Pictures you didn't take
Pictures that make you pause for a second, reflect, are amazing, (or not)
Thank you for starting this thread. I've meant to a hundred times, but, didn't.
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Your welcome. I am glad you like. I thought the same many times, unfortunately..it was slim pickings last night on the net.
I did kind of like this next one.
Should be called "I Feel Your Pain".
Should be called "I Feel Your Pain".
I like the picture more with this title. :)
More impact as wallpaper-size.
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Very late nineteenth-very early twentieth century x-ray images. By Roentgen, I think.
Tulips & Seahorses.
Hey, welcome to the Gravdigr Thread. All Gravdigr, All The Time...:neutral:
well that lasted 12 posts - I'm here now...
Here is my unicorn in a snowstorm
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Hey, welcome to the Gravdigr Thread. All Gravdigr, All The Time...:neutral:
...and a mighty fine job you're doing too. :p:
Really great. Love them Gravdigr.
well that lasted 12 posts - I'm here now...
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Hah!!
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"Lion takes his own picture. And eats it."
Everyone's prolly already seen this pic, but, here it is again.
Awesome pic.
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That's a cool one, Grave. Was there a bigger version? It'd be great as a wallpaper.
Found w/StumbleUpon.
Tineye finds this one,
960x641, w/watermark lower right corner.
If you use the zoom function (lower right corner) in IE, it'll go to 150% and still be usable, you'll lose some detail, of course...
Thanks, Grave. Yeah. It still looks good resized.
From AP last week, I think. It's a funnel cloud turning from horizontal to vertical, minutes after the pic was taken it went all full-blown tornado on their ass.
Taber, Canada.
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From AP last week, I think. It's a funnel cloud turning from horizontal to vertical, minutes after the pic was taken it went all full-blown tornado on their ass.
Taber, Canada.
No, it didn't.
'It never got the momentum to create a tornado, but it did look like it was going to happen before out eyes. 'We watched for 45 minutes as it slowly moved back into cloud
Pat KavanaughNo, it didn't.
Oh.
ETA: I couldn't find the page I got that from, but, I swear to God I didn't make that up.
Credited to Duncan Usher, Germany.
A fox cub uses a slide in a disused gravel pit. Not just once either, so without anthropomorphising the grin on his face, he must have enjoyed it.
Various places in the media and online have it.
He had a major itch!
And if he didn't when he started...
Would make a great scene for a 1950's Sci-fi.
When I look at that pic I hear "Thus Spake Zarathustra". [COLOR="LemonChiffon"]Elvis is in the building!![/COLOR]
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That's an African Cave Spider! They had people eating them once on Fear Factor.
The feelers/antannae/palps thingies on that bug look like the hands of the "Why u no ....?" guy.
I'm not sure that's a spider.
Maybe this guy?
Phalacrognathus muelleri.
Yeah, that does look closer to the silhouette. This is the African cave spider:
gravdigr, that is one beautiful bug.
This is the African cave spider:
Grue. Some.
Dawn over Saddleworth Moors:
From:
http://www.peakdistrictonline.co.uk/andy-hemingway-folklore-in-the-landscape-pt-2-i3957.html
Another Saddleworth pic:
This view is from near the summit of Alderman's Hill looking across Greenfield to Alphin Pike. Folklore tells the tale of two giants, Alphin and Alder who lived on their respective hills. Both sought the affections of Rimmon, a water nymph who lived in the waters of Chew Beck below. Rimmon chose Alphin, which infuriated Alder and the two giants fought, hurling rocks at each other until Alphin was struck and killed. In her grief, Rimmon cast herself from rocks into the valley below and joined Alphin in death.
There is a strong likelihood that this tale is the mythologisation of a Dark Ages battle that could well have taken place here, between the advancing Angles of Northumbria and the Celts of Southern Rheged. Anyone familiar with the tale of the battle of Win Hill, will remember that in c.626AD, the Northumbians defeated the Mercians by rolling boulders down the hillside. The Northumbians had taken Elmet (modern day West Yorkshire) in the early part of the 7th C and advanced on Rheged, which itself fell sometime before 730AD. There are a number of pointers in the landscape to this area being an ancient boarder and even the place names leave clues. Alder being of German origin, Al being a Celtic word for a rock or a hill.
From:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/andyhemingway/4417134006/in/photostream/
Saddleworth Moor is one of my favourite places. Whenever we go to Manchester we have to drive across the Pennines, crossing the moors as we do along the highest motorway in England. It's had a shadow cast across it since the Moors Murderers in the 60s, but for anybody raised in Manchester, or either side of that stretch of the Pennines, it's always been part of the collective conscious.
Re: Saddleworth Moors
Great pics. Looks like an alien landscape.
That's why i love it so. Beautiful and eerie place. But I was especially struck by those two shots on Google images. Quite startling.
It's had a shadow cast across it since the Moors Murderers in the 60s,
Interesting
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I'm this diggin on these guys. Isn't this the cutest picture?
My comrades are just defending their home from the unwarranted aggression of the two legged mammal.
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My mom and dad totally wore bee costumes to a party, during that era of SNL.
Then there's this:
Charlene (Designing Women): (reading a tabloid) I can't believe this. Did you see this? Droves of vicious killer bees are headed toward the United States. They're from South America, expected to arrive in three to four years. That is terrible. Can you imagine? I'll bet our bees are scared to death.
I'm this diggin on these guys. Isn't this the cutest picture?
Actually, yes, that is a cute crop of that picture. I'd send you a hi res version if you like. send me a pm if you're interested.
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Heeeeere kitty kitty kitty...
The 'Pasha Bulker' on Nobbys Beach in Australia, June-July 2007.
If he coulda kept it straight and gunned it, he mighta went right on through.
Pasha Bulker - Panamax bulk carrier, beam - 105.6 feet, length - 738 feet.
that was an IoTD. I think it was near Ali.... or at least I recall her having some local input.
Yeah, I figgered our Aussies might remember it.
Seems like we discussed this pic quite a bit, too.
Dogs (& a couple of cats) in mid-shake.
More of these
here.
That is a great link - even has a couple of kittens
UT should make smilies of those because they could be the perfect response to some posts.
Yes, check out the entire gallery, excellent work!
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Wow. That is so cool!
I looked it up. So you're just walking along on the Sorrento city streets, and there is this big chasm, carved out by water, with a thousand year old mill at the bottom.
Wow!!!, indeed. Good work.
"See honey, I told you that humming noise wasn't coming from the new compact fluorescent bulbs."
Wait. WHAT? What is that? I'm going to barf. That texture alone makes me queasy.
WHAT IS THAT? ARGHHHHHHHHHH.
It's an active honey bee hive with 200 pounds of honey in it (and thousands of bees). Found the picture on a construction forum. It made quite a sticky mess removing it all. Honey dripping all through the house all over the floors, even with plastic tarps everywhere.
Mon dieu!
Bees are cool, no doubt, but that is totally creepy.
I'd burn my house down if THAT was growing in it. Ewwwwwwwwwwww.
Seriously. It's mostly wax at this point anyway. Stick a wick out the chimney and go.
This is a pic of a storm coming across last week that one of my neighbours took. It's just outside of town about two km's into the cane fields.
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God I love a good storm like that, looks like the midwest when I was a kid.
Yeah, but we don't get twisters in ours. ;)
Yeah, but we don't get twisters in ours. ;)
Spiders, snakes, plants, jellies...I'm sure y'all got
some kind of air that'll kill ya.
:p:
Australia really isn't that dangerous. lol No more so than any other country.
I ain't buyin' it. You folks got trees that'll follow ya home and bugger you in your sleep.
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Skulls of the American Bison. That's all I know.
ETA: Wikimedia Commons says the skulls are waiting to be ground into fertilizer. Circa 1870
Someone spent a lot of time stacking MacDonald's trophy case
North American bison, not South American cattle.
For whatever that's worth.
I ain't buyin' it. You folks got trees that'll follow ya home and bugger you in your sleep.
Ahh, they fed you the old "randy tree" story, eh? I can't believe how many people fall for that. I suppose they told you those stains were sap, too? ;)
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That is great. Weird, but great !
pencil-necked slump-shouldered geek.
Postapalooza:
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I thought this was just too cute.
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Greek fire?
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Neuschwanstein (sp?) Castle.
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V-22's on the flight deck. Did they ever make these things work?
Neuschwanstein (sp?) Castle.
Wow. That's a pretty mountainous region. I'm surprised to see them flying so low there.
V-22's on the flight deck. Did they ever make these things work?
Nah, they just drove them around on Aircraft Carriers to look cool. :eyebrow:
Nah, they just drove them around on Aircraft Carriers to look cool. :eyebrow:
It works. They look cool.
Only aircraft I know of off the top of my head that has more crash time than flight time.
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Red leaves green car is fascinating. Love the way the door handle has diverted the rain and prevented growth.
Did they ever make these things work?
Yes, still in service.
Interesting
wiki page on them...
<snip>who the fuck drives without a seatbelt on these days?
Interesting wiki page on them...
Not unique. Back of a Chinook.
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Cool!
What waits for those boats around the next curve:
Heh, it looked like fun in "Ice Age", but, Ima pass.
Here's a twofer:
Is that a boat sailing around that amoeba?
circumnavigating the Mandelbrot set :p:
Facinating, and right on.
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Those frogs were coloured in by a six year old.
A six year old frog should be able to stay inside the lines.
Supposedly a before-and-after of an intersection in Joplin, Mo. I have my doubts.
Unbelievable.
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That was on here before and we debated it... Was that Irene?
You can go there in Google Earth now and it's real dramatic. The aerial imagery shows a war zone, but when you enter street view, it's really nice green neighborhoods.
For example, plug 2594 S. Pennsylvania Ave., Joplin, MO into the search bar and zoom in down towards the rubble and into street view.
Wow. That is amazing. The power of mother nature.
Well he didn't use to believe in dog.
ETA: come to think of it, it doesn't make sense to me either. Never mind.
Who does that dog think he is, Jesus?
No, he thinks he's Rin Tin tin
(Recycled Arnold Palmer joke)
Who does that dog think he is, Jesus?
He just thinks he's a Good Shepherd.
Supposedly a before-and-after of an intersection in Joplin, Mo. I have my doubts.
Unbelievable.
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Wow. How depressing.
Apologies for leaving the pic a little big, but, it's an awesome pic. (It lost some sharpness in the conversion to <175kb)
Better, full-size version over at
Wikipedia.
This ain't Seth, or, Richie. This is Gold Dust Gecko, and Gold Dust Gecko don't give a shit.
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Plastic boat, frigid temps, gnarly whitewater, ~50-75 foot drop into said frigid whitewater...
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Pass.
Just pulling numbers out of thin air, I'd guess there's about a 95% chance that you wouldn't die doing that waterfall thing. Which means there's a 5% chance you would die. I'll pass too.
Well water that is frothy and bubbly and swirling is (I've read) softer on impact than still water.
Which just means you go through and hit the rocks.
Seriously, as Glatt points out, that is basically Russian Roulette. Or natural selection in action. I'll just watch, thanks.
I'm wondering how he got such huge balls in such a tiny boat.
From Nat'l Geographic's Pics of the Year:
First pic just breaks my heart. Flooding (in Asia I think)
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This is the NatGeo Photo of the Year Contest winning entry. It won Best Nature Photo as well as the overall Best Photo of 2011. A dragonfly in a rainstorm.
Entitled "Splashing".
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Amazing.
****CORRECTION****
I think all those pictures but the dragon fly actually came from Boston.com's
The Big Picture, '50 Best Photos From The Natural World'.
Sorry for any confusion.
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Light trails from departing (arriving?) plane(s?)...
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awesome! Really clear and crisp.
Looks like just one plane. It's landing, because you can clearly see the forward facing "headlights" on the wing tips. And the central dots from the strobes.
And you can see he was descending too fast, so he flew level for a while. It looks really steep, but I think that's telephoto lens compression.
Plane, schmane. That is clearly the road markings for the new Highway to Heaven.
Looks like
Rainbow Road to me, or at least a two lane blacktop back road on the same map.
Mount Rainier (?)
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I found the above image while trying to confirm this image. The file name indicates "ch47onmountrainier", but I could not find any picture of Mt. Rainier-terrain that looked like this.
Whatcha think? Is this is, or, is this ain't Mt Rainier?
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V may know - I think he has hiked it a time or 200
I doubt that's Rainier, as the mountain is in a heavily used National Park. They wouldn't be doing military training there. The sunrise could very well be Rainier, however.
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Almost certainly Mount Rainier. Your picture was taken during the summer, since my picture was taken at the beginning of December. The sun is much further south in my picture. I was probably standing in the same place as the photographer of your shot was, Sunrise Tree Farm. It was a glorious, cold, clear morning. I can see trees in the foreground that look very similar. I didn't have a shot at the sun/mountain/clouds/shadow like that other photographer did. Awesome shot.
As for your second picture, that doesn't look like Mount Rainier to me either. Principally because the summit is covered with glaciers, no glaciers in your shot. Also, it is a National Park, not really training ground for military forces. But, there are sometimes rescues of hikers/climbers who need transport off the mountain, and the National Guard does fly there on such occasions, though rarely.
Thanks V - I knew you'd know. ;)
Oh, and Grav... I'm pretty sure I found the site that hosted that image and :eek:
Oh, and Grav... I'm pretty sure I found the site that hosted that image and :eek:
Assuming you mean the Chinook pic, I checked, and, I got it from
Ernie's House of Whoop-Ass.
The sunset one I found in a Google search. No telling.
Haven't we seen that copter photo before? Afghanistan?
Haven't we seen that copter photo before? Afghanistan?
I thought the terrain looked somewhat Afghanish.
Ships of the desert, &, ships in the desert.
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Probably in the Aral Sea or the Caspian sea; salt-lakes that have shrunk considerably as the Russians diverted water for irrigation, leaving fishing industries, well, high and dry.
Not. Of. This. Earth.
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Last September, from ISS.
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Hey look! There I am. I'm the one waving.
Saturn's moon, Enceladus, lit, on the right of the picture, by sunlight; lit, on the face, by sunlight reflected by Saturn. Please notice the ice plumes jetting from a sub-surface sea at the lower left of the picture.
Better explanation (and better, larger pic) here:
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The semi-local weather dude said the other night that our area has had only six days of sunshine this year.
'Splains why I'm liking this pic, I guess. Ordinarily, I would be bitching about this pic representing 100 degrees and 900% humidity, but right now it's looking pretty damn good. Even w/the rain in the background...
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"Ohhhh, it's a double rainbow, all the way across the sky, [SIZE="1"]well almost[/SIZE]."
I would kill to be in that water right now.
OMG I need a vacation. I. Need. A. Vacation.
But, what's a vacation?
Our weatherman said that if we don't get any more snow we are in the top 10 of Least Amount of Snow in the Area since like, the beginning of time.
The semi-local weather dude said the other night that our area has had only six days of sunshine this year.
I believe it. It's amazing what a how a day of sunshine makes me feel human again.
My great great grandfather's van, approximately 112 years ago.
you didn't take that picture??
heh. Nice one, any story you're willing to share?
it reads
J BOORER
Please place your books and perodicals
on the carriage and we well return
them to you with the Russian
translation written in the margins
I don't really have any details. The J Boorer in question was a wheelwright and haulier. The photo was in (in a corner of) a magazine illustration for an article about that part of London (Woolwich). I found it while looking through a lot of my late father's papers this afternoon. Both my parents died in 2010 and I am now the custodian of a lot of family stuff including my father's family-history related research. If I had the time I'd really like to make a proper family album with pictures of the individuals, their parents and offspring arranged in order, and pictures of the property I have which can be identified as associated with specific people, and any stories or other information. Or do it online, probably at one of the genealogy websites so that other people can benefit from it. I have no children or nephews/nieces to pass this stuff physically onto, but am in touch with cousins' children to whom I will leave the stuff.
it reads
J BOORER
Please place your books and perodicals
on the carriage and we well return
them to you with the Russian
translation written in the margins
:D
The fine art of piloting VTOL
This is my grandmother back in the 20's. I love this picture. That car is great. Check out the farmer in the background working the field with horses.
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yes wonderful picture.
I notice in the picture of the car that the wheels are wirewheels. and that each wheel has about 18 spokes supporting the car, so.. say 76 wires are enough to support the entire dynamic weight of the car. Wow.
I'm no mechanical engineer, but I think there's some tensegrity action going on, where even the horizontal spokes are helping to support the weight of the car by holding the rim in a circular shape so the forces can be transferred down to the ground.
Maybe tensegrity is the wrong word to describe it, but it's a similar phenomenon, where all the parts of the system work together.
I had a minor epiphany about bicycle spokes recently.
The weight of the bike goes down the forks, to the hub of the wheel, and then [epiphany] is not supported from beneath by compression, but is suspended from the top of the wheel rim, by tension on the spokes. The rim then carries the weight down to the contact point with the ground, and all the other spokes are under tension to keep the rim from bulging and losing its circular shape.
Yep. Model A. And it looks brand new to me. I assume it's a new car pose. According to Wikipedia, the Model A was sold from 1928 through 1931, so that narrows down the date of the photo a bit.
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Yep. Model A. And it looks brand new to me. I assume it's a new car pose. According to Wikipedia, the Model A was sold from 1928 through 1931, so that narrows down the date of the photo a bit.
Would it be bad form to mention that your Gram is a hottie?
She was probably a flapper. Or at least dressed like one.
"Objects in mirror are closer than they appear."
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The US space program used to be pretty fucking cool.
Glory days.:(
Yeah, no more shots like that one for a while...
omg is that for real? What a beautiful picture. Where'd you find it Grav?
Eye candy. Lots of eye candy.
Where'd you find it Grav?
I searched through my browsing history, and I have no idea.
I did a TinEye search and it returned squat.
ETA: I got that in an email. I think all the pics in that email were from twistedsifter.com. I couldn't confirm the owl pic, they have a weird(-ish) layout.
Neat pic... maybe inspiration for Busby Berkeley's Gold Diggers of 1933
I have a wall (though not a cool tall wall) that I want to do something like this to, only more stylish with like old barn wood or cedar or something, and maybe different colors on the background walls:
I need a carpenter. Jesus? Do you still do carpenting?
My bro carpents (?:P)
The stuff he's built for us all. Amazig some of it. Amelia's woodland tree bed when she was a kid was brilliant. And he painted the whole room as a woodland scene complete with stars that glowed in the dark. The bed was a bunk bed. And underneath was her little desk and study area. Seat was a little tree stump. Step ladder up to the bed was like something out of The Faraway Tree, built from little logs.
How wonderful. I see a lot of neat ideas on Lovely Listing (a cheezburger subsidiary) and I just dream and dream.
"My bro carpents" LOL
I love using messed up word forms. ;)
I lived with a carpent-man for two years when I graduated college. He never made me a damn thing. :mad:
The musician never wrote me a song; the writer never wrote me a pome or prose; the forklift driver never moved my hobos around; the painter never painted me...
Meh, what's the point? I can do nothing for myself all by myself. ;)
you need to recruit Happy, Infinite..... monkeys...
Happy Monkey? Does he carpent? :)
I lived with a carpent-man for two years when I graduated college. He never made me a damn thing. :mad:
Looks like he made you mad.;)
Happy Monkey? Does he carpent? :)
AND HOW, SISTER.
weren't you here when he and his dad made that
bedroom furniture? it was fannnnnntastic.
be back to edit in a link if i can finds it, my precious.
OK Mr Spexx, would you, under those circumstances, make me a pair of glasses? Hmmmmmm? :3eye:
AND HOW, SISTER.
weren't you here when he and his dad made that bedroom furniture? it was fannnnnntastic.
be back to edit in a link if i can finds it, my precious.
Happy Monkey, not just for tape creations anymore.
Oh yeah, findy link. I would love to see that. Talented people, you all amaze me.
I lived with a carpent-man for two years when I graduated college. He never made me a damn thing. :mad:
The musician never wrote me a song; the writer never wrote me a pome or prose; the forklift driver never moved my hobos around; the painter never painted me...
And the cobbler's children had no shoes.
You know Eve was the first carpenter...
...she made Adam's Banana Stand.
I have a wall (though not a cool tall wall) that I want to do something like this to, only more stylish with like old barn wood or cedar or something, and maybe different colors on the background walls:
I need a carpenter. Jesus? Do you still do carpenting?
I carpent, but I don't travel.
You might
enjoy some of the pr0n here....the forklift driver never moved my hobos around;...
I hope ya at least got forked...:o
Happy Monkey? Does he carpent? :)
Suppose these two had kids ... infinitely happy monkeys? Hmmmm...
Suppose these two had kids ... infinitely happy monkeys? Hmmmm...
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Google translation of Chinese capton:
According to the Xinhua News Agency reported in Sichuan, landslides triggered by heavy rains caused 58 houses were buried. Wednesday, rescuers search and rescue of 21 missing persons.
Zengum translation of Chinese caption:
Shitfuckshitfuckshitfuckshitfuck!
Going through some old B&W prints in my desk and I found this portrait that a friend took of me in 1974! I was one way cool photographer with my velvet jacket, colorful camera straps and big sideburns. And my dad was always complaining about my hair! Can't remember what lens that long one was but the Minolta SRT 101 was one very good film camera.
Thanks and I still wear blue jeans with a few holes in them from time to time.
Was that posed or candid?
It was posed, I wanted something different to send out with my graduation invitations. Most kids sent a wallet print of their senior portrait. I wanted to be :cool:
Most kids sent a wallet print of their senior portrait. I wanted to be :cool:
Success achieved.
Yeah it's cool, but I think the wine store was the ultimate.;)
I didn't take this but I have been up to the top of Notre Dame. I think the photographer did a nice job of HDR on this.
I didn't know you could do the HDR thing in black and white, I thought it was strictly a color thing. It's more about the contrast I guess?
Neat pic.
Ansel Adams was a pioneer in HDR the old school way in the darkroom. Dodging and burning in black and white.
Edit: You know, I'd love to see his prints displayed side by side with prints made from his original negatives without the dodging and burning.
Yes, HDR just refers to high dynamic range and it is usually done by combining several exposures from 1-3 stops over to 1-3 stops under the normal exposure and then tone mapping them in a program such as Photomatix and then some additional post processing in something like Photoshop.
That being said you can always do the HDR thing and create a nice color image and then just convert it to B&W in Photoshop.
My main complaint with some HDR work is that it just is overdone in my opinion and looks fake.
I think someone here (Glatt or Chris, maybe?) has experienced this from the inside, on a Tiger Cruise, but, I would love to witness this first-hand before I die.
Being realistic, I prolly never will.
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Ansel Adams was a pioneer in HDR the old school way in the darkroom. Dodging and burning in black and white.
They used to teach us in school, Expose for the highlights and process for the shadows. The whole Zone System is based on a variant of that.
We didn't breach when I did my cruise but we did do some really deep dives and some steep angled dives and climbs which they call "angles and dangles".
...Expose for the highlights and process for the shadows...
Ima memember that.
I saw this on Google+ this morning, an image by Gregory Colbert. His work, Ashes and Snow is an ongoing project that weaves together photographic works, 35mm films, art installations and a novel in letters. You can check it out at
http://www.ashesandsnow.org/Wow. Amazing pics in this thread.
I really like the way that last one captures more than just the moment of the photo, but tells quite a story.
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moonshadow==doubleplus cool!
Yes indeed, I told my family about this pic.
Intellectually, I know that's what an eclipse looks like,
but that's the first pic I've seen like that one.
Great posting...
I don't want to burst anyone's bubble, but, that eclipse pic may very well be 'shopped.
Would the 'thin blue line' of our atmosphere deform like that?
why not? there's less light in that space to be scattered by the air, therefore less scattering, therefore less "blue".
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...but this one especially is very cool.
Single 20 second exposure.
Oh wow! That shot of the bridge is awesome.
Nice shot of the tube, Zen.
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Explanation: When does Mars act like a liquid? Although liquids freeze and evaporate quickly into the thin atmosphere of Mars, persistent winds may make large sand dunes appear to flow and even drip like a liquid. Visible on the above image right are two flat top mesas in southern Mars when the season was changing from Spring to Summer. A light dome topped hill is also visible on the far left of the image. As winds blow from right to left, flowing sand on and around the hills leaves picturesque streaks. The dark arc-shaped droplets of fine sand are called barchans, and are the interplanetary cousins of similar Earth-based sand forms. Barchans can move intact a downwind and can even appear to pass through each other. When seasons change, winds on Mars can kick up dust and are monitored to see if they escalate into another of Mars' famous planet-scale sand storms.
Those drops look like little spacecraft. Proof there is Life on Mars.
Hah! Great minds...I thought they looked like the 'saucer section' of the starship Enterprise.
Kenny Baker eating lunch on the set.
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Looks like nothing so much as a couple trash cans.
And, look! Somebody threw away a perfectly good midget.
I was gonna post this pic, but dude has some (not unreasonable) usage conditions (I think I would've been okay posting, I'm just too lazy to email the guy) on his work.
BTW: The pic I refer to is for April 27, 2012. The pic changes daily, so, if you go at another time you might have to search for the pic.
He has some good stuff.
Daily Dose of Imagery, at topleftpixel.com.
Spend a little time in the
archives, it's worth it.
Oh yeah. Nice pics on that site!
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Explanation: Planet Earth has many moons. Its largest artifical moon, the International Space Station, streaks through this lovely skyview with clouds in silhouette against the fading light of a sunset. Captured from Stuttgart, Germany last Sunday, the frame also includes Earth's largest natural satellite 1.5 days after its New Moon phase. Just below and left of the young crescent is Jupiter, another bright celestial beacon hovering near the western horizon in early evening skies. Only briefly, as seen from the photographer's location, Jupiter and these moons of Earth formed the remarkably close triple conjunction. Of course, Jupiter has many moons too. In fact, close inspection of the photo will reveal tiny pin pricks of light near the bright planet, large natural satellites of Jupiter known as Galilean moons.
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Victoria Crater, Mars
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_(crater)
The article at Burns' wiki-link includes this pic of Victoria Crater from Mars rover Opportunity's panoramic camera:
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The scale is: 1 Mile = 1 Mile.
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The article at Burns' wiki-link includes this pic of Victoria Crater from Mars rover Opportunity's panoramic camera:
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Well it is pretty big, about 2000 foot diameter, spectacular pic, No?
Well there was a hyena, and they had told her about hyenas. They have jaws that can crush bone.
That dude is both silly and pretty bad ass at the same time.
[I]That dude is both silly and pretty bad ass at the same time.
Almost my exact thoughts...
I like the bleakness with just a touch of color thrown in.
Well there was a hyena, and they had told her about hyenas. They have jaws that can crush bone.
Poor Johnny. Africa stole his woman.
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looks like a painting, actually.
Reminds me of Frank Frazetta paintings. Except there's no scantily clad woman.
looks like a painting, actually.
Mensa called, they have an opening...:D
Very large version
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Front Row: James Stewart, Margaret Sullavan, Lucille Ball, Hedy Lamarr, Katharine Hepburn, Louis B Mayer, Greer Garson, Irene Dunne, Susan Peters, Ginny Simms, Lionel Barrymore
Second Row: Harry James, Brian Donlevy, Red Skelton, Mickey Rooney, William Powell, Wallace Beery, Spencer Tracy, Walter Pidgeon, Robert Taylor, Pierre Aumont, Lewis Stone, Gene Kelly, Jackie Jenkins
Third Row: Tommy Dorsey, George Murphy, Jean Rogers, James Craig, Donna Reed, Van Johnson, Fay Bainter, Marsha Hunt, Ruth Hussey, Marjorie Main, Robert Benchley
Fourth Row: Dame May Whitty, Reginald Owen, Keenan Wynn, Diana Lewis, Marilyn Maxwell, Esther Williams, Ann Richards, Marta Linden, Lee Bowman, Richard Carlson, Mary Astor
Fifth Row: Blanche Ring, Sara Haden, Fay Holden, Bert Lahr, Frances Gifford, June Allyson, Richard Whorf, Frances Rafferty, Spring Byington, Connie Gilchrist, Gladys Cooper
Sixth Row: Ben Blue, Chill Wills, Keye Luke, Barry Nelson, Desi Arnaz, Henry O’Neill, Bob Crosby, Rags Ragland
Totally cool! I haven't heard the name Chill Wills in years.
Desi Arnaz in the far back row, while Lucy is in the front. I wonder if they were married yet.
I don't know. There's no date anywhere, is there?
Ricky Ricardo: Lucy's actin' crazy.
Fred Mertz: Crazy for Lucy, or crazy for ordinary people?
Desi Arnaz in the far back row, while Lucy is in the front. I wonder if they were married yet.
Separated maybe?
Wikipedia:
In 1940, Ball met Cuban-born bandleader Desi Arnaz while filming the Rodgers and Hart stage hit Too Many Girls. When they met again on the second day, the two connected immediately and eloped the same year. Arnaz was drafted to the United States Army in 1942. He ended up being classified for limited service due to a knee injury. As a result, Arnaz stayed in Los Angeles, organizing and performing USO shows for wounded GIs being brought back from the Pacific. That same year, Ball appeared opposite Henry Fonda in The Big Street, in which she plays a paralyzed nightclub singer and Fonda portrays a busboy who idolizes her. The following year Ball appeared in DuBarry Was a Lady, a film for which the natural brunette first had her hair dyed the flaming red that would be her screen trademark.
Ball filed for a divorce in 1944. Shortly after Ball obtained an interlocutory decree of divorce, however, she reconciled with Arnaz.
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Ah, the fond memories I have of rubbing [Strike]one[/Strike] many out while Toni Basil bounced around my tv singing "Mickey".
:rolleyes:
Ha!
When my old friend used to come into the eagles, I'd always sing: Oh Nicky you're so fine you're so fine you blow my mind hey Nicky! Hey Nicky!
This is what I always think of when I hear the name Nick (it's just audio, and you have skip to 4:05 because I've never learned how to use the t= thing to start it late):
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Nicholas! You are the strongest boy in the world!
@clod.
1) Pause the video where you want it to begin.
2) right click on the video and select "Copy video URL at current time"
3) past that part after the "="
Voila!
I copy the code as usual, but then ....
Code&start=90
Where 90 is how many seconds you want it to begin at.
And end youtube bracket. Lower case, no spaces.
(yootoob)123456&start=90(youtoob)
But but but - That means I have to remember...
The other way does it for you ... err me.
Mensa called, they have an opening...:D
Your face has an opening.
Shame, that.
;) ; ;) ;) ;)
Your face has an opening.
Five actually. Not counting pores.
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Explanation: A mere 2.5 million light-years away, the Andromeda Galaxy really is just next door as large galaxies go. So close, and spanning some 260,000 light-years, it took 11 different image fields from the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) satellite's telescope to produce this gorgeous portrait of the spiral galaxy in ultraviolet light. While its spiral arms stand out in visible light images of Andromeda (also known as M31), the arms look more like rings in the GALEX ultraviolet view, dominated by hot, young, massive stars. As sites of intense star formation, the rings have been interpreted as evidence Andromeda collided with its smaller neighboring elliptical galaxy M32 more than 200 million years ago. The large Andromeda galaxy and our own Milky Way are the dominant members of the local galaxy group.
Nyan Cat Vs Emperor Palpatine?
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Explanation: Have you contemplated your home star recently? Pictured above, a Sun partially eclipsed on the top left by the Moon is also seen eclipsed by earthlings contemplating the eclipse below. The above menagerie of silhouettes was taken from the Glenn Canyon National Recreational Area near Page, Arizona, USA, where park rangers and astronomers expounded on the unusual event to interested gatherers. Also faintly visible on the Sun's disk, just to the lower right of the dark Moon's disk, is a group of sunspots. Although exciting, some consider this event a warm-up act for next week's chance to comtemplate the Sun -- a much more rare partial eclipse by the planet Venus.
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Where is this?
No clue. Filename says 'vietnamese houseboat'.
I like this photo because of who took it and why.
Mum took my camera to Benidorm (Spain) last week to practice before taking it to Australia next month.
She only took nine photos, but all of them were decent.
And I'm not being patronising - she gets flustered by the size of cameras and buttons and has a tendency to cut people's heads off. So I was pleasantly surprised.
She now has to practice on food and faces as those are the pics I will be most interested in seeing when she comes back :) My Uncle and 20yo cousin will surely help her out, but I like that she will have the confidence to take some of her own. Not as many as me of course, but that's probably all for the good.
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Explanation: Who guards the north? Judging from the above photograph, possibly giant trees covered in snow and ice. The picture was taken last winter in Finnish Lapland where weather can include sub-freezing temperatures and driving snow. Surreal landscapes sometimes result, where common trees become cloaked in white and so appear, to some, as watchful aliens. Far in the distance, behind this uncommon Earthly vista, is a more common sight -- a Belt of Venus that divided a darkened from sunlit sky as the Sun rose behind the photographer. Of course, in the spring, the trees have thawed and Lapland looks much different.
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So, here.
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I stole this from a friend on FB.
Maybe you've heard about the big anniversary for the Queen, celebrating 60 years on the throne. They had a big boat parade through London and a lot of people turned out to watch.
You'll see nice pictures on news sites of the Queen and the boats, but what's it really like to be there? It's like this. Picture taken by my friend's daughter while she was up on his shoulders. You get a free periscope advertising an upcoming movie so you can catch a glimpse of the boats going by. Looks like a zoo but everyone is enjoying themselves and glad to be there.
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Glad (SOOOOO glad) I'm not living in London this year of all years.
I'm not sure why cities want to host the games. Seems like the negatives outweigh the benefits. But I'm not an economist, so what do I know? Maybe the construction boom, if well planned, is worth the headaches.
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40 Of The Most Powerful Photographs Ever Taken
Warning: Some of these will make you weep.
^^^They ain't just whistling "Dixie".^^^
Definitely worth a look.
In the "Not Something You See Everyday" dept:
The shuttle Enterprise passing under the Verrazano Narrows bridge.
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And something you'll likely never see again.
40 Of The Most Powerful Photographs Ever Taken
^^^They ain't just whistling "Dixie".^^^
Definitely worth a look.
Did you notice 10% are dogs?
Not the best quality...I have never seen this photo before today.
I think this larger photo is even more powerful than the more famous 'Tank Man' pic.
That was one awesome individual.
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That's a big parking lot.
Not the best quality...I have never seen this photo before today.
I think this larger photo is even more powerful than the more famous 'Tank Man' pic.
That was one awesome individual.
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How'd that work out for them?
Here is a pic taken a few moments earlier. He was apparently walking home from the store.
He was indeed carrying bags of shopping home.
After a few minutes of stopping the tanks, some other people (friendly) pulled him away.
I've heard two different people have been imprisoned on suspicion of being this guy. I think one got 20 years.
Tank Man is dead. His father (some of you might argue it wasn't his dad, just some dude wanting attention; you don't seek attention in China, you might get it) admitted his son was Tank Man, and he was killed after being taken by the gubmint. He (the dad) committed suicide, in protest of no info on his son, this past couple weeks or so ago, leaving a note behind saying as much.
I'll see if I can dig through my browsing history and find the news article.
My apologies. Nowhere in the article I referred to did it say the guy was Tank Man's father. He was "a protester's father".
Here's the article I read.
Ima moran sometimes.
How'd that work out for them?
I know that, for a while anyway, the entire world considered that one man as strong or stronger than China.
And then it turned to shit.
Yea, so it still begs the question..... "How'd that work out for them?"
Obama gave minor support to the Libya uprising and is taking full credit for it in his run for re-election and letting the Syrian people get slaughtered.... MF should own up to his failures.
This tree is apparently in Happy Valley, Hong Kong. Can't find much more information on it than that. You can see the younger trees in the background, and the tiny amount of open dirt they let each tree have. When you plant a tree, it's a good idea to be aware of what kind of tree you are planting, and if it will fit in the spot you have chosen once it matures. But I think this is really cool and am glad this one grew this way.
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But I did find
a picture of this tree or a very similar one where they have removed the brick pavers and the roots are exposed.
That's pretty good.
I always wondered at the folks who put such effort into good graffiti art. When that construction site is gone in 6 months or a year, that art will be gone too. Assuming it doesn't get painted over before then.
A
Bryde's Whale. Apparently, it's quite rare to photograph a breaching Bryde's Whale.
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Or, maybe, if you're German, a Bryde-al Vhale.
Hahahahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaa!! I kill me sometimes...
The whole whale looks like a penis.
:notworthy :notworthy :notworthy
Zen? you obviously haven't seen me naked.
What? Whales don't have foreskin?
Jewish whales...pff...their yarmulkes would be huuuge.
And cover the blowhole.
That is one stupid-looking fish.
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Explanation: Engraved in rock, these ancient petroglyphs are abundant in the Teimareh valley, located in the Zagros Mountains of central Iran. They likely tell a tale of hunters and animals found in the middle eastern valley 6,000 years ago or more, etched by artists in a prehistoric age. In the night sky above are star trails etched by the rotation of planet Earth during the long composite exposure made with a modern digital camera. On the left, the center of the star trail arcs is the North Celestial Pole (NCP), the extension of Earth's axis into space, with Polaris, the North Star, leaving the bright, short, stubby trail closest to the NCP. But when these petroglyphs were carved, Polaris would have made a long arc through the night. Since the Earth's rotation axis precesses like a wobbling top, 6,000 years ago the NCP was near the border of the constellations Draco and Ursa Major, some 30 degrees from its current location in planet Earth's sky.
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Explanation: What created this unusual hole in Mars? The hole was discovered by chance on images of the dusty slopes of Mars' Pavonis Mons volcano taken by the HiRISE instrument aboard the robotic Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter currently circling Mars. The hole appears to be an opening to an underground cavern, partly illuminated on the image right. Analysis of this and follow-up images revealed the opening to be about 35 meters across, while the interior shadow angle indicates that the underlying cavern is roughly 20 meters deep. Why there is a circular crater surrounding this hole remains a topic of speculation, as is the full extent of the underlying cavern. Holes such as this are of particular interest because their interior caves are relatively protected from the harsh surface of Mars, making them relatively good candidates to contain Martian life. These pits are therefore prime targets for possible future spacecraft, robots, and even human interplanetary explorers.
I have to admit, I get emotional about the Peace Corp.
Washington Post - 7/20/12
Winners of the Peace Corps AIDS-Free Generation Photo Contest
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Girls Leading Our World (GLOW)
Camp participants play trust games, helping them to feel comfortable
with one another in hopes of encouraging them to open up and share their experiences.
In April, several campers led seminars on HIV and AIDS.
A nurse also spoke about HIV/AIDS prevention.
Lindsey Hanson — Volunteer in Ghana, 2011-2013 / Peace Corps
Please indulge me with these 9 pics.
They were taken by my G-son on his ODFW job in NE Oregon.
The Wallowa valley is famous because it's the migration route of Chief Joseph,
of the
"I will fight no more, forever" and Nez Perce Trail fame.
These are in the specific area where Sam was working...
...and fishing... and fishing... and fishing :rolleyes:
Stop smiling, young man, you're supposed to be at work!
Fantastic places. Thanks.
I challenge the "working" epithet. getting paid, sure. But that ain't workin.
I tip my cap to Lamplighter's vicarious success!
Stop smiling, young man, you're supposed to be at work!
Fantastic places. Thanks.
Right on!
Lil' Griff used this tune for her Chief Joseph presentation a couple years ago...
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Lil' Griff made a remarkable choice.
Part of the trouble with getting old is that too many things make me emotional.
This got to me too.
Thanks Griff
Beautiful, just beautiful. Stunning part of the world.
Here's what brought me looking for this thread:
The street artist Banksy has been busy bringing his particular vision of the Olympics to London. He's posted pics of his latest efforts, without naming their locations. It is to be hoped that those currently organising the graffitti cleanups will recognise a Banksy when they see it and not clean it away!
http://www.guttermagazine.com
http://www.highsnobiety.com
http://www.fastcocreate.comHubble's view of the Orion Nebula. This is supposedly the sharpest image ever taken of the Orion Nebula.
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Ginormous 6000 x 6000 pixel version
here.
Looks almost like a beating heart.
Scary... there are too many faces in there.
Kitteh luv.
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FreeKibble.com[COLOR="Silver"]Pet[/COLOR]shopped!
Prolly, but, it was too cute not to post.
Ever wanted to surf Norway?
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No, but I'd go there just to gaze at the northern lights. 'Course, I can do that in my home province ... but Norway would also be nice.
... from a "exploring"
blog I came across
Granite-Batholiths-Bedouin-Wells-and-Abandoned-Villages-of-Arabia-ShieldTaint a shade tree...tis a Sun Tree!
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Woah. Those are both incredible, Grav. The first one is haunting.
I came here with a pic, but having seen these last few of Grav's mine doesn't seem so grand now :P
Ah well, I still like it, so here it is. A panoramic shot of the White Cliffs of Dover. As iconic to us as the Statue of Liberty or the Grand Canyon to you. This is the traditional first and last sight of England. First described in print by Julius Caesar, and the greeting point for royal visitors. The natural fortification of Britain.
White Cliffs of Dover by
Martin..D, on Flickr
And to give a sense of scale:
There's a really cool system of tunnels in those cliffs underneath that castle. Much of the British WWII effort was directed from inside those cliffs.
Cool place, those cliffs. Lots of history. One of those smaller towers in the picture of the castle is a Roman light house that's two millenniums old.
Those are grand pics !
Having heard (and sung songs) about the "white cliffs of Dover",
I actually haven't seen pics before that show what they are all about.
Well done !
I've seen them in person, very dramatic. I've seen them on the silver (and television) screen too.
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The end of Quadrophenia. This clip gives me the heebie jeebies. I watched it again before posting it here and I still find myself inching back in my chair away from the cliff's edge.
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Taken from an airplane, being flown by an airplane-flying research dude. Said there was a wolf pack just out of camera frame waiting for the grizz to get done eating.
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Grizz has a tag in his ear
Tag = relocated problem bear. In a lot o' places, anyway.
Grizz has a tag in his ear
Reminded me of this:
...Rocky's just a road-kill squirrel surprise,
Only flying being done being done by flies.
Bullwinkle's in the woods far away from here,
With a radio-collar and a tag in his ear...
~from
"Cartoon Animals" by Heywood BanksGrizz has a tag in his ear
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Finally caught that sumbitch.
Thing that's freaky about that picture is the road.
Normally when you see images of predators chasing down prey, it's obviously in the wild. But with this picture, you can image being there. And being lunch.
Run Forrest! Run!
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We hashed over that series of pictures pretty good at one time, might have been an IOtD.
Any time I see or hear a Forrest Gump reference, all I can thing of is his football coach:
Run, you stupid son-of-a-bitch! Run!
The people in this pic comprise $126,000,000,000 of net worth.
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The inclusion of Bon Jovi (which my spellcheck wants to make "Non" Jovi) is hysterical. You know everyone else in that photo is irritated that they had to let him be in it, sitting on the floor like some kind of ruffian.
Why would they be irritated? By all accounts, Jon Bon Jovi is a very likeable, kind, and giving person.
Plus he's really rich. ;)
Would it have killed him to wear a blazer? That's all they're asking.
That a very nice looking room, and tastefully decorated, but those two library ladder contraptions really look out of place. They remind me of the cheap fold down stairs that lead to the attic in my parents house.
Couldn't they make some ladders out of mahogany or something?
Something
like this would look more tasteful.
The people in this pic comprise $126,000,000,000 of net worth.
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1/12 minority. 3/12 women (2 are wives). 75% white men. Just saying.
a few words about photography I didn't write.
The photographer is like the cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.
- George Bernard Shaw
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Explanation: Normal cloud bottoms are flat. This is because moist warm air that rises and cools will condense into water droplets at a specific temperature, which usually corresponds to a very specific height. As water droplets grow, an opaque cloud forms. Under some conditions, however, cloud pockets can develop that contain large droplets of water or ice that fall into clear air as they evaporate. Such pockets may occur in turbulent air near a thunderstorm. Resulting mammatus clouds can appear especially dramatic if sunlit from the side. These mammatus clouds were photographed over Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada during the past summer.
Whoah.
Mammatus = boobies!
I hear Ride Of The Valkyries when I see that picture, just minus the brass corsets.
Ya know, Grav's gonna get in trouble agin, posting titty pics in a thread that isn't NSFW. :D
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Explanation: Have you ever seen a halo around the Moon? This fairly common sight occurs when high thin clouds containing millions of tiny ice crystals cover much of the sky. Each ice crystal acts like a miniature lens. Because most of the crystals have a similar elongated hexagonal shape, light entering one crystal face and exiting through the opposing face refracts 22 degrees, which corresponds to the radius of the Moon Halo. A similar Sun Halo may be visible during the day. The setting of the above picture is Athens, Greece. The distant planet Jupiter appears by chance on the halo's left. Exactly how ice-crystals form in clouds remains under investigation.
The USS Arizona, in the 1920s, and after the attack on Pearl Harbor. The USS Arizona was bombed in the 1941 attack, killing 1177 officers and crew. The wreck still lies at the bottom of Pearl Harbor.
http://life.time.com/history/pearl-harbor-photos-from-the-pacific-and-the-home-front-1941-1942/?hpt=hp_c1#1
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Arizona_(BB-39)
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Taken the week of Halloween. That's a staffer's kid.
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Backlit Saturn. Wow.
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That looks fake. Its colors are so different from what we are used to seeing.
I've been going through an Obama slide show over at
Time, and it struck me that this signature looks like it's done by someone with Parkinson's disease. then I remembered they do that souvenir pen thing, where they draw a fraction of each letter of the signature with a different pen so they can use like 20 pens to sign a bill into law and give them away to VIPs.
Still, it looks funny.
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Friend of mine is a flight attendant and is currently in Venice for a layover.
Took this shot of a boatyard in Venice. I could watch them for hours working on repairing the wooden gondolas.
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Seems that at some point this was definitely NOT the place to be...
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Whoah. Any info on that?
In case of lack of information, random speculation is also good.
Wow!
I tried looking into this, and the best I can come up with is a little French town called Saint Malo or maybe Alteh.
There's a
good web site on it here. Which is where I found this old picture of a different pillbox in the area.
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Seems these pillboxes sit on top of bunkers, so whoever was inside could have climbed down a ladder and run out the back of the hillside when the first few shells were glancing off the sides and weren't hitting directly yet.
Lots of 'Wow' and 'Holy Shit' moments on that there site.
Love this pic.
Seen at
KustomKing.
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This was on imgur. Caption said 'i saw abe lincoln on a plane.'
Top comment: ' Emancipation Transportation'
I think it's that guy with the dirty coffee cup. Is that LampLighter?
Is that LampLighter?
Are we sure that guy ain't
this guy?
Left it big, sue me.
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I still think they look like techno-boomerangs.
As much as they cost, they damn well better come back!
The woman on the right is my great grandmother. She lived in Brooklyn, so this would have been just a little ferry trip for her. She was born in 1872. The Statue of Liberty was dedicated in 1886. I'm going to guess this was taken in the mid 1890s, since she looks to me like she's in her 20's. Hard to tell if that's a wedding ring on her finger.
My cousin took this digital picture of a glass plate image. The image is reversed, since that's how the glass plates came out. I'm not that familiar with the early photo technology. Is this a daguerreotype?
Anyway, I think it's pretty cool. She's from the side of the family that had some money back then and that could do things like dress up nice and get a portrait taken. Nice hat.
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I like how they're looking down, the camera near the ground to fit everything in. I'm none too expert on these photos either, does it look real or does it look just a little like they might be posing next to a picture of the statue rather than the real thing?
And look at all those aircraft (alien spaceships?) flying around everywhere!
My first thought when I saw this was that it was fake. A studio backdrop. But that grass in the foreground is real, and so is the packed dirt at the foot of the bench they are sitting on. And she lived in NYC, just a few miles from the real statue.
But still...
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...Is this a daguerreotype?...
from Wikipedia:
The physical daguerreotype itself is a direct positive made in the camera on a silvered copper plate. The raw material for plates was called Sheffield plate, plating by fusion or cold-rolled cladding and was a standard hardware item produced by heating and rolling silver foil in contact with a copper support. The surface of a daguerreotype is like a mirror, with the image made directly on the silvered surface; it is very fragile and can be rubbed off with a finger, and the finished plate has to be angled so as to reflect some dark surface in order to view the image properly. Depending on the angle viewed and the color of the surface reflected into it, the image can change from a positive to a negative. The cases provided to house daguerreotypes have a cover lined with velvet or plush to provide a dark surface that reflects into the plate for viewing.
Really neat picture, glatt! Who's the gal on the left?
Musical two-fer:
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Is it just me, or does Ibram resemble the young George Harrison (a little)?
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Elvis gave Ali a rhinestone fight robe. Ali wore it to his next fight. And lost. He never wore it again.
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Elvis looks downright puny next to Ali.
I just learned that Google sent a StreetView camera down into the Grand canyon on the back of a hiker.
So here's a screen grab of a Mennonite woman, hiking in the Grand Canyon with a digital camera, captured without a blurred face, and posted in the virtual reality of Google's Street view.
It's a remarkable time we live in.
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Whoah. Any info on that?
In case of lack of information, random speculation is also good.
OK, Zen, here's trick #2 for you. Pay attention because I don't want any injuries.
open a new tab and drag it away from your browser so you now have two browser windows. in your new browser window go to google image search.
drag the image you are curious about onto the search bar of the new browser. You'll then see a number of images, usually the same image, and you can choose the link to the site that looks most promising. Sometimes you'll only get visually similar images.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cloche-blindee--Saint-Malo-.jpgSo here's a screen grab of a Mennonite woman, hiking in the Grand Canyon with a digital camera, captured without a blurred face, and posted in the virtual reality of Google's Street view.
That may be a Mormon bonnet.
Good point. The Mormons are closer.
Or maybe she's just a hipster wearing it ironically.
The rest of the party:
(Incidentally, they are not carrying much with them considering where they are on the trail. Most people at that point will have a large pack with a tent, sleeping bag, food, and water. They seem to have nothing, and they had to walk 6-7 miles to get to where they are, and they have 6-7 miles to get back out to the rim. Unless a raft dropped them off and they are hiking out.)
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Bright Angel is a day walk, down to the river and back.
Some do the rim to rim, using the Bright Angel and North Kaibab Trails, in a day, but that's some serious shit.
The woman's covering is identical to those worn by northwest PA Amish women, except that she's got a lot more hair piled up and showing in front than the PA women do. They tend to pull the hair straight back, flat and tight. But the covering looks Amish. So does the hat on the man in a later picture.
German Baptists or Dunkers (or Dunkards) wear those.
They make great coffee filters, too.
photo taken by Phil Stern
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That's a pretty bracelet he's wearing.
Bright Angel is a day walk, down to the river and back.
Some do the rim to rim, using the Bright Angel and North Kaibab Trails, in a day, but that's some serious shit.
Down to the river and back is a day trip
each way, for most people. Down to Plateau Point and back is a day trip.
From there, it's still quite a way down to the river:
I think they got dropped off by a raft and are just walking from bridge to bridge, back to the same raft. They don't even have water bottles, except for one with a camelback. That would be about a two mile loop, and doable without water. Or else they got a mule ride down to Phantom ranch and are just walking around down at the bottom.
Down to the river and back is a day trip each way, for most people. Down to Plateau Point and back is a day trip.
From there, it's still quite a way down to the river:
Nonsense, I made it down Bright Angel all the way to the river in about 2 hrs and 20 minutes. I was carrying a 70lb pack and being this was in August, an early start before it got too hot. There are several water sources along the trail.
The Ranger said he had done the rim to rim in a very long day, but advised allowing 6 to 7 hours back up Bright Angel for normal folks.
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That's really beautiful, Grav. I'm not even a dog person, and it still touched me.
Glad you like.
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Love the picture of the dog, Grav. It just brings me peace. Thanks.
Well, I HOPE those were deliberately sunk as a reef/breakwater.
That's really beautiful, Grav. I'm not even a dog person, and it still touched me.
Love the picture of the dog, Grav. It just brings me peace. Thanks.
;)
There's an
article in the NY Times about people gathering in Yosemite Park to try to capture a particular picture.
For about one week each February, the setting sun hits the water of Horsetail Fall
at such an angle that it glows, looking like a stream of lava against the darkened rock.
The so-called firefall attracts hundreds of professional and amateur photographers
from across the globe, who flock to Yosemite Valley to capture the ephemeral scene.
Here is the pic everyone is chasing...
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Mr. Rowell died in a plane crash in 2002, but his “Last Light on Horsetail Fall”
remains the most well-known photograph of the apparition.
There's an article in the NY Times about people gathering in Yosemite Park to try to capture a particular picture.
Absolutely wonderful. I love what nature gives us.
I had no idea Galen Rowell had died. That explains why I haven't seen much new work from him lately. Sad.
I had no idea Galen Rowell had died. That explains why I haven't seen much new work from him lately. Sad.
He did some amazing work. I have a book by him somewhere. I didn't know he died either.
It's like the smoke monster on Lost.
Aww, dammit!! They moved the drive-in again!
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Big pic apologies...but it's an awesome pic.
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Is that the Chateau up at Exclamation Point?
I thought it was one of those icons that show up when you search for something in GoogleEarth.
Only life size.
My cousin took this picture and posted to Facebook.
We've all seen pictures of bald eagles catching and eating fish.
I've never seen one eating a deer.
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I wonder if it took the deer down, or if it found the deer injured or dead on the ice and scavenged it.
I have a hard time picturing an eagle taking down a healthy deer.
An adult eagle might take a fawn, but, not a full growed deer.
Meal of opportunity, methinks.
I read the other day that these guys are now the fastest, highest-flying pilots in the world, since the Shuttles (and BlackBirds) have been retired.
Either that, or, it's a Daft Punk tribute band.
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My daughter works in downtown PDX, and sent this email to me today.
Eagles
There are a pair of eagles coming to roost on a light poles between my work building and the river.
This is just a cell phone pix, but it is pretty cool to see them nearly every day.
To most of us that's pretty cool, however Seakdiver would scoff just more feathered rats, since they have an abundance up there in Alaska. I'd be majorly fascinated if they were near me, thanks. :thumb:
We're seeing eagles pretty regularly on the Susquehanna now. It is still cool.
A friend of mine lives on a fair sized lake about forty miles from me.
He had two nests in sight of his front window a few years ago.
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Bastidge.
Yeah now that they'd 86'd the DDT we're lousy with eagles.
Cats are on the rebound too...
Wow!
This image represents a culmination of multiple long drives, failed attempts and lessons learned. I travelled 5 hours round-trip to this location for at least 5 prior night launches, each months apart, and failed each time for a different reason, learning an improvement in the process. The final image, shot from a distance of 30 miles and an altitude of 900ft, was a composite of three frames shot on two cameras, as the scene far exceeded the dynamic range capturable by any current camera technology. One for the arc, roughly 3minutes at f/22, one for the exhaust and orbiter,1/2 at 3.5, and one for the stars/Jupiter, just risen, seen to the right of the base of the arc. The “comet” at the left is actually the Space Shuttle Discovery, after SRB seperation, and the “tail” is an exhaust or moisture that is always present on launch, just not usually visible. The unique timing of this particular launch, just before sunrise, meant that shortly into the launch the shuttle and it’s contrail were illuminated by the rising sun, while the pad and my location were still in pre-dawn darkness, making for great contrast. Just five minutes prior to launch the International Space Station flew overhead, and five minutes after, I parachuted down, and made a hasty egress before the sun broke the horizon.
...
I’m normally an advocate of “getting it” right in-camera, but occasionally the scene can only be captured by composite. This image is the closest representation that I can create to being there, and it pales in comparison. This launch will remain one of the most memorable moments of my life. It’s incredible what we as humans can achieve when we try…
It worked when I posted it. Looks like the site is down.
www.bryanrapoza.com (Bryan Rapoza is the photographer of Zen's picture)
Werkt fer me.
Awesome pic!
It's working now, but I can't figure out where he parachuted 900 ft down from.:confused:
I think he's not saying so he won't be prosecuted. Has to be a radio tower of some kind. Florida is flat. Nothing else is that tall.
I wondered if it was a balloon, but it's hard to keep them steady for long shots. Radio tower would be a good guess. :thumb:
Wait a goddamn minute.
This dude has unlawfully scaled a 900 foot radio mast at night, artfully photographed a rocket launch, and got home by parachute???!!!
:notworthy :notworthy :notworthy
Well, that's a guess, since the highest elevation in the whole damn state is about 350 ft. But it seems the most logical solution, although I can't find it on Google Earth.
He also made a "hasty egress" which, to me, means that he got the hell out of there before he could be spotted.
There are nine little red dots in a vertical line in the lower left of the picture. Could this be another 900 foot radio tower? If so, this theory seems more plausible.
Think I got it, 1,549 feet, Guyed mast UHF/VHF-transmission U.S. Holopaw, Florida. It's about 30 miles from the cape.
I can't find it on Google Earth.
At 28 degrees 36' 35" N and 81 degrees 03' 34" W, there is a roughly 2500 foot tall tower 28 miles away from launch pad 39A.
He could have been halfway up that one. I didn't look for the tower that is in the shot. Depending on the zoom he was using, that one could be pretty close to his camera, or really far away.
That takes me to the Philippines?
Maybe I typed it wrong?
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28 degrees 36' 35" N and 81 degrees 03' 34" W
Copy/paste that (^^^) , without the words 'degrees' & 'and', into GooglEarth. You get Glatt's pic.
Wait a goddamn minute.
This dude has unlawfully scaled a 900 foot radio mast at night,...and got home by parachute???!!!
Six times, no less!
I travelled 5 hours round-trip to this location for at least 5 prior night launches
Too much of a time waster.
I think the picture was taken at the coordinates I gave before, and the tower in the left side of the image is located at 28°46'39.22"N, 80°53'18.17"W.
Hard to tell from the photo if the lights are the town of Titusville or the NASA facility.
Anyway, I'm done looking.
Copy/paste that (^^^) , without the word 'degrees', into GooglEarth. You get Glatt's pic.
I did, [COLOR="Blue"]28, 36' 35" N and 81, 03' 34" W[/COLOR], and it takes me to the Philippines. I just did it again without the comma after 28 and 81 and got same thing. :confused:
OK, had to take out the "and", then it went to Florida. :blush:
Damn if it don't. That's just weird, as none of those numbers are even close.
I should think Google Earth would disregard the "and", hell, they do other places. :facepalm:
It doesn't take you to a very nice neighborhood in the Philippines either. Can you imagine living in one of those shanties on the canal right next to the sewage treatment plant? How do you even get to your shanty? Do you have to walk through everyone else's shanty for a mile until you get to yours? And do you have people walking through yours to get to theirs? I don't see any room between them for a path.
Why those are beautiful waterfront villas, you might even see one of Imelda's old shoes float by. :haha:
Man, Team Cellar really went to town on this one.
So, what was the guy's third grade teacher's middle name?
Pay attention Z, we've been thru this before.
... his name is "Wilie E Coyote" and he buys his gear from the Acme Parachute Company.
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ETA: I don't actually know where I found this pic, solly.
I've seen these types of images before, but they are still so impressive. That thing is flying very fast, so the timing is critical, as is getting the right location to take it from. And then little details like getting the focus and exposure right. Most impressive!
For scale, note that the moon is over 1000 times farther away than the ISS.
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The shape reminds me of the first generation floppy disks.
I'm impressed with your skills of deduction, I knew it would just be a matter of time before someone figured it out, eventually.
Well done. Glad you like the image, it was a lot of work.
http://500px.com/bryanrapozaYes, it sounded like a physical challenge, as well as the photo-technical end being pretty daunting too. And it ain't like a seagull taking off that you can do a million times if you want. You only get so many shots at the shuttle, and I think a remarkable job. Kudos.
Hi Avenfoto!
Thanks for taking it. It must have been an amazing adventure to get it.
I like your shot of the space launch coming out of a thunderstorm too.
And thanks for being cool about me posting it here. :)
Thanks for checking in! I love the photo. It's extremely impressive on its own merits, and the story behind it is pretty wild.
Edit: And looking through the images at your link, I see a ton of amazing shots. You have mad skillz.
I'm impressed with your skills of deduction, I knew it would just be a matter of time before someone figured it out, eventually.
Well done. Glad you like the image, it was a lot of work.
http://500px.com/bryanrapoza
We are a regular brain trust here. Awesome work and excellent armchair adventure for us!
Yeah, Brain Rust R Us. :haha:
Just stumbled across this one. This is from some guy's Facebook page on the abandoned coal mines of NEPA.
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Apparently, when they stopped coal mining in NE Pennsylvania in the 1960's they shut the pumps off in the mines, and the mines filled up with ground water. The people living in the low parts of the valleys started to get flooding in their basements as the water in the lower parts of the mine was under intense pressure and was looking for a way out. In the winter, the water would freeze and would act like a slow moving glacier, destroying foundations and damaging houses in these valleys. Since Wilkes Barre and Scranton are both in the valley, this meant that lots of houses were potentially at risk. So officials came in to figure out what to do, and they decided to drill holes down into the mines down in the valleys to let the water escape. So for the last 50 years, there has been all this water coming up out of the mines at these boreholes. It's pretty nasty water. Fairly acidic, and with an extremely high iron content. It kills all aquatic creatures in the creeks that are fed in part by these bore holes, and goes on to pollute the Chesapeake Bay before it reaches the Atlantic ocean. The biggest point source of pollution for the Chesapeake is one of these boreholes called the Old Forge Borehole. There's talk of building water treatment plants to treat this water, but it hasn't happened in the last 50 years, so we'll see.
Anyway, I think it's a cool picture of an interesting thing I'd never heard of before. This particular borehole is in Wilkes Barre in Solomon creek, behind the Dollar General.
Wollenda over the Little Colorado River 6/23/13
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I agree with my wife... we should not reward bad behavior :eyebrow:
Whoa
Protesters try to blind a government helicopter.
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A friend sent me these pictures of the 4th of July in Boston Harbor. They drag the Constitution out of it's berth with tugs, then surrounded by Harbor Police boats to fend off tourists, they fire it's cannons.
That's really cool that they still use those cannons. It's still considered active duty or fully commissioned or something like that, isn't it?
Whoa
Protesters try to blind a government helicopter.
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Whoa. No ƒuckin' shit...?
Story in English...?
That's really cool that they still use those cannons. It's still considered active duty or fully commissioned or something like that, isn't it?
Oh yes, fully commissioned with a crew of 60 officers and men. Last year we spent $7 million for some repairs/face lifting.
fuck.
I'd rather have the schooner in the foreground to the right of the cannoneer in the picture. what a pretty boat!
It wouldn't stand up against a British ship of the line. :headshake
All Hail the Undertoad!!!
Wish I knew the story on this.
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That's one of the Gold Rush Alaska crew figuring out a way through a hill.
All Hail the Undertoad!!!
That may be the
Overtoad.
Shh. He's overcover. No, undercunder. Or something.
Wish I knew the story on this.
I wonder if that's part of the recovery from that copper mine slide?
Wish I knew the story on this.
Nesting. It's July.
I hope this is a loooong telephoto lens.
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I hope it was taken very close... by a poacher. :haha:
And what Bruce said.
The lighting colour and angle really makes it, I think.
Cassini mission planners are encouraging Earthlings to [COLOR="DarkRed"]"wave at Saturn"[/COLOR] ...
Space.com
Miriam Kramer
July 19, 2013
Two distant spacecraft set to take photos of Earth friday
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This simulated view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows
the expected positions of Saturn and Earth on July 19, 2013,
around the time Cassini will take Earth's picture.
Cassini will be about 898 million miles (1.44 billion kilometers) away (NASA/JPL-Caltech)
Wish I knew the story on this.
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That's a job for remote control earthmoving equipment. That hill slid once before, eh?
It wouldn't stand up against a British ship of the line. :headshake
Of course not, I'd be running like the wind!
Don't know much about this except it's supposed to be Malaysia.
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Wow! That is a logistical nightmare. Malaysia, too...not exactly the Land of Wide Open Spaces, I would think.
Ugh.
CAUTION: WIDE RIGHT OR LEFT TURNS. REALLY.
The MegaLift company has a website that shows Glatt's pic as "80-meter cargo"
I can't tell if the pic below is the same cargo, but the pic is labeled
as a "reactor column" in Lanxess, Singapore.
Bennett School For Girls
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All it needs is a coat of paint.
looks very cool, but not a diy I would undertake.
The main building of Bennett College, Halcyon Hall, was built in 1893 by H. J. Davison Jr., a publisher from New York. The 200-room Queen Anne structure was designed by James E. Ware. It has five stories, a basement and sub-basement. Originally built as a luxury hotel, the building became home to Bennett College in 1907 after the hotel failed to catch on. The Bennett campus also included a chapel, stables, dormitories, an outdoor theater, and the Kettering Science Center, a state of the art building completed in late 1972. The cost of constructing the science building (needed to comply with new state science education requirements), along with other campus upgrades, contributed to the school's bankruptcy.
Halcyon Hall was never reopened and quickly fell into ruin. When the heat was turned off, water pipes burst, causing major water damage throughout the building. Large portions of the roof have collapsed and trees can be seen growing through parts of the building. Halcyon Hall remains in this state as of 2013. Several attempts were made in the 1980s to develop the property but all failed and the title was taken over by Mechanics and Farmers Savings Bank.[3] The bank failed in 1991[4] and its assets were seized by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Halcyon Hall was scheduled to be demolished in 2012.[5] They need to do a haunted and/or evil wizard's castle movie, where they CGI this place to appear in good repair, but when seen in its true form, they just film on location. That place is too ƒuckin' cool not to be used in some kind of creative endeavor. It's like a giant piece of installation art.
Lots of variations out there of this building. Someone played in photoshop here.
I thought this was outstanding image.
Palm Jumeirah, at night, with fireworks.
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Jumeirah, Dubai, litterbox, whatev.
Is that Merc?
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Hi, Merc, if'n you're lookin'.
:eyeball: :eyeball:
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[Strike]If anyone is interested, I have a 1500x1000 (or so) pixel version of this pic in case you want it for wallpaper but don't want to hunt for it.[/Strike]
3500 × 2333 version hereThe link in the above post no longer points to the large version of the pic. You can get to it from there, though...just click the "more sizes" option.
Shuttle Atlantis
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Filename says Boston, 2013.
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I think this might be a repost.
Rice Paddy Art.
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A few more at the link and some closeups and some explanation. Very cool.
I think this might be a repost.
Rice Paddy Art.
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A few more at the link and some closeups and some explanation. Very cool.
Yes and no.
Yes, it's been posted a number of times, even a IOtD one time.
No, it's not the same because they've come to realize it draws tourist bucks, so they change the pictures every year and I think I read they compete with neighboring villages.
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Explanation: Dwarf galaxy NGC 5195 is best known as the smaller companion of spiral M51, the Whirlpool galaxy. Seen together they seem to trace the curve and dot of a cosmic question mark, recorded in Lord Rosse's 19th century drawings as one of the original spiral nebulae. Dwarfed by enormous M51 (aka NGC 5194), NGC 5195 spans about 20,000 light-years. A close encounter with M51 has likely triggered star formation and enhanced that galaxy's prominent spiral arms. Processed from image data available in the Hubble Legacy Archive, this majestic close-up of NGC 5195 makes it clear that the dwarf galaxy now lies behind M51. A tidal bridge of dark dust clouds and young blue star clusters stretches from the outskirts of M51 on the right, appearing in silhouette against the dwarf galaxy's yellowish glow. The famous pair of interacting galaxies lie some 30 million light-years away, toward the handle of the Big Dipper, and the constellation of the Hunting Dogs.
I don't see anything even slightly resembling a question mark, in any font.
I thought this was outstanding image.
Palm Jumeirah, at night, with fireworks.
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OMG is that even real? it looks like a trilobite.
DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - NOVEMBER 20: Dubai celebrates the landmark Grand Opening of Atlantis, The Palm Resort, and the Palm Jumeirah during unprecedented pyrotechnics and illumination sequences on November 20, 2008 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (Photo by Getty Images/Atlantis, The Palm)
from
hereOh I know it's real it's just... surreal, you know?
That's a ƒucking fantastic picture, thank you for posting it. srsly
Labeled, and, unlabeled. From
APOD, of course.
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Fools' names and fools' faces oft times appear in public places...
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Hamad bin Hamdan al Nahyan, a billionaire Sheikh
and member of Abu Dhabi's ruling family, has had his name
carved into the sandy surface of al Futaisi Island, an island he owns
in the Persian Gulf. At half a mile tall and 2 miles long altogether,
the letters HAMAD may be the world's largest; regardless,
they're visible from space. Normally, words written in sand wash away,
but these letters are large enough to form waterways that absorb the encroaching tide.
If this is what the floodwaters getting into the sewers looks like from out on the street, what's it look like in the bathrooms inside this Cliff House Hotel in Manitou Springs, CO?
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Labeled, and, unlabeled. From APOD, of course.
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with that many stars, you could draw in ANYthing and call it a constellation.
they missed one obvious label, though....
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i thought penis was funnier in this context. I'm trying to be scientific and all.
This is Rooster Rock on the Columbia River, just north of PDX.
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The Oregon Trail reached the Columbia further north,
and diaries of the settlers mention that this formation
was a welcome marker of nearing the end of their long trek west.
Like LJ, the name has been changed to protect the innocent,
because it was known to the settlers (obviously) as "Cock Rock"
Simba and Mufasa?
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Thank you for that, grav.
Gravdigr, totally awesome pic
I had read on my last visit there that lighting tends to strike the rims and kill people at overlooks. The rims are the highest spots, the theory goes. But this lighting is near the rims and isn't striking them. I feel lied to.
Glad you like.
NatGeo is celebrating 125 yrs by launching a public photo sharing platform, YourShot (NGYourShot.com).
The Grand Canyon shot was taken by Rolf Maeder.
YourShot: National Geographic launches photo communityThis is for Sexobon and maybe others...
I realize it's not fair to the photographers to post their pics without giving credits.
But go to the link below for credits, and a few more expanded, worthy images...
No blood or gore... just good photography...
NBC News
Baruch Ben-Chorin, Producer
10/19/13
British combat photographers only drop camera if enemy fire 'hits close'I thought that was lj and jinx....
Photographers know what a hot shoe is...this guy really knows what a hot shoe is:
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That is cool. I suspect that it is manipulated to get the background out of focus and the plume in focus - at that distance, it should all be infinite - but it's a cool effect.
Unless it's some sort of long-exposure motion blur.
That is cool. I suspect that it is manipulated to get the background out of focus and the plume in focus - at that distance, it should all be infinite - but it's a cool effect.
Unless it's some sort of long-exposure motion blur.
Tilt-shift.
It can be done in a number of ways, and approximated in a number of ways.
TiltShiftMaker.com is one of the approximating ways. It does a pretty good job. I've used it several times.
Including
this pic.
My G-son, Sam, broke his cell phone while fishing... so he had to get a new one.
He sent this today to show me one of it's (new to him) features: automated panoramas
I think it's done automatically by stitching together one or more stills
Tillamook Bay - 131210 pm
The tide is coming in from the right
This post is a starting point to some events and pics that are fascinating...
Imaging Resource
Steve Meltzer
12/27/13
On Ice: 100-year-old negatives discovered in Antarctic
Conservators restoring an Antarctic exploration hut recently made a remarkable discovery:
a small box of 22 exposed but unprocessed photographic negatives,
frozen in a solid block of ice for nearly one hundred years.<snip>
[QUOTE]It's the first example that I'm aware of, of undeveloped negatives
from a century ago from the Antarctic heroic era. There's a paucity of images from that expedition.
The Ross Sea Party's expedition is one of those extraordinary efforts
in an era of heroic exploration that today has been all but forgotten.
In January 1915, the exploration ship Aurora dropped off Shackleton's head scientist,
the team's photographer and eight other men on the shore of the McMurdo Sound
in the Ross Sea with provisions and equipment to set supply depots for the rest of the team.
Shackleton's would start from the opposite side of Antarctica on the shore of the Weddell Sea,
venture to the South Pole then rely on supply depots set by the Ross Sea party
for their trip to McMurdo sound. The Aurora would winter offshore, providing a safe haven
for the both groups upon their return. Little about the trip went according to plan.
The Aurora broke free from her moorings during a blizzard and
was blown out to sea, leaving the Ross Sea Party stranded on the ice.
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From Lamplighter's 'starting point', to Dave Martin's finishing point.
Right after taking this pic,
Dave Martin, looongtime AP photographer, collapsed on the field at the Georgia Dome. He died Wednesday morning.
Outstanding last photo, Mr. Martin.
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Apparently he was the best at finding the perfect spot to capture the typical Gatorade victory shower.
No way this is unaltered...the line between ocean and atmosphere is just too sharp. Two pic stack, at best, but still...
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I don't remember if I posted before about my G-son's pontoon float down the North Fork of the Nehalem River.
But today he sent me this panorama of one of the rapids.
I'm impressed by the quality of today's cell phone pics and composites.
B-17 bomber Wee Willie:
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Wow. So one of those engines is approximately the size of that tanker in the foreground?
That's a cool picture. Bent my mind a little...
Soon to be dismantled, it'll take a year...
Ansel Adams pre-bridge Golden Gate...
Ansel Adams pre-bridge Golden Gate...
Imagine remembering this ... when there was no bridge.
Our culture views bridges as inherently and infinitely good. What if that were not true?
15 kids?!?! No. Just no. :headshake
That's beautiful, refilling on the fly. I wonder if that's where the idea came from for steam locomotives, or aerial firefighters. :thumb:
Choo Choo...
Seagull on a skylight:
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They should chip in and buy some sand.
Here's a 1952 picture of a cat putting his pet cat-lady though her paces, at a cat-lady show.
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The image above is
not Photoshopped. It is a die (singular form of 'dice') from American astronaut Reid Wiseman's (currently on the ISS) childhood floating above Earth.
Is that a cool image, or what?
A simple toy from my childhood makes for a cool picture in space.
~Reid Wiseman
Here is the story, what there is of it.
Prolly shoulda went in IOTD.
Sarge?! I thought you said you'd removed all trace of yourself on BaceFook?
Sarge is in jail??????!!!!!!!
Looks like he's been trying to boost his white blood cell count.
Nan Wood, far left, was apparently unhappy with the way her brother, the painter, depicted her in American Gothic.
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They pick it up early. ;)
A lot of
really nice pictures of Iceland.
Remember, a zebra is only a horse with a barcode.
A barcode and an attitude. ;)
A barcode and an attitude. ;)
Yes, they have a reputation for being pretty disagreeable, but it seems that they're not entirely beyond redemption.
Over at Tring Park, Walter Rothschild had a collection of exotic species and successfully broke a number of Zebras to harness.
I just wonder how long it took and how many failed to make the grade.
ETA:
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It appears if they were born in captivity, they can be trained by a person who has a good relationship with them. But unlike horses, a Zebra caught in the wild is almost impossible to break. Like everything, there must be exceptions. :haha:
...a Zebra caught in the wild is almost impossible to break.
I've heard that for a number of years.
For the movie Sheena, they painted a horse to look like a zebra.
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I've heard that for a number of years.
I'm working with second hand wisdom here, I haven't seen any Zebras in my neighborhood since... ever. :haha:
I used to know a zebra...
...but, he hardly ever writes anymore.
Sarge?! I thought you said you'd removed all trace of yourself on BaceFook?
I'm the panda looking through the bars. I'm a voyeur panda.
I'm working with second hand wisdom here, I haven't seen any Zebras in my neighborhood since... ever. :haha:
Sporting events seem to draw them
A lot of really nice pictures of Iceland.
I would love to see something like that, but I doubt that's on the itinerary.
Every time I see a compilation of "pictures from ___", whether it's Omaha or Antarctica, I estimate how many years it would take the normal non-resident to accumulate the right combination of subject, season, weather, light, etc, to capture those pictures. It's usually a lot. :haha:
Don't forget research, Bruce. The 'normal non-resident' won't even know about the majority of these places.
Like my story about taking a picture of a mountain in NZ reflected in a specific puddle.
WOW!!! That is truly awesome, what a picture.
You only get a Billion, don't waste them on infatuations.
Luckily I'm taking
Metoprolol, at least for the time being, which slows my heart rate. My 1 billion beats will take longer, allowing me time to kick from morbid obesity.
I've heard that (the billion heartbeats thing) before.
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'Shopped?
Hey Carruthers, here's one for you.
Thanks, Bruce:thumb:
A few of those airfields are still active but many returned to agriculture after WW2 and after the Cold War more were closed. Some became civil airfields, prisons, or were transferred to the army.
Each will have seen its share of tragedy but also will have witnessd great bravery. RAF Tempsford, in Bedfordshire, was home to 138 and 161 Special Duties Squadrons.
Their task was to support the Special Operations Executive in their operations in occupied Europe.
Typically, they would fly the single engined and unarmed Lysander at night deep into France, land in a field by moonlight then drop off and pick up SOE agents. Incredibly brave.
Tempsford Special Duties Squadrons
Tempsford Memorial TrustThe people these days, they got no idea what 'cool' is:
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One of
Shorpy's members sent in a box of pictures belonging to him late father.
Taken by my dad in August, 1957. Bay Bridge in the background. I'm sure someone with an intimate knowledge of "The City" and / or Google maps will figure out which street this is. Kodachrome slide, Contax camera.
Another of shorpy's minions pulled a glatt and identified the street and block right away, but it took another day for someone to post this screen grab from Hitchcock's Vertigo.
The filming started in September but the 2nd unit doing backgrounds for projection in the studio, and driving scenes, shot in August.
Wow. The parked cars are all the same. That's so cool. Did the guy's dad work for the studio and grab a picture of the site they were filming?
The shadows can't be more than 15 minutes apart.
No, the guy says they were on vacation visiting San Francisco and Monterey. If the 2nd unit wasn't obvious they wouldn't even know, but I suspect the 2nd unit film car probably had the camera and operator on an open platform outside the car.
Life imitates art at a bus stop in North Yorkshire.The tuned in goat goes far, while the horny goat gets left behind.
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That Genghis Khan picture clearly shows why they rode horses and were unstoppable...
London...
Puffins, landing into the wind, and bringing home the bacon.
First: Flaring nicely, a few knots in hand, and 'grease it on'!
Second: A C of G recalculation possibly required here.
Thanks for that Bruce. The Puffin is one of my favourite birds, but not having been to the coast for years I don't get to see them.
Just to follow up on Bruce's pictures...
...dive up to 60 meters deep...
60 meters =
damn near 200 feet!
Yumping Yiminy!
ETA:
Metres, not meters...
I volunteered to try to put together a caving trip for our boy scout troop. And there's a recommended cave about 3 hours from here that is 4 miles long or so and takes days to explore. I was reading about it and it sounded pretty cool until I saw this picture. Now I'm questioning if I want to go caving at all.
This passage is called the airblower. It's 30 feet long and requires wiggling the whole way to get through. It's slightly downhill as you go into the cave, so you can't wriggle backwards uphill. Cavers going through have webbing tied off to them so if they get stuck you can pull them back out. It's ten inches wide at its narrowest point and requires you to exhale to squeeze through.
There is absolutely no way that I'm doing this. Would you?
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Just looking at that picture makes me uncomfortable. I can't believe they'd allow untrained visitors to attempt it.
No fucking way. :headshake
No fuck king way.
No
Nope
Noey
I'm going out for a walk.
Gah.
It looks like a birth cah fucking nal
10 inches? There has to be a bunch of skin cells and body hair ground into the pores of that rocky vagima.
That sounds like the thing I would like to do the least. Honestly, i would rather break a bone in my foot.
Other than that, it sounds like a fun trip. Have fun, glatt. Take a lot of gopro footage.
But none of that nightmare part
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Here's my answer too.
No fucking way. It's... geometrically impossible unless we have different definitions of this thing you call and "inch".
As for trips in general, is there some way you can make a reconnaissance trip to a given destination with a more limited group, maybe you and some other adult, or you and your son. That gives you a chance compare what the trip's like on the ground to what it's like in the guidebooks or on the internet. Sometimes it's substantially different. Also, maybe not for this caving trip, but you can go to a site and travel only part of a trail suitable for the skill level and adventure desire of the kids on the trip.
I did this for a hike last winter. I scouted out about 1 mile of a 5 mile hike because there just wasn't time that day to scout out the whole hike. It looked perfect for our needs for a first easy hike the new scouts could do to train for a bigger 10 mile one in a month.
So we went back to do the entire 5 miles, and after the 1st mile, the trail went down a hillside into the shade, where there was a little snow and ice by the side of the trail, and then a little more, and a little more, and it was really incremental the way it changed. So we kept going forward until it got to the point that it was so icy, it was a little bit dangerous with the now icy rock scrambling. But by then we were 80% of the way around the loop, and nobody wanted to backtrack, so I and the other leaders figured we'd just keep going forward and be careful. That's when one of the boys slipped and smashed his forehead on the ice. Fortunately, he was OK and his dad was even with us, but he did get two golf ball sized bumps on his forehead, and looked like a Klingon.
But if we do this cave, it will be with a guide who is an expert, and we don't have to go through this crazy passage. A couple of the troop leaders have been in this cave before and recommend it.
Good man.
Overall, cave, yes. That death-trap, not no, HELLNO!
Caves are very exciting trips, they're different than practically all of the other experiences the young people have. It's dark at night in some places, but never darker than in the cave. That is cool. Have fun man!
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I'm actually kinda impressed with the 'truck'.
That, friends and neighbors, is ingenuity. Or, enginuity.
:D
It's ten inches wide at its narrowest point and requires you to exhale to squeeze through.
My
head wouldn't fit through that hole.
And, unfortunately, no, that's not what
she said.
I volunteered to try to put together a caving trip for our boy scout troop. And there's a recommended cave about 3 hours from here that is 4 miles long or so and takes days to explore. I was reading about it and it sounded pretty cool until I saw this picture. Now I'm questioning if I want to go caving at all.
This passage is called the airblower. It's 30 feet long and requires wiggling the whole way to get through. It's slightly downhill as you go into the cave, so you can't wriggle backwards uphill. Cavers going through have webbing tied off to them so if they get stuck you can pull them back out. It's ten inches wide at its narrowest point and requires you to exhale to squeeze through.
There is absolutely no way that I'm doing this. Would you?
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Hmm... I'm pretty little and somewhat limber still, so I think, physically, I could handle it. But how long does it take to traverse in that horribly unnatural way? If it is more than 15 minutes, I would probably say no.
By 1944, women in Italy were desperate for consumer goods. :haha:
Is anything worn beneath the kilt?
No, it's all in perfect working order, madam.
she's just checkin to see if it really is the whole nine yards
God damn whippersnappers... the fridge has three doors and two drawers but do any of them get closed? Nooooooooo!
Saw this today and liked it
Sad but yes, great photograph.
Fighter pilot selfie.
A+.
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Cool picture. Makes me wonder, the pilots have oxygen masks so they can breathe in the unpressurized cockpits. Are the cockpits heated? He's not all bundled up. They have to be heated, right? It is like a car with air vents blowing on him, or does he have a heated seat and heated stick and so forth?
Cool picture. Makes me wonder, the pilots have oxygen masks so they can breathe in the unpressurized cockpits. Are the cockpits heated? He's not all bundled up. They have to be heated, right? It is like a car with air vents blowing on him, or does he have a heated seat and heated stick and so forth?
Not 100% sure but I think some have heated suits.
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Damn, is that second one a dramatic pic, or what? Telephoto compression at work. The description said the plane "is at least 300 meters (~1000 feet) from" the assploding lava.
First pic is paragliders at Mt. Fuji. Second is Holuhraun, Iceland.
I just went through this entire thread. There are some damn outstanding pics in this thread.
Agreed, this thread is one of my favorites.
I suspect there's a tribe in Vietnam who have one leg longer than the other.
It's not too often that you can stand on terra firma, and look down at a plane in flight.
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It's not too often that you can stand on terra firma, and look down at a plane in flight.
I'd hazard a guess and say that was taken in Low Flying Area 7 in Wales, and known informally as the 'Mach Loop' (Machynlleth Loop - no, I can't pronounce it).
Used by the RAF and other NATO Air Forces, it's a favourite spot for aviation enthusiasts.
Aircrew are well aware of the likelihood of spectators along the route...
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(Machynlleth Loop - no, I can't pronounce it)
Ya get a pass on pronouncing
anything in Welsh.
Thanks for that info.
Ya get a pass on pronouncing anything in Welsh.
My neighbour is Welsh and I got her to pronounce 'Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch'
Attempts by the uninitiated tend to sound like a coughing fit.
WikipediaThat Mach loop looks fun. If I lived near there, I would visit. In fact, I'd go camping there.
I recall visiting a castle in either Wales or France (a few of the details are fuzzy) and standing on the wall, looking out over the countryside, and there was a military jet of some sort flying close to the ground in a loop across the valley, coming fairly close to the castle and then banking into a corner to continue the loop. I watched it doing these laps for about 20 minutes or so. Really cool.
At Land Between The Lakes Nat'l Recreation Area, years ago now that I think about it, fighters used to do racetrack loops over the area because of sparse population. I assume they were flying from Ft. Campbell, although it's primarily a chopper joint. One end of their loop would often come over Kentucky Lake, or over Lake Barkley, at what looked like a couple hundred feet, I'm sure it was prolly higher.
As a kid, it was fukken awesome. As an adult, it was still fukken awesome.
I recall visiting a castle in either Wales or France....
Was it Conwy Castle, in North Wales by any chance?
RAF Valley is on the island of Anglesey just to the west. It's a fast jet training base and one or two of the aircraft shown in the video come from there.
Conwy Castle Street ViewI don't remember any water at the castle with the jet. So I don't think it was Conway castle. Although the castle does look familiar. I think I visited that one. (My parents let us kids navigate while we were sightseeing in Wales, and we directed the VW bus to a dozen or so castles, and they all jumble together 3 decades later.)
I don't remember any water at the castle with the jet. So I don't think it was Conway castle. Although the castle does look familiar. I think I visited that one. (My parents let us kids navigate while we were sightseeing in Wales, and we directed the VW bus to a dozen or so castles, and they all jumble together 3 decades later.)
I know what you mean. My four visits to the US seem to have merged into one despite stacks of photos to jog the memory.
I know what you mean. I was working at a power plant in Boardman, Oregon, that had it's own exit off I-84 and a 9 mile private driveway through a Navy bombing range.
They would fly up the Columbia River from the coast, very low between the hills on either side of the river, then make runs at the range very low and very fast. In the old days they'd drop dummy bombs, but by this time it was laser shots at electronic targets.
It was fun to watch, although it probably would have been better with explosions and shit. I often wondered what it would look like if the clipped one of the 550,000 volt outgoing lines. :mg:
But driving in the driveway they came up from behind, you couldn't hear them until they were a couple hundred feet directly above you... that's a butt clencher.
Back in early 90s I was on 395, going south, close to Edwards AFB when one of their jocks did a gun run on me. As Bruce said, "that's a butt clencher."
It would be so awesome to see all those planes pass by.
Who ever thought that could happen here, should be institutionalized for their own protection. They're clearly a danger to themselves. :nuts:
should be in the what would make me happy today thread.
nice find, xoB.
She ain't skinny, she's tall.. that's all.
... and looking for the tallest bull
She's 6'4" at the withers, so it would take more than a little bull to score with her.
One of several 1929 Buick Dually Buses crisscrossing the country. Easier than trying to impress people over the radio, although I don't think most people would have a use for that tire... other than roof it for a chicken coup.
I wondered why the gorilla's fist was getting bigger...
Kitteh on the skylight:
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From my sister's FB page. She's in a second floor apt. in Boston.
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From my sister's FB page. She's in a second floor apt. in Boston.
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Boston's plight has just made the UK TV news in the past few minutes.
You don't do things by halves over there, do you?
Yeah, Boston got another 16" on Sunday, south and out on the Cape 20", of light fluffy stuff with a 50 mph wind. It was like shoveling shit against the tide, no progress until this (Monday) morning, when the wind died down but below zero. Took two hours to get my truck thawed out.
The Environmental Protection People said don't dump snow in the bay because in could be contaminated with road dirt, which I assume includes oil from cars. They brought it half a dozen machines which each melt 35 tons of snow per hour and dump the water down the storm drains. You can guess where the storm drains go, right? :facepalm:
Yeah, Boston got another 16" on Sunday, south and out on the Cape 20", of light fluffy stuff with a 50 mph wind. It was like shoveling shit against the tide, no progress until this (Monday) morning, when the wind died down but below zero. Took two hours to get my truck thawed out.
The Environmental Protection People said don't dump snow in the bay because in could be contaminated with road dirt, which I assume includes oil from cars. They brought it half a dozen machines which each melt 35 tons of snow per hour and dump the water down the storm drains. You can guess where the storm drains go, right? :facepalm:
The TV coverage actually showed snow being dumped in the sea.
Perhaps the memo hadn't reached the crews at that point.
I wonder how much energy you have to use to melt the snow versus dumping it in the ocean.
A 350 page cost/benefit analysis and an environmental audit is needed.
I looked up this very fact a few years ago when I watched a snow melting operation in action and the answer depends very much on the ambient temperature. If it's near freezing, the energy cost to melt is very small, and as it gets colder, trucking is the better deal. I forget the break even point.
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From this morning's edition of The Times.
The TV coverage actually showed snow being dumped in the sea.
Perhaps the memo hadn't reached the crews at that point.
I wonder how much energy you have to use to melt the snow versus dumping it in the ocean.
A 350 page cost/benefit analysis and an environmental audit is needed.
Son of a bitch, I did a whole long post about the whys and wheres of ocean dumping complete with a picture a bulldozer climbing Boston's biggest snowpile (
roughly 61,933,000 6-inch snowballs), and how I saw one pile at Northeastern University that was still 40 ft high at the end of June.
I must have previewed and never posted... again. :smack:
♪ Mummies for sale or rent, extra parts fifty cents ♪
Don’t care if you’ve got pets, won’t smoke your cigarettes
♫ Two hours of push push boom, in an 8 by 10 four-bit room
I'm a man of means by no means, so I’m selling the load. ♫
Abduls Used Mummies Lot
Roger Miller would appreciate your reprise.
Maybe just a rumor, but I've heard this winter has been especially wintery in the northeast.
If that's true it would explain why Nantucket has Slurpee surf, waves of slush.
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oh. wait. the font has frozen shut. durrrrrrr
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Bright spots on Ceres...
I cannot wait to find out what this is. I'm expecting ice.
Windows, how else would they see out? :alien2:
I think Happy Monkey just put an LED inside a larger and more recently created tape-creation.
A side view:
It's Ceres's Vegas, Baby.
So we're not going to find out because what happens in Ceres's Vegas stays in Ceres's Vegas. :haha:
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Ocean Beach, San Francisco, CA
Big pic apologies, but, damn.
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Ooooops.
This picture is not the one I intended to post, and I don't seem to be able to edit it...
The one I intended was of a tree in a pasture... the link is below
But I just saw it in my dentist's office, and what was neat was it being a hologram.
As I moved from right to left, the tree's green leaves were replaced by golden brown.
Then as I moved further to the left, the leaves were gone and the scene changed to a winter snow scene.
Really well done. Here is a
link
I wish I could show that effect here... but you just had to be there.
More pics from my G-son, Sam - northeast Oregon
I think these were taken close to the OR-WA border,
because other pics showed prickly-pear cactus among the rocks
Amazing, the Columbia cut those mountains in two.
Chile's Villarrica volcano erupting:
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Real neat pics, Grav
I'm completely taken by the drama in pics of volcanoes.
Amazing, the Columbia cut those mountains in two.
Ready for another post about Oregon geology ???
The Columbia River and Gorge are new comers to Oregon.
It seems to have started with Lake Bonneville in Utah,
which left us with Salt Lake and the Bonneville Salt Flats,
when it drained north and westward, creating a gigantic lake
centered on what is now, Rome, Oregon.
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The new lake has been named Lake Idaho by geologists, and it existed for a very long time.
But eventually, it too drained northward into the existing Snake River,
and it was these discharges that created the drama of today's Hells Canyon.
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At that time, there was no Mt Hood or Columbia Gorge,
but the Columbia River became a major drainage.
In fact, the junction of the Snake and Columbia (Pasco, WA) was actually fairly close
to the then existing coast line of Oregon (near Mitchell, OR).
This was all millions of years ago. It was only 10's of thousands of years ago that
the ice ages formed Lake Missoula in western Montanta, and the ensuring Missoula Floods
that carved the Columbia Gorge out of the lava flows that had traveled from
northeast Oregon to Portland, OR and beyond to the coast.
That is one stubborn tree...
"I'm a lighthouse. Your call."
You can tell from the pixels in the floor.
Heh Heh Heh... zactly. :haha:
"I'm a lighthouse. Your call."
No. You change course.
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Dolphins, and Sharks at the same time, I don't know if I can handle the excitement.
The question is which is which.
I don't know, I just don't know.
Pic by Kelly DeLay - here's his somewhat
awesome site.
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Some ski resort out west.
Zurich, Switzerland in the 50s...
Guy on the right...That's one giant tube of lipstick.
A dolphin cloud is eating a smaller cloud.
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A dolphin cloud is eating a smaller cloud.
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That is so kewl.
That's nice dear, but when is the wall to wall carpet coming?
:smack:
Wow! That takes some serious planning.
I've got the Black Walnut trees if you want to do the work. :haha:
Wow! That takes some serious planing.
FIFY.
That path only gets used by one person at a time. My path is about 6 feet wide now because traffic is so heavy.
In this day and age, maybe the best thing about that shot is that it's NOT photoshopped !
It is nice when someone plans for something and pulls it off.
Good catch.
There was a .33 second window to catch that image.
Good catch, indeed.
heh
actually, if you'd read the article, you would have known he went on in some detail about his efforts to improve the image using photoshop.
heh
actually, if you'd read the article, you would have known he went on in some detail
about his efforts to improve the image using photoshop.
Thanks V, for your vigilance for accuracy.
It’s important to maintain standards of precision and grammar in our posts here in the Cellar.
Although I had read the article and had even gone to O’Donnell’s blog page
to see his original description of the image,
I didn’t consider that he had “photoshopped”, or created a deceptive image,
by layering the moon’s surface with AutoStakkert2 software
and/or enhanced the saturation of the image.
International Space Station over Australia
Deography.com - Dylan O'Donnell - June 30, 2015
The setup was my Canon 70D attached to the rear cell of my Celestron 9.25″ telescope (2300mm / f10).
The shutter speed was a quick 1/1650th of a second and ISO 800 in order to freeze the ISS in motion.
I took about a second of further exposures on either side of the pass to stack the lunar surface detail
using AutoStakkert2, and the increased the saturation in post to create this colour enhanced version of the moon.
The colours on the moon relate to the chemical composition of moon geology.
OTOH, neither the article nor his blog state that he “improve[d] the image using photoshop”.
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Is that there one of them there pussy willows? ;)
Suddenly, going under a tree for shade doesn't seem like such a great idea.
Brando couldn't be bothered to learn his lines.
It's Marlon Fucking Brando...Who's gonna tell him to learn his lines?
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wonder what's on the ground, when the Lions are hiding in a tree.
wonder what's on the ground, when the Lions are hiding in a tree.
Flies.
Some kind of biting, irritating flies that live/breed in the grass. Really.
The Deviant Art dragon is pretty awesome.
Those are some kick ass mountains.
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So those mountains are maybe as tall as Everest?
Now they discovered Pluto is much larger than they thought, a quarter the size of Earth, I vote to promote to planet.
We need to know the angle of the sun relative to the surface of Pluto in the photo, assuming it was dead level with the surface that would exaggerate the height of the mountain, assuming it was close to noon would minimize the perceived height and if that was true it would be a very big-ass mountain.
Maybe nasa has already done the math.
New close-up images of a region near Pluto’s equator reveal a giant surprise: a range of youthful mountains rising as high as 11,000 feet (3,500 meters) above the surface of the icy body.
So if Pluto is 1/4 our size, wold that be like having mountains here on earth that were 44,000 feet tall?
Everybody's got something to hide, except me and my monkey.
♫ Oh, you can't get to heaven (Oh, you can't get to heaven)
On roller skates, (On roller skates,)
'Cause you'd roll right by ('Cause you'd roll right by)
Those pearly gates. (Those pearly gates.)
So you gottaaaaaaaa, take the heaven bound train. ♫
Don't know why, but, if I were there, in person, I could stare that all day.
So you gottaaaaaaaa, take the heaven bound train
Heh, could be the train
from hell...:D
[strike]ETA: [COLOR="RoyalBlue"]Bruce, do you remember where you found that, by chance?[/COLOR] I went to TinEye trying to find it and got no love. I'd like to find a bigger version.[/strike]
Nevermind.
Bruce's
Train To Heaven - big pic if anyone else is interested. Almost same exact angle.
In Soviet Russia, the whole Party Cell trims the tree.
I've seen hair weaves, but nothing like this.
Annie Clark (St. Vincent) at the Outside Lands music festival.
After flying through a hailstorm with grapefruit-sized hailstones:
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ArticleDelta had a similar incident in June with DAL159 Detroit-Seoul operated by a 747.
Both incidents are under discussion at the Professional Pilots' Rumour Network
DAL1889
DAL159God, imagine how that must have sounded from inside the plane. I bet people were screaming.
Transportation for the little people... not midgets, commoners. :haha:
Raises some questions, but mostly what the hell is going on there? Can anyone just put stuff on the tracks? Seems dangerous if you don't coordinate with the real speeding trains.
It may not be a regular train network, but a commuter line like around Philly and DC, that are strictly local people movers. :confused:
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I love the telephoto compression effect in the first two pictures
Just go open that valve over there.
Ah, the simple life of a submariner. :haha:
I knew they preferred smaller guys for sub duty...no wonder, if they had get through that hatch...
:lol2:
In WW I people were smaller.
Looks like H.R. Geiger's storage room.
You Who, Doctor, are you here? Where are you? ;)
You Who, Doctor, are you here? Where are you? ;)
Those are phone boxes, police boxes are blue. Tardis is a police box.
This is a photograph of the first flight across the Hudson River.
What? Ho hum you say? Well big hero Sully didn't make it. :p:
attempted flight across then?
He couldn't, he didn't have the power. :haha:
This is a photograph of the first flight across the Hudson River.
What a bizarre looking plane.
This Life Magazine would cause conniptions today.
It's not a bad idea.
Nor is teaching proper response to the popo.
Here is a revisit of the Life article Bruce's pic is from.
Interesting, and more pics.
I didn't see any girls in the pictures. The guy where I found that picture said, When people ask me why I teach my two daughters about guns I tell them, Someday they may be out with a boy who says, Hey look, I borrowed my Dad's gun, ain't it neat? I want them 1-not to be frightened, and 2-to know if he's handling it safely.
There should be no gender inequality in *lots* of things, and gun safety is definitely high on that list.
Just go open that valve over there.
I just ran across this image on the web...Identified as the control room for the German u-boat, UB110, 1918.
They just keep releasing cooler and cooler pictures of Pluto.
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fascinating views - thank you, Glatt
fascinating views - thank you, Glatt
They're out of this world.
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I just ran across this image on the web...Identified as the control room for the German u-boat, UB110, 1918.
25 more pics from the same U-boatI came across this pic in
Ello where a fellow was keeping a photo-record
of his progress in replacing a leaking pond-liner.
Moving the circulating pump all by himself was an early problem due to weight and location.
So look at all the places where he improvised his tools... a man of ingenuity.
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I lightened the pic to show details that were hidden in the shadows
You should have seen me getting one of these four ft diameter beauties out of the back of my van and into a hole I'd dug, without fucking up my well casing, by myself. :nuts:
That actually would have been interesting to see.
Yeah, I couldn't find one around here so my buddy down near Conowingo, PA, got it and had it hanging from a chain fall when I got there (he's a rigger). We still had trouble getting in the van, unlike dropping it on a pickup.
At home I jerry rigged a tripod over the hole with some two inch schedule 80 pipe, but it still had to slide out of the van. Every time I tried, the whole works would start to lean in a different direction. By the time I was done, I had about 150 feet of 3/4" rope tied off from the tripod to three different trees and the back steps railing.
All this at about two in the morning with floodlights clamped to stepladders, and the state Police cruising by real slow every half hour. It's a wonder I didn't kill myself. But I was only 40 and stupidly confident. :smack:
I think this marc johns picture would make a cool needlepoint.
I love exotic resorts. :rolleyes:
Those tubs aren't lookin' too hot.
I don't think those are the celebrity hottubs.
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The perfect home for glatt, his family, his extended family, and his scout troop in the garage or tenting on the lawn.
After all, Chevy Chase is an acceptable address. :haha:
That's a nice house. I'd actually consider moving to Chevy Chase if somebody gave that house to me.
Amazing what a few years of growth will do to a place.
I bet it's pretty nice after the major renovation.
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I'm sure a fortune has been spent upgrading over the years. After all, Chevy Chase is the wealthiest town in the country, with a medium income(after tax shelters and off shore holdings) of over $250,000. :yelgreedy
If she saw this picture today, I sense nervous laughter, and serious blush. The hair, teeth, tanned strap marks, gloves, and those glasses.
Him, high waters? So what, I had my hand on her dress/panty girdle/pantyhose/panties/butt, and look at that car, ain't it cool.
lol - Look at you "Studly Do-rite" and all.
I LOVE her glasses! Spexx, hook me up.
Water balloon bursting.
Wow... Really amazing picture you have posted. Btw Brady here from Miami and the newly register at your community. That forum is such a huge plate forum for newbie to get knowledge or create some fun like this threat. Thanks for being me a part of your community.
Wow... Really amazing picture you have posted. Btw Brady here from Miami and the newly register at your community. That forum is such a huge plate forum for newbie to get knowledge or create some fun like this threat. Thanks for being me a part of your community.
That balloon was only the ninth post in this thread, you've got a long way to go, Brady.
Hmm, Miami eh, you wouldn't be an agent for Castro, a South American drug lord, or something interesting, would you?
I LOVE her glasses! Spexx, hook me up.
Glasses?
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Father's quite handsome, funny how that skips generations. :haha:
Yes, Classic, that is nice - in several ways
Father/son
Boating/motion
Seasonal/autumn
Telephoto/reflection in glasses
Maybe the "October Theme" thread should relax it's rules a bit.
But then, xoB does have a point :rolleyes:
Hi Pop!
Cool, pic, Classic.
I love the telephoto compression in this. Telephoto compression is one of my favorite camera tricks.
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This is an old 2009 shot from a Detroit boat festival or something. A flyby kicked off the festivities.
thanks ...
Buddy took it - Crazy thing is we were hauling ass back to the dock LATE! He was in the boat in front of us going as fast as we were!
BTW - we are looking for pilings from the loggers of old which are just UNDER the surface of the water. We bumped into a couple while drifting and fishing, but hitting one at this speed would have been ... baaaad.
I love the telephoto compression in this. Telephoto compression is one of my favorite camera tricks.
But, but, how do you know that plane wasn't 46.7 feet behind the building. :lol:
But, but, how do you know that plane wasn't 46.7 feet behind the building. :lol:
It's hung out to dry from the top balcony :p:
There you have it. The answer is blowin' in the wind.
This Jr locomotive is big, and I'll bet it requires a lot of maintenance to use it. The captions, which I copied part of, made it sound like a sales pitch, maybe an auction. No clue from where I found it.
Looks like that camera scans from the bottom.
Frog feet!!
Man, I cannot tell you how hard I was working on just WTF that was.
:smack:
oh, right... forgot the caption: Frog entering warp drive (from imgur)
You mean it's not celery with feet. :haha:
1969? I'd have hit it. :yesnod:
Me 2. In 1969 I was prolly drunk.
Shouldn't that be in Funny Political Pictures?
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/comments/2qbqwi/why_im_scared_of_the_ocean/
the Heart of the Sea pic, also embiggened, is from...
http://www.movies.com/movie-news/in-the-heart-of-the-sea-trailer/16994I 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.aspIt'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...
At tubachristmas rehearsal. A. it's a little humbling to be just one of the crowd B. what a noise C. I'm kind of glad my high schools and colleges played sousaphones and not those shoulder-mounted bazooka-like marching tubas.
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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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
Keep calm and unplug your computer. :haha:
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Those were the days...
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:
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.
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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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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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.
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.
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:
SIR – Wearers of red trousers are not the only sartorial outcasts.
I recently attempted to find a pinstripe suit. Having visited several outfitters on Jermyn Steet, I asked an assistant why I could only find racks of plain suits mitigated by an occasional herringbone weave. He explained that since the banking crisis no one wished to look like a City banker. I replied that the dullness of the alternatives made everyone resemble accountants.
A G Whitehead
St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex
(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.
Snaps together like an Erector Set, just add a couple nuts and done.
Snaps together like an Erector Set, just add a couple nuts and done.
I'm pretty sure there's a joke in there somewhere .... :unsure:
Sent by thought transference
That's because you're smarter than the average bear. ;)
I always wondered, looking at those WW I trenches, they're deep and require moving a lot of dirt under tough conditions.
The Germans cheated. :haha:
Looks like the TARDIS and a chainsaw had a baby bulldozer.
It looks like they can dump the dirt to the right or left, depending on which way the enemy is.
It seems every country celebrates holidays with parades where they put hot babes on floats... even North Korea.
Man...When an owl looks at ya, you know you've been looked at:
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♫ Wond'rous apparition
Coyote by magician.
♫ Doo, doo, doo,
Lookin' out my back door.
First know photograph of Queen.
Is that John Deacon sitting? Man, how long are his legs?
I bet that feels weird to the bug. I imagine practically everything else it alights on is utterly solid.
Motorcycle auctions, like most car auctions, get crazy. The prices they pay for "barn finds" is ridiculous.
Brough was Lawrence of Arabia's favorite brand.. he died riding one.
Dinosaur Planet in Bangkok:
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maybe if they rev it up the fire will go out.
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Marine Sergeant Frank Praytor leans against sandbags in a foxhole. The soldier softly holds a kitten he has named “Miss Hap.” The kitten gets that name because Praytor says she was born at the wrong place at the wrong time. The kitten was left an orphan after another soldier killed its mother for making too much noise. “Miss Hap” had a sister but another soldier who adopted it, rolled over in his sleep and killed it by accident. Praytor’s kitten survived and eventually found its way home to the US with another soldier after Praytor was shipped out.
Also:
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Keep your eyes on the road and don't stick your elbow out the back window! :headshake
Keep your eyes on the road and don't stick your elbow out the back window! :headshake
Popdigr said when he was small he saw a little black kid get his arm tore off when the bus he (the kid) was riding in took a turn too short and a telephone pole scraped down the side of the bus with the kid's arm hanging out one of the windows toward the rear.
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Chand Baori is a
stepwell in India.
Smart guy. Builds his dream cars and bikes from found scrap, non-operational, two or three feet long. Satisfies his creative urges without the expense and heartbreak of real vehicles. Plus if one pisses him off he can call it art and sell it to some collector or the junk man. Smart guy. :yesnod:
Thirsty?
The first old man said "It sure is windy today.".
The second old man said "No, I think it's Thursday.".
The third old man said "Me, too. Let's go get a beer.".
I saw this on the web. Never saw ivy peel off like this. I always heard it would stick like a SOB to brick and was hard to get off.
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So I searched around to find the story, and a million Pintrest false leads later,
I found this picture from a guy who worked across the street. He said it had been rainy and the ivy just slumped off.
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Apparently it's a thing that sometimes happens.
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This one happened during a wind storm.
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Damn, that's hard to believe. Even if the added water weight caused it to rip off, to leave no evidence of attachment points is unbelievable.
•Think Permanent: Climbing vines can be very difficult to remove later, so it’s best to consider them as a permanent installation. If you’re worried about your brickwork needing future repairs, you may not want to cover it with self-adhering vines like ivy and climbing hydrangea. Also consider your home’s resale value before planting, as vines may or may not be attractive to future buyers.
•Consider Less-Aggressive Vines: Rather than planting English ivy, whose aerial rootlets not only attach themselves to the brick but can find their way into cracks, consider friendlier vines that have less tendency to cause damage. Boston ivy and Virginia creeper are popular choices for older buildings, since their adhesive suckers don’t attach quite as aggressively as English ivy.
Maybe it's some pussy Ivy.
Link
Here's a better one...
English ivy (Hedera helix L.) is able to grow on vertical substrates such as trees, rocks and house plaster, thereby attaching so firmly to the surface that when removed by force typically whole pieces of the climbing substrate are torn off. The structural details of the attachment process are not yet entirely understood. We studied the attachment process of English ivy in detail and suggest a four-phase process to describe the attachment strategy: (i) initial physical contact, (ii) form closure of the root with the substrate, (iii) chemical adhesion, and (iv) shape changes of the root hairs and form-closure with the substrate. These four phases and their variations play an important role in the attachment to differently structured surfaces. We demonstrate that, in English ivy, different mechanisms work together to allow the plant's attachment to various climbing substrates and reveal the importance of micro-fibril orientation in the root hairs for the attachment based on structural changes at the subcellular level.
linki, ii, iii, and wait for it, iv! Ivy! iv! Get it? Huh? Do ya get it? Are ya getting it? I feel like you're not getting it...
You crack me up, grav.
And this ivy must be some different species. We have English ivy in our yeard that I have been fighting for decades, and it is hard to get off bark.
No no, smoke it or snort it, but no iv. :p:
One of Morgan Freeman's first TV appearances...
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Real, or, 'shopped, what do ya think?
Probably real. The air is real wet just above that fog bank, and those turbines will condense it.
Ah, boys and pointy things, a lasting love affair.
Somewhere there's a hangar with two paintings. One is a 26 year old Miss Tennessee, the other a 23 year old Texas model.
Not a chance. First off, look at Sandra's hands--she is absolutely not 23 in the picture on the left, unless she's got a major collagen disorder. But beyond that, the Southwest airline uniforms looked a wee bit different in 1971:
Bitch-bitch-bitch, nag-nag-nag.
The first 5 hired didn't have uniforms yet, but yes they got hot pants when they did.
However the point is they're still working the same jobs 45 years later, at 70 years old they're both still "10s" and both millionaires.
I have no idea why they have a picture of Limey. :confused:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/15/business/15millionaires.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
http://www.blogsouthwest.com/tag/sandra-force/
https://http://www.blogsouthwest.com/users/cbostic/
www.pinterest.com/alinawhite/southwest-airline/Curl Curl beach, Sydney, Australia
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Stupid, but not alone. The cops over there have also seized a Ferrari and a Lamborghini recently for the same thing. I'm sure the insurance is expensive for those cars but if you're buying a car that costs hundreds of thousands up, budget. The other thing is if your papers aren't in order, don't drive like an ass. Duh, :smack:
Lovely display, if you don't want to sell any.
The corner bottles appear to have something over the cap. It may be structural, so grab a soda pop.
Buck a gallon, says so on his can. ;)
Double re-refined
Would that be quadruple fined?
Lets see... refined... re-refined... re-refined. Don't know, I think it triple.
fined, refined, re-refined, then double that. Sextuple-fined, maybe?
:devil:
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Pic taken by Santiago Borja.
WaPo linkThanks for posting that, Grav!
A mighty anvil topped Cumulo Nimbus is one of nature's greatest spectacles.
I've never glimpsed one from the air which is perhaps just as well.
I did once read an account of a Boeing 707 flying through a Cb over the North Atlantic, and such was the power of the turbulence within that the aircraft became inverted at one point.
To the best of my recollection, it was a positioning flight with only the crew on board.
Hence the brown upholstery.
This hearty couple making a dangerous and arduous journey for their honeymoon.
But it may have been safer than Lithuania in 1935. :eyebrow:
Jumping through cloud?
I hope that they know what's in there. :eek:
Jumping through cloud?
I hope that they know what's in there. :eek:
Looks like there is a stick poking out of the "clouds", throwing a shadow. :eyebrow:
Maybe it's ground fog after all.
I think that's rocket exhaust.
I think that's rocket exhaust.
:yesnod: (hover your cursor over the pic, it'll show ya the filename.)
Ever wonder how Pete Seegar became a musician?
Pretty good pic, for 1921.
He has some great pictures at the link
Yes he does.
The link just takes you to the new pictures.
Follow this link to go to the entire portfolio.
That's where I ended up.:D
This is my grandfather's mom. Her name was Francis. She died in 1943 when she was 77 years old.
I just got my hands on this picture going through my cousin's stuff after he died. I think it's an awesome picture. You know she is just doing a typical chore. She went out on the porch, where the light was a little better, and had a pile of socks to darn. Was probably looking forward to this chore because she can take it easy and enjoy the day as she does it. I have no idea who took the picture. Probably some other family member. I guess it was taken in the 1920s or 1930s. It's hard to judge her age here because life was hard back then, and wore a person down. Maybe this picture is even older than that.
I wish I knew her. I bet she had some stories to tell.
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Damn, that pic really says a lot. Very cool.
Marc Marquez of Spain and Repsol Honda Team rounds the bend during the MotoGP Test in Valencia at Ricardo Tormo Circuit on November 15, 2016 in Valencia, Spain.
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I've seen that happen a thousand times and still don't believe it's possible. :eek:
Filename says 'harvestinglavender'...
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I didn't know that there was a machine for Harvesting lavender. Kool
What is art? This is art...
are you sure it's knot just a couple of rocks?
From BF Goodrich, protects you from cold weather, relieves headaches, while letting you fight crime.
Looks staged - know any more about it?
Nope, but I'm sure it is.
A force great enough to bury the front tire like that on impact would have resulted in a totally mangled bike.
Also, it's defying gravity.
Gravs I imagine the front wheel is not buried in that hard dirt. Notice the other dirt bike tracks. They disappear to the left of the body. The bike obviously has no front end is balanced on the frame or propped up on the other side. The body most likely is a mannequin as there is no sign of a shit trail from his butt to his ankles.
Ok gravdigr find me some more bike pictures. Please, pretty please, pretty please with sugar on top please.
tarheel
Gravs I imagine the front wheel is not buried in that hard dirt. Notice the other dirt bike tracks. They disappear to the left of the body. The bike obviously has no front end is balanced on the frame or propped up on the other side. The body most likely is a mannequin as there is no sign of a shit trail from his butt to his ankles.
Ok gravdigr find me some more bike pictures. Please, pretty please, pretty please with sugar on top please.
tarheel
Yeah I was agreeing with Classicman that it was a staged scene.
Also, I didn't find that one, but here's a couple I had handy in the archive:
I give you the 2017 Moto Guzzi MGX-21 Flying Fortress (man, that's a mouthful):
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Those tons of carbon fiber on the Guzzi are not faux, btw, Motorcyclist magazine said that's the real thing, but for ~$21k, I don't see how.
If it wasn't for the red it might not be bad. I had a 750 back in the day. She sounded so good to guch the throttle. First thing you know I was doing 100 in the 55. Ha ha. I rode about everything. Some I owned some not. I did the gold wing thing. When my radio crapped out I put four Jardine straight pipes on it. What? When xm came along I put mufflers back on and a 150w amp in the saddle bag. Then there was a Suzuki cruiser and it was a great bike, but I felt it was a imitation Harley. So I bought a Harley. I have done a lot of riding, but I had a 20 year stint where I didn't ride. No I wasn't raising children. I didn't get married the first time till I was 38. I was screwing everything that was fixed or an IUD or maybe I had a low sperm count that day. The ladies like nice cars and I had to have a nice apartment. Ah those were the days my friend. I wished they'd never end....... things didn't get really good until I met my second wife. This is when I started riding again. See if it wasn't for the Harley I would have never met Jim and then I never would have met you guys and the cellar.
tarheel
I had an uncle whose son had gotten a HD, and Uncle rode it one day. He ran out two tanks of gas before he brought it back. Like a week later he asked son to take him down to the HD dealer. He had bought himself a bike so they could ride together. He was getting on one afternoon,when the bike leaned over a little too far, and, trying to save it, Uncle was flung over the bike, the bike went down (not real bad), and Uncle said "Maybe this ain't for me.", and gave the bike to the boy.
Uncle was 79 when he bought that bike, his first ever. He's still going strong, btw, turns 90 in a couple months.
Some people know how to handle a Harley and some don't.
tarheel
I'm fascinated by shit like this. Clearly he's an idiot, but his brain somehow thinks what he is doing is just fine. How did he arrive at that conclusion?
The frame of reference of a moving vehicle is that it feels stationary,and it's the world that is going by. So in his mind, he's just getting comfortable on his "stationary" bike. I've heard that for a lot of people who get in accidents, after the accident, they have a really hard time getting back into that feeling of sitting in a "stationary" vehicle. They are painfully aware that they a hurling through space at very high speed and that high forces are involved. It freaks them out and they have a hard time getting back in the groove of driving.
But this guy, sheesh.
After I've been playing racing games on PS3, I worry that, while driving IRL, I'll lapse into 'race mode' and attempt to power slide Grand Cherokee One through a 35 mph curve at 110.
On a two lane road we put a lot of faith into the oncoming drivers ability to stay in their lane.
tarheel
Tired of it all, politics, the news, your family? Run away and join the circus.
Ukrainian traffic lights...
It makes it easier to ticket those Russian tanks. :eyebrow:
A fish being eaten by a fish being eaten by a crocogator:eek::
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Is that a hook in the croc's mouth? By the rear-most fish's rear-most part?
Double prizes! [YOUTUBE]cEp3zvFzB2s[/YOUTUBE]
Also, I don't think that's a fish hook. Fish hooks that stick around, don't stick around like that. But, maybe. It does look like the hook might have pushed ALL the way through even past the eye. Now it's dangling by the fishing line?
It's weird.
But, maybe. It does look like the hook might have pushed ALL the way through even past the eye. Now it's dangling by the fishing line?
Here's what I was talking about:
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Yeah, I saw them both. I think they're both hooks.
And I think the fish closest to the gator's gullet is an
arowana.
Apologies if I've already posted this somewhere (might have gotten it here):
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Just follow the leader, and hope he's got GPS...
Instead of moving to Montana to grow dental floss, move to California and become a pro pot grower. :joint:
Makes my eyes red just looking at the pix.
Instead of moving to Montana to grow dental floss, move to California and become a pro pot grower. :joint:
I know a fellow in Maine grows legal medicinal cannabis plus a few flavors for himself.
tarheel
I just found out today there's big medical pot growing operation about 4 miles from me. :eek:
No shitt!! Do they have a stand out front?
tarheel
Medical, highly regulated and legal.
Yah I just had some medical and I am mellow as a jellow.
tarheel
I been jellin' like a felon since about 10:30 this morning.
Nothing like waking and baking.
Besides, if you're gonna drink and smoke all day, ya gotta get an early start.[/valuelesslump]
Look at it this way, when your values slump, their base broadens; relax. #angleofrepose
This body shop in Dorchester, MA, was started by a pair or brothers in 1894, and is now run by a pair of brother great-grandsons.
Fair warning ~ Do Not Fuck With Little Old Ladies ~ you don't know their past.
A great all-season mud and snow tire. :haha:
sure! makes all seasons slick
I was reading a piece about the history of model trains and found this ad for a thingy I've never seen. I guess you pay the water bill instead of the electric bill, although places that couldn't get electric probably didn't have public water and it had to be pumped by hand unless you had a rare gravity feed or windmill set up.
In the UK you used to pay a fixed water 'rate' instead of it being metered, we manged to dodge having a meter installed until we left 2001.
I read once that these home dynamos were very popular in the early days of electricity, much to the consternation of the water companies, and caused the move to metering.
My grandfather's brother told me that his first washing machine was powered by such a device, built into the washing machine. It didn't generate electricity, but directly powered the washing agitator. It used a lot of water.
In the UK you used to pay a fixed water 'rate' instead of it being metered, we manged to dodge having a meter installed until we left 2001.
You mean Banana Lady has been flying back and forth for
16 years? :crone:
Fuck that shit, I'm bringing a gun.:yesnod:
♫Everyone can see we're together
As we walk on by
♫And, and we fly just like birds of a feather
I won't tell no lie
♫All, all of the people around us they say
Can they be that close
♫Just let me state for the record
We're giving love in a family dose
"Riiiiii-coooo-laaaaaa."
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Helpful Hint... when you rent a car go for the extra insurance.
yeeeee-ikes.
and if you get a cramp in your right leg, for god's sake, aim for the brake pedal.
where the hell is the rest of that car??!
where the hell is the rest of that car??!
Here and there... and there, and there, and there... :lol:
Amazing he walked away.
The Mittens.
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I do *not* want to meet that kitten.
The one that lost the mittens? :rolleyes:
The text credits the elevator, but I notice the real change agent in the pictures is the bridge.
The bridge caused the skyscrapers? That's even a bigger stretch than the elevators. :lol2:
the bridge brought commerce and increased the land value. So the only way to build was up. The elevators were invented to fill that need.
glatt is correct. Bridges are the cause of everything. Bridges bring people.
You don't need buildings or elevators or anything else without people.
You don't need bridges to bring people unless you have buildings for them to live and work in. The higher the buildings the more people you need.
The higher the buildings the more people you need.
You have that backwards. When you have lots of people, you need bigger buildings.
No no, people aren't standing in the street waiting for the building to be finished so they'll have some place to work/live.
If it's a company putting up a building for their firm, they always build bigger than they need hoping the business will grow and require more people.
The rest of the buildings are built by real estate speculators to rent space out. 99% of all cities have a surplus of unrented space. You know, vacancies, not built to demand, but in hopes of future demand.
If there is future business expansion, they might even have to build a bridge to accommodate those increases. That would be facilitating those increases not creating them.
Bridges increase the radius of people available to work in office space, which would increase the demand for big office buildings. They might also cause a short-term decrease in housing demand, as homebuyers consider property on the other side of the bridge. That decrease should be eliminated and reversed as the commercial buildup continues, and people realize that commuting across a bridge can quickly become terrible.
Bridges are ways over obstacles. And that's all they are.
There is no need to increase the radius until the skyscrapers are built and elevated.
Bridges facilitate white flight and the slumming of the hoods they flighted. People coming over the bridge are couthless bumpkins, the city is just where the job is. They jaywalk, take short cuts across the grass, spit on the sidewalk, and cheat on their spouses and/or taxes.
Buildings are built by private ventures, bridges by public. In my experience, the private ventures jump out in front of the demand (sometimes fucking up and losing all their money on an empty building) while the public ventures don't build until the situation gets bad enough to warrant it. When has a road ever been built where you were like, "Huh. I guess that could be useful," as opposed to "Jesus fuck, three years of construction traffic for this, and it's barely made a dent."
I'm not saying the elevator had no impact. I just think the bridge had a much larger impact.
NYC was always a bustling city. It was the gateway to much (most?) of America for centuries. The Erie Canal was probably the biggest agent for change in NYC. Followed by the Brooklyn Bridge, and then the inevitable elevators.
When you build a road into the wilderness, towns spring up along it. See the Amazon for an example in our lifetime. You can't look at the infill roads and highways built through existing suburbia to find your lessons about growth.
Manhattan was already there and already bustling before the bridge was built, but the bridge linked it to Brooklyn and that provided much needed residential space to house the employees. Brooklyn was already there too, but you had to take a boat (ferry) and the bridge carried exponentially more people. Living in Brooklyn and working in Manhattan made life more economically manageable for the workers, and so more workers came. Brooklyn grew in population very quickly. And Manhattan, where the jobs were, was also growing. But it was on a tiny sliver of land so the only way to build was to go up.
The height of buildings was limited by stairs, but there was a tremendous pressure to figure that problem out. Hoists were well known. Everyone had used them to get buckets of water out of a well. They had been around for thousands of years. This was the height of the industrial revolution, and the task of making a hoist just that much more reliable and safe was a relatively simple one that was inevitable. If Otis hadn't come up with the fix, somebody else would have. Manhattan was bursting at the seams.
Would you pay three million dollars for a 100th floor penthouse... walk up?
There wouldn't be tall buildings making room for all those jobs if not for the elevator. You're right, if it hadn't been Otis it would have been someone else, but the fact remains without the safe elevator the city could not have grown to accommodate enough people to warrant a bridge.
That is very cool. I like it.
I was looking to see what he used to cut the sheet metal. I see he used what I guess is a plasma cutter? Pretty clean cuts with no signs of edge clean up. Plasma cutter.
♫ Here comes the sun (doo doo doo doo)
Here comes the sun, and I say
It's all right ♪
And phelps says it's cooling off so maybe we can go visit. :rolleyes:
This looks like a good idea, but I wouldn't use poison ivy...
Winter image please...
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It's been reasonable here, but, I feel ya.
Winter image please...
well, maybe this is more what you were looking for. that fucking english ivy *ptui* is evergreen. winter looks like summer, but with fewer flowers. pass the napalm, please.
What do you give the man who has everything?
I'm quitting school and get a construction job in the great outdoors with fresh air and sunshine and... uh, nope nope nope... where's my book bag?
Let's go to the drive-in...There's a really hot flick playing tonight. It's a nature show.
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Fire On The Mountain.
The body of that car holds many hilarious memories. It had four swivel wheels, and no steering.
The memories come from a party we had where the hat was passed, and a grown (physically, anyway;)) man was paid to get in the thing and ride it down The Hill From Hell With A Hundred Foot Bluff On One Side That Ends In The Red River.
I cannot describe just how funny that was.
And, absolutely, alcohol was involved. Copious amounts.
Hey kids, remember Mom never looks under the hood. ;)
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Found whilst reading of the death of Brian Bellhouse, inventor of PowderJect.
HereEven gray haired cat ladies enjoy the beach... maybe it's sand that's not in a litter box.
Amphicar, the half car half boat combo...
They heard a splash. Followed by
another splash.
You won't believe what happened next!
Ok, you'll prolly believe it, but it's still kinda wild.
ATM, the pics are the last on the page.
They kinda snooty about they pictures, hence the link.
well, duh. There's a garbage can blocking the sidewalk. You have to go around.
"Get a brain, morans!"
This is true, you can see they were bypassing the garbage can at the corner bottleneck in both directions.
Street cleaners in Moscow 1939. Making it presentable for German visitors?
The internet has changed everything like nothing else except maybe the availability of electricity.
People use it the way they want to scratch their itch, even if it's just keeping up with the Jones or with their peers.
♫ Something for everyone, a happening tonight.♪
I love the obscure information they never taught in school and you'd have to spend your life in the library to find... if at all.
A primary category is women who didn't just make babies and keep house, or did and did even more.
Here's one few people would know about if they weren't a descendant, lived near or visited on vacation this mill.
But it's on the net if you look.
Petrified wood station...
There is petrified wood all over Holbrook Az.
I got a little petrified wood looking at that old Goat.
Not Bruce, the GTO.
:stickpoke
The Goat? Just run down to your Pontiac dealer and buy one.
GTO?[SIZE="1"] oh[/SIZE] Pontiac? [SIZE="1"]oh[/SIZE]... [SIZE="1"]nevermind[/SIZE]
From the background cars I'd say the bike wasn't very old.
Does that sign say "$65"?!:3_eyes:
Yes it do. The '29 JDH was $370 new.
Just some random nobodies who drove cars.
It wasn't just Africans...
Here's another one of the CA internal combustion trees.
Damn it, missed a good party last month, just over the DE line in Whaleyville MD... :rolleyes:
Looks like the plan didn't come together...
Wally Parks (1913-2007) was a big deal in the hot rod and drag racing culture. He was the founder, president, and chairman of the National Hot Rod Association, better known as NHRA.
But Chief, we need a Lambo to keep those rich playboys from flouting the law...
I wonder if the driver of the black SUV tried to escape the cops by using the Po-Lambo-Mobile as a getaway ramp.
Found as a recent
Picture of the Day at Wiki:
This a picture of a bluebell wood on Ashridge Estate in Hertfordshire, England:
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Nice pic. Not outstanding, particularly. But, when intentional camera movement is used for the scene, it becomes a work of art:
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Same scene, possibly different cropping, or framing.
65-foot lava dome.
Kilauea, 1969.
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Let's just pull up a little. I would like to get a closer look.
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Our used car manager's daughter is a very good photographer. She has a cool camera, and an eye for raptors. This is an Osprey she captured, caption mine....
and her fb cover i had to screenshot.... lovely birb
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Your cuppa knows you're a pervert. :yesnod:
I don't know, he sure looks like one of them there terrorists.
Terrorist?
Man, that is a Sikh joke.
You have heard some of the terms of welding lingo not knowing what they meant. Now you do.
They left out the
Tuesday weld.:love:
Greenland problems: Ginormous ƒucking icebergs.
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They're worried that it will calve, and create a tsunami. Apparently it's happened (a berg calving and causing a local tsunami), last summer, and it killed four people, somewhere in Greenland.
And remember friends and neighbors, 90% of that berg is still under water.:)
When 4 people killed in Nuugaatsiaq, Greenland, the tsunami was created by a landslide further up the fjord.
Well, I guess ya can't trust journalism anymore.
Imagine that.
Well it was a tsunami wiping out a coastal village. One from that iceberg could do the same thing.
A chunk of the iceberg falls away.
Keep an eye on the rush of water up the inlet.
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Remember the video of the ship being launched sideways down the ways? It threw up a wave that engulfed the people watching from the far side of the channel.
You have heard some of the terms of welding lingo not knowing what they meant. Now you do.
I have to send this to my daughter - she’s a 4th year pipefitter’s apprentice. Welding is her thing. So to speak.
Very good, I'm sure she'll "get it", and should give her a chuckle. ;)
An explanation why teenage boys get trapped in caves...
"trapped"? Who'd want to leave?
Wow, that's a big one.
Wow, that's a big one.
Wow, that's a big one.
Well, you didn't have to say it three times.
Hey, I only said it once.[/punchline]
This guy's balls are to big to get in that cave...
My daughter has been working at the same nature center off and on for the last 5-6 years. First as a volunteer after school, and now as a paid summer employee. Last week, she mentioned for the first time that one of the snakes she has been caring for all these years is blind and has no eyes.
WTF? And you never took a picture of this snake to show me? So today she finally did.
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Born/hatched with no eyes or injured?
Born/hatched with no eyes or injured?
Hatched with no eyes
Sent to Vegas.
Snake eyes?
Snake eyes, yeah.
I had a hip replaced on Tuesday and am only gradually regaining the minimal responsibility I usually display.
Snake eyes, yeah.
I had a hip replaced on Tuesday and am only gradually regaining the minimal responsibility I usually display.
I hope your recuperation goes well.
Jim you're in good hands these days, they've got it down pat. Complications are rare. My mother had both hips replaced in 1967, spent 3 months in Mass General. They've come a long way baby.
Snake eyes?
Duh, where do you think snake eyes come from anyhow?
The judge gave his house to his EX.
He flew into a rage, he flew off the handle, he flew home.
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He's going to have something of a struggle eating an ice cream through that slot.
It must be for the horse.
Sent to Vegas.
Snake eyes?
Snake eyes, yeah.
I had a hip replaced on Tuesday and am only gradually regaining the minimal responsibility I usually display.
I hope your recuperation goes well.
For our sake. ;)
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He's going to have something of a struggle eating an ice cream through that slot.
It must be for the horse.
I love how the kids can't decide if they should pay attention to the ICE CREAM! or the knight in shining armor on a horse right behind them.
The judge gave his house to his EX.
He flew into a rage, he flew off the handle, he flew home.
I saw this on the news. This was alot easier than cutting the house in half with a chainsaw.
Heard this is sold on Cape Cod so may be available in other parts of the country?
I've never seen a product description that made me not-want the product any more than that description.
That sounds like canned bleurgh.
I buy the Bucks Herald more out of a sense of duty than anything else.
It's never going to produce the 21st century's answer to Woodward and Bernstein but there again the Washington Post isn't likely to report on English village cricket matches.
They're the ones where the tea is somewhat better than the standard of play.
Anyway, I thought that I'd include this from this week's edition:
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Not that remarkable, I'll admit, but it's in good company...
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Or page 33 of this thread.Made me smile. Thank you, Carruthers!
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I didn't know her that long and I miss her.
I don't think I'd stop in this town...
...somewhere between Detroit and Denver...:yelsick:
Yes, that was the pathfinder car scouting the route from Detroit to Denver for the AAA Glidden Tour.
Well, I hope their directions were more accurate than that.
I wonder if this is how grunts got that name. ;)
The sound of making a gritty, grinding effort?
I was one and made lots.
Also heard G (eneral) R (eplacement) UNT (rained).
That gun would roll a whole lot easier on the railroad track.
One version...
This origin story takes us back to the second World War when infantry united sustained extremely high casualty rates, forcing troops from rear-echelon units (often referred to as rear-echelon motherf*ckers or REMF) forward they were quickly trained, often in-theatre, to be foot soldiers. These troops were categorized as "General Replacement Unit, Not Trained," or GRUNT.
That looks to be very close to actual misery.
My own memory, such as it is, has REMF as a product of Vietnam where the ratio between thems that fought and those the supported was something around 1:4 or 5.
Also, I think the use of "grunt" was pretty much referring to Marines. Funny I don't connect REMFs as much with them as I do the other services.
Another thing that came about well after I left the Army was "ell tee" for lieutenant. I hate to think what my platoon sergeant would have done to any one who used that form of address..
Trump has tapped into racism that's been here forever...
Don't let good scars go to waste...
That's pretty cool.
This guy's is cool, too. Same idea.
^^^Cellar link
Back in the late '50s early '60s there was an epidemic spreading across Kansas.
Formerly upstanding, church going, sons being dragged into the addiction of A&W.
Back in the late '50s early '60s there was an epidemic spreading across Kansas.
Formerly upstanding, church going, sons being dragged into the addiction of flip-flops...
FIFY.
The convertible in the foregrouond w/the bespoked hubcaps...Whut izzat?
Vette? Sunbeam?
The car next to it says 'The Blue Beatnik', btw.
Ooh, snap!
Googled 'the blue beatnik'...First image:
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Not a Tiger, they came out in '64. I wondered if someone built there own from an Alpine but that would be brand new in '59 and that looks like it's got some miles on it.
Could be, the windshield fits.
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Taken from a departing Soyuz.
ETA: That's Endeavour docked, btw.
You realize that's all fake like the moon landing don't you? :haha:
Nuh-uh, there's a picture right there.
Plus, it's on the internet, duh.
If the ISS and Endeavor were real it would take 500,000 gallons of hydrogen and oxygen plus 1,000,000 pounds of solid fuel, get the shuttle all the way up there, 250 miles.
And O-rings, some really good O-rings.
The CIA hired George Lucas to make films about moon landings and shuttle dockings but he insisted they shoot on location. :rolleyes:
In a story that strikes close to home for me, a town in VT won't allow this guy to build a garage on his property.
The CIA hired George Lucas to make films about moon landings and shuttle dockings but he insisted they shoot on location. :rolleyes:
I heard this one as "Kubrick" but, good joke either way.
In a story that strikes close to home for me, a town in VT won't allow this guy to build a garage on his property.
No garage, but, a giant fuck you finger is just fine.:eyebrow:
Seems legit.
"So, there I am, scubaing along, minding my own bidness, when..."
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Man, would
that fuck with ya, or whut?!
The
USS Woodrow Wilson, btw.
Atlantis
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The USS Woodrow Wilson, btw.
From wiki...
USS Woodrow Wilson (SSBN-624), a Lafayette class ballistic missile submarine, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924), the 28th President of the United States (1913–1921). She later was converted into an attack submarine and redesignated SSN-624.
I thought a ballistic missile sub was an attack sub, wonder what the difference is?
edit: Wiki say an attack sub is a hunter-killer of ships and subs, rather than countries.
Wiki say an attack sub is a hunter-killer of ships and subs, rather than countries.
That's what I was gonna say.
No, really.
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This image from Parker Solar Probe's WISPR (Wide-field Imager for Solar Probe) instrument shows a coronal streamer, seen over the east limb of the Sun on Nov. 8, 2018, at 1:12 a.m. EST. Coronal streamers are structures of solar material within the Sun's atmosphere, the corona, that usually overlie regions of increased solar activity. The fine structure of the streamer is very clear, with at least two rays visible. Parker Solar Probe was about 16.9 million miles from the Sun's surface when this image was taken. The bright object near the center of the image is Mercury, and the dark spots are a result of background correction.
Credits: NASA/Naval Research Laboratory/Parker Solar Probe
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Preparing for Discovery With NASA's Parker Solar ProbeRadio City Music Hall... :blush:
Well, if they didn't have gap, they would prolly start a fire with all that kicking.
Or at least wear a blister.
A Lenape Wigwam in New York...
Flyer for Ford salesman to send out in '67.
Parentage of Elsie an Elmer...
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A li'l ol' snapshot o'home...
NASA's
OSIRIS-REx used it's NavCam (I assume 'Navigation Camera') to take a photo of Earth.
Earth, and our moon, is in the lower left of the pic. I thought the big shiny thing was gonna be the Sun.
Nope.
That's OSIRIS-REx's target, the asteroid
Bennu.
Earth is ~71,000,000 miles away in the photo.
Bennu is ~27 miles.
Makes me feel small and insignificant.
Falcon 9, June 29, 2018
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What a difference [strike]a day[/strike] 103 yrs makes:
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I've never seen a metal oil can for sale anywhere. I like it. Metal is easy to recycle and won't end up floating in the ocean when we send it to another country to "recycle."
How many Kittehs had to die in order to squeeze 3 liters of oil out of 'em?:eyebrow:
Or do ya milk 'em?
Do Hello Kittehs lactate oil?
I've never seen a metal oil can for sale anywhere. I like it.
When I was a kid I used to think the Marvel Mystery Oil cans were cool.
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Somehow I can't see the guy who could shell out that much for this trailer, traveling the country pulling it for his vacation... unless it's Desi & Lucy.
...and all the character of a chrome brick.
Looks like an shiny airstream but it's the inside that counts.
The library is there to help any way they can, even handing out bookmarks...
I had to look at this for a moment to see what I was seeing:
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The most magnificent ibex, evar:
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And I think he knows it...
Six moments.
ibex maximus.
I wonder if those bushes are growing where water collects in the low spot between the rows?
Abandoned Drive In Movie Theater, Newton, NJ
Auntie & Uncledigr ran the local drive-in many moons ago. I was a pretty popular guy during the summer.
What with a car, and free admission to any movie they were showing...:rolleyes:
The Earth abides.
It does, indeed. I
highly recommend the book, btw.
Yeah. It's one of the good ones.
What's with the turnbuckles, I wonder? Shade tree strut brace?:eyebrow:
Looks like it, both sides are hooked to the firewall. Or maybe they're holding the body on.
Also:
Re: Earth Abides
I thank you.
My pleasure. It was required reading for a college course. I think I've read it five or six times since. It's that good.
What's with the turnbuckles, I wonder? Shade tree strut brace?:eyebrow:
That's his way of sayin Stay. Right. There.
Come on, you *know* that thing's got a kick like 600 mules / minute.
Yes, that RHS motor is serious shit.
Yep. Tha cannon tells ya that.
You can bolt a cannon on anything but under that cannon is a real race motor.
You can bolt a cannon on anything...
Yep. Got one on my ridin mower. And my bong.
Apologies if'n I already dood it:
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Is that Walter White's Winnebago?
Yes sir, I believe it is.
Try not to go over the edge...
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Gesundheit?
Try not to go over the edge...
they missed one tip:
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Fairy Meadows, in front of Nanga Parbat.
Nanga Parbat, locally known as Diamer, is the ninth highest mountain in the world at 8,126 metres above sea level. Located in the Diamer District of Pakistan’s Gilgit Baltistan region, Nanga Parbat is the western anchor of the Himalayas.
You're welcome.
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Fairy Meadows, in front of Nanga Parbat.
Reminds me of
All Gold CanyonDamn if it don't.
"I'm a-coming Mr. Pocket! You just wait right there, I'm a-coming! Good night Mr. Pocket."
I said that shit for half a year when I read the Jack London story. It started all over again w/Ballad of Buster Scruggs.
That part was my fav, btw.
:devil:
Saw V's post and fergot why I came...:lol2:
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I miss having a manned spaceflight program.
It adds a level of tension and excitement.
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Damn if it don't.
"I'm a-coming Mr. Pocket! You just wait right there, I'm a-coming! Good night Mr. Pocket."
I said that shit for half a year when I read the Jack London story. It started all over again w/Ballad of Buster Scruggs.
That part was my fav, btw.
:devil:
My favorite segment as well.. So pretty.
What do you mean, pictures I didn't take? I took this from a website.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_vBQiCrqSs
Just about a hundred years ago.
Good lord, all those people walking in the street like they belong there.
Good Lord, that music.:bolt:
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A lot of planning went into that pic...
If they were really cool they would have had the rocket go up in the middle of their circle. :haha:
I suppose the cameraman was falling with them so could line them up with the rocket, but to get everyone out of the plane, get them hooked up in a circle, and be set when the rocket goes up is seriously amazing. No do overs.
Bathroom, works for me...
A few years after Kenny Howard (Von Dutch) died a museum sold his gear...
This tree could be disturbing on moonlit nights...
These people begat Beatniks, who begat Hippies...
...bringing the rednecks and the hippies together, creating the hipneck...
~Ray Wylie Hubbard
Mustang chair, hope it doesn't get hood hot.
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Marble quarry.
Will ya look at the stopes on that sucker!
Mother natures delivery systems make ours look crude...
She's been working on it for a little bit longer than we have.
Part of General Motors Autorama in the’50s was the Powerama a real mixed bag of spectacle. Tractor square dances, dump truck swimming pools, and future tech. In port cities they even had a US Navy Submarine.
That solar car will never catch on.
If the sun goes out ya can't go anywhere!
I have seen a tractor square dance, live and in person. It was all old John Deeres.:facepalm:
This was yesterday on the peak of Everest.
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Good grief, and they're coming back the same way? :smack:
I noticed this pressure treated piling/tie-up post/dock support, in the picture of the tug boat my buddy took.
One of these pressure treated poles is rotting out in a ring around center.
Looks like the outside and maybe the very core took the Chromated Copper Arsenate but in between
may not have been dry enough. There's no cap on these posts and this is salt/very brackish, water.
Something to keep in mind cutting pressure treated wood.
I noticed this pressure treated piling/tie-up post/dock support, in the picture of the tug boat my buddy took.
One of these pressure treated poles is rotting out in a ring around center.
Looks like the outside and maybe the very core took the Chromated Copper Arsenate but in between
may not have been dry enough. There's no cap on these posts and this is salt/very brackish, water.
Something to keep in mind cutting pressure treated wood.
Yeah I have a lot of untreated cut ends. I'll deal with them in twenty years.
Designed and built to prove fibreglass a viable material for cars.
Viable? :rolleyes:
Some years ago I visited the local fire station.
The gent who was showing us round said of that fibreglass monstrosity the
Reliant Robin, 'they burn quite nicely'.
And you just need a dust pan and brush to tidy up afterwards.
Yes viable.
capable of working successfully; feasible.
synonyms:
workable, feasible, practicable, practical, applicable, usable, manageable, operable, operational, possible, within the bounds/realms of possibility, within reach, within reason, likely, achievable, attainable, accomplishable, realizable, reasonable, sensible, realistic, logical, useful, of use, serviceable, suitable, expedient, effective, valid, tenable; More
They didn't know if it would work with sheet metal, if it would stay attached, be too stiff or flexible, cause mismatched paint, and a hundred other questions. That was the same year the fiberglass Corvettes came out and the bodies were terrible. And 20 years before that affront to civilized motoring, the Robin, was born.
Him: I'm sorry baby, I'd love to see you tonight but the roads are all flooded.
Her: I know, my parents went to check on Grandma and they can't get home either.
Him:
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Left to right:
John Saxon (of B-movie fame), The Schwarzenegger, The Hef, and The Stilt
He's already played Flynt, but Woody Harelson could totally do the Hef.
https://i.imgur.com/xOVCEC9.png
Just came across this knock-out photo.
I may not have taken it, but I paid part of its cost.
With the source right on the addy, it should be easy to identify.
We'll call it a semi "what-is-it?"
Looks to have been shaped by water...
Just saying.
Those damn bicycle people are wacky...
Rare Jeep Ambulance up for auction, sure would look cool in Griftopia. ;)
It's been hot in the UK this summer.
How hot was it ?
This hot...
I remember seeing a newspaper headline during a London heat wave years ago:
"70 degrees again today, no relief in sight!"
It's been hot in the UK this summer.
How hot was it ?
This hot...
Any more on that pic, Bruce?
I tried a Google image search but without luck.
I assume that's an asphalt or bitumen type material used on the treads.
As Rumpole of the Bailey might have said, I'm obliged to m'learned friend.
Ta! :thumb:
I should have known that picture would make reddit, probably many more over the next week. :smack:
The house steps to the left must lead to home of one of those climate - deniers.
Newfangled stuff! We don't have no climate, never 'ad. :crone:
Buying Model-T roadster in 1926, the war tax, spare, and custom paint added about 18% to the $400 price.
2 quarts of alcohol @ .20 each.
Antifreeze?
Or perhaps a bit of a lagniappe during prohibition?
The war tax in 1926, gotta pay the bills of the last one and kick in for the next
I like that. We should have war taxes every time there is a war. Let everyone really feel it.
On the other hand, if you're paying the tax in peacetime, you might more easily decide to spend it on doin' war when an enemy comes around. You're paying for it anyway
We spent $27 Billion, basically took over finance of the good guys when GB ran out of money in 1916. They tried to recoup that during the roaring '20s.
Ladies in the working world...
I use some LED bulbs that have adjustable color temperature from 2200 to 6500K .
New Delhi, where you can't be lonesome...
Gah!
Alone never, lost daily.
No thank you.
If you tossed me out of a plane over New Delhi, I would die before I landed in that, that--[/full body shudder]
Gah is the word...
They say don't be downcast, keep your chin up, look to the future, poppycock!
If you do that you wouldn't see this sticking out of the ground.
No thank you.
If you tossed me out of a plane over New Delhi, I would die before I landed in that, that--[/full body shudder]
Gah is the word...
yep
I do like the gold nugget.
No you don't, you like the shit you could buy with the money you could sell that nugget for. :lol:
You're right, i'm a bad Pussy Kat.
Yeah, I knew it. You'd have closets full of catnip and smoke. :lol:
These videos are kind of embarrassing to watch.
Is it this one?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOwqYYTyCt8
Or this one?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptnNYExmwaw
Top one is 1.3 oz. Nope
Bottom vid is probably the one, but the estimate of $70,000 is pretty high.
Bullion today is about $1500 an ounce, up 500% from 20 years ago.
He said he was walking up the creek bed and kicked over a rock and it was underneath sticking out of the ground, but people who find gold are notorious liars about where they found it.
Oscar Espinoza discovered the nugget while searching in the heart of California Gold Country and quickly told his friend, Jamestown Hotel owner Charlie Morgan, of the astounding discovery.
"It's more valuable this way because it's a piece of history and his meltdown is just another piece of gold," Gold Prospecting Adventures owner Bryant Shock said.
https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2016/09/08/California-man-finds-18-ounce-gold-nugget/7311473352690/These videos are kind of embarrassing to watch.
Is it this one?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOwqYYTyCt8
Or this one?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptnNYExmwaw
Top one is 1.3 oz. Nope
Bottom vid is probably the one, but the estimate of $70,000 is pretty high.
Bullion today is about $1500 an ounce, up 500% from 20 years ago.
What makes this Quartz worth millions?
Maybe he found a buyer willing to pay that? Got a couple people willing to bid against each other.
It's worth what someone is willing to pay.
What makes this Quartz worth millions?
$3 a pound?
"What makes this Quartz worth millions?"
Fame, as in Blogs, etc.
Clarity and intactness help.
But it's just unground sand. :haha:
♪ ♫These are a few of my favorite things...♪ ♫
The approach was rough as hell, no pavement and the bridge wasn't built yet but he had to be going like hell to make it to the other side. It didn't penetrate the bank very far, you can see the front wheel and engine, but the box took the cab off smashing it into the bank. I grabbed these frames from a poor quality video.
Don't touch me face, yarr.
I'm a little ginger around me eyes.
Smart highway build in Korea...
Who says I didn't take it? I paid for it and don't regret it.
Hugely zoomable:
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/1910/ClayCache_Curiosity_9990.jpg
With text:
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
That first link locked up my computer.
That first link locked up my computer.
It's a very large image.
Sorry about that.
I wish I could claim my "Hugely zoomable" was a warning.
For the record, I enjoyed the image and zooming in on it. Thanks for linking to it.
That first link locked up my computer.
I usually suffer alone...
But it didn't bother my ancient version of FF.
Sux when that happens.
FWIW, APOD is usually a very trustable site.
Sorry about that.
I wish I could claim my "Hugely zoomable" was a warning.
It was, and it's only 9.32 megabytes. ;)
Ah, so that's what happened to the roads. :haha:
NY, NY, it's a hell of a town. We see a zillion pictures of Manhattan but rarely see how dense it is in the burbs around the city.
and my anxiety goes up a tick
Boy, you zoom in on that pic and you still can't see shit. :)
This takes a little longer to look at. (Hold on, it's a 737 MAX)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sX0j4hUy4AThe glaciers from the next ice age (in the unlikely event we ever have one) will just scour it clean again.
Land spreadin' out so far and wide
Keep Manhattan, just give me that countryside
[/Oliver Wendell Douglas]
New York is where I'd rather stay!
I get allergic smelling hay!
I'm always impressed at how they've managed to keep Central Park as big as it is for as long as they have. Runs counter to every capitalistic instinct.
You're right, Central Park is a miracle considering the powerful big bucks people who have salivated over it. I think it's an example of the power of the people to put fear in the politicians not to try. I wish that happened on more issues.
Or the rich people own the property around the park...
They do, but there are a lot more rich folks than properties.
That'$ why the propertie$ are so expen$ive...
They just followed the cow...
If you parked the Moon on Australia...
Uluru needs to be taken down a peg. Biggest rock, eh?
I don't care if it followed you home you can't keep it here.
♪ ♫Oh, it came out of the sky, landed just a little south of Moline♪ ♫
♪ ♫Jody fell out of his tractor, couldn't b'lieve what he seen♪ ♫
♪ ♫Laid on the ground and shook, fearin' for his life♪ ♫
♪ ♫Then he ran all the way to town screamin' "It came out of the sky."♪ ♫
They say numbers don't lie but you have to know what language they are...
The 6 and the 9 in the fifth language seem nearly pictographic.
Those are...
1 - Arabic numerals
2 - Eastern Arabic numerals
3 - Roman numerals
4 - Bengali–Assamese numerals
5 - Malayalam numerals
6 - Thai numerals
7 - Chinese numerals
I've read there is a big shortage of truck drivers... maybe this is why?
Celadon is another case of the executives doing bad things with the books, which eventually caused thousands of working stiffs their jobs, just to keep the Wall Street vultures away every quarter.
That relentless pressure to show a profit in slow downs and bad times has eventually caused the demise of many stable businesses.
The compensation structure for company big wigs is another problem, being tied to stock price caused more than a few to do things and make decisions not in the best interest of the company because it meant millions in their pocket.
As the leading edge of folks with no pension and basically everything bet on the stock market all this shit makes me nervous. If the Fed would ever man up and tighten money I could move into something more sensible for retirement income... cuz its all about me... and everyone behind me
It works because people believe it works. Keep believing everyone!
If you get stranded in a blizzard this will give you something to keep you busy until you die.
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In #4 be sure to pack over the tailpipe to keep that exhaust heat in.
Nothing creates drama link the office Christmas party...
Jeeps, pushing 'em through the mud is the best PT you can get...
In 1965 at Fort Devens Mass, going someplace I should not have been, I got the platoon Jeep stuck out in the nighttime boonies.
I went back to the motor pool and got a 3/4 ton 4x4 and got it stuck trying to rescue the Jeep.
I went back and got a 6x6 deuce and a half, but couldn't get it started so I woke up my driver and we extracted the first two.
I had always thought it was insulting not to let officers drive.
Sunk the bucket truck to the axles one time. Farmer John (I was dumping chips from trimming his trees) then stuck his tractor trying to pull me out.
Farmer Bob from down the road came with a four wheel drive combine w/3 tires on each corner (12 wheel drive?), and pulled out the bofus.
I tried to pay both the guys, neither would take any money.
Naw, it's real solid down there. You won't have any trouble.
~Farmer John
If you get stranded in a blizzard this will give you something to keep you busy until you die.
I have found that the best way to survive a blizzard is to live where they don't have blizzards.
I have found that the best way to survive a blizzard is to live where they don't have blizzards.
You traded blizzards for breaking down in the desert and roasting to death.
You traded blizzards for breaking down in the desert and roasting to death.
Yes. I feel as if I made a good bargain.
Survival begins at 80F. Comfort begins at 105.
I have found that the best way to survive a blizzard is to live where they don't have blizzards.
Seems legit.
I love this picture because they both gave me chills so many times...
Heh, Grace is doing her Kristen Stewart impression...
A shame but it had to be done...
Told you it was necessary...
They did, in the Swift sleeper.
I'll need a shoe, and a bottle of Wild Turkey...Not necessarily in that order.
there's a typo.
if you get the 500 kg ankle weight, what you are wearing is a Die Suit.
That's the Mafia model...
there's a typo.
if you get the 500 kg ankle weight, what you are wearing is a Die Suit.
Yes, that my mistake, should be 500 grams.
This would be a big help all the times I wear a top hat and tails.
You could stick a bowler or cowboy hat under there though. Years ago I was an Akubra wearer but I finally quit because there was never anywhere safe to put it.
It presumably predates the mass-production of chewing gum.
I hear ya Griff, I have a Smokey the Bear National Park Ranger hat I never wear for that reason. Well that and driving convertible.
One never chews gum at the opera, or anytime one wears tails. :lol:
At first glance I thought that was a two-holer commode chair.
He could crush you like a grape...
Cool I learned something.
Public Relations officers, no doubt...
I wonder if it helps sell more tickets to people who want to see the film but fall asleep?
Dad grumbling... damn kids have been screwing up all day, time to split some wood or we'll be here all night...
https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatisfying/comments/ekyy8o/brother_wanted_me_to_post_this_of_our_dad/I've chopped plenty of firewood.
That's an uncommonly friendly section.
Axe is pretty sharp.
He’s a little cavalier with some of those swings.
yeah, swinging it down, and cutting the inside edge is a good way to cut your ankle. the blade deflects, the handle spins in your grip, you bleed.
Ok boomer,
Here's another chunk of trunk, have another whack, Jack.
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This is the kind of trick a sneaky cop would do...
One hell of a fine welder...
Cool blog. The current top story is on "
crinkle crankle walls"; first thing I thought of was UVA, where my sister went to med school, and it turns out the article mentions that Jefferson was a fan.
Oh yes, TYWKIWDBI is a cool site, he's a cool guy, it's been a daily haunt for me.
Where's the foothills in Pakistan?
I was thinking of those but couldn't remember where they were.
This is on the road across Pakistan through the Himalayas, the Karakoram Highway to China.
There are videos of the roads all over central Asia that'll plain pucker you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXNcbd-yq-cThat was a very pretty travelogue. Thanks!
Doing the hand jive remotely...
Google say it's 634 miles on the interstate but probably further back then...
Be glad when this Covid thing is past and we can get back to ignoring and abusing essential workers. Then we can go back to getting our health and welfare advice from celebrities, the more famous the better the advice.
...so God made a farmer.[/PaulHarvey]
...so God made a farmer.[/PaulHarvey]
Amen.
That's why I choose to be inflexible.
I wonder if that's Al's woody wagon?
I'd say we should agree it is.
He was one of a kind:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2qkgIE_jPcThe Theosophists take on color...
The local has that P'ton look, said by someone who only lives a few miles away
While crossing the Vnarrows bridge last year I saw 4 of them headed towards midtown ny, looked pretty awesome, no idea what was going on
Todays APOD looks like one of the high, steep cold places we have been marveling at.
Maybe it will entice Bruce back.
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap200526.htmlSo this is the thread I was looking for. See today's Random Pics.
This poor tree, too dumb to give up and die when it was easy so now she has to live like this.
Legs spread, arch open to every Tom, Dick, and Harry who gets the urge to violate her arch.
I'll bet her forest has disowned her by now. Oh the treemanity...
I want to know (and can't find) more about that stunning wall.
I want to know (and can't find) more about that stunning wall.
Appears to be
Schloss Putzar, Germany.
...and
LinkIt is! Thanks.
It is a place I would like to visit.
I found the Google link before I noticed yours. It, of course, led to a bunch of other neat things. including a Facebook page called Imagina where I plan to spend more time.
Since I found this amazing sculpture as a result of the above meanderings. I'll put it here:
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/428053139584995167/
And since Bruce doesn't care for Pinterest:
https://www.demilked.com/animal-sand-sculptures-andoni-bastarrika/You say this amazing sculpture and post a link that goes to pages of pictures, a lot of which are sculptures. Then after I'm there a few seconds they say log in or GTFO. So I GTFO
Hmm. Just tried both links again with no problem.
Maybe they could tell you were in a bad mood.
You say this amazing sculpture and post a link that goes to pages of pictures, a lot of which are sculptures. Then after I'm there a few seconds they say log in or GTFO. So I GTFO
EXACTLY.
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HMQ v Donald.
My money's on the Queen with a KO in round one. :)
Maybe he is a better boxer than a golfer.
I got a laugh recently when I learned his golfing buddies call him Pele.
$5 bill with Santa Claus on it...
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HMQ v Donald.
My money's on the Queen with a KO in round one. :)
Queens got better legs and more time in the army. Her Majesty in 4.
For ladies traveling by coach, or bedridden...
Stelvio Pass in Italy. This is just a small part of it, check it out on Google Earth.
I'd like to see this sprouting up on dorm walls.
No dorms for the foreseeable future.
Profile pics and Instagram stories these days...
I am with you in spirit.
I don't follow, is navy shirt man fer 'em or agin 'em?
He tried to peacefully convince Trumps Troopers that they were violating their oaths to the Constitution. He was baton-ed and pepper sprayed for his trouble.
OK, a large portion of Trump's thugs are border patrol who don't give a rats ass about the Constitution or even the law for that matter.
He tried to peacefully convince Trumps Troopers that they were violating their oaths to the Constitution. He was baton-ed and pepper sprayed for his trouble.
Really!
I read his own account of what he did and he chose to get in their faces just as the Feds were responding to vandals beginning to tear down a protective fence. He got what people who deliberately place themselves between police and perps, to obstruct the police, usually get...treated like an accessory to crime.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/07/21/portland-protest-navy-vet-christopher-david-beaten-federal-agents-video/5477552002/
A Navy veteran said he went to a protest in Portland to talk with the federal agents deployed by President Donald Trump. Instead, he was beaten and sprayed with pepper gas in a confrontation captured in a now-viral video.
Although protests in Portland have been going on for weeks, Christopher David, 53, told the Associated Press he decided to join the protest for the first time Saturday night because he was disturbed by reports of federal officers in unmarked cars arresting people without explanation.
“What they were doing was unconstitutional,” said David, a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and a Navy veteran. ”Sometimes I worry that people take the oath of office or the oath to the Constitution, and it’s just a set of words that mean nothing. They really don’t feel in their heart the weight of those words.” That doesn't change the other quotes by his own account of what he was doing, when he was doing it, and what else was going on at the time. The guy is an incompetent interventionist. The world is full of them. He got what he bargained for and set a glaring example of how not to do it for others regardless of motive.
Please move this to politics
Not necessary or useful, you believe Trump sent Feds to protect Federal property and I believe he sent them to make a volatile situation worse so as to paint BLM as lawless.
Not necessary or useful, you believe Trump sent Feds to protect Federal property and I believe he sent them to make a volatile situation worse so as to paint BLM as lawless.
Yeahbut you're the type who has to drag their politics into other threads to pollute them. Naturally you can rationalize that two wrongs could make a right. Obviously you killed off too many brain cells when you were young. Now speak for me some more about what I believe and we'll see just how well people who live in glass houses do throwing stones.
Just think, we know the names of all those steps.
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Yeahbut you're the type who has to drag their politics into other threads to pollute them.
I did that in this case and am sorry. In my defense, it was an interesting photo.
Partly my fault for putting you on the spot, I asked for background.
Partly your fault explaining instead of giving just enough information to look it up.
But mostly the trolls fault for making a federal case out of it.
says the thirsty old troll.
Says the garrulous old boozer.
1 -- you're not wrong
2 -- you're still a thirsty old troll
CHEERS!
Weasels like to sneak their political opinions in where they think they can get away with it without being challenged. Whether in the Images forum; or, in their signature line to get it out there as often as they can post. It's all fair game for reply, all of the time.
If they can't take the heat, they can get out of the kitchen.
Consider that you have the opportunity to stop checking all these, boxes.
What, and pass up targets of opportunity presenting themselves for checking? It's what they live for.
What, and pass up targets of opportunity presenting themselves for checking? It's what they live for.
It's what
somebody's living for...
When they're not in the hospital.
Next time you go, instead of men's cologne, apply a little Lysol... it drives the nurses wild! ;)
These were in a bunch of pictures of racing on the sand, back when they raced on Daytona Beach.
OK, this Pontiac got sideways and went over as the man was trying to escape.
But what was that guy doing on the race course, he's not dressed like an official.
:idea: The car is not blurred, he's dressed like a driver who has climbed out of his upset car, ditched his helmet, and is worried about
someone hitting his car pushing it over on him.
But that's just a guess. :blush:
And someday you can visit Canada again...
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Apparently Junior Johnson's Pontiac was teetering and he climbed out the back window.
A few more pics are available, but with more foofah and distraction than can be endured.
So I guessed right, thank you.
Looks like the wardrobe department was their homes.
An old loggers trick... special order for long logs, use two tractors to stretch them. ;)
Neat concept.
Did the Ford push in reverse or was it just along for the ride?
Are their roles obvious from the pic or from a caption?
The load needed bracing at rest but not moving?
It said the Mack drove forward and Mercury drove backwards, I'd assume it wasn't just a dolly.
Bracing? Oh, I don't know what those square posts going to the ground are about, the upper pieces are chained.
♫ Wild, wild horses...
Jap Fire Engine 1950ish...
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