Sure he didn't just use the stick to actuate the camera? Cameras weren't (usually) exactly small back then.
It's a stick and they're taking a selfie.
I think that counts as a selfie stick.
[video=youtube;vMHhNpMBr0o]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMHhNpMBr0o[/video]
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Saint-Petersburg, Avtovo underground station.
(Irony is, the station looks wonderful but the area around it, well, let's say it doesn't look too great)
I don't know if any of you are in London, but if you are, please go and visit Incoming by Richard Mosse.
Incredible film and display.
There's not much online to show you guys unfortunately, but it's 100% worth an hour of your time if you're in the area.
"Barbican Art Gallery has invited conceptual documentary photographer and Deutsche Börse Photography Prize winner Richard Mosse to create an immersive multi-channel video installation in the Curve. \
In collaboration with composer Ben Frost and cinematographer Trevor Tweeten, Mosse has been working with an advanced new thermographic weapons and border imaging technology that can register the body heat of a human from 30.3km away.
Classed as part of advanced weapons systems under International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), Mosse has been using this export controlled camera against its intended purpose, to create an artwork about the refugee crisis unfolding in the Aegean Sea, off the coast of Libya, in Syria, the Sahara, the Persian Gulf, and other locations."
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1iKposHYFI[/media]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0IUuYjdrOU[/media]
[media]http://vimeo.com/205663051[/media]
So last saturday was the season ender for Monster Jam in Vegas
[video=youtube;6ALgf2_tIPc]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ALgf2_tIPc[/video]
:terrists:
We've reached the promised land of monster trucks.
[QUOTE=EuSKalduna;51991529]Oil wells burning away during the Gulf War. Kuwait, 1991
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[video=youtube;dtWENYxMRP4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtWENYxMRP4[/video]
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Pages from the Royal Armouries MS I.33 book(Walpurgis fechtbuch), a fencing manual authored in the 1320s.
Bonus points if you can figure out what is going on in the images!
The second one is schiltslac. The first is something starting from a bind idk what's going on exactly lol
[QUOTE=G-Strogg;52027207][t]http://wiktenauer.com/images/2/2a/MS_I.33_16v.jpg[/t][/QUOTE]
Step 1: Just steal that blue nerd's sword.
Step 2: Perform secret yellow handshake with closest homie.
[QUOTE=G-Strogg;52027207][t]http://wiktenauer.com/images/4/44/MS_I.33_07r.jpg[/t]
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When engaged in battle, it is imperative to sniff your opponents sword to ensure that he did not fuck your mother with it, as he boldly claims.
Storm season's ramping up for us in the US, and in prep for chasing season I've been doing a lot of research into past years and notable tornadoes, especially the 2013 El Reno event.
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El Reno was notable for many reasons. For one, it was the largest tornado ever recorded at 2.6 miles wide. Second, it had recorded wind speeds of over 300 miles per hour, some of the fastest ever recorded and close to the theoretical limit of tornado speeds. And finally, its evolution and path caught many professional, seasoned spotters and chasers off guard.
The tornado widened from a quarter mile wide to 2.6 miles wide in 30 seconds, and it was so rain wrapped that many chasers and spotters didn't realize that the rain bands visible on the edge of the storm were actually the outer walls of the tornado. In addition to this, at one point in its path the tornado stopped moving east and actually moved [I]backwards[/I], catching many people, including chasing veteran Tim Samaras, completely off-guard.
This was Samaras's Chevy Cobalt as it was found after the storm had hit them. All three occupants were killed when the car was thrown off the road.
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Another research vehicle with Twistex, their portable doppler radar and research truck, was also completely destroyed. Luckily the occupants of the truck left the vehicle for shelter before the tornado hit.
[t]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BLzKaSJCMAARNvC.jpg[/t]
I do storm spotting for the National Weather Service and it's things like this that stay in the back of your mind while you're out spotting.
Its things that remind you that were just curious monkeys with metal boxes that can both very easily be destroyed by nature.
They should buy some old armoured transports to chase tornado's in.
[QUOTE=papkee;52030493]wind speeds of over 300 miles per hour, some of the fastest ever recorded and close to the theoretical limit of tornado speeds.[/QUOTE]
Now I'm curious - what [I]is[/I] the theoretical limit of tornado windspeed, and what's the limiting factor?
[QUOTE=JohnnyMo1;52027550]The second one is schiltslac. The first is something starting from a bind idk what's going on exactly lol[/QUOTE]
Both images show a shiltshlag, the first one in the more traditional context of overbinding >strike with shield on shield > hit in face.
The second one shows how the shiltshlag is used as a counter the the opponent grabbing your blade when you're in langenort. Strike his hand with your shield and recover your blade.
Good guesses, the rest of you.
[QUOTE=St33m;52031106]They should buy some old armoured transports to chase tornado's in.[/QUOTE]
There are things called [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornado_Intercept_Vehicle"]Tornado Intercept Vehicles[/URL] which are normally lowered, armored trucks designed to have enough downforce to ride out the tornado without flipping. The problem with using something like a troop carrier is that it has a very large side profile and would be easily blown over by the storm winds.
[QUOTE=gman003-main;52031922]Now I'm curious - what [I]is[/I] the theoretical limit of tornado windspeed, and what's the limiting factor?[/QUOTE]
IIRC it's somewhere around 350-370, which has to do with how pressure differentials and updrafts have an theoretical limit on earth. I should've paid more attention in my severe storms class.
[QUOTE=papkee;52032079]There are things called [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornado_Intercept_Vehicle"]Tornado Intercept Vehicles[/URL] which are normally lowered, armored trucks designed to have enough downforce to ride out the tornado without flipping. The problem with using something like a troop carrier is that it has a very large side profile and would be easily blown over by the storm winds.
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What about stuff like BTRs that have fairly streamlined and angled sideprofiles? :v:
[QUOTE=Ilwrath;52032118]What about stuff like BTRs that have fairly streamlined and angled sideprofiles? :v:[/QUOTE]
If air can get under the vehicle it doesn't matter. It will be thrown like a toy. That's why the TIV's basically sit on the ground and are cone shaped.
Something like a modified BTR-50 might be promising if you can get rid of the front end that would be a huge air scoop.
[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FATrHPBGSDM[/media]
not a pic but is very uncanny
This is the only sound recording of a castrato singer. If you don't know what a castrato is, they were basically boys who were castrated at an early age, so that they never reach sexual maturity. The castration before puberty (or in its early stages) prevents a boy's larynx from being transformed by the normal physiological events of puberty and lets them sing very very high.
read:
[QUOTE] The practice of castrating young boys who had good singing voices was quite common in Italy in the 17th century. When castration is done before puberty, the usual effects of puberty will not happen. These include the vocal cords enlarging and growing bigger, and the voice getting deeper as a consequence. The voice then develops in a unique way.
Once a boy was castrated he would go to a special music school where children learned singing and musical instruments. The castrati pupils were given special treatment. They were fussed over and kept warm to stop them from getting colds. When they grew up they hoped to become famous opera singers. A few of them had very successful careers in opera. They were the great stars of their day, and audiences came to the opera to cheer on their favourite singers. Those who were not good enough to make a career in opera joined church choirs instead.
Also, as the castrato's body grew, his lack of testosterone meant that his epiphyses (bone-joints) did not harden in the normal manner. Thus the limbs of the castrati often grew unusually long, as did the bones of their ribs. This, combined with intensive training, gave them unrivaled lung-power and breath capacity. Operating through small, child-sized vocal cords, their voices were also extraordinarily flexible, and quite different from the equivalent adult female voice. Their vocal range was higher than that of the uncastrated adult male. Listening to the only surviving recordings of a castrato (see below), one can hear that the lower part of the voice sounds like a "super-high" tenor, with a more falsetto-like upper register above that.[/QUOTE]
Listening to this is both beautiful, chilling and depressing, knowing what guys like him had to go through to sound like this. it makes my balls hurt to listen
[video=youtube;KLjvfqnD0ws]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLjvfqnD0ws[/video]
[video=youtube;ZT_NKk4kOxI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZT_NKk4kOxI[/video]
[QUOTE]Mikhail Gorbachev and members of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union sing "The Internationale" for the last time at the 28th Party Congress. The Soviet Union would collapse a year later.[/QUOTE]
Veteran's Last Song
[video=youtube;KKiBTSOWVZA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKiBTSOWVZA[/video]
There's a fair amount of documentation regarding the old Civil War Veterans. Strange to think that the last confirmed veteran died in 1956 and the age of 106.
Disneyland is starting to remove the scaffolding on their new Guardians of the Galaxy ride (rethemed tower of terror)
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Beatles fans outside of Buckingham Palace, 1965
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Peterhof Palace in 1943 and in 2016.
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Three images taken in order from one of Talhoffers many fechtbuchs. What do you think is going on here? What happens between the images that we don't see?
[QUOTE=OvB;52033132]If air can get under the vehicle it doesn't matter. It will be thrown like a toy. That's why the TIV's basically sit on the ground and are cone shaped.
Something like a modified BTR-50 might be promising if you can get rid of the front end that would be a huge air scoop.
[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FATrHPBGSDM[/media][/QUOTE]
hey, they filmed this during the mythbusters episode. really recommend people watch the full thing, it's pretty good
[vid]http://i.imgur.com/yBSJqty.mp4[/vid]
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