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Oops ... military accidents..
Series of photos and videos of some military accidents mostly accidents
with tanks
Canadian artillery fire howitzer in Afghanistan
Members of Canada's 2nd Royal Canadian Horse Artillery fire their
155mm howitzer in support of front line troops during a mission
at the forward operating base in Helmand Province, Afghanistan Tuesday,
April 17, 2007 Man that's a dusty place!
Iraqi soldiers practice killing cucumbers
I am sure these are great skills for killing cucumbers that are
attacking a prone person or something Iraqi police recruit is blindfolded
as he performs with a sword to cut off the recruit's cucumber, on
his abdomen, during the presentation of their skills at their graduation
ceremony
Giant Chinese stone eggs found
Road workers dig up giant stone eggs I think if they are natural
you can find them elsewhere as well A large number of "stone eggs"
were recently discovered along with a copper sword at a construction
site in Bandeng Hill and Zhanlong Hill, Gongxi Town of Hunan Province
The Toy Yoda prize
I could imagine some hostess being utterly pissed off thinking she
had won a Toyota, when it was merely a "Toy Yoda" A former Hooters
waitress has sued the restaurant where she worked, saying she was
promised a new Toyota for winning a beer sales contest Instead she
won a new toy Yoda
Worldpress photos since 1955
All the winning pictures since 1955 from Worldpress Very interesting
images This is a familiar yet powerful image Drawn by gunfire, Adams
watched South Vietnamese soldiers bring a Viet Cong captive to a
street corner, where he assumed he would be interrogated Instead,
The magic tap
The magic tap, which appears to float in the sky with an endless
supply of water In actuality, there is a pipe hidden in the stream
of water I don't know anything else about the picture, but the construction
is facinating and is easy to make,
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Supermarket trolley art
Someone is going to have a lot of work to do when they get in :
The potential for more artforms is unlimited
A loo with a view
A unique public toilet in Houston with the view of it from the outside,
and from the inside
National Geographic's best pic of the year
Camels at dusk
Amazing Aurora Occurrence over Iowa
Alerted to conditions ripe for aurora, photographer Stan Richard
recorded this apparition over Saylorville Lake, near Des Moines,
Iowa, USA
Bull terrier vrs porcupine
Unbelievable pictures of what happens to a pit-bull after
tangling with a porcupine!
The Acorn Woodpecker
Drills holes in dead trees and plugs them with an acorn!
So who fell for the old - cute little ducklings - trick?
Bag robbing duck con exposed! Mother duck leads her delinquent ducklings
into a life of crime!
Strange frilled shark found off Japan
The Awashima Marine Park in Shizuoka, south of Tokyo, was
alerted by a fisherman at a nearby port on Sunday that he had
spotted an odd-looking eel-like creature with a mouthful of
needle-sharp teeth
Giant sinkhole in Guatemala swallows houses and people
A giant 330 foot sinkhole opened before dawn Friday, swallowing
several homes and a truck
Plane accidently fires missile
An aircraft on a carrier accidently fires a missile which seems
to skid along the deck I wonder how it ended up
An unusual traffic jam
Can't get in the way between lions and their lunch
Goats in trees
I never knew goats could climb trees,
Why George Bush won't go to hell billboard
Just down the road from me, a pizza shop called 'Hell Pizza
I tidied this pic up to remove the scratches, and to me it looks like a man sitting on a dead horse
Stunning old pictures of England in the 1890's
These are amazing to see, who would have imagined that they existed
from a time when England really did have an empire
Chinooks conducting Pinnacle Landings in Afghanistan
The Chinook helicopter touching down to receive Afghan Persons
Low flying B52 planes
Check out these photos of low flying bombers I think
Car transporter ship develops a list (leans to one side)
Look at the angle of the list on this ship, packed full of cars
Submarines in the snow
Pictures of submarines at the North pole Popping up through the
ice
How they make frog juice
How do they make frog juice?
Life inside a Machinegun factory
Ever want to work with guns
The Nemo scuba pool at 33 meters deep
I think its a training place
for scuba divers and mini subs
Comet Swan passing Earth
Near its closest approach to planet Earth, comet SWAN C/2006 M4
brightened unexpectedly
Amazing what people can carry on a bike
The ingenuity of people who only have a bicycle to carry their gear
is amazing
Amazing photos of the Shuttle from the space station
Showing the shuttle arcing through the atmosphere towards the
space station
Crane accident caught on Google Earth
Here's a neat picture someone caught on Google Earth
Machine gun that fires under water?
I would imagine that water density alone would make it difficult
to fire
Python eats sheep
A fresh lamb dinner might sound like a manageable meal for an
18-foot-long 55-meter-long python
Famous people as children
Warning big files! Pictures of famous individuals as children
(click to see pics)
Feel like a little mountainbiking?
From somewhere in the Italian Alps
Bush and the baby
This is a true picture taken in Germany, where he was handed a baby
that immediately complained by howling
Interesting military pictures
Here is a huge page of military pics. A Russian sub cruises the beach somewhere in Russia
From this great site
Sandstorm in Iraq
It's a wall of sand traveling at 60 mph
Kitty and Monkey pictures
These are just a few cute pictures of a kitty and a monkey
15,000 layer Photoshop file
Bert Monroy released his latest Photoshop painting this week
after 11 months of work with an estimated 2,000 hours
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Supermassive Black Holes Colliding (NASA Image)
Scientists are watching two supermassive black holes spiral
towards each other
Dog
Playing with Monkey Photo
I thought this was a cute picture
Disturbing and unusual pictures
Some of these are fascinating, some are disturbing, all tell a story.
Many more on the link.
Gas bottle explodes on small island causes massive destruction
Massive in a relative sort of way. The blast caused an inferno that
leapt from hut to hut
Never carry open paint cans in your car
Because if you have an accident it makes an awful mess, and is
embarrassing
Chinese foot binding - not nice for your toes
Zhou Guizhen, who is 86-years-old, shows one of her bound feet
where the bones in the four small toes were broken and forced
underneath the foot over a period of time
Man with huge tumor
The michelin man lives A man is to finally have a huge tumor
removed today after discovering it 17 years ago
fast boat
What smugglers need do to get away from the
good guys in the English channel
The last person to sell to developers just lucked out
Don't end up like
this Chinese house, marooned in the middle of a building site on
a 12 meter plug after a row with developers
Great camouflage
See that sofa Guess what those boots on the left are attached to
How will I ever remember that show without this shocking revelation
Pointless photo of the year
Well this one has to take the award
Does anyone know just what heck is happening in this pic?
Looks like some woman is holding back a force of policemen
What do these Italian soldiers in Afghanistan have in their hats?
- feathers?
An Italian soldier from the International Security Assistance Force
ISAF stands near an Italian small armored vehicle in Kabul, Afghanistan,
in this Feb 6 2006 photo
You're ugly and your mother dresses you funny
Presumed thoughts that are going through the mind of the giant
Sunfish encountering the diver
Great picture of F15 and the shuttle
An orbiting plane locked onto an F-15 Eagle over Kennedy Space
Center during a shuttle mission
Vegetables having fun
Vegetables having fun, I can imagine some primary
schools getting into this, great for the kids Very creative!
Klu Klux Klan day out
What on earth to make of this picture! I bet they also had fun
lighting fires and scaring folk as well
USRSF ready for deployment in Iraq.
The Pentagon has released information on composition of the new
troop buildup in Iraq High on the deployment list will be the new
USRSF These guys look like they will kick butt!
Nice photos of fighters get together
USAF F-15 Eagle Fighters Intercept Two Soviet MiG-29 Fighters Going
to Canada For the 1989 Abbotsford International Airshow August 1,
1989, State of Alaska
Bush father confides with Bush junior
Photo of personal discussion between George Bush snr and George
Bush jnr, about the deteriorating situation of the war in Iraq
Robotic powered military tank!
It was bound to come to this, the machines take over
The sort of baby only a mother can love
A baby elephant that is, that trunk looks somewhat shriveled
A tragic accident with only a few survivors
All broken on the road like that, its so sad, such a waste That
must have been a huge accident to spread so far
Photo of Mexican drug tunnel discovered by DEA
The nearly 1,000 yard Mexican drug tunnel came complete with electricity,
ventilation and over two tons of marijuana
Terrible F1 accident
You could be next
Park your plane at your home at an Airpark
Communities where you can land your plane and taxi it to your
house
Pilot ejects from Thunderbird aircraft
Pilot ejects from a Thunderbird aircraft at an airshow
Ghost city of Gukanjima
Gukanjima is an island near the westernmost shore of Japan
Deer Stag humping a decoy
When hormones are stronger than intelligence
USS Iowa firing its guns
Arial photo of the USS Iowa firing its massive guns taken from the
air Note the huge shock waves on the ocean below the barrels
A massive 340kg fish caught
A fish vendor inspects a fish
of 24 meters long and 340 kilograms at a seafood market
One very lucky driver
Look at this accident The truck must have come from the right
through that guardrail on the right side of the picture
A photo of an impossible shape
I bet this shape only looks impossible from one single position,
where the camera is If you changed positions, you would see what
it really looks like
