Mindblowing Images

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The MGM Lion in the moment just before it's roar was captured:



This was Hitler's bunker:

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Eiffel Tower Construction in 1888:



Hoover Dam without water in 1936:

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Mount Rushmore being carved in 1932:



This is the first Walmart in 1962:

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The Statue of Liberty under construction in 1884:



This is another photo of the Beatles crossing Abbey Road, and sold for 25k at auction a few years ago:

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Here's something you don't really ever hear about... here are survivors of the Titanic being rescued on the RMS Carpathia:



This is also believed to be the iceberg that sunk it, and has markings to show some of the impact:

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In 1962, Charles Duke wrapped up a family photo and left it on the moon:



In 1946, soldiers attached a camera to a missile to get a photo of outer space...the first one to be precise:

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First team photo of Google.com in 1999:

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More great stuff. I am thoroughly interested and entertained by all of these goodies.

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Every one that I came across that I never saw before I was like "wow, that is fucking cool."

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I decided to put this here so that people will actually see it, but this is possibly the greatest gif I've ever seen:

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I am not interested in seeing it, but I am sure there is a dancing animal gif somewhere on the internet to top the shit out of that shit.

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I still appreciate the effort of stop-motion lol

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Me also. It was reasonably well done.

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Today's mindblowing images are brought to you by my search of the winners of the Photomicography awards:



This is a rat brain's cerebellum.



These are barnacle appendages that are used to sweep plankton.



Magelonid polychaete worm larva found in a plankton sample.



This spiky proboscis (mouthparts) belongs to a vampire moth (Calyptra thalictri) captured by Jennifer Zaspel in Russia. The image shows the dorsal legulae, tearing hooks, and erectile barbs that helps the moth take in fruit juices and mammal blood while eating.



The gear-like trochanters (the part of the femur that connects to the hip bone) shown in Dr. Siwanowicz’s image help propel the green boneheaded planthopper (Acanalonia conica) at a staggering acceleration of 500 times the force of gravity. This image also reveals that gears, until recently thought one a human invention, in fact exist in nature.

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Rotifer Floscularia ringens feeding. Its rapidly beating cilia (hair-like structures) bring water that contains food to the rotifer. The “wheel animacules” were first described by Leeuwenhoek (ca.1702); when their cilia beat, they look like they have two wheels spinning on top. They live in reddish-brown tubes made of spherical “bricks.” Differential interference contrast microscopy.



Live green brain coral (Goniastrea sp.), under water. One full polyp in the center is shown with four surrounding polyps. Walled corallites are purple. All color is the natural autofluorescence of the coral with the exception of the purple, which is near-violet LED illumination to highlight neartransparent tissue.



ruitfly ovaries and uterus. The muscular and neural structure of the Drosophila melanogaster reproductive system is shown using fluorescence microscopy. The background staining of the eggs in red is a specific function of the mutant fly strain that is pictured here.



Weevil Eupholus, dried thorax scales, stack of 80 images.



Hydroid collected from kelp sample.