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Photos That Shook The World (Contains graphic images, may cause distress)
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In the 1920s, examining photographic plates from the Mt. Wilson Observatory's 100 inch telescope, Edwin Hubble determined the distance to the Andromeda Nebula, decisively demonstrating the existence of other galaxies far beyond the Milky Way.
His notations are evident on the historic plate image inset at the lower right, shown in context with ground based and Hubble Space Telescope images of the region made nearly 90 years later.
By intercomparing different plates, Hubble searched for novae, stars which underwent a sudden increase in brightness. He found several on this plate and marked them with an "N". Later, discovering that the one near the upper right corner (marked by lines) was actually a type of variable star known as a cepheid, he crossed out the "N" and wrote "VAR!".
Thanks to the work of Harvard astronomer Henrietta Leavitt, cepheids, regularly varying pulsating stars, could be used as standard candle distance indicators. Identifying such a star allowed Hubble to show that Andromeda was not a small cluster of stars and gas within our own galaxy, but a large galaxy in its own right at a substantial distance from the Milky Way.
Hubble's discovery is responsible for establishing our modern concept of a Universe filled with galaxies.0 -
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all caght on camera!
the issue your refering to occurs at 1:58
I know that was sheer luck and chance, but that is some shot!0 -
Some excellent photos here
http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/06/world-war-ii-before-the-war/100089/
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youngblood wrote: »Some excellent photos here
http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/06/world-war-ii-before-the-war/100089/
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Found this thread today and had to sign up, amazing stuff. A few I feel have been missed.
Iconic.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watergate_scandal
I noticed someone posted the headbutt earlier but this was the image that always stood out to me, a sad end to a great journey.
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Some photos from Time Magazine showing life around the globe in 2010.
A Dinka boy burns cow patties for protection from insects. The region is bracing for a referendum vote in January 2011 that would create an independent Southern Sudan.
A burned house, riddled with bullet holes, remains untouched almost two years after a deadly firefight between Mexican soldiers and members of the La Familia drug cartel who were occupying the house
Florencio Avalos, one of the 33 miners trapped in a copper and gold mine in Copiapó, Chile, peers into a video camera that was dropped down a borehole into the chamber where the men sought safety after the cave-in.
Displaced objects outside foreclosed homes in Orlando
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This one has never been covered on here (I don't think so anyway). I knew nothing about it till a few months ago until I saw it on Reeling in the Years. I will put up links etc about it. An incredible event and a lesson on how NOT to deal with terrorist situations.
The events surrounding this are confusing, so I am not going to attempt to give a synopsis of it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_massacreThe Munich massacre is an informal name for events that occurred during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Bavaria in southern West Germany, when members of the Israeli Olympic team were taken hostage and eventually killed by the Palestinian terrorist group Black September. Members of Black September contended that Yasir Arafat’s Fatah organization secretly endorsed the operation.[citation needed] Fatah, however, disputed this. Black September called the operation "Ikrit and Biram",[8] after two Christian Palestinian villages whose inhabitants were killed or expelled by the Haganah in 1948.
By the end of the ordeal, the terrorists had killed eleven Israeli athletes and coaches and a West German police officer. Five of the eight members of Black September were killed by police officers during a failed rescue attempt. The three surviving terrorists were captured, but later released by West Germany following the hijacking by Black September of a Lufthansa airliner. Israel responded to the killings with Operation Spring of Youth and Operation Wrath of God, as well as a series of airstrikes and killings of those suspected of planning the kidnappings
Image of terrorist looking over the balcony of the Israeli team quarters at Building 31 of the Munich Olympic village. This is the most widely recognizable and iconic photo of the event.
Ankie Spitzer, widow of the Israeli fencing coach, Andre Spitzer, who was slain by Arab terrorists on Sept. 5, 1972, surveys the room where the incident occurred at Munich, Germany's Olympic Village on Sept. 8, 1972. The chalk circles on the wall were made by West German police to trace the impact of the bullets.
Religious hate is truly heinous.... This Time headline sums it up very well.
The worst thing about the whole lot - thisOn 29 October, hijackers of a West German Lufthansa passenger jet demanded the release of the three surviving terrorists, who had been arrested after the Fürstenfeldbruck gunfight and were being held for trial. Safady and the Al-Gasheys were immediately released by West Germany, receiving a tumultuous welcome when they touched down in Libya and giving their own firsthand account of their operation at a press conference broadcast worldwide. In both ESPN/ABC's documentary The Tragedy of the Munich Games and in Kevin Macdonald's Academy Award–winning documentary One Day in September, it was claimed that the entire Lufthansa hijacking episode was a sham, concocted by the West Germans and Black September so that the West Germans could be rid of the three Munich perpetrators.0 -
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Casey Anthony found not guilty of murdering her daughter Caylee. A lot of people were shook by the verdict.0 -
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Red dots represent Flickr pictures while the blue dots are tweets. The white dots are locations that have been posted to both.
As expected if you look at Australia, the activity is on the coast while the centre of Australia is not so busy
Note the higher activity in the East which you'd expect with the large centres like Dublin, Dundalk and Belfast
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Calling me a fraud? :eek:
Why I oughta!
Got it from the main article on the Daily Mail, science section
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2014424/Twitter-Flickr-Infographic-shows-social-networking-break-district.html
The reason they are dark is to highlight colours
Here in New York. As expected Manhattan has the highest activity while outlying areas use flickr
There are busy clusters for twitter and both, I don't know NY but someone might recognize these are huge urban areas
Jersey City in the West maybe?
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Calling me a fraud? :eek:
Why I oughta!
Got it from the main article on the Daily Mail, science section
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2014424/Twitter-Flickr-Infographic-shows-social-networking-break-district.html
The reason they are dark is to highlight colours
Here in New York. As expected Manhattan has the highest activity while outlying areas use flickr
There are busy clusters for twitter and both, I don't know NY but someone might recognize these are huge urban areas
Jersey City in the West maybe?
I'm not doubting you personally - when I clicked on to the thread I looked at the image before reading the text and thought, 'I've seen this before'. I don't see the need to use what looks like a satellite images to highlight twitter and flickr images when an ordinary map would do fine.;)
EDIT: Earth's City Lights - pretty damn close you would have to say although that would make sense due to densley populated areas.
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Calling me a fraud? :eek:
Why I oughta!
Got it from the main article on the Daily Mail, science section
The reason they are dark is to highlight colours
Here in New York. As expected Manhattan has the highest activity while outlying areas use flickr
There are busy clusters for twitter and both, I don't know NY but someone might recognize these are huge urban areas
Jersey City in the West maybe?
To the west of Manhattan there, that's Hoboken, NJ I think. You can see the bottom of Manhattan is very concentrated - midtown, East Village, Tribeca, Financial District, Lower East Side. Lots of young people, arty neighbourhoods, and areas of top business. I guess these are the people using services like Twitter and Flickr.
The lights get less as you go up the Upper East Side. Kind of surprising, very affluent areas. Maybe they're an older generation. As you go further up, it's Harlem, El Barrio and The Bronx, typically less better off areas, ie less access to technology?
East of Manhattan there is Brooklyn. The west of Brooklyn has lots of yuppies and hipsters, perhaps explaining why these areas are much more concentrated than the middle of it. Top of that land part is Queens. I think the part with the most lights is Sunnyside/Woodside/Astoria. Quick commute to Manhattan from there, possibly lots of city workers living there with cheaper rent. Also, lots of Irish people up that way :pac:0 -
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