2020 New Random Pics

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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

They missed "scale." It seems fairly new to me, but I'm out of touch.

"They plan to scale the company." = "They plan to grow the company."

"They plan to build the product at scale." = "They plan to build a lot of those things."

[GH85Carrera]

[WPOZZZ]

Someone at Amazon has a sense of humor.

[Steve Carlton]

I wonder what the subscription price is.

[GH85Carrera]

Models wearing swimsuits and Ortho Ammonium Sulfate bags, posed next to bagging machines. 1956.






In 1826, after eight grueling hours of exposure, French inventor Nicéphore Niépce captured light itself—a blurry rooftop view from his estate in Burgundy. This pewter plate, now known as View from the Window at Le Gras, became the world’s first surviving photograph. The image is barely discernible to modern eyes—just ghostly shapes of buildings and trees—yet it marks humanity’s leap from tracing reality to stealing it. Niépce’s heliography process, using bitumen-coated metal hardened by sunlight, was more alchemy than art. For centuries, painters had imprisoned moments on canvas; here, the world wrote its own memory. The photograph nearly vanished into obscurity, stored in a trunk until 1952 when historians rediscovered it. Today, this fragile relic rests in Texas’ Harry Ransom Center, its metallic surface whispering secrets of barns and courtyards that outlasted empires. What Niépce called "sun drawings" birthed a revolution—one where time could be bottled, and memory made immortal. That faint, golden-hued image, no larger than a postcard, contains the DNA of every smartphone snapshot and satellite image since. It reminds us that every technological marvel begins as a fragile experiment—and that even the faintest light can outshine centuries or 1999 years ago.

[GH85Carrera]

[Steve Carlton]

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[Steve Carlton]

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[Bill Douglas]

[GH85Carrera]

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[Steve Carlton]

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/larger-than-life-smithsonian-magazines-22nd-annual-photography-contest-180986233/

[masraum]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

That's awesome!

[GH85Carrera]

In 2022, nature decided to strike where it hurts!

A powerful bolt of lightning hit an apartment complex in Oklahoma, but instead of just frying electronics, it traveled through the building’s air vents... and obliterated the toilet.
The blast was so intense, it shattered porcelain and scorched the bathroom ceiling.
One freak strike, and an ordinary bathroom became ground zero for one of the weirdest lightning accidents ever recorded.

[craigster59]

My Wife’s hometown….