Christopher Wallace sent in this fantastic submisison which has brightened my day considerably:

I was following the roads I take to get to college, and found what looks like an image of a barn and silos etched into a field a short distance northwest of Flemington, NJ

Anyone know the story behind this one?

Thanks: Christopher Wallace

Just north-west of the Sydney Opera House stands the mighty Sydney Harbour Bridge, Not only is it the world’s largest single-arch bridge, but it’s also the widest long-span bridge in the world (although not the longest, as millions of Australian school children were supposedly taught).

The bridge is 49 metres across and has 8 lanes of traffic, a footpath. 2 railway tracks and a bicycle path on it!

More about Sydney Harbour Bridge at Wikipedia.

Thanks to Paul Munro, Don Campbell and Glenn Slaven

Near the site of the previously posted Black Rock City (Burning Man), someone has taken the time to write Jackie’s name with the tracks of their car – and there’s also a heart there for her too. Awww, isn’t it sick-making?

Mind you, at least it’s imaginative – unlike whoever just drew some random squiggles.

Thanks to Hapto and William.

To the North of Afghanistan’s capital Kabul is the “Tank Graveyard“. Here there are hundreds of Soviet tanks, left there since the end of the Soviet war in 1989, slowly rusting away.

Apparently the Taliban used this field for collecting spare tank parts to service the active tanks in the military base just to the East. You can see that the U.S. bombers have destroyed most of the buildings in this base and there are large craters in the surrounding grounds.

Good ground level pics of the graveyard on this Russian page (warning: site features some NSFW advertising).

Thanks: jher

Currently doing the rounds in the mainstream press, this is the recently discovered Kebira meteorite crater in the western desert of Egypt.

At 31 kilometers across Kebira utterly dwarfs Arizona’s famous Barringer meteor crater (which is only 1.2 kilometres in diameter), and was only discovered now due to its sheer size – it’s too big to recognise from the ground, and the scientists responsible for identifying it only did so using satellite imagery.

For more information see this BBC news article.

Thanks to jher, Paul Drye, david, Keith T. Peter Grabowsky and lookabootye.