[QUOTE=kaze4159;44940047][img]http://imgkk.com/i/zkgo.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]
It wouldn't look out of place as a Star Destroyer bridge either.
Some happy North Korea photos:
[img]http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/05/29/article-2638213-1E49A7F900000578-825_964x642.jpg[/img]
[img]http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/05/29/article-2638213-1E49A51800000578-386_964x639.jpg[/img]
[img]http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/05/29/article-2638213-1E49B58500000578-656_964x612.jpg[/img]
[img]http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/05/29/article-2638213-1E49B95100000578-189_964x547.jpg[/img]
[img]http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/05/29/article-2638213-1E49AB4500000578-652_964x641.jpg[/img]
[img]http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/05/29/article-2638213-1E49DCCD00000578-555_964x617.jpg[/img]
[img]http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/05/29/article-2638213-1E49A60B00000578-489_964x641.jpg[/img]
Pretty sure most of those are from the NK/SK Industrial cooperation zone :v:
[t]http://i.imgur.com/RF590W1.jpg[/t]
This 1960 photo shows three men standing inside Arnold Engineering Development Complex's 16-ft supersonic wind tunnel facility. The wind tunnel was capable of Mach numbers between 1.60 and 4.75 through a test section 4.8 meters wide and 20.2 meters long. It served as a large-scale testing facility for aircraft and propulsion systems. Like many large-scale and high-speed wind tunnel facilities in the United States, it is no longer active. In recent years, many unique wind tunnel facilities at NASA, military bases, and universities have been closed down, depriving researchers and engineers of the ability to include large-scale testing in their design and development of new technologies. These facility closures leave a substantial gap between the speeds and Reynolds numbers achievable in small-scale experiments and computational fluid dynamics and those experienced in flight.
[QUOTE=download;44940778]Pretty sure most of those are from the NK/SK Industrial cooperation zone :v:[/QUOTE]
Quite a few of those were actually in the Capital, Pyongyang.
[QUOTE=Roll_Program;44931392]In the book "Sled Driver", Brian Schul talks about seeing missile lock and launch warnings all the time throughout missions and just not caring because they'd never catch up at their speed and altitude. If a missile got a bit closer they'd just up the throttle a bit more. The absolute top speed of the blackbird was unknown, it was as fast as the pilots dared to push it.[/QUOTE]
Just looked it up, goddamn that book is worth a fortune.
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/DOFDfKj.png[/IMG]
Oh god
"We were proceeding on a straight section of our route over
Europe. This particular route had many turns, and the Mach had to be maintained
precisely to prevent overshooting them. I decided to indulge in a quick drink from my
water bottle before an upcoming turn. I put the long plastic straw to my helmet,
located the opening and pushed, but nothing happened. Mildly frustrated, I pushed
harder without success. I glanced in the mirror and found the straw in the right spot so
with one final shove, I pushed for the last time. The straw instantly slipped into my helmet,
overshooting my mouth and poking my eye slightly. My eye began to tear
profusely and at the same moment, Walt commanded a reduction in Mach to keep
the turn radius under control. I forgot the water bottle and, seeing out of only one
eye, concentrated on maintaining precise speed through the turn. My eye continued
to tear as the airplane completed the turn remaining on course and on speed.
As I contemplated the possibility of finishing the mission and landing with one
eye, I caught a glimpse of myself in the mirror. I saw a space helmet with a water
bottle dangling out the lower section. I laughed out loud. Considering the
seriousness of the business at hand, it was a ludicrous sight. Walt expressed his
ignorance of what could be so funny at this particular moment. He added that he
didn't want to know. I flew on one eye for a few hundred miles, then dried it out by
using the Face Heat Switch.
From then on, I was careful when I performed even the simplest tasks. Later,
when I achieved advanced proficiency with the water bottle, I found the straw was
an excellent device for scratching my face slowly, very slowly. I never did tell Walt
what happened that day over Europe. His confidence in me would probably not
increase if he learned I had flown him through the stratosphere with a water bottle
in my eye."
[QUOTE=Funion;44941842]Just looked it up, goddamn that book is worth a fortune.
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/DOFDfKj.png[/IMG][/QUOTE]
There's copies in the US public library system and the wait time for an order is usually about 1-2 weeks.
Worth a read.
If you really do want to read it and can't get access to it, you could probably find it in ebook or PDF format somewhere.
Refugee food camp in Allepo
[img]http://i.imgur.com/rKk1zBM.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=kirby2112;44941425][t]http://i.imgur.com/RF590W1.jpg[/t]
This 1960 photo shows three men standing inside Arnold Engineering Development Complex's 16-ft supersonic wind tunnel facility. The wind tunnel was capable of Mach numbers between 1.60 and 4.75 through a test section 4.8 meters wide and 20.2 meters long. It served as a large-scale testing facility for aircraft and propulsion systems. Like many large-scale and high-speed wind tunnel facilities in the United States, it is no longer active. In recent years, many unique wind tunnel facilities at NASA, military bases, and universities have been closed down, depriving researchers and engineers of the ability to include large-scale testing in their design and development of new technologies. These facility closures leave a substantial gap between the speeds and Reynolds numbers achievable in small-scale experiments and computational fluid dynamics and those experienced in flight.[/QUOTE]
I'm kinda confused. It says 4.8 meters wide but there's a person in that pic. Either that's one extremely tiny person or that measurement is way off.
4.8 meters is a bit under three times the height of an average male. That appears to be closer to 7-9 times that.
Edit: Wait, there's two people at the end of the tunnel too which appear way bigger. They're still only about a quarter the height at that point though and not a third.
[QUOTE=archangel125;44943125]If you really do want to read it and can't get access to it, you could probably find it in ebook or PDF format somewhere.[/QUOTE]
There's no official ebook and nothing unofficial either, the closest there is is a crappy scan.
[QUOTE=Alice3173;44945516]I'm kinda confused. It says 4.8 meters wide but there's a person in that pic. Either that's one extremely tiny person or that measurement is way off.
4.8 meters is a bit under three times the height of an average male. That appears to be closer to 7-9 times that.
Edit: Wait, there's two people at the end of the tunnel too which appear way bigger. They're still only about a quarter the height at that point though and not a third.[/QUOTE]
eeehh, idk, I just copy pasted it. :v:
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no wait, it specifies that the test section specifically is that measurement, but doesn't say if the people are standing in the test section
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more cool stuff
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/4NFz6cd.gif[/IMG]
"As the incredibly powerful microscope zooms in, it goes from showing an amphipod (a type of shell-less crustacean), to a diatom (a type of algae) that’s on the amphipod, to a microscopic bacterium that’s on the diatom that’s on the amphipod."
[QUOTE=Alice3173;44945516]I'm kinda confused. It says 4.8 meters wide but there's a person in that pic. Either that's one extremely tiny person or that measurement is way off.
4.8 meters is a bit under three times the height of an average male. That appears to be closer to 7-9 times that.
Edit: Wait, there's two people at the end of the tunnel too which appear way bigger. They're still only about a quarter the height at that point though and not a third.[/QUOTE]
because the tunnel tapers down into that size, that's how they accelerate the air to that speed.
Another interesting excerpt from sled driver
"Checklists for both crew members were full of more information than anyone
could possibly digest. In addition to these storehouses of knowledge, the guy in back
carried additional manuals he could refer to when there was a problem. One
morning over the South China Sea, a sensor light blinked in my cockpit, telling me
the automated flight control system was malfunctioning. I attempted to reset the
circuit to no avail, so Walt dove head first into the schematic diagrams stored in his
manuals in the back cockpit. The more we tried to correct the problem, the more it
defied us. Soon it threatened to bring our mission to an early end. We were
approaching a point where we either had the system on line and could continue, or
we didn't have the system and would have to return. I hated turning back on any
mission. Out of frustration, I used a technique that worked once in a T-28. I slammed
my hand against the sensor switch and cursed loudly in its direction. The channel
reset, the light went out, and the jet performed flawlessly the rest of the day. So
much for advanced engineering."
You'd be surprised what a swift kick can solve in modern engineering. The Cesna I flew during my training was held together by duct tape and hopeful thoughts, and any issues it had was solved by smacks and kicks to the dash.
I have a reprinted T-6 Harvard manual (military trainer) and in the checklist you have to bang on the Tachometer to prevent it from sticking. :v:
I'm getting a new laptop in a few hours and I rather like fantasy backgrounds. Requesting large fantasy looking images?
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;44950725]I'm getting a new laptop in a few hours and I rather like fantasy backgrounds. Requesting large fantasy looking images?[/QUOTE]
Here's two from that Endless Legend game:
[t]http://1.images.gametrailers.com/image_root/vid_thumbs/2014/04_apr_2014/apr_03/t_endlesslegends_brokenlordstrailer.jpg[/t]
[t]http://pthumbnails.5min.com/10364171/518208532_4_o.jpg[/t]
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;44950725]I'm getting a new laptop in a few hours and I rather like fantasy backgrounds. Requesting large fantasy looking images?[/QUOTE]
[t]http://i.imgur.com/turgtvx.png[/t]
[t]http://i.imgur.com/ymBvhAq.jpg[/t]
[t]http://i.imgur.com/RUHMV6x.jpg[/t]
[t]http://i.imgur.com/ruqhr9N.jpg[/t]
[t]http://i.imgur.com/J5Gtt7N.jpg[/t]
[t]http://i.imgur.com/NVLylI8.jpg[/t]
[t]http://i.imgur.com/OVfpvTH.png[/t]
[t]http://i.imgur.com/ssA0EW1.jpg[/t]
[t]http://i.imgur.com/VA40CCw.jpg[/t]
[t]http://i.imgur.com/hGHeoLz.jpg[/t]
-snip- album wont work for some reason.
[QUOTE=Trunk Monkay;44950979][t]http://i.imgur.com/turgtvx.png[/t]
[t]http://i.imgur.com/ymBvhAq.jpg[/t]
[t]http://i.imgur.com/RUHMV6x.jpg[/t]
[t]http://i.imgur.com/ruqhr9N.jpg[/t]
[t]http://i.imgur.com/J5Gtt7N.jpg[/t]
[t]http://i.imgur.com/NVLylI8.jpg[/t]
[t]http://i.imgur.com/OVfpvTH.png[/t]
[t]http://i.imgur.com/ssA0EW1.jpg[/t]
[t]http://i.imgur.com/VA40CCw.jpg[/t]
[t]http://i.imgur.com/hGHeoLz.jpg[/t][/QUOTE]
I've really always felt like star wars isn't as brutal as conflict in WH 40k, or even star trek. It's just probably because everyone misses everything, but there isn't really a whole lot of destruction in the battles, at least the on-screen ones.
I'd pay good money to see someone talented put together a band of brothers type HBO series following a squad of rebel soldiers or something along those lines. Hopefully it would be gritty, gory, sweary as fuck to give it a true "war is hell" like feeling, just in the future. Sort of like those Halo live-action shorts they made, only with better effects.
[QUOTE=urbanmonkey;44952756]I'd pay good money to see someone talented put together a band of brothers type HBO series following a squad of rebel soldiers or something along those lines. Hopefully it would be gritty, gory, sweary as fuck to give it a true "war is hell" like feeling, just in the future. Sort of like those Halo live-action shorts they made, only with better effects.[/QUOTE]
I'd rather follow a Squad of Stormtroopers. For some reason I never grew to like the Rebellion Forces. The way they are designed piss me off since the very first Star Wars film.
we need a good warhammer 40k tv show in this world
[QUOTE=Funion;44953001]we need a good warhammer 40k tv show in this world[/QUOTE]
Gaunt's ghosts in the style of band of brothers when.
[QUOTE=Trunk Monkay;44950979]
[t]http://i.imgur.com/J5Gtt7N.jpg[/t]
[t]http://i.imgur.com/NVLylI8.jpg[/t][/QUOTE]
These are great. I love the gritty approach to Star Wars that you see in fan concepts and the extended universe. As much fun as a game would be to portray events like in the pictures, I feel like a film or high-budget TV series would really do art like this justice when in motion. HBO, make it happen please.
[QUOTE=Angua;44953148]Gaunt's ghosts in the style of band of brothers when.[/QUOTE]
I want to see some Last Chancers, yo.
IG in general would be great
that way some specialist dudes like Elysians, Krieg or Kasrkin could make a few appearances too
however if they were to fight something else than Traitor Guard the show would require shitloads of CGI for xenos/Chaos (Traitor Marines could work if they had good costuming, fans have been able to pull off the "7 ft tall supersoldier in hulking power armor" thing really well)
Tau could work with some clever makeup and prop design
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hell if we got an actually good 40k series, i wouldn't mind if the whole thing was only one or two seasons long
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