My Teeny Tiny Little Brain Just Got Completely Blown After Seeing These 22 Absolutely Incredible Pictures For The Very First Time Last Week
1.In 1972, astronaut Charles Duke left behind a picture of his family on the moon's surface. It's been there ever since:
The back of the photo reads "This is the family of Astronaut Duke from Planet Earth, who landed on the Moon on the twentieth of April 1972."
2.This is what salt looks like under an electron microscope:
Would love to play some microscopic craps with two salt crystals.
3.This is what Chile looks like compared to Europe:
Such a svelt country!
4.This is what Netflix's homepage looked like in 1999, one year after launch:
What movie are we renting? Think I gotta go with 8MM and Nic Cage.
5.This is how big a moose is compared to a van:
REALLY BIG!
6.This is what a gym looked like two centuries ago in 1831:
Just people living in the moment, climbing ropes, and dueling.
7.Mars is home to the tallest mountain in the solar system, the 72,000 foot tall Olympus Mons:
It's over 372 miles wide. That's bigger than Arizona.
8.Here's a computer illustration of what Olympus Mons looks like from space:
9.This is the iconic log cabin where Abraham Lincoln was born in 1809:
This would sell for $19 million in Lake Tahoe today.
10.Easter bunnies were absolutely horrifying in the 1950s:
This picture from 1957 will forever haunt my dreams.
11.Fingers with nerve damage won't prune:
12.This is the Antonov An-225 Mriya, the largest plane in the world:
Unfortunately, it was destroyed in the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
13.Last week I shared some new photos NASA's James Webb Space Telescope took of Uranus. Here's another new picture, this time of Neptune:
Poseidon would love this.
14.This is what a medieval toilet looked like on the inside of a castle...
15.... and this is what it looked like on the outside:
Quite literally a poop chute. Look out below.
16.This is a picture of a lifeboat filled with Titanic survivors being rescued and brought aboard the Carpathia following the sinking of the ship:
17.This is what a kidney stone looks like under an electron microscope:
(Old-timey cartoon getting their finger caught in a mousetrap voice) YEEEEEEE-OUCH!
18.In the '60s you could buy a mail-order squirrel monkey for $18.95:
Not great, folks! This truly awful sale would run you about $193 today.
19.This is all the excess glass dust that gets created at a factory that makes glass windshields for cars:
My lungs hurt just looking at it.
20.This is what a slice of meteorite looks like:
Would love to get some pico de gallo on that forbidden space chip.
21.This is what a soda bottle looks like before it's inflated and filled with liquid:
It's so adorable.
22.And, finally, this is Jack the baboon, a South African baboon who worked as a signalman at a railway station in the 1800s. During his almost decade of railway work, Jack never made a single mistake:
He was paid "20 cents a day and half a bottle of beer weekly." RIP Jack.
