Penny4NASA

Penny4NASA is a campaign run by the Space Advocates nonprofit, a nonpartisan organization seeking to promote the expansion of funding for the economic, scientific and cultural value of the United States' national space program by advocating an increase in the budget for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to at least one percent of the United States Federal Budget. Penny4NASA also attempts to promote public awareness of the NASA mission and budget, and has produced a series of outreach videos, as well as performing educational outreach via social media.

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Scans

On this post I'm planing to collect amazing scans I come across. I'm so sorry for the lack of informations on these photographs that are mostly made from magazines.

From National Geographic magazine from cca 1960s

Pigeon Point beach on Tobago
National Geographic | January 1953
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New York City, 1978

Cars waiting at a polling station
National Geographic | October 1990

The Thinker,

National Geographic May 1965

Man saved by train conductor

The hapless selfie-taking tourist who has become an internet sensation over footage of him being kicked in the head by a Peruvian train driver, instead of saying 'Ow!', or 'Maybe I was too close to the train', exclaims, 'Wow! I got kicked in the head! I think I got that on film!'.
 

But what really happened is:











If he was not 'kicked' (looks more like a push to me), that metal thing would pierce his head like a melon.                                             

'He wasn’t on the front of the train, he was on four feet off the front of the train kind of a thing. So if the train was going to hit me, it was going to hit me before his boot ever reached me.' said Canadian tourist.

Kicked in the head by a train - YouTube

Now who's the dummy? Student kicked in the head by train conductor set to earn $250,000 after his YouTube video receives more than 23 million views

The botanical home of musician Mileece Petre photographed by Laure Joliet

 The garden outsi­de the vinta­ge Airst­ream trail­er where Milee­ce Petre, an artis­t and music­ian, lives in Los Angel­es

  Mileece Petre Website


 Laure Joliet Website


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18 Meters Tall Image

"the redwoods, once seen, leave a mark or create a vision that stays with you always. no one has ever successfully painted or photographed a redwood tree. the feeling they produce is not transferable. from them comes silence and awe. it’s not only their unbelievable stature, nor the color which seems to shift and vary under your eyes. no, they are not like any trees we know, they are ambassadors from another time."
so wrote john steinbeck. but it was photographer michael nichols’ ambition to attempt such a photograph, an ambition finally made feasible given today’s technology and equipment. so over a period of nineteen days, nichols took 84 separate photographs, each of which needed over an hour to complete, to capture this 1500 year old, 300 feet tall giant redwood in california’s prairie creek redwoods state park. the resultant stitched image stands 18 meters tall (click to see it displayed).
coast redwoods house a complex ecosystem, with dense mats of soil (up to three feet thick) on the tree’s limbs and trunk folds which support ferns, confiers and berry bushes. this particular redwood has the most complex crown ever mapped by scientists. but as one of the most valuable timber species in the lumber industry, 90 to 98% of old growth redwood forest has now been felled. 

 At least 1,500 years old, a 300-foot titan in California’s Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park has the most complex crown scientists have mapped. This photo, taken by Michael Nichols, is a mosaic composed of 84 images.

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awkwardsituationist

Colosseum Carved into (real?) Tooth by ILLUSION CO.LTD.

First I find it here, and as it claimed to be real tooth that Colosseum was carved into, I've done a little research and discovered that it is toothpaste advertisement campaign, which was to convey this “Roman Civilization Cavity”, i.e. not to let germs settle down on your teeth, or else you will have to end up with such a “Colosseum” cavity.
The two CGI sculptures related to Civilization-Egypt and Civilization-Rome.
Therefore, the CGI picture neither shows a real tooth, nor a colosseum carved into it. It is not so amazing fact, but a good health campaign nevertheless!

A GYMNAST BASE jumper attempts a somersault on a high bar, perched on the edge of a cliff! What

 could go wrong? Well, a lot really.

The presenter Arde Sende Osen admits he thought the base jumper would be killed after witnessing the 'worst' accident he has ever see at work

A second camera shows the startling danger that that the daredevil is left in when it all goes wrong

But the helpless crew are relieved to see the parachute open as he gets closer towards the ground

Richard Henriksen, a Norwegian surgeon, who doubles as a daredevil was a victim of a stunt gone wrong.

While filming a daredevil segment for the “Normal Madness” TV show, his plan was to swing around the high bar and somersault off the cliff but while he was swinging around the bar, the frames broke loose and he disappeared from site, flying off the 4,000-foot cliff. Luckily he did not crash into the rocky surface and was able to open his parachute for a safe landing.

Credits: Mediakraze and Daily Mail