Fun

[savethebeer]

72 kg Gold Nugget

 

That looked expensive

 

Þrídrangaviti lighthouse in the Westman islands of Iceland. Located 6 miles off the shore, it was initially built in 1939, then people had to scale the cliff and build a helipad to make transportation easier. 

This is the Arbol del Tule, the widest type of tree in the world

 

 

This carving of a pencil on a pencil on a pencil

 

Seymour Tower (Jersey) at low tide, high tide, and a platform to climb up and spend high tide on if you get cut off by the fast moving and huge tidal range.

 

The Beruit blast was so big it carved out part of the earth. This was taken by Jenan Moussa a fantastic middle eastern journalist.

 

Fertilizer explosion kills 581 in Texas

A giant explosion occurs during the loading of fertilizer onto the freighter Grandcamp at a pier in Texas City, Texas, on April 16, 1947. Nearly 600 people lost their lives and thousands were injured when the ship was literally blown to bits.

 

 

 

 

The interior of Frank Sinatra's private jet circa 1962.

The Schwerer Gustav 800mm shell - The largest artillery shell to ever be used

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Jim McDonald]

72 KG is right around 150 pounds. It quit being a nugget about 71 kilos ago. It's now a boulder.

[amazingkevin]

Incredible!!!