I was getting a "Stop stealing bandwidth" from the picture you embedded.

What do you know, I've never gotten one of those. When do they appear, if you open the picture in a new window?

No, when you embed it in the thread. You're probably displaying a cached version.

Bioluminescent algae on shoreline........

http://img860.imageshack.us/img860/51/biojpg.jpg



......and in Amsterdam canal.

http://img803.imageshack.us/img803/3796/bioiijpg.jpg

aha :facepalm:

If the Omaticaya did sushi bars.......

http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/3115/pic011ei.jpg

:party:

Not embeddable; but this was the view from my desk window at work this morning: Mikko Wilson

- Mikko

Thought this thread needed a well-deserved bump.

^ Lovin' the top comment on that video there. :D

Celestial Show:

Espect�culo celestial - Yahoo!

I just imagine floating in a lake on my back & watching this... fortunately, it's a bit warmer on Pandora than in Norway! :)

You should move to West Texas, we were all comfortable in our T-Shirts for my Birthday Bar-B-Que yesterday. But then we are far too South to have seen the show. When I lived in the mountains of north east Washington State, I would put on my heated snowmobile suit, drag out my Chaiselounge, and lie on it, looking up at the celestial fireworks.
Niri Te

"You're not in Kansas anymore, you're on Pandora" :D
About moving... heh, who knows, who knows? I moved from Siberia to the Arabic peninsula to Spain to... who knows! my signature does :P

haha that's cool! :cool: I got to watch a meteorite shower once in Dubai desert, lying on my back & staring into the sky. It was a very strange sensation, just the land & the sky, & nothing in between. Apart from yours truly. I had eyes like this O_O

After a whole week non-stop of no clouds (that's *very* rare around here, most years only happens once or maybe twice, if at all...) the Aurora came out to play the night the snowstorms rolled in. Go figure.

- Mikko

This has probably been posted before (I've seen it many times elsewhere as well), but this is the most beautiful aurora picture I have ever seen. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...larlicht_2.jpg

Just the colors mostly remind me of Pandora :)

You ought to see what it looks like when its quickly dancing across the sky, changing colors as it does.

This one is ... a wallpaper picture (can anybody help me to post Just the image - and not the link - please? :shy: I tried to do the Insert Image thingie - no chance. I tried to add it to My Albums - no chance either. I must be doing something wrong.

Is there any more experienced person out there? "I need your help."


Landscapes / US-wp6.jpg

http://storylover.us/Images/Landscap...US-wp6_jpg.jpg

Just put the URL of the image (not the page with the image, just the image file) inside [ IMG] tags.

- Mikko

I tried - it didn't work :( but thanks for sorting it out! :D

It's on my comp here at work, I am staring at it, imagining that it grows darker & Polyphemus & the moons come out, & the bioluminiscent grass & water glow more and more....

Nice... you almost could imagine Polyphemus rising in the night sky there :)

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5270/...d209423736.jpg
Here we're talking Pandora colors!

wow how cool! a psychodelic bug! :D is it a shrimp?

Now, why do I have to think about that caterpillar on its toadstool in Lewis Carrol's Alice in Wonderland? (Or, the Disney version, at least, singing out vowels, while exhaling puffs of smoke in letter shape...).

:xD:

Seems like he's looking for a new place to sit and smoke...

But, all kidding aside: those colors are indeed magnificent. In another thread, it was asked what we might expect in Pandoran oceans... this would be a prime sample, indeed... "Oh, Grace...? Wanna bag this...?"
:D

Wiggling bare toes,

~*Txim Asawl*~

LOBSTER! PSYCHEDELIC! See his tail fins? Looks like the vanes on a hammerhead or a yerik!

^^^txantsan! :xD: Alice in Wonderland, psychodelic caterpillars smoking on magic mushrooms...

another :xD:
Nice to see you around txim_asawl!

This is a mantis shrimp (or stomatopod) a very interesting crustacean. It can strike with its claws as fast as a bullet. It can smash the shells of clams and of other crustaceans or kill the animals trough the chock wave of the strike. It can even smash the glass of an aquarium.

It is indeed the Fastest claw in the west:

The Fastest Claw In the West (part 1 of 3) - YouTube

The Fastest Claw In the West (part 2 of 3) - YouTube

The Fastest Claw In the West (part 3 of 3) - YouTube

Mantis shrimps come in many colors and sizes. They are also among the animals that see most colors.

These tough crustaceans are also among the protagonists in a famous Sci-Fi story by Fred Saberhagen where they save people on a marine research station from crab-like aquatic robots:

Smashers
http://www.blueboard.com/mantis/fiction/smasher.htm

Nice :D

Amazing what can be found in the sea.

Oh, I was talking about those fellas in IRC a while back.

They actually make pretty great aquarium subjects, so long as the tank is acrylic and not glass, unless you want to clean up after that mess.

They also possess some of the most advanced eyes amongst athropods, and are probaby one of the more intelligent ones at that.

EDIT: I guess I'll play too. Here are some of my favorite animals that might remind people of Pandora:

http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/culti...lights_web.jpg

Some flourescing zooanthids.

http://www.billbeardcostarica.com/im...Shrimp_4_1.jpg

Harlequin shrimp. Hymenocera picta.

http://tropicalfishandaquariums.com/...s/RamBlue1.jpg

Blue Ram Cichlid; Geophagus mikros.

http://www.bestourism.com/img/items/...world_5190.jpg

Leafy Sea Dragon; Phycodurus eques.

http://underwateruniversity.files.wo...2010/10/go.jpg

Mandarin Dragonet. Synchiropus splendidus.
http://www.flchams.com/inventory/MajorWeb(1).jpg

Coincidence? Furcifer pardalis, the Panther Chameleon, with some...interesting coloration.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SqhhJb_P3K...antasticus.jpg

Uroplatus phantasticus; the Satanic Leaftail Gecko. Likely the inspiration for the fan lizards, minus the fan.

I love the leafy sea dragons, and that little leaftail gecko I've never seen before. He's pretty cute. lol Probably pretty mean though?

I don't know if this is the right place to put this, but a little while ago I found this bug on my door that made me think of you Raiden. lol I had never seen this before, it's a moth masquerading as a wasp... (Not the best picture but tada.)

http://distilleryimage5.s3.amazonaws...38016265_7.jpg

http://img812.imageshack.us/img812/1953/space1l.jpg
amazing isn't it? :D

Now, if only those lights were bioluminescence :P

No, Uroplatus geckos are a bunch of docile forest dwellers. U. phantasticus is actually the smallest and most delicate amongst them, and is becoming threatened by habitat loss.

They make very interesting terrarium/vivarium inhabitants, but are prone to dehydration if the humidity isn't high enough.

@Raiden: beautiful bugs! :awesome: I wanted to say "especially the Na'vi colored one" but hey all of them are beautiful.

Threatened? :( So sad.

Have you had one?

Man, I wish.

They don't show up in the pet trade often, due to very, very strict import quotas.

Those that do, however, are often snatched up by professionals as a part of captive breeding programs.

The members of the herpetocultural jounal "Gekkota" have been circulating some very high quality captive-bred hatchlings, and these efforts tend to be the best sources of obtaining them.

Aside from this, they are very expensive, and not easy animals to care for; they are very delicate physically and physiologically, and are sensitive to low humidity levels and heat; they require a cool/montane forest habitat to do well.

I want to get a few bioluminescent frogs to go with the mushrooms.
Niri Te

Raiden, I'm sure you'd be able to give one a good home though :)

I agree. :)

I think Moco Loco posted something like this, too ^^^or was it the same photo... It was a while ago. But the picture is beautiful :)

More skies:

http://www.tree-of-souls.com/members...ightning10.jpg

http://www.tree-of-souls.com/members...lightning4.jpg

Now, imagine that there are some floating rocks, too, & the lightnings between them! :shock: :awesome: