"The most important photograph in world" or "Photo 51", the first photograph of the double helix structure of DNA, painstakingly imaged by Rosalind Franklin and Ray Gosling at Kings College London, over 70 years ago.
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Interesting! - I love it, thanks for posting! Reminds me a bit of a Geoguessr, guess the location of a photo … have seen a version where you guess the year too? - but am not familiar with it, I saw a guy on YouTube guess the year also - GeoWizard.
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Omg. This is stunning. I went to a lecture by James Watson and it just made me
. The time and effort put into those X-ray diffraction images and the significance of them. She should have got a posthumous Nobel Prize.Vantablack: apparently the darkest black product in the world. This image is of crumpled aluminium foil, part of which is coated with Vantablack. No matter how much you zoom in, you simply can't see anything but black, it just looks like a hole.
The artist Anish Kapoor caused controversy when he obtained the exclusive rights to Vantablack for artistic endeavours, meaning that other artists were prohibited from using it, leading to protests and copycat products being developed.
The artist Anish Kapoor caused controversy when he obtained the exclusive rights to Vantablack for artistic endeavours, meaning that other artists were prohibited from using it, leading to protests and copycat products being developed.
I looove things like this.
I think someone came up with the pinkest pink in response?
I remember reading the longest tumblr post about this years ago. It was a hilarious saga if I recall correctly.
Judy Garland at the London Palladium in 1951.
You can own and wear a bit if you afford it
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They're lovely, but you put it down, you'd never find it again!You can own and wear a bit if you afford it
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Louise Brown, the world's first "test tube baby", born via IVF in 1978. I can remember the Press hysteria at the time, with talk of "Frankenstein babies", and children being grown entirely in laboratories, etc, etc. I work in women's health now, and IVF babies are extremely common!
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His voice annoys me.
I feel iconic. The Who, Charlton, Massive concert. Nobody knows how many ther
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First picture of the earth from space, taken by the astronaut Bill Anders on Christmas Eve 1968, as the Apollo 8 spacecraft rounded the dark side of the moon for a fourth time.
Is there a self took photo thread?
I was thinking of starting a 'one photo a day' people taking or remembering and posting one a day that they have saved. Then we can chat about that, get the details
I was thinking of starting a 'one photo a day' people taking or remembering and posting one a day that they have saved. Then we can chat about that, get the details
all my photos for the last 17 years have been of my dog and cat.
I'd like to see them .
The one a day is advisory because I know the whole thread will get swamped with awesome pictures
A photo a day.
I'm sure we all take pictures of things we find compelling in our day to day lives. why not share. A photo a day would be ideal, with maybe why you took it. I was walking along the Thames path while my son was go karting. The industrial appeals to me. Tate and lyle sugar factory in the distance.
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The one a day is advisory because I know the whole thread will get swamped with awesome pictures
In the summer of 1911, the American archaeologist Hiram Bingham arrived in Peru with a small team of explorers hoping to find Vilcabamba, the last Inca stronghold to fall to the Spanish. Traveling on foot and by mule, Bingham and his team made their way from Cuzco into the Urubamba Valley, where a local farmer told them of some ruins located at the top of a nearby mountain. The farmer called the mountain Machu Picchu, which translates to “old peak” in the native Quechua language. Bingham set up his tripod and camera that day and spent the afternoon photographing. Over the next several months, he and his team cleared the jungle from the ruins, uncovering exquisitely built houses, temples, steps, and terraces.
Bingham returned to Machu Picchu in 1912 with a team to begin excavation of the site, and then briefly visited again in 1915. This photo is either from 1911 or 1912, I've seen both years cited.
Body on Mt Everest. It's sad and disturbing but also important for folk to see these images due to the dangerousness of the climb. Deaths have escalated and they're just stuck there now. Must be awful for their loved ones.
Green Boots - though not formally identified they believe it to be Tsewang Paljor.
The BBC did a good long article on him, his background and the Everest allure. Interesting reading. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20151008-the-tragic-story-of-mt-everests-most-famous-dead-body
They’ve moved him to a more secluded location now. There are around 200 bodies up there (plus a lot of rubbish). It’s quite a controversial issue.
You all know Uluru (formerly Ayer's Rock.)
The Pitjanjatjara and Yankunyitjatjara people (traditional land owners of the area) have stopped tourists climbing Uluru due to the damage done and idiots getting stuck up there and having to be rescued. I think you can still climb but it's quite restricted now.