Awesome Pictures Thread

[Lantyssa]

It's just asking them to follow size and bag limits.  Nothing wrong with that at all.

[KallDrexx]

Wasn't sure if this was more funny or awesome :D

[Signe]

Evolution

Researchers in Indonesia have discovered what looks like a teeny tiny dragon. As yet, we have no information on whether they guard small piles of gold or attack miniature castles.
This was a nesting female found in the Lambsuango Forest reserve in 2009 and was immediately released after this photograph was taken.
No everyone, this is not photoshopped. Just google 'gliding lizard' - there are around 15 described species, mostly found in South East Asia. This is thought to be a new species with the genus but further study will be required to confirm that.
For those saying it must be fake, because they wouldn't have released it ... there are actually laws about taking animals off of reserves you know. They're called reserves for a reason. SMH.

[Signe]

It's FISH!!!  I need some for earrings.

These terrifying looking creatures are called Hatchetfish, and are found in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans. As ghastly as they may look, they only grow to around 6 inches long. Like many deep ocean dwellers, Hatchetfish produce their own light which contributes to their ghostly looks.

[Mrbloodworth]

I can make that happen.

[Mrbloodworth]

NSFW.  

[Signe]

NSFW.  

Awesome.  I'm gonna post it to my FB page for all my twenty some friends to see, including my 70 year old Auntie Ruth.  HA!  She'll love it.  Of course, she's related to me so she even enjoys my odd taste in music and art. 

[Ironwood]

Wait, wait, WAIT;

Is that Bumblebee ?

[01101010]

Wait, wait, WAIT;

Is that Bumblebee ?

Looks like... and perhaps that is not a girl with the guitar.

[Mrbloodworth]

[Venkman]

One of these things is not like the other:

[Fordel]

I want to say that the Adam West version would actually dust all the other ones in a real race.

[TheWalrus]

You can want to say that, but you'd be wrong.

[Ingmar]

Depends how much turning they have to do. 

[TheWalrus]

If I recall, the Keaton batmobile was built on a corvette frame. Pretty sure it could handle it.

[Abagadro]

I like how they are so emblematic of the product they were in:

1) Kitchy and fun
2) Seriously Cool
3) Starting to look kinda hokey
4) Fucking retarded
5) Bad ass

[calapine]

It  looks like a line of penis-enhancers that get ever more desperate.

[Furiously]

I thought the Adam West one went like 12 mph.....

[Signe]

I love bugs.

[TheWalrus]

Cool moth.

[01101010]

I found a few of those when I was working PT out in the garden center at Home Depot. The cashier out there used to wear them as jewelry until they flew off. Very cool moths.

[Minvaren]

Not a fan of guns, but the geek in me still thought this was cool:

[Tale]

So that's how jellyfish are made.

[KallDrexx]

So that's how jellyfish are made.

At first I really thought  the person had a gun up to jellyfish.

[Teleku]

"Sting THIS, asshole!"

[Goumindong]

Is that a regular bullet, or a supercavitating bullet?

[Furiously]

That can't be good for the gun.

[Goumindong]

That can't be good for the gun.

Eh, so long as its oiled and/or is cleaned afterwards it shouldn't matter

[Murgos]

That can't be good for the gun.

Eh, so long as its oiled and/or is cleaned afterwards it shouldn't matter

You would be putting the mechanisms under a lot of stress they probably weren't designed for.  Pushing water is harder than pushing air, see Newtons 3rd law.

[MahrinSkel]

Note the downward angle. That barrel was full of air, by the time the bullet hit water it was out of the barrel.  Probably a jam (shell wouldn't eject into water fast enough), but no real damage to the gun.

--Dave

[Goumindong]

Note the downward angle. That barrel was full of air, by the time the bullet hit water it was out of the barrel.  Probably a jam (shell wouldn't eject into water fast enough), but no real damage to the gun.

--Dave

Would not matter. The bullet will face the same pressure if the barrel is filled with water or air. This is because the water pressure will compress the air until the air can push back with the same pressure.

[MahrinSkel]

Would not matter. The bullet will face the same pressure if the barrel is filled with water or air. This is because the water pressure will compress the air until the air can push back with the same pressure.

Which will happen after the bullet is only a fraction of an inch from the end of the barrel and breech pressure has already fallen.  Compared to sustaining the initial pressure (or even increasing it) much longer because of having to overcome the inertia of a 3 inch cylinder of water (instead of just the mass of the bullet), it's small potatoes.

It's not water pressure (unless we're talking depths so great that the propellant can't expand), it's *inertia*.

--Dave

[Sir T]

Besides, the gun is not waterproof, as can be seen from the gasses escaping from the back and top of the gun in the photo.

Anyway, Water can be blasted aside leaving bubbles or tracts of air. In nautical terms its called cavitation and its when propellers create bubbles as they cut through the water which then collapse again. (I know this because I've read "The hunt for Red October")

[MahrinSkel]

Besides, the gun is not waterproof, as can be seen from the gasses escaping from the back and top of the gun in the photo.

The slide has already slid back, exposing the breech, that's why gasses are escaping.  A revolver would not be waterproof, but virtually any automatic would be (except for the open front, which is why it's significant that the barrel is tilted downwards).  Anyway, enough slapfighting over the physics.

--Dave

[calapine]

A carpet shark eating a bamboo shark.