Cool Sciencey Pictures

[Benja]

Not really sciency but whatever.

[Benja]

10-foot wide giant spider crab

[Benja]

Frilled shark

[WillieWatanabe]

A supercell thunderstorm rolls across the Montana prairie at sunset.

The baboon in front was harassing one of the babies in the troop. This male facing the camera attacked him. The whole fight was over in a few seconds but it was loud and seemingly vicious. The rest of the troop was scrambling around trying to get out of their way. There is, needless to say, always a lot of drama going on in a baboon troop.

This looks HDR to me...

Ki Gompa. This picture was taken when I visited the Buddhist Monastery of Ki. Ki is a tiny village in the middle of the Himalayas, and next to it is Ki Gompa (Ki Monastery)

Haunting Glimpse. An encounter with an elusive Canada Lynx is said to be a rare privilege.

[WillieWatanabe]

Great Blue Heron with fish. The largest and most widespread heron in North America.

Heavy load. One morning in August, I was on my way to pick up the newspaper. Everything was moist and wet, and I spotted this little fly on a small white flower, just outside my bedroom window. Two hours after I shot this picture I went outside again, and the fly was still sitting on the same flower - still not able to fly.

Herring Gull with Guillemot Chick. Taken on the Farne Islands, Northumberland, UK, the herring gull circled around the guillemot colony three or four times before dropping in and picking up this chick with the guillemot colony watching.

Cloud and ship. Ukraine, Crimea, Black sea, view from Ai-Petri mountain.

Great website: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/11/national_geographics_photograp.html

[WillieWatanabe]

and just because it's awesome...

Suradita Village, West Java, Indonesia. Children playing with their roosters. Actually it was not a real cockfight because the roosters didn't wear blades on their feet. Children like to play this game because they almost never have toys in their life.

[Benja]

Blob Sculpin

[asava]

antimatter?  more like itdoesn'tmatter.  GMAFB with this techno euro trash bullcac.

hey don't look at me, i hate tiesto as much as the next guy.

[Cire]

[asava]

Killer wave brah.

[steve dave]

[WillieWatanabe]

Snapped it near Vezzolano, Italy, not far from Turin. As sunset was approaching, a beam of light beam suddenly appeared through a gap in the stratus cloud deck. This is simply a singular crepuscular ray, also called Ropes of Maui or just sunbeams.

[michigancat]

http://mytechnologyworld9.blogspot.com/2010/11/its-something-you-dont-see-everyday.html

[WillieWatanabe]

[WildcatNkilt]

10-foot wide giant spider crab

good eats?

[Dugout DickStone]

That lynx in the tree is what I picture Doc Spradler as.

[CHONGS]

the fact that this could have more of an impact on our world than anything ever in the history of the world is pretty incredible. especially considering how it has gone relatively unnoticed. the implications are huge. and vastly intimidating.

The ALPHA and ATRAP teams are/were doing some interesting stuff IMO.  I can't wait for them to be able to get enough anti-hydrogen in its ground state so they can do some high precision spectroscopy.  It will be an amazing test of CPT violation.

[WillieWatanabe]

http://www.extremeinstability.com/temp.htm

[asava]

a cool sciencey moving picture

[WillieWatanabe]

The crescent Moon eclipsed (occulted) Mars over North America. "I was perfectly placed to observe the event," says Doug Zubenel of De Soto, Kansas.

[Jeffy]

http://www.thelocal.de/sci-tech/20101207-31649.html

[EllToPay]

The robotic rover Opportunity has chanced across another small crater on Mars. Pictured above is Intrepid Crater, a 20-meter across impact basin slightly larger than Nereus Crater that Opportunity chanced across last year. The above image is in approximately true color but horizontally compressed to accommodate a wide angle panorama. Intrepid Crater was named after the lunar module Intrepid that carried Apollo 12 astronauts to Earth's Moon 41 years ago last month. Beyond Intrepid Crater and past long patches of rusty Martian desert lie peaks from the rim of large Endeavour Crater, visible on the horizon. If Opportunity can avoid ridged rocks and soft sand, it may reach Endeavour sometime next year.

[puniraptor]

[WillieWatanabe]

An airplane passes in front of a rainbow above the Mediterranean sea in Nice, southeastern France on Aug. 5, 2010.

Pilot Capt. Brian Bews parachutes to safety just as his CF-18 fighter jet plummets to the ground during a practice flight at the Lethbridge County Airport for the weekend airshow in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada on July 23, 2010.

[WillieWatanabe]

A soldier evacuating residents carries a flood victim to a helicopter in Sanawa, Pakistan's on August 5, 2010.

Smoke and flames rise seconds after a cargo plane crashed at the entrance to Denali National Park, in central Alaska, seen from nearby Mt. Healey on Sunday Aug. 1, 2010. The two people on the plance were killed in the crash.

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/12/2010_in_photos_part_2_of_3.html