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One Chance Only

Posted in Funny » Comics 16 May 2012   / 5305 views
One Chance Only

Picture of the Day

Posted in Random » POTD 10 Apr 2012   / 3960 views

What does it look like? Tip: It has nothing to do with trees.

 

Picture of the Day

1000 Instruments over Two Miles of Desert to Make a Music Video

Posted in Videos » Awesome 7 Feb 2012   / 3810 views

I present you OK GO’s latest awesome music video.
 

How Would You Survive On a Desert Island?

Posted in Funny » Humor 25 Oct 2011   / 7888 views

If you had to make a choice of what to have while stranded on a desert island what would you choose? See the following graph to make your critical choice.

 

How Would You Survive On a Desert Island?

The 2011 Burning Man Festival (66 pics)

Posted in Lifestyle » Travel 7 Sep 2011   / 5532 views

Welcome to the Black Rock desert. This desert is home to the Burning Man Festival. Some very strange looking people attend the event but there is plenty to see and do plus it is a great place to express your creativity.

 

The 2011 Burning Man Festival

The Unusual Escape of the Bobcat (5 pics)

Posted in Animals 6 Jun 2011   / 5357 views

Apparently a bobcat was being chased by a cougar somewhere in the desert. Bobcats may be cunning but this cougar was cleverer. He found a place to escape to where the cougar can never get to him.

 

The Unusual Escape of the Bobcat

Beautiful Oasis in the Desert (22 pics)

Posted in Lifestyle » Nature 21 Mar 2011   / 3806 views

This is the Lencois Maranhenses National Park. It is located in northeastern Brazil in the state of Maranhao. It has many large sand dunes that occasionally flood but is very flat and low. In spite of rain that is abundant there is practically no vegetation. However, it does have beautiful green lagoons. The park was created on June 2, 1981.

 

Beautiful Oasis in the Desert

The Miraculous Tree in the Middle of the Desert (7 pics)

Posted in Pictures 17 Feb 2011   / 6399 views

Bahrain is known for its miraculous Tree of Life that grows in the middle of the desert, miles away from water and other plants. This natural wonder is 400 years old and 25 meters in height. It attracts tourists from all over the world who wish to see the most mysterious tree that is able to survive in harsh conditions and is shrouded by legends.

 

The Miraculous Tree in the Middle of the Desert

Forgotten Beauties of the Sea (70 pics)

Posted in Pictures 24 Dec 2010   / 9441 views

Once known to be the prides of the sea, these ships are now abandoned and forgotten by most of us because of uncontrolled circumstances such as lack of manpower and poor maintenance. The sad thing is these ships were never restored and were left to rot on sea or land. Take a look of the pictures below and see the sad fate of these once-beautiful ships.

 

Forgotten Beauties of the Sea

Camels in the Sea? (12 pics)

Posted by djkirsh in Pictures 18 Dec 2010   / 4806 views

Yes, this dessert with its multitude of shipwrecks used to be the Aral Sea, full of aquatic animals and ships taking cargos to different destinations. The Soviet Union began to use the waters in irrigation projects until it was all gone, leaving just the blowing sands and shipwrecks.

Camels in the Sea?

Sweet Sandwiches (20 pics)

Posted in Lifestyle » Food 24 Sep 2010   / 8912 views

These sandwiches have to be some of the strangest ever made. Not that they wouldn’t necessarily be good. With these sandwiches you get your meal and your desert all rolled into one. Not so good for those watching their weight I wouldn’t think.

 

Sweet Sandwiches (20 pics)

What Is Hidden in the Picture? (33 pics)

Posted in Pictures 23 Sep 2010   / 13593 views

You think there is nothing, however it is right in front of you.

 

What Is Hidden in the Picture? (33 pics)

Porcelain Desert (30 pics)

Posted in Pictures 29 Jul 2010   / 6778 views

Porcelain desert or the glistening white sands is like no other place on earth. This awesome natural wonder is located in New Mexico. Amazing wave-like dunes of gypsum sand are engulfing 275 square miles of desert creating beautiful dune field. Porcelain desert officially known as White Sands National Monument is the biggest gypsum dune field in the world.

 

Porcelain Desert (30 pics)


Burning Man Festival 2009 in the Nevada desert (35 pics)

Posted in Pictures 8 Sep 2009   / 15583 views
Burning Man is an eight-day annual event held in the Black Rock Desert, in Northern Nevada. It takes its name from the ritual burning of a large wooden effigy on Saturday evening. The event is described by many participants as an experiment in community, radical self-expression, and radical self-reliance.
The event was open from the last Monday in August until Labor Day (August 31st to September 7th 2009, so yesterday). In 2008, 49,599 people participated in Burning Man, in 1986, it was only 20 people on a small beach in San Francisco…
It is all about art, music and performance and this year, the theme was “Evolution”.


Burning Man Festival 2009 in the Nevada desert (35 pics)

Have you heard anything about the Kopp-Etchells effect? (30 pics)

Posted in Pictures 1 Sep 2009   / 13091 views
In fact, the Kopp-Etchells effect is a new name.
It was named after two soldiers who died in Afghanistan in July 2009. The Kopp-Etchells effect is a result of dust striking helicopter blades as they take off or land at night, causing a bright 'halo' effect around the spinning rotor disk.
So, if it happens at night, you can watch an amazing show.
Take a look at pictures.


Have you heard anything about the Kopp-Etchells effect? (30 pics)

Huacachina - another great destination for summer vacations (38 pics)

Posted in Pictures 9 Jul 2009   / 11732 views
Huacachina is a small lost paradise located in the desert of the Ica region, in south-western Peru. There are only 115 inhabitants (1999).
The particularity of this village is that it has been built around a small natural lake in the desert called the "Oasis of America.”
The two main activities in addition to swimming are sandboarding and taking dune buggy rides on sand dunes that stretch several hundred feet high.
Going on vacations in an oasis is rather cool and frankly, I would be glad to spend one week or two over there this summer!


Huacachina - another great destination for summer vacations (38 pics)

The beauty of the desert (42 pics)

Posted in Pictures 29 Jun 2009   / 3929 views
It’s interesting to see that such a beauty lies in hostile environments as deserts. After the jump, you will see a selection of beautiful black and white photos of sand dunes.

The beauty of the desert (42 pics)


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