[QUOTE=nox;51507340]Don't forget the best part, his personal army of "play soldiers" dedicated to playing mock war games for entertainment, which eventually became part of the actual army.[/QUOTE]
The guy was smart.
[QUOTE=nox;51507340]Don't forget the best part, his personal army of "play soldiers" dedicated to playing mock war games for entertainment, which eventually became part of the actual army.[/QUOTE]
There was also a massive revolt that was led by a group of cossacks that just kinda evaporated because they didn't really have a goal in mind when they revolted. And the head cossack: Kondrati Bulavin (the revolt was named after him) mysteriously died from a gunshot wound to the back of the skull.
But really, listen to this shit
[QUOTE]Bulavin's rally cries were simple: the goal was to move against Moscow and destroy the evil influences on the Tsar. It is important to note that the rebellion was not against the institution of Tsardom but against the figures in power at the time. It was generally believed that Peter was either not who he claimed (i.e. the Antichrist sitting in place of the true Tsar who was hidden away), or that he was indeed the rightful Tsar but was under the control of evil advisers whose destruction would liberate him, and that if given the freedom to act, he would repudiate all of his wicked reforms.[/QUOTE]
The guy really didn't have a clue what the fuck was going on.
Also Peter forced the Ottoman port at Azov to surrender by building a bunch of fake ships and putting them in the harbour. Russia didn't have a navy in the Black Sea at the time, which is something the Ottomans probably should have known but didn't.
The Chernobyl photos look like something out of Portal.
[t]http://i.cubeupload.com/hOVRC2.jpg[/t]
[url]http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/nature-photographer-of-the-year-2016/gallery/winners-all/1[/url]
Some fantastic photos in there, too many to post, but this one is my favourite.
[QUOTE=Broguts;51499362]The king of Poland was a 6'8" fox throwing champion ([B]a sport where you throw a live fox into the air as hard as you can[/B]) [/QUOTE]
I'm not sure what else I would have expected with a name like that
[video=youtube;fEs6O2NGdrs]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEs6O2NGdrs[/video]
[t]https://i.imgur.com/49UeRsd.jpg[/t]
[QUOTE]A hand carved map of the coast ca. 1880, made by the Tunumiit people of eastern Greenland[/QUOTE]
Amazing
[video]https://youtu.be/A8jSdgT3Drc[/video]
[QUOTE=Scot;51513059][video]https://youtu.be/A8jSdgT3Drc[/video][/QUOTE]
The car looks interesting but the video is a visual mess.
[QUOTE=Scot;51513059][video]https://youtu.be/A8jSdgT3Drc[/video][/QUOTE]
So we're one step closer to that Bond's car optical camouflage.
a single accident would probably be enough to take that off the road for functioning as a visual distraction; imagine how blinding this would be when driving in front of you on a rainy night
not sure how this will really look on the streets, but isn't there some regulation on how distinctive your turn signals etc have to be? If the car itself lights up like a disco ball, that's gonna be another problem
also, glowing dickbutts
dickbutts everyhwere
This wonderful little fruit is called a Finger Lime, or sometimes a Caviar Lime
[media]https://youtu.be/FsDFFLg_BmY[/media]
CCTV footage from the 6.8 magnitude Great Kobe Earthquake of 1995
[video=youtube;RxitIewLv9c]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxitIewLv9c[/video]
Pneumatic Mortars of WWI
[quote]
[img]http://www.heeresgeschichten.at/artillerie/luftminenwerfer/foto/wefer6_400.jpg[/img]
[img]http://www.heeresgeschichten.at/artillerie/luftminenwerfer/foto/luftminenwerfer_25_09_2012_1_800.jpg[/img]
Here you can see a man hand pumping the tank, an incredibly tedious task
[img]http://www.warrelics.eu/forum/attachments/ordnance-ammo/10581d1217257400-ww1-french-pneumatic-mortar-round-a4_canon_pneumatique_de_tranchees.jpg[/img]
[/quote]
....why though
desperate times call for desperate measures, trying to find a way to win/survive a trench war with anything seems like one of those times
There is an old power plant in Budapest which has an art deco style control room from the 30s.
It's like being on the deck of the Nautilus.
[t]http://i.imgur.com/OtAJzOz.jpg[/t][t]http://i.imgur.com/Z0p7ld5.jpg[/t]
[t]http://i.imgur.com/I5HfxAa.jpg?1[/t][t]http://i.imgur.com/lB95W1E.jpg[/t]
[img]http://i.imgur.com/D4nqHGD.jpg[/img]
[i]In ATI's earlier years, another product they sold before directing all their attention towards video cards was internal and external dial-up modems.
In Canada specifically they sold extremely well.[/i]
[QUOTE=Amplar;51534990]....why though[/QUOTE]
No flash, no smoke, less noise, clean firing since there's no gunpowder to burn and no shells to discard. Probably all the same reasons the French used grenade crossbows. :v:
Wave machine
[IMG]https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/so9jvrwnjasehs6eopzf.gif[/IMG]
[IMG]https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/xo5g9xyzjfoylznj6mne.gif[/IMG]
That looks like nightmare fuel if you were down there and somehow the water broke through.
[QUOTE=1chains1;51536619]That looks like nightmare fuel if you were down there and somehow the water broke through.[/QUOTE]
It's always a nightmare when the water breaks.
I'm on another steel kick
[video]https://youtu.be/62QuEiD6R_k[/video]
Probably the best documentary i've ever seen. Every single shot is beautifully composed. Ain't got nothin' but respect for the folks who did this back in the day. I love the image of a hard man with a sharp eye working a bessemer converter in a haggered duster coat and fedora. I mean no disrespect to anyone who works steel today, but boy howdy was it ever another time.
Speaking of cool factory shit, here's the glorious opening to Gran Turismo 5:
[media]https://youtu.be/oNAOQ7arCK4[/media]
(Don't let the thumbnail fool you)
[QUOTE=Trilby Harlow;51537746]I'm on another steel kick
[video]https://youtu.be/62QuEiD6R_k[/video]
Probably the best documentary i've ever seen. Every single shot is beautifully composed. Ain't got nothin' but respect for the folks who did this back in the day. I love the image of a hard man with a sharp eye working a bessemer converter in a haggered duster coat and fedora. I mean no disrespect to anyone who works steel today, but boy howdy was it ever another time.[/QUOTE]
Looks like some pretty tough work, but imagine being the guy who throws tree branches onto glowing steel slabs for a living. :v:
I'd take that over being the guy that has to shovel flux into an open harth or EAF furnace with nothing but a shovel and a scarf. At least the plate rolling steel is less than a thousand degrees at that point
[QUOTE=nox;51539590]Looks like some pretty tough work, but imagine being the guy who throws tree branches onto glowing steel slabs for a living. :v:[/QUOTE]
Hey if it meant a square meal a day and a bottle of whiskey a week, a modest apartment and a christmas dinner. That'd be fine with me.
Oh its certainly a solid line of work, just uhh...a unique specialty.
[video]https://youtu.be/Re6P7WP2N5w[/video]
[editline]17th December 2016[/editline]
Now with added walking.
[QUOTE=Reds;51542469][video]https://youtu.be/Re6P7WP2N5w[/video]
[editline]17th December 2016[/editline]
Now with added walking.[/QUOTE]
What a time to be alive
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