This Is Pictures.

[mikeedler]

duuuuhhhhhhh..... where'd he go, where'd he go.

[Kershaw]

i need dis.

more alpina/bmw pics here. reddit repost. http://imgur.com/a/rcNjd

[Eydreeyun]

[Xat1cZ]

Ooooh no you didnt!!


... bmw - h eight t r .. DONT MAKE ANY SENSE!!!!!1!!!!11

[Xat1cZ]

[TwoJ's]

From the link posted above:



Pretty cool.

[TwoJ's]

And another astronomy post:



Explanation: Comet McNaught of 2007 has been, so far, the most photogenic comet of our time. After making quite a show in the northern hemisphere in early 2007 January, the comet moved south and developed a long and unusual dust tail that dazzled southern hemisphere observers. In this image, Comet McNaught was captured above Santiago, Chile. The bright comet dominates on the left while part of its magnificent tail spreads across the entire frame. From this vantage point in the Andes Mountains, one looks up toward Comet McNaught and a magnificent sky, across at a crescent moon, and down on clouds, atmospheric haze, and the city lights. The current year -- 2013 -- holds promise to be even better for comets than 2007. In early March, Comet PANSTARRS is on track to become visible to the unaided eye, while at the end of the year Comet ISON shows possibilities that include casting a tail that spreads across the sky, breaking up, and even becoming one of the brightest comets in recorded history.





Explanation: Moonlight illuminates a snowy scene in this night land and skyscape made on January 17 from Lower Miller Creek, Alaska, USA. Overexposed near the mountainous western horizon is the first quarter Moon itself, surrounded by an icy halo and flanked left and right by moondogs. Sometimes called mock moons, a more scientific name for the luminous apparations is paraselenae (plural). Analogous to a sundog or parhelion, a paraselene is produced by moonlight refracted through thin, hexagonal, plate-shaped ice crystals in high cirrus clouds. As determined by the crystal geometry, paraselenae are seen at an angle of 22 degrees or more from the Moon. Compared to the bright lunar disk, paraselenae are faint and easier to spot when the Moon is low.





Explanation: Clouds on a summer night frame this sea and skyscape, recorded earlier this month near Buenos Aires, Argentina. But planet Earth's clouds are not the only clouds on the scene. Starry clouds and nebulae along the southern hemisphere's summer Milky Way arc above the horizon, including the dark Coal Sack near the Southern Cross and the tantalizing pinkish glow of the Carina Nebula. Both the Large (top center) and Small Magellanic Clouds are also in view, small galaxies in their own right and satellites of the Milky Way up to 200,000 light-years distant. Alpha star of the Carina constellation and second brightest star in Earth's night, Canopus shines above about 300 light-years away. Still glinting in sunlight at an altitude of 400 kilometers, the orbiting International Space Station traces a long streak through the single, 5 minute, star-tracking exposure.


Images like this next one astound me. The galaxy in the foreground is amazing and all, but just look at all of those fucking galaxies in the background! And to think, that is basically 0% of the sky that we could look at. Our simple human brains almost can't comprehend the notion of such large numbers, distances, etc.



Explanation: Large spiral galaxy NGC 4945 is seen edge-on near the center of this cosmic galaxy portrait. In fact, NGC 4945 is almost the size of our own Milky Way Galaxy. Its own dusty disk, young blue star clusters, and pink star forming regions standout in the sharp, colorful telescopic image. About 13 million light-years distant toward the expansive southern constellation Centaurus, NGC 4945 is only about six times farther away than Andromeda, the nearest large spiral galaxy to the Milky Way. Though the galaxy's central region is largely hidden from view for optical telescopes, X-ray and infrared observations indicate significant high energy emission and star formation in the core of NGC 4945. Its obscured but active nucleus qualifies the gorgeous island universe as a Seyfert galaxy and likely home to a central supermassive black hole.


Then again, the human brain is pretty powerful:


Explanation: What is it? It was found at the bottom of the sea aboard an ancient Greek ship. Its seeming complexity has prompted decades of study, although some of its functions remained unknown. X-ray images of the device have confirmed the nature of the Antikythera mechanism, and discovered several surprising functions. The Antikythera mechanism has been discovered to be a mechanical computer of an accuracy thought impossible in 80 BC, when the ship that carried it sank. Such sophisticated technology was not thought to be developed by humanity for another 1,000 years. Its wheels and gears create a portable orrery of the sky that predicted star and planet locations as well as lunar and solar eclipses. The Antikythera mechanism, shown above, is 33 centimeters high and therefore similar in size to a large book.





Explanation: In this celestial still life composed with a cosmic brush, dusty nebula NGC 2170 shines left of image center. Reflecting the light of nearby hot stars, NGC 2170 is joined by other bluish reflection nebulae, a red emission region, many dark absorption nebulae, and a backdrop of colorful stars. Like the common household items still life painters often choose for their subjects, these clouds of gas, dust, and hot stars are also commonly found in this setting - a massive, star-forming molecular cloud in the constellation Monoceros. The giant molecular cloud, Mon R2, is impressively close, estimated to be only 2,400 light-years or so away. At that distance, this canvas would be over 40 light-years across.



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Explanation: How do clusters of galaxies form and evolve? To help find out, astronomers continue to study the second closest cluster of galaxies to Earth: the Fornax cluster, named for the southern constellation toward which most of its galaxies can be found. Although almost 20 times more distant than our neighboring Andromeda galaxy, Fornax is only about 10 percent further that the better known and more populated Virgo cluster of galaxies. Fornax has a well-defined central region that contains many galaxies, but is still evolving. It has other galaxy groupings that appear distinct and have yet to merge. Seen here, almost every yellowish splotch on the image is an elliptical galaxy in the Fornax cluster. The picturesque barred spiral galaxy NGC 1365 visible on the lower right is also a prominent Fornax cluster member.





Explanation: Cosmic bullets pierce the outskirts of the Orion Nebula some 1500 light-years distant in this sharp infrared close-up. Blasted out by energetic massive star formation the bullets, relatively dense, hot gas clouds about ten times the size of Pluto's orbit, are blue in the false color image. Glowing with the light of ionized iron atoms they travel at speeds of hundreds of kilometers per second, their passage traced by yellowish trails of the nebula's shock-heated hydrogen gas. The cone-shaped wakes are up to a fifth of a light-year long. The detailed image was created using the 8.1 meter Gemini South telescope in Chile with a newly commisioned adaptive optics system (GeMS). Achieving a larger field of view than previous generation adaptive optics, GeMS uses five laser generated guide stars to help compensate for the blurring effects of planet Earth's atmosphere.




And finally a bit of fun trivia for you: The big bang occurred about 14 billion years ago. And as we know from Einstein's special theory of relativity, nothing can travel faster than the speed of light. Yet, the observable universe is 93 billion light years across. How is this possible?

[Deltron Dirty30]

photos above are from http://tokyostreetviewcars.tumblr.com/







the dude that owns this car is a member on here

[pandaboo911]

And finally a bit of fun trivia for you: The big bang occurred about 14 billion years ago. And as we know from Einstein's special theory of relativity, nothing can travel faster than the speed of light. Yet, the observable universe is 93 billion light years across. How is this possible?

The universe would have a radius of 14 billion light years if space remained unchanged, but since the Big Bang, space has stretched out.

Rules:

[ohthejosh]

Didnt know this even existed. Nice :)

[mikeedler]

prod. 02/88........................

[Kershaw]

shouldnt it have metal bumpers then? or did someone swap to plastics already?

that looks to be in great condition.

[Jozi]

shouldnt it have metal bumpers then? or did someone swap to plastics already?

that looks to be in great condition.

All tourings were post-facelift (except the one made that convinced BMW to produce it) '88 just means it was a very early model.

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Some interesting reading and a few pics here: http://www.e30zone.net/e30zonewiki/index.php/Touring

[Julien]

shouldnt it have metal bumpers then? or did someone swap to plastics already?

that looks to be in great condition.

88s are late models, it just happens that in the US DOT forced them to run the diving boards.



and that touring is totally legally importable next month!!!!

[mikeedler]

88s are late models, it just happens that in the US DOT forced them to run the diving boards.



and that touring is totally legally importable next month!!!!

B I N G O!!!!

check the recently purchased thread!