I didn't think it was funny.

I would not have hit it, but I would have probably liked her as a babysitter.

360° scan of the pilot's station of the remaining (1 of only 2) XB-70 Valkyrie bomber. Awesome, btw.

Ran across this site in the comments section of this article about the Valkyrie's arrival at it's new home at The National Museum of the United States Air Force at Wright-Patterson AFB near Dayton, OH.

Also: Co-pilot's station

Yeeaah...you're gonna need a bigger boat.

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'Shopped, maybe?

Most likely, I think that a drilling platform, not a boat.

Hard to say wtf it is.

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Doesn't look like a boat, or an iceberg, so I guessed drill rig. And I don't see a tow line so if it is a drill rig it should be anchored. But that's all guesses.

If, whatever it is, is anchored and it's not photo-shopped,
... it may soon be on it's way somewhere else.

Hey Monstro, wait for us. Have you seen Geppetto ?

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I found something that said it's screen shot from the movie In The Heart Of The Sea

Nope, I was wrong. I'm sure it's a small boat, and probably a whale shark or whale beneath it. Heart of the Sea has a sailing ship, a whaler probably.
Just kidding about Cuba, no clue where it is.

The picture I embiggened is from...
https://www.reddit.com/r/creepy/comm..._of_the_ocean/

the Heart of the Sea pic, also embiggened, is from...
http://www.movies.com/movie-news/in-...-trailer/16994

I was looking for a source too, and stumbled on a snopes entry for this. They can't decide if it's real and can't find the actual source either. So I'm done.

http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/bluewhale.asp

Dolphin

It's gotta be a movie poster item...

Because while there might often be a small vessel on the water, and while there might often be a whale crossing directly under it,

There's very rarely a high-quality camera positioned 300 feet in the air at exactly the right angle to capture the event.

But then again, it turns out scientists use drones to collect snot samples from blowholes. And drones are increasingly equipped with high quality cameras. I can envision a scenario where that's a scientist in the little boat.

And if you do an image search for "blue whales from above," it's a thing. Not a huge thing, but a little thing.
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Damnit. And I said I was done.

I will admit that the original image is very artistic. It's too perfect.

Or a plane searching for refugees when a whale happened by.
Maybe a plane searching for whales when a refugee happened by.;)

Rehearsal for Tuba Christmas in Boston.

:tuba:


Sent by thought transference

Cellar member Kirk says...

French Soldiers.

Time to think about the next garden so you can order seeds before the post holiday doldrums set in.

Cellar member and Boston area Honk Band member.

If I was a cop... or Homeland Security... I'd stop this sumbitch in a heartbeat. It's just too time consumingly perfect to not be hiding a hollow load space filled with something illegal... dope, bootleg, or slave child prostitutes.

:idea: Or a truckbomb... uh, er, ... move along, nothing to see, have a nice day, Sir. :bolt:

OOC.

Obsessively Obsessive Compulsive.

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Click the pic for info.

Boss Tweed on the Lam, and everyone pretending they didn't know he was leaving or where he went... until the cops in Spain recognized him a Thomas Nast cartoon.

Well, it's always nice to feel wanted.:o

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From The Most Incredible Nature Photos of the Year.

Keep calm and unplug your computer. :haha:

Those were the days...

If nothing else, we're probably over-weight.

Evidently the government told them to do the Nazi salute. Neville Chamberlain figured if they did that, and gave Hitler Sudetenland, everything would be hunky dory.

Poor Neville Chamberlain.

Prohibition in Florida...

You can't get there on roller skates. :headshake

NYC is no stranger to big snowstorms.

Columbus Ohio, 1953, handling snow the old fashioned way, no snow blowers or mini-tractors with plows and frontend loaders.
I didn't realize aluminum snow shovels were around in '53, we always had steel ones that weighed a ton.

I'm sure we've had this picture before but I don't recall having the information on it.

All that caught fire? That's sad.

That looks like an awful lot of variation in length. You'd think they'd put all the 20 footers together, and the 18 footers together, etc...

If for no other reason than to keep the unsupported long ones from bowing under their own weight. Some of those really long ones only have 40% of their length supported.

I'm curious how they assembled and disassembled those piles?

I found this.
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Ah ha, excellent! Dat 'splain it. Thank you.:thumb:

Lots of nice pictures at that site.

But these two pictures make me a little sad.

the Model T went through the stump in 1913, and already there were few signs of the primordial forest that produced this stump.
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Then almost 40 years later, this sedan goes through the same stump, and now it's in an open field.
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That's why Red Cedar is used for fence posts, rot resistance, although they probably sealed the top with tar or something.

Been there, done that.

It's now surrounded by a rest stop on northbound I-5.

If you look closely, you can see SonoV wearing my Cowichan hat in the second row on the left. You can't see me cause I'm holding the camera. This shot was taken in January of 2009.

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Sea Smoke

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A few more nice pics at the link.

Is this the one where you are supposed to spot a leopard?

Spot the hidden leopard spot.:D

Beautiful downtown Washington DC.

Wow.

That was to later become the reflecting pool toward the Washington monument, they built for Forest Gump to wade in.

Unloading a Higgins boat...

Changes in the Bank of England "dealing room" over 50 years. You can see the technology changed, the dress has changed, unfortunately the level of sleaze doesn't show in a photograph. They did add two women way down the other end in the 90's, and still have one, but I'm sure these pictures don't show most of the operation.

Indeed dress has changed for quite understandable reasons:

(There had been a number of letters about committing the sartorial blunder of wearing red trousers. Jeeves! My smelling salts and look sharp about it!)

Daily Telegraph.

They used to have a Tug-O-War team too.