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[brucegray666]

[Chris Fenton]

Another great one from GeekArt

[The Lorcan Nagle]

[steveuk]

A US retailer is advertising a submarine shaped like a killer whale - for more than £60,000.
Hammacher Schlemmer's $100,000 Killer Whale Submarine can breach from the water, just like a real whale.
It has pectoral fins with control levers, and a 255-horsepower supercharged Rotax axial-flow engine.
Underwater, it can go 40 kilometres per hour, while it can hydroplane on the surface at up to 80km/h.
The submarine doesn't go very far underwater so a built-in snorkel is used to supply air to the engine as deep as five feet.
The pilot uses levers to control pectoral fins and steers with foot pedals.
A live video feed from a camera mounted on the dorsal fin is fed into the cockpit.

http://web.orange.co.uk/article/quirkies/Killer_whale_submarine_for_sale

[The Lorcan Nagle]

Slap a pair of orange machine guns on the outside and you've got yourself a GI Joe vehicle.

[Arjan Dirkse]

Sorry to disrupt all the cool memes and pop culture related pics with a boring pic from some city...but this picture reminded me that I haven't been in Prague for way too long...

[brucegray666]

Is that a real picture?!? Or has it been "tweaked"?

Anyway, enough pretty pictures. Now for something a bit more flippant...

[Arjan Dirkse]

Is that a real picture?!? Or has it been "tweaked"?

i think it's almost entirely accurate, although some of those light rays seem like they may have been added digitally.

[brucegray666]

Cool. The light does look a bit JJ Abrams.

[brucegray666]

Poor Batman.

And happier times:

[Robert B]

I would like this room in my house

http://freshome.com/... (Freshome.com)

[Steve Sensible]

I would like this room in my house

The ladder's kind of disappointing. I'd want some kind of rotating cylindrical hover-lift mechanism.

[steveuk]

Cool. The light does look a bit JJ Abrams.

I think its probably an HDR photo. The process involves shooting a range of exposures, from very dark to very light, and then combining them for maximum detail and colour;

http://www.piculous....ing-hdr-photos/

The results are striking, but also quite surreal.

And yes, the lens flare looks fake, its a pity it was added really.

[Steve Sensible]

Yeah but... how in God's name do you get it on the horse?

[Ogul]

Yeah but... how in God's name do you get it on the horse?

The magic of pixels.

[Steve Sensible]

And yet it's clearly real.

[Russell H]

My first assumption was that it was a wetsuit.

[Arjan Dirkse]

I think its probably an HDR photo. The process involves shooting a range of exposures, from very dark to very light, and then combining them for maximum detail and colour;

http://www.piculous....ing-hdr-photos/

The results are striking, but also quite surreal.

And yes, the lens flare looks fake, its a pity it was added really.

It could have been done that way, I don't know...but I think you can get this sort of light when the sun breaks through a thick layer of clouds. That vivid contrast I mean, I agree that the lens flare seems a bit too much.

Anyway, I liked the picture. It is one of the prettiest parts of Prague, the hill below the Strahov monastery. When you look the other way from that same point, you get this spectacular view:

[craggy]

SuperHorse!

[Steve Sensible]

Wise words: