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[gmax137]

.30 .30 Winchester impact from about 50 meters

No more robocalls?

 

[phinds]

.30 .30 Winchester impact from about 50 meters
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ooooh ... AT&T is going to speak harshly to you.

 

[DennisN]

.30 .30 Winchester impact from about 50 meters

Don't worry, you can buy a new one on BangGood.

Edit: The telephone on your photo looks like mine usually does after I've communicated with modern automated customer services.

 

[epenguin]

In the random own photos selected and presented to me as explained above, todah was this spaghetti alle vongole. From laziness I have refrained from trimming or enhancin.

(And also from spellcheckin)

 

[morrobay]

Indeed you can have Mediterranean style anywhere

 

[epenguin]

For instance there was a photo contest on the theme 'trees' for which I got not a single vote.
https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/vote-pf-photo-contest-trees.713106/

Maybe I'd have done better if I had remembered the one the system recalled to me today.

 

[Mondayman]

This is my kitty, Pauli, named after the physicist of course.

 

[epenguin]

This is my kitty, Pauli, named after the physicist of course.

I hope you will not try any unpredictable experiments.

 

[DrClaude]

This is my kitty, Pauli, named after the physicist of course.

That cat is definitely not even wrong. Come to think of it, cats are never wrong (at lest in their mind...)

 

[Keith_McClary]

It's an interesting geometry puzzle to figure out what you are looking at here.

 

[etotheipi]

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It's an interesting geometry puzzle to figure out what you are looking at here.

It’s a mountain init

 

[Keith_McClary]

It’s a mountain init

I mean the shadowy effect at the top.

 

[Ibix]

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It's an interesting geometry puzzle to figure out what you are looking at here.

Cloud forming just this side of the mountain illuminated by the sun which remains behind the mountain, I guess. So the shadow effect is blue sky seen in the gap between the ridge and the cloud and the glow is sunlight off the cloud.

 

[Keith_McClary]

Cloud forming just this side of the mountain

There was no cloud when the sun came out a couple of minutes later. https://www.theglobalartcompany.com/products/brocken is another example of the effect.

 

[BillTre]

Illuminated from behind and below the mountain, cloud in front of the mountain?
Shadow of illumination around mountain?

 

[dlgoff]

I thought about putting this photo in my Beauty of old electrical and measuring things, etc. thread as it's beautiful to me, but since it isn't electrical and doesn't measure anything I'll put it here. My father was in the US Marine Corps stationed in the Philippines during WW2. This was his uniform:

 

[phinds]

Specifically, his DRESS uniform, not his regular uniform.

 

[dlgoff]

Specifically, his DRESS uniform, not his regular uniform.

correct. His rank was corporal.

 

[dlgoff]

His duties were being an orderly/body guard for a Colonel. I've got a photo album of his and later may scan and post a couple images.

 

[Keith_McClary]

Shadow of illumination around mountain?

A layer of haze low over the town (probably due to furnaces, it was -35C). The bright part is low-angle scattering of sunlight by the haze.

 

[waternohitter]

His duties were being an orderly/body guard for a Colonel. I've got a photo album of his and later may scan and post a couple images.

We'd like to see the photo album of your father.

 

[Keith_McClary]

Another geometry puzzle:

 

[BillTre]

Oh, Fun.

Illuminated from behind and to the left of the camera, to make the rainbow.
Top of hill is well illuminated, but closer to the camera is in shade (clouds or more likely a terrain feature (sharp edge)).
Sky is clear but with a low patchy haze (producing the patchy rainbow).
Alternatively, the sun could be shining through some patchy clouds, resulting on a patchy illumination of the non-patchy haze, producing a patchy rainbow.

Not sure about the hazy stripes of white light illumination radiating to the center of the rainbow arc (center of the circle that the arc is a part of).
To me, the geometry indicates they are part of the optical effect of the rainbow.
I'm not clear on it but I figure it is a non-refracting reflection off haze droplets.
This radiating stripiness of the white seems due to the same haze pattern as producing the rainbow (same place or a nearby neighboring place in the sky (atmosphere) where the light is hitting droplets).
Different angles of observation (that don't produce rainbow producing refraction), resulting in a white light reflection at a different angle.

 

[Keith_McClary]

Not sure about the hazy stripes of white light illumination radiating to the center of the rainbow arc

That is the geometry I meant.

 

[dlgoff]

We'd like to see the photo album of your father.

This is the coronel

Here's a couple pics with dad setting to FDR's right

 

[dlgoff]

My father was in the US Marine Corps stationed in the Philippines during WW2.

Dad told me he was shaken out of his bunk several times from this:

 

[Keith_McClary]

Not sure about the hazy stripes of white light illumination radiating to the center of the rainbow arc

Sunbeams are (essentially) parallel lines in 3D space. They appear to diverge from the Sun due to parallax. Near dawn or dusk they can extend across the sky and appear to converge at the anti-solar point. (Think train tracks.)

Anticrepuscular rays appear opposite of a sunrise on the Gulfcoast of Mississippi. Note the anticrepuscular rays are perpendicular to the rainbow. Photo:Chatnuck24

 

[morrobay]

To conclude the (I miss) New York State of Mind series: The Puerto Rican girls were charging $3/photo so had to be unnoticed. Midtown, Canal st Chinatown. Lower East Side near Tompkins Square

 

[Andy Resnick]

We've had a special visitor for the past few days:

This has been identified as a female summer tanager, a bird that should not be anywhere near us. In fact, if confirmed, this will be the first recorded sighting (in our region) since bird surveys began in 1900. A group of local experts is scheduled to come by tomorrow (12/19) to observe and confirm (while socially distant, etc.)... some excitement!

 

[Mondayman]

Ny new number one guitar, an Epiphone 1959 LP Standard. Plays and sounds amazing, for $1150 you have a quality guitar. I personally think Gibson is overpriced. They are fantastic instruments for sure, but considering you're paying atleast $3000 Canadian for a standard guitar, Epiphone is a really bang for your buck choice. That being said, I would spend an eons worth of wages to get my hands on a Jimmy Page LP..

 

[morrobay]

No prizes for guessing name of tree that starts with U

 

[BillTre]

Saw this recently on a white board at a local hospital:

 

[rsk]

The Physics of Snowmen thread reminded me of this photo, taken a few years ago now. I love the pattern produced.

 

[dlgoff]

We'd like to see the photo album of your father.

My father was in the US Marine Corps stationed in the Philippines during WW2.

A little history:

Dad enlisted in the Marine Corps at the beginning of his high school's senior year when he was engaged to my Mom who was in her high school's Junior year. At the beginning of Mom's Senior year she was recruited by J Edgar Hoover, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and went to Washington DC. While there she acquired these photos of president Roosevelt's funeral procession past the White House:

 

[Leo Liu]

A dumb Canada goose (honk)
Victoria Park, London, Ontario, CA