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OMG GIF1889 version of the old Sutro photo discovered by...

Tue, 21 May 2013 22:00:00 -0700

OMG GIF1889 version of the old Sutro photo discovered by @therealwbtc at http://t.co/AElNhMYyfa

webuiltthiscity: Sutro from Mt. Davidson

Sun, 19 May 2013 15:29:33 -0700

webuiltthiscity:

Sutro from Mt. Davidson

webuiltthiscity: Sutro and the California Academy of Sciences...

Sat, 18 May 2013 16:47:34 -0700

webuiltthiscity:

Sutro and the California Academy of Sciences from the de Young observation deck

sutrofanclub: Bike & Sutro Tower (by mr0grog)

Tue, 14 May 2013 17:12:42 -0700

sutrofanclub:

Bike & Sutro Tower (by mr0grog)

sutrofanclub: San Francisco All Tucked In (by tobyharriman)

Tue, 14 May 2013 17:12:26 -0700

sutrofanclub:

San Francisco All Tucked In (by tobyharriman)

racer 5 dip

Tue, 14 May 2013 15:22:02 -0700

colchrishadfield: San Francisco and California wine country - a...

Tue, 14 May 2013 00:52:27 -0700

colchrishadfield:

San Francisco and California wine country - a favourite place on Earth.

durf: spacequest: Space Legos! Alpha-1 Rocket Base (via Phil...

Tue, 14 May 2013 00:11:50 -0700

durf:

spacequest:

Space Legos! Alpha-1 Rocket Base (via Phil Are Go!: Lego Week Pt 1 - Space Legos!)

I had all of these but the Space Cruiser at the top of the middle photo. Memories!

Russian space truck

Mon, 13 May 2013 20:34:16 -0700

Soyuz departing, Hadfield descending

Mon, 13 May 2013 18:35:12 -0700

Dextre

Fri, 10 May 2013 08:12:22 -0700

faceoff

Tue, 07 May 2013 21:09:22 -0700

toothless Sharks power play

Tue, 07 May 2013 20:30:06 -0700

toothless Sharks power play

webuiltthiscity: A full day of clouds in 43 seconds...

Mon, 06 May 2013 20:38:33 -0700

webuiltthiscity:

A full day of clouds in 43 seconds (time-lapse)

motherjones: isomorphismes: Population distribution of the...

Mon, 06 May 2013 09:18:01 -0700

motherjones:

isomorphismes:

Population distribution of the United States in units of Canadas.

This is basically the whole point of maps.

Hey Earth

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 14:13:37 -0700

Antares

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 14:07:40 -0700

merelygifted: An ancient Egyptian harbor has emerged on the Red...

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 23:46:10 -0700

merelygifted:

An ancient Egyptian harbor has emerged on the Red Sea coast, dating back about 4,500 years.

“Evidence unearthed at the site shows that it predates by more than 1,000 years any other port structure known in the world,” Pierre Tallet, Egyptologist at the University of Paris-Sorbonne and director of the archaeological mission, told Discovery News.

Built at the time of the Fourth Dynasty King Khufu, [who built] the Great Pyramid of Giza, the port was discovered by a Franco-Egyptian team of archaeologists at Wadi el-Jarf, nearly 110 miles south of the coastal city of Suez.

The site was first explored in 1823 by British pioneer Egyptologist Sir John Garner Wilkinson, who found a system of galleries cut into the bedrock a few miles from the coast. He believed they were catacombs.

“The place was then described by French pilots working on the Suez Gulf during the 1950s, but no one realized that it concealed the remains of an ancient pharaonic harbor,” Tallet said.

Tallet has been excavating the area since 2011 with archaeologist Gregory Marouard, of the University of Chicago’s Oriental Institute, topographer Damien Laisney of the French National Center for Scientific Research, and doctoral students Aurore Ciavatti and Serena Esposito from the Sorbonne University. The team first focused on the most visible part of the site: the galleries described by Wilkinson.

The excavation revealed 30 of these galleries, measuring on average 65 feet long, 10 feet wide and 7 feet high.

Inside the galleries Tallet and his team found several fragments of boats, ropes and pottery dating to the early Fourth Dynasty. Three galleries contained a stock of storage jars, which probably served as water containers for boats.

Underwater exploration at the foot of the jetty revealed 25 pharaonic anchors — and pottery similar to that uncovered in the galleries — all dating from the Fourth Dynasty.

About 200 meters from the sea side, the archaeologists also found the remains of an Old Kingdom building where 99 pharaonic anchors had been stored.

“Some of them were inscribed with hieroglyphs, probably with the names of the boats,” Tallet said.

Most interestingly, the storage galleries also contained hundreds of papyrus fragments.

Among them, 10 were very well preserved.

“They are the oldest papyri ever found,” Tallet said.

Many of the papyri describe how the central administration, under the reign of Khufu, sent food — mainly bread and beer — to the workers involved in the Egyptian expeditions departing from the port.

But one papyrus is much more intriguing: it’s the diary of Merrer, an Old Kingdom official involved in the building of the Great Pyramid of Khufu. [AKA Cheops]

From four different sheets and many fragments, the researchers were able to follow his daily activity for more that three months.

“He mainly reported about his many trips to the Tura limestone quarry to fetch block for the building of the pyramid,” Tallet said.

“Although we will not learn anything new about the construction of Khufu’s monument, this diary provides for the first time an insight on this matter,” Tallet said.

Via Most Ancient Port, Hieroglyphic Papyri Found : Discovery News

Mexican GIF dance, high speed

Sat, 13 Apr 2013 14:27:20 -0700

arpeggia: Lisa Oppenheim - Lunagrams, 2010 In Lunagrams...

Sat, 13 Apr 2013 14:15:20 -0700

arpeggia:

Lisa Oppenheim - Lunagrams, 2010

In Lunagrams (1851/2010), a series of photograms, negatives depicting a lunar phase from 1851 are illuminated by moonlight of the same lunar phase in 2010, providing a translation of images of the past into the present. The source images are glass negatives taken by John William Draper, who was the first to photograph the moon. Photography as well as celestial bodies, such as the moon, can be seen as generic markers of the passing of time. The process of making these images is bringing to life which would otherwise be hidden away under a layer of dust in a library or archive - illuminating the past through the light of the present. [klosterfelde]