I've got plenty of pictures from another similar thread I started on a different forum I'll be taking the best of but I need help with this thread. Please post up any picture that makes you happy, sad, mad or wow. Picture that'll make you think about life.
BAGHDAD A photo obtained by the Washington Post and released Thursday, May 6, 2004,
shows a soldier identifed as U.S. Army Spc. Lynndie England, 21, of the 372nd Military
Police Company with a naked detainee at the Abu Ghraib prison
At about 100 meters from the cargo bay of the space shuttle Challenger, Bruce McCandless II
was further out than anyone had ever been before. Guided by a Manned Maneuvering Unit
(MMU), astronaut McCandless, pictured above, was floating free in space. McCandless and
fellow NASA astronaut Robert Stewart were the first to experience such an "untethered space
walk" during Space Shuttle mission 41-B in 1984. The MMU works by shooting jets of nitrogen
and has since been used to help deploy and retrieve satellites. With a mass over 140
kilograms, an MMU is heavy on Earth, but, like everything, is weightless when drifting in orbit.
The MMU was replaced with the SAFER backpack propulsion unit.
On July 22, 1975, Stanley J. Forman took this infamous photograph while working for the Boston Herald. He climbed on the back of a fire truck as it raced towards a reported fire at Marlborough Street. Just as the crew had arrived at the scene, a young woman and small girl fell from an apartment above. The woman died instantly, but the young girl lived. This photo earned Forman a Pulitzer prize, and in addition, convinced Boston and several other cities to introduce more comprehensive fire safety laws.
This example of emotive imagery is of child in Uganda holding hands with a missionary.
The stark contrast between the two people serves as a reminder of the gulf in wealth
between developed and developing countries. Mike Wells, the photographer, took this
picture to show the extent of starvation in Africa. He took it for a magazine, and when
they went 5 months without printing it, he decided to enter it into a competition.
However, Wells has stated that he is against winning a compeition with a picture of a starving boy.
On August the 29th Katrina hit Louisiana, most notably New Orleans where 80% of the city flooded
because the flood protection system was breached in more than fifty places. The hurricane
caused over $80 billion in damages and over 1800 people were confirmed to have died with over 700 missing.
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06-14-2010, 10:51 PM #1
The Great Collection of Meaningful Pictures Thread. (Some Graphic)
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John Bachar the climbing legend who passed away last year.
This picture was the inspiration for "The Falling Man", one of the seven greatest Esquire stories of alltime: http://www.esquire.com/features/ESQ0903-SEP_FALLINGMAN.
Every story is incredible and worth the read.
Doors to Hell in Uzbekistan
This is the Duke family. The father, Charles Moss Duke, Jr. born October 3, 1935. The mom, Dorothy Meade Claiborne. The two sons, Charles and Thomas. They are probably in their garden, sitting on a bench. They look so happy.
And they should be, because Charles Moss Duke was the lunar module pilot of Apollo 16 in 1972. He landed with mission commander John W. Young at the Descartes Highlands, which is what makes this photo so special: It's still there, untouched, unperturbed, exactly in the same position as he left it before taking this snapshot with his Hasselblad 70mm film camera.
More info at: http://gizmodo.com/5377509/this-is-n...y-family-photo
1957. The first day of Dorothy Counts at the Harry Harding High School in the United States. Counts was one of the first black students admitted in the school, and she was no longer able to stand the harassments after 4 days.
1962. A soldier shot by a sniper hangs onto a priest in his last moments.
1966. U.S. troops in South Vietnam are dragging a dead Vietkong soldier.
1972. After South Vietnam planes accidentally drop a bomb on a town.
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Akintunde Akinleye, Nigeria, Reuters.
Man rinses his face after oil pipeline explosion, Nigeria, 26 December
Marine Sergeant Ty Ziegel already had his life planned out, he would marry his girlfriend Renee Kline upon returning from his second tour of duty in Iraq.
But one fateful day a suicide bomber hit his truck, tearing apart his body and making him among the 20,000 soldiers that have been wounded in Iraq. He was blind in one eye, had a shattered skull, and most of his skin was burned off. Renee lived with Ty at the Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas for a year and a half, sharing Ty's every hope and fear. Their relationship became stronger than ever, and Ty and Renee moved back to their hometown in Illinois in July 2006, and got married in shortly thereafter.
On August 16, 1960, Joseph Kittinger made the final jump from the Excelsior III at 102,800 feet (31,300 m). Towing a small drogue chute for initial stabilization, he fell for four minutes and 36 seconds, reaching a maximum speed of 614 mph (988 km/h or 274 m/s) before opening his parachute at 18,000 feet (5,500 m). Pressurization for his right glove malfunctioned during the ascent, and his right hand swelled up to twice its normal size. He set historical numbers for highest balloon ascent, highest parachute jump, longest drogue-fall (four minutes), and fastest speed by a human being through the atmosphere.
An amateur astronomer named Thierry Legault took this crazy photo of the Space Shuttle Atlantis silhouetted by the sun.
The shuttle (which is only 37m long and has a 24m wingspan) was traveling 17,500 mph at 350 miles above the Earth's surface -- and Legault says he only had .8 seconds to get the shot. The sun looms in the background a mere 91 million miles away.
Unknown english soldier, buried out of respect by germans in arnhem
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A forensic investigator in Tijuana examines a vertebra and other bone fragments that were all that remained of a human body recovered from a barrel of acid.
The gruesome discovery in the Otay Mesa part of the city is consistent with a signature killing style of "El Teo", Tijuana's most wanted cartel kingpin.
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^Omayra Sanchez was one of the 25,000 victims of the Nevado del Ruiz (Colombia) volcano which erupted on November 14, 1985. The 13-year old had been trapped in water and concrete for 3 days. The picture was taken shortly before she died.
The aurora australis over the Dark Sector at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station on June 3, 2008. The Dark Sector is so-named due to the absence of light and radio wave interfence. The bright spot above the ground shield in the foreground is Jupiter. The white streaks of light going up are the Milky Way. (Keith Vanderlinde/National Science Foundation)
WHale shark
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strong pictures.
http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l2ecit9wge1qanb21o1_400.gif
http://images.freshnessmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/pyrenex-fall-2010-collection-2.jpg
http://www.threadbombing.com/data/media/2/fish_mouth.gif
math help: http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=124441141
usually 2k+
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A gigantic cloud of dust, called a haboob, advances toward Khartoum, Sudan, in April. Seasonal haboobs can reach as high as 3,000 feet.
A picture taken from the Israeli side of the border with the Gaza Strip shows a bomb dropped by an Israeli air force F-16 jet exploding in Beit Hanoun, north of the Gaza Strip, on January 3, 2009
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a lot of reposts, but still awesome pictures, any thread with pictures like this are awesome.
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06-14-2010, 11:08 PM #19
Frog Oil
A landslide triggered by flooding ruptured a major oil pipeline in El Reventador, Ecuador, endangering the wildlife of the region.
-Antennae Galaxies
This new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of the Antennae galaxies is the sharpest yet of this merging pair of galaxies. During the course of the collision, billions of stars will be formed. The brightest and most compact of these star birth regions are called super star clusters. The new image allows astronomers to better distinguish between the stars and super star clusters created in the collision of two spiral galaxies
In a July 2007 picture by Brent Stirton, rangers carry a dead silverback mountain gorilla named Senkwekwe in Virunga National Park, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
1907 prison in Uzbekistan
The custody and immigration status of a young Cuban boy, Elián González (born December 6, 1993), was at the center of a heated controversy in 2000 involving the governments of Cuba and the United States. Hostility between Cuba and the United States has been persistent since the Cuban Revolution. During that period, a considerable number of Cubans have tried to leave for the United States covertly, seeking alternative economic, social or political conditions. This emigration is illegal under both Cuban and U.S. law
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Probably mostly reposts, trying to gather all of the best ones and share them with people because they've definitely made me think.. You guys feel free to contribute.
Mass Suicides of Jonestown :
Info : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonestown
Also check out The Jonestown Death Tape, it's pretty long but it's basically the last 40 minutes as everything is going to **** and the mass suicide is being set up, this one lady asks him why they all have to die, and he just blows her off and spouts doom and gloom while babies and children are crying and wailing the background. Really eerie and creepy.
http://www.archive.org/details/ptc1978-11-18.flac16
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Chernobyl pics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster
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Abandoned city near Chernobyl
Rows of tulips outside Amsterdam
Grounded boat on Aral Sea, which is steadily receding due to diversion of tributaries for farming purposes.
Drying dates somewhere in the Middle East.
Lone tree in the African Savannah
Iraqi tank graveyard
Worker resting on bales of cotton in Cote d'Ivoire
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With the worldwide drug trade being worth an estimated 320 billion dollars, here are a few highlighting the consequences of handing a multi national billion dollar business into the hands of gangsters and children.
Mexican weapons seizure.
Peruvian ******* factory. Back yard ******* production accounts for some of the most horrific environmental pollution in the world.
Afghan heroin production. America and Europe's thirst for prohibited opiates funds the Taleban and Al Quaeda, and partially funded 9/11.
[IMG]http://www.insidesocal.com/sgvcrime/*******_tooth_drops.jpg[/IMG]
It was not long ago that we looked at this all very differently.
A US meth farm. Meth accounts for nearly 20% of US prison inmates. Heroin and ******* account for over another 40%. Around 2% of the American population at any one time is in jail for drug offences according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics.
Prison overcrowding in the US, where gymnasiums have had to be turned into make shift group cells.
The decline of a meth addict over ten years.
Farc guards. The West's apetite for ******* effectively funds an entire independent country and an army that has repelled all thrown at it by the world's major super power.
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A raid on a US marijuana farm. Cannabis has not been directly responsible for a single known death, yet accounts for over 30% of drug arrests in America and parts of Europe.
A baby wearing 'Bloods' chains. The Bloods long running battle over the drug business with their arch rivals the 'Crips' has been one of the most deadly and destructive urban gang wars in history, responsible for tens of thousands of deaths, incarcarations, and social destruction on an uprecedented scale.
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