Auxiliary Pics V BRUTALISM 𝔸 𝔼 𝕊 𝕋 ℍ 𝔼 𝕋 𝕀 ℂ

[PiddlezMcFuzz]

The Before picture is specifically one day before the eruption, too. Also pay attention to the valley between the two pics and how it has hundreds of feet of ash in it now.

Volcanoes always astound me in their sheer power to completely reshape a landscape in a matter of hours.

[Crimor]

Also look at those craters, they're pratically vertical impacts, shit got flung insanely high up to make those.

[The_J_Hat]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DSVDcw6iW8

[Headhumpy]

And then you remember that Mt. St. Helens was a VEI 5. And that the VEI scales exponentially. And that it goes up to 8.

[Conely]

to me the craziest thing about this is how removing the trees just completely fucks your sense of scale. it destroyed 250 homes but from this perspective it could be the size of a pebble.

[Download]

Not a picture but i did think some people might find this rather interesting:

https://clintonwhitehouse4.archives.gov/textonly/WH/new/html/Fri_Dec_29_151111_2000.html

President Clinton: The United States on Track to Pay Off the Debt by End of the Decade

December 28, 2000

Today, President Clinton will announce that The United States is on course to eliminate its public debt within the next decade. The Administration also announced that we are projected to pay down $237 billion in debt in 2001. Due in part to a strong economy and the President's commitment to fiscal discipline, the federal fiscal condition has improved for an unprecedented nine consecutive years. Based upon today's new economic and budget projections for the coming 10 years from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB):

[Griff]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7wZL_MqPGg

Partially NSFW in some places: Footage of Shiite unrest in Karbala, Iraq that was the prelude to the failed 1991 uprisings in the country

[Griff]

Members of the Cambodian FANK:

https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/1750/9fcb7f84-fda8-4b59-93d3-2665b6615c63/image.png

https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/1750/555386fd-0ac3-45e0-a05b-a414c1880d54/image.png

https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/1750/5c9dc12c-b92c-4a74-98bc-c63b591df37f/image.png

https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/1750/cefa99e7-edc7-4887-b45d-29409d39139c/image.png

https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/1750/470ce9b6-530c-4117-b33a-09f2f40e1dd0/image.png

https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/1750/f6b833ef-1da0-4beb-ba5e-738d52200ae9/image.png

https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/1750/07524e8e-bd1f-4d2f-9f44-c7f0972b3a0e/image.png

[northshore]

Latest footage of the Kilauea eruptions:

https://www.facebook.com/milekalincoln.hnn/videos/1785628774829342/

Lava flows are awesome (in the literal sense of the word) since it's such a force of nature that is absolutely unstoppable yet happens at such a relatively slow rate.

[EmperorScorpious]

Would it be possible to direct the flow by digging some sort of trench, or possibly hose it from one side to solidify it into a wall for the rest to flow up against, or is it just too fast moving (or not how physics work)?

[gman003-main]

Both of the solutions you propose have been used elsewhere as emergency measures, to try to stall a rapid movement of lava in order to evacuate. But volcanoes are big - literally the size of mountains - and the amount of lava they can produce is tremendous. I did some glancing through records and some eruptions have produced hundreds of millions of cubic meters of lava. Even if we could handle that kind of volume, volcanic eruptions have a dozen other ways to inflict damage.

As natural disasters go, volcanoes have the saving grace of being pretty easy to predict. We know where they are, and it's pretty easy to tell when we need to evacuate the surroundings. But stopping them is basically impossible. Don't settle near a volcano if you're the type to get attached to material possessions.

[OvB]

Thats the biggest flow I've seen from this event. I would love to see a satellite photo of this during both day and night. The ones I've seen so far don't really show much.

[Download]

https://i.imgur.com/RUWy8KK.jpg

[Griff]

https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/1750/db9313a5-5596-4ded-9a02-303ca440e98f/image.png

Battle of Shipka Pass, Alexy Popov, 1893

[Fulcrum]

Stay safe over there

[Griff]

https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/1750/aeb1df40-c0b7-47e4-9ca8-068b9e71c291/image.png

Vietnamese Rangers with M16 rifles in Saigon during the Tết Offensive

[Antianan]

Is it just me or they look like children, 13-14 y.o or something.

[EmperorScorpious]

18 year old conscripts aren't that far away in age from 14

[Grenadiac]

Randomly stumbled across some great colorizations of naval vessels of the early 1900s. Here are some standouts.

https://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/42925/115662641.f9/0_14e579_2a63b72_orig.jpg

https://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/48448/115662641.f8/0_14e559_b53e7026_orig.jpg

https://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/103922/115662641.f8/0_14e55a_65610101_orig.jpg

https://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/31412/115662641.f8/0_14e561_1c4c4469_orig.jpg

https://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/53993/115662641.f8/0_14e56c_da8a83eb_orig.jpg

More here: Морские титаны. 1900

I doubt that's the original source but I can't find any others that have all of these images at these resolutions.

[ignhelper]

damn those images are sharp af

[OvB]

I love the white ones with the gold details on the bow.

[Grenadiac]

That's Teddy Roosevelt's Great White Fleet, the big stick part of his slogan. I was looking for color photos of the fleet when I stumbled across these

[joost1120]

While they were a bit outdated, the modernized Japanese battleships are my favourite ships.

http://www.combinedfleet.com/Nagato24.jpg

http://www.combinedfleet.com/Fuso4.jpg

They give off the same feeling as age of sail boats.

[dyasper]

Can someone tell me what that huge pile of Jenga blocks is doing in the middle of the ship?

[ignhelper]

Hey cool we back to posting war porn

Here's a different battleship for you

https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/113069/fc1c19cc-f86c-42e1-8879-324e646ff896/image.png

[Grenadiac]

I dunno why you're getting dumbed. Japanese ships were a bit... special. None of them were built with that type of mast (called a pagoda mast). The original layouts resembled western ships but as the Japanese upgraded the ships they kept adding more platforms for additional equipment like searchlights, guns, radar, etc. And sometimes they just kept adding.

https://i.imgur.com/2MrEx1h.jpg

The Japanese were not particularly proficient shipbuilders and never had any assistance from more experienced nations. Their ships were rife with problems. These pagoda masts were really stupid, massive targets.

[joost1120]

It brings more advantages than disadvantages though. Without those modernizations, it wouldn't have had radar systems, early warning systems and fire control systems.

[Staines]

They didn't have them originally when they were built in 1900s-20s.
Japanese industrial capacity was limited, so they couldn't waste old ships. When they were rebuilt they started adding the "pagoda" towers as a retroactive way to accommodate things like modern gun fire control, newly required antiaircraft fire control, searchlights, radar, watchposts.

It's a low tech way of getting some more sensor utility out of old warships without having to extensively rebuild everything.

Same ships in 1916 and after modernisation in the 1930s.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Yamashiro_initial_trial.jpg/1920px-Yamashiro_initial_trial.jpg

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/37/Japanese_battleships_Yamashiro%2C_Fuso_and_Haruna.jpg

[Mallow]

Japanese naval planners were always assuming that their major naval adversary in any war after the Russo-Japanese war would be the US. The US had and would always have definite material superiority in terms of both raw tonnage and dockyard capacity over the IJN. So, the IJN planners decided to prioritize quality over quantity, and this only accelerated after the Washington Naval Treaty was signed. This led into both wanting superior ships and superior seamanship, but IJN planners wanted to "outrange" the US fleet train by having longer range guns, torpedos, etc. Now, the main method of finding range and bearing before the age of radar for big battleship main artillery was optical rangefinders, and the IJN wanted to have the longest range possible for their guns, but you need a fire control solution to know where to point your barrels, and to see further over the flat horizon of the sea you need to be higher - so, the IJN refitted pagoda masts to their fast battleships and battleships, and built very tall masts into the Yamato class superbattleships to be able to put the optical rangefinders for their fire control systems on the highest possible point over the vessel.

And then the US developed radar and made optical rangefinders obsolete and the pagodas useless and huge radar reflectors but that's a different story

[SaintBonkers]

How about some really satisfying claymation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sN8TYUmgBc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nlpoQo-pEQ