Stunning Pictures

[Warph]

Taken at 6:00 am May 25th, This Morning by the Mars Rover:   



A beautiful sunset in none other than....Sweden



Double Rainbow at Full Horizon:



Funnel cloud touching down in Orchard, Iowa



"Wizards Hat"



The International Space Station being chased across the morning sky by SpaceX's Dragon



Oasis - Gobi Desert



A beautiful sunset in none other than....Sweden



The largest wind turbine in the world. It's a monster.



Found... a golf club at the top of Gunsight Pass, Glacier National Park



Westboro Baptist Church showed up to protest Bob Bethell's funeral in his home town.
This was the town's response.

[Janet Harrington]

Those were wonderful.

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Plane graveyard: Scrapped jets line the dry and dusty ground in Arizona



A river runs through it: An aerial view of the landscape surrounding Los Angeles shows houses and farms clustered around the water



More than an Eiffel: Paris gets the skyline treatment



City of canals: A typical day in Venice, Italy sees boats, ships and gondolas traversing the water highways

[W. Gray]

Seeing the airplane bone yard photo prompted me to call up Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ, on Google Maps and view that entire acres and acres of parked planes.

I have never been to Davis-Monthan and what startled me was that these stored planes are so close to civilization. Right across the street from many of these parked planes are wall-to-wall houses of suburbia.

I took a water taxi in Venice many years ago and I have two recollections of what I thought was very interesting. Back in the vast network of narrow canals there was a regular traffic light with red, yellow, and green controlling the boat traffic at one canal intersection.

While the taxi was stopped at the red light a Coca Cola boat, painted the same colors that a Coke truck would be painted, came through on its green light. This was before cans, and the boat was loaded with cases of 6 oz bottles of the drink.

[Ms Bear]

I went to the Airplane Museum and bone yard about 35 years ago, it was amazing to see so many parts of planes in one place.  I wish I could have seen the aerial view back then.