Black Sea Castle, Yalta, Russia/Ukraine, 1987
Posted on October 10, 2008 by nyokki | 9 CommentsFiled Under Images and has these tags: architecture, NGeoPOD, Scenic, Wallpaper
The neo-Gothic Swallow’s Nest castle perches 130 feet (40 meters) above the Black Sea near Yalta in southern Ukraine. Built by a German noble in 1912, the flamboyant seaside residence now houses an Italian restaurant.
A Restaurant?!!
It looks like it was carved directly out of the rock.
photography.nationalgeographic.com/photography/wallpaper/neo-gothic-castle-raymer_pod_image.html
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San Francisco harbor 1851
Posted on October 8, 2008 by nyokki | 4 CommentsFiled Under Images and has these tags: Wallpaper, WikiPOD
Full size: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/46/SanFranciscoharbor1851c_sharp.jpg
A daguerreotype of San Francisco, California in 1850 or 1851 during the height of the California Gold Rush. Merchant sailing ships crowd San Francisco Bay and Yerba Buena Island can be seen in the background. During this time, the harbor would become so crowded that ships often had to wait days before unloading their passengers and goods.
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Godzilla vs Titanic
Posted on October 7, 2008 by Corman | 21 CommentsFiled Under Images and has these tags: Fantasy - Science Fiction, Wallpaper
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River Thames
Posted on October 7, 2008 by nyokki | 6 CommentsFiled Under Images and has these tags: Wallpaper, WikiPOD
The River Thames in London at sunset, with the Tower Bridge and London skyline in the background. While best known because its lower reaches flow through central London, the river flows across most of southern England. The river gives its name to the Thames Valley, a region of England centred around the river between Oxford and West London, the Thames Gateway, the area centred around the tidal Thames, and the Thames Estuary to the east of London.
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Chiru Expedition, Chang Tang, Tibet, 200
Posted on October 7, 2008 by nyokki | 5 CommentsFiled Under Images and has these tags: NGeoPOD, Wallpaper
An expedition member hauls a custom-built ricksha laden with supplies across the desolate Chang Tang alpine steppe in northern Tibet. A group of elite mountaineers put together the expedition to witness births at the remote calving grounds of the elusive chiru, or Tibetan antelope.
The expeditioners chose to use lightweight rickshas instead of four-wheel-drive vehicles, which would get stuck in the mud and spook the chiru with engine noise.
photography.nationalgeographic.com/photography/wallpaper/rickshaw-supplies-rowell_pod_image.html
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Active Region 1002 on an Unusually Quiet Sun
Posted on October 7, 2008 by nyokki | 7 CommentsFiled Under Images and has these tags: APOD, Science!, Space, Wallpaper
Explanation: Why has the Sun been so quiet recently? No one is sure. Our Sun has shown few active regions — that house even fewer associated sunspots — for over a year now, and such a period of relative calm is quite unusual. What is well known is that our Sun is in a transitional period between solar cycles called a Solar Minimum, where solar activity has historically been reduced. The stark lack of surface tumult is unusual even during a Solar Minimum, however, and activity this low has not been seen for many decades. A few days ago, however, a bona-fide active region — complete with sunspots –appeared and continues to rotate across the Sun’s face. Visible above, this region, dubbed Active Region 1002 (AR 1002), was imaged in ultraviolet light yesterday by the SOHO spacecraft, which co-orbits the Sun near the Earth. Besides the tranquility on the Sun’s surface, recent data from the Ulysses spacecraft, across the Solar System, indicate that the intensity of the solar wind blowing out from the Sun is at a fifty year low. Predictions hold, however, that our Sun will show more and more active regions containing more and more sunspots and flares until Solar Maximum occurs in about four years.
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Dr. Strange sends a blast
Posted on October 6, 2008 by Corman | 5 CommentsFiled Under Images and has these tags: Comic Books, Fantasy - Science Fiction, Wallpaper
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I owe you 1 wallpaper
Posted on October 5, 2008 by nyokki | 6 CommentsFiled Under Images and has these tags: Wallpaper
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Haumea of the Outer Solar System
Posted on October 5, 2008 by nyokki | 7 CommentsFiled Under Images and has these tags: APOD, Science!, Space, Wallpaper
Explanation: One of the strangest objects in the outer Solar System was classified as a dwarf planet last week and given the name Haumea. This designation makes Haumea the fifth designated dwarf planet after Pluto, Ceres, Eris, and Makemake. Haumea’s smooth but oblong shape make it extremely unusual. Along one direction, Haumea is significantly longer than Pluto, while in another direction Haumea has an extent very similar to Pluto, while in the third direction is much smaller. Haumea’s orbit sometimes brings it closer to the Sun than Pluto, but usually Haumea is further away. Illustrated above, an artist visualizes Haumea as a nearly featureless ellipsoid. Quite possibly, however, Haumea has interesting craters and surface features that currently remain unknown. Originally discovered in 2003 and given the temporary designation of 2003 EL61, Haumea was recently renamed by the IAU for a Hawaiian goddess. Haumea has two small moons discovered in 2005, recently renamed Hi’iaka and Namaka for daughters of the goddess.
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Wildfire, Big Sur, California, 2000
Posted on October 4, 2008 by nyokki | 4 CommentsFiled Under Images and has these tags: fire, NGeoPOD, Wallpaper
A wildfire encroaches on a tree in California’s still wild Big Sur. Strict zoning laws and a limited water supply ensure that the area has not become overly populated, and nature, too, has done her part to keep developers away: In 1997 a fire raged in the Santa Lucia Range for three weeks. Big Sur naturalist John Smiley calls the wildfires simply “another type of weather.”
photography.nationalgeographic.com/photography/photo-of-the-day
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Comment by FlappyCunt — October 10, 2008 @ 7:05 pm
Gunface’s mother and I visited this on our first date. It was simply amazing.
Comment by FlyingMantisShrimp — October 10, 2008 @ 7:59 pm
Dude i wold so have burning torches and black metal music constantly playing if i lived there. Also some horribly deformed hulk of a man who wears a skull shaped mask made out of iron scraps patrolling the grounds with a nail spiked pike. And Ronnie James Dio would be sitting on the top of the tower constantly singing rainbow in the dark while dragons being ridden by jagged armor knights are locked in an eternal battle of evil versus pure evil in a black and blue thunder lit sky made OF FIRE.
Comment by thelotuseater725 — October 10, 2008 @ 8:40 pm
This looks a lot like a police academy near Novorossiysk, which is on the shore of the same sea. Why, you ask?
The land was offered free for construction that wouldn’t make the shore uglier. The solution was, of course, castle. Then it was repossessed in the Revolution and put to good use. Maybe the people who train there then go to fight the dragons that the above poster was talking about, but more likely they just get drunk a lot.
Comment by Flickerdart — October 10, 2008 @ 8:56 pm
@thelotuseater725: After reading that, I am extremely aroused.
Comment by FlyingMantisShrimp — October 10, 2008 @ 9:38 pm
thelotuseater725, whoever you are, you MUST make a comic book. NOW!
Graphic novel. Whatever.
Your talents are wasted on whatever you are doing now.
Comment by Marianne_W — October 11, 2008 @ 2:52 pm
That is just sweet. What I wouldn’t give to live somewhere like that…
Comment by Phyreblade — October 11, 2008 @ 6:34 pm
Oh, that’s pretty awesome. I should be heading to Ukraine at the end of the year, unfortunately Yalta is rather out of my way. Must look into it though.
Rob.
Comment by robzy — October 11, 2008 @ 11:32 pm
@Nyokki
Another enlightening post.
Thanks for consistently rising above the B.S.
Comment by macio — October 12, 2008 @ 12:52 am