Oh by the way, the tornados last I heard caused no casualties here in North Carolina. That might have changed but there were 0 last I heard. So that is good.
[QUOTE=StickyWicket;44681490]
A really morbid and interesting documentary below, I'd recommend you give it a watch.
[video=youtube;vbAmu3DXk5c]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbAmu3DXk5c[/video]
[/QUOTE]
That one guy at the end, he makes my blood boil. He strikes me as the kind of person that would smash his kid's stuff if the kid ever did anything wrong. He completely fails to see the host's reasoning.
The entire point of a death sentence is to cause the death of the person who is sentenced as punishment. Nowhere does it say that suffering and pain are part of it. It's better to not stoop to the prisoner's level by causing suffering or pain.
[QUOTE=Rofl_copter;44681996]simpler times
[IMG]http://24.media.tumblr.com/9362c13afafc3c9e2fcec14259c861d6/tumblr_mzuldlAtDL1rmequvo1_500.gif[/IMG][/QUOTE]
Is the guy on the right eating a funion?
Weapons flow:
[IMG_thumb]http://visionscarto.net/local/cache-vignettes/L1024xH613/14017344412_d6d3-c872b.jpg[/IMG_thumb]
map of earth ontop of map of jupiter:
[IMG_thumb]http://i.imgur.com/0SngrWz.jpg[/IMG_thumb]
Mountain range beneath the atlantic:
[IMG_thumb]http://i.imgur.com/zxJjIgv.jpg[/IMG_thumb]
pacific volcanoes:
[IMG_thumb]http://i.imgur.com/doQO1Co.jpg[/IMG_thumb]
pic from mars:
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/GodDOeD.jpg[/IMG]
selfie :smile: [IMG_thumb]http://i.imgur.com/Q1AeUac.jpg[/IMG_thumb]
[QUOTE=BanMan123;44684384]Is the guy on the right eating a funion?[/QUOTE]
Yes, it's a scene from Breaking Bad
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyHiMoy4Ym4[/media]
Battleships are arguably the most impressive machines mankind has ever created.
[QUOTE=Kidd;44682097]Oh by the way, the tornados last I heard caused no casualties here in North Carolina. That might have changed but there were 0 last I heard. So that is good.[/QUOTE]
i lived there and i didnt even know there were tornadoes in nc, i thought most of the state was covered in mountains
[QUOTE=StickyWicket;44687739]Battleships are arguably the most impressive machines mankind has ever created.[/QUOTE]
I dunno man, I loved my PSP as a kid.
[QUOTE=StickyWicket;44687739]Battleships are arguably the most impressive machines mankind has ever created.[/QUOTE]
They are pretty awesome, but manned spacecraft are way cooler.
Have some pics from Rwanda that aren't about the Genocide:
[t]http://wpmedia.o.canada.com/2014/04/rwanda_genocide_anniversary.jpg[/t]
[t]http://wpmedia.o.canada.com/2014/04/528615317.jpg[/t]
[t]http://wpmedia.o.canada.com/2014/04/528554644.jpg[/t]
[t]http://wpmedia.o.canada.com/2014/04/528554641.jpg[/t]
[t]http://wpmedia.o.canada.com/2014/04/528554653.jpg[/t]
Could you really say that battleships, the biggest, heaviest gunned war machines ever built aren't really cool? Don't get me wrong, 20,000 years from now when we start seeing battleships in outer space, you're gonna see my skeleton back on Earth giving it the thumbs up.
But... It goes to show that on the largest battleships you could line up a couple of Saturn-5 rockets end to end on their decks. In the days before bombers and attackers, battleships were really considered superweapons.
[QUOTE=StickyWicket;44687739]Battleships are arguably the most impressive machines mankind has ever created.[/QUOTE]
Impressive, yea. Most impressive? No. Aircraft and spacecraft are a whole hell of a lot more impressive than glorified floating bathtubs.
[t]http://www.independent.co.uk/incoming/article8668628.ece/BINARY/original/v2-vietnam-1.jpg[/t]
US troops fire upon a Vietcong sniper outside a Forward operating Base.
[QUOTE=StickyWicket;44687739]Battleships are arguably the most impressive machines mankind has ever created.[/QUOTE]
Sorry, can't hear you over the [B]INTERNATIONAL. SPACE. STATION.[/B]
[QUOTE=kenji;44689079]Sorry, can't hear you over the [B]INTERNATIONAL. SPACE. STATION.[/B][/QUOTE]
He said war machine, not just "machine".
[editline]30th April 2014[/editline]
[QUOTE=Griffster26;44688927][t]http://www.independent.co.uk/incoming/article8668628.ece/BINARY/original/v2-vietnam-1.jpg[/t]
US troops fire upon a Vietcong sniper outside a Forward operating Base.[/QUOTE]
My father always told me while watching old war movies, "Tanks are the best tools for getting rid of a sniper".
[QUOTE=StickyWicket;44688591]Could you really say that battleships, the biggest, [B]heaviest gunned war machines[/B] ever built aren't really cool? Don't get me wrong, 20,000 years from now when we start seeing battleships in outer space, you're gonna see my skeleton back on Earth giving it the thumbs up.
But... It goes to show that on the largest battleships you could line up a couple of Saturn-5 rockets end to end on their decks. In the days before bombers and attackers, battleships were really considered superweapons.[/QUOTE]
I was reading the wrong post from everyone else. Apparently two people said that, but one said "war machine". Whoops.
people in this thread are so argumentative
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;44689137]
My father always told me while watching old war movies, "Tanks are the best tools for getting rid of a sniper".[/QUOTE]
But thats an M113 with a Minigun on it.
[QUOTE=Griffster26;44689220]But thats an M113 with a Minigun on it.[/QUOTE]
Doesn't really dismiss what my father told me :v:
The picture just brought up that memory
[QUOTE=Scot;44689208]people in this thread are so argumentative[/QUOTE]
No we're not.
[QUOTE=StickyWicket;44687739]Battleships are arguably the most impressive machines mankind has ever created.[/QUOTE]
its literally a big boat with huge guns, i'd say a huge gun with boats on it is way better
[QUOTE=StickyWicket;44681490]From what I've heard, something such as helium gas or an altitude chamber in which the user goes unconscious from a lack of oxygen getting to the brain (hypoxia) is the least painful way to execute. There have been plenty of cases in which the same chemicals used to put someone under in lethal injection were used on medical patients, and the chemicals thus having severe and painful side effects, even having the patient perceive everything going on to their body without being able to move or communicate. But, the main point really is that the methods are a totally different issue than the morality of if or not a government should actually be able to kill or execute people. Though, I think that in order to make itself seem justified and humane, a government might try and find the most humane way to kill someone, it doesn't fix the problem of the fact that they are still killing someone who's a prisoner.
A really morbid and interesting documentary below, I'd recommend you give it a watch.
[video=youtube;vbAmu3DXk5c]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbAmu3DXk5c[/video]
I would disagree that the nature of an execution (IE, the government ordering its subordinate to execute the order of death to someone) is at all humane. I would say that the fact that it is forced and not an act of self-defence (there being totally reasonable alternatives to death, such as life sentences) to be the main reason that I detest it. Not only that, even if your morales prevent you from supporting death in anyway, your tax dollars still go to institutions that sort of thing every day. The same could arguably be said about wars, police, even medicare if you're that paranoid.[/QUOTE]
The altitude chamber thing got me thinking, if I was on death row and could chose, I would want to go up in a weather balloon without oxygen equipment.
[editline]30th April 2014[/editline]
whoops didn't mean to bring the execution topic back up, missed that this was a new page.
Here have a couple pictures of "Chads Gap" in Utah , one of the most famous backcountry jumps in skiing and snowboarding.
[IMG]http://a.espncdn.com/photo/2009/1104/as_ski_chads_candide_630.jpg[/IMG]
Candide Thovex, the first person to ever clear the gap
[IMG]http://a.espncdn.com/photo/2009/1104/as_ski_chads_tanner2_630.jpg[/IMG]
In 2005 X-games gold medalist Tanner hall came up only a foot short, basically shattering his ankles and ending his season
[IMG]http://www.powdermag.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/5/files/benson-gaps/pw-wilson_chads.jpg[/IMG]
In contrast, in 2010 Mike Wilson overshot the gap by about 30 feet. He was unhurt.
[QUOTE=MenteR;44671847]our ancestors would never believe shit like that /\ would be ever built by us.[/QUOTE]
I'm sure that a bunch of avant grade hipster vikings might have drawn a few sketches
Sheesh! Watch the animosity, it's just an opinion. I'm just saying, if there were an official "Most-Awesome-Machines-Built-Ever" chart, I'd be willing to argue about putting the battleship up on there. Anyway, Dazzle Camouflage!
[t]http://blogs.artinfo.com/lacmonfire/files/2010/11/IMG_0111.jpg[/t]
(commonly seen on Interwar and Great War Battleships!)
[quote]German soldiers, Eastern Front.[/quote]
[IMG]http://s13.postimg.org/8qhbdjqwn/rsz_rsz_1rsz_cam184_055.jpg[/IMG]
[quote]Russian nurse assists wounded soldier in the midst of battle.[/quote]
[IMG]http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/45/8e/28/458e28827453ef8b8e51a48a5bb672d3.jpg[/IMG]
[quote][img]http://i.imgur.com/Q1AeUac.jpg[/img][/quote]
I love pictures like this, the ones that get your head spinning if you think about them for a while. That isn't a picture of someone's backyard. That isn't the Grand Canyon or some random plain in Colorado or Arizona. That's [b][i]another fucking planet[/b][/i], and [b][i]we put a robot there because we can't go there ourselves[/i][/b]. Just think about how fucking far away that is, how many more planets there are in the galaxy, let alone the universe, and how possible it is that on at least one of those planets, beings similar to us (or maybe completely different, who knows?) exist. The Mars sunset picture is excellent too, thinking about it makes it kinda surreal and fantastic.
A similar picture is this one:
[t]http://raoulpop.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/1870-telegraph-cable-map1.jpg[/t]
A map of the world's telegraph lines in 1870. The first wire between Europe and America was successfully laid in 1866. 2000mi of cable in 1866. [i]Two thousand miles of continuous cable one hundred and forty-eight years ago[/i]. Imagine how fucking huge that distance is, and then realise that humans put fucking copper all the way across it. Thinking about these things always blows my mind. Humanity is fucking rad as hell.
[editline]1st May 2014[/editline]
When we're not horrifically mutilating each other or other species because of some moronic reason ofc
Here's something that might twist your head around, there could be many planets out there where the dominant species evolved to have all it's biological process use argon instead of oxygen. There could also be many planets that evolved to produce a nitrogen-oxygen mixture just like ours. Or hell pure oxygen, one spark and the planet goes on fire.
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