42 More Interesting Photos, Mildly and Otherwise. A Dump. (Now With Numbered Posts!)

May 15, 2017 6:23 AM

Grasimol

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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

#13 any writing utensil can be used for calligraphy; those are fountain pens.

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#29 is bullshit clearly

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#2 barkcode!

9 years ago | Likes 91 Dislikes 0

I came to the comments section for this.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Brilliant

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#6 Ponce Inlet, Florida light house FTW!!!!!!!!

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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

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#10 got any proof it's just not saying "need hugs"?

9 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

I have absolutely none.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Anyone know the source for #13?

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Hardcorigami

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#42 is located in Prague.

9 years ago | Likes 20 Dislikes 0

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 >

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

> pickpockets and old German tourists on segways.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Yeah, saw that in January this year. It was beautiful. But cold af. How do people live here?

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#26 didn't seem to upload properly... perhaps it will here.

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I want to reverse gif this.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It's all fine until they enlarge the eyes, then it scoots right into the uncanny valley.

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I wonder if it's cheaper to just photoshop in stead of paying for a thinner model ...

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Somebody got to say it: I think she's hotter before.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

Spinal correction device made by a company called K2M. They are located near my house.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

#4 is a mathematical thingy, maximum surface with minimum volume

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Thoroughly enjoyable. Many thanks.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

#9 platemail

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Yeet at Prague! #42

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#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.

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Yeah those pictures of other galaxies and different space stuff are taken with veeeeery long exposure to appear so colorful and bright.

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#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

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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

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arctan(.5*220kly/2.54Mly) = 2.5° That's about the width of 2 fingers held at arm's length.

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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.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

This comment right here.

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#6 called fresnel lenses, basically flattening a normal curved lens into a "flat volume"

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We use them in theatre all the time.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

all of them are curved correctly to collimate light to send it straight out in parallel to go as far as possible.

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or the opposite way to focus parallel sunlight onto a surface, free grill

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i once used a large 10" fresnel lens to melt pavement. couldnt see for like 3 hours after that but it was worth it.

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that's the glow of love. anecdote I dried paper with a lens today, I understand the blindness a bit

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42

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#32 is a hardware mod. GameBoy Play It Loud models had no interior or screen lighting.

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

I thought it was just the green power on light.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Red power light. I think they went red/green power level indicator on the advance...

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#17 is the path to San Juan de Gaztelugatxe in Spain. Beautiful, and a game of thrones season 7 filming location.

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folder[neat]

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#32 is a grandfathered clear plastic game boy that offenders in Prisons were allowed, back in the day. Source: corrections officer

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#10 If the fashion world isn't using this to develop a dress, they should.

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O dear, I was wrong. They should stop

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#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

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

where it was taken

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Here is the screencapture from Stellarium http://imgur.com/poCVYxv

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#19 Not a near miss. F-15s intercepting MiG-29s in 1989. https://theaviationist.com/2012/02/03/mig29-f15/

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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!

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Thank you!

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#24 is the long dark cover

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

@op, that's not Orion in the pic.

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#38 isn't entropy, it is the result of a fire. Younker Building in Des Moines, March 29 2014.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Anything being damaged and falling into disarray is technically entropy but ok.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

The picture was taken within a week, that's not "falling into disarray", that's "insurance adjustment".

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#6 is on Fire Island in New York

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Sure about that? Looks exactly like the display at the Pone Inlet lighthouse in FL.

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Maybe. I dunno.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Google search shows they both had a large lense thingy. Neato burrito.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Yee. Go check out the Fire Island lighthouse. 17372818/10 would recommend.

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Can you explain 39 or post additional pictures about it? I don't understand how the building even works

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Pretty sure it's computer generated

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

It's supposed to be a maze symbolizing how difficult the company makes finding your personal information, but stylized to a fingerprint.

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It's also not real

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It's computer generated, not an actual building, so don't worry ^^

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Yeah that shit is what should have been said in the image comment box, not what it says...

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