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#1 These incredible mountains... the Wind Cathedral, Namibia.
#2 This adorable barcode.
#3 This pigeon's killer view of the New York skyline.
#4 This hardcore origami... wow.
#5 This Mosque, taken with a fisheye lens (Nasir ol Molk Mosque, in Shiraz, Iran.)
#6 These lanterns, some with glass panels fashioned to focus light (bottom left, center back) and others designed to scatter it (bottom center). The large one (center back), I believe, was once the core of a lighthouse.
#7 This sign, which would fit in well in a Finnish airport.
#8 This twerking corgi.
#9 This armor, made by incorporating shards of broken (presumably and predominantly Chinese) porcelain artwork.
#10 This Idolomantis Diabolica... telling you to back off!
#11 These flowers made from hollow-point bullets.
#12 These ostriches cresting a sand dune.
#13 These beautiful calligraphy pens...
#14 A fungus that looks like a coral that's been exposed due to receding waters. It's, at most, nine inches tall.
#15 These gem-colored, and incredibly small mushrooms. Those are spiderwebs in the left, small moss particles in the right. Captured with a macro lens, see more here: http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2015/05/radically-diverse-australian-fungi-photographed-by-steve-axford/
#16 This beautiful carved watermelon.
#17 This lovely little road.
#18 These delectable desserts!
#19 This near miss.
#20 These scoliosis pictures, before, and after.
#21 This sun halo, caused by high-altitude cirrus clouds in the atmosphere. (Sauce! http://earthsky.org/space/what-makes-a-halo-around-the-moon )
#22 This quickly flowing - and very shallow - estuary.
#23 These amazing lenticular clouds!
#24 These colors... (I believe they're Northern Lights... I think that's Orion's belt in the left hand field of the sky. Correct me if I'm wrong, please! :) )
#25 This balancing act... ow...
#26 This poor representation of a woman's body, and a time lapse of how it's made. Strange, isn't it, that when knowing what the beginning picture looks like, the end result becomes so very, very strange-looking.
#27 This hummingbird being spoonfed.
#28 This artist's representation of the earth's crust, upper mantle, lower mantle, and core.
#29 How we'd see our neighbor, the Andromeda Galaxy, if our skies were clearer and we had less light pollution... you'd still probably benefit from using a telescope, though! (That's actually how big it would appear in the sky... also, ZOOM!)
#30 This Large Hadron Collider (zoom!)
#31 A day in the north pole during the Summer months. The sun never sets; it could be 4 am and you'd be none the wiser!
#32 This nostalgic color...
#33 This cube machined to contain smaller machined cubes to contain an even smaller machined cube.
#34 This tranquil cliff.
#35 This clip from Princess Mononoke... ( https://www.watchcartoononline.io/princess-mononoke-english-dubbed ... watch it tonight!)
#36 This burning pile of dismembered Michelin Man parts.
#37 This forest fire.
#38 This entropy at work.
#39 This identity management company... inadvertently making rooftop suicides more difficult. (zoom!)
#40 This pretty "glass" corn. (a little zoom!)
#41 This awesome solar eclipse, with the Milky Way as backdrop. (Not sure if photoshopped)
#42 This intricate clock, with an additional ring for the zodiac calendar.
Gratz on reaching the end of the dump, hopefully it entertained you. Have a great night/day/morning/evening/dump. :)
FP Edit: Wow! I didn't expect so many people to come forward with information on so many of the pictures. It turns out some of the photos are doctored, and I'd apologize if I didn't still think that they're thought provoking and interesting in nature. Go on a comment-reading adventure, people, I sure enjoyed myself.
Also be sure to check out Part 1! http://imgur.com/gallery/FVYvS
Aster1X
#13 any writing utensil can be used for calligraphy; those are fountain pens.
goodshitm8
#29 is bullshit clearly
Stackalee
#2 barkcode!
DiscoPandaYea
I came to the comments section for this.
Grasimol
Brilliant
CaptPizzaPants
#6 Ponce Inlet, Florida light house FTW!!!!!!!!
rchllrchllrchll
No way I live in Daytona beach shores and have never been in the lighthouse, now I must go since I saw it on the internet
marzipanius
#10 got any proof it's just not saying "need hugs"?
Grasimol
I have absolutely none.
lurkingcabbage
Anyone know the source for #13?
squirrelfartsy
Hardcorigami
ShpongleDMT
#42 is located in Prague.
ashmenon
Quick tip: if you're in the area planning to get a shot of the clock tower striking the hour, it's incredibly crowded. Watch out for >
ashmenon
> pickpockets and old German tourists on segways.
PooPooInSpaghettiEveryoneUpsetti
Yeah, saw that in January this year. It was beautiful. But cold af. How do people live here?
Grasimol
#26 didn't seem to upload properly... perhaps it will here.
Ratherbeclimbing
I want to reverse gif this.
EndertheXenophile
It's all fine until they enlarge the eyes, then it scoots right into the uncanny valley.
Twitchanov
IrrelevantGILF
I wonder if it's cheaper to just photoshop in stead of paying for a thinner model ...
Mayonnaiseisainstrument
Somebody got to say it: I think she's hotter before.
icanmakeayomamajokeoutofanything
Spinal correction device made by a company called K2M. They are located near my house.
Laika0050
#4 is a mathematical thingy, maximum surface with minimum volume
SearchingForUnderstanding
Thoroughly enjoyable. Many thanks.
SingularWit
#9 platemail
notdrunj
Yeet at Prague! #42
gaidinbdj
#29 is misleading. While that is the approximate size of Andromeda, we don't see it with that kind of clarity unaided. Even from space.
utsudere
Yeah those pictures of other galaxies and different space stuff are taken with veeeeery long exposure to appear so colorful and bright.
kempgrass
#29 is not even close to being true.The stars we can see are only in our galaxy. Andromeda galaxy can be seen but tis very small like a star
pairofd
http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2014/01/01/moon_and_andromeda_relative_size_in_the_sky.html
kempgrass
Good read! But in doing so it states that "if it were brighter" that is how it might look. I should have said "with the naked eye" in 1st
gaidinbdj
arctan(.5*220kly/2.54Mly) = 2.5° That's about the width of 2 fingers held at arm's length.
kwkspectre
It appears to be bigger than the moon but is very dim. On a dark night with little light pollution you can make out the core.
iamalreadyaghost
This comment right here.
agumonkey
#6 called fresnel lenses, basically flattening a normal curved lens into a "flat volume"
theninthmike
We use them in theatre all the time.
slvrscoobie
all of them are curved correctly to collimate light to send it straight out in parallel to go as far as possible.
agumonkey
or the opposite way to focus parallel sunlight onto a surface, free grill
slvrscoobie
i once used a large 10" fresnel lens to melt pavement. couldnt see for like 3 hours after that but it was worth it.
agumonkey
that's the glow of love. anecdote I dried paper with a lens today, I understand the blindness a bit
HandoB4Javert
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LeastInterestingManInTheWorld
#32 is a hardware mod. GameBoy Play It Loud models had no interior or screen lighting.
Tikityler
I thought it was just the green power on light.
LeastInterestingManInTheWorld
Red power light. I think they went red/green power level indicator on the advance...
phillini
#17 is the path to San Juan de Gaztelugatxe in Spain. Beautiful, and a game of thrones season 7 filming location.
lurkingcabbage
folder[neat]
HeyitsSunshine
#32 is a grandfathered clear plastic game boy that offenders in Prisons were allowed, back in the day. Source: corrections officer
FluffyPuddles
#10 If the fashion world isn't using this to develop a dress, they should.
TooOldToBeRealLife
FluffyPuddles
O dear, I was wrong. They should stop
WorfRozhenko
#24 NOT Orion's belt. Part of Corona Borealis constellation http://imgur.com/IAeJqwT If I knew the date/time of photo, I could tell you
WorfRozhenko
where it was taken
WorfRozhenko
Here is the screencapture from Stellarium http://imgur.com/poCVYxv
delpharseven
#19 Not a near miss. F-15s intercepting MiG-29s in 1989. https://theaviationist.com/2012/02/03/mig29-f15/
Grasimol
Technically a near miss since they could have collided lol, the trails make it seem like they were only maybe ten or twenty yards apart!
dudeinsha
Thank you!
danny8
#24 is the long dark cover
axiomatik
@op, that's not Orion in the pic.
delpharseven
#38 isn't entropy, it is the result of a fire. Younker Building in Des Moines, March 29 2014.
Grasimol
Anything being damaged and falling into disarray is technically entropy but ok.
tommyfever
The picture was taken within a week, that's not "falling into disarray", that's "insurance adjustment".
Fancillymadeuporignalname
#6 is on Fire Island in New York
Supernerdtastic
Sure about that? Looks exactly like the display at the Pone Inlet lighthouse in FL.
Fancillymadeuporignalname
Maybe. I dunno.
Supernerdtastic
Google search shows they both had a large lense thingy. Neato burrito.
Fancillymadeuporignalname
Yee. Go check out the Fire Island lighthouse. 17372818/10 would recommend.
WisconsinHome
Can you explain 39 or post additional pictures about it? I don't understand how the building even works
ForbinDallas
Pretty sure it's computer generated
Grasimol
It's supposed to be a maze symbolizing how difficult the company makes finding your personal information, but stylized to a fingerprint.
ForbinDallas
It's also not real
Grasimol
It's computer generated, not an actual building, so don't worry ^^
WholesomeRuler
Yeah that shit is what should have been said in the image comment box, not what it says...