[QUOTE=Grenadiac;52183329]Imagine what an incredibly valuable piece of furniture that would be today - having been not only owned by Hitler, but subsequently photographed being sat in by Churchill. Wonder what happened to it.[/QUOTE]
It appears broken in the photo, with the back rest and legs being one solid member piece that has mostly become broken from the seat and front legs, aside from some small connection or fabric alone.
Well I could tell that it's broken. That doesn't change what it was. I meant that I wonder what happened to it after the photo. Did it get burned? Thrown away? Squirreled away in someone's attic for 60 years 'til the grandkids set it out at the curb thinking it's garbage?
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Churchill sitting on what remains of Hitler's armchair[/QUOTE]
man, hitler needed to do some serious tidying
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Churchill sitting on what remains of Hitler's armchair[/QUOTE]
He should take a big fat dump and then have it showcased at a art gallery
[editline]4th May 2017[/editline]
Modern day construction of a middle ages castle, using traditional methods and materials
[img]http://content.jwplatform.com/thumbs/qdAQd9ou.jpg[/img]
[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gu%C3%A9delon_Castle[/url]
Deforestation is [I]helping[/I] climate change in Scotland:
[video=youtube;XCXM1jqX3gI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCXM1jqX3gI[/video]
[QUOTE=shian;52184872]He should take a big fat dump and then have it showcased at a art gallery
[editline]4th May 2017[/editline]
Modern day construction of a middle ages castle, using traditional methods and materials
[img]http://content.jwplatform.com/thumbs/qdAQd9ou.jpg[/img]
[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gu%C3%A9delon_Castle[/url][/QUOTE]
Slightly related, the film [I]McCabe & Mrs. Miller[/I] takes place in the construction of a mining town in the northwest American frontier. The construction crew built the set in real time as the film was shot (in chronological order), using construction methods of the time. If you're interested in this kind of thing, it also happens to be a fantastic movie, I recommend it.
[QUOTE=Grenadiac;52183657]Well I could tell that it's broken. That doesn't change what it was. I meant that I wonder what happened to it after the photo. Did it get burned? Thrown away? Squirreled away in someone's attic for 60 years 'til the grandkids set it out at the curb thinking it's garbage?[/QUOTE]
I suspect the chair Churchill is sitting on is another one from the Chancellery that was, for some reason, taken/left outside during the battle and is showing the expected wear and tear. The one from Hitler's Fuhrerbunker office (or possibly the conference/map room since there seems to be a [URL="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-sKbIJNiQyPc/TmsIl_1B3oI/AAAAAAAAGbc/cpVrV8hY4w0/s1600/inside-hitler-bunker-fuhrerbunker-berlin-may-1945-011.jpg"]third one[/URL] with most of the upholstery torn off) was taken back to the US. With so many artefacts in the bunker to take that were intact and considering how many others ended up destroyed I think the chair in question ended up as kindling soon after that pic was taken.
[T]https://museumofworldwarii.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/19-18-Hitler-chair.jpg[/T]
[QUOTE]Chair used at Hitler’s desk in the bunker under the Reich Chancellery. Removed by General Cutler, who had the brass plaque placed on the back of the chair: “From Hitler’s bombproof office under Reich Chancellery, Berlin, 10 July, 1945.” The chair was originally part of Hitler’s dining room service in the Reich Chancellery.[/QUOTE]
I think this takes the cake for interesting Hitler chairs though:
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[QUOTE] ...By 1942 an improved model of Hitler's plane, a Focke-Wulf Pw 200 Condor, was placed in service. It came with four machine-guns and four 986-hp engines. The plane could remain in flight for up to 15 hours. Hitler's seat was equipped with a [B]trap door through which he could drop with a parachute[/B]. In 1944 three additional, upgraded models of the plane were commissioned, with an improved [B]ejector seat[/B] and a nonstop travel capacity of 6,000 kilometers...[/QUOTE]
Hitler was the original Bond villain
[QUOTE=Mining Bill;52186355]Slightly related, the film [I]McCabe & Mrs. Miller[/I] takes place in the construction of a mining town in the northwest American frontier. The construction crew built the set in real time as the film was shot (in chronological order), using construction methods of the time. If you're interested in this kind of thing, it also happens to be a fantastic movie, I recommend it.[/QUOTE]
I know one of the senior prop/set guys who did work on that actually. He's got a matte black '28 ford and lives a few blocks down from me. We go on hot rod cruises time to time. All around pretty cool dude
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;52185396]Deforestation is [I]helping[/I] climate change in Scotland:
[video=youtube;XCXM1jqX3gI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCXM1jqX3gI[/video][/QUOTE]
And then we cut it up and burn it. And by we I mean those dirty islanders.
[QUOTE=Scot;52189593]And then we cut it up and burn it. And by we I mean those dirty islanders.[/QUOTE]
IIRC, burning wood is carbon neutral in terms of climate change. I don't recall why though.
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;52189710]IIRC, burning wood is carbon neutral in terms of climate change. I don't recall why though.[/QUOTE]
because you are not bringing more CO2 into the cycle. You know that trees and plants make oxygen, they do that by taking the C out of CO2 to make O2. This C will be used to grow, so you are temporarily storing the Carbon. Yes, burning wood puts CO2 in the air but the wood took the C out of the air beforehand anyway.
When you are using fuel from underground carbon deposits, you do add to the cycle because those deposits were made in millions of years (compared to decades with trees). This destabilizes the cycle.
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;52189710]IIRC, burning wood is carbon neutral in terms of climate change. I don't recall why though.[/QUOTE]
I meant the peat.
[media]https://youtu.be/EnBArsrwnuE[/media]
[quote]
The plan to tow an iceberg to the desert
The desert nation has always had a water problem, so consultancy firm National Advisor Bureau Limited has a drastic solution: Motor on down to Antarctica, thousands of kilometres away, and simply tow a massive iceberg up to the coast of Fujairah, one of the seven emirates that make up the country.
"Our simulator predicts that it will take up to one year. We have formulated the technical and financial plan. Towing is the best method. We will start the project in beginning of 2018,” Abdullah Mohammad Sulaiman Al Shehi, the general manager of the company, told the Gulf News. “We want it mainly for the water. It could also be good for tourism and the weather.”
That last hope is based on Al Shehi's reckoning that cold air from the island-sized chunks of ice could combine with hot desert air to condense as rain, transforming the climate, though in a limited, artificial way.
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[url]https://www.theweathernetwork.com/news/articles/the-plan-to-tow-an-iceberg-to-the-desert/82009/[/url]
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[QUOTE] Stjepan Filipović, a Croatian partisan in WW2 yells out "Death to fascism, freedom to the people!" before being hung.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Arc Nova;52190551][media]https://youtu.be/EnBArsrwnuE[/media]
[url]https://www.theweathernetwork.com/news/articles/the-plan-to-tow-an-iceberg-to-the-desert/82009/[/url][/QUOTE]
Seeing those penguins and polar bears together on the ice was hilarious.
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The ruins of the Hindenburg after going down in flames
An interesting perspective on the whole event
One of the most interesting things about the Hindenburg disaster is that for as much as it's played up you'd think everybody died. But more people who were on the ship survived than died. A plane crash in that era under comparable circumstances would have killed everyone aboard. What really should have been a testament to the safety and survivability of airship accidents ended up permanently ruining them for the public.
Which is a shame, because zeppelins are really, really cool, and I still have difficulty imagining something so massive lazily drifting through the air. Imagine how safe and luxurious a modern airship could be. I mean a real passenger ship, not blimps and things like that. Hindenburg could have been twice her mass, she was designed for helium but they were using hydrogen for the lifting gas due to the helium shortage.
[QUOTE=EuSKalduna;52047949]Beatles fans outside of Buckingham Palace, 1965
[IMG]https://68.media.tumblr.com/22e7cabc4b0cbaa771d62ff6b5c845ee/tumblr_ons0nwDJWc1s7e5k5o1_500.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
Sofia Boutella
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...what?
[QUOTE=fritzel;52195554]Sofia Boutella
[IMG]https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMjU0OTQ5NjQ5NF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwNTk2ODQzNDE@._V1_UY317_CR14,0,214,317_AL_.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
My favourite Beatle.
[QUOTE=Grenadiac;52195160]One of the most interesting things about the Hindenburg disaster is that for as much as it's played up you'd think everybody died. But more people who were on the ship survived than died. A plane crash in that era under comparable circumstances would have killed everyone aboard. What really should have been a testament to the safety and survivability of airship accidents ended up permanently ruining them for the public.
Which is a shame, because zeppelins are really, really cool, and I still have difficulty imagining something so massive lazily drifting through the air. Imagine how safe and luxurious a modern airship could be. I mean a real passenger ship, not blimps and things like that. Hindenburg could have been twice her mass, she was designed for helium but they were using hydrogen for the lifting gas due to the helium shortage.[/QUOTE]
IIRC there was even a dog on board that survived the disaster.
I do recall about 10 years ago on the History Channel's "Modern Marvel's" they talked about zeppelins and mentioned a company attempting to bring them back as a legitimate transportation industry, but since I haven't heard anything about it since then, I assume it hasn't gone well since that.
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;52196162]IIRC there was even a dog on board that survived the disaster.
I do recall about 10 years ago on the History Channel's "Modern Marvel's" they talked about zeppelins and mentioned a company attempting to bring them back as a legitimate transportation industry, but since I haven't heard anything about it since then, I assume it hasn't gone well since that.[/QUOTE]
The US Army recently (a few years ago) tested a hybrid airship, the HAV 304 - most of the lift is from buoyancy, but it requires some aerodynamic lift to remain airborne. Because of the size, it doesn't need much forward speed to generate enough lift - 30 knots is enough. The Army cancelled the project, but the manufacturer seems to be aiming for sales to the UK Ministry of Defence, or building a cargo freighter version for the commercial market.
[QUOTE=gman003-main;52196250]The US Army recently (a few years ago) tested a hybrid airship, the HAV 304 - most of the lift is from buoyancy, but it requires some aerodynamic lift to remain airborne. Because of the size, it doesn't need much forward speed to generate enough lift - 30 knots is enough. The Army cancelled the project, but the manufacturer seems to be aiming for sales to the UK Ministry of Defence, or building a cargo freighter version for the commercial market.[/QUOTE]
I can't imagine an air cargo zeppelin being more efficient than a plane or ship
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;52196429]I can't imagine an air cargo zeppelin being more efficient than a plane or ship[/QUOTE]
If I understand right, it would be more cost-efficient than a plane (it's only burning a fraction of the fuel and can use far weaker and less costly engines), while being slightly slower; it would be more expensive than a ship (buoyancy in water is cheaper than buoyancy in air) but also faster. I'm not convinced that niche is big enough to support development and operations, but it's there. Think of things that are somewhat time-sensitive but not particularly heavy - when Nintendo started air-shipping Switches across the Pacific to try to meet demand, for instance. An airship would have been perfect, since a difference of a few hours wouldn't have mattered, but could have saved a bit of cash.
[T]http://i.imgur.com/1VCgWOt.jpg[/T]
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;52196429]I can't imagine an air cargo zeppelin being more efficient than a plane or ship[/QUOTE]
you need orders of magnitude less energy to move/fly the thing. It absolutely is more efficient. Although slow and vulnerable, yes. So i can imagine why the army canned it.
Uber-detailed painting by Raul Casillas
[t]http://www.raulcasillas.com/Entanglement_for_email.jpg[/t]
(warning, it's 6000x2704 pixels)
Look like something your dreadlock, pot smoking free spirit hippie friend will tell you about
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