The Random Image Thread (keeping it PG-13 at the worst)

TOS · Post by **TOS** » Sun Apr 17, 2016 11:15 pm

don't mess with me, man

TOS · Post by **TOS** » Mon Apr 18, 2016 12:51 am

user · Post by **user** » Mon Apr 18, 2016 12:54 am

thought they were all good at math

TOS · Post by **TOS** » Mon Apr 18, 2016 1:00 am

check the suicide rates when it comes time to apply for university ... can't handle the pressure

TOS · Post by **TOS** » Mon Apr 18, 2016 1:00 am

Kirk · Post by **Kirk** » Mon Apr 18, 2016 1:16 am

balls the size of watermelons

TOS · Post by **TOS** » Mon Apr 18, 2016 11:43 am

Kirk · Post by **Kirk** » Mon Apr 18, 2016 11:52 am

That's a fancy one. It divides. I remember having something very similar in my youth.

juice · Post by **juice** » Mon Apr 18, 2016 12:07 pm

Kirk wrote: balls the size of watermelons

and/or a brain the size of a pea

ukimalefu · Post by **ukimalefu** » Mon Apr 18, 2016 12:28 pm

ukimalefu · Post by **ukimalefu** » Mon Apr 18, 2016 2:09 pm

DEyncourt · Post by **DEyncourt** » Mon Apr 18, 2016 3:56 pm

Topographically accurate map of the Moon with lighting system to simulate phases:

maurvir · Post by **maurvir** » Mon Apr 18, 2016 3:59 pm

That would actually pretty cool as an educational aid or an art piece, but pretty worthless as a lamp.

ukimalefu · Post by **ukimalefu** » Mon Apr 18, 2016 4:31 pm

maurvir wrote: That would actually pretty cool as an educational aid or an art piece, but pretty worthless as a lamp.

A lava lamp is useless as a lamp, but I'd still like to get one some day.

Metacell · Post by **Metacell** » Mon Apr 18, 2016 4:35 pm

You don't have one? You are missing out.

DEyncourt · Post by **DEyncourt** » Mon Apr 18, 2016 4:35 pm

The making of a Stargate cake:

maurvir · Post by **maurvir** » Mon Apr 18, 2016 5:12 pm

Kirk · Post by **Kirk** » Mon Apr 18, 2016 6:11 pm

juice · Post by **juice** » Mon Apr 18, 2016 6:24 pm

That's not creepy at all.

TOS · Post by **TOS** » Mon Apr 18, 2016 8:10 pm

user · Post by **user** » Mon Apr 18, 2016 9:57 pm

Oh blatherskite

Geesie · Post by **Geesie** » Mon Apr 18, 2016 10:02 pm

http://ftw.usatoday.com/2016/04/vijay-s ... ball-water

DukeofNuke · Post by **DukeofNuke** » Mon Apr 18, 2016 10:08 pm

I would haved settled for it as is, but after watching that load a frame at a time, I began to feel like nothing short of a hole-in-one would be acceptable.

DEyncourt · Post by **DEyncourt** » Mon Apr 18, 2016 10:27 pm

Kirk wrote:

"Honestly, little Bobby spent the entire afternoon just bouncing on the bed...."

On the other hand, could this be just ANOTHER Internet of Things device which can get its information compromised? "Hey, I saw that you and Tiff got it on last night? 39 minutes--that's a new record."

chikie · Post by **chikie** » Mon Apr 18, 2016 11:01 pm

I think whoever designed the thing never lived with a SO... its not like a mattress is an easy thing to switch out.

DukeofNuke · Post by **DukeofNuke** » Mon Apr 18, 2016 11:20 pm

people will be posting their numbers on Twitter

TOS · Post by **TOS** » Tue Apr 19, 2016 7:54 am

ukimalefu · Post by **ukimalefu** » Tue Apr 19, 2016 8:01 am

Please stop you banwidth hater

TOS · Post by **TOS** » Tue Apr 19, 2016 9:54 am

i don't hate bandwidth, i love it ... i love to consume it

DukeofNuke · Post by **DukeofNuke** » Tue Apr 19, 2016 9:57 am

DEyncourt · Post by **DEyncourt** » Tue Apr 19, 2016 11:11 am

Optical illusion:

Sometimes I can maintain the illusion of the blue lines moving in concert but only after staring at one point within the image for long enough to get afterimages of the green squares (which appear to have a slightly different shade of grey than the background).

On the other hand: try as I might, I can NOT rid myself of the illusion of the blue lines moving as a square behind the green squares when they appear.

Ribtor · Post by **Ribtor** » Tue Apr 19, 2016 2:27 pm

look at the lower right corner of the grey square. The illusion should vanish.

Geesie · Post by **Geesie** » Tue Apr 19, 2016 2:29 pm

I focused on the top green square and then saw how the blue lines weren't keeping their proper orientation and the illusion went.

Kirk · Post by **Kirk** » Tue Apr 19, 2016 2:32 pm

Amazing the tricks our visual cortex will play on us.

ukimalefu · Post by **ukimalefu** » Tue Apr 19, 2016 2:34 pm

DEyncourt · Post by **DEyncourt** » Tue Apr 19, 2016 2:36 pm

Ribtor wrote: look at the lower right corner of the grey square. The illusion should ~~vanish~~ reappear.

That works regardless of the direction (not just lower right) as long as one's focus is far enough away.

And FTFY. The blue lines are NOT moving in such a way that they would form a square if extended to complete a rectangle at ANY time.

The illusion also disappears if you scroll the image such that most of the blue lines in either the top or bottom half are cut off. Try that.

TOS · Post by **TOS** » Tue Apr 19, 2016 2:37 pm

ukimalefu wrote:

they really knew their cable management back then

obvs · Post by **obvs** » Tue Apr 19, 2016 3:35 pm

maurvir · Post by **maurvir** » Tue Apr 19, 2016 3:36 pm

ukimalefu · Post by **ukimalefu** » Tue Apr 19, 2016 4:08 pm

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