2020 New Random Pics

[GH85Carrera]

I don't think that is going to the rebuild shop.

[oldE]

What a shame.

Beautifully done diorama!

Best
Les

[masraum]

Originally Posted by WPOZZZ

That's nuts!

[GH85Carrera]

Michelangelo's Moses is a marble sculpture made in 1513–15. One of the many details of this masterpiece is one very small muscle in the forearms that contracts only when lifting the pinky, otherwise it is invisible. Moses is lifting the pinky, therefore that tiny muscle is contracted

[Steve Carlton]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Michelangelo's Moses is a marble sculpture made in 1513–15. One of the many details of this masterpiece is one very small muscle in the forearms that contracts only when lifting the pinky, otherwise it is invisible. Moses is lifting the pinky, therefore that tiny muscle is contracted

Mike was the real deal!

Unlike most Renaissance artists, who learned about the human body from ancient sculpture and live models, Michelangelo participated in dissections. According to his acquaintance and biographer Ascanio Condivi, the artist first examined corpses in the convent of Santo Spirito in Florence when he was in his late teens.

https://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/michelangelo_drawings/explore.html#:~:text=Unlike%20most%20Renaissance%2 0artists%2C%20who,was%20in%20his%20late%20teens.

[Lane2mz]

[GH85Carrera]

[GH85Carrera]

My gramps said, if you need a grinder to make it look good, your a grinder, not a welder.


The bizarre floral appearance of Hydnora africana seems almost extraterrestrial, but in fact it is finely adapted for pollination in its arid habitat. This plant, resident of southern Africa only emerges from the soil to flower. I can almost her it saying Feed ME!




A female falcon was equipped with a satellite tracking system in South Africa before migrating to Finland. Image shows tracker data. In just 42 days, she flew over 10.000 km, at an incredible average of 230 km per day and nearly in a straight line.


This isn’t a giant green glob of goo, it’s a 3000 year old shrub called llareta. A collection of tens of thousands flowering buds, so densely packed that you can stand on them.

[GH85Carrera]

Evidently a train lost a tain car of corn along the tracks. There will be some fat deer and wildlife in that area.




Feeling crabby? Feast your eyes on today’s Exhibit of the Day, the Museum’s Japanese spider crab (Macrocheira kaempferi). This species is the biggest living crab and the largest arthropod in the world, measuring up to 13 ft (4 m) from the tip of one outstretched leg to another! Its diet includes dead fish, invertebrates, and algae, but it occasionally snatches live prey with its strong claws. This scavenger can be found on the seafloor off Japan’s Pacific coast, inhabiting depths of more than 984 ft (300 m). You can spot a model of one in the Museum’s Hall of Ocean Life!
Photo: The American Museum Journal, Volume IV 1904

[GH85Carrera]

Damn great burrito!









I took this pic back in 2019. This gas station, located near Hydro Oklahoma, comes with a story. This is Lucille’s, one of the best known stops on Route 66. It was owned by a lady named Lucille Hamons, who ran it for 59 years.
Lucille is well known to Route 66 travelers. She and her husband raised 3 children in the small apartment above the station. She continued running the station on her own after her children grew up and her husband passed away. She was known for her love of swapping stories with the travelers who stopped there. She was also known for her willingness to help those who needed assistance. She often would often buy broken down cars from travelers whose car had died along the route. She would then repair those cars and sell them cheap to other travelers whose cars had died. Her willingness to help those in need who stopped at her station earned her the title of Mother of the Mother Road.
Lucille passed in 2000. It’s closed now, but still being maintained. Lucille‘s grave lies in a cemetery not too far from her service station. Her tombstone bears the words “”Lucille Hamons, The Mother of the Mother Road” beneath a Route 66 shield.

There is a new restaurant on Rt66, just down the road a few miles in Weatherford, OK called Lucille’s that is a tribute to her old place and they have great hamburgers.

[red 928]

[GH85Carrera]

How to lure in grey haired men to wander around. Tracked vehicles everywhere.


The coconut crab, world's largest terrestrial arthropod, weighs up to 4.1 kg and grows up to 1 meter long. Found on Indian and Pacific Ocean islands, it's similar to the distribution of the coconut palm. Check out a stunning photo captured by Piotr Naskrecki and discover this fascinating creature.




Overdue maintenance.

[Steve Carlton]

The winner of the 2022 Smithsonian Photo Contest:




Others:











https://photocontest.smithsonianmag.com/photocontest/archive/2022/

[GH85Carrera]

[dewolf]

^Because she forgot to take her meds.

[john70t]

^There is someone else to break out the carpet cleaner machine and fix all of her mistakes....
Again.

[john70t]

[porsche930dude]

[red 928]

[GH85Carrera]

University of Wisconsin physicist Raymond George Herb testing the controls of his invention named "Long Tank" a 4 million volt Van de Graaff electrostatic particle accelerator (March 10, 1943). A month later, his machine was shipped to Los Alamos for nuclear fission experiments involving bombarding plutonium-239 with 1 MeV fast neutron beams. Invented in 1929 by R.J.Van de Graaff, the electrostatic accelerator used a very simple principle to build a large potential on a sphere. Electrons or positive ions carrying a small electric potential were fed onto a moving belt that carried them to a sphere, where the charge accumulated until several million volts were built up. The potential of the sphere was limited only by the breakdown of the insulating medium surrounding it. Ray Herb's innovation was to develop a pressurized container that could hold a non-conducting gas at high pressure around the sphere, making possible the accumulation of much higher potentials. With this refinement, the Van de Graaff generator replaced most other direct-voltage generators previously used for particle acceleration. His pressurized Van de Graaff delivered a steady parallel beam of particles, free from stray radiation, which made it an ideal source for nuclear studies in the range of energies for fast neutron research. Its unusually homogeneous beam energy could be focused on a small target and varied at will, so nuclear processes could be studied as a function of bombarding energy. The device was copied at a number of American research institutions, much of the quantitative data on the nuclear properties of elements came from his machines in the late 1930s.