[QUOTE=Articsledder;44689844]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]
Maybe it would have been easier if there weren't a whole bunch of people on there all at once
Just outside Nagasaki a few minutes after America's most recent visit in 1945.
[img]http://i.imgur.com/DaIlN0d.jpg[/img]
[img]http://i.imgur.com/ft80Q26.jpg[/img]
DESCRIPTION: Friends and family sift through debris at the home of Daniel Wassom after it was destroyed by a tornado Monday in Vilonia, Ark. Wassom died in the tornado shielding his child.
I didn't know him personally, but a lot of folks I work with did. He was a loadmaster in the the Arkansas Air National Guard.
"Daniel Wassom was huddled in a hallway of a Vilonia home during the storm with his wife, Suzanne, and daughters Lorelei, 5, and Sydney, 7, neighbors and a relative said. Suzanne Wassom even posted on Facebook about it. At the height of the tornado, a large piece of lumber crashed toward the family. Dan Wassom, 31, who served in the Air Force, shielded Lorelei, taking the brunt of the blow to his neck, said Carol Arnett, Dan Wassom's grandmother.
It was a fatal blow. Lorelei suffered a shoulder injury and was hospitalized. Suzanne Wassom was hospitalized with a concussion, her aunt, Sherry Madden, said."
[video=youtube;AQ3BjjYUolI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQ3BjjYUolI[/video]
It's a guide on how to put HD video on Betamax/VHS, and how to put audio onto 8-Track cartridges.
The opening bit is a tad drawn out, but the actual meat of the video is interesting.
[QUOTE=Mr. Someguy;44693560]Just outside Nagasaki a few minutes after America's most recent visit in 1945.
[img]http://i.imgur.com/DaIlN0d.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]
just for reference, this photo was actually taken 20 minutes after the explosion, and was likely taken from at least 5 miles away, as anything within 1 miles of the bomb was completely destroyed
i find that nuclear weaponry is scary not just because of how destructive they are, but how small the actual fissile material is
[t]http://miepvonsydow.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/harold-agnew-carrying-the-plutonium-core-of-the-nagasaki-fat-man-bomb-1945.jpg[/t]
the box he's carrying houses the plutonium core of the nagasaki 'fat man' bomb
something that small produced an explosion that turned nagasaki from a city to a ruin
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Nagasaki_1945_-_Before_and_after_%28adjusted%29.jpg/548px-Nagasaki_1945_-_Before_and_after_%28adjusted%29.jpg[/img]
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/ZU1IJyS.jpg[/IMG]
[QUOTE=Blazyd;44697429][IMG]http://i.imgur.com/ZU1IJyS.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
IIRC this was posted before and there was some kind of story behind the photo of some sort.
[QUOTE=Blazyd;44697429][IMG]http://i.imgur.com/ZU1IJyS.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
The wall behind the nazi flag looks really weird. Like the flag was edited in crudely.
[QUOTE=racerfan;44701256][video=vimeo;93544310]http://vimeo.com/93544310[/video][/QUOTE]
So true, my days are so dull and boring when my dog is out with my dad.
My two personal favorite WW1 pics:
[t]http://www.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/wwi/introduction/w_01.jpg[/t]
[t]http://www.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/wwi/introduction/w_40.jpg[/t]
My two personal favorite WW1 pics:
[t]http://www.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/wwi/introduction/w_01.jpg[/t]
[t]http://www.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/wwi/introduction/w_40.jpg[/t]
[t]http://i.cubeupload.com/yzOIZz.jpg[/t]
[t]http://i.cubeupload.com/oLsKpJ.jpg[/t]
Sorry for shit quality, didn't have time to just scan them in.
Fuck yeah knights.
[img]http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2013/330/8/d/battle_of_worringen_by_wraithdt-d6vscaq.jpg[/img]
[img]http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2013/330/b/f/battle_of_evesham_by_wraithdt-d6vsf18.jpg[/img]
Some other stuff
[img]http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2013/217/c/4/destroyer_landing_by_jjasso-d6guqu0.jpg[/img]
[img]http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2011/104/c/5/radio_ufo_by_jouey_-d3dyzdu.jpg[/img]
Isn't that the guy who really likes the old-new contrast?
fucking hell that spaceship pic is pretty
[QUOTE=zupadupazupadude;44704162]Isn't that the guy who really likes the old-new contrast?[/QUOTE]
You might be thinking of this
[url]http://www.simonstalenhag.se/[/url]
[QUOTE=Gen. Crumpets;44696861]just for reference, this photo was actually taken 20 minutes after the explosion, and was likely taken from at least 5 miles away, as anything within 1 miles of the bomb was completely destroyed
i find that nuclear weaponry is scary not just because of how destructive they are, but how small the actual fissile material is
[t]http://miepvonsydow.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/harold-agnew-carrying-the-plutonium-core-of-the-nagasaki-fat-man-bomb-1945.jpg[/t]
the box he's carrying houses the plutonium core of the nagasaki 'fat man' bomb
something that small produced an explosion that turned nagasaki from a city to a ruin
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Nagasaki_1945_-_Before_and_after_%28adjusted%29.jpg/548px-Nagasaki_1945_-_Before_and_after_%28adjusted%29.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]
iirc only a small fraction (about 2%) of the material actually fissured. If the whole reaction actually completed the explosion would've been much larger
[QUOTE=mecaguy03;44665063][video=youtube;WQ4UE63tJNI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQ4UE63tJNI[/video]
Amazing how life holds on even without any external energy input from the sun.[/QUOTE]
They wouldn't exist if it weren't for the planet powered up by the Sun..
[QUOTE=Cabbage;44704235]iirc only a small fraction (about 2%) of the material actually fissured. If the whole reaction actually completed the explosion would've been much larger[/QUOTE]
IIRC it was somewhere around 1.38% for Little Boy, but that used a considerable amount of fissile material, 65Kg, because U235 has a significantly higher critical mass. Fat Man was more complex than Little Boy, but used ~6Kg of P239 and fissioned approximately 13% of that, producing a 22Kt blast as opposed to Little Boy's 12-15Kt. Boosted fission weapons can fission 30% or more, and can have 500Kt+ blasts.
Also fun fact, in Little Boy, roughly half a gram of matter was directly converted to energy, so imagine a positron-electron(only antimatter-matte reaction that doesn't give off mostly neutrinos) bomb. 1 kg of matter and antimatter reacting would give a 20-30 megaton blast, while being about the size of a basketball.
Kind of horrifying how some our ideas for creating energy get weaponized quickly, I hope if anti-matter becomes viable we never use it in weapons.
[QUOTE=Pigbear;44704463]Kind of horrifying how some our ideas for creating energy get weaponized quickly, I hope if anti-matter becomes viable we never use it in weapons.[/QUOTE]
Fuck that hippy shit. Do you know how awesome an antimatter bomb would be? It'd be all like nreooow-pshoow (thats the airplane) BOOOOOOM and shit. Fucking awesome. 10/10 would drop on Japan
[QUOTE=Pigbear;44704463]Kind of horrifying how some our ideas for creating energy get weaponized quickly, [B]I hope if anti-matter becomes viable we never use it in weapons[/B].[/QUOTE]
Problem is, this is the most worthless hope ever and we all know it. A primordial entity that, by definition, cannot be destroyed by any conventional means. The first place a vial of anti-matter will go after it leaves a lab will be a munitions plant, there's no doubt.
On the topic of forms of matter, have this.
[media]http://vimeo.com/54812287[/media]
[QUOTE=booster;44704219]You might be thinking of this
[url]http://www.simonstalenhag.se/[/url][/QUOTE]
[t]http://www.simonstalenhag.se/bilderbig/rymlingen_1920_badge.jpg[/t]
These are great.
[editline]wow[/editline]
[t]http://www.simonstalenhag.se/bilderbig/fjarrhandske_1920_badge.jpg[/t]
Fuck the polis.
[img]http://www.simonstalenhag.se/bilder/theshortwayhome.jpg[/img]
that stalenhag guy is amazing
[QUOTE=Bat-shit;44704326]They wouldn't exist if it weren't for the planet powered up by the Sun..[/QUOTE]
The Sun didn't make Earth's core hot, gravity and friction did.
A bike that could fold into an umbrella:
[img]http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--5UcBl8MU--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/rr4oto0ckngpktyfxq0s.jpg[/img]
[img]http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--9GrPUh4a--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/yc8njthg2psdlnty4gyc.jpg[/img]
20th century prosthetics:
[img]http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--NuvdDOqq--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/mujoikcenalazum23clh.jpg[/img]
[quote]Left, one of James Hanger's early patents from 1891 shows his novel hinged mechanism. Image courtesy Hanger.com. Right, Samuel Decker was another veteran who developed his own mechanical arms, and later went on to become an official Doorkeeper at the U.S. House of Representatives.
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[img]http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--zRY2tofM--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/a8crjfuc3k7absts2m9o.jpg[/img]
[quote]Left, this prosthetic limb was designed for a female piano player around 1895, who went on to play London's Royal Albert Hall in 1906 using her specially designed hand. Right, this Victorian-era arm includes beautifully detailed metalwork. Images courtesy of the Science Museum / SSPL.
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[img]http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--_Ra7cVnN--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/tbbxjsryqdk9vkaf6amr.png[/img]
[quote]This prosthetic hand was designed by Thomas Openshaw around 1916 while working as a surgeon for Queen Mary's Hospital. Two fingers of the wooden hand are reinforced with metal hooks to help with daily tasks. Image courtesy of the Science Museum / SSPL.[/quote]
[img]http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--mbnIBY8q--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/b3fvn8mc5hdgwm2iqaua.jpg[/img]
[quote]An American veteran uses an arm fitted with a welding tool adaptation at Walter Reed Army Hospital in 1919. Image courtesy the National Museum of Health and Medicine.
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[QUOTE=DesolateGrun;44705457][img]http://www.simonstalenhag.se/bilder/theshortwayhome.jpg[/img]
that stalenhag guy is amazing[/QUOTE]this is not the lunch money you're looking for
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