• Auxillary pics VI - Mostly war photos edition
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Not arguing that it's worse, only that it's still not safe to be standing out in the open around the area.
Most parts of a rocket have poor sectional densities. Their terminal velocity is quite low.
Yes, but the shrapnel would only be moving at terminal velocity by the time it reaches the ground, not faster, and terminal velocity for small fragments is relatively low. Might be a good idea to step indoors if you see missiles exploding overhead... but then, that might be a good idea anyways, since you never know if a missile will get through.
I assume the interceptors are the ones going off in front of the incoming missiles? That's pretty neat, I've never actually seen the missiles get intercepted during a day time video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWX15dGvqtM
One of the first firetrucks to make it to the world trade centers during 9/11.
After repeatedly seeing people genuinely believing Pluto looks like this (even though it quite literally says colourised IR on the photo) https://i.redd.it/503kwin0p8j01.jpg I find myself reminded that it actually looks like this: https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/system/resources/detail_files/852_pluto_natural_color_20150714_detail.jpg Its interesting looking into textbooks that show the solar system and Pluto is always either white or blue. If something as simple as colour can be wrong just how much about whats in our own solar system do we actually know for sure?
This seems to be a common theme with popularized astronomical photos. People tend to spread what looks cool over whats scientific. I've noticed a lot of "artists renderings" get spread around as real photos quite often.
Unfortunately this is what a lot of scientific things have to do to get the average Joe interested in scientific things. A lot of people simply can't grasp how awesome it is that we have a picture of Pluto from within it's orbit, so they have to spice it up a little. Same thing with galaxies and space clouds. They're gorgeous, but only because they're overexposed and edited.
I was here a few months ago. It's subtle, but I noticed if you stand close enough you can still smell soot and metal
When I lived in Charlotte, NC, I went to the airplane museum they have here and they had the airliner that landed in the Hudson River. It actually brought tears to my eyes. Just looking at the condition of the plane, all the parts that had come off of it, it was astronomically low that anyone should have survived that, much less walked away. That pilot truly is a hero. I bring this up because you can still see the water lines on it, and it still smelled like river water. It was truly a sight. I wish I still had pics.
https://i.imgur.com/EA1Hkkw.jpg Took this yesterday.
The spider is like "What are you looking at human? Huh?"
https://i.imgur.com/PBPRUTL.jpg May 7, 1945 19-year-old US Marine Pfc. Michael James Fenton was killed, while beating back a Japanese counterattack not far from Sugar Loaf Hill, Okinawa, When his father received the bitter news, he traveled to the site of his son's death and knelt down to pray over the flag-draped body, a scene that produced one of the Pacific war's most touching photographs. Upon arising, Colonel Fenton stared at the bodies of other Marine dead and said, 'Those poor souls. They didn't have their fathers here.' Michael Fenton's body was later exhumed from his temporary grave and is now resting in the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, Hawaii. Private First Class Michael J. Fenton, earned the following badges/decorations for his service in the United States Marine Corps during World War II (not in order of precedence): - Combat Action Ribbon - Purple Heart Medal - Marine Corps Good Conduct Medal - American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Theater of Operations Medal with one bronze battle/campaign star - World War II Victory Medal (Colourised today by Royston Leonard)
https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/bkplzn/iron_dome_intercepting_hamas_rockets_during_a/ I thought this was interesting. News broadcast with Hamas rockets and Iron dome missiles both in the same view. This is shit you see out of movies.
Read through this Twitter thread some time ago, a recollection of the events by Chesley Sullenberger, the pilot: https://twitter.com/i/moments/1085654956458225666 It‘s rare to get this sort of personal retelling of such dramatic events, and I found it to be super touching and really hitting close home about what happens in your head when suddenly confronted with such immediate danger and how you yourself are the person having to deal with that i really have respect for people who are able to keep level-headed in situations like that
The scene from sully is a pretty good recreation of that exchange: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSlbHK07fkY
This is the most amazing thing I've ever read. I never saw his movie, but I could clearly picture it all with his words. I can't believe it's been 10 years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UROZIyz96D8 https://youtu.be/iA6Fp91m9Fk https://youtu.be/Rssv9JND0G4
This day, 150 years ago, the last spikes of the Transcontinental Railroad were hammered into the ground: https://photos.thechurchnews.com/file/43898f7713/dnews/featuredImage1x/the-joining-of-the-rails-at-promontory-utah-is-photographed.jpg What is sad is that neither of the original two locomotives survived, they were both scrapped in the early 20th Century and the original section of the Transcontinental Railroad where this scene happened was ripped up in the 1940s, although a museum has rebuilt it and built two replicas of the locomotives. https://www.nps.gov/gosp/planyourvisit/images/IMGP0528.JPG?maxwidth=1200 Union Pacific celebrated the event in Ogden with 844 and 4014. https://da4pli3l5vc0d.cloudfront.net/ca/72/ca72cdc8372c3311af98cc9b41365e41850f79ff/h=300/?app=portal
Cool Shit ~4000 images of cool shit, mostly metallic in nature https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/150/a6a40e80-cf03-48fa-9c4b-a911fdcba7ad/88f349bb6a9130a64279c7858302dbdd.jpg https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/150/b6bbd947-c2e8-4302-8662-8376423bab90/25_siemens_martin_ofen_brandenburg.jpg
https://twitter.com/bicycledutch/status/1126838876339830784?s=21
https://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/bn0vmn/due_to_heavy_rains_and_no_recycling_facilities/
https://twitter.com/Jake_Hanrahan/status/1124788781872291840
sorry, but can you not embed reddit videos? this one autoplays with sound, on my end
Done. I didn't at the start because nobody was gonna bother clicking on links
https://twitter.com/digital_duck/status/1127088378946699266
Steel mills in general are metal as fuck https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/228931/bfcda711-0d01-42b3-8275-01f2b9deb36e/WSX-OpenHearth2.jpg https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/228931/b89928eb-568e-4063-b061-37d88741a224/WSX-OpenHearth.jpg
Humans we're a mistake.
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/265888/84d7c524-cd39-4578-a4be-e1d8119e2fda/image.png https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/265888/2a4c39fe-9dc8-40f0-ae31-4a2597298873/image.png Mining dump trucks still don't seem real to me. Imagine if someone militarised one of these big bois
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