This is the heaviest building in the world, the Palace of the Parliament in Bucharest, Romania:
In the mid-1800s, any of these things could get you admitted to a "lunatic asylum":
This is what a real, authentic plague mask from the 1500s looked like:
Social Security cards used to not be a flimsy little piece of paper:
This is what a pistachio looks like before it's harvested and becomes the delicious nut we know and love:
Hospitals have machines that allow doctors and nurses to see exactly where your veins are:
Cooling towers have an open bottom:
The Mars Curiosity rover is drilling a ton of holes on Mars. Here's what 36 of them look like:
This is what a cell in Sweden's biggest prison looks like:
This is what a cross-section of wood from the 1950s looks like compared with a cross-section of wood from today:
And this is what the set of I Love Lucy looks like in full color:
This is (probably) the oldest olive tree on Earth, clocking in at a whopping 3,500-plus years old:
This is what the back of the "Mona Lisa" looks like:
Now, you're obviously familiar with the front side of a peacock. It's majestic. Glorious, even! But have you ever seen a peacock's back side? Now you have:
This, in all its glory, is what the inside of the Wienermobile looks like:
This is what's behind a movie screen:
You can tell the difference between cheap pasta and expensive pasta by looking at them:
This is what the city of Seattle used to be like before a major regrading project changed it, flattening hills and reshaping the landscape to "open up the city to more commerce":
This is what a credit card from the 1950s looked like:
Screwdrivers...well, screwdrivers can be really, really big:
This what a map of the world's oceans and only the world's oceans looks like:
There's a place in Norway named Rjukan that, because it's wedged between a bunch of tall mountains, only gets sun for less than half a year:
In order to get the residents some of that sweet, sweet vitamin D, a series of giant mirrors were built to reflect sunlight into the town. You can see them at work here:
And finally, this is the statement President Jimmy Carter wrote and put aboard the Voyager 1 spacecraft, intended for any aliens the probe might encounter:
• Don't insult other visitors. Offensive comments will be deleted without warning.
• Comments are accepted in English only.
• No swearing words in comments, otherwise such comments will be censored.
• Your nickname and avatar are randomly selected. If you don't post comments for 7 days, they both are reset.
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absolutely!
And maybe easier words, pictures or signs:
This spot will be dangerous for ca. 1'000'000 years.
Humanity exists since ca. 220'000 years, something like the English language since maybe 1'000 years. I don't think, an explorer will be able to read that in 2'000 years or later.
Only someone who works for izi would know that, so here's a suggestion. STOP BEING SO MEDIOCRE...YOU COMMUNIST.
So.... which one's which?
the right one that has been manufactured with bronze "nozzles". The surface get's rough which makes the sauce stick better.
Not to change the subject, but about your avatar... Has anyone ever seen a picture of Eminem smiling; I never have.
#43 now it looks worse and smells like shat
#35 It also a good example of the growth pattern or northern pine with the shorter growing season and southern pine with a longer growing season.
#42 Apparently only pasta makers know the differences, and "expensive" is yellower, uniform, thicker, and has more texture and less cracks.
#49 It's confusing because there is a big intro to the message, which was almost the exact same as the intro... politician's speech writers back in the day loved their rhetoric.