DISCOVER Magazine. Science, Technology and The Future
Current Issue
Subscribe Today »
  • Renew
  • Give a Gift
  • Archives
  • Customer Service
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Newsletter
  • Health & Medicine
  • Mind & Brain
  • Technology
  • Space
  • Human Origins
  • Living World
  • Environment
  • Physics & Math
  • Video
  • Photos
  • Podcast
  • RSS
Bad Astronomy
« Poll for pols
That’s it. Texas really is doomed. »

SKYplay

I love clever people. The SKYplay photoset at Flickr clearly shows someone having clever fun with cloud formations, and is well worth a few minutes of your time perusing. If you don’t smile at one or two of these at least, you need an amusement transplant.

Tip o’ the lens cap to, um, darncoolpics.

Share

May 24th, 2008 1:32 PM by Phil Plait in Cool stuff, Pretty pictures | 6 comments | RSS feed | Trackback >

6 Responses to “SKYplay”

  1. 1.   Michael Lonergan Says:
    May 24th, 2008 at 2:10 pm

    Cool pictures. Did you notice on pic #5, the bottle with the contrail on it? Someone boxed an object to the right, with the question: “What is this?” :)

    BTW for some reason, your spam filter keeps catching me for some reason. :(

  2. 2.   Kevin F. Says:
    May 24th, 2008 at 6:07 pm

    D’ya think this person lives on the West Coast? :)

  3. 3.   Colin J Says:
    May 24th, 2008 at 6:58 pm

    Cool. I’ve always wanted to be able to shoot laser beams out of my fingers. Now, I can make it look kinda like it! Neat pics.

  4. 4.   Kitty Says:
    May 24th, 2008 at 9:11 pm

    nice photographs! CHEM TRAILS!!

  5. 5.   Overstroming Says:
    May 25th, 2008 at 4:21 am

    Great pictures – very inventive and clever, and a nice burst of blue skies and sunshine for my rainy cloudy weekend.

  6. 6.   Links of the Week (2008/21) :: cimddwc Says:
    May 25th, 2008 at 11:51 am

    [...] SKYplay – tolle Fotos, die Wolken am Himmel mit Objekten oder Händen kombinieren (am besten als Diashow ansehen; via BA) [...]

Leave a Reply





    • About Bad Astronomy


      Phil Plait, the creator of Bad Astronomy, is an astronomer, lecturer, and author. After ten years working on Hubble Space Telescope and six more working on astronomy education, he struck out on his own as a writer. He's written two books, dozens of magazine articles, and 12 bazillion blog articles. He is a skeptic and fights the abuse of science, but his true love is praising the wonders of real science.


      The original BA site (with the Moon Hoax debunking, movie reviews, and all that) can be found here.


      Contact me: The Bad Astronomer "at" gmail "dot" com


       
      Keep Libel Laws out of Science
       
       Bad Astronomy was chosen as one of Time.com's Best Blogs of 2009.


    • Science Getaways


      Science Getaways: Vacation with your brain!


    • Subscribe to BA


      Subscribe to Bad Astronomy using RSS! RSS feed button


    • Death from the Skies!


      Order a copy of Death from the Skies! from Amazon, or Barnes and Noble.

      "If things worked the way I wanted them to, any reporter about to do another 'sensational' story on deadly meteors would consult this volume, and bang! common sense would find its way into the news. How strange would that world be?"
      -- Adam Savage, Mythbusters


      "Reading this book is like getting punched in the face by Carl Sagan. Frightening, but oddly exhilarating."
      -- Daniel H. Wilson, author of How to Survive a Robot Uprising


    • Recent Posts

      • Maiden flight for ESA’s Vega rocket tonight
      • Another interactive way to scale the Universe
      • An ear to the ocean
      • The staring eye of a crescent moon
      • A hoopy frood
    • Social/Networking/Cool Stuff


      Google+


       Twitter




       Facebook


    • Post Categories

    • Archives

    • Blogroll

      • Bad Astronomy (old site)
      • Bad Astronomy and Universe Today Forum
      • BAFacts Archive
      • Commenting Policy
      • Computer Support
      • Contact Information
      • DM: 80 Beats
      • DM: Cosmic Variance
      • DM: Discoblog
      • DM: Gene Expression
      • DM: NERS
      • DM: Science Not Fiction
      • DM: The Intersection
      • DM: The Loom
      • James Randi Educational Foundation
      • My use of the word "denier"
      • Planetary Society Blog
      • Politics and Religion posts
      • Press Kit
      • Q&BA Archive
      • The Antivax Bible
      • Universe Today
    • RSS DISCOVERmagazine.com: Latest Articles on Space

      • Maiden flight for ESA’s Vega rocket tonight | Bad Astronomy
      • Another interactive way to scale the Universe | Bad Astronomy
      • The staring eye of a crescent moon | Bad Astronomy
      • When the Moon hits your apse in a way-cool time lapse | Bad Astronomy
      • Funhouse galaxy | Bad Astronomy
    • RSS DISCOVER Blogs: The Loom

      • A Planet of Viruses: Autographed Book Sale
      • Animal Friendships: My cover story for Time magazine
      • The Future of E-books–podcast of my interview on Wisconsin Public Radio
      • Thursday, February 16: Science and social media panel in New York
      • A Scientific Jonah: My profile of Joy Reidenberg in tomorrow’s New York Times


  • Kalmbach Publishing Co.

    Copyright © 2012, Kalmbach Publishing Co.

    Privacy - Terms - Reader Services - Subscribe Today - Advertise - About Us