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Started by casandra, Jun 07 2009 07:45 PM

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#1 casandra

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Posted 07 June 2009 - 07:45 PM

How about starting a thread which celebrates beauty and nature and life and science. Share images you find captivating or meaningful or just simply beautiful. I’ll start:

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The Spitzer Space Telescope caught this awesome image of comets colliding in the Helix Nebula (the red is the comet dust). It’s likened to the red pupil at the center of a green monster's eye.



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This beautiful animal is a sea slug. It’s one of  these soft bodied, shell-less molluscs called Nudibranchs.
"Oh what a beauteousness!"
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Posted 08 June 2009 - 10:52 AM

An aye-aye
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An omnivore Strepsirrhini native to Madagascar, perhaps a descendant of Darwinius masillae, also called "Ida"?
  
One must presume that long and short arguments contribute to the same end. - Epicurus
...except casandra's that belong to the funniest, most interesting and imaginative (or over-imaginative?) ones, I suppose.

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Posted 08 June 2009 - 11:35 AM

It's got your eyes...:( (or is it ears?)





this one's really electrifying:

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"Oh what a beauteousness!"
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Posted 08 June 2009 - 12:26 PM

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M.C. Escher, one of my favourite painters...
  
One must presume that long and short arguments contribute to the same end. - Epicurus
...except casandra's that belong to the funniest, most interesting and imaginative (or over-imaginative?) ones, I suppose.

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Posted 08 June 2009 - 12:35 PM

Nice...I like him too... :(



the wonders of modern photography:

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Posted 08 June 2009 - 12:41 PM

AMAZING

View Postcasandra, on Jun 8 2009, 11:35 AM, said:

It's got your eyes...:( (or is it ears?)





this one's really electrifying:

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Posted 09 June 2009 - 06:25 AM

View Posthobglobin, on Jun 9 2009, 05:26 AM, said:

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M.C. Escher, one of my favourite painters...
this is nature or science?
Simple living, highnot thinking

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Posted 09 June 2009 - 07:45 AM

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one of Martin Amm's dew-covered insects....:lol:...described as bugs with bling....
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Posted 09 June 2009 - 07:56 AM

Some Agar plate art... by ??

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and a wreath from  Dr Tsien (?), I guess it needs no more description.

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...except casandra's that belong to the funniest, most interesting and imaginative (or over-imaginative?) ones, I suppose.

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Posted 09 June 2009 - 07:59 AM

View PostNabi, on Jun 9 2009, 10:25 AM, said:

View Posthobglobin, on Jun 9 2009, 05:26 AM, said:

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M.C. Escher, one of my favourite painters...
this is nature or science?
Both....I think the hand is natural, and isn't crystal ball gazing a tried and true science? Post your pics BB....:lol:..:)...
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Posted 09 June 2009 - 08:19 AM

ok....sap and nap time  :lol: :

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A newborn baby orangutan rests in the arms of its mother, Mona, at the Aalborg Zoo in western Denmark. It is the second orangutan baby born in the zoo in 10 years.
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Posted 10 June 2009 - 11:00 AM

That's the kitschy view on it.. :ph34r:

This is Belionota sumptuosa from Indonesia, a member of one of the most colourful and splendiferous beetle families the Buprestidae. I guess today also a popular merchandise at ebay etc and a pest anyway...
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Edited by hobglobin, 10 June 2009 - 11:00 AM.

  
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Posted 10 June 2009 - 11:38 AM

oh, a beautiful pest...just like you (or is it me?) :ph34r:




Tell me that this beats all kitsches:
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Posted 30 June 2009 - 11:50 AM

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geranium flower (20X) Nikon small world gallery
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Posted 30 June 2009 - 11:59 AM

A mollusc  :)
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One must presume that long and short arguments contribute to the same end. - Epicurus
...except casandra's that belong to the funniest, most interesting and imaginative (or over-imaginative?) ones, I suppose.
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