[thumb]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/df/YangshuoFromTvTower.jpg[/thumb]
Lighten up
Yangshuo, in China.
[QUOTE=urbanmonkey;45195517]This picture always hits really hard[/QUOTE]
It shouldn't really. It's from a movie.
from wikipedia:
[t]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0f/20041113-002_Lourmarin_Tombstone_Albert_Camus.jpg[/t]
and a picture my mom took last month:
[t]http://i.cubeupload.com/9Taa3i.jpg[/t]
:(
[QUOTE=Splungey;45198885]It shouldn't really. It's from a movie.[/QUOTE]
Proof?
[QUOTE=Splungey;45198885]It shouldn't really. It's from a movie.[/QUOTE]
Surprisingly from the amount of times that's been posted, no one has mentioned that.
Yeah and still, kids were still sent to battle when the reich was collapsing, that's a fact. Same happened prettymuch everywhere in europe when desperation struck.You have to be pretty miserable as a high ranking commander/official w.e. to arm children and send them to war.
Anyway, here's an iceberg casually passing by st. johns today
[thumb]http://i.imgur.com/M6Mffwh.jpg[/thumb]
[thumb]http://i.imgur.com/tkiTrkP.jpg[/thumb]
say hi :smile:
[QUOTE=godfatherk;45199955]Yeah and still, kids were still sent to battle when the reich was collapsing, that's a fact. Same happened prettymuch everywhere in europe when desperation struck.You have to be pretty miserable as a high ranking commander/official w.e. to arm children and send them to war.[/QUOTE]
Yea thats the thing though, when the Soviets or Polish did it, they were seen as heroes using every bit of resources they could to fight Nazi oppression. When the Wehrmacht did it, it's seen as evil Nazi's forcing children to fight a futile battle.
[QUOTE=Trunk Monkay;45200598]Yea thats the thing though, when the Soviets or Polish did it, they were seen as heroes using every bit of resources they could to fight Nazi oppression. When the Wehrmacht did it, it's seen as evil Nazi's forcing children to fight a futile battle.[/QUOTE]
Well the Poles had to do it because they all were going to pretty much die anyways either by the Soviets or the Nazis so what did they have to lose?
[QUOTE=Griffster26;45201363]Well the Poles had to do it because they all were going to pretty much die anyways either by the Soviets or the Nazis so what did they have to lose?[/QUOTE]
The Germans had to do it because they were facing extermination and the disbanding of their nation via the Soviets so they didn't have much to lose either. Shitty situations don't really justify child soldiers.
[QUOTE=Trunk Monkay;45201384]The Germans had to do it because they were facing extermination and the disbanding of their nation via the Soviets so they didn't have much to lose either. Shitty situations don't really justify child soldiers.[/QUOTE]
Yeah I see your point.
airplane crash on google maps
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/ym45nje.png[/IMG]
[URL="https://www.google.com/maps/@37.7906899,-122.3225925,117m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en"]https://www.google.com/maps/@37.7906899,-122.3225925,117m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en[/URL]
[sp]it's an abandoned airport converted to film studio[/sp]
There's a pretty major problem with selectively criticizing child soldiery as opposed to just generally castigating it.
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/George_W._Joy,_An_English_Drummer_Boy_%281902%29.jpg/300px-George_W._Joy,_An_English_Drummer_Boy_%281902%29.jpg[/img]
Been going on for ages, really children make perfect soldiers due to suggestibility, and it's been done both in desperation and simply as a means of training new soldiers.
[QUOTE=meppers;45205712]airplane crash on google maps
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/ym45nje.png[/IMG]
[URL="https://www.google.com/maps/@37.7906899,-122.3225925,117m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en"]https://www.google.com/maps/@37.7906899,-122.3225925,117m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en[/URL]
[sp]it's an abandoned airport converted to film studio[/sp][/QUOTE]
Is't that place the one Mythbusters always use for speed myths and the like. Alameda sounds very familiar.
Interesting, and apparently that plane scene was for the series Trauma. And that place was used in one of the matrix movies too.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCUDAEljFqc[/media]
That's crazy.
[t]http://i.imgur.com/IXK893V.jpg[/t] [t]http://i.imgur.com/xkEPsAR.jpg[/t][t]http://i.imgur.com/Fpz0b9f.jpg[/t] [t]http://i.imgur.com/Pd0U9eS.jpg[/t][t]http://i.imgur.com/EGXVpyn.jpg[/t]
"Photographers Cassandra Warner and Jeremy Floto produced the "Clourant" series of high-speed photographs of colorful liquid splashes. The artists took special care to disguise the origin of splashes, making them appear like frozen sculptures. The photos are beautiful examples of making fluid effects and instabilities. Many of them feature thin liquid sheets with thicker rims just developing ligaments. In other spots, surface tension has been wholly overcome by momentum’s effects and what was once ligaments has exploded into a spray of droplets."
Front of the black one is so a body.
Just saw this, thought it was pretty cool
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYKg0gbRFns[/media]
Not sure why aren't they just cutting those trees normally, but it's still cool
a huge gallery of Alien production photos
[t]https://i.imgur.com/L6dCsdW.jpg[/t]
[url]https://imgur.com/a/VWsI3[/url]
new MSL self portrait
"what the fuck am i looking at"
[t]http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/styles/946xvariable_height/public/pia18390-full.jpg?itok=kptMq5l_[/t]
full res
[url]http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/pia18390-full.jpg[/url]
[QUOTE=Rulz;45206487]Is't that place the one Mythbusters always use for speed myths and the like. Alameda sounds very familiar.
Interesting, and apparently that plane scene was for the series Trauma. And that place was used in one of the matrix movies too.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCUDAEljFqc[/media]
That's crazy.[/QUOTE]
Don't know why it bothers me so much, but I hate the terrible errors that are made in shows that have to do with aircraft. 737 with a 727 cockpit. And not enough time to lower the landing gear manually? You just said you were at 34,000 feet... I need to stop
[thumb]http://ppcdn.500px.org/74704013/ead26a32fded63aec670712770e2f68bb7ee23b3/2048.jpg[/thumb]
fjords
[thumb]http://i.imgur.com/RXHhsvt.jpg[/thumb]
[thumb]http://i.imgur.com/Qyb3TS8.jpg[/thumb]
guess that's just luanda in angola...
[thumb]http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5571/14307824599_b81577b461_k.jpg[/thumb]
oahu
[thumb]http://i.imgur.com/4PLLDE7.jpg[/thumb]
[thumb]http://i.imgur.com/abVoQHy.jpg[/thumb]
modern finland army
[thumb]http://blogs.reuters.com/fullfocus/files/2014/06/AMC-4520_8.jpg[/thumb]
[thumb]http://blogs.reuters.com/fullfocus/files/2014/06/PPXP29.jpg[/thumb]
[thumb]http://blogs.reuters.com/fullfocus/files/2014/06/AMC-4520_4.jpg[/thumb]
bomb craters and trenches during ww1, aerial photo
[thumb]http://blogs.reuters.com/fullfocus/files/2014/06/PPXP07.jpg[/thumb]
west front 1918
[thumb]http://blogs.reuters.com/fullfocus/files/2014/06/PPXP11.jpg[/thumb]
[thumb]http://blogs.reuters.com/fullfocus/files/2014/06/PPXP27.jpg[/thumb]
captives
[thumb]http://blogs.reuters.com/fullfocus/files/2014/06/AMC-3793g_1.jpg[/thumb]
german post
[URL="http://blogs.reuters.com/fullfocus/2014/06/25/unseen-photos-from-ww1/"]All 40 photos to be found here[/URL]
[QUOTE=Thunderbolt;45210943]Just saw this, thought it was pretty cool
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYKg0gbRFns[/media]
Not sure why aren't they just cutting those trees normally, but it's still cool[/QUOTE]
Because it's for land clearing, not just cutting down the trees.
Otherwise you'd have to drive or build or whatever you're doing over cut down trees.
[QUOTE=Winstonn;45212692]new MSL self portrait
"what the fuck am i looking at"
[t]http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/styles/946xvariable_height/public/pia18390-full.jpg?itok=kptMq5l_[/t]
full res
[url]http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/pia18390-full.jpg[/url][/QUOTE]
I still don't understand how it can take a selfy. Can someone explain, I'm pretty curious.
[QUOTE=myng;45214951]I still don't understand how it can take a selfy. Can someone explain, I'm pretty curious.[/QUOTE]
It has a camera on a long arm. Every so often it holds it out (actually pretty much the same way people take selfies) and takes a few pictures so the operators can check for damage. They move the arm without moving the camera so they can get a full view, unobstructed by the arm (that's what you see here - they photoshopped the arm out by combining several images from the same spot, with the arm bent various ways).
-snip-
[QUOTE=Rulz;45206487]Is't that place the one Mythbusters always use for speed myths and the like. Alameda sounds very familiar.
Interesting, and apparently that plane scene was for the series Trauma. And that place was used in one of the matrix movies too.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCUDAEljFqc[/media]
That's crazy.[/QUOTE]
this is the dumbest fake crash sequence in the history of film
[editline]26th June 2014[/editline]
[QUOTE=TheTalon;45212872]Don't know why it bothers me so much, but I hate the terrible errors that are made in shows that have to do with aircraft. 737 with a 727 cockpit. And not enough time to lower the landing gear manually? You just said you were at 34,000 feet... I need to stop[/QUOTE]
not to mention that manual release for landing gear in aircraft that size is literally a release. there's no "manual extension" that shit falls out and locks. plus there's a alternate hydraulic systems. it's just dumb.
I forget if I already posted this, but here is a video about the competition of home video formats.
[video=youtube;mcjIN2gIgTk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcjIN2gIgTk[/video]
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/aoaJfRd.jpg[/IMG]
[QUOTE]6 year old child, Diamond, shouts at his father as the police arrest him for domestic violence, Minneapolis, 1986 “This is, by far, the most powerful picture I’ve ever taken because it shows exactly how a child feels when they see their mother being beaten. “The boy is saying to his father, ‘I hate you for hitting my mother, and I hope you never come back to this house.’ Nobody, even the parents who signed a release for this picture, realized how powerful it was going to be until they saw it in the magazine and they flipped out.” —Donna Ferrato.[/QUOTE]
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/wjEUTco.jpg[/IMG]
[QUOTE]Diamond — who witnessed the arrest of his father for hitting his mother — has grown up to be a hairdresser. Diamond, who now owns a salon in Minnesota. 2007.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=DanRatherman;45205781]There's a pretty major problem with selectively criticizing child soldiery as opposed to just generally castigating it.
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/George_W._Joy,_An_English_Drummer_Boy_%281902%29.jpg/300px-George_W._Joy,_An_English_Drummer_Boy_%281902%29.jpg[/img]
Been going on for ages, really children make perfect soldiers due to suggestibility, and it's been done both in desperation and simply as a means of training new soldiers.[/QUOTE]
The more interesting question is; what exactly constitutes a "child soldier"? UNICEF states that anyone under 18 serving in a military regiment is a child soldier. ([url]http://www.unicef.org/emerg/files/childsoldiers.pdf[/url]) Anyone familiar with the British army will know that it allows 16 year olds to join, meaning that today the current British army employs child soldiers. Are 16 year olds children? Well in the UK you can be tried as an adult at age 10, you can drink alcohol in a private premises from the age of 5 and you can consent to sexual activity at age 16. When one becomes an adult legally isn't exactly clear in the UK and such laws vary even more so around the world. Also the image you posted is of a Drummer Boy, who didn't engage in combat so I'm not sure if they would count as soldiers.
The following is from a UN report on child soldiers:
"...the United States Pentagon sponsors programs for approximately 400,000 high school boys and girls where children are taught to march, shoot, act and think like soldiers. More than half of all European States accept under-18-year-olds in their armed forces. The United Kingdom routinely sends 17-year-olds into combat. According to their official statistics from January 1999, there was a total of 6,676 male and female 16- and 17-year-olds, and over 128,000 cadets from the ages of 10 to 16 in training schools around the country. Similarly, military schools are a common feature across Latin America, Asia and Africa. No area is immune to this issue."
([url]http://www.un.org/cyberschoolbus/briefing/soldiers/csprogress.htm[/url])
Also since this is Auxiliary pics rather than Auxiliary discussion; here's an image of Joseph Bara. Though not technically a child soldier, he was killed whilst fighting counter-revolutionaries during the French Revolution. His death was seized upon for propagandistic purposes and there are now a great number of paintings and statues commemorating his sacrifice.
[thumb]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6e/MortdeJosephBara.jpg[/thumb]
[thumb]http://www.indire.it/immagini/immag/tstsga/ts964v5-154.jpg[/thumb]
Balilla, a Genoese boy who started the revolt of 1746 against the Habsburg forces that occupied the city in the War of the Austrian Succession by throwing a stone at an Austrian official.
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