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[QUOTE=slayer20;42906904]That's something I did not know. But then what about the creepy guy with the mask on the far right?[/QUOTE] Considering he's wearing out-of-place clothing that almost looks like something out of the Roman empire, it might be representing some point about their view on history at the time. [editline]18th November 2013[/editline] or it could just be a mummy wearing someones face while dumping out water from a few vases, who knows.
maybe it's a death mask
[QUOTE=!LORD M!;42901293]The Triumph of Death is an oil panel painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder painted c. 1562. [img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/10/Thetriumphofdeath.jpg[/img][/QUOTE] [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/Zzsqslx.png[/IMG]
[QUOTE=Daniel Smith;42907956][IMG]http://i.imgur.com/Zzsqslx.png[/IMG][/QUOTE] [video=youtube;hod0WtYE4SA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hod0WtYE4SA[/video]
Space, the final whatever [t]http://images.4chan.org/hr/src/1374894551607.png[/t] [t]http://images.4chan.org/hr/src/1375172076981.jpg[/t] [t]http://images.4chan.org/hr/src/1377147317786.jpg[/t] [t]http://images.4chan.org/hr/src/1377463188881.jpg[/t] [t]http://images.4chan.org/hr/src/1374047383579.jpg[/t] [t]http://images.4chan.org/hr/src/1374476429078.jpg[/t] More [URL="http://boards.4chan.org/hr/res/1875671"]here[/URL]
Some of these I've seen on [URL]http://hubblesite.org[/URL], nonetheless still awesome.
[QUOTE=RobbL;42906943]I'm more curious about the non-racist portrayal of black people for such an old painting[/QUOTE] It's my understanding there was a brief period between the discovery of the Eastern African kingdoms and the rise of the slave trade where Europeans considered Africans to be legitimate and relatively respectable people and political institutions. That thinking sort of went away as the slave trade, resource colonization and the scramble for Africa began. [img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/47/King_Dom_Garcia_of_Kongo.JPG[/img] [img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/37/Kongo_audience.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=Scot;42908385]SPEHSS[/QUOTE] Space is pretty neat.
[QUOTE=gman003-main;42898792]Oblivion was fairly close. They didn't get the torquing right, or the resulting "you don't know which pin the pressure is currently on" effect, but that's a reasonable sacrifice in the name of gameplay. Unfortunately, even with that simplification I guess too many people found it easier to just spam "auto-pick" instead of actually do it. Especially once you got the unbreakable pick. So I guess that's why they changed it further for Skyrim.[/QUOTE] It makes sense that Oblivion's lockpicking was simpler than real lockpicking. The only real downside was that they don't really explain how to do it very well. For the longest time I had no idea how to do it other than spamming the autopick button and hoping it worked. After I got the hang of it though I enjoyed it a lot. Then Fallout and Skyrim came along and they decided to make a retarded luck based system. I don't even bother with it now, on Skyrim I use a hud mod so I can just immediately find the sweet spot without having to guess because it's not remotely fun anymore.
[QUOTE=Scot;42908385]Space, the final whatever[/QUOTE] This post made me go to [URL="http://htwins.net/scale2/"]Scale of the Universe 2[/URL] and I had a minor existential crisis. Mostly because of [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMB_cold_spot"]The Eridanus Supervoid.[/URL] The Eridanus Supervoid is a plot of space which is 2.7 Kelvin cooler than the rest of the universe. The most commonly accepted theory as to why that is is that this is a supervoid. AKA, The Eridanus supervoid is an expanse dozens of orders of magnitude larger than our galaxy filled with [I]absolutely nothing.[/I] We could send a continent-sized starship to one end and have it travel at five times the speed of light to the other side of the void. In that time, humans on board would not only die, life on board would probably [I]cease to exist[/I], then [I]appear again and evolve back into complex life[/I] before the ship reached the other side 100,000,000 years later. All the while having not even passed a single atom outside. [editline]dsgjkh[/editline] Then there's this bullshit right here: [t]http://d1jqu7g1y74ds1.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/NGC1277_diagram.jpg[/t] For reference, VY Canis Majoris, the largest star yet discovered that people regard as the universe's greatest fuckhuge object, doesn't even make it to Neptune's orbit. In fact, this black hole is the size of some small nebulas and could swallow the entire solar system (Kuiper belt and all) like a person eating a jellybean. Space is some scary shit.
[img]http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/196e7qetlulldjpg/ku-xlarge.jpg[/img] [quote]By the end of WWII, the basics of helicopter technology as we know it had generally been worked out—and we'd begun to reach the aircraft's physical limitations. For the US Air Force, the solution to the issue running up against these performance walls was simple: Combine the best parts of a helicopter and jet together, creating the chimeric delta-wing Convertiplane. Developed between 1951 and 1953 by a joint research team from the Air Force and Army, working with NASA and Sikorsky Aircraft, the XV-2 (model number S-57) was built to exceed the speed limitations of helicopters without giving up its vertical takeoff and landing capabilities. To do this, the XV-2 would have to employ a "stowed rotor," which would stop, fold, and retract into the fuselage of the delta-wing aircraft as it hit cruising speed. But getting a traditional multi-blade rotor to stop and fold itself into the fuselage proved quite impossible.[/quote] 50s, the decade of wacky ideas.
What a lotta people donno, is that the US had helicopters in service during WWII. [img]http://www.ww2incolor.com/d/601629-4/helicopter+Iwo+jima[/img] They weren't like todays helicopters where they were 12 tons of cargo and carrying 10 or 15 doods or play an attack role, but they were still helicopters. They did things like evacuation, search and rescue, and other boring but important roles! [editline]19th November 2013[/editline] One in the photo is a Sikorsky R-4 with either pontoons or supply cases. They were used on Iwo Jima to run supplies between shore and the supply ships.
The Nazi's also had a pretty sweet dual rotor thing but I don't think it saw much use.
[QUOTE=OvB;42910895]The Nazi's also had a pretty sweet dual rotor thing but I don't think it saw much use.[/QUOTE] yeah iirc the factory that would have been making them got bombed into uselessness before any could be produced. It pretty much suffered the same fate as any other interesting late war German tech.
[QUOTE=OvB;42910895]The Nazi's also had a pretty sweet dual rotor thing but I don't think it saw much use.[/QUOTE] Also that literally vertical take off plane :v:
Some eccentric billionaire ought to try putting together Nazi experimental planes just for fun to see if they'd actually work.
[QUOTE=OvB;42910895]The Nazi's also had a pretty sweet dual rotor thing but I don't think it saw much use.[/QUOTE] Nazi X-Planes mentioned. Time to spring into action. You are thinking of the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flettner_Fl_282"]Flettner FL282.[/URL] [IMG]http://www.fiddlersgreen.net/aircraft/Flettner-282/IMAGES/flettner-FL282-2.jpg[/IMG] While it may look like a single-rotored abomination, it actually does have dual rotors. [IMG]http://www.fiddlersgreen.net/aircraft/Flettner-282/IMAGES/Flettner-282.jpg[/IMG] The Fl282 featured two two-bladed rotors at a slight angle away from each other so that they synchronized or "meshed" together a la gears. Then there's other nazi VTOLs like the infamous [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focke-Wulf_Triebflügel"]Fw Triebfluegel[/URL] [IMG]http://www.luft46.com/ghart/ghtrb-4.jpg[/IMG] Or (my favourite) the lesser-known [URL="http://www.luft46.com/misc/wes1003.html"]Weserflug P.1003/1[/URL]. [IMG]http://rnns.ru/uploads/posts/2010-02/thumbs/1266577654_kswsf-1.jpg[/IMG]
My favorite aircraft would have to be the Osprey and the Chinook. [IMG]http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_nm_V4FhbaZc/S71d-VTvhGI/AAAAAAAAAAU/lKJbVXDau7Y/s1600/bell-boeing-v-22-osprey.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://www.enemyforces.net/helicopters/ch47_chinook.jpg[/IMG] They look so alien and are really fascinating.
Here's a neat site if you want to read more about weird WW2 era planes [url]http://luft46.com/[/url]
[video=youtube;hC3VTgIPoGU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hC3VTgIPoGU&feature=youtu.be[/video]
[img]http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2012/092/1/1/112ae9bc2080ff6205459dc57035448e-d48qzi7.jpg[/img] [img]http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2011/269/8/7/87b81983efba9bf01f58de2da14161be-d4axwpz.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=Pilotguy97;42912167]Nazi X-Planes mentioned. Time to spring into action. You are thinking of the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flettner_Fl_282"]Flettner FL282.[/URL] [IMG]http://www.fiddlersgreen.net/aircraft/Flettner-282/IMAGES/flettner-FL282-2.jpg[/IMG] While it may look like a single-rotored abomination, it actually does have dual rotors. [IMG]http://www.fiddlersgreen.net/aircraft/Flettner-282/IMAGES/Flettner-282.jpg[/IMG] The Fl282 featured two two-bladed rotors at a slight angle away from each other so that they synchronized or "meshed" together a la gears.[/QUOTE] Wow the thing was actually used in combat [quote]During the Battle of the Bulge a formation of five of these aircraft conducted the world's first helicopter strike against armour. Operating low over the Ardennes Forest they destroyed two American tanks at a loss of two of their own, one to a British Spitfire, the other to groundfire.[/quote]
[QUOTE=Daniel Smith;42907956][IMG]http://i.imgur.com/Zzsqslx.png[/IMG][/QUOTE] The hell, I was thinking of making the exact same thing
[QUOTE=for no reason;42898751]fallout and skyrim were wrong??????[/QUOTE] Oblivion was right though!
[QUOTE=booster;42912892] [img]http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2011/269/8/7/87b81983efba9bf01f58de2da14161be-d4axwpz.jpg[/img][/QUOTE] Is it eating, or making the clouds?
[QUOTE=Mindfuck;42913486]Is it eating, or making the clouds?[/QUOTE] Yes [img]http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2011/090/e/f/terminal_by_o_21-d3am4wp.jpg[/img] [img]http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2011/216/5/9/armageddon_by_o_21-d3am3m1.jpg[/img] [img]http://th01.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/f/2010/248/f/0/halo_by_zhachrod-d2y37uc.png[/img]
[QUOTE=booster;42913994]Yes [img]http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2011/090/e/f/terminal_by_o_21-d3am4wp.jpg[/img][/QUOTE] [img]http://s3.amazonaws.com/kidzworld_photo/images/2013417/3f6ac350-0964-486a-a75b-70baaa9be130/tom-ocean.jpg[/img] [editline]19th November 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=Mastahamma;42913460]Oblivion was right though![/QUOTE] I found Oblivion's lockpicking much more challenging and thus far more satisfying when I managed to get something opened. [editline]19th November 2013[/editline] Also, we need more fantasy landscapes. Here's some concept art from Magic: The Gathering [img]http://www.platformnation.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/159_max.jpg[/img] [img]http://s.cghub.com/files/Image/186001-187000/186303/839_stream.jpg[/img] [img]http://www.platformnation.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/855_max.jpg[/img] [img]https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcR1--P-GDeDp8byCJdLI8whRMgpQMEa8ITY1J8w21U36hiTN4oY[/img] [img]http://www.wizards.com/magic/images/mtgcom/fcpics/features/284_islandart.jpg[/img] [img]http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/0/6342/1570399-ravnica_island_9944242.jpg[/img] [img]http://www.wizards.com/magic/images/mtgcom/fcpics/features/284_plainsart.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=arbio22;42912290]My favorite aircraft would have to be the Osprey and the Chinook. They look so alien and are really fascinating.[/QUOTE] The Chinook is probably my absolute favorite helicopter, saw one fly over my house a few months ago, it's really fucking loud compared to the Apache, which i've seen off in the distance from my bedroom window.
[QUOTE=Thunderbolt;42912640]Here's a neat site if you want to read more about weird WW2 era planes [URL]http://luft46.com/[/URL][/QUOTE] I found this site a few months ago which has drawings of many ww2 era tanks. Prototypes and used models. [URL]http://ww2drawings.jexiste.fr/Files/1-Vehicles/[/URL] some of my favorites [QUOTE][IMG]http://ww2drawings.jexiste.fr/Images/1-Vehicles/07-Other_Tanks/Tauchpanzer-Maus/p1.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://ww2drawings.jexiste.fr/Images/1-Vehicles/04-Tank_Destroyers/E-Serien/Jagdpanzer-E90(Bieber)/p1-bis.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://ww2drawings.jexiste.fr/Images/1-Vehicles/04-Tank_Destroyers/E-Serien/Jagdpanzer-E100/p1.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://ww2drawings.jexiste.fr/Images/1-Vehicles/04-Tank_Destroyers/E-Serien/E-10/p1.jpg[/IMG][IMG]http://ww2drawings.jexiste.fr/Images/1-Vehicles/04-Tank_Destroyers/E-Serien/E-10/p4.jpg[/IMG] [/QUOTE]
Yeah by the way The Crocodil Jagdpanzer E-100 would never work in that configuration. It would topple on it's front because its so front heavy from the massive 17cm and it wouldn't be able to traverse rough terrain at all because it's 170mm cannon would get giant corks of mud stuck in the barrel. T-34-85's had that issue as well. When they were on shitty Russian terrain, when they would go over a hill they would get mud clogged in the gun. If they didn't clean it out thoroughly, it would banana peal their gun when they fired.
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