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

Dunny

Oscar Pistorious



http://world.time.com/2013/02/19/oscar-pistorius-tells-court-how-he-shot-girlfriend-reeva-steenkamp/

retalivity

i know hes a huge public figure in SA but allowing the photographers in for a photo-op in the courtroom like that above, before or during a trial, is a joke.

Capt'n Midnight

TheIrishGrover wrote: »

Like it or loath it, nothing did more to get PCs into people's homes than Windows 95

actually it was the "intel inside" campaign

Businesses stopped buying £3,000 Compaq's and bought £1,000 Dell's because both had the same "intel inside" sticker. That's when 486's were cheap enough to be affordable to the masses. Also modems and internet access helped.

JJJJNR

Sends shivers down my spine, every parents nightmare.



CCTV footage of the killers leading James away.

Worztron

At first I thought they were Jellyfish.

So sad but true. A damning indictment on humanity. :mad:

Newaglish

I don't think that's an actual photograph though. Just a Photoshop to make them look like jellyfish?

Worztron

Newaglish wrote: »

I don't think that's an actual photograph though. Just a Photoshop to make them look like jellyfish?

True, I now think it may be just a drawing but if you lookup about the giant garbage patches on the world's oceans – we can safely say that disgusting scenes like the plastic bags image in my previous post are common. It truly does seem that the Earth is infected with humans.



Search: Great Pacific Garbage Patch

funnights74

retalivity wrote: »

i know hes a huge public figure in SA but allowing the photographers in for a photo-op in the courtroom like that above, before or during a trial, is a joke.

I can see this becoming another "OJ" type trial, probably bordering on farsical. Already a senior officer has been taken off the case. Sky news will get years out of it.

Turtwig

funnights74 wrote: »

I can see this becoming another "OJ" type trial, probably bordering on farsical. Already a senior officer has been taken off the case. Sky news will get years out of it.

*Wonders if they'll stoop as low as resorting to the Michael Jackson court reenactments with paid actors?*

lockon...

This is one of the photos that Arthur Eddington took during the 1919 solar eclipse to prove Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity.



The experiment proved that light from distant stars bends around large objects in space such as the sun.

pitythefool

funnights74 wrote: »

I can see this becoming another "OJ" type trial, probably bordering on farsical. Already a senior officer has been taken off the case. Sky news will get years out of it.

there is no race divide, so cant see any riots, will be good viewing though

steffifandler

RUSTEDCORE wrote: »

Hmm its not really the same as a normal explosion is the simple answer....its too complicated to explain in a sentence and im too lazy to write more than this but.

So...subatomic elements combined to form atoms and then molecules? But arent atoms fairly complex - how could they just form together...can scientists today make atoms?

Ole Rodrigo

Sometimes, after your eyes adapt to the dark, a spectacular sky appears. Such was the case earlier this month over Ontario, Canada, when part of a spectacular sky also became visible in a reflection off a lake. To start, the brightest objects visible are bright stars and the planet Jupiter, seen as the brightest spot on the upper left. A distant town appears as a diffuse glow over the horizon. More faint still, the disk of the Milky Way Galaxy becomes apparent as a dramatic diffuse band across the sky that seems to crash into the horizon far in the distance. The Galaxy plane we see in the picture is about 10000 light years from the trees, and contains up to 100 million stars. Its likely that some of those stars have already died and we wont know for thousands of years. In the foreground, a picturesque landscape includes trees, a lake, and a stone wall. Finally, on this serene night in July when the lake water was unusually calm, reflections appear. Visible in the lake are not only reflections of several bright stars, but part of the Milky Way band itself. Careful inspection of the image will reveal, however, that bright stars leave small trails in the lake reflections that do not appear in the sky above. The reason for this is because the above image is actually a digital composite of time-consecutive exposures from the same camera. In the first set of exposures, sky images were co-added with slight rotations to keep the stars in one place

b318isp

steffifandler wrote: »

So...subatomic elements combined to form atoms and then molecules? But arent atoms fairly complex - how could they just form together...can scientists today make atoms?

Yes - we've being doing it for around 100 years. Wiki is your friend on the structure of the atom.

Delphi91

steffifandler wrote: »

So...subatomic elements combined to form atoms and then molecules? But arent atoms fairly complex - how could they just form together...can scientists today make atoms?

Two things:

1. It's not correct to say subatomic elements. You should say subatomic particles.
2. Have a look at this Periodic Table: http://www.gtcocalcomp.com/erc/interwritebackgrounds/periodic_table_complete.jpg The elements (and hence atoms, as elements are composed of atoms) in Yellow are man made.

Capt'n Midnight

steffifandler wrote: »

So...subatomic elements combined to form atoms and then molecules? But arent atoms fairly complex - how could they just form together...can scientists today make atoms?

atoms can form when there is a high enough energy density.

CERN have made some antimatter atoms this way


nuclear fusion takes a lot of energy 'temperature' is used as a scale so several million degrees, but at that temperature they want to stay apart so you need the pressure of an atomic explosion or lots of gravity or big magnets to get them together.

or you can fire atoms at each other to join them together - very inefficient but sometimes it works



Shoemaker Levy 9 impact on Jupiter



2009 impact on Jupiter - for scale and to show that this stuff is ongoing

LEIN

Less chat and more pics makes DD9090 something, something....

Worztron

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

swiftblade

Worztron wrote: »

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

Just an FYI, but that Pic isn't from the "Reichstag Fire" (Note: Flak 88 on right of photo)

Capt'n Midnight

The face on Mars




More info http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2001/ast24may_1/

Worztron

swiftblade wrote: »

Just an FYI, but that Pic isn't from the "Reichstag Fire" (Note: Flak 88 on right of photo)

What year do you think it was? 1945?

I added a note above the image.

Donny5

Worztron wrote: »

What year do you think it was? 1945?

I added a note above the image.

This post on Military Photos suggest around April 29th to May 1st, 1945, but nothing definitive.

Worztron

Donny5 wrote: »

This post on Military Photos suggest around April 29th to May 1st, 1945, but nothing definitive.

Thanks for the info. The image was removed from my post.

Squeaky the Squirrel

Parked on wrong side of the Road, chat with Cops, dragged down the road, found dead in Cells 2 hours later with head injuries from beating and internal bleeding. Cops knew they were being filmed. Just another day in SA.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/africa/8367405/South-African-police-drag-man-behind-car
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2285780/Handcuffed-police-van-dragged-away-death-Horrific-fate-driver-arrested-parking-dispute.html

Squeaky the Squirrel

MOD: This post is very graphic. Images have been changed to links, so click at your own peril.




Chinese skinning Animals Alive.

http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m143/kirstielynch/dog2.jpg

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m38jmkCgPy1rujeq5o1_500.jpg

http://25.media.tumblr.com/8c0a535e23fb7fd7a3d8f443672faa2d/tumblr_mhxx03EJeM1qbxwudo1_500.jpg

http://dingo.care2.com/pictures/c2c/share/30/307/738/3073874_370.jpg

http://liberationbc.org/sites/default/files/dog-fur-02.jpg

http://img.chinasmack.com/www/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/golden-retriever-dog-skinned-on-street-in-shanghai-01.jpg

http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2386/2516719396_7a0b218696.jpg

https://forums.playfire.com/_proxy/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freewebs.com%2Fdogsinasia%2Fskinned%2520dog.jpg&hmac=06ca0987400d8fa801b4de4f0a3237a7

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EvNJQbbUrRM/TEoU77VRwaI/AAAAAAAAAyk/fWoaKfYw8WU/s1600/earthlings9.jpg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=yEZiPzZTEDM

Worztron

Regarding the recent post – Skinning animals alive? :mad::mad::mad:
While the above images and video are deeply disturbing, people must be educated about the reality of all animal cruelty. Ignoring it does not help the plight of the poor animals. Please refer to my sig links.

The mass slaughter of seals. Most of the world's seal bludgeoning takes place in Canada. :mad:



This quote sums up humans:
Mark Twain: "Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it."

Squeaky the Squirrel

SniperSight wrote: »

I don't get why its done when the thing is alive to feel everything.

Skin comes off easier apparently.

Grimebox wrote: »

Actually do those skinned animals even die after that? It's truly shocking to see

They can live for up to 10 minutes before dying.



More Pics, a whole 900 of them from World War II.

Amazing collection from before, during and after all divided up into segments, Pearl Harbour, Britain, Japanese etc

World War II is the story of the 20th Century. The war officially lasted from 1939 until 1945, but the causes of the conflict and its horrible aftermath echoed for decades in both directions. While feats of bravery and technological breakthroughs still inspire awe today, the majority of the war was dominated by unimaginable misery and destruction. In the late 1930s, the global population stood at approximately 2 billion. In less than a decade, the war between the nations of the Axis Powers and the Allies resulted in some 80 million deaths -- killing off about 4 percent of the whole world.

This series of entries was published weekly on TheAtlantic.com from June 19 through October 30, 2011, running every Sunday morning for 20 weeks. In this collection of 900 photos spread over 20 essays, I tried to explore the events of the war, the lives of the people fighting at the front and working back home, and the effects of the trauma on everyday activity. These images still give us glimpses into the experiences of our parents, grandparents and great grandparents, moments that shaped the world as it is today.

Three U.S. soldiers look at bodies stuffed into an oven in a crematorium in April of 1945. Photo taken in an unidentified concentration camp in Germany, at time of liberation by U.S. Army.

This heap of ashes and bones is the debris from one day's killing of German prisoners by 88 troopers in the Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar in Germany, shown on April 25, 1945.

Adolf Hitler is shown being cheered as he rides through the streets of Munich, Germany, November 9, 1933, during the celebration of the 10th anniversary of the National Socialist movement.

Aerial view of Hiroshima, Japan, one year after the atomic bomb blast shows some small amount of reconstruction amid much ruin on July 20, 1946. The slow pace of rebuilding is attributed to a shortage of building equipment and materials.

Scene on board USS Yorktown, shortly after she was hit by three Japanese bombs on June 4, 1942. The dense smoke is from fires in her uptakes, caused by a bomb that punctured them and knocked out her boilers. Panorama made from two photographs taken by Photographer 2rd Class William G. Roy from the starboard side of the flight deck, just in front of the forward 5"/38 gun gallery. Man with hammer at right is probably covering a bomb entry hole in the forward elevator.

A train of bombs drops from United States Army Air forces plane on territory in the Aleutians held by the Japanese in 1943.

^^Random few.

DazMarz

Squeaky the Squirrel wrote: »

More Pics, a whole 900 of them from World War II.

Amazing collection from before, during and after all divided up into segments, Pearl Harbour, Britain, Japanese etc

Excellent collection of pictures. Some really interesting and heartbreaking ones in there. Well worth a look.

Penn

5 chat posts is too much. 8 chat posts is way too much. I've just deleted 17.

Less chat, folks. Discuss the topic to great extent elsewhere, but the amount of chat here is far too much. We don't want to crack down too hard on it, but we will if we have to.

TheIrishGrover

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicéphore_Niépce#Photography
"View from the Window at Le Gras, Joseph Nicéphore Niépce" from 1826
Generally regarded as the first photograph. Without this there'd be no world shakin'......Pity it looks like a crap instagram upload