[QUOTE=Zillamaster55;50431041][vid]http://i.imgur.com/Vx9G6s9.webm[/vid]
A large alligator.
Nothing really special it's just fucking huge[/QUOTE]
Looks [I]really[/I] fake tbh
[QUOTE=Schmaaa;50417697]
Gibson Firebird
[IMG]http://www.themusiczoo.com/images/8-11-10/Gibson_Firebird_V_Vintage_Sunburst_090265_1.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
My dad just bought one, since he had an original when he was young, they're beautiful in person, and the smell of proper high quality wood is wonderful as well. According to him it even plays/feels better than the original but i'm no expert
[URL]http://puu.sh/pc9ku/4c66642157.mp4[/URL]
Found this interesting, the black line is the shutter of a camera, explaining the wonky appearance of propellers at certain RPMs.
And hey, while i'm here, who's up for some PRR train porn?
[T]http://puu.sh/pcvct/f4e4907e9b.jpg[/T] [T]http://puu.sh/pcvcB/5e7d21fca7.jpg[/T] [T]http://puu.sh/pcvs8/1a2da707a0.jpg[/T] [T]http://puu.sh/pcvd5/8ed83e6aaf.JPG[/T] [T]http://puu.sh/pcvcE/cad76db1f9.jpg[/T] [T]http://puu.sh/pcvd0/f0984c022a.jpg[/T] [T]http://puu.sh/pcvcP/98cdfbd309.jpg[/T] [T]http://www.billspennsyphotos.com/photos/Locomotives/PRR S1 6100 NY Worlds Fair 1939-40 800x686.jpg[/T] [T]http://puu.sh/pcvdg/093e8e4aee.jpeg[/T] [T]http://puu.sh/pcvj4/600d5500de.jpg[/T] [T]http://www.northeast.railfan.net/images/prr6130.jpg[/T] [T]https://enginemanwook.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/prr-4-4-6-2-q2-6184.jpg[/T] [T]http://prrsteam.pennsyrr.com/images/j1_6454.jpg[/T]
Maybe it's sappy to say, but the world will never be like this again. it's 2016, and there's not a foundry in america that i'm aware of that would be capable of casting those frames. Overseas [URL="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n263/billy32_2006/1-1.jpg"]there's places[/URL], but not in america. But back in the day, the larger railroads all had inhouse industrial sites to do it all privately. All private manual and [I]skilled[/I] labor, no outsourcing apart from FRS or a few Alco parts. Absolutely foreign to today's outsourcing globalized niche based buisness world. And the engineering too, utterly amazing when you think about it. No computers, no simulations to knead out the quirks of any design. More than 1000 drawings bespoke to any specific locomotive that had to be balanced across 100's of draftsmen and fastidious men with slide rules that had to keep it all on the rails. No way to know that your equasions are correct, no way to know how well it'll work until the company spends 300 grand of 1930's money on the hundreds of patterns and thousands of manhours to put a prototype on the rails, only to discover that those fantastic new dynamic augment formulas the thinktanks at baldwin cooked up are so horrendously wrong they crack the engine's 30 tonne frame. As was the misfortune of New Haven with their streamlined hudsons.
for better or worse, that's all gone. And that makes me sad.
[QUOTE=Skyward;50433043]Looks [I]really[/I] fake tbh[/QUOTE]
It's the animations that give it away. Its walk cycle just looks way too mammalian.
Yeah if anything its the way the legs move that give it away.
That's how alligators walk, though
[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oIZBGBrpxI[/media]
Like yeah the footage is questionable but that's how gators walk. More or less the same way as any other quadriped, just a bit slower
[QUOTE=Sitkero;50435730]That's how alligators walk, though
[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oIZBGBrpxI[/media]
Like yeah the footage is questionable but that's how gators walk. More or less the same way as any other quadriped, just a bit slower[/QUOTE]
Except alligators and crocodiles drop slightly when they lift a leg. I don't think that happens with the one in the other video.
[QUOTE=Sprockethead;50432747]It might be cgi, but there is some historical evidence that gators could get that big.
like this fuck, shot by hunters in Australia year 1957.
[IMG]https://i.imgur.com/QP1cQOl.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
That's probably a saltwater crocodile, they're the largest species of crocodilians, the largest reptile, and also the largest terrestrial predators. They're 50% longer than the American alligator, and up to twice as heavy.
:snip:
I have no idea
[video=youtube;Rk2SuWwwdMk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rk2SuWwwdMk[/video]
Ignore the "world according to American's" crap in the middle.
[quote]Gstaad, Swiss Alps[/quote]
[thumb]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/50/GstaadPanoramaVillage.jpg[/thumb]
[quote]Mittenwald, Germany[/quote]
[thumb]http://i.imgur.com/Y1dxypU.jpg[/thumb]
[quote]Grassington, England[/quote]
[thumb]http://i.imgur.com/x6H3idC.jpg[/thumb]
[quote]L'Estérel, France[/quote]
[thumb]http://i.imgur.com/tOGlX2w.jpg[/thumb]
Also, I was wondering if there was any interest here in creating our own subforum, now that everyone can create custom forums on the new facepunch.
We'd have plenty of content we could post about, but I'm not sure the user participation would be high enough to warrant one.
[t]http://i.imgur.com/4v8Jcdv.jpg[/t]
[t]http://i.imgur.com/l0RSxBl.jpg[/t]
Digitally redone busts of emperors Caracalla and Caligula to express the lifelike accuracy of these statues.
Caligula looks like Joffrey from Game of Thrones.
[QUOTE=OvB;50438281]Caligula looks like Joffrey from Game of Thrones.[/QUOTE]
It's rumored to be that Joffrey is a 1:1 of Caligula's utter madness. Think Joffrey was bad?
Caligula:
- Slept with other men's wives during banquets, and returned to the dinner to brag about it
- Built a massive bridge using sunken ships to prove a point. Caused a grain shortage due to lack of said ships
- Had senators and wealthy aristocrats executed for disagreeing with him (on a regular basis)
- Forced the Temple of Jerusalem to bear a statue of him in the center grounds, sparking the 1st Jewish War
- Appointed his horse Incatius as a priest, and threatened to have him made consul
- Would send the army to march around in circles for no good reason
- Declared war on the ocean to steal seashells from Neptune
- Had a small section of the coliseum's onlookers thrown in with the wild animals "for fun"
- Would sit and watch the executions of "death by a thousand cuts", or repetitive strikes on non-vital organs or blood vessels, allowing the victim to "feel that they are dying"
[QUOTE=Zillamaster55;50438318]It's rumored to be that Joffrey is a 1:1 of Caligula's utter madness. Think Joffrey was bad?
Caligula:
- Slept with other men's wives during banquets, and returned to the dinner to brag about it
- Built a massive bridge using sunken ships to prove a point. Caused a grain shortage due to lack of said ships
- Had senators and wealthy aristocrats executed for disagreeing with him (on a regular basis)
- Forced the Temple of Jerusalem to bear a statue of him in the center grounds, sparking the 1st Jewish War
- Appointed his horse Incatius as a priest, and threatened to have him made consul
- Would send the army to march around in circles for no good reason
- Declared war on the ocean to steal seashells from Neptune
- Had a small section of the coliseum's onlookers thrown in with the wild animals "for fun"
- Would sit and watch the executions of "death by a thousand cuts", or repetitive strikes on non-vital organs or blood vessels, allowing the victim to "feel that they are dying"[/QUOTE]
Its really amazing how quick Rome just turned to shit. Caligula was only the 3rd emperor.
[QUOTE=Broguts;50438397]Its really amazing how quick Rome just turned to shit. Caligula was only the 3rd emperor.[/QUOTE]
Well that's what inbreeding tends to do.
[QUOTE=OvB;50438281]Caligula looks like Joffrey from Game of Thrones.[/QUOTE]
Caracalla looks like Justin timberlake a decade from now
I really hope the guy ends up doing more of those. Getting to see Augustus, Hadrian and Commodus would be awesome.
Apparently Joffery's stark similarities to Caligula have been known for awhile.
[img_thumb]http://i.imgur.com/Sxl5Iov.jpg[/img_thumb]
that man's essentially made a living out of pretending to be fucking terrible people. you gotta give him credit for being really good at it
[QUOTE=SevenBillion;50423865][IMG]https://cdn1.artstation.com/p/assets/covers/images/001/391/641/large/dylan-sisson-still-life-for-renderman-5500x3700.jpg?1445615182[/IMG][/QUOTE]
They killed Sulley?
[img]http://img.ifcdn.com/images/74c8f0f2cc6c8d100b09ae01915447dea67d1187b95fc1d10b83803cb95672f2_1.jpg[/img]
lol Marius looks like someone just told him something really funny that's also offensive to whatever present company he's with so he's trying desperately to look angry and not laugh.
[t]http://www.vroma.org/images/raia_images/marius.jpg[/t]
[QUOTE=Zillamaster55;50438275][t]http://i.imgur.com/4v8Jcdv.jpg[/t]
Digitally redone busts of emperors Caracalla and Caligula to express the lifelike accuracy of these statues.[/QUOTE]
Caracalla looks way grumpier uncoloured. He's got more of a "Really? You're gonna do that?" expression when coloured as opposed to a general disdain for plebs.
It is because of the eyes and soft flesh tones, stone is seen as cold and unyielding in comparison.
[t]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Italian_referendum_1946_support_for_republic.svg/819px-Italian_referendum_1946_support_for_republic.svg.png[/t]
Results of the 1946 Referendum to create a Republic in Italy.
Note that it is a slim majority, and there is strong support for the monarchy in southern Italy + Sicily
[QUOTE=Zillamaster55;50443731][t]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Italian_referendum_1946_support_for_republic.svg/819px-Italian_referendum_1946_support_for_republic.svg.png[/t]
Results of the 1946 Referendum to create a Republic in Italy.
Note that it is a slim majority, and there is strong support for the monarchy in southern Italy + Sicily[/QUOTE]
Correct me if I'm wrong but would that be due to the tradition of historical unions between the Kingdom of Aragon and Naples (Crown of Aragon) and France's PU over the Kingdom of Naples?
[t]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Italia_Regno_di_Napoli_locator.svg/442px-Italia_Regno_di_Napoli_locator.svg.png[/t][t]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Corona_aragonum_1441.svg/1920px-Corona_aragonum_1441.svg.png[/t]
A little something about my favorite method of rotation control in space: [B]YO-YO DESPIN[/B].
[img]http://i.imgur.com/olKzaoZ.gif[/img]
In the same way a ballerina can speed up and slow down their spinning by moving their body mass in and out of their point of rotation, a spacecraft can eject weights attached to themselfs to cancel out of a spin.
[QUOTE=Cypher_09;50444275]Correct me if I'm wrong but would that be due to the tradition of historical unions between the Kingdom of Aragon and Naples (Crown of Aragon) and France's PU over the Kingdom of Naples?
[t]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Italia_Regno_di_Napoli_locator.svg/442px-Italia_Regno_di_Napoli_locator.svg.png[/t][t]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Corona_aragonum_1441.svg/1920px-Corona_aragonum_1441.svg.png[/t][/QUOTE]
Sorta, it also has a lot to do with being a more agrarian/traditional society meanwhile northern Italy has had a long tradition of republicanism
[editline]3rd June 2016[/editline]
[t]http://i.imgur.com/OyIzLLg.jpg[/t]
Roman city of Londinium 200 CE
It was half a quarter the size of my town
[QUOTE=Whomobile;50447355]A little something about my favorite method of rotation control in space: [B]YO-YO DESPIN[/B].
[img]http://i.imgur.com/olKzaoZ.gif[/img]
In the same way a ballerina can speed up and slow down their spinning by moving their body mass in and out of their point of rotation, a spacecraft can eject weights attached to themselfs to cancel out of a spin.[/QUOTE]
I like how absolutely odd this looks for anyone who has no idea what the actual fuck is going on (me included). that weight just seems to come out of nowhere, then it goes apeshit, then it disappears, and suddenly the craft stops spinning. Space engineering is some marvellous shit
[QUOTE=SpaceDiggle;50437627]
Also, I was wondering if there was any interest here in creating our own subforum, now that everyone can create custom forums on the new facepunch.
We'd have plenty of content we could post about, but I'm not sure the user participation would be high enough to warrant one.[/QUOTE]
This would be great, we could get a dedicated Brutalism thread :v:
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