The Most Alien-Looking Place on Earth

Death Valley.




Death Valley.




The Great Salt Lake Desert.







Carlsbad Caverns, New Mexico

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beautiful pictures. Thank you for sharing!

That is incredible! I have never seen or heard anything like this before.

Alien looking clouds.



























From sites:
www.darkroastedblend.com...
www.cloudappreciationsociety.org...
valuca.piczo.com...


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I just made a promise to myself that I WILL go there one day...

i.dailymail.co.uk...

The main storm photos are on my thread and descriptions are included


www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread416261/pg&colorshift=yes

I'd like to chime in with comments, not pictures, sorry....

However, have seen these incredible pictures....some of them of actual places on Earth (ala 'Death Valley'....a place I've actually visitied, btw) and other pictures showing weird cloud formations.

I have a little knowledge of meteorology, based on my experience as a pilot...over 30 years' experience, by the way...and I have seen some cloud formations when I wished I had a camera handy to snap a photo.

But, those combinations, those snapshots, with just the correct lighting at just the correct moment as certain clouds were forming, those are one in a thousand, or even several thousand photos....they were the 'keepers' of someone's body of work.

I'm sure that actual Meteorologists may be better able to describe some of those photos better than I, but I will just leave this image in your minds:

Professional photographers often spend hours and hours just waiting for the 'perfect' shot...AND, just as you see in the motion pictures, they are experts at using various filters to achieve a desired 'look'....

...food for thought.

Originally posted by ziggystar60
I am taking you up on that offer, and post an image of the fantastic Giant's Causeway in Ireland. It’s an area made up of 40,000 interlocking basalt columns. The steps are the result of an ancient volcanic eruption.

More photos of these wonderful formations here:

slorker.com...

Before I die, I have to go to that place in Ireland! GREAT step formation! really video game-ish. Makes me want to fire up my emulator; Stella, & play Q bert like the good old days!

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Originally posted by Aggie Man
Here are a few more I found:

Dude... erm... What in the world is that? ... It looks like a mini-man amongst coliflower... (getting hungry)

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I know cauliflower when I see them!!!

(I do a lot of the household shopping...)

However, your 'photoshopped' little guy? Not very convincing.....

Originally posted by weedwhacker
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I know cauliflower when I see them!!!

(I do a lot of the household shopping...)

However, your 'photoshopped' little guy? Not very convincing.....

They do look like gigantic cauliflowers!
Though this was a good one:
Clicky:
www.astro.virginia.edu...




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Close.

they're bails of cotton, look at the 'leaves'

Fly Geyser - Black Rock Desert, Nevada










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Wow they're amazing pics

Algeria:

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great thread! S&F!

i'll toss in some of *my* natural alien finds.

clouds in colorado 2 years ago:



stalagmite in belize: my alien contribution to the thread



cave system 1:



cave system 2: crazy sparkling droplets lit these caves up like tiny lights

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Perhaps whats most amazing about this picture you posted is that there are no hotels, towers or tourist traps along side the falls to mess up the scene.
Nice!

My vote:

files.abovetopsecret.com...

There is a thread too...
[atsimg]http://files.abovetopsecret.com/files/148611005f4f01b8.jpg[/atsimg]

Youmight have a word if you wish.

Regards to all.
Thread

Thats is a very interesting and amazing place. My favorite were the trees resembling mushrooms. I LOVE how they grow so perfectly. That island is one place I would love to visit to see these amazing pieces of nature.