Credit: LordExplores
I've heard that people claim the moon landings were faked, but (until now?) I'd never heard anyone claiming the Martian rovers were faked.
And their unique way of walking
I wonder if it's reflecting the dogs playing poker image:
I did cherry pick this one tbh, but most of them have different types (and colours) of dogs.
An abandoned motor cruiser slowly moulders away on the beach adjacent to Tranmere Oil Terminal.
Credit: Darren B Hillman
An abandoned bus in the Atacama desert outside of the oasis town of San Pedro de Atacama.
Source: Pablo Garcia Saldaña pagsa_
I do miss that really detailed block download page, but that's only cos I'd watch it instead of doing something useful with my life.
Kelenföld Power Station is an abandoned power plant control room in Hungary. Built in the 1920s, it's a beautiful example of Art Deco industrial architecture and features a dramatic oval-shaped room lit by a large skylight. The plant originally ran on coal but was converted to natural gas in the 1970s. Much of the original control equipment remains intact on the green metal wall panels. A concrete bunker housed an air raid shelter during World War 2, underscoring the control room's role in a critical infrastructure at a turbulent time.
Designed by two prominent Hungarian architects, site is protected under Hungarian law and so cannot be demolished. This does mean it also can't be restored and maintenance is difficult. It is occasionally open to tours and also film shoots, apparently.
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In August 2022, a team located camera equipment that had been abandoned by famous explorers Bradford Washburn and Robert Bates in 1937 on the Walsh Glacier in Canada's Kluane National Park. The cameras contained decades-old images of the landscape that could provide data on glacial movement. After months of searching led by explorer Griffin Post and glaciologist Dora Medrzycka, they found pieces of Washburn's aerial camera and two movie cameras with undeveloped film. Medrzycka's guidance was crucial to the discovery.
They hope the recovered film can be developed and provide a rare glimpse of the area as it appeared over 80 years ago. Finding the equipment after so many decades was an unbelievable validation for Post and his team.
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Credit: Benjamin Wiessner
Henry Ford dreamed of establishing Fordlândia, a rubber plantation city in Brazil, to ensure a steady supply of rubber for his automobiles. He invested millions to build the city from scratch, and included luxuries for the workers such as an 18-hole golf course and a dance hall.
However, poor management led to pest infestations in the tightly planted trees. Workers also revolted as they were only paid a fraction of what Ford had promised and forced to abandon their local customs. As conditions deteriorated further during World War 2, Ford was forced to sell the failing operations for just $250,000 in 1945, despite having invested over $20 million (equivalent to $325 million in 2022).
Fordlândia remains completely abandoned today, serving as an example of a grand vision brought down by cultural clashes and economic mismanagement.
Aerial View of Fordlândia, Brazil, 1934 (source)
What remains of Fordlândia Hospital (source)
- Wikipedia: Fordlândia
- The Guardian
- Album on Flickr
- mysteries of the world (in Portuguese, Google Translated version)
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I'm out of the loop here, what's this about?
Photogrpaher: MGness / urbexery.com
Handbrake isn't recommended any more? That's what I'd used for my ripping. By original quality, you mean extracting the the mpeg-2 or just that Handbrake did bad transcoding?
Beechwood State Park is located on the shores of Lake Ontario in Wayne County, New York, and was formerly the site of a Girl Scout camp. The camp closed in the late 1990s due to lack of money.
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I had to do more research, but it's Gagra (according to https://prohorov.livejournal.com/434028.html via Google Translate). I don't think all of the extra photos are of the train station there, but I think they're all in Gagra [edit: I edited the post with more info].
On the eastern coast of the Black Sea is the Georgian region of Abkhazia, or the independent Republic of Abkhazia, depending on who you ask - Abkhazia has been recognised as an independent state by Russia, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Nauru, and Syria; however, Georgia and most of the UN consider Abkhazia a sovereign territory of Georgia.
Other photos from Gagra
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You confused me at first, but I guess you're thinking of the Tardis - that's a police box, not a phone box! British phone boxes are always red, I think.
A boy left his bike chained to a tree when he went away to war in 1914. He never returned, leaving the tree no choice but to grow around the bike. Incredible that this bike has been there for 98 years now!
This bike, aka the "tree that ate a bicycle" on Washington's Vashon Island, has its own Snopes page (I won't spoil if this story's true): https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/bicycle-tree/
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This one gets weirder the more you look. There's the guy typing on an imaginary keyboard (or using an invisible mouse), the fact that no-one really has any eyes, or that dark character who's got some device suspended in front of his face?