President Taft riding a water buffalo. Always gives me a chuckle.
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It’s especially crazy that this is like .001% of the sky.
Oh, it’s much, much, much less than that.
0.0000416%, 1/24 millionth of the sky.
Here, a .gif on Reddit
It confirmed the cosmic insignificance of Earth, the profound vastness of space and time, and — at the same time — the rarity, beauty, and fragility of life. Human perception, memory, and understanding is tiny. But, it reaches toward infinity.
The first photo of a black hole is the most historically significant “first photo of x” that happened in my life time and that I actually understood its historical significance when it came out. So I’d say that’s probably my favourite.
Not a photo.
It’s the output of an AI model trained on simulations of black holes being asked to fill in the gaps from sparse observations.
Someone: takes a selfie with their phone under low lighting conditions
You: "not a photo, it’s the output of an algorithm taking the luminosity from an array of light detectors, giving information of the colour and modifying it according to lighting conditions, and then using specific software to sharpen the original capture*
Deepwater Horizon sinking in the Gulf of Mexico on April 22, 2010.
It caused an equivalent oil spill of 4.9 million barrels and exposed the surrounding wildlife to toxic materials, covering thousands of animals in oil. The cleanup efforts took years.
A prime example of humans messing up this planet for their own gains.
Oil executives aren’t humans
Called “Earthrise”, taken during the Apollo 8 mission in December 1968. Always tried to imagine what it was like to have had that view IRL.
First moon landing. It shows what we are capable of
We can go further. We need to support science and dream.
We already have. We have pictures. Oh you mean flying there like Peter Pan and living a Star Trek life? Never going to happen.
Kubrick can make good movies.
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Because it’s a nice innocent photo of a man walking with nobody on his left side.
It doesn’t look like anything to me, comrade.
Just a random man, no one important in particular.
Buncha queer people having a costume party at the Institute for Sexual Science in Berlin, which was the world’s first queer clinic and where the foundations of what we today call Gender Affirming Care were developed.
New Year in a police station in Havana, January 1st, 1959.
This is Emir Seyyid Mir Mohammed Alim Khan, the last Emir of Bukhara.
The emirate existed from 1785
This is a pre-WW1 colored photograph (1911) by Prokudin-Gorsky
The method for the color photos is interesting. He used three images with 3 colored filters on them. The film was black and white but when the same color was projected with them and they were added together you got the original colors.
All of the photos taken by Prokudin-Gorsky are incrediblely breath taking
Yury Gagarin and Gina Lollobrigida. First man into space and one of the most famous actresses back then.
I have many good ones, but i think my favourite is this one:
It’s from the famous victory parade in Moscow in 24.06.1945, Japan and USSR were not at war yet, so in a truly masterful trolling stroke, Japan was invited to parade to celebrate defeat of their own allies. On the photo you can see Japanese army colonel and a navy officer (hat visible partially) congratulate marshal Zhukov while French, British and American officers are waiting in line.
As of why, it never fail to make me smile.
The Socialist Fraternal Kiss
“I’m sure they were just good friends”
“Thanks comrade. But are you sure we’re supposed to use our tongues?”
Margaret Hamilton standing next to listings of the software that she and her MIT team produced for the Apollo Project.
I love her, and the code she used is adorable:
“LOL Memory” (Core Rope): The code was literally woven into hardware by women in factories, dubbed “Little Old Lady” memory.
The “Pale Blue Dot” image of earth taken by Voyager 1. Carl Sagan pushed to have Voyager take a parting shot before they turned off the camera. The earth is about one pixel in size.
