Pictures you didn't take

[classicman]

But but but - That means I have to remember...
The other way does it for you ... err me.

[jimhelm]

Originally Posted by Gravdigr

Mensa called, they have an opening...

Your face has an opening.



Shame, that.


;

[Gravdigr]

Originally Posted by jimhelm

Your face has an opening.

Five actually. Not counting pores.

[Gravdigr]

from APOD

Explanation: A mere 2.5 million light-years away, the Andromeda Galaxy really is just next door as large galaxies go. So close, and spanning some 260,000 light-years, it took 11 different image fields from the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) satellite's telescope to produce this gorgeous portrait of the spiral galaxy in ultraviolet light. While its spiral arms stand out in visible light images of Andromeda (also known as M31), the arms look more like rings in the GALEX ultraviolet view, dominated by hot, young, massive stars. As sites of intense star formation, the rings have been interpreted as evidence Andromeda collided with its smaller neighboring elliptical galaxy M32 more than 200 million years ago. The large Andromeda galaxy and our own Milky Way are the dominant members of the local galaxy group.

[Gravdigr]

[ZenGum]

Nyan Cat Vs Emperor Palpatine?

[Gravdigr]

[Rockwell]I always feel like
Somebody's waatching meee[/Rockwell]

[Gravdigr]

[TheMercenary]

Love the thatch work. I need to hire that guy for my country home.

[Gravdigr]

from APOD

Explanation: Have you contemplated your home star recently? Pictured above, a Sun partially eclipsed on the top left by the Moon is also seen eclipsed by earthlings contemplating the eclipse below. The above menagerie of silhouettes was taken from the Glenn Canyon National Recreational Area near Page, Arizona, USA, where park rangers and astronomers expounded on the unusual event to interested gatherers. Also faintly visible on the Sun's disk, just to the lower right of the dark Moon's disk, is a group of sunspots. Although exciting, some consider this event a warm-up act for next week's chance to comtemplate the Sun -- a much more rare partial eclipse by the planet Venus.

[burns334]

Originally Posted by Gravdigr

Attachment 38846

Where is this?

[Gravdigr]

No clue. Filename says 'vietnamese houseboat'.

[Sundae]

I like this photo because of who took it and why.
Mum took my camera to Benidorm (Spain) last week to practice before taking it to Australia next month.

She only took nine photos, but all of them were decent.
And I'm not being patronising - she gets flustered by the size of cameras and buttons and has a tendency to cut people's heads off. So I was pleasantly surprised.

She now has to practice on food and faces as those are the pics I will be most interested in seeing when she comes back My Uncle and 20yo cousin will surely help her out, but I like that she will have the confidence to take some of her own. Not as many as me of course, but that's probably all for the good.

[Gravdigr]

from APOD

Explanation: Who guards the north? Judging from the above photograph, possibly giant trees covered in snow and ice. The picture was taken last winter in Finnish Lapland where weather can include sub-freezing temperatures and driving snow. Surreal landscapes sometimes result, where common trees become cloaked in white and so appear, to some, as watchful aliens. Far in the distance, behind this uncommon Earthly vista, is a more common sight -- a Belt of Venus that divided a darkened from sunlit sky as the Sun rose behind the photographer. Of course, in the spring, the trees have thawed and Lapland looks much different.

[Gravdigr]

I've had these for a few days, not wanting to flood the thread, but, I'm tired of looking at them in the folder every time I open it.

So, here.