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Pics that don't make you laugh but are still cool

Mik2121

Member
Aguirre said:
Here's a few more

http://i.imgur.com/5XMVF.jpg[IMG]

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Jesus! That's so damn cool :O

But.. what is it? Some spots look so 3D-ish and I'm pretty sure it is, but other areas look so stupidly real, I'm not really sure anymore, lol.
But then again, that mask seems too SF-ish, so I guess it's from some movie or some professional 3D artist that made some awesome stuff. What's the name?
 

UrbanRats

Member
opusink said:
S1URD.jpg
Ah, Villa Demidoff.
It's crazy that it's like 15 minute away from my home, with the car, but i've been there just once as a kid.
Anyway, it's a nice place to spend the evening, no doubt.
Googled and found a few nice pictures of it, on this page:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/deliciousmalicious/page3/
 


In mid-August 2010 ESO Photo Ambassador Yuri Beletsky snapped this photo at ESO’s Paranal Observatory. A group of astronomers were observing the centre of the Milky Way using the laser guide star facility at Yepun, one of the four Unit Telescopes of the Very Large Telescope (VLT).
Yepun’s laser beam crosses the southern sky and creates an artificial star at an altitude of 90 km high in the Earth's mesosphere. The Laser Guide Star (LGS) is part of the VLT’s adaptive optics system and is used as a reference to correct the blurring effect of the atmosphere on images. The colour of the laser is precisely tuned to energise a layer of sodium atoms found in one of the upper layers of the atmosphere — one can recognise the familiar colour of sodium street lamps in the colour of the laser. This layer of sodium atoms is thought to be a leftover from meteorites entering the Earth’s atmosphere. When excited by the light from the laser, the atoms start glowing, forming a small bright spot that can be used as an artificial reference star for the adaptive optics. Using this technique, astronomers can obtain sharper observations. For example, when looking towards the centre of our Milky Way, researchers can better monitor the galactic core, where a central supermassive black hole, surrounded by closely orbiting stars, is swallowing gas and dust.

Taken with a wide angle lens, this photo covers about 180° of the sky.
Source.
 

santouras

Member
UrbanRats said:
Ah, Villa Demidoff.
It's crazy that it's like 15 minute away from my home, with the car, but i've been there just once as a kid.
Anyway, it's a nice place to spend the evening, no doubt.
Googled and found a few nice pictures of it, on this page:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/deliciousmalicious/page3/
thanks heaps for this, I'm going to be in florence in a few weeks and this has definitely gone on the list of things I want to see!
 

KevinCow

Banned
iidesuyo said:

I've always wanted to do something like this.

I'm not sure if I'm upset that someone beat me to it, or happy that someone did what I'll never actually have the time, energy, or resources to do.
 
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