Well he didn't use to believe in dog.

ETA: come to think of it, it doesn't make sense to me either. Never mind.

Who does that dog think he is, Jesus?

No, he thinks he's Rin Tin tin

(Recycled Arnold Palmer joke)

He just thinks he's a Good Shepherd.

Wow. How depressing.

Apologies for leaving the pic a little big, but, it's an awesome pic. (It lost some sharpness in the conversion to <175kb)

Better, full-size version over at Wikipedia.

This ain't Seth, or, Richie. This is Gold Dust Gecko, and Gold Dust Gecko don't give a shit.
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Plastic boat, frigid temps, gnarly whitewater, ~50-75 foot drop into said frigid whitewater...

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Pass.

Just pulling numbers out of thin air, I'd guess there's about a 95% chance that you wouldn't die doing that waterfall thing. Which means there's a 5% chance you would die. I'll pass too.

Well water that is frothy and bubbly and swirling is (I've read) softer on impact than still water.

Which just means you go through and hit the rocks.

Seriously, as Glatt points out, that is basically Russian Roulette. Or natural selection in action. I'll just watch, thanks.

I'm wondering how he got such huge balls in such a tiny boat.

From Nat'l Geographic's Pics of the Year:

First pic just breaks my heart. Flooding (in Asia I think)
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This is the NatGeo Photo of the Year Contest winning entry. It won Best Nature Photo as well as the overall Best Photo of 2011. A dragonfly in a rainstorm.

Entitled "Splashing".
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Amazing.

****CORRECTION****

I think all those pictures but the dragon fly actually came from Boston.com's The Big Picture, '50 Best Photos From The Natural World'.

Sorry for any confusion.

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Just cuz I like Jack.

Light trails from departing (arriving?) plane(s?)...

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awesome! Really clear and crisp.

Looks like just one plane. It's landing, because you can clearly see the forward facing "headlights" on the wing tips. And the central dots from the strobes.

And you can see he was descending too fast, so he flew level for a while. It looks really steep, but I think that's telephoto lens compression.