Ten Incredible Images That Will Sweep You Off Your Feet

There’s some pretty amazing imagery on our planet, both man-made and all-natural. Here’s all the proof you’ll need.

Approximately, 70,000 people attend Burning Man each year, they set up camps and villages to create a temporary city.

These are filiform papillae in your tongue as seen under a microscope. They are different from the taste buds and they give your tongue that ‘velvety’ feel.

The giant Pacific octopus can lay 100,000 eggs. The mother octopus broods over the eggs for 2-10 months and then she dies.

Ball’s Pyramid is a remnant of a 6.4 million-year-old volcano. At 1,844 feet high, it is the tallest volcanic stack in the world.

Michelangelo’s 16th century grocery list was written for a servant who was illiterate. Among the items to be picked up was a herring, tortelli, fennel soup, anchovies and wine.

Google used AI to design a cooling system that reduced their energy cost by 40%. The blue pipes carry cold water for cooling. The red pipes return warm water back to the cooling facility.

At 420 feet high, this Chinese statue of Spring Temple Buddha is the tallest in the world, but not for long. India is already building a statue that will be a statue that will be 177 feet higher.

This Boeing factory in Everett Washington covers 99 acres. The factory uses over 1 million light bulbs to illuminate 472,000,000 cubic feet of space.

In May of 2012, 234 climbers reached the peak of Mount Everest in a single day. Some people waited 2.5 hours on the side of the mountain for their chance to reach the summit.

NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover snapped these photos of the 3-billion-year-old lake. Called “Gale Crater” it once had favorable conditions for the possible existence of microbes.