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"QUANTUM SHOT" #128


Fishing can be DANGEROUS


(original unknown)

But seriously, some people catch really big fish, and spread even bigger tales about it.


Source China Daily








Source: CrazyPages

King Carp

Dieter Markus Stein from Germany caught world-record carp in 2007
(with the help of the "Visible Pop Ups" dipped into the "Carptrack Amino Monster DIP") His muscles were aching for a long time afterwards....





Source: CarpSport


Big AND Ugly

Lurking in the depths: Giant Isopod:




Picture sources:Wiki, Coda via UglyOverload


Ancient Shark

This frilled shark was caught recently in Japan. Nobody knows what caused this rare creature to come up from the depths of 600 meters where it lives, but it did not last long in the contaminated waters and sadly perished.





Photos courtesy: Reuters & Yahoo

More sea beauties:


source


What do you do when you catch (supposedly) an alien monster?
Eat it, of course

Village residents from the Rostov region of Russia caught a weird creature two weeks ago after a strong storm in the Sea of Azov. The shark-looking creature was producing strange squeaky sounds. The fishermen originally believed that they had caught an alien and decided to film the monster with the help of a cell phone camera.



However, scientists & UFO investigators were greatly disappointed when they found out that the fishermen had eaten the monster. They said it did not appear threatening, so they decided to fry it for dinner. one of the men said that it was the most delicious dish he had ever eaten.



Well, the mysterious monster did not remain a mystery for very long. Kudos for discovering the truth probably go to UglyOverload:
It's a "guitar fish"


Photo from: Florida Museum of Natural History

Yeti Crab - the Ultimate Psychedelic Catch

Finally, here is truly cool and unexpected creature, fished out of the depths:
the Yeti Crab:



"Its silky white looks may make it seem more at home in the Himalaya, but this unique creature was recently discovered in the deep darkness of the South Pacific. The creature is so unusual that a whole new family of animal had to be created to classify it. Its official name is Kiwa hirsuta, and even after a year of study scientists say there's still much about it they don't understand."



Scientists admit that we explored less than 1% of world's ocean depths, and who knows what gleefully lurks out there, mocking our feeble attempts at exploration.
(we need more public interest and expedition financing, hint, hint)


Art for the Devoted Fishermen

Check out Maggie Taylor at
Susan Spiritus Gallery for these additions to your fishing trophy room.

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http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2007/03/big-fish-extravaganza.html

"QUANTUM SHOT" #155


"Breast-clouds"

Mammatus Clouds, or "breast-clouds", are fascinating formations in the sky, made mostly from the cumulus cloud base. Although they are not a sign that a tornado is about to form, they often accompany tornado-producing storms, or even may be direct byproduct of tornado activity - an aftermath of severe thunderstorms. Thanks to the exclusive permission of Jorn Olsen, here are some weird mammatus shots:





















Lenticulars...

See more of the lenticular clouds here










Images source: Valuca


Stormy Skies Update:

More unreal cloud turmoil from the folks at "Extreme Instability":












Photo by Riccardo Mannella


(image credit: Patricia Radnor)


(image credit: Jason Smith, Cloud Appreciation Society)


(image credit: Olivier Garde. Pierre Farissier. Franck Bompaire.)




Photo by Don Sanderson, Iowa USA


Photo by KSNTV

As a counterpoint to the celestial unrest, here is a beautiful picture of the tropical wave:


Photo by Andrew Castellano

Image sources: Extreme instability, Cloud Appreciation Society, Valuca

Permanent Link...
Category: Nature,Weird
Related Posts:
Atmosphere Goes nuts
Lenticular Clouds Gallery

출처 http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2007/04/mammatus-lenticular-other-extreme.html

"QUANTUM SHOT" #156


Journey Through the Otherworldly Landscape

The Dry Valleys of Antarctica (located within Victoria Land west of McMurdo Sound) get almost no snowfall, and except for a few steep rocks they are the only continental part of Antarctica devoid of ice. The terrain looks like something not of this Earth; the valley floor occasionally contains a perennially frozen lake with ice several meters thick. Under the ice, in the extremely salty water live mysterious simple organisms, a subject of on-going research.

Victoria Valley, Wright Valley and Taylor Valley.








Image credit: Peter West, National Science Foundation

Recent Washington Post interactive presentation
(featuring photography by George Steinmetz) reveals this stark but beautiful terrain like never before - in some places weirdly similar to Martian landscape:



Looking like something out of Lovecraft's ("Mountains of Madness") imagination, this is actually a dried skeleton of a seal.

Lake Vanda in Wright Valley, with extremely salty water underneath thick layer of incredibly clear ice:




Taylor Valley: Powerful "katabatic" winds erode the rocks on the bottom of the valley into marvelous shapes. Such wind-sculpted rocks are called "ventifacts":


Photos by George Steinmetz

Compare the above image with Easter Island Statues:

(thanks to m3ch for pointing this out)

For more images from this series, click here

Another good article shows more wind-carved "ventifacts":


Photo by Kristan Hutchison

Canada Glacier on the edge of Lake Fryxell:

Photo by Joe Mastroianni

Volcanic Fumaroles of Mount Erebus


Lenticular clouds hover over Mount Erebus volcano (US Coast Guard photo)

Mount Erebus (3,794 meters), Ross Island, is the most active volcano in Antarctica, which also contains "persistent" lava lake, one of a very few long-lived lava lakes in the world - clearly visible from space:



Steaming ice "fumaroles" (volcanic gas vents) surround the crater, in time turning into surreal ice towers:


Photo courtesy of Rich Esser


Photo by George Steinmetz

See more of ice fumaroles here


Blue light inside a fumarole turns it into a work of art:

Photo by Paul Doherty

Mount Erebus ice caves merit their own exploration: (see more here)


Photo by Jessie Crain

Permanent Link...
Category: Travel,Nature
Related Posts: Bolivian Salt Lake, Giant Frozen "Wave"

출처 http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2007/04/dry-valleys-of-antarctica.html

"QUANTUM SHOT" #172


Some say they're cute, some may find them beyond cute and rather weird
- make your choice here :)

You've seen how little turtles are born (click here). Now observe the stupendous cuteness power of these tiny hedgehogs. I want one (only one!) for a pet.
Images courtesy Cetki

























And here's how they look in the wild -
newborn hedgie inside a nest:


Photo credit: Liz & Tony Bomford

출처http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2007/05/newborn-hedgehogs-cute.html

"QUANTUM SHOT" #193


Ballistic Missile Carriers & other super trucks

We covered Russian Army Ballistic Missile Carriers in the previous article. Today we publish some additional images of Soviet Army many-wheeled monsters: most models dating back to Cold War and Brezhnev times, with only a few still in production - most produced by the Minsk Tractor Trailer Factory.

Model 7907: (one of the longest chassis in the world)
Carrying capacity - 200 tons.













Model 7917:





Model 7906:



Model 7904:







Model 7410:





Model 543:





Model 535:



MKZT 79221-1:




Graveyard of the mighty ones

Rusting away in some nameless yard, these dinosaurs still look impressive when parked close to "diminutive" russian cars. Pretty cool props for some rad Cold War game developing. (images source here)



This one seems to be one of the more "collectible" ZIL-3167s. Here is how it looked in its better days:







and when retired:























One spotter found the MAZ 7904 (shown above) in the hangar of the Baikonur Space Center. It is the only surviving truck of this kind. Some Russian and East European forests, I bet, still have inside of them deeply disturbing army machinery, the likes of which the world only saw at Communists May Parades.

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