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Cool Pictures Thread (no chat)

Clanket · 2010-12-17 22:21:21

Hows about we start a cool pictures thread. I've seen loads of photos that are great but don't belong in the photos that shook the world thread. If it catches on, can people please give a short description of what the photo is. And provide links if you want. Here's my contribution. Lighting is seen amid the lava and ash…

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Blue whale blowing rainbows.

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Those birds have discovered those sacks are full of seed.

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Male golden phaesant.

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A baby swordfish - it can grow to 39 inches in length within a year

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Alex Honnold has is the first and so far only person to free climb El Capitan in Yosemite. Here's a photo of that climb.

This is from one of his training climbs (though he was not the first person to free-climb this particular arch in China).

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A wave engulfs the statue of Neptune on Melenara Beach, Gran Canaria.

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I don't know if it's photoshop or not, but if it isn't... WOW!

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Fake but cool.

See the GIF >>here<<

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This is the ring of Titus Carvilius Gemello, it was found as the sole ornament on his body when his tomb was discovered at Grottaferrata necropolis, near Rome.

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A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer

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^^^^^

The first board doesn't even hold a full byte.
Each single decimal number required a bank of 36 vacuum tubes,

"U.S. Army Photo", number 163-12-62. Left: Patsy Simmers, holding ENIAC board Next: Mrs. Gail Taylor, holding EDVAC board Next: Mrs. Milly Beck, holding ORDVAC board Right: Mrs. Norma Stec, holding BRLESC-I board

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