An astronaut aboard the International Space Station captured stunning videos of the earth "cruising at 17,239 miles per hour - that's 7.7 kilometers per second, or 4.7 miles per second." Videos after the break.
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With four months left in the year, 2010 is already the deadliest year yet for U.S. troops. 321 have been killed so far (out of 485 total coalition deaths), compared with 313 deaths in all of 2009. As coalition troop size has increased, and moves have been made into Taliban strongholds, attacks are on the rise, and, according to General David Petraeus, "the footprint of the Taliban has spread". As ...
Sanyi: amúgy hogy sikerült a buli? Dávid: majdnem elvittek minket a sünök :S Sanyi: jó hát ezen már meg se lepődök :D Dávid: az volt a gond hogy kimentünk parkba és egy ilyen kocka alakú betontömbön tábortüzet gyújtottunk éjjel Dávid: aztán kiderült hogy egy gázelosztó aminek 15 méteres közelében cigit se lehetne gyújtani... Sanyi: bazdmeg XD
Inspired by Ray Sison .
Google Search is a prime example of a product that conquerors complexity and enables users to search through 25 billion pages in a friction of a second.
79-year-old Phil Warren from the UK spent 62 years to build this incredible fleet of 432 ships. All the ships are built entirely of matchsticks and wooden matchboxes. The collection includes 60 American and almost 370 British ships. He started building his amazing matchstick models when he was just 17, using the things around him, and since matchsticks were much more common back then, finding lar...
Back in June we brought you the announcement of Denver Zoo's new Amur Tiger quadruplets. Now we bring you photos from their first foray outside. Amur Tigers are classified as critically endangered, with an estimated population of less than 400 individuals remaining in the wild. Once called Siberian Tigers because they were found throughout Siberia, they are now confined to Far East Asia along ...
Nevsky prospect in St. Petersburg is attacked by pickpockets! In the daylight they rob people in the public transport, in cafes, stores, in the crowd, in the underground, anywhere ... They do it openly, impudently, impertinently. Probably the worse situation is only somewhere in the ghetto of New York, or in the slums of Rio de Janeiro... And this is Nevsky - the main street of the northern capita...
A very interesting illustration of wars in Europe from BC to the 20th century.
The new sensor beside a 35mm Full Frame Sensor
Canon succeeds in developing world’s largest CMOS image sensor, with ultra-high sensitivity
TOKYO, August 31, 2010 -Canon Inc. announced today that it has successfully developed the world’s largest*1 CMOS image sensor, with a chip size measuring 202 x 205 mm. Because its expanded size enables greater light-gathering capability, the sensor is c...
To celebrate 50k followers on twitter, I offered $50 to whomever sent me the best picture of a cat. To my surprise, most were domestic cats - and not big cats like lions...and tigers...ohh my. Here are the top 32 that came in from that contest - with #1 being the winner, thanks to @imagodhamma on twitter. Fernando Felix - who picture won the contest, also has a great gallery of cat shots here .
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NASA joined The Commons on Flickr today, creating 3 sets with 180 beautiful historic photographs from various points in the agency’s rich history. If you love looking at launch photographs, one of the three sets is dedicated to those .
As with most media that comes out of NASA, their photographs on Flickr aren’t under copyright .
NASA on The Commons (via Flickr Blog )
A look at images from game reserves in South Africa made by Cameron Spencer of Getty Images. He made these pictures at the Kruger National Park and the nearby Edeni Game Reserve. Kruger National Park is one of the largest game reserves in South Africa, spanning 19,000 square kilometres. It is part of the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park. Edeni is a 21,000-acre wilderness area with an abundance ...
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Intrigued by what he could not see, Harold Edgerton made it his life's mission to analyze motion and extend our perception of time. He was an inventor as well as an MIT professor who was credited for taking the stroboscope from the lab to the forefront of our creative consciousness. Combining the stroboscopic process with the camera’s flash, Edgerton was able to photograph an entire range of m...