• Auxiliary Pics
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it's an amusement park ride to keep the morale up in the military, yknow
[QUOTE=Trunk Monkay;43600514]A cookie to anyone who can tell me what this odd German WWII era device is [img]http://de.academic.ru/pictures/dewiki/66/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-E12007__Horchgerat_der_Flak_bei_Berlin.jpg[/img][/QUOTE] Sound-based aircraft early warning system. Basically a big listening device, to try to hear incoming bombers before they were visible. I know the British had a system based on that, before radar was used, and the Germans never got radar during the war so I'm not surprised they had something similar. See [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_location[/url] Edit: Correction, it seems like Germany did have radar during WW2, but not used militarily in significant quantity.
[QUOTE=gman003-main;43600580]Sound-based aircraft early warning system. Basically a big listening device, to try to hear incoming bombers before they were visible. I know the British had a system based on that, before radar was used, and the Germans never got radar during the war so I'm not surprised they had something similar. See [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_location[/url] [/QUOTE] You got the first part right but the Germans most certainly did have radar. In fact, I'm pretty sure they were the first to ever mount it to an aircraft for night-fighting [t]http://www.asisbiz.com/il2/Nachtjager/photos/images/Messerschmitt-Bf-110G-Zerstorer-NJG-Lichtenstein-radar-02.jpg[/t] BF110 was a big user of aircraft mounted radar. [editline]20th January 2014[/editline] DO17 also got one [img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dd/Lichtenstein_radar_Do_17.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=Trunk Monkay;43600622]You got the first part right but the Germans most certainly did have radar. In fact, I'm pretty sure they were the first to ever mount it to an aircraft for night-fighting [t]http://www.asisbiz.com/il2/Nachtjager/photos/images/Messerschmitt-Bf-110G-Zerstorer-NJG-Lichtenstein-radar-02.jpg[/t] BF110 was a big user of aircraft mounted radar.[/QUOTE] Yes, I'd thought that didn't quite sound right, so I started reading up on it once I posted that (edited my post before you submitted). Turns out the American Public Education System simplifies things a lot.
HE219 got one too [img]http://www.wwiiaircraftphotos.com/LCBW11/He219-A7-5af+s.jpg[/img]
[img]http://i.imgur.com/Kvtff7s.jpg[/img]
[img]http://25.media.tumblr.com/cc3ce0bbb331f8156bc8d6faf89e23c9/tumblr_mqi7c9dTpX1s7e5k5o1_1280.jpg[/img] Loggers in California with the felled giant ‘Mark Twain redwood’, 1892
[QUOTE=Trunk Monkay;43602289][img]http://i.imgur.com/Kvtff7s.jpg[/img][/QUOTE] they're actually tiny men chopping regular sized trees.
It's sorta sad to see enormous trees like that cut down.
I love human mentality "can we kill it" "let's kill it"
I wouldn't mind a table made from a slice of one of those huge trees
[QUOTE=download;43603986]I wouldn't mind a table made from a slice of one of those huge trees[/QUOTE] You must have a really big house.
[QUOTE=Scot;43604070]You must have a really big house.[/QUOTE] You would need a desk that size to hold an old IBM.
[img]http://24.media.tumblr.com/fc6459f66bca910ac497cafd83c542b9/tumblr_mup3aybWH91s7e5k5o1_1280.jpg[/img] Inventor Richard Gatling poses with a Model 1893 Gatling Gun with a J.G. Accles magazine May 1st 1893.
[QUOTE=seba079;43603968]I love human mentality "can we kill it" "let's kill it"[/QUOTE] They were loggers, a tree that large is like a goldmine for them because all they have to do is focus on that one tree and get a suppy equal to like 30 trees, and if they had teams they could easily get a huge supply of wood in a relatively short amount of time. That is one of the darker sides of capitalism, you have to compete to win, and thus people went to extremes to try to win as if you lose you're dirt broke. Which no matter how many people say it isn't money is what makes the world go around in terms of "if you want to eat or bathe regularly".
[QUOTE=1chains1;43607319]They were loggers, a tree that large is like a goldmine for them because all they have to do is focus on that one tree and get a suppy equal to like 30 trees, and if they had teams they could easily get a huge supply of wood in a relatively short amount of time. That is one of the darker sides of capitalism, you have to compete to win, and thus people went to extremes to try to win as if you lose you're dirt broke. Which no matter how many people say it isn't money is what makes the world go around in terms of "if you want to eat or bathe regularly".[/QUOTE] there is no need to excuse them like you do. we know all that and you can be sad to see such a giant creature being cut down without condemning the people who do it
[QUOTE=seba079;43603968]I love human mentality "can we kill it" "let's kill it"[/QUOTE] The trees were absolutely massive, and were not likely to grow any further. They would have fallen eventually, so it's good that their fall was controlled and the wood was put to good use. Also, the deaths of those trees made way for more of the same trees to grow.
I just spent an obscene amount of time reading about clouds and these were my favourite ones, lenticular. [IMG]http://u.cubeupload.com/callumshell1/1009pxVirungaNationa.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://u.cubeupload.com/callumshell1/1024pxLenticulariscl.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://u.cubeupload.com/callumshell1/1280pxMtJeffersonore.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://u.cubeupload.com/callumshell1/LenticularcloudsandM.jpg[/IMG] Do a google image search for lenticular clouds and you'll see some crazy shit.
[QUOTE=TAU!;43608282]The trees were absolutely massive, and were not likely to grow any further. They would have fallen eventually, so it's good that their fall was controlled and the wood was put to good use. Also, the deaths of those trees made way for more of the same trees to grow.[/QUOTE] "From death, comes beauty" - Karl Pilkington
[QUOTE=Agent Fedora;43609305]"From death, comes beauty" - [B]Karl Pilkington[/B][/QUOTE] I am not sure if that's an insult :v: Here, have more clouds [img]http://25.media.tumblr.com/ecaecee5404f7b23250c8315be7eaac4/tumblr_mze7ky7JHl1s4ixmuo1_1280.jpg[/img] [img]http://25.media.tumblr.com/2c1457b2ed20a5fdc2231fe47c92ff49/tumblr_mhk21zQEyX1s50xqmo1_500.jpg[/img] [img]http://24.media.tumblr.com/6c429c9eed0ea3cd33bef257ffe286f8/tumblr_mo8vcadXlM1qg615co1_500.png[/img]
[QUOTE=TAU!;43609353] [img]http://25.media.tumblr.com/ecaecee5404f7b23250c8315be7eaac4/tumblr_mze7ky7JHl1s4ixmuo1_1280.jpg[/img] [/QUOTE] this almost looks like a painting
[img]http://25.media.tumblr.com/e2736bd0a1de23252c28a483a5539ce3/tumblr_miv98mF4wL1rmcrb6o1_1280.jpg[/img] Asperatus clouds
[QUOTE=TAU!;43609353][img]http://24.media.tumblr.com/6c429c9eed0ea3cd33bef257ffe286f8/tumblr_mo8vcadXlM1qg615co1_500.png[/img][/QUOTE] Mammatus clouds creep me out.
[QUOTE=Scot;43609489]Mammatus clouds creep me out.[/QUOTE] They're sort of gross looking actually.
[QUOTE=TAU!;43609353][img]http://25.media.tumblr.com/2c1457b2ed20a5fdc2231fe47c92ff49/tumblr_mhk21zQEyX1s50xqmo1_500.jpg[/img][/QUOTE] Yeah that probably is a fake. [img]http://www.damawand.de/Photo/Fuji-Cap-Clouds.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=booster;43609536]Yeah that probably is a fake. [img]http://www.damawand.de/Photo/Fuji-Cap-Clouds.jpg[/img][/QUOTE] this looks way cooler anyway
looks like the mountain is wearing one of those chinese hats
[IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/MH53_night.jpg/1280px-MH53_night.jpg[/IMG] [I]MH-53 Pave Lows from the 20th Expeditionary Special Operations Squadron fly over Iraq on their last combat missions, Sept 27, 2008.[/I]
[img]http://24.media.tumblr.com/17c1920671da6dbc691d7c44d0d2e2fd/tumblr_mrxbnaAAAw1s7e5k5o1_1280.jpg[/img] Henry Ford poses on the first car he built, the Ford Quadricycle, 1896.
looks like someone needs to work on their spelling skills
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