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My friend Rajan Parrikar’s pictures are awesome. Click on the thumbnail to get to his picture site.
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I loved going to watch the Blue Angels do their show at Moffett Field in Sunnyvale California. I came across this picture in SFGate.
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My friend Rajan Parrikar has a photo blog which you must visit. Rajan’s photography site has breathtaking pictures of Goa, India, and California. Awesome. I particularly like his Death Valley National Park pictures.
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Nihar sends this picture from Ko Tao in Thailand — “Ko Tao (เกาะเต่า), literally Turtle Island, is an island in the Gulf of Thailand in the south of Thailand.”
Note what’s on the laptop screen
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“HUBBLESITE . . . Out of the ordinary, out of this world” has pictures. I could spend days checking them out and indeed I have. I am sharing a small collection from there: “Astronomers Select Top Ten Most Amazing Pictures Taken by Hubble Space Telescope in Last 16 Years.”
Here are the pictures. The text associated with them is from Nov 2006 article by Michael Hanlon of the Daily Mail.
The Sombrero Galaxy – 28 million light years from Earth – was voted best picture taken by the Hubble telescope. …
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Here’s a collection of scenes from India at The Big Picture from bostom.com. (Thanks to Raja Sekhar for the link.)
There are 34 pictures in all there. I chose to include a small version of a picture of Durga idols being made because today is Maha-Ashtami — the 8th day of Durga Puja. In two days, it will be Vijaya Dashmi — the day on which we celebrate the victory of Mother Durga over evil.
Related Post: The Big Picture collection of pictures of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. …
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Now for some smashing news. The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) will be firing up the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). It will happen at 1 PM (IST) on Wednesday.
The first attempt to circulate a beam in the LHC will be made on 10 September at the injection energy of 450 GeV (0.45 TeV). This historical event will be webcast through http://webcast.cern.ch, and distributed through the Eurovision network. See http://www.cern.ch/lhc-first-beam for further details.
[Via Cosmic Variance.]
Watch a documentary on the LHC on the History Channel.
After 40 years of planning and construction, …
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(Click on the picture to go to the Picasa album with larger images.)
I got a master’s degree in computer science from Rutgers University. Visiting Rutgers was a trip down memory lane. Mega dozes doses of nostalgia.
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A few pictures from Chicago. I was there 30th April — May 3rd.
Mouse-over the picture to see the controls. Clicking on the second icon from the left at the bottom shows the picture captions. Note especially the Art Institute of Chicago building where Swami Vivekanand gave his famous talk in 1893. What looks like a huge drop of mercury is The Cloud Gate:
Cloud Gate is British artist Anish Kapoor’s first public outdoor work installed in the United States. The 110-ton elliptical sculpture is forged of a seamless series of …
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Lake View (Finland)
Originally uploaded by atanu.
Testing 1 2 3. Photo posting from flickr testing.
