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2024-04-15 13:30:32

Osprey
Credit: Robert, Photography Talk.
#osprey #nature #photography
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2024-04-15 13:27:27

Jimmy Carter shoos away the infamous rabbit as he goes fishing in his hometown in Georgia
https://www.onthisday.com/images/photos/jimmy-carter-rabbit.jpg
#history
Context:
Although Jimmy Carter was a one-term president, he is remembered for many things, like the Iran hostage crisis, the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island, the late-70s energy crisis - and being attacked by a "killer rabbit" on April 20, 1979.
As Carter was on a solo fishing expedition in his hometown of Plains, Georgia, when a rabbit that was being chased by hounds jumped into the water near him and swam aggressively towards his boat. The President shooed it off with a paddle and the rabbit swam away.
Such an innocuous event turned into political fodder for his enemies, who wanted to portray Carter's presidency as hapless and weak. Monty Python and the Holy Grail, released around the same time, features a scene with a rabbit killing people, and so the rabbit that swam toward Carter became known as the "killer rabbit."

2024-04-14 22:12:52

Galactic beacon by XLJ Photography
https://static.photocdn.pt/images/photos/111324/68812/a30a5859748080e3b2cee54f4e592736.webp
#milkyway #space #photography

2024-04-14 13:31:45

Shrek the sheep.
Context: Discovered in a cave in Otago, New Zealand, the merino sheep had successfully evaded muster for six years. During this time the newly named Shrek had gown an amazing 27kg worth of fleece. Shrek quickly became an international celebrity, he was shorn on New Zealand Television, visited parliament to meet the Prime Minister and was later even shorn again on an iceberg. Shrek died a venerable 16 years old in 2011.
#history
https://www.onthisday.com/images/photos/shrek-the-sheep.jpg

2024-04-14 13:29:40

Kyoto. By Robert Schrader
#japan #photography #kyoto
https://japanstartshere.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Japan-Cherry-Blossoms-8.jpg

2024-04-14 13:24:27

Horseshoe Bend with Rare Zodiacal Light by David Lane
What is the Zodiacal light? It is sunlight reflecting off dust grains that circle the sun in the inner solar system. These grains are thought to be left over from the process that created our Earth and the other planets of our solar system 4.5 billion years ago. These dust grains in space spread out from the sun in the same flat disc of space inhabited by Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars and the other planets in our sun’s family. This flat space around the sun – the plane of our solar system – translates on our sky to a narrow pathway called the ecliptic. This is the same path traveled by the sun and the moon as they journey across our sky.
#photography #grandcanyon #space
https://www.photographytalk.com/images/photos/109159/67252/d6529937bd94df5bb0da1e80.jpg

2024-04-14 13:20:49

Japan autumn colors by Robert Schrader
#photography #japan
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2024-04-14 13:17:09

Looking down into category 4 hurricane Florence
Credit: NASA
#space #hurricane
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2024-04-14 13:10:20

Last. By Siuloon
#photography
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2024-04-14 13:01:03

Double Rainbow by Brian Boudreau
#rainbow #photography
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2024-04-14 12:56:50

Paul Allen and Bill Gates were childhood friends from Seattle when they started Microsoft in 1975. Allen was working at Honeywell, Inc. and Gates was doing pre-law at Harvard University.
Their idea was to produce an interpreter for the microcomputer Altair 8800 using BASIC programming language. When Gates and Allen sold their interpreter to MITS who distributed it, Microsoft, then known as Micro-Soft, was born.
#microsoft #history
https://www.onthisday.com/images/photos/founding-of-microsoft.jpg

2024-04-13 09:30:50

Dresden after the Allied firebombing campaign in 1945
https://www.onthisday.com/images/photos/bombing-of-dresden.jpg
Context: Few Allied actions during World War II are as controversial or as debated as the firebombing of Dresden, which began on February 13, 1945, lasting two more days. During that time more than 1,200 Allied aircraft dropped almost 4,000 tons of high explosive and incendiary devices on the German city, killing between 22,000 and 25,000 civilians and utterly destroying the city.
Allied planners justified the bombing by claiming Dresden was an important rail transport and communications hub for the German war effort, though not all of these sites were targeted for bombing. Others claim Dresden was a cultural center with no real military significance and the bombing campaign was unnecessary given the impending invasion of Germany by Allied forces (the war would end only a few months later.)
Winston Churchill was ultimately responsible for ordering the bombardment though he too attempted to distance himself from it later on. He referred to the campaign in Dresden as an "act of terror" which drew the ire of Arthur Harris, the man in charge of the RAF Bomber Command, and a proponent of area bombing.
Debate continues today over the military significance of Dresden and whether the act constituted a war crime.
#history #dresden #WWII

2024-04-13 09:25:54

The Black Marble: Our Planet in Brilliant Darkness
This image is one of several global images of the Earth at night released in 2017.
Credit: NASA
#earth #nasa #space
https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/blackmarble_2016_americas_composite.png

2024-04-13 09:22:04

Harmony of Strawberries by Jose Manuel Sainz de Baranda
#photography #strawberries
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2024-04-13 09:11:01

Urban art by Jose Manuel Sainz de Baranda
#photography #urbanart
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2024-04-13 09:08:16

"inside the bubble"
By Jose Manuel Sainz de Baranda.
#photography #rain
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2024-04-13 09:04:19

A section of New Orleans, Louisiana is flooded after Hurricane Katrina in 2005
#hurricane #history #flood
Context: Perhaps the most infamous hurricane of all time, Katrina devastated large swathes of the US Gulf Coast, particularly Louisiana, where the 'Big Easy' New Orleans was inundated with floodwaters after the city's levees broke. More than 1,836 people died.
Exacerbating one of the worst natural disasters in American history was the much criticized government response, particularly by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). In the Superdome in New Orleans, supplies were limited, leading to a rapid deterioration in conditions and an evacuation which took five days. Deaths from violence, reports of looting, thirst and starvation in Louisiana in the days after Katrina provoked harsh criticism of people like George W. Bush, mayor Ray Nagin, FEMA head Michael Brown (who resigned partway through the crisis) and others. Kanye West infamously said "George Bush doesn't care about black people" during a live broadcast for charity.
The breach of the levees caused catastrophic flooding in New Orleans - as much as 80% of it was flooded for weeks. The estimated cost of Katrina was $125 billion, tying it with Hurricane Harvey in 2017 as the costliest natural disaster in American history.
https://www.onthisday.com/images/photos/hurricane-katrina.jpg

2024-04-12 13:21:51

Crowds line the Champs Elysees to view the Free French forces of General Leclerc's 2nd Armored Division pass through the Arc de Triomphe. August 26, 1944.
Photography by Jack Downey, Library of Congress.
#onthisday #WWII #France
https://www.onthisday.com/images/photos/liberation-of-paris.jpg

2024-04-12 13:11:55

Pompon Dahlias.
Credit: Ray in Manila.
#photography #flowers
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2024-04-12 13:09:42

Water droplets on azalea stamens after a wet night.
Credit: frcrossnacreevy
#photography #nature #flowers
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2024-04-12 12:37:59

Dandelion. By Cyberlens 40D.
#photography #nature
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2024-04-12 12:32:45

Studlagil Canyon, Iceland. By Andrea Moscato.
#photography
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2024-04-12 12:20:10

A new image of SNR 0519-69.0 shows the debris of a star that exploded several hundred years ago in Earth’s timeframe.
Image credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/GSFC/B. J. Williams et al.; Optical: NASA/ESA/STScI
#nasa #space #supernova
https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/snr0519.jpg

2024-04-12 12:16:49

Mushroom cloud over Nagasaki
Nagasaki was the second Japanese city to be bombed by the US in the dying days of World War II. Unlike "Little Boy" dropped on Hiroshima on the 6th August 1945, Nagasaki's bomb, christened "Fat Man", was plutonium based and dropped three days later on the 9th August.
Although this second bomb was more powerful than that dropped on Hiroshima, the hilly terrain of Nagasaki protected it to some extent and there was no firestorm. The effects were still catastrophic, with the exact death toll unknown but estimated at about 75,000.
Photo taken by Charles Levy on August 9, 1945
#history #japan #WWII
https://www.onthisday.com/images/photos/nuclear-bombing-nagasaki.jpg

2024-04-12 12:09:02

Rusted barrel trash can at pyramids of giza egypt
Credit: Monoram
#egypt #photography #pyramid
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2024-04-12 12:01:20

Thomas Edison with his second phonograph, photographed in 1878
#history #edison
The phonograph was Edison's first major invention and the one that earned him the moniker "the wizard of Menlo Park" as the invention was so unexpected by the public as to appear magical. His first invention recorded on tinfoil around a grooved cylinder, and although the recordings could only be played a few times due to low quality, Edison's reputation was cemented.
He demonstrated the device on November 29, 1877 (date disputed), having announced its invention days before. He would patent it later that February. Recalling a demonstration in December, an employee of Scientific American magazine wrote:
"In December, 1877, a young man came into the office of the SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, and placed before the editors a small, simple machine about which very few preliminary remarks were offered. The visitor without any ceremony whatever turned the crank, and to the astonishment of all present the machine said: "Good morning. How do you do? How do you like the phonograph?" The machine thus spoke for itself, and made known the fact that it was the phonograph..."
https://www.onthisday.com/images/photos/thomas-edisons-phonograph.jpg

2024-04-12 11:50:34

An abandoned piano dumped on the beach, apparently from a music video that was filmed there shortly before. Vestrahorn, Hofn, Iceland. Credit: melvin nicholson
#photography #iceland
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2024-04-12 11:47:34

'Calutron Girls' monitoring a mass spectrometer during the Manhattan Project. Gladys Owens, in the foreground, did not know what she was involved with until seeing this picture on a tour fifty years later.
#manhattanproject #history #photography
https://www.onthisday.com/images/photos/manhattan-project-begins.jpg

2024-04-12 11:45:35

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2024-04-12 10:35:44

Earthrise
On Dec. 24, 1968, Apollo 8 astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders became the first humans to orbit the Moon, and the first to witness the magnificent sight called "Earthrise."
Credit: NASA
#nasa #space #earth
https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/apollo_8_earthrise_1968_as08-14-2383.jpg

2024-04-12 10:26:38

A photo of the 1910 Ford Model T. This photo was used for advertising.
#onthisday #history #ford #cars
https://www.onthisday.com/images/photos/model-t.jpg

2024-04-12 10:24:29

Methane Bubbles, Abraham Lake, Kootenay Plains, Canadian Rockies
Credit: Melvin Nicholson
#photography
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2024-04-12 07:28:24

Any ideas why some of my notes don't go to any relays when published? #asknostr

2024-04-12 07:23:26

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft captured this high-resolution enhanced color view of Charon, Pluto's largest moon, just before closest approach on July 14, 2015.
#space #nasa #pluto #charon
https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/pia19968orig.jpg

2024-04-12 06:56:29

Timelapse, Misty Sunrise at Lake Bled, Slovenia by melvin nicholson
#timelapse
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2024-04-12 05:37:19

Sunrise over Mont Saint Michel, Normandy, France by melvin nicholson
#france #photography
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2024-04-12 05:33:24

Lunar Halo by melvin nicholson
#photography #moon
Context: After taking my somewhat popular Fogbow photo back in Nov 2016 in Glencoe, Scotland and my Sundog photo (a form of sunbow around the sun) Feb 2019 in Reine, Lofoten, the only image I was after to complete my 'Bow Trilogy' was a lunar halo and yesterday morning I managed to complete my wish.
Thanks to both my clients Cerise and Neale for making me aware that there was a lunar halo taking place while I was loading up our minibus with everyone's luggage en-route back to the airport after a really enjoyable week away on my Lofoten winter workshop,
I turned around to see this incredible, huge lunar halo that filled the sky and the light of the moon reflecting beautifully on the water of the ocean in the distance. It was amazing to witness. The temperature was around -1°c.
I quickly whipped out my Canon EOS R complete with their 24-70mm f4 lens and fired off just two shots (it's all I had time for). I used Benro's superb little Travel Angel tripod which thankfully provided a stable platform even when stood in deep snow.
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49532928833_9e8cd6daa1_k.jpg

2024-04-12 05:27:10

Arp 122, a peculiar galaxy that in fact comprises two galaxies — NGC 6040, the tilted, warped spiral galaxy and LEDA 59642, the round, face-on spiral — that are in the midst of a collision.
Image Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Dalcanton, Dark Energy Survey/DOE/FNAL/DECam/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA
#space #photography #nasa
https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/potw2402a-1.jpg

2024-04-12 05:21:26

The explosion from Castle Bravo over Bikini Atoll in 1954
#history #nuclear
Context:
When the United States tested its first lithium deuteride-fueled thermonuclear weapon on March 1, 1954, the team of scientists behind the test expected an explosion with a yield of 6 megatons. Instead, the detonation was 15 megatons - 1000 times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima - inadvertently making it the fifth-largest nuclear explosion in history, and causing serious problems in the area where the test took place.
Bikini Atoll had been selected for the test, having had its native population relocated in the late 1940s in preparation for the creation of a nuclear test zone. When Castle Bravo was detonated on March 1, 1954, the radioactive fallout from the test spread as far as 100 miles (160 km) east of the atoll into areas that were inhabited. In addition a Japanese fishing vessel called Daigo Fukuryū Maru with 23 people on board came into direct contact with the fallout and the crew suffered from acute radiation sickness for weeks afterward. 15 atolls were affected, and residents of some were evacuated 48 hours after the detonation.
Even the test crew took shelter for several hours once they realized the explosion was much larger than anticipated. Trace amounts of radioactivity were recorded as far away as Australia, India and parts of Europe. In the years after the test several Marshall Islanders began to experience health issues, including birth defects and tumors, as a result of the test, and the US government eventually paid them compensation.
The incident caused controversy about nuclear testing in the atmosphere, and eventually the United States, the UK and the Soviet Union agreed to ban tests in the atmosphere in 1963.
https://www.onthisday.com/images/photos/castle-bravo.jpg

2024-04-12 05:18:24

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Curating your feed. This is the way.

2024-04-12 05:16:51

A total solar eclipse is seen in Dallas, Texas on Monday, April 8, 2024. A total solar eclipse swept across a narrow portion of the North American continent from Mexico’s Pacific coast to the Atlantic coast of Newfoundland, Canada. A partial solar eclipse was visible across the entire North American continent along with parts of Central America and Europe.
Credit: NASA
#nasa #eclipse #solar #photography
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2024-04-12 05:14:12

The so-called Highway of Death in Iraq after coalition planes repeatedly bombed it during Operation Desert Storm
#history #iraq
https://www.onthisday.com/images/photos/highway-of-death.jpg

2024-04-08 07:23:24

The Milky Way by fabrizio massetti
#photography
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