I'm looking for some pictures, I'm sure you guys can help me.
It was a guys sketchbook, he had a lot of very detailed drawings in it.
One of them was called 'The sunday Crow' and had a drawing of a crow, another one was called 'The dragonfly chronicals.', he had a mountain with a town drawn on it, and there was one with 'just lines' above it, which was just lines.
Anyone know what Im talking about?
This is why I really have zero interest in old sci-fi covers/posters. They are the polar opposite of hard sci-fi, all of them.
More Star Trekky than Star Trek.
[QUOTE=Rents;43751897]No, your body is full of bacteria that'll happily eat away at your corpse if you die.
But there's another problem with that, the suit's sealed, and when things rot there's a lot of gas given off, so you might be more likely to find a burst suit and rotting meat splattered everywhere than a skeleton in a suit :v:[/QUOTE]
Though it would probably be more like toasted bits of rotted meat. Once pressure is lost most of the bacteria probably die, and that unshielded sun is nasty.
[QUOTE=Rents;43751897]No, your body is full of bacteria that'll happily eat away at your corpse if you die.
But there's another problem with that, the suit's sealed, and when things rot there's a lot of gas given off, so you might be more likely to find a burst suit and rotting meat splattered everywhere than a skeleton in a suit :v:[/QUOTE]
Time to have nasa fly a body into space and find out.
Have the mythbusters sponsor it
[QUOTE=Mbbird;43751931]This is why I really have zero interest in old sci-fi covers/posters. They are the polar opposite of hard sci-fi, all of them.
More Star Trekky than Star Trek.[/QUOTE]
lolwhat. Scifi isn't absolutely rooted in reality. If it was, then it would be the most absolutely boring genre ever. If they stuck to a realistic reality, then it wouldn't be much different than what we have right now. Things like slipspace drives, light speed, laser weaponry, or just spacecraft in general in scifi can only be explained by "UH SCIENCE AND SHIT", just like how fantasy bullshit can only be explained by "HURR MAGIC".
Another thing is that people who make those posters aren't scientists to begin with, and science back in 1957 compared to now is like night and day.
[QUOTE=Trunk Monkay;43752764]lolwhat. Scifi isn't absolutely rooted in reality. If it was, then it would be the most absolutely boring genre ever. If they stuck to a realistic reality, then it wouldn't be much different than what we have right now. Things like slipspace drives, light speed, laser weaponry, or just spacecraft in general in scifi can only be explained by "UH SCIENCE AND SHIT", just like how fantasy bullshit can only be explained by "HURR MAGIC".
Another thing is that people who make those posters aren't scientists to begin with, and science back in 1957 compared to now is like night and day.[/QUOTE]
I don't think you know what hard sci-fi is, otherwise you wouldn't have tried to make an inflammatory post.
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I'll also have you know that space agencies in the 1950s had a pretty damn good handle on as to what the future (our present) of space travel would look like. Check out NASA concept art of the time and you'll know what I mean.
[QUOTE=Mbbird;43752790]I don't think you know what hard sci-fi is, otherwise you wouldn't have tried to make an inflammatory post.
[/quote]
enlighten me
[QUOTE=Mbbird;43752790]
I'll also have you know that space agencies in the 1950s had a pretty damn good handle on as to what the future (our present) of space travel would look like. Check out NASA concept art of the time and you'll know what I mean.[/QUOTE]
ok but how many hollywood movie poster designers and artists were on board with NASA
[QUOTE=Trunk Monkay;43752854]enlighten me
ok but how many hollywood movie poster designers and artists were on board with NASA[/QUOTE]
God you're [I]actually[/I] going out of your way to be a dickweed.
Hard sci-fi. Sci-fi that is based in reality. Hard sci-fi works are stories set in a rough prediction of the future, only occasionally using the fiction half of science fiction to solve light narrative barriers. I'm stating an opinion, that I don't like that kind of sci-fi. You just sound like a dick like this.
As for the other bit: notice the fact that not all writers are psychologists, yet characters in novels are realistic. Not all directors are soldiers, yet some movies are capable of realistically portraying combat. Etc etc. The only reason that the vast majority of sci-fi back in the mid 20th century fit into the "super squishy sci-fi" genre was because sci-fi itself was relatively new. It didn't take much to impress, in the same way that early comedy was mostly slapstick.
[QUOTE=Mbbird;43752790]otherwise you wouldn't have tried to make an inflammatory post[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Mbbird;43752978]God you're [I]actually[/I] going out of your way to be a dickweed.
[/QUOTE]
Shut up.
[QUOTE=Mbbird;43752978]God you're [I]actually[/I] going out of your way to be a dickweed.
[/QUOTE]
[I]The irony![/I]
[QUOTE=Trunk Monkay;43752854]enlighten me
ok but how many hollywood movie poster designers and artists were on board with NASA[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Mbbird;43752978]God you're [I]actually[/I] going out of your way to be a dickweed.
Hard sci-fi. Sci-fi that is based in reality. Hard sci-fi works are stories set in a rough prediction of the future, only occasionally using the fiction half of science fiction to solve light narrative barriers. I'm stating an opinion, that I don't like that kind of sci-fi. You just sound like a dick like this.
As for the other bit: notice the fact that not all writers are psychologists, yet characters in novels are realistic. Not all directors are soldiers, yet some movies are capable of realistically portraying combat. Etc etc. The only reason that the vast majority of sci-fi back in the mid 20th century fit into the "super squishy sci-fi" genre was because sci-fi itself was relatively new. It didn't take much to impress, in the same way that early comedy was mostly slapstick.[/QUOTE]
okay
stop [i]stop[/i] [b][i]stop[/i][/b]
[QUOTE=Mbbird;43751531]eugh i used to follow someone that posted nothing but that stuff. shit got weird.
[url]http://femaleastronauts.tumblr.com/[/url]
in case you're curious.[/QUOTE]
I guess you mean this?
[url]http://25.media.tumblr.com/5593c472a5d0c8f48cc05ceafa87c1d8/tumblr_n0248jIsWb1qlpddvo1_500.jpg[/url]
[IMG]http://31.media.tumblr.com/df86aedaaaeccdab847637e684eb5f15/tumblr_n04l04Z5jQ1roe9r1o1_1280.jpg[/IMG]
First 737 to be rolled out.
[editline]2nd February 2014[/editline]
[IMG]http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-z3goQ5eGIZU/UiIlcqBctpI/AAAAAAAAYSQ/SLRAtri4ErI/s1600/Horst%2B12.jpg[/IMG]
Flying low over the jungle, an A-1 Skyraider drops 500-pound bombs on a Viet Cong position below as smoke rises from a previous pass at the target, Dec. 26, 1964. |AP Photo|Horst Faas|
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/LpoynFW.jpg[/IMG]
Before an attack on a Vietcong camp near the Cambodian border, 1965. Horst Faas.
Less shitposting and more content.
[img]http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2013/123/d/a/alien_horizon_by_macrebisz-d5uodau.jpg[/img]
[img]http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2013/328/e/b/mg_9566_s1000_by_tobiasrichter-d6vfu2b.jpg[/img]
[img]http://th02.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/f/2014/030/3/0/crossing_the_hardened_desert_by_balaskas-d74ey7r.jpg[/img]
[img]http://th06.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/f/2013/223/4/6/meteorum_by_balaskas-d6ho3ni.jpg[/img]
And just because I love you guys so much.
[img]http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2014/031/3/2/solidwhite_for_jellylock7___download_v_1__by_highdetalio-d74j0ol.png[/img]
[IMG]http://25.media.tumblr.com/78311c83cdf431485ddf703173b33fbc/tumblr_mxb20trkr61rsagu3o1_1280.jpg[/IMG]
Titan II
[QUOTE=Roll_Program;43754056][IMG]http://25.media.tumblr.com/78311c83cdf431485ddf703173b33fbc/tumblr_mxb20trkr61rsagu3o1_1280.jpg[/IMG]
Titan II[/QUOTE]
I can one up you on this one, let me get my pictures on imgur
sorry no that's actually the white forest rocket
[QUOTE=kaine123;43754142]sorry no that's actually the white forest rocket[/QUOTE]
"The last thing on my mind was submitting it for the Kleiner Certificate of Approval."
[QUOTE=robo126;43712184]Old computer stuff.
*Thumb action*
Thumbed cause it's huge as fuck.[/QUOTE]
[IMG]http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a166/ballsandy/Computer%20related/SRCS/CGS_0612.jpg[/IMG]
DEC KL-10 (PDP-10)
Machine which ran the worlds first computer virus (named "[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creeper_%28program%29]CREEPER[/url]")
[IMG]http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a166/ballsandy/Computer%20related/SRCS/CGS_0618.jpg[/IMG]
Xerox Alto
First commercial product to use a Graphical Interface
[QUOTE=DesolateGrun;43751768]On that topic, when i was in Brasil over the summer in the place i was staying at had this on the wall
[img]http://i.imgur.com/iIfgf6E.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]
Duuude.
It feels like I'm flying
[QUOTE=pentium;43754358][IMG]http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a166/ballsandy/Computer%20related/SRCS/CGS_0612.jpg[/IMG]
DEC KL-10 (PDP-10)
Machine which ran the worlds first computer virus (named "[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creeper_%28program%29]CREEPER[/url]")
[IMG]http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a166/ballsandy/Computer%20related/SRCS/CGS_0618.jpg[/IMG]
Xerox Alto
First commercial product to use a Graphical Interface[/QUOTE]
For some odd reason, those minicomputers (or mainframe things, they sort of look similar) are so sexy.
[img]http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a166/ballsandy/Computer%20related/SRCS/CGS_0611.jpg[/img]
[img]http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a166/ballsandy/Computer%20related/SRCS/CGS_0610.jpg[/img]
[img]http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a166/ballsandy/Computer%20related/SRCS/CGS_0613.jpg[/img]
[img]http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a166/ballsandy/Computer%20related/SRCS/CGS_0617.jpg[/img]
Shamelessly stolen from your post in the Retrocomputing thread.
[QUOTE=Fusnax;43753826]I guess you mean this?
[url]http://25.media.tumblr.com/5593c472a5d0c8f48cc05ceafa87c1d8/tumblr_n0248jIsWb1qlpddvo1_500.jpg[/url][/QUOTE]
That's tame.
Stick around that page at night and you'll see worse.
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creepier yet i've never seen the person who owns the page ever actually comment on anything or answer an ask...
It looks so evillll
[QUOTE=shian;43755565]It looks so evillll[/QUOTE]
it has cheap Halloween gloves for feet
[QUOTE=Stonecycle;43754736]For some odd reason, those minicomputers (or mainframe things, they sort of look similar) are so sexy.[/quote]
Those were the days when engineers were told they couldn't just make a computer. It had to LOOK good as a computer or peripheral. Black and white were boring. They were allowed to color or shape hardware to whatever they wanted.
I knew I said it would only take a bit but I had to go somewhere. Anyway, here's some pictures from my trip to Arizona, we went to the Titan Missile Museum. It's a retired Titan missile silo with the missile still inside:
[t]http://i.imgur.com/kgDbUWW.jpg[/t]
[t]http://i.imgur.com/YtxBCJE.jpg[/t]
[t]http://i.imgur.com/AXbEa1H.jpg[/t]
[url=http://imgur.com/a/BVG0Y]Here's the album with descriptions.[/url] I have more pictures, but I don't know how much you guys are interested so I picked my favorites.