Cool Sciencey Pictures

[Jeffy]

The Sun

[WillieWatanabe]

[jtksu]

Peppercorn and a grain of salt.  Won some sort of award for best sciencey picture.

[SkinnyBenny]

Superstorm of 2010

That crap was crazy.

[WillieWatanabe]

Lightning strikes as Mount Merapi erupts, as seen from Ketep village in Magelang, Indonesia's Central Java province November 6, 2010.

A view from a domestic flight from Denpasar to Yogyakarta that was subsequently diverted to Surabaya airport shows a plume of gas and ash billowing some 10 km (six mi) high from Mount Merapi, during an eruption on November 4, 2010.

A farmer walks through his corn field covered in volcanic ash from Mount Merapi eruption in Muntilan, Central Java, Indonesia on Monday, Nov. 8, 2010.

I'm adding this one because it is Badass on so many levels.

[Stevesie60]

WillieWannabe, you bring me so much joy with all of your pictures.

[MeatSauce]

I'm adding this one because it is Badass on so many levels.

should be the cover for the Indonesia release of Dantes Peak, IMO

[dmartin]

I'm adding this one because it is Badass on so many levels.

should be the cover for the Indonesia release of Dantes Peak, IMO

or the next album cover from Indonesians With Attitude

[WillieWatanabe]

Moez El Asine of France (right) and Chan Wing Kin of Hong Kong compete in the final of wheelchair sabre team competition at the 2010 the World Fencing Championships on November 9, 2010.

[john "teach me how to" dougie]

Moez El Asine of France (right) and Chan Wing Kin of Hong Kong compete in the final of wheelchair sabre team competition at the 2010 the World Fencing Championships on November 9, 2010.

I think I would rather see them joust.

[Cire]

Moez El Asine of France (right) and Chan Wing Kin of Hong Kong compete in the final of wheelchair sabre team competition at the 2010 the World Fencing Championships on November 9, 2010.

LMAO!

[WillieWatanabe]

A general view shows the Saudi holy city of Mecca, as seen from the top of Noor mountain, late on November 13, 2010.

[WillieWatanabe]

Looks like EMAW is spreading. 

http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2010/11/storm-suspends-football-game.html

[Cire]

[asava]

rough ridin' awesome

[mcmwcat]

Human brain has more switches than all computers on Earth

[WillieWatanabe]

Beetle leg. Lateral view of the adhesive pad of the first leg of a beetle (Clytus sp.), captured using autofluorescence.

Weevil (possibly Curculio nucum or Curculio glandium). Image captured using episcopic illumination

http://www.batangastoday.com/olympus-bioscapes-digital-imaging-competition-2010-winners/6104/

[Poster formerly known as jthutch]

effing awesome

Your preganant?

[mcmwcat]

Heliotrace

[mcmwcat]

Treacher Collins Syndrome

[asava]

effing awesome

Your preganant?

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/11/101118-antimatter-trapped-engines-bombs-nature-science-cern/

[fatty fat fat]

quantum stuff intimidates me.  give me e = hv and i'll take it and run.

[asava]

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.

[pissclams]

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

[Benja]

quantum stuff intimidates me.  give me e = hv and i'll take it and run.

It should. It's all just an attempt to make the impossible, possible.