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Lewis Dartnell
Flowers that are actually alien life forms
Khiluk Now that the snow and ice have melted and the summer season is smiling on the boreal regions of the world, Spotted Lake in Canada is having its strange annual transformation. Most of the year it looks like a normal endorheic lake, without an outlet and the focus point of the local drainage system. Such lakes are often alkaline, and concentrate dissolved minerals from the surrounding catchment area. As summer warms the north, the water gradually evaporates, leaving craters full of mineralised water and evaporation crusts that have been sacred to the First Peoples and used for therapeutic purposes since time immemorial. The craters change hue as the evaporation proceeds, and diverse mixes of sulphates and phosphates interact producing a series of unique mixtures. There are 365 separate pools, and to the indigenous Okanagan Nation. each one has its unique medicinal power. The lake was acquired for the Nation in 2001 and is now protected. Loz Image credit: strangesounds.org http://strangesounds.org/2013/04/discover-the-mystic-spotted-lake-a-sacred-site-producing-therapeutic-waters-near-osoyoos-bc-canada.html Another good photo showing the whole lake: http://guntermarx.photoshelter.com/image/I0000cBvOsl7fwwE
MARY GORDON ‘SPACESHIP HOUSE’, 1972 La Selva Beach, California Image © Angelina Rennell
Baransky Volcano Hot Springs by Natalia Zakharova
Photo: Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
Hveradalir Geothermal Springs - October 7th 2023
Frank Lloyd Wright
Fallingwater Mill Run, USA 1936
Le Corbusier, 100 years on: Celebrating the architect's most iconic buildings
The Galle Crater on Mars, aka the Happy Face Crater, imaged by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on January 28, 2008.
(Malin Space Science Systems)
Space shuttle concept art from Rockwell International, late 1970s.
NASA art by Don Davis, 1975.
(National Archives)
Pay phone in Düsseldorf, Germany, 1972.
(Deutsche Fotothek)
IMAX screen at the Living History Center in Philadelphia, 1977.
“I would like to humanize the space age by giving a perspective from a non-astronaut, because I think the students will look at that and say, ‘This is an ordinary person. This ordinary person is contributing to history.’”
—Christa McAuliffe (September 2, 1948–January 28, 1986)
How I log into Tumblr.
Telecommunications in Greece, 1970-1979.
(OTE Museum of Telecommunications)
Frank Lloyd Wright beside a model of the new Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, October 25, 1953. This became the only Wright building in the city.
Photo: CF for the AP via the Denver Post
"Argosy" by Robert McCall, 1980.
A non-standard architectural solution. A cubic window is like a passage to a parallel world
Paul Maymont, Maison ‘Diamant’ (Polyhedral House), Bath, Somerset, England. 1967
Rocket Building in Saitama, Japan, built in the 1980s to house an astronomy museum, now mostly apartments.
(Sabukaru)
Gömbkilátó observation deck in Budapest, 1963, before it was moved to its current site in Balatonboglár in 1967. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive.
The architecture of the future will at once appear alien and familiar. As though it has always existed and as though we have never seen it.
VR at NASA's Ames Research Center, 1989.
Moon colony artwork from NASA, 1971.
Disco the robot promotes Discover Magazine at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, 1982.