Viewing Hurricanes from Space - Neatorama

The Boston.com website has compiled a set of 25 impressive photos of hurricanes, as seen from orbit.

The crew aboard the International Space Station was able to take a photo of Ike from 220 miles overhead last Thursday - one in a long series of great NASA photographs of hurricanes from space.

Link - via kottke.org

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Strange that something so beautiful can also bring such distress with it. I'm looking at the likelihood that Ike will smash right into the Texas coast--where my Dad is working, where my Mom will be so she can help her best friend evacuate, and where my In-Laws live.

And yet, I can't help but be absolutely entranced by images such as these. It's like the emotional equivalent of lying in a tub of scalding water and being doused with ice. Has anyone else ever experienced something like this...?

--TwoDragons

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It looks like something one might have used to yank out a baby in the old days. Then again, that could just be a nightmare of mine.

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Abortion tool.

No fetus can beat us

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It has something to do with candles... Like setting hot jars or hot candles into place.

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Some kind of torture device....surely ;)

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This is a ches' pont nimbler used in pastry and cake decorating. Oddly enough its use was banned in the Duchy of Moldavia because of a dream the Baroness had and related to her 2nd hairdresser, who fortold the Dukes demise at the hands of a Pastrey Cheof' armed with this instrument.

Oddly enough he was run over by a tank during military exercises, the corparal-chef who was in comand of the tank was named:....Chespont.

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Tool for working molten glass (bottle-making??)

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a whale tooth extractor.

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Hmm, handling something, but no idea what.....
Would've said for cutting branches if the edges weren't dull...... uhm.. so I'll guess....

Tool for handling hot metal pipes? :P

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used at a bris

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A circumcision tool known as a top chopper.

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looks like a hoof tester to me

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circumciser

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I don't know, but keep it away from my groin region.

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dry ice handlers

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I think it is for handling blocks of ice.

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I should say, blocks of normal ice.

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and elastrator...used to castrate horses...at least that's what the tool looked like on that tv show "dirty jobs" a while back...it was soo gross!

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It's for picking up eggs!

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It's a wire stripper for old knob and tube wiring

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TONGS!!! TONGS!!! I KNOW I'M RIGHT!!! TONGS!!!

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A tool for handling molten metal... should have a cup that holds the metal, then that clamps around the cup and you can pour it into a mold (or something).

Lew

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its used to neatly crack off the top of a soft boiled egg.

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I'm with Jenna on the candle idea. I think it was used to scrape melted wax off the sides of a candle.

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I think it is a set of metalsmithing tongs. We use something similar to transfer and quench our beakers during the casting process.

Lew may also be correct, they could be used to hold the crucible as well.

Can't wait to find out if I'm right!

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It's tongs for holding hot rivets.

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horse cicumcisers?

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any decent rabbi should know this, its a circumcision tool, of course!

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I think that it is a test tube holder. And it only shuts so much, so that the test tube doesn't break. Glass is delicate, after all.

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calipers for a lathe.

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It's for holding a horse's hoof when puting new shoes on.

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Worst. Speculum. Ever.

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"I don’t know, but keep it away from my groin region."

You, me and just about every male who looked at the picture thought that.

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Is it a thing to hold coal and carry it around?

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I think it's a tool to shape glass.

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It does look very much like a glass tool. Specifically, it would be used to create a bottle neck.

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looks like a tool to hold a cup full of hot melted liquids, possibly melted metals for making metal casts of things.

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The tool used by my ex to remove my soul.

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A tool to shape glasses!

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looks like tongs for coals in a fire

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Could be for getting laundry out of the hot water, or turning it around, etc.

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It's torture not to know what Miss Cellania thinks it could be.

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Tis but an iron rendition of a tool to seperate the testicles from the body

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I believe it's a can opener.

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Large cigar cutter.

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Maybe it's for handling logs in a fire place?
It just looks like tongs you can use for anything you need tongs for: hold something hot, remove a big bullet, deliver a baby, cut of a ball or two, stripping some leaves, pour some acid, pick your nose or a pocket. Great invention, tongs.

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I think it's an old-style tonsillectomy tool.

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testicular clamp

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I do believe that it's an old tool primarily used on the Irish holiday of St. Patrick's Day. When a person forgets or refuses to wear green, this tool is used for an extra-painful pinch.

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The look like tongs to pick up hot coals for use in a sauna.

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Schnipp schnapp schnäbbeli ab...
i say this is or was the tool... for ... ähem eunuch?

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I know what it LOOKS like.

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Used to pick up tubes out of dry ice.

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Maybe for taking of the top or lid of a jar? Or unscrewing a lid.

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Just resized the picture to about 10 inches. Could be for opening bottles, not jars?

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I believe it is a castration tool used for animals. Just rip those balls right off.

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Hah! Nobody got it! ;)

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Looks to me, like a glassblowers cutting tool, used to cut of the finished object from the stubb.

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Denver bronco's!

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