Very Interesting Photos. Part 145 (13 pics)

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Nature is fu***ng metal

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Stephen Wilshire drawing from memory the cityscape of Mexico City.

Stephen is an autistic British artist that has become famous for his unique ability to draw from memory very complex landscapes after having seen them only briefly. Stephen is a savant, a person with a development disability who develops extraordinary capacities often in the areas of memory, music and mathematics. He is completing a 4-meter long landscape of the Mexican capital after having flown over the city in a helicopter only once.

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Tsunami evacuation pod sold in Japan department store

“Access to the capsule is by a marine-grade hatch that can be opened from either side, with the outside fitted with a universal marine rescue socket. Inside, there are racing-style seats with full four-point harnesses, water bladders, a GPS locator beacon, storage facilities for food and other survival supplies, and 60 minutes of oxygen for when the naturally aspirated vents are under water. The hull also allows for mobile phone use to communicate with the outside world.”

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Vertical gardens

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Hiroshima Ground-Zero. At this very point nuke “Little Boy” detonated and killed 80000 people in an instant. Today it’s a small innocent alley

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A man named Tsutomu Yamaguchi was on a business trip in Hiroshima when the atomic bomb dropped. He was wounded, but returned to his hometown of Nagasaki, where the second atomic bomb was dropped. He survived both blasts and lived to 93

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2017 Rear Soft F1 Tire

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A word cloud of all the final words (spoken and written) of all 515 Texas death row inmate

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Turkish horse and knight armor, 1450-1550

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Bottle of Mackinlay’s Rare Old Highland Malt Whisky found frozen under the floorboards of explorer Ernest Shackleton’s hut at Cape Royds on Ross Island, 1907 ($50,000 scotch tasting)

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A map of the potential targets for nuclear strikes on the US

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This sparkling jumble is Messier 5 — a globular cluster consisting of hundreds of thousands of stars bound together by their collective gravity. But Messier 5 is no normal globular cluster. At 13 billion years old it dates back to close to the beginning of the Universe, which is some 13.8 billion years of age.