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

I found a video demonstrating the yoyo despin [video=youtube;HCtNqD-jlPE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCtNqD-jlPE[/video]

[QUOTE=Daniel Smith;50451062]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] Isn't Londinium present-day London?

The Moskvitch factory in 60's-70's: [IMG]http://i043.radikal.ru/1107/48/d4dda63880c5.jpg[/IMG] And how it looks now: [IMG]http://raznesi.info/uploads/tiny_mce/textimages/olgasavina/704798a3012f6f730ffbe5a714800664.jpg[/IMG] And here's one of the saddest pictures from the factory - "The death in flight": [IMG]http://www.shmurzik.net/Ph/Azlyk19.jpg[/IMG]

[QUOTE=DaBeaver;50457072]And how it looks now: [IMG]http://raznesi.info/uploads/tiny_mce/textimages/olgasavina/704798a3012f6f730ffbe5a714800664.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE] the top half almost looks like a 3d render

[QUOTE=Daniel Smith;50451062]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] You mean one eighth?

[QUOTE=Bbarnes005;50457045]Isn't Londinium present-day London?[/QUOTE] it even says 'river Thames' on the map :v:

[QUOTE=Daniel Smith;50451062]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] Why do they have a gate just for cripples and why is it so heavily fortified? What did they have to fear from cripples?

[QUOTE=Hamaflavian;50459147]Why do they have a gate just for cripples and why is it so heavily fortified? What did they have to fear from cripples?[/QUOTE] You underestimate the cripples at your peril. Greater civilizations have fallen from this mistake.

[QUOTE=Hamaflavian;50459147]Why do they have a gate just for cripples and why is it so heavily fortified? What did they have to fear from cripples?[/QUOTE] There was a big scandal there when it turned out the Emperor broke into the disabled entrance of an office building.

[QUOTE=Hamaflavian;50459147]Why do they have a gate just for cripples and why is it so heavily fortified? What did they have to fear from cripples?[/QUOTE] Leprosy and Christianity mainly

[QUOTE=Jamsponge;50459663]There was a big scandal there when it turned out the Emperor broke into the disabled entrance of an office building.[/QUOTE] The impeachment was known as Hadrian's Fall

[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcqrNKdpaog[/media] Werner Herzog's "Lessons of Darkness", a documentary on the aftermath of the First Gulf War. Notable for its near-lack of narration and dialogue, and portrayal of the ruined landscape as strange and almost alien.

[QUOTE=gman003-main;50463011][media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcqrNKdpaog[/media] Werner Herzog's "Lessons of Darkness", a documentary on the aftermath of the First Gulf War. Notable for its near-lack of narration and dialogue, and portrayal of the ruined landscape as strange and almost alien.[/QUOTE] Blocked in my country. thanks starz.

[QUOTE=gman003-main;50463011][media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcqrNKdpaog[/media] Werner Herzog's "Lessons of Darkness", a documentary on the aftermath of the First Gulf War. Notable for its near-lack of narration and dialogue, and portrayal of the ruined landscape as strange and almost alien.[/QUOTE] That was really interesting though that last comment that implied they deliberately lit other oil fires so they could put them out sort of spoiled it for me, it might be poetic but Im pretty sure that was not the case

[QUOTE=archival;50464061]That was really interesting though that last comment that implied they deliberately lit other oil fires so they could put them out sort of spoiled it for me, it might be poetic but Im pretty sure that was not the case[/QUOTE] The Iraqis did deliberately light fires.

[QUOTE=gman003-main;50463011][media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcqrNKdpaog[/media] Werner Herzog's "Lessons of Darkness", a documentary on the aftermath of the First Gulf War. Notable for its near-lack of narration and dialogue, and portrayal of the ruined landscape as strange and almost alien.[/QUOTE] That's the closest thing I can imagine to actual hell on earth. I can't begin to imagine how unrelenting that heat must have been. [editline]6th June 2016[/editline] [QUOTE=download;50464240]The Iraqis did deliberately light fires.[/QUOTE] At the end of the movie, the well control guys ignite a well that was blown out.

[QUOTE=OvB;50464500]That's the closest thing I can imagine to actual hell on earth. I can't begin to imagine how unrelenting that heat must have been. [editline]6th June 2016[/editline] At the end of the movie, the well control guys ignite a well that was blown out.[/QUOTE] Ah, makes sense. A burning oil well may do less damage to the environment than a non-burning well.

What is the top intake for?

[QUOTE=paul simon;50466930]What is the top intake for?[/QUOTE] That's a third engine. Long-range jetliners (at least in the United States) were pretty much required to have at least 3 engines when the Tristar was built - the Douglas DC-10 has 3 engines as well. American Extended Twin-engine operations (ETOPS) guidelines only allowed for a 60 minute diversion period, meaning the aircraft had to be within 60 minutes of flight time to suitable airport in the event of an emergency at all times. It wasn't until 1985 with the introduction of the Boeing 767 that the rules were extended to allow for 120 minutes of flight time, and today the rules are set to 180 minutes. Some aircraft have certification beyond this, with the 787 and most 777 models having approval up to 330 minutes. Originally the 60 minute rule applied to anything with 3 engines or less, but the rules were waived in 1964 for the L-1011 and DC-10 and only applied to twin-engine aircraft from then until 1985.

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[i]contrary to their recent history, IBM did not start out in the tabulation and computation business. As their early name implied their initial offerings were "business machines" which with the addition of cash registers included furniture, scales, coffee grinders, clocks and meat slicers. [img]http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/ibm100/images/icp/W898379E36210N24/us__en_us__ibm100__ibm_founded__meat_slicer__900x690.jpg[/img] These product lines were gradually discontinued as their computer division proved to be increasingly successful.[/i]

^So what is that thing? Nvm, filename says meat slicer.

[i]In 1937 in the town of Forest Hills, Pennsylvania, the Westinghouse corporation activated the "Atom Smasher", a 5 MeV Van de Graaff electrostatic nuclear accelerator. The worlds first industrial Van de Graaff generator. [img]http://40.media.tumblr.com/66b9bee10a867a45e61c51a3009006e1/tumblr_mzju9hLHAA1s6mxo0o1_1280.jpg[/img] [img]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bd/Westinghouse_Van_de_Graaff_atom_smasher_-_cutaway.png[/img] It was instrumental in the development in practical applications of nuclear science for energy production. It left active service in 1958 and in 1985 it was named an Electrical Engineering Milestone by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. [img]https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5344/7098229481_04676dacc4_z.jpg[/img] By 2012 the facility had long since been abandoned and both time and vandalism had taken its toll. Attempts were made to purchase and repurpose the site however repeated attempts ultimately failed and in 2015 the complex was demolished in preparation for future redevelopment. [img]https://pittsburghorbit.files.wordpress.com/2015/10/atom-smasher-hero.jpg?w=620[/img] The generator as it exists today. While the building it was built on and surrounded by have since been demolished the main chamber was spared from the blowtorch and currently rests on a pile of bricks in the hopes the local historical society can relocate the device.[/i]

Tangentially related, but Westinghouse himself is one of my all time heroes. Right up there with isambard brunel for my two top people in history. Westinghouse was an absolute bro by all accounts, even having his first employee he ever hired as a paul bearer at his funeral. [T]http://a1.files.biography.com/image/upload/c_fit,cs_srgb,dpr_1.0,h_1200,q_80,w_1200/MTE1ODA0OTcxODIyMzE5MTE3.jpg[/T] And Edison hated his guts. Amoungst appliances, railway stuff we still use and basically modern living as a whole Westinghouse gave us AC electricity. And despite knowing it was superior, Edison tried his damnedest to kill it, even trying to make the word electrocution be "westinghoused" before Electrocuted was a word. Edison took all his employees inventions and patented them under his own name, but westinghouse let all his employees patent under their own name, and still almost had more patents than the "prolific" edison. Edison also brought Tesla over from serbia to work from him, but Tom was such a jerk Tesla defected to westinghouse personally, and stayed loyal for the rest of Westinghouse's life But because George died first, edison had the last word. It's Edison's name in the textbooks, not Westinghouse; just like Graham Bell is to Elijah Gray. And the banks robbed George of his eponymous company as well, something that'd never happen today. Although his railway brake company kept him pretty wealthy, and his designs and fragments of his many companies continue on today, i find he's still a fairly tragic man. But even then, i think he's proof that good people do get rewarded sometimes, even if assbags the world over try to tear them down. Go watch a documentary on him, what a man [T]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/43/IKBrunelChains.jpg[/T] While you're at it, go look up Isambard Brunel too. what a fucking maniac. Dude built shit in the early 1800's that's [I][URL="http://images.on-this.website/7181_13989148074cf19e3d4a60a.jpg"]still being used[/URL] [URL="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/12/24/article-2529003-043DA9370000044D-192_964x599.jpg"]right now[/URL][/I], and cheated death more times than a plot armored bruce willis, making sure all his shit was being built properly.

From everything I've read and heard about him, Edison was a major ass, didn't he also invent the electric chair to try to prove that AC was dangerous because that's what they said in "Men Who Built America" docudrama that the History channel showed.

I don't think the electric chair was Edison. I think it was 1880's, and meant to be a "humane" way of killing people. As opposed to hanging or being shot i guess. Frankly i'd prefer being shot. It might be that Edison promoted the electric chair to that effect, but he didn't invent it

An image of Union Pacific's Bailey Yard, the world's largest railroad classification yard. [IMG]http://www.smarttinc.com/email/NL-0312/baileyyard.jpg[/IMG] [QUOTE]Bailey Yard is halfway between Denver and Omaha.It covers a total expanse of 2,850 acres (4.45 sq mi; 11.5 km2) and is over 8 miles (13 km) in length and 2 miles (3.2 km) wide. The yard has 200 separate tracks totaling 315 miles (507 km) of track, 985 switches, 766 turnouts, and 17 receiving and 16 departure tracks.Union Pacific employs more than 2,600 people in North Platte, most of whom are responsible for the day-to-day operations of Bailey Yard. An average of 139 trains and over 14,000 railroad cars pass through Bailey Yard every day,and the yard sorts approximately 3,000 cars daily using the yard’s two humps. The eastbound hump is a 34 feet (10 m)-tall mound and the westbound hump is 20 feet (6.1 m) high. These are used to sort four cars a minute into one of the 114 "bowl" tracks, 49 tracks for the westbound trains and 65 for eastbound.The bowl tracks are used to form trains headed for destinations across North America, including the East, West and Gulf coasts of the United States, and Canadian and Mexican borders.[/QUOTE] [URL]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bailey_Yard[/URL] There's also a tourist site where you can watch the yard in operation live 24/7. [URL]http://goldenspiketower.com/[/URL] The second largest is the Marschen Marshalling Yard in Maschen, Germany which is south of Hamburg.

[img]http://67.media.tumblr.com/ff817c3195be37056041db8369fd2bf0/tumblr_n879cyX2t11rhavdko1_500.png[/img] ALICE ROOSEVELT WAS HARDCORE. “She was known as a rule-breaker in an era when women were under great pressure to conform. The American public noticed many of her exploits. She smoked cigarettes in public, swore at officials, rode in cars with men, stayed out late partying, kept a pet snake named Emily Spinach (Emily as in her spinster aunt and Spinach for its green color) in the White House, and was seen placing bets with a bookie. [img]https://67.media.tumblr.com/b9f2357cd13b243a07825c07ae592087/tumblr_nbkle5rE3j1smkbx3o1_250.jpg[/img] Her whole wikipedia article is gold “When her father was governor of New York, he and his wife proposed that Alice attend a conservative school for girls in New York City. Pulling out all the stops, Alice wrote, ‘If you send me I will humiliate you. I will do something that will shame you. I tell you I will.’” “Her father took office in 1901 following the assassination of President William McKinley, Jr. in Buffalo (an event that she greeted with “sheer rapture.”)“ “During the cruise to Japan, Alice jumped into the ship’s pool fully clothed, and coaxed a congressman to join her in the water. (Years later Bobby Kennedy would chide her about the incident, saying it was outrageous for the time, to which the by-then-octogenarian Alice replied that it would only have been outrageous had she removed her clothes.” “She was dressed in a blue wedding dress and dramatically cut the wedding cake with a sword (borrowed from a military aide attending the reception)” “When it came time for the Roosevelt family to move out of the White House, Alice buried a Voodoo doll of the new First Lady, Nellie Taft, in the front yard.” “Later, the Taft White House banned her from her former residence—the first but not the last administration to do so. During Woodrow Wilson’s administration (from which she was banned in 1916 for a bawdy joke at Wilson’s expense)…” “As an example of her attitudes on race, in 1965 her African-American chauffeur and one of her best friends, Turner, was driving Alice to an appointment. During the trip, he pulled out in front of a taxi, and the driver got out and demanded to know of him, “What do you think you’re doing, you black bastard?” Turner took the insult calmly, but Alice did not and told the taxi driver, “He’s taking me to my destination, you white son of a bitch!” “To Senator Joseph McCarthy, who had jokingly remarked at a party “Here’s my blind date. I am going to call you Alice”, she sarcastically said “Senator McCarthy, you are not going to call me Alice. The trashman and the policeman on my block call me Alice, but you may not.” [img]https://65.media.tumblr.com/9d9045dc8669c78427e2b603dd16c6d4/tumblr_inline_nsoy2saeqq1r8eehr_540.jpg[/img] This is Alice as an older lady. The pillow says “If you can’t say something good about someone, sit right here by me.” [URL="http://themauveroom.com/post/126061716051/distractedbyshinyobjects-mewjounouchi"]Source[/URL]

[img]http://i.imgur.com/0Ky8spp.jpg[/img] [QUOTE]Early April in the Rocky Mountains, the majestic peaks are still snow-covered while the lower elevations, including the lakes and rivers have melted out. I was walking along the riverbank when I saw a dark form lying on the bottom of the river. My first thought was a deer had fallen through the ice so I wandered over to investigate...and that's when I saw the long tail. It took me a few moments to comprehend what I was looking at...a full grown cougar lying peacefully on the riverbed, the victim of thin ice. I tried to capture the eerie feeling I felt at the time as best I could. Location: Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta, Canada [/QUOTE] [URL="http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/photo-contest/2012/entries/200060/view/"]Source[/URL]

[QUOTE=sirdownloadsalot;50470099] “As an example of her attitudes on race, in 1965 her African-American chauffeur and one of her best friends, Turner, was driving Alice to an appointment. During the trip, he pulled out in front of a taxi, and the driver got out and demanded to know of him, “What do you think you’re doing, you black bastard?” Turner took the insult calmly, but Alice did not and told the taxi driver, “He’s taking me to my destination, you white son of a bitch!” [/URL][/QUOTE] She really had balls to say that considering the attitude society had both toward women and racism in that time and era.