Gorgeous Photographs of Explosions

New Zealand artist and photographer Geoffrey H. Short hired special effects experts from the film industry to set up explosions on the black sands of the New Zealand coast. They mixed fossil fuel and gunpowder and set the explosions in mid-air to cause minimum damage to the environment, while Short caught them in his camera. Geoffrey H. Short said in a statement, “I am not trying to tell people what they should think, rather I am making art objects which I hope will make people think.”

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The Poison Garden

The Alnwick Poison Garden is one of the many public gardens attached to Alnwick Castle in Northumberland, England. The castle itself is the second largest in Great Britain. The Alnwick Poison Garden boasts some of the world’s most dangerous plants, hence the name. Behind big black gates, the carefully curated garden contains about 100 varieties illegal narcotics including poppies, which are used to make opium, the poisonous Atropa belladonna (also known as deadly nightshade), Strychnos nux-vomica (used to make strychnine), Cocoa (from which cocaine is produced), hemlock (used to kill Socrates), cannabis and more.

Monster Black Hole Surrounded by Ring of Stars

NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has imaged this coiled galaxy with an eye-like object at its center. The ‘eye’ at the center of the galaxy is actually a monstrous black hole surrounded by a ring of stars.

 

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10 Reasons We Should Fear the Singularity

Well, let me give you what I believe are the top 10 most popular reasons: