[QUOTE=Disotrtion;36150888]The Pillars of Creation
[IMG]http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/0702/pillars5_hst_big.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
Those pillars are fucking gigantic. I can't begin to fathom this shit.
Those pillars are more or less "god" by theory :v:
Except they can't throw frogs at people and that stuff.
[QUOTE=CrispexOps;36152359]What about Sarin and other gasses that were used against Americans? What about the Iraqi's who set fire to oil wells killing local wildlife and giving people cancer?
While there are many things that can happen in a war that are extremely bad, nobody EVER deserves a terrorist attack against their country. Because it's never the government that suffers, it's the innocent civilians.[/QUOTE]
You didn't read my post. I said the government deserves attacks for all the shit they do. The people do not, unfortunately they suffer more.
[img]http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01401/bus_july7_1401846c.jpg[/img]
A bus blown open during the 7/7 bombings.
[QUOTE=Griffster26;36121774][IMG]http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c60bf53ef0120a9653a09970b-500wi[/IMG][/QUOTE]
The rest of that picture:
[img]http://cdn8.wn.com/pd/24/fe/36ccce36d7263905ef9609d3e1ba_grande.jpg[/img]
158 new posts about how to ruin my day by thinking about those horrible encounters. Weekend can start for me!
This thread should be renamed to "Gorey pictures & movies that shoot the world"
[QUOTE=false prophet;36158173]This thread should be renamed to "Gorey pictures & movies that shoot the world"[/QUOTE]
I hate it when movies shoot the world.
[img]http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/49498000/jpg/_49498051_luis_urzua.jpg[/img]
The Chilean miners emerging after being trapped for many many days.
[QUOTE=Bomimo;36144978]Leaving without saying goodbye and people not embracing that this is goodbye and holding back would be my worst nightmare. Absolute horror to me...[/QUOTE]
This, and the thought that you probably don't even know you're dead.
I'm scared of dying and not knowing. Or someone I know dying and not knowing. It's hard to explain but the thought of it makes me feel weird. The pain of death is probably the last thing I'm bothered about, I would rather die having the opportunity to say my goodbyes and think about my life than die instantly and unknowingly, but I suppose I wouldn't know anyway so it shouldn't worry me.
Death is fucking weird man.
[QUOTE=Mortson;36158341][img]http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/49498000/jpg/_49498051_luis_urzua.jpg[/img]
The Chilean miners emerging after being trapped for many many days.[/QUOTE]
Every time I hear about this story I can't help thinking about that one mission in Tropico 4.
[QUOTE=GoDong-DK;36154265]Those pillars are fucking gigantic. I can't begin to fathom this shit.[/QUOTE]
Here's the whole nebular they're in.
[img]http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/0206/eagle_kp09_big.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=Mortson;36158341][img]http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/49498000/jpg/_49498051_luis_urzua.jpg[/img]
The Chilean miners emerging after being trapped for many many days.[/QUOTE]
I remember watching the news live while they were pulling them out. It was pretty awesome.
That Charlie Chaplin Speech made me shed a tear.
[QUOTE=Smasher 006;36158779]Here's the whole nebular they're in.
[img]http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/0206/eagle_kp09_big.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]
It looks like an opening to an alternate dimension.
Eagle Nebula
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after replication
[IMG]http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/art/screen/steve_black_6.jpg[/IMG]
[QUOTE=Smasher 006;36158779]Here's the whole nebular they're in.
[img]http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/0206/eagle_kp09_big.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]
That's even more beautiful than the close up
[QUOTE=fritzel;36159724][IMG]http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/art/screen/steve_black_6.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
I, for one, welcome our alien overlords !
[QUOTE=Earthen;36145476]The US government (NOT the American people) deserves the terrorist attacks. The majority of terrorist attacks on US soil were because of how the US has consistently fucked over the Middle East. I respect and pity those soldiers, but I care more about the innocent civilians who have no part in the fucking wars. Here's some pictures of children with cancer because of uranium ammunition used in the Iraq War:
Since these don't do the children justice, I'm including an article from Robert Fisk: [URL]http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-the-children-of-fallujah--the-hospital-of-horrors-7679168.html[/URL]
These children had absolutely no part in that fucking war and what do they get from it? Cancer. Don't you dare talk about bullshit American security issues when their foreign policy is the reason these kids have no future.
P.S A lot of kids who got cancer after the Gulf War (1991) didn't even get any medicine because they were deemed dangerous and possible terrorist weapons by the US.[/QUOTE]
Depleted Uranium has been pretty much ruled out for causing "Gulf War syndrome".
From your article;
[quote]If the number of stillborn children of Fallujah is a disgrace, the medical staff at the Fallujah General Hospital prove their honesty by repeatedly warning of the danger of reaching conclusions too soon.
"I delivered that baby," the obstetrician says as one more picture flashes on the screen. "I don't think this has anything to do with American weapons. The parents were close relatives. Tribal marriages here involve a lot of families who are close by blood. But you have to remember, too, that if women have stillborn children with abnormalities at home, they will not report this to us, and the baby will be buried without any record reaching us."[/quote]
And no one deserves terrorist attacks man
[QUOTE=Mortson;36157165][img]http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01401/bus_july7_1401846c.jpg[/img]
A bus blown open during the 7/7 bombings.[/QUOTE]
Here come boxes, but this kinda aggravated me. Not the fact that the bombings occurred, but at the fact that many people on forums joke about 9/11 happening, many who are British, but the minute you mention 7/7, you immediately are accused of being an insensitive asshole.
In both attacks, it's terrible what happened to innocent people, but that doesn't change the fact that I hardly consider an attack which killed over 3,000 people "funny and deserved."
3,000 people die in falling buildings, we're supposed to think we deserved it and / or that our own government did it.
56 die in the London bombings, and the entire world is expected to shed tears.
Broken logic.
Bottom line: Fuck terrorism in ANY country.
[QUOTE=CrispexOps;36163693]Here come boxes, but this kinda aggravated me. Not the fact that the bombings occurred, but at the fact that many people on forums joke about 9/11 happening, many who are British, but the minute you mention 7/7, you immediately are accused of being an insensitive asshole.
In both attacks, it's terrible what happened to innocent people, but that doesn't change the fact that I hardly consider an attack which killed over 3,000 people "funny and deserved."
3,000 people die in falling buildings, we're supposed to think we deserved it and / or that our own government did it.
56 die in the London bombings, and the entire world is expected to shed tears.
Broken logic.
Bottom line: Fuck terrorism in ANY country.[/QUOTE]
I've never heard anyone get more uppity over 7/7 than 9/11, quite the reverse.
[QUOTE=CrispexOps;36163693] but at the fact that many people on forums joke about 9/11 happening, many who are British, but the minute you mention 7/7, you immediately are accused of being an insensitive asshole.
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I don't think anyone who jokes about 9/11 gets angry if you make fun of 7/7.
It's usually the other way around.
[QUOTE=Mortson;36157165][img]http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01401/bus_july7_1401846c.jpg[/img]
A bus blown open during the 7/7 bombings.[/QUOTE]
I know this might be bad of me, but it's incredible how the force of the bomb literally pealed the roof off of the bus.
[QUOTE=ewitwins;36165485]I know this might be bad of me, but it's incredible how the force of the bomb literally pealed the roof off of the bus.[/QUOTE]
I remember seeing a picture of what it looked like. If I remember correctly, it was a backpack with a pack of plastic explosives surrounded by hundreds of nails. Lethal.
[IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/55/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-G00630%2C_Sommerolympiade%2C_Siegerehrung_Weitsprung.jpg[/IMG]
Jesse Owens on the podium after winning the long jump at the 1936 Summer Olympics. (which was held in Berlin in times of great racism)
[QUOTE=Kero_;36166769][IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/55/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-G00630%2C_Sommerolympiade%2C_Siegerehrung_Weitsprung.jpg[/IMG]
Jesse Owens on the podium after winning the long jump at the 1936 Summer Olympics. (which was held in Berlin in times of great racism)[/QUOTE]
Germany to my knowledge didn't make much a mess of it, The reporters weren't allowed to say much but they didn't really say NOPE NO BLACK GUY ONE HERE
[QUOTE=CubeManv2;36167042]Germany to my knowledge didn't make much a mess of it, The reporters weren't allowed to say much but they didn't really say NOPE NO BLACK GUY ONE HERE[/QUOTE]
The whole idea behind the Nazi racial policy was that blacks were practically in the bottom
of the list. They were considered "sub-human" - and so it is pretty symbolic how a black man
won a first prize in a competition held in a country with a government that is in favor with racism.
[QUOTE=CubeManv2;36167042]Germany to my knowledge didn't make much a mess of it, The reporters weren't allowed to say much but they didn't really say NOPE NO BLACK GUY ONE HERE[/QUOTE]
The German people liked Owens quite a lot and had a sort of fascination with him. Many stopped him after the games were over with for personal pictures and autographs. Actually, he himself even noted that they treated him better than the Americans did, letting him stay in exclusive hotels, dine and mingle freely with other whites, etc.
Even his chief competitor Carl Ludwig Long liked him on a personal level. Long was, funnily enough, the one who gave him the advice that led to him emerging victorious in the long jump event ("Jump a few inches from just behind the edge of the takeoff board"). Owens fouled up his first two jumps beforehand.
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Nazi-Germany wasn't very shaken up over the fact that an "untermensch" had performed so well against them. Because every single person there at the games, regardless of their nationality, knew that the Germans had still ultimately triumphed- with 33 gold medals, 26 silver medals, and 30 bronze medals claimed; the United States claimed 24 gold medals, 20 silver medals, and 12 bronze medals for second place.
Hitler, though slightly annoyed, acknowledged his victories and even privately met with Owens at the Reich Chancellery in Berlin. Later, he sent him an autographed picture with his congratulations.
Owens received no recognition here in the United States, privately nor from the government (including President Roosevelt, for that matter), until 1955- when President Eisenhower named him the American "Ambassador of Sports".
You might find Leni Riefenstahl's two films [i]Olympia, Fest der Völker[/i] and [i]Olympia, Fest der Schönheit[/i] to be of interest on that note since they deal with the 1936 Olympics:
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cc4-OdlMcgw&feature=plcp[/media]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgjNt98dJk0&feature=plcp[/media]
Though I have to agree with Kero: it still was pretty ironic.
I think it's even more ironic he was treated with respect, and was recognized of his accomplishments by Hitler, while the United states fell flat on that.
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