The best pictures you've seen.

[rossmum]

We have a compilation of the funniest; how about the most incredible?

I'll start:

http://gop3.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/12/gldeagle.jpg

Meet the king of birds, the Golden Eagle. Known in certain parts of Russia and central Asia as 'berkut'. Now you can see where the alias comes from, and probably why.

[TeeKup]

I has speed bitch. Catch me if you can.

http://wdfw.wa.gov/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=3781&g2_serialNumber=2

[ultama121]

Well I has silence and deadlinessocity, along with intimidating stares. You're both dead! >:V
http://wwwstatic.kern.org/images/calmzoo/barnowl.jpg

[TeeKup]

http://listverse.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/blood-planet.jpg

[Rob Oplawar]

http://d_fluke.shackspace.com/wallpapers/Hubble_Ultra_Deep_Field_Black_point_edit.jpg
/thread

[Boba]

http://img520.imageshack.us/img520/9924/1199025086651fq1.jpg
http://img520.imageshack.us/img520/6256/1208736960792xn1.jpg

[Heathen]

teek...link to a big version for a bg?

[TeeKup]

I'm afraid thats as big as it gets.

[Heathen]

:(

[Pooky]

I'm afraid thats as big as it gets.

That's what he said.

[Heathen]

I saw that coming from so far away.

[alby]

I'm afraid thats as big as it gets.

That's what he said.

I saw that coming from so far away.
:rolleyes: Now that's ridiculous guys.

[Syuusuke]

Nude art of beautiful women.

Nature's work at its best.

[klange]

That's what he said.
I direct you to this xkcd (http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/how_it_happened.png).

[TeeKup]

That's what he said.

Fuk u k.

[Pooky]

I direct you to this xkcd (http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/how_it_happened.png).

I direct you to this ytmnd (http://sonicandshadowsubliminal.ytmnd.com/).

[Gamerkd16]

Some of these could be wallpaper worthy. I like that one TeeKup posted.

[Atty]

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/143/341532772_0bea5c90c4.jpg

[Heathen]

Posted that way back in random pics because it was Epic but no one noticed it :/

[ima_from_America]

Flying tanks... We're screwed.

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b5/Lentarel/antonovkt.jpg

[Amit]

Flying tanks... We're screwed.

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b5/Lentarel/antonovkt.jpg

Notice how it has the AmeriStar and your name is.....?

[ima_from_America]

Accordion to the fine folks at Wikipedia, it's Russian. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonov_A-40

[Atty]

http://adsoftheworld.com/files/images/durex_fathersday.jpeg

[Corndogman]

ahhahahaha, that is amazing Atty.

[ultama121]

:rolleyes:
*Bows*

[DaneO'Roo]

whats a durex?

[Rob Oplawar]

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say it's a condom.
or were you kidding? Dane must be more familiar with these concepts than I... =P

[rossmum]

different brands out here etc.

[ExAm]

F-15s intercepting a pair of MiG-29s...
http://chamorrobible.org/images/photos/gpw-200701a-UnitedStatesAirForce-DFST9005759-vigilance-USAF-F-15-fighter-jets-intercept-two-USSR-MiG-29-aircraft-large.jpg

[Heathen]

Awesome...

[Rob Oplawar]

you wanna see a big explosion?!
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/0806/etacar2_hst_big.jpg
now THAT's a fucking big explosion!

[LlamaMaster]

It looks like testicles infected with cancer.

[Corndogman]

Exactly what i was thinking.

[DrunkenSamus]

The penis looks a lot smaller then the testicles.

[Heathen]

My fist thought was goatse...

[Boba]

F-15s intercepting a pair of MiG-29s...

Sorry, I had to;
http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/3/gpw200701aunitedstatesauf2.jpg

[ExAm]

lol wut?

[Chainsy]

It was a pun, heat seeking missles?

[ExAm]

Those are the F-15s...

[Chainsy]

I know, not my pun.

[Rob Oplawar]

It looks like testicles infected with cancer.


Exactly what i was thinking.


The penis looks a lot smaller then the testicles.


My fist thought was goatse...

it was a rorschach test, and it looks like you guys are all gay.

[Corndogman]

dang.....

You guys wanna meat up and have an orgy later? Pun intended

[Rob Oplawar]

I'm in. pun definitely intended.

[LlamaMaster]

Lets have anal sex. Damn, i did it wrong

[Gwunty]

Why was I not invited? I hosted it lastime.

[ICEE]

it was a rorschach test, and it looks like you guys are all gay.

Oh god. I thought it was a petrified tree...

[Zeph]

On topic or you're banned. :( I haven't banned someone in a while and am needing to.

[Bodzilla]

On topic or you're banned. :( I haven't banned someone in a while and am needing to.
sup

http://images.roosterteeth.com/gus4750a6609c1c9.jpg
i mean what is the odds of getting such a great picture.

[ExAm]

sup

http://images.roosterteeth.com/gus4750a6609c1c9.jpg
i mean what is the odds of getting such a great picture.I can imagine what that guy's thinking - "WHTHBTHF THIS AIN'T NO GATORADE!!"

[Zeph]

His bicep makes mine look like a beer gut.

http://www.geekologie.com/2007/12/11/awesome-at-at.jpg
http://www.geekologie.com/2007/12/12/tall-tennis-court.jpg

[Pyong Kawaguchi]

Dont fall off!

[Heathen]

Damn, I was late to yet another orgy...



sup

http://images.roosterteeth.com/gus4750a6609c1c9.jpg
i mean what is the odds of getting such a great picture.

Lawl, he probably looked around to see if anyone saw that.
A word to the wise, dont go pouring any cup you find onto your face....you may find some things you dont want...

[Arteen]

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0610/heart_russell_big.jpg
:lessthanthree:

[Hotrod]

awesome pics

That AT-AT is really well made, and must have taken a long time to make, and a lot of patience as well.
As for the tennis court, chances are that the ball would go off the edge quite often.

[rossmum]

Wouldn't want to be under it when it does :gonk:

[Rob Oplawar]

That gives me vertigo just looking at it

[Agnaiel]

Subliminal message?
http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q185/Graham136/lessthan.png
I'm honestly wondering if I'm the only person who noticed this...

[Arteen]

Subliminal message?
<snip>
I'm honestly wondering if I'm the only person who noticed this...
All I see is an emission nebula, an open cluster of stars, and a whole lot of brightly-glowing hydrogen.

[ExAm]

No. You're not. It's a penis.

EDIT: Emission nebula, Arteen. Emission nebula. THINK OF WHAT YOU ARE SAYING.

[ICEE]

so its a nebula shaped like a heart with a penis. Its still beautiful.

[Xetsuei]

Image is not loading.

[Arteen]

No. You're not. It's a penis.

EDIT: Emission nebula, Arteen. Emission nebula. THINK OF WHAT YOU ARE SAYING.
You just took a beautiful picture and turned it into a penis! I'll never look at it the same way again. I hate you all!

*runs away sobbing*

And I always thought it was an emission nebula because the gas was ionized... :(

[ExAm]

Xetsuei™;267025']Image is not loading.post deleted.

[Heathen]

Wrong, Photobucket was deadzo...

[ExAm]

wasn't a photobucket image, though.

[itszutak]

I saw it fine, after quoting your post and putting in the URL directly. It was one of those yellowstone water pool things teeming with colorful bacteria.

This one, I think:

http://www.rightblueeye.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/YellowstoneMorningGlory.jpg

I take up the dare, and recieve +5 points of damage.

[ExAm]

Yup, that's the one.

[Bodzilla]

holly shit thats awesome.

[Reaper Man]

Woah shit, awesome. Mineral deposits amirite?
Also, imagine that image with two hands grasping the edges at either side. :downs:

[Rob Oplawar]

I've been there.
I've also been here:
http://www.trekamerica.com/images/big_H1778C276.jpg
The whole area reminds me of a20.

[Pooky]

Of course what you meant to say is a30 reminds you of that area. Right?

[Rob Oplawar]

actually, I meant a10. Lots of identical grey corridors and such.

also, fuck you, firefox, i don't care if I'm american; it's spelled grey, not gray!

[Arteen]

also, fuck you, firefox, i don't care if I'm american; it's spelled grey, not gray!
Why not spell it "græy" instead? :p

[ExAm]

This shit is ON MARS.

http://cache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/mars_06_20/mars_a2.gif
http://cache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/mars_06_20/mars_a1.gif
http://cache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/mars_06_20/mars8.jpg
http://cache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/mars_06_20/mars12.jpg

Earth and moon from Mars
http://cache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/mars_06_20/mars17.jpg
:o

[Bodzilla]

Woah shit, awesome. Mineral deposits amirite?
Also, imagine that image with two hands grasping the edges at either side. :downs:
what you.......


you fucking murderer :gonk:

[Pooky]

Why not spell it "græy" instead? :p

Because that would be pronounced 'greey'? :confused2:

[Con]

http://cache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/mars_06_20/mars17.jpg
:o
orly? I didn't know the lander had one of those telescopes

[ExAm]

You don't need anything particularly powerful to see Earth like that from Mars.

[Heathen]

He's right...stellularly, Earth is pretty damn bright too.

[Rob Oplawar]

orly? I didn't know the lander had one of those telescopes


You don't need anything particularly powerful to see Earth like that from Mars.

That picture was taken with MRO's HiRISE.

[ExAm]

Bump

http://i38.tinypic.com/34fl9j9.jpg

[Dr Pepper]

nice pic, you take it?

[SnaFuBAR]

http://www.aeronautics.ru/img/img006/coalition_hardware_losses_iraq/web_gal/hardware/challenger%20in%20iraq.jpg

oh dear, new desktop

[ExAm]

^A CHALLENGER APPEARS :v:


nice pic, you take it?No. This isn't a post your photography thread, it's a post the best pictures you've seen thread.

http://wvs.topleftpixel.com/photos/2008/07/bike_pov_don-valley_track_payam_01.jpg

[Sever]

Snaf, you just get hard-ons for big guns.

ExAm, you just find the best pictures. That one honestly messes with my equilibrium. I feel like I'm really there. Trippy.

[ExAm]

Thank you. I browse Reddit :downs:

[SnaFuBAR]

Snaf, you just get hard-ons for big guns.
To be honest, it's an amazing picture in both composition and content, and absolutely amazing as photographic journalism. Wonderful depth-of field and so forth, but I wouldn't expect you to know all of that :)

[Sever]

Of course I understand. It's a freakin' amazing picture. I love the amount of detail in it as well as what can be discerned from it about that exact moment. I find it interesting how the downed power lines and the cannon draw your eyes towards the explosion, even though the tank is the obvious the focal point of the picture... and so forth. K?

[Bodzilla]

This shit is ON MARS.



http://cache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/mars_06_20/mars8.jpg
http://cache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/mars_06_20/mars12.jpg

those 2 1600x1200 please :)

[Reaper Man]

^A CHALLENGER APPEARS :v:

No. This isn't a post your photography thread, it's a post the best pictures you've seen thread.

http://wvs.topleftpixel.com/photos/2008/07/bike_pov_don-valley_track_payam_01.jpg
Lulz, I've taken shitloads of shots like that. Riding no handed with a massive SLR ftw. :awesome:

[ExAm]

those 2 1600x1200 please :)Tried. Maybe look on the NASA site for 'em?

[FluffyDucky™]

Lmfao, I wanna move to Mars. Who's coming with me? :)

[Beckinsale]

Lmfao, I wanna move to Mars. Who's coming with me? :)


Me me meee...would be fun to drive a warthog type vehicle on mars. ;)

[Rob Oplawar]

Me me me!
The moon is great and all, but there isn't much to do here. I've been meaning to move for a while.

[teh lag]

I don't care that this is a drawing. It belongs here.

http://fc04.deviantart.com/fs28/i/2008/066/b/f/Elite_by_Chase_SC2.jpg

[nooBBooze]

Lol pink.

[ExAm]

Me me meee...would be fun to drive a warthog type vehicle on mars. ;)And the physics would be just like Halo 1! :awesome:

[Bastinka]

I've always hated the physics on all the halo's. The weight of MC and a turret with that much ammo added 2 marines can flip as easily as a well oiled stripper, really stumbles my brainzzzz.

[Rob Oplawar]

yeah, totally ot, but I always wished you could kill grunts the way you kill enemies in Super Mario Bros. Half ton MC jumps down from the balcony on top of a grunt, squish!

[Beckinsale]

Just my iPod touch background/screensaver.

http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/1342/movieswallepixardisneyhf5.jpg

:awesome:

[ODX]

That was a good movie, just saw it about 2 days ago.

[ExAm]

http://hof.povray.org/images/800x600/accident_bleu_1200x1600.jpg

[Con]

I thought that was real for a second, good render.

[ExAm]

Notice the blue truck on the bottom leftish has no shadow :P

[Heathen]

Nah, its prolly just out of frame.

[Rob Oplawar]

*double-take* Hey, that is a render. Wow, well done! I thought that was just a little bit surreal the way the plants came up out. I was figuring it was deliberate.

[Chainsy]

The way I saw is up in the corner look at the pillars...

[Llama Juice]

I thought it was real at first.. then I started to think about how that could happen... and... for a tree to grow like that... that'd have to be broken like that for a LONG time...

[Disaster]

I have to agree. That is a very good render.

[Heathen]

Theirs only about 5 different cars so I figured.

[TeeKup]

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y162/cityz/Urban/ShanghaiWorldFinancialCenter5medium.jpg

[Disaster]

wait... what.... Is that real or a render? :conspiracy:

[Heathen]

Where the hell has that have been hiding from me?

Looks unreal!

It was just completed...thats why.

[TeeKup]

That is the Shanghai World Financial Center.

The single most powerful weapon ever detonated by mankind. The Tsar Bomba.
http://cfs5.tistory.com/upload_control/download.blog?fhandle=YmxvZzkzMTUzQGZzNS50aXN0b3J5 LmNvbTovYXR0YWNoLzAvNy5qcGc=

A 50 Megaton Hydrogen bomb. It was detonated on the Novaya Zemlya Archipelago in the arctic ocean. It could be seen and felt as far away as Finland, over 1,000 kilometers away, even breaking windows.

[Disaster]

Whoa, That's huge. I so go to go visit that place.

[TeeKup]

If you even got near the islands you'd die in seconds from the residual nuclear fallout.

[Heathen]

Sounds like a great vacation spot.

[Disaster]

hahaha lol
Anyways this is to be the worlds tallest building when completed in Dubai. Its amazingly tall surpassing 2000 feet tall.
http://dvice.com/pics/burj_dubai.jpg

Edit: I was talking about shanghai, not the bomb site =\

[Bastinka]

Ugly low-res photo/drawing.
Not such an interesting building.. eh.

[Disaster]

http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/shared/images/news/image691.jpg

[Bastinka]

That still looks somewhat fake, but over 2k feet is pretty impressive. Does it still stand today?

[Disaster]

It's still in construction.

[ExAm]

http://www.digitalpicturezone.com//images/high-speed-photography/3.jpg
And the bullet hasn't quite penetrated the last balloon :O

[Heathen]

Wow.


http://innergoat.modacity.net/NN/GURRENLAGANN_EPIC_modded.jpg




E: also, you guys might not agree with me, but I think this meets the criteria of awesome:

http://innergoat.modacity.net/stuff/dr/no%20u/portal.jpg

[ExAm]

Volcano erupting on Jupiter's moon, Io
http://cache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/jup_07_25/jup8.gif

Color image:
http://cache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/jup_07_25/jup9.jpg

[Bodzilla]

is that IO ?

isn't that the moon thats really close to jupiter, and it gets squeezed by it's gravity every time it goes around?

[ExAm]

Yeah, it's Io.

[Bodzilla]

<3 io

i mean seriously, a planet that changes it's look every time it orbits.

it's like a never ending surprise! <3

[Heathen]

<3 io

i mean seriously, a Moon that changes it's look every time it orbits.

it's like a never ending surprise! <3

:eng101:

Its the most volcanically active body in the solar system. Not to be confused with Mars, which houses the Largest volcano in our solar system, Olimpus Mons.

I always liked Jupiters moons. Theirs Callisto, which is all scarred and cool looking, Io, which is all fiery and explodie, and Europa, the icy waterworld.

[Bodzilla]

i know it's a moon, i said that 2 posts above you :|

but there are some pretty cool things in our solar system, i used to be a bit of a space nut back in the day. i love it.

[InnerGoat]

If you even got near the islands you'd die in seconds from the residual nuclear fallout.You can see it in google earth


Ugly low-res photo/drawing.
Not such an interesting building.. eh.

http://innergoat.modacity.net/net/dubai-sunset.jpg
http://innergoat.modacity.net/net/dubai-topdown.jpg
http://innergoat.modacity.net/net/burj%20dubai%20july.jpg

[LlamaMaster]

Looks pretty awesome to me. It's so thin though that it looks like a slight breeze would snap it in two. o_0

[Beckinsale]

Damn, the first and the last pics...:awesome:

[InnerGoat]

http://innergoat.modacity.net/net/harddisk.jpg

lol 10mb

[Rob Oplawar]

reminds me of the citadel...

[Terin]

You can see it in google earth



http://innergoat.modacity.net/net/dubai-sunset.jpg
http://innergoat.modacity.net/net/dubai-topdown.jpg
http://innergoat.modacity.net/net/burj%20dubai%20july.jpg

ATTENTION CITIZENS. MISCOUNT DETECTED IN YOUR BLOCK. RESPOND. ISOLATE. CONTAIN.

The combines have found us.

[Corndogman]

Dubai has way too much money now, with all that oil and shit. Those goddamn terrorists knock down our tallest buildings, then build one for themselves even bigger, wth.

ooohhhh, to soon?

[Beckinsale]

Because obviously if you're in the middle east your obviously a terrorist huh...:confused2:

E: They already have plans of breaking their own record... Man if i saw this with my own eyes. (the last one)...:worship:
http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/489/alburjbn2.jpg

[Bodzilla]

the new one looks incredibly ugly

[LlamaMaster]

Yah, just because it's tall doesn't make it good.

[Corndogman]

That city is gonna look like a scene from star wars in about 15 years.

[Beckinsale]

Well, after doing some research i found this...


"The Two Mile High Ultima Tower."
http://www.tdrinc.com/ultima.html

http://img508.imageshack.us/img508/1001/towers04a1cj4.jpg



Like really...2 miles high...:confused2: HOW?...

[LlamaMaster]

Bullshit. Thats not happening anytime soon.

[ExAm]

Like really...2 miles high...:confused2: HOW?...Slowly.

EDIT: Hang on, is that... Mount Everest!?

[Pooky]

So why do they want an extremely phallic 2 mile high pointless tower?

[ExAm]

Uh, that looks nothing like a penis. Stop being a Freud poster boy >_>

[nooBBooze]

Sure but i see where he's coming from [=/=pun]. This is nothing but a sublimation of the classic penis-comparison.
btw requesting metric system plox

[n00b1n8R]

Read the site, sounds like science fiction to me.

At any rate, the reason it would be built is because it can effectively contain a whole city, with very little affect on the surrounding environment.

[Reaper Man]

lolwut
"Cost: $150,000,000,000.00"
" Elevator speed: 20 feet per second (13 miles per hour) 9 minutes and 40 seconds to reach the top floor from the ground floor."

E: Found another one
http://www.inhabitat.com/wp-content/uploads/xseed40003.jpg

http://www.inhabitat.com/2007/08/20/self-contained-tokyo-highrise-eco-city-x-seed-4000/

[Beckinsale]

^ THE ARK :eek: lol :\

"The Cloud"...Dubai sure works wonders...


http://img147.imageshack.us/img147/9509/0dayview1yg8.jpg

http://www.gadling.com/2007/06/18/the-cloud-a-dubai-resort-in-the-sky/

[Pooky]

Sure but i see where he's coming from [=/=pun]. This is nothing but a sublimation of the classic penis-comparison.
btw requesting metric system plox

^ This.

It just seems like a pointless 'mine is bigger than yours' contest.

[TeeKup]

So they want to try the Tower concept from Eureka Seven?

[ExAm]

Photos from after the ice rain in China (http://damncoolpics.blogspot.com/2008/03/after-ice-rain-in-south-china.html)

[n00b1n8R]

http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i278/Gareth_tyranids/Tyranids/SA400009-1.jpg
http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i278/Gareth_tyranids/Tyranids/SA400001-7.jpg

[Bodzilla]

n00b just shut up and fap to it.

ya bloody posting Warhammer shit everywhere >_<

[n00b1n8R]

Oh fuck you, their usually relevant to the topic.

[thehoodedsmack]

Those Tyranid modifications? They look like the shiznit. Awesome stuff.

[StankBacon]

ive always thought this pic was cool.

http://i37.tinypic.com/2dwc479.jpg

[Pooky]

Photos from after the ice rain in China (http://damncoolpics.blogspot.com/2008/03/after-ice-rain-in-south-china.html)

I actually got something just like that at my old house... the ice froze over these three trees in my front yard and made a perfect ice dome (complete with entrance). It was way awesome.

[Bastinka]

Bacon, what's that pic of?

[Disaster]

ive always thought this pic was cool.

http://i37.tinypic.com/2dwc479.jpg
Aliens? Lazers?

[StankBacon]

the picture is called peacekeeper missile testing

yah... pic is from here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LG-118A_Peacekeeper

[Disaster]

o i c

[NuggetWarmer]

the picture is called peacekeeper missile testing

yah... pic is from here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LG-118A_Peacekeeper

Those two words should never be used in the same sentence, much less a name.

[Disaster]

Those two words should never be used in the same sentence, much less a name.
Oxymoron

[ExAm]

ive always thought this pic was cool.

http://i37.tinypic.com/2dwc479.jpg
Shiiiiiiiiit >_>

Wow, you know, that's just freaky. Imagine that, but with a nuclear explosion after each of those lines.

[Beckinsale]

^ With John Connor narrating :O

[Disaster]

^ lol'd

[Pooky]

Those two words should never be used in the same sentence, much less a name.

They're endorsed by the Ministry of Love

[Heathen]

With the aliased MS paint look of those lines it makes me wanna doubt that.

E: Testing at the Kwajalein Atoll (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwajalein_Atoll) of the Peacekeeper re-entry vehicles, all eight fired from only one missile. With live warheads, each line would represent the explosive power of twenty Hiroshima (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroshima)-sized (Little Boy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Boy)) weapons.

[TeeKup]

http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i278/Gareth_tyranids/Tyranids/SA400009-1.jpg
http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i278/Gareth_tyranids/Tyranids/SA400001-7.jpg

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF FUCKING EPIC.

[Heathen]

EPICER


https://suigintou.desudesudesu.org/4scrape/img/102320.jpg

[Disaster]

^ Epic that deserves +rep

[Ifafudafi]

http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/7271/1217476851954ub1.jpg

[Pope]

http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/7271/1217476851954ub1.jpg

That image has been burned into my skull forever. I just forgot about it till I clicked in this thread.

[Hotrod]

ive always thought this pic was cool.

http://i37.tinypic.com/2dwc479.jpg
+rep for giving me my new Desktop backround:)

[Con]

What are those beams?

[Disaster]

What are those beams?
Missiles without the warhead.

[ExAm]

Missiles without the warhead.Long-ish exposure of the re-entry plumes of dummy MIRV warheads

[Heathen]

Look fake. MS Paintish.

[ExAm]

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0808/TSE2008_luethen.jpg

[Rob Oplawar]

Wow, now that's cool.

[Boba]

Stolen from the Facepunch thread:


http://img511.imageshack.us/img511/8639/concept04bel2.jpg
http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/1516/albumpicah3.jpg
http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/1236/newreno1920il8.jpg
http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/7651/concept05bpz6.jpg
http://img520.imageshack.us/img520/672/falloutwp31600x1200ec5.jpg
http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/9601/stockholmincidentbylevebs5.jpg
http://img396.imageshack.us/img396/1299/environmentpostapocalypfw7.jpg
http://img410.imageshack.us/img410/8219/151571149728940largeeo1.jpg
http://img79.imageshack.us/img79/449/mydaikaijubyyty2000nu6.jpg
http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/6603/aliensvshalobyrahllzc9.jpg
http://img55.imageshack.us/img55/2370/avh2mt9.jpg
http://xs127.xs.to/xs127/08223/apocart1645.jpg
http://img292.imageshack.us/img292/4485/catatonicatrocitybyalexut2.jpg
http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/5671/xenobiologybyabiogenisikw2.jpg
http://img129.imageshack.us/img129/8894/1207079215843lk7.jpg
http://img182.imageshack.us/img182/3039/apocalypsepleasebyomen2aw3.jpg
http://img86.imageshack.us/img86/2217/imperialwalkerbyradojavup5.jpg
http://img299.imageshack.us/img299/6793/helicointhedesertbyviagze1.jpg
http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/2495/icestormbyradojavoroa7.jpg
http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/7337/baghdadbyradojavoruu9.jpg
http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/7408/deathdealerbyphilipstraly7.jpg
http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/7534/takedownbyomen2501mq1ja3.jpg
http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/914/bigthingmu8.jpg
http://img186.imageshack.us/img186/7534/10finalfrontierfv4.jpg

[ExAm]

Boba wins the thread.

[Pooky]

I agree.

[Pope]

IS DAT SOME MAD MAX? LOL!
I can't wait for Fallout3

[Con]

cool pics bober

[Sel]

Sky outside my house about 30 minutes ago.

I could have sworn it was a fucking painting.

http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l42/selentic/P8080001.jpg

Stupid shot tags ruining the image a bit :(

[Bodzilla]

Red whit e and blue :awesome:

[TeeKup]

Can someone identify the game or movie or w.e. the pics are from besides the Halo ones.

[Bodzilla]

Fallout 3 :S?

[TeeKup]

Oh, thats cool. I wish I had an aircraft carrier as a makeshift shelter. D:

[Mass]

Couldn't help but notice graffiti in styles that began appearing in 1980s' New York being drawn into a society that experienced the apocalypse sometime between 1945 and 1965.

Somehow I wouldn't suspect parallel social development.

Still fucking awesome.

[Beckinsale]

The 6th picture in Boba's set. Is that Cloverfield? :eek:

[ExAm]

Uh, no.

[Pooky]

I swear Games Workshop has the best damned art department


http://img503.imageshack.us/img503/6124/fullviewemperorhorushu7.jpg
http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/2985/custodesterminatorsom5.jpg
http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/6660/pic1bigof0.jpg
http://img386.imageshack.us/img386/7079/drivemecloserec1.jpg
http://img386.imageshack.us/img386/4131/warhammerjm5.jpg
http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/9310/csmoutercovertt4.jpg
http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/8210/marines2gv2.jpg
http://img180.imageshack.us/img180/7669/titanspacemarinesck1.jpg
http://img355.imageshack.us/img355/3810/40k2yn4.jpg

[TeeKup]

FFFFF Titan. :D

[ExAm]

http://englishrussia.com/images/minute_before_storm/2.jpg

[mech]

http://www.crymod.com/uploads/mediapool/080617r/image1.jpg

http://www.crymod.com/uploads/mediapool/080617r/image2.jpg
http://www.crymod.com/uploads/mediapool/080617r/image3.jpg
http://www.crymod.com/uploads/mediapool/RF/2cnzjhl.jpg
http://www.crymod.com/uploads/mediapool/RF/2h33erl.jpg
http://www.crymod.com/uploads/mediapool/RF/5chann.jpg
http://www.crymod.com/uploads/mediapool/RF/11ipj6v.jpg
http://www.crymod.com/uploads/mediapool/RF/fmi3vk.jpg
http://img1.hugeup.com/f/06222008/47f23001d07.jpg
http://img1.hugeup.com/f/09102008/8f642f.jpg

[Rob Oplawar]

holy shit.

they said we were at least 15 years away from photorealism in videogames, but goddamn, it looks like we're nearly there.
I guess we still have the uncanny valley to get through, but I mean goddamn it if you tripled the polygon count in that first image and fixed up the water surface and fixed the UV stretching/seams on the rocks and added more depth to the textures via parallax and fixed a couple of other minor rendering errors, that scene could pass for a photo barring close inspection.

Ok, so we're not there yet, but still.
Goddamn that's impressive. I want to work in this field. Imagine Halo done with Havoc's physics and Crytec's rendering- it almost makes me want to drop everything and do a total conversion mod for Halo 1. But I won't.

[CN3089]

Look fake. MS Paintish.

It's not. (http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=ChhYOO1s-nY) :ssh:

[ExAm]

oh shi-

[ultama121]

Oh my god Crysis... wow. That is beautiful.


I want to work in this field. Imagine Halo done with Havoc's physics and Crytec's rendering- it almost makes me want to drop everything and do a total conversion mod for Halo 1. But I won't.
Now that would be truely amazing.

[rossmum]

Holy fucking shit.

I'd love to see Halo with its graphics upgraded to that level... it'd be mind-blowing. It was impressive enough in terms of art to begin with.

[Corgy]

omg please post more "Blue Marble"-like pictures

[mech]

Some more

http://i33.tinypic.com/33ax64z.jpg

http://download.vam-online.com/test/02/template-only.jpg
http://download.vam-online.com/test/02/plants-stones.jpg
http://download.vam-online.com/test/02/stones-only.jpg

[FluffyDucky™]

Omg mech. Are these from your team that makes shiz for Crysis?

[Rob Oplawar]

This thread needs a bump, for this:
http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/284335main_image_1202_946-710.jpg
/amazing.
source: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1202.html

[mech]

That's cool.

[Hotrod]

Very nice, no, that's an understatement...

[Bodzilla]

http://www.ojodigital.com/foro/attachments/fotos-con-historia/13049d1196241197-foto-para-comentar-n-19-28-11-07-steve-mccurry-afghan-girl-0015slz1.jpg

/thread.

[Rob Oplawar]

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/10/enceladus_up_close.html
ohhhhh my god.
ohhhhh my fucking god. No way. Oh goddamn, that is so fucking cool. Now words- should have sent a poet.

Ahem, but seriously, it's so freaking amazing that we can do that. That's just incredible.
Holy shit, do you guys ever stop to realize that we live in the fucking 21st century, that this may be one of the most exciting periods in human history, past and future?

[Jean-Luc]

Wow, I want one of those for Christmas o_o

[ExAm]

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/10/enceladus_up_close.html
ohhhhh my god.
ohhhhh my fucking god. No way. Oh goddamn, that is so fucking cool. Now words- should have sent a poet.

Ahem, but seriously, it's so freaking amazing that we can do that. That's just incredible.
Holy shit, do you guys ever stop to realize that we live in the fucking 21st century, that this may be one of the most exciting periods in human history, past and future?ohmyfuckinggodthatissofuckingcool :awesome: :awesome: :awesome:

[Timo]

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0810/ngc602_hst_large.jpg
I ******* love space.

[ICEE]

Hello desktop background

[Rob Oplawar]

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1068/1044195072_5bed9e2808_b.jpg
Oh snap

[ExAm]

Oh snapMore like "Oh, CRAKOOM"

[StankBacon]

image here
Oh snap


that is very cool.

[Chainsy]

You're telling me someone happened to be looking at a building and in the 1 second its actually there they had time to snap a picture of it without being blinded? Lightning heats the air around it to the temperature of the friggin sun, you're not going to be getting that close of picture and see just that.

[rossmum]

I'm quite sure that you don't go blind from simply looking at a lightning bolt about 200m away, at most you'd have the bolt burned into your vision for a few moments but there's no way it'd blind you...

[Syuusuke]

They could have been taking a video or taking shots within an interval of that time and yadee-yadaa boom.

Besides it could have been zoomed in (doesn't really look like it).

[klange]

You're telling me someone happened to be looking at a building and in the 1 second its actually there they had time to snap a picture of it without being blinded? Lightning heats the air around it to the temperature of the friggin sun, you're not going to be getting that close of picture and see just that.
... I'm not even going to go into much detail on how wrong you are, despite the facts you presented, but I will say this: The picture is not only entirely possible, I've seen countless photos of lightning hitting buildings.

Awesome pic anyway.

[Rob Oplawar]

http://science.nationalgeographic.com/staticfiles/NGS/Shared/StaticFiles/Science/Images/Content/tucson-lightning-a0e722-sw.jpg
I should just install a direct digg script, to immediately repost everything on digg here as soon as it comes up. that'd save me the 5 seconds it takes me to copy and paste. lol.

[n00b1n8R]

http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l183/n00b1n8R/lonemedic.png
Phobias wanted it.

[Phobias]

Phobias now has it.

Commence sexual favours.

[Bodzilla]

Awesome.

higher rez?

[n00b1n8R]

I've seen it on /b/ and /v/ a few times and this is the highest res I've found. :smith:

[Reaper Man]

You're telling me someone happened to be looking at a building and in the 1 second its actually there they had time to snap a picture of it without being blinded? Lightning heats the air around it to the temperature of the friggin sun, you're not going to be getting that close of picture and see just that.
Well, that shot was probably lucky, but if you are serious about taking lightning photos - lightning trigger http://www.lightningtrigger.com/

Also, what ross said.


[epic pic]
I should just install a direct digg script, to immediately repost everything on digg here as soon as it comes up. that'd save me the 5 seconds it takes me to copy and paste. lol.
found photo in higher res :awesome:
http://science.nationalgeographic.com/staticfiles/NGS/Shared/StaticFiles/Science/Images/Content/tucson-lightning-a0e722-xl.jpg

[Heathen]

You're telling me someone happened to be looking at a building and in the 1 second its actually there they had time to snap a picture of it without being blinded? Lightning heats the air around it to the temperature of the friggin sun, you're not going to be getting that close of picture and see just that.

I watched lightening strike a man and his son on the beach and kill them both. I was about 4 cars distance away. We could smell the flesh. I wasn't blinded or toasted. Did hurt my ears though.

[Pooky]

I've seen it on /b/ and /v/ a few times and this is the highest res I've found. :smith:

Man that would be my desktop if it was a bit bigger D:

[Con]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2e/Uss_iowa_bb-61_pr.jpg

This is pretty cool, too bad it's out of focus.

edit:

Here it is from another angle:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ea/BB61_USS_Iowa_BB61_broadside_USN.jpg

[FluffyDucky™]

Holy shit, that is awesome!

[mech]

My cousin told me that it's dangerous when you fire all the cannons like that because you can topside the boat.

[Rob Oplawar]

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3001/3026603168_a57722cf33_o.jpg (http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/11/13/huge-exoplanet-news-items-pictures/)

[mech]

I don't get it, care to explain?

[Rentafence]

HOLY FUCKING SHIT ITS A PLANET

[Hotrod]

Right on there, it's a picture taken of a planet about 25 light years from here, according to what I've read. Yes, I've seen that before, just about half an hour ago actually.

[Xetsuei]

http://img242.imageshack.us/img242/7504/masteratigtsee4.png

DAAAAAAMN

[Heathen]

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3001/3026603168_a57722cf33_o.jpg (http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/11/13/huge-exoplanet-news-items-pictures/)

And the Enterprise.

[Rob Oplawar]

http://img242.imageshack.us/img242/7504/masteratigtsee4.png

DAAAAAAMN

Quoted because that is a very finely styled car. I like it.


Possibly the most amazing photo of the Saturn V:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ac/Apollo_11_launch.jpg

edit: Holy shit, [shot]ed. That is a bigger picture than I thought.

[Xetsuei]

Holyshithugeimage. Shot tags please?

Awesome image regardless, I always liked the shock wave you can see sometimes when things break the sound barrier.

[n00b1n8R]

http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l183/n00b1n8R/nunchuck64.jpg

My mind was fucking blown O_____O

[Reaper Man]

http://img412.imageshack.us/img412/7788/1228730591333em1.jpg

[Bodzilla]

http://imgsrc.hubblesite.org/hu/db/2005/37/images/a/formats/large_web.jpg

i need new pants.
Space just has be hooked.

http://imgsrc.hubblesite.org/hu/db/2008/31/images/a/formats/large_web.jpg
oh god i wish they got the rest of that :(

[Bodzilla]

also this
http://imgsrc.hubblesite.org/hu/db/1996/07/images/a/formats/print.jpg

Has to be one of my favorite images of all time.

just staggering.

[nooBBooze]

http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/index.html (http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/archive/topic/nebula//)
Don't know if it's already been posted but meh.

Anyways, looking at those impressive images again, i remember that I've always wondered if that's really the way we would see the respective objects if we had a well enough amateur telescope or if that's really just NASA showing us paintings. :tinfoil:

[Rob Oplawar]

Well, I do believe many of them are false color images, getting their color from spectra invisible to the naked eye, but if that's the case, that just makes it more amazing, because we're seeing stuff that's there but would normally be imperceptible.

I love space. I want to live there.
:3 this starship earth

[kid908]

space reminds me of a soul reaper. image how it would feel having most the molecules (mainly water) ripped from your body!

this blew my mind! but legs look a bit unstable to me =\ yes it's old but still awesome now as it was back then.
http://fc61.deviantart.com/fs36/f/2008/283/f/8/f8025af3819b6296944de9c8368e93cf.jpg

[Con]

wow, time on his hands much?