Photos That Shook The World (Contains graphic images, may cause distress)

CrazyRabbit · 08-11-2014 4:24am

^^^
Some might not be aware of what that is about. It's the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall. Lights have been placed along the path where the wall stood.

Related pic below shows Berlin with the different coloured street lights clearly showing old boundaries.

biko · 08-11-2014 4:24pm

Some of the hundreds of girls kidnapped by Boko Haram, now probably sold into marriages or killed.

keith16 · 12-11-2014 8:34pm

The adventure began March 2004, when a European Ariane 5 rocket lifted off from Kourou in French Guiana.

During a circuitous ten-year trek across the Solar System, Rosetta will cross the asteroid belt and travel into deep space, more than five times Earth’s distance from the Sun. Its destination will be a periodic comet known as Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.

The Rosetta orbiter will rendezvous with Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko and remain in close proximity to the icy nucleus as it plunges towards the warmer inner reaches of the Sun’s domain. At the same time, a small lander will be released onto the surface of this mysterious cosmic iceberg.

More than a year will pass before the remarkable mission draws to a close in December 2015. By then, both the spacecraft and the comet will have circled the Sun and be on their way out of the inner Solar System.

The image shows comet 67P/CG acquired by the ROLIS instrument on the Philae lander during descent on Nov 12, 2014 14:38:41 UT from a distance of approximately 3 km from the surface. The landing site is imaged with a resolution of about 3m per pixel.

Using the CIVA camera on Rosetta’s Philae lander, the spacecraft have snapped a ‘selfie’ at comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko from a distance of about 16 km from the surface of the comet. The image was taken on 7 October and captures the side of the Rosetta spacecraft and one of Rosetta’s 14 m-long solar wings, with the comet in the background.

Two images with different exposure times were combined to bring out the faint details in this very high contrast situation. The comet's active ‘neck’ region is clearly visible, with streams of dust and gas extending away from the surface.

Source: European Space Agency

More Images.

cml387 · 21-11-2014 1:18pm

40 Years ago today two bombs exploded in pubs in central Birmingham.
Although initially denied, the provisional IRA later claimed responsibility.
21 people were killed.
http://i4.birminghammail.co.uk/incoming/article204071.ece/alternates/s1227b/image-1-for-birmingham-pub-bombings-gallery-887033595.jpg

seavill · 24-12-2014 12:37am

http://www.iflscience.com/space/how-big-our-place-universe

A video of photos so technically counts. Looking at how insignificant we are here on earth in relation to the rest of the universe/solar system

Junco Partner · 14-01-2015 4:18am

Peshawar schoolboys recreate photo without their friends.

2014 Peshawar school massacre

jmayo · 14-01-2015 2:49pm

Not sure if some of these posted in here or not.
For me these are ones that really shocked at the time and helped influence public opinion.

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Holocaust

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Bergen Belsen

We haven't learned that much ...

Bosnia

The Killing Fields of Cambodia...

Rwanda - apologies for size ...

BaZmO* · 14-01-2015 3:26pm

Fikret Alić

Fikret Alić is a Bosniak survivor of the 1992 Keraterm and Trnopolje concentration camps near the city of Prijedor in northwest Bosnia and Herzegovina. The journalist Ed Vulliamy, whose reporting of Trnopolje and another concentration camp at Omarska helped draw public attention to the atrocities being perpetrated in the Prijedor camp system, described Alić as being "probably the most familiar figure in the world" in the summer of 1992, when the image of his emaciated frame, seen behind barbed wire at the Trnopolje concentration camp, was seen around the world as emblematic of the violence being inflicted on non-Serb civilians by Bosnian Serbs under the leadership of Radovan Karadžić during the Bosnian War.[1]

sblythe · 28-01-2015 2:13am

Andrewf20 · 03-02-2015 2:08am

The largest bomb ever detonated - the Tsar bomb, 1961:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bomba

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMYYEsKvHvk

"The Tsar Bomba......had about 1,350–1,570 times the combined power of the bombs that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki,[6] 10 times the combined power of all the conventional explosives used in World War II"

Pierce_1991 · 03-02-2015 10:54am

^^^^

You'd have to wonder who ever thought a bomb like that could be of genuine use.

gumbo1 · 03-02-2015 6:37pm

Pierce_1991 wrote: »

^^^^

You'd have to wonder who ever thought a bomb like that could be of genuine use.

That bomb was the greatest invention by the Russians, I mean think about it, they showed offtheir big bomb making ccapabilities and every other nation since then have said "eh, hang an a second, they might have more! I'll rethink starting a war with them for now!"

If every nuclear power in the world showed off their tsar bomba there'd prob be less wars now!

McDermotX · 03-02-2015 6:52pm

^^

“The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five.” - Sagan

In some ways bad, in some ways good.

Calibos · 03-02-2015 10:39pm

Pierce_1991 wrote: »

^^^^

You'd have to wonder who ever thought a bomb like that could be of genuine use.

Not much. Most of the extra explosive energy over and above your garden variety large 20 megaton bomb actually escapes the atmosphere into space rather than increasing devastation on the ground.

Great believer in the MAD (Mutually assured destruction) principle myself tbh. Smaller local wars will never again turn into global conflicts like the World Wars.

Pierce_1991 · 03-02-2015 10:52pm

Calibos wrote: »

Not much. Most of the extra explosive energy over and above your garden variety large 20 megaton bomb actually escapes the atmosphere into space rather than increasing devastation on the ground.

Great believer in the MAD (Mutually assured destruction) principle myself tbh. Smaller local wars will never again turn into global conflicts like the World Wars.

There is always that risk though that the wrong person may get his hands on something like that. If the technology had been available to him what would have stopped Hitler from dropping a few of them on Britain, Russia and the US before turning to the rest of the world and saying 'fall in line or there's more for yourselves'. Hitler may not even be the best example because as you say, the idea of MAD probably would have prevented him from doing that, but there could be an insane dictator one day who will simply not care.

gctest50 · 04-02-2015 3:32am

Pierce_1991 wrote: »

^^^^

You'd have to wonder who ever thought a bomb like that could be of genuine use.

you'd have to wonder who ever thought of testing 2,000+ of them

shook the world just a little bit, 2000 nuclear tests in 4mins :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8aWgRuVIxs

_Jumper_ · 05-02-2015 10:15pm

gctest50 wrote: »

you'd have to wonder who ever thought of testing 2,000+ of them

shook the world just a little bit, 2000 nuclear tests in 4mins :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8aWgRuVIxs

Some of them were done on low lying islands and had a bit of concrete poured over to seal in the waste now rising sea levels are threatening to wash all out to Sea.

US can't be arsed to do anything about it.

Ave Sodalis · 28-03-2015 10:22pm

It's been a while since I've actually got upset over a photo but just looking at the eyes of this child did exactly that.

https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/11057319_863818846997137_5152408465254821087_n.jpg?oh=67cb89b897c216825b8e80cb3fcb4a07&oe=556FA078&__gda__=1437032128_76535a98c21a577dd14a9892a19ee3b0

SimonTemplar · 28-03-2015 11:10pm

sup_dude wrote: »

It's been a while since I've actually got upset over a photo but just looking at the eyes of this child did exactly that.

https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/11057319_863818846997137_5152408465254821087_n.jpg?oh=67cb89b897c216825b8e80cb3fcb4a07&oe=556FA078&__gda__=1437032128_76535a98c21a577dd14a9892a19ee3b0

That's absolutely heartbreaking. I actually couldn't look at it for more than a few seconds

allthedoyles · 27-04-2015 11:55pm

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Open casket; A tearful friend goes to put her hand on the head of Freddie Gray inside his coffin as she filed past to pay her last respects to the 25-year-old

Violent clashes between Baltimore police and protestors turn city into 'absolute war zone' burning cop cars and looting stores after thousands mourn Freddie Gray in open casket funeral 27.04.2015

rolliepoley · 30-04-2015 5:28pm

Vietnam War.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturepicturegalleries/9259915/Malcolm-Browne-Horst-Fass-and-Roy-Essoyan-the-men-who-documented-the-Vietnam-War.html#?frame=2322902

MillField · 24-07-2015 11:48am

Great post on Imgur today:

http://imgur.com/a/KGUEn?gallery

GerB40 · 24-07-2015 12:55pm

colmulhall wrote: »

Great post on Imgur today:

http://imgur.com/a/KGUEn?gallery

I'm not sure if chat is allowed on this thread but I'll ask anyway. Does anyone know the story behind The Priest and the Dying Soldier 1962?

CardBordWindow · 24-07-2015 1:01pm

GerB40 wrote: »

I'm not sure if chat is allowed on this thread but I'll ask anyway. Does anyone know the story behind The Priest and the Dying Soldier 1962?

http://rarehistoricalphotos.com/priest-dying-soldier-1962/

Navy chaplain Luis Padillo gives last rites to a soldier wounded by sniper fire during a revolt in Venezuela. Braving the streets amid sniper fire, to offer last rites to the dying, the priest encountered a wounded soldier, who pulled himself up by clinging to the priest’s cassock, as bullets chewed up the concrete around them. The photographer Hector Rondón Lovera, who had to lie flat to avoid getting shot, later said that he was unsure how he managed to take this picture. The Catholic priest, Luis Padillo, would walk the streets, even through sniper fire, offering last rites to the fighters. Besides priest’s bravery, he also knows the enemy will think a lot before shooting him (just imagine the propaganda) and the enemy soldiers are catholic and would refuse that order.

flyingsnail · 13-08-2015 6:50pm

Photos of the aftermath if the explosion in Tianjin China.

http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2015/08/photos-of-the-aftermath-of-the-massive-explosions-in-tianjin-china/401228/

up for anything · 13-08-2015 9:53pm

This photo seems to have disappeared. Is there another place to view it?

sup_dude wrote: »

It's been a while since I've actually got upset over a photo but just looking at the eyes of this child did exactly that.

https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/11057319_863818846997137_5152408465254821087_n.jpg?oh=67cb89b897c216825b8e80cb3fcb4a07&oe=556FA078&__gda__=1437032128_76535a98c21a577dd14a9892a19ee3b0

b318isp · 14-08-2015 8:55am

From the Atlantic post #3028:

http://cdn.theatlantic.com/assets/media/img/photo/2015/08/photos-of-the-aftermath-of-the-mass/t08_483765060/main_1500.jpg?GE2DGOJUG44TCOBVFYYA====

http://cdn.theatlantic.com/assets/media/img/photo/2015/08/photos-of-the-aftermath-of-the-mass/t10_RTX1O4JK/main_1500.jpg?GE2DGOJUG44TCOBVFYYA====

http://cdn.theatlantic.com/assets/media/img/photo/2015/08/photos-of-the-aftermath-of-the-mass/t19_RTR4YZ63/main_1500.jpg?GE2DGOJUG44TCOBVFYYA====

16-08-2015 1:58pm

Posted this over in After Hours, but seemed suitable here -

The crater left by the recent explosion in China.

AbusesToilets · 17-08-2015 12:49am

quite literally shook the world.

LEIN · 17-08-2015 9:22pm

_Tombstone_ · 17-08-2015 9:48pm

^^^
Apart from this actually shaking the world, it's not really interesting...it's the 5th such explosion since April because it's a shocking rotten corrupt country, lads in power don't care as long as they're getting their cut and not living beside it. The Company responsible had no licence to hold the 100s of tonnes of chemicals it had in it's warehouse, they practically joked about safety drills on their now taken down website. Such a Warehouse isin't even allowed in a public area and theirs a big Apartment complex over the road.

Best part is state media, usually they won't report these things but this explosion was so big, they've come out and said their won't be a cover up.

up for anything · 24-08-2015 6:26pm

Warning: Graphic content.

This article about the fate of the Jews in the Ukraine, along with the accompanying photographs is heartbreaking. Man's inhumanity to man.

Ukraine's killing centre

cml387 · 02-09-2015 9:49pm

There are no words

Mod note: 3 year old refugee boy washed up on shore.

MAY CAUSE DISTRESS

laros · 02-09-2015 10:13pm

There are no words

There have been other photos in a similar vein going around for the past week or so.... Is this what we have come to... ???

BaZmO* · 02-09-2015 10:56pm

I'm not going to click on the link because I saw the pics on the news earlier and it hit me like a tonne of bricks. Really really upset me. It's just so tragic.

The Cool · 03-09-2015 1:42pm

cml387 wrote: »

There are no words

You know when you look through this thread and see those striking photos from history and think to yourself, what would that have been like to be alive and witness that, it's uncomprehendable.
This photo is the one for us, that our children will look back on in wonder at our world, and we'll always remember how we felt when we saw it.

keano_afc · 03-09-2015 2:19pm

BaZmO* wrote: »

I'm not going to click on the link because I saw the pics on the news earlier and it hit me like a tonne of bricks. Really really upset me. It's just so tragic.

Likewise, saw it yesterday evening and hard a hard time composing myself. I have 2 young kids and this poor little guy is only a little bit younger than my daughter. Utterly heartbreaking. How awful must the situation be on land if you feel safer risking your life on water.

saggycaggy · 03-09-2015 2:39pm

Same here. I have a young daughter the same age and I couldn't sleep last night thinking about that image-the poor wee boy just lying face down like that.
He is so happy in the other pictures released of him. I'm glad we know his name, Aylan Kurdi rest in peace.

I'm been welling up at work all day and feeling so helpless. Horribly there will be more like him.

Tinder Surprise · 03-09-2015 2:49pm

That picture of the little guy face down in the water will go down in history alongside the picture of the starving child in Ethiopia with the vulchar just waiting, as two of the most harrowing images of modern times.

There is more photos of kids washed up that I was going to post, but I am uncomfortable in doing so...
Its a mixture of respect (would the families be upset?) and the thought of those little guys lifeless bodies up on the Internet for decades - weird I know but that feeling came from nowhere - I am still trying to work it out myself.

(p.s) sorry about the chat on a photo thread.

BaZmO* · 03-09-2015 5:34pm

keano_afc wrote: »

Likewise, saw it yesterday evening and hard a hard time composing myself. I have 2 young kids and this poor little guy is only a little bit younger than my daughter. Utterly heartbreaking. How awful must the situation be on land if you feel safer risking your life on water.

That's the reason why I was so upset. I have a son who's pretty much the same age. I know that shouldn't make the images anymore harrowing but it does.

flyingsnail · 03-09-2015 8:20pm

BaZmO* wrote: »

That's the reason why I was so upset. I have a son who's pretty much the same age. I know that shouldn't make the images anymore harrowing but it does.

When we look at photographs we often make emotional connection with the subject, when we do we draw on our own personal experiences to make that connection. The closer the connection the more profound the emotional impact can be, the image of the poor child (Rest in peace little one

) will have an emotional impact on everybody but as the parent of a child of similar age you may draw on your own emotions about your own child when looking at the image. While personal experiences do not change the harrowing image in front of you, it does alter how deeply it affects individual person looking at it.

A very simplified example of this is when you buy a picture frame for a portrait, more than likely there will be some form of picture in the frame as marketing material, when you go home you will probably take out the image and throw it in the bin and put in your photo without a second thought, but to somebody else that picture is of their mother, father, son, daughter ect.. to them the exact same image has considerably more meaning.

Gumbo · 03-09-2015 9:17pm

What killed me was knowing that the little fellas mammy put those little sockies and boots on him that morning and gave him a hug not knowing what the day had in store for him, and them of course. May they RIP.

equivariant · 03-09-2015 9:28pm

kceire wrote: »

What killed me was knowing that the little fellas mammy put those little sockies and boots on him that morning and gave him a hug not knowing what the day had in store for him, and them of course. May they RIP.

This I think. We have a son around the same age. Its the familiarity of the clothes - little red T-shirt, shorts and boots - that makes it so personal for many people. Its an image that I won't forget so easily I think. I really wanted to get home to see my son this evening.

Marty McFly · 03-09-2015 9:34pm

kceire wrote: »

What killed me was knowing that the little fellas mammy put those little sockies and boots on him that morning and gave him a hug not knowing what the day had in store for him, and them of course. May they RIP.

Ok that just made it hit home a little bit harder

Gumbo · 03-09-2015 9:34pm

equivariant wrote: »

This I think. We have a son around the same age. Its the familiarity of the clothes - little red T-shirt, shorts and boots - that makes it so personal for many people. Its an image that I won't forget so easily I think. I really wanted to get home to see my son this evening.

Same here. Just packed him off for big school on Tuesday!

saggycaggy · 03-09-2015 10:40pm

kceire wrote: »

What killed me was knowing that the little fellas mammy put those little sockies and boots on him that morning and gave him a hug not knowing what the day had in store for him, and them of course. May they RIP.

This x 1, 000. And the image of him face down, arms to the side-my 3 year old girl sleeps like that sometimes, it's like he's asleep himself.
I'm just so so sad and upset for him. I really hate the world right now.

donfers · 03-09-2015 11:28pm

what devastated me was how alone he looked and helpless - poor little guy. He had no part in the situation that drove his family to such desparation, he just followed his mother and father. I wander how long he was lying there, what I was doing when he was struggling in the water calling for his mommy, was I watching a show on netflix or maybe eating my dinner? I can't get over this little fella just lying there never to grow up because of the way the world is.