15 Mind-Blowing Pics That Seem Photoshopped But Are Actually Real

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3. The Bridge Leading To…Nowhere

This may seem like a track on a suicidal ride, but, in fact, the bridge doesn’t end in the air. This is Storseisundet Bridge, and is a tourist attraction in Norway. Locals also call it ‘the Drunk bridge’, and the Daily Mail described it as ‘the road to nowhere’. You can easily guess why. No matter how you look at this weirdly shaped construction, it always looks different from all angles. The bridge is the longest of the eight bridges that make up the Atlantic Road, linking mainland Norway with the island of Averoy. The bridge was opened in 1989, and over the six years that it took to build it, workers had a really tough time because of the harsh weather conditions and the twelve hurricanes that hit the construction site. Initially, Storseisundet Bridge was a toll road and was supposed to recoup the investment in 15 years. But instead it was completely paid in only ten.

2. The Weightlifter Defying Gravity

What you see here is one extremely perfectly timed photograph of the Colombian weightlifter Lesman Paredes during the 2015 Junior World Weightlifting Championships. The photographer captured his successful 190kg clean & jerk attempt. What seems like levitation is actually a result of a combination of a couple of factors. First, it is the bouncy surface he was doing his lifting on. And second, the amount of weight being dropped must have been enough to launch the athlete’s own weight of 94 kg three feet up in the air. All in all, it comes down to Physics 101.

1. The Frozen Lake In Switzerland

This frozen lake in Switzerland resembles broken pieces of glass, placed in a perfect blue pattern. Actually, lakes constitute a major natural feature of the country, and their number is estimated up to 7000. You’re probably wondering what made water freeze in such a pattern. Metals will do this, too if you cool them slowly enough, but this pretty much happens only in space. Iron meteorites sometimes acquire a similar looking pattern. What caused the freezing here was the formation of multiple ice molecules in the lake waters at different locations, which at certain points started expanding as a circle. When two of these expanding circles intersected, a perfectly straight edge was formed between them. This type of pattern is known as a Voronoi pattern. Actually, if you’re hooked on 3D printing, you probably already know you can make your own Voronoi pattern!