Got a cheap endoscope on the internet to try and take photos of things I can’t usually see.

Just a quick night shot from a night walk with a Pixel 8, they're rarely this bright in the city.

cross-posted from: https://lemmit.online/post/3529672

Look at this mushroom growing in my garden

This is an automated archive made by the Lemmit Bot.

The original was posted on /r/mildlyinteresting by /u/Readous on 2024-07-27 18:24:19+00:00.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.stad.social/post/19579

Croydon Airport was the UK's only airport in the interwar period, and opened in 1920, and featured the worlds first Air Traffic Control tower, and the worlds first airport terminal.

This model is hanging in the terminal, near the tower.

Unfortunately the building was converted into offices at some point after it closed in 1959, and much of it looks the part, but the museum is open once a month and gives you a chance to see what was once the worlds first fully purposebuilt commercial airport.

Heracles, the plane, was one of a number of Handley Page planes operated by Imperial Airways in the 1930's. Heracles flew from 1931 to 1940, when it was destroyed in a gale. By 1937, it had accumulated 1 million miles of service.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.stad.social/post/14648

Taken from next to Warren Street tube station.

The BT Tower itself is 177m + antennas, and used to be an Official Secret - for many years you weren't allowed to publish its address, despite it being the tallest building in the area by far and visible from miles away.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.stad.social/post/13225

Crystal Palace Park in South London has a number of "dinosaur" statues constructed from ca 1850 onwards. They are great, but not with modern eyes looks more like Pokemon than dinosaurs, as they the science of what dinosaurs might have looked like hadn't exactly gotten very far.

If you zoom in on the background, you can see a couple of the other statues.

Here's more on the Crystal Palace dinosaurs

The World isn't a regular cruise ship. It consists of 165 apartments mostly owned by residents. A few years back the apartment price was quoted as between $2m and $15m.

I keep wondering how many guests are usually on the ship, given I assume most people who'd spend millions on a flat on a cruise ship probably have residences elsewhere too. Keep imagining it as a near ghost ship (which is not true of course - it has a crew of 280) and a monument to excess.

Picture I took last year. Yes, that's a building. Yes, you can go in.

https://twitter.com/AustinDeSisto/status/1709225875076521993