[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;52299563]More of my garden incoming:
[U]Sage:[/U]
[t]http://i.imgur.com/hOgRSYF.jpg[/t]
[t]http://i.imgur.com/ZK6yYaI.jpg[/t]
[U]Sugarsnap Peas:[/U]
[t]http://i.imgur.com/oCdmskp.jpg[/t]
[U]Cucumbers:[/U]
[t]http://i.imgur.com/XWiinMW.jpg[/t]
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Plant pots not brutalist enough just WHAT do you think you are doing??
Need inverted pyramid concrete pots with square bases
Google Photos has an automatic assistant which sometimes takes pictures that I make during the day and then edits them automatically. I took a picture of the sunset while I was on my bike and the result was actually pretty interesting:
[T]https://i.imgur.com/7kxwL9X.jpg[/T][T]https://i.imgur.com/uvvde2P.jpg[/T]
Left is the picture as edited by Google Photos, right is the original.
Looks like your typical Skyrim mod.
The original looks much better.
I just learned that the Fedayeen Saddam a paramilitary organization that served as internal security, last line of defence, Saddam's personal guard, etc, had a few hundred Darth Vader helmets.
No, I'm not shitting you, tell me these aren't Darth Vader helmets:
[img]http://nuke.combat-helmets.com/Portals/0/2011/DARTHVADERr.jpg[/img]
A compilation of low quality images showing the helmet in use
This website has some higher quality pictures:
[url]http://nuke.combat-helmets.com/IraqiFedayeen/tabid/100/Default.aspx[/url]
More background here (also up for purchase, just get a gas-mask and you can be Iraqi vader):
[url]http://www.ima-usa.com/original-iraqi-fedayeen-helmet-operation-iraqi-freedom-bring-back.html[/url]
They had those helmets designed, ordered and put to use because Saddams crazy-ass son (who was the commander of Vadersquad) was supposedly a huge Star Wars fan.
Astronomical stuff is always good.
[t]http://u.cubeupload.com/callumshell1/LightEchoesfromV838M.jpg[/t]
[QUOTE]What caused this outburst of V838 Mon? For reasons unknown, star V838 Mon's outer surface suddenly greatly expanded with the result that it became the brightest star in the entire Milky Way Galaxy in January 2002. Then, just as suddenly, it faded. A stellar flash like this had never been seen before - supernovas and novas expel matter out into space. Although the V838 Mon flash appears to expel material into space, what is seen in the above image from the Hubble Space Telescope is actually an outwardly moving light echo of the bright flash.
In a light echo, light from the flash is reflected by successively more distant rings in the complex array of ambient interstellar dust that already surrounded the star. V838 Mon lies about 20,000 light years away toward the constellation of the unicorn (Monoceros), while the light echo above spans about six light years in diameter.[/QUOTE]
[URL]https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_2472.html[/URL]
Bonus galaxy:
[t]http://u.cubeupload.com/callumshell1/M106.jpg[/t]
I actually had to half the dimensions of this image to make it a reasonable file size.
[IMG]http://www.etovidel.net/appended_files/big/4e30614c95f09.jpg[/IMG]
Monument to victims of radiation accidents in Saint-Petersburg.
The main structure of the monument represents a reactor hall's cracked wall and the stork on top of it represents that life still goes on.
The text in the middle says "Remember".
[QUOTE=Viper123_SWE;52307961]They had those helmets designed, ordered and put to use because Saddams crazy-ass son (who was the commander of Vadersquad) was supposedly a huge Star Wars fan.[/QUOTE]
Wasn't sadam's son also an incredible sadist as well?
Also while i'm here, i'll deliver the state mandated daily dose of steel mill porn
[T]https://www.viktormacha.com/photos/arcelormittal-ostrava-vsazka-do-tandemove-pece-353.jpg[/T] [T]https://www.viktormacha.com/photos/dunaferr-liti-do-mixeru-793.jpg[/T] [T]https://www.viktormacha.com/photos/arcelormittal-ostrava-liti-z-mixeru-356.jpg[/T]
I'm facinated by the scale of it all. The last photo looks like the place just goes on forever.
[quote] sadist [/quote]
They both were.
[QUOTE=Trilby Harlow;52309703]Also while i'm here, i'll deliver the state mandated daily dose of steel mill porn
[super cool steel mill pics]
I'm facinated by the scale of it all. The last photo looks like the place just goes on forever.[/QUOTE]
I wish I was allowed to take pictures of the mill I work at. [I]Everything[/I] is huge and old and amazing and I love working there. Too bad it's only for a summer internship. Hell I might try and get employed there full time based on how cool it is alone.
[QUOTE=Trilby Harlow;52309703]Wasn't sadam's son also an incredible sadist as well?
Also while i'm here, i'll deliver the state mandated daily dose of steel mill porn
[T]https://www.viktormacha.com/photos/arcelormittal-ostrava-vsazka-do-tandemove-pece-353.jpg[/T] [T]https://www.viktormacha.com/photos/dunaferr-liti-do-mixeru-793.jpg[/T] [T]https://www.viktormacha.com/photos/arcelormittal-ostrava-liti-z-mixeru-356.jpg[/T]
I'm facinated by the scale of it all. The last photo looks like the place just goes on forever.[/QUOTE]
Wow, Viktor Macha has some incredible photographs. Look at this mine in Belgium:
[t]https://www.viktormacha.com/photos/charbonnage-du-hasard-de-cheratte-2364.jpg[/t][t]https://www.viktormacha.com/photos/hasard-de-cheratte-opusteny-dul-2363.jpg[/t][t]https://www.viktormacha.com/photos/hasard-de-cheratte-jama-c4-la-belle-fleur-2362.jpg[/t][t]https://www.viktormacha.com/photos/hasard-de-cheratte-tezni-vez-typu-malakov-2361.jpg[/t]
That headframe in the third image is [I]gorgeous.[/I] I've never seen anything like it in the US.
Chiba Monorail, Japan
[t]http://u.cubeupload.com/callumshell1/1491136748987.jpg[/t][t]http://u.cubeupload.com/callumshell1/ba8020249ebf91ec5b1c.jpg[/t]
[QUOTE=Trilby Harlow;52309703]Wasn't sadam's son also an incredible sadist as well?
[/QUOTE]
IIRC due to him being mentally unstable there were cases of him randomly hitting and shooting people, making weird orders and the like. I know there's plenty of documentaries etc. on the subject.
In short, he was a very bad man and Saddam often had to clean up his mess.
[QUOTE=Viper123_SWE;52311878]IIRC due to him being mentally unstable there were cases of him randomly hitting and shooting people, making weird orders and the like. I know there's plenty of documentaries etc. on the subject.
In short, he was a very bad man and Saddam often had to clean up his mess.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE]Although his status as Saddam's elder son made him Saddam's prospective successor, Uday fell out of favour with his father.[2] In October 1988, at a party in honour of Suzanne Mubarak, wife of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Uday murdered his father's personal valet and food taster, Kamel Hana Gegeo, possibly at the request of his mother. Before an assemblage of horrified guests, an intoxicated Uday bludgeoned Gegeo and repeatedly stabbed him with an electric carving knife. Gegeo had recently introduced Saddam to a younger woman, Samira Shahbandar, who later became Saddam's second wife. Uday considered his father's relationship with Shahbandar an insult to his mother. He also may have feared losing succession to Gegeo, whose loyalty and fidelity to Saddam Hussein was unquestioned.[3][/QUOTE]
[QUOTE]As head of the Iraqi Olympic Committee, Uday oversaw the imprisonment and torture of Iraqi athletes who were deemed not to have performed to expectations. He would insult athletes who performed below his expectations by calling them dogs and monkeys to their faces.[21] One defector reported that imprisoned football players were forced to kick a concrete ball after failing to reach the 1994 FIFA World Cup finals.[22] The Iraqi national football team were seen with their heads shaved after failing to achieve a good result in a tournament in the 1980s. Another defector claimed that athletes were dragged through a gravel pit and subsequently immersed in a sewage tank to induce infection in their wounds.[9] After Iraq lost 4–1 to Japan in the quarter finals of the 2000 AFC Asian Cup in Lebanon, goalkeeper Hashim Khamis Hassan, defender Abdul-Jabar Hashim Hanoon and forward Qahtan Chathir Drain were labelled as guilty of loss and eventually flogged for three days by Uday's security.[22][/QUOTE]
huh
Really sucks for the people of Iraq... Live in fear for decades under murderous tyrants... Get liberated from murderous tyrants only to spend the next decade and a half under civil war and murderous extremists.
[QUOTE=papkee;52310289]I wish I was allowed to take pictures of the mill I work at. [I]Everything[/I] is huge and old and amazing and I love working there. Too bad it's only for a summer internship. Hell I might try and get employed there full time based on how cool it is alone.[/QUOTE]
hey neat, i didn't know there were many large scale plants left in the US. Y'all work at Gary or something of the like?
[QUOTE=Grenadiac;52310292]Wow, Viktor Macha has some incredible photographs. Look at this mine in Belgium:
[t]https://www.viktormacha.com/photos/charbonnage-du-hasard-de-cheratte-2364.jpg[/t][t]https://www.viktormacha.com/photos/hasard-de-cheratte-opusteny-dul-2363.jpg[/t][t]https://www.viktormacha.com/photos/hasard-de-cheratte-jama-c4-la-belle-fleur-2362.jpg[/t][t]https://www.viktormacha.com/photos/hasard-de-cheratte-tezni-vez-typu-malakov-2361.jpg[/t]
That headframe in the third image is [I]gorgeous.[/I] I've never seen anything like it in the US.[/QUOTE]
Yeah Macha is pretty great.
I can't imagine living in such a healthy time as one where industrial buildings at a mine are works of gothic art. Well done Belgium.
Apparently the majority of the buildings at the site are being torn down. Ughhhh
[QUOTE=Trilby Harlow;52309703]Wasn't sadam's son also an incredible sadist as well?
Also while i'm here, i'll deliver the state mandated daily dose of steel mill porn
[T]https://www.viktormacha.com/photos/arcelormittal-ostrava-vsazka-do-tandemove-pece-353.jpg[/T] [T]https://www.viktormacha.com/photos/dunaferr-liti-do-mixeru-793.jpg[/T] [T]https://www.viktormacha.com/photos/arcelormittal-ostrava-liti-z-mixeru-356.jpg[/T]
I'm facinated by the scale of it all. The last photo looks like the place just goes on forever.[/QUOTE]
Metallurgical stuff is always mesmerizing.
[video]https://youtu.be/LpCIsOH9En4[/video]
[video]https://youtu.be/8OU0SVzKrME[/video]
[QUOTE=Trilby Harlow;52312272]hey neat, i didn't know there were many large scale plants left in the US. Y'all work at Gary or something of the like?.[/QUOTE]
East Chicago. Home of the largest blast furnace in the Western Hemisphere :cool:
I don't directly work with the furnaces or steel producing but my job requires me to travel pretty much all over the place to take measurements and readings and the like. I've got some really cool pics but they're super anal about sharing images of the plant for protecting trade secrets so I really don't want to risk sharing them.
There are actually quite a few very large mills still active in the states. Most are either ArcelorMittal or US Steel.
I got pictures of the garden I'm running at my fiance's house, which includes the strawberry plants, corn, various herbs, lettuce, and such.
Should I post them here like the others or ought I start up a gardening thread in GD or something so not to be spamming?
[QUOTE=SevenBillion;52313386][t]https://68.media.tumblr.com/20c0e854494dde444e1d4ee6ee13496e/tumblr_n28bxjMXBn1qh7k5ko1_1280.jpg[/t]
1990 Lincoln Town Car sales brochure cover[/QUOTE]
obligatory
[video=youtube;ogB7VtxrkQI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogB7VtxrkQI[/video]
[QUOTE=Scot;52311136]Chiba Monorail, Japan
*pics*[/QUOTE]
While we're on the subject of monorails, here's a live elephant falling out of one in Wuppertal, Germany.
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/gB9Olcx.jpg[/IMG]
That's "Tuffi", a female circus elephant that was riding the monorail as some kind of marketing gag, but she panicked and jumped out. Fell some 12 metres (~40ft) and only suffered minor injuries.
[URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuffi"]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuffi[/URL]
[QUOTE=Teddybeer;52314639][IMG]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/US-MarshallPlanAid-Logo.svg/405px-US-MarshallPlanAid-Logo.svg.png[/IMG][/QUOTE]
We can rebuild Germany in the 40's but can't give the world a few billion each year to fight Climate Change in the 2020s. :disappoint:
[QUOTE=OvB;52316684]We can rebuild Germany in the 40's but can't give the world a few billion each year to fight Climate Change in the 2020s. :disappoint:[/QUOTE]
"Only" $13 Billion was spent in the Marshall Plan, and almost Greece, Turkey and all countries in West Europe except Spain and Finland. That sum is probably at least a 100 billions in todays value
[IMG]http://imgur.com/lGRatxx.png[/IMG]
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