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Today marks the 60th anniversary of Enola Gay's release of the A-bomb on Hiroshima. I'm not going to venture into the debate of whether dropping the bomb was appropriate or not. Was it better to kill something like 200,000 people instantly to end the war, or risk prolonging the war and losing more lives on both sides? Your call. I found some pictures from a photographer. Looking at these pictures was very... chilling. And they weren't even pictures of dead or bloodied people. [Link]

Here are two pictures taken by Steve Robinson from the underside of the Discovery during his spacewalk this week. His self-portrait picture (especially the high-resolution one) gives me an eerie feeling.

For something a little more uplifting, checking this guy's pavement paintings. I want to see the 3D ones in person. That would be really cool.