had seen anything like it. As we got closer we started to discover its nature: an unprecedented congregation of rays. The group was as thick as it was wide, all heading towards the same direction. I have asked around why this took place but no one has been able to explain it to me. After such a unique sighting, I realize there are so many marvels in the oceans that we are yet to understand”

 

[Sn4ke_911]

 

[Cat Party]

I imagine the smell of a candle in a watermelon is not quite the same.

 

[AAequal]

December 2005, Louisiana, USA. A plume of foam in bauxite waste at an aluminum manufacturing plant. Producing aluminium metal involves refining bauxite (the ore) using caustic chemicals to produce alumina and the electrolytic reduction of alumina to produce aluminium. This picture shows the disposal of the byproducts, in which the solids (mostly impurities in the bauxite) are separated from the liquids.



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[Grinchy]

Color photos of Americans from 1939 to 1943.

Holy shit this is awesome.

 

[opusink]

 

[Alebrije]

 

[Dai101]

HOT

 

[Melchiah]

 

[Veal]

Oh god is that a real Betty Boop?! Insane!

 

[The Cartographer]

Jinwan Plaza,Haihe River (Tianjin,China)

Tianjin West Railway (Tianjin,China)

Tianjin Eye,Haihe River (Tianjin,China)

??? (Tianjin,China)

Hope you like

 

[Melchiah]

Devil Worm, discovered miles beneath the Earth. The deepest-living animal ever found, according to a study published in June.

The discovery of the new nematode species — called Halicephalobus Mephisto, partly for Mephistopheles, the demon of Faustian legend — suggests there’s a rich, largely unknown biosphere beneath our feet, scientists say.

 

[The Cartographer]

Pretty waoh

 

[wolfmat]

The spice must flow.

 

[Clydefrog]

ah, i've done that hike! stairway to heaven hike on oahu, hawaii

 

[CHEEZMO™]

 

[Melchiah]

Trees shrouded in ghostly cocoons line the edges of a submerged farm field in the Pakistani village of Sindh, where 2010’s massive floods drove millions of spiders into the trees to spin their webs.

 

[PantherLotus]

why does it say UFOCap on the video of that meteorite?

 

[Meadows]

Another reason not to go to war with Pakistan.

 

[Echoplx]

why does it say UFOCap on the video of that meteorite?

UFO stands for 'Unidentified flying object' not 'Alien'

 

[Dai101]

UFO stands for 'Unidentified flying object' not 'Alien'

 

[PantherLotus]

UFO stands for 'Unidentified flying object' not 'Alien'

why does it say UFOCap on the video of that identifiable object?

 

[Giant Robot]

 

[Souldriver]

I thought this was an awesome picture. Look at how happy she is.

 

[AbsoluteZero]

Surfer Almost Swallowed by Whale

Not quite a picture, but Holy crap.

 

[MetalAlien]

I have the whole chase on tape.

 

[Clydefrog]

Surfer Almost Swallowed by Whale

Not quite a picture, but Holy crap.

oh my god

i've been surfing before and seen humpbacks in the distance do their thang, but seeing it THAT close would make me crap my pants instantly.

 

[lethial]

I remember watching that live. Man was it boring.

 

[MetalAlien]

oh my god

i've been surfing before and seen humpbacks in the distance do their thang, but seeing it THAT close would make me crap my pants instantly.

Zombie post.

 

[The Cartographer]

I remember watching that live. Man was it boring.

What is the story behind the image?

 

[MetalAlien]

What is the story behind the image?

OJ slow speed chase man!

 

[MechDX]

I remember watching that live. Man was it boring.

And right during the NBA finals with the Rockets! They were nice to Rocket fans doing a picture-in-picture thing....too bad the game was in the 2inch window in the bottom corner.

 

[Broder Salsa]

What is the story behind the image?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcyyCi2b2AY

Featuring a younger Larry King, still looking like a frog.

 

[The Cartographer]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcyyCi2b2AY

Featuring a younger Larry King, still looking like a frog.

Wow,what a strange story

 

[Melchiah]

The guaraná is an Amazonian fruit used to make a pleasant and sweet commercial soda. It is a very popular drink in Amazonia. The origin of this fruit is explained in this folk tale:

The Guaraná Legend

An indian couple, belonging to the Maués tribe, lived together for many years, always wishing that they could have a child. One day they asked the god Tupã to give them a child as a present to complete their happiness. Tupã, the king of the gods, knowing that the couple had good hearts, fulfilled their wish, bringing to them a beautiful boy.

Time passed by quickly and the boy grew up handsome, generous and kind. However, Juruparí, the god of the darkness, felt an extreme envy for the boy and the peace and happiness that he transmitted, and decided to end that blooming life.

One day the boy went to gather fruits in the forest and Juruparí decided that his vengeance time had arrived. He transformed himself into a serpent and bit the boy, killing him instantly.

The sad news spread quickly. At this moment, thunder echoed and a lightening bolt fell near the indian longhouse. The mother, who was crying in despair, understood that the thunder was a message from Tupã, explaining that she should plant the child’s eyes and that from them a new plant would grow, yielding tasty fruits.

The indians obeyed the mother’s voice and planted the boy’s eyes. There grew the guaraná, whose seeds are black, each with a white aril around it, that reminds one of a human eye.

Guara = human being, na = similar, alike

Source: http://www.sumauma.net/amazonian/legends/legends-guarana.html

 

[PalaceBrother]

And right during the NBA finals with the Rockets! They were nice to Rocket fans doing a picture-in-picture thing....too bad the game was in the 2inch window in the bottom corner.

Also the night of David Hasselhoff's attempt to rejuvenate his US singing career.


From the wiki:

"In 1994, Hasselhoff was scheduled to perform a concert on pay-per-view from Atlantic City. The concert was expected to help reignite his singing career in the United States. However, on the night of the concert, O.J. Simpson was involved in a police chase in southern California. Viewership of the concert was significantly lower than expected due to the live coverage of the chase."