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Re: Cool Sciencey Pictures
« Reply #625 on: November 28, 2012, 01:09:54 PM »
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Put out on Vimeo and YouTube, this seven minute video is a compilation of runs by five cheetahs over the course of three days — filmed at up to 1200 fps using that Phantom rig. What I can't get over is that the first 1:45 of the video is culled from under two seconds of real-world time.

http://www.popphoto.com/2012/11/heres-incredible-natgeo-cheetah-footage-weve-been-waiting
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Re: Cool Sciencey Pictures
« Reply #626 on: November 29, 2012, 09:21:39 AM »
these two photo galleries are incredible. wish i could link them all. I'll just do my favorites.

http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2012/09/national-geographic-photo-contest-2012/100373/
http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2012/11/national-geographic-photo-contest-2012-part-ii/100414/


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Baby seal: a baby elephant seal relaxes on a South Georgia beach


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A huge flock of Red-billed Queleas flies in to drink at the same time as an African Elephant in Tsavo National Park, Kenya.


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A Leopard attacks a forest department employee, after the man threw a stone toward the leopard in an abandoned construction site in Limbu Village in Siliguri in West Bengal, India.


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Two squirrels were playing in the warm afternoon in the Penitencia Creek County Park in San Jose, California.


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Fishermen use fire to draw fish close to the boat and then catch them.


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The Black Drongo selects a good perch near a water body, and takes off when an insect is sighted on the surface, skimming across the water and back to its perch.


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I took this picture while I was in an aerial cableway going down from the Mt. Pilatus in Central Switzerland. It was the end of a nice day spent hiking, including a stop by the beautiful little white chapel on Klimsenhorn on the way to the top.


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This is the third shot with a flash, waking all of the bats up and seeing them all stare at the camera.


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High up in thin air, somewhere between Ladakh and Zanskar Himalayan range, among arid mountains of rocks, granite and sediments, some human beings manage to grow life.


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The sheep drowned while trying to cross a small canal in the meadow-swamp "Tøndermasken", in southern Jylland in Denmark. Birds had eaten every part above the surface, and everything under was left totally untouched.


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During a lovely morning in July I was out photographing Great White Sharks in False Bay, South Africa. We had two days when the sea was so still you could barely see a ripple.


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This rocky mountain big horn sheep ram was bold enough to allow me to approach him and snap this shot before he lost interest in me and rejoined his herd
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Re: Cool Sciencey Pictures
« Reply #627 on: November 29, 2012, 09:48:42 AM »
wow

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Re: Cool Sciencey Pictures
« Reply #628 on: November 29, 2012, 12:55:30 PM »
WW is bitb at these thins.

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Re: Cool Sciencey Pictures
« Reply #629 on: November 29, 2012, 12:59:40 PM »
The bat one creeps me out just imagining it. 

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Re: Cool Sciencey Pictures
« Reply #630 on: November 29, 2012, 01:00:05 PM »
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A Leopard attacks a forest department employee, after the man threw a stone toward the leopard in an abandoned construction site in Limbu Village in Siliguri in West Bengal, India.


I want to know how this all played out. Assuming the leopard was shot and killed, but it looks like the guy is in the process of falling off some wall. How far?  Personally I am pulling for the leopard to make it out alive and flee unscathed into the jungle.

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« Reply #631 on: November 29, 2012, 01:01:58 PM »
I want to know how this all played out. Assuming the leopard was shot and killed, but it looks like the guy is in the process of falling off some wall. How far?  Personally I am pulling for the leopard to make it out alive and flee unscathed into the jungle.

Doesn't look like anyone in the photo is trying to deny the leopard that right. haha

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Re: Cool Sciencey Pictures
« Reply #632 on: November 29, 2012, 01:08:47 PM »
I want to know how this all played out. Assuming the leopard was shot and killed, but it looks like the guy is in the process of falling off some wall. How far?  Personally I am pulling for the leopard to make it out alive and flee unscathed into the jungle.

Doesn't look like anyone in the photo is trying to deny the leopard that right. haha

guy to the back left is all "shouldn't have thrown that rock, hayseed."

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Re: Cool Sciencey Pictures
« Reply #633 on: November 29, 2012, 01:14:30 PM »
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A Leopard attacks a forest department employee, after the man threw a stone toward the leopard in an abandoned construction site in Limbu Village in Siliguri in West Bengal, India.


I want to know how this all played out. Assuming the leopard was shot and killed, but it looks like the guy is in the process of falling off some wall. How far?  Personally I am pulling for the leopard to make it out alive and flee unscathed into the jungle.

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Re: Cool Sciencey Pictures
« Reply #634 on: November 29, 2012, 01:18:41 PM »
that leopard, man what a badass. 

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Re: Cool Sciencey Pictures
« Reply #635 on: November 29, 2012, 01:21:12 PM »
Leopards are pretty badass. 

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Re: Cool Sciencey Pictures
« Reply #636 on: November 29, 2012, 01:54:21 PM »


yessssssssssssssss. glad they didn't kill it.

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Re: Cool Sciencey Pictures
« Reply #637 on: November 29, 2012, 02:06:59 PM »
whoa.

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Put out on Vimeo and YouTube, this seven minute video is a compilation of runs by five cheetahs over the course of three days — filmed at up to 1200 fps using that Phantom rig. What I can't get over is that the first 1:45 of the video is culled from under two seconds of real-world time.

http://www.popphoto.com/2012/11/heres-incredible-natgeo-cheetah-footage-weve-been-waiting
holy crap.  I can't get over how focused and still their head is while every other part of their body is straining to run as fast as it can.  like this head :dubious: on this body :dance:
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Re: Cool Sciencey Pictures
« Reply #638 on: December 03, 2012, 07:41:04 PM »

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Re: Cool Sciencey Pictures
« Reply #639 on: December 06, 2012, 03:40:12 PM »

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Re: Cool Sciencey Pictures
« Reply #640 on: December 06, 2012, 03:55:17 PM »

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Re: Cool Sciencey Pictures
« Reply #642 on: December 07, 2012, 01:56:58 PM »
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/NPP/news/earth-at-night.html

I saw the image of the continental US yesterday....very cool.  There seems to be a West Virginia shaped hole of darkness in an otherwise brightly lit eastern half of the United States   :lol:

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Re: Cool Sciencey Pictures
« Reply #643 on: December 07, 2012, 02:05:51 PM »
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« Reply #644 on: December 07, 2012, 07:06:06 PM »
Check out North and South Korea  :sdeek:
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« Reply #645 on: December 07, 2012, 07:16:34 PM »
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/NPP/news/earth-at-night.html

my desktop background has been the global view of this for a very long time.
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« Reply #646 on: December 07, 2012, 11:48:17 PM »
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/NPP/news/earth-at-night.html

my desktop background has been the global view of this for a very long time.
how long you been working for NASA and why are you holding out on us with insidery cool sciencey pictures?
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Re: Cool Sciencey Pictures
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« Reply #648 on: December 09, 2012, 04:29:29 PM »
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/NPP/news/earth-at-night.html

my desktop background has been the global view of this for a very long time.
how long you been working for NASA and why are you holding out on us with insidery cool sciencey pictures?

the ones posted are just updated and higher res.
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Re: Cool Sciencey Pictures
« Reply #649 on: December 19, 2012, 04:43:16 PM »
I think this is pretty gnarley

https://s3.amazonaws.com/Gigapans/EBC_Pumori_050112_8bit_FLAT/EBC_Pumori_050112_8bit_FLAT.html

If you zoom in you can see base camps.
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