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[QUOTE=T.F.W.O.;45719253][img]http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2014/005/c/c/tsunami_by_alexandreev-d70yxtf.jpg[/img] [url]http://alexandreev.deviantart.com/[/url][/QUOTE] reminds of: [IMG]http://static.squarespace.com/static/5331b6c8e4b0d241d3bf9b9d/53ab4a24e4b0a767ff9decba/53b21a5ce4b0bdd92560e640/1404181162527/Clip_YamatoCrab.gif?format=500w[/IMG]
[QUOTE=SwizzChees;45719785]reminds of: [IMG]http://static.squarespace.com/static/5331b6c8e4b0d241d3bf9b9d/53ab4a24e4b0a767ff9decba/53b21a5ce4b0bdd92560e640/1404181162527/Clip_YamatoCrab.gif?format=500w[/IMG][/QUOTE] the hell is that, looks creepy as shit
[QUOTE=Zukriuchen;45719808]the hell is that, looks creepy as shit[/QUOTE] a game called Diluvion- in very early development. [video=youtube;H4QFhfQCc5w]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4QFhfQCc5w[/video] [url]http://www.arachnidgames.com/[/url] that thing is this one: [t]http://static.squarespace.com/static/5331b6c8e4b0d241d3bf9b9d/53ab4a24e4b0a767ff9decba/53b2159ee4b08c508ab80b47/1404179871263/Concept_YamatoCrab.jpg?format=1500w[/t]
[QUOTE=SwizzChees;45719785]reminds of: [IMG]http://static.squarespace.com/static/5331b6c8e4b0d241d3bf9b9d/53ab4a24e4b0a767ff9decba/53b21a5ce4b0bdd92560e640/1404181162527/Clip_YamatoCrab.gif?format=500w[/IMG][/QUOTE] Reminds me of this: [img]http://i.imgur.com/FUyGLqi.jpg[/img]
[img]http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2014/020/0/b/jorn_and_the_demon_by_jameszapata-d731wfs.jpg[/img]
Aurora Borealis [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/2gufBXi.jpg[/IMG] China [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/B8Gz2HF.jpg[/IMG] F16 selfie [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/DiYmJeE.jpg[/IMG] Something about this picture really hits home for me, not sure exactly what it is about it [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/ZIkywfK.jpg[/IMG]
[QUOTE=Blazyd;45721479]China [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/B8Gz2HF.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE] What is with these hills? I only ever seem to see hills like those in pictures of Asia.
[QUOTE=Alice3173;45721999]What is with these hills? I only ever seem to see hills like those in pictures of Asia.[/QUOTE] It's the Yangshuo mountains in China. [IMG]http://studycli.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/yangshuo-moon-mountain.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8167/7108472169_7a63096545_z.jpg[/IMG] [t]http://ppcdn.500px.org/75709623/a2bc112ae1f6994936a7e44973b5b373ace37f24/2048.jpg[/t] I'm not sure what causes them to be that shape though.
[i]In the late 80's while Steve Jobs was running NeXT Computers the security guard at the building repeatedly had trouble identifying employees as they never carried identification so he took photographs of all the employees and stuck them on the wall behind his desk.[/i] [img]http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/236x/29/87/8a/29878abf0476726d86deed584f99961f.jpg[/img] This was probably the only guy who on a regular basis could answer "no" to Steve's ego trip "Don't you know who the fuck I am??"
[QUOTE=Blazyd;45722432]I'm not sure what causes them to be that shape though.[/QUOTE] I did some quick digging. It's a pretty extreme example of karst topography. When the Eurasian Plate collided with the Indo-Australian Plate, it lifted up huge mountains - the Himalayas being the most famous, but it also lifted up these smaller mountains. This was fairly recent as far as plate tectonics is concerned, so erosion hasn't had too much time to level things back down. But it has gotten started at it. These mountains are made of limestone, which is fairly hard by sedimentary standards but slowly dissolves in water. That is the defining attribute of karst topography - the dissolving limestone. The monsoons give Yangshuo plenty of water, so it dissolves fairly quickly. Further, it doesn't dissolve the peaks any faster than the bases, so it doesn't erode the mountains themselves away. These mountains, unlike all other karst mountains, were never home to glaciers. Those sort of blur the landscape, giving less sharply-defined features, as you would see in the Appalachians. This didn't happen here, which is why you see such prominent formations.
[t]https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3440/13094611364_71bd613f42_o.jpg[/t] Los Angeles
Wehrmacht POW's being show pohotos and movies of the holocaust post-war [img]http://i.imgur.com/IY74bdd.jpg[/img]
I wonder how many Germans, even inside the Nazi party were really aware of the magnitude of the genocide happening. Seeing as the government suppressed the flow of information, despite the rampant antisemitism, rumors and such, along with events like the Walpurgisnacht, they were told that the Jews were going to "work camps." I can't imagine the horror and guilt they felt upon finding all that out. [editline]18th August 2014[/editline] It's important to remember that not all the Germans of WWII were monsters, many of them were just fighting for their country believing what they were doing was right. [editline]18th August 2014[/editline] [QUOTE]"Universal Soldier" Donovan He's five foot-two, and he's six feet-four, He fights with missiles and with spears. He's all of thirty-one, and he's only seventeen, Been a soldier for a thousand years. He'a a Catholic, a Hindu, an Atheist, a Jain, A Buddhist and a Baptist and a Jew. And he knows he shouldn't kill, And he knows he always will, Kill you for me my friend and me for you. And he's fighting for Canada, He's fighting for France, He's fighting for the USA, And he's fighting for the Russians, And he's fighting for Japan, And he thinks we'll put an end to war this way. And he's fighting for Democracy, He's fighting for the Reds, He says it's for the peace of all. He's the one who must decide, Who's to live and who's to die, And he never sees the writing on the wall. But without him, How would Hitler have condemned them at Dachau? Without him Caesar would have stood alone, He's the one who gives his body As a weapon of the war, And without him all this killing can't go on. He's the Universal Soldier and he really is to blame, His orders come from far away no more, They come from here and there and you and me, And brothers can't you see, This is not the way we put the end to war. [/QUOTE] I always liked this song's lyrics.
[QUOTE=kaine123;45723499]I wonder how many Germans, even inside the Nazi party were really aware of the magnitude of the genocide happening. Seeing as the government suppressed the flow of information, despite the rampant antisemitism, rumors and such, along with events like the Walpurgisnacht, they were told that the Jews were going to "work camps." I can't imagine the horror and guilt they felt upon finding all that out.[/QUOTE] Most of the Wehrmacht was completely unaware of the genocide. They were just fighting against Communism and fighting for their country. I won't say [i]most[/i] of the SS was unaware but most of the frontline infantry was unaware. Most of the men who were taking part in the death camps and genocide were rear officers who never saw or rarely saw combat. Most everyone though knew about the work camps. I remember reading about an interview with an SS officer, he said something along the lines of "I was surprised and appalled about the death camps. I thought it was insane; the jews were supposed to be slaves, why would we be killing them all?".
Of course then also a lot of the soldiers in the eastern front witnessed the atrocities occurring, and then probably feared punishment if they were to tell of it at home.
The war crimes on the Eastern Front was also mostly carried out by rear echelon troops, mainly in dedicated units such as the [I]Einsatzgruppen[/I] of [I]SS-Totenkopf[/I], or the [I]NKVD (Commissariat)[/I] units of the Communist Party. Keep in mind that both NKVD and SS units were "security" troops of their respective parties, which meant fierce political indoctrination, but they also did see front line combat, so of course they could have talked to their respective armies. This was done so that the front line troops could focus on the fighting. The security forces would go around to villages that had been cleared of Red Army/Wehrmacht soldiers and look for partisans, (Jews), and anyone with a Communist Party/Nazi party membership card and execute them on the spot, as was the preferred way close to the front line. Otherwise they would send them to camps. Of course both the Red Army and Wehrmacht committed war crimes as well, as it was surprisingly hard to control every aspect of such large armies (even though Hitler and Stalin most likely didn't care anyway), but the security troops carried out atrocities in a planned and organized way from the beginning to the end of the war. [I]SS SD Einsatsgruppe, Poland 1939 [/I][IMG]http://i.imgur.com/aYNWJng.jpg[/IMG] [I]NKVD field agents, 1944[/I] [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/AaXUKoB.jpg[/IMG]
As I understand it the Red Army was encourage to rape their way through Germany by their commanders in revenge for Hitler's betrayal.
[QUOTE=download;45725502]As I understand it the Red Army was encourage to rape their way through Germany by their commanders in revenge for Hitler's betrayal.[/QUOTE] True, the Red Army did have motivation to commit a greater amount of war crimes than the regular Wehrmacht during the later stages of the war where they were on the offensive. This was especially because the Soviet high command chose to use the Nazi war crimes committed in Ukraine, Belarus and Russia as propaganda to fuel thoughts of hatred and revenge in the troops, driving them ever forward to completely annihilate Nazi Germany militarily. It was easy, because so many soldiers in the Red Army had lost family, girlfriends and friends due to the absolutely mind boggling casualties the Soviet union suffered because of famine, disease, genocide, and not to mention the war itself. That at least goes some way to explain why the Red Army committed atrocities on a greater scale than the Wehrmacht in the last stages of the war. Rapes were very common, so were executions of prisoners and looting. This wasn't very planned, but no one really tried to stop them, since NKVD were busy with carrying out planned executions and deportations of political opponents. I could post hundreds of photos of both "on the spot" and planned executions, but you have all seen the pictures. Besides, I find it a bit tasteless to post such pictures for the sheer shock value instead of having a proper discussion, as pictures doesn't say everything, especially if you don't know where and when they were taken. [I]However [/I]it was hard finding a photograph of an [I]Einsatzgruppe [/I]not in the middle of executing someone (and some times even posing while doing it).
[QUOTE=kaine123;45723576]Of course then also a lot of the soldiers in the eastern front witnessed the atrocities occurring, and then probably feared punishment if they were to tell of it at home.[/QUOTE] Most men wouldn't talk about things like that at home anyway, just because they don't want to dwell on it. Things like that also tend to get chocked up as just being a "horrors of war" type deal. Not many would look at individual cases and assume its a systematic genocide. If you're interested in the eastern front and the type of mindset a soldier would have fighting on that front, I'd suggest you read "A Stranger to Myself". [editline]18th August 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=Bonde;45725627]True, the Red Army did have motivation to commit a greater amount of war crimes than the regular Wehrmacht during the later stages of the war where they were on the offensive. This was especially because the Soviet high command chose to use the Nazi war crimes committed in Ukraine, Belarus and Russia as propaganda to fuel thoughts of hatred and revenge in the troops, driving them ever forward to completely annihilate Nazi Germany militarily. It was easy, because so many soldiers in the Red Army had lost family, girlfriends and friends due to the absolutely mind boggling casualties the Soviet union suffered because of famine, disease, genocide, and not to mention the war itself. That at least goes some way to explain why the Red Army committed atrocities on a greater scale than the Wehrmacht in the last stages of the war. Rapes were very common, so were executions of prisoners and looting. This wasn't very planned, but no one really tried to stop them, since NKVD were busy with carrying out planned executions and deportations of political opponents. I could post hundreds of photos of both "on the spot" and planned executions, but you have all seen the pictures. Besides, I find it a bit tasteless to post such pictures for the sheer shock value instead of having a proper discussion, as pictures doesn't say everything, especially if you don't know where and when they were taken. [I]However [/I]it was hard finding a photograph of an [I]Einsatzgruppe [/I]not in the middle of executing someone (and some times even posing while doing it).[/QUOTE] To further that, the Soviets released dozens of photoshopped pictures showing Wehrmact troops looting , murdering civilians, and carrying out mass executions. If I can find the photoset again I'll post it.
this drink costs $500 to make [vid]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10880103/pics/%24500.webm[/vid]
[QUOTE=meppers;45730492]this drink costs $500 to make [vid]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10880103/pics/%24500.webm[/vid][/QUOTE] I can make a much more expensive drink: concentrated Chloroplatinic acid. [editline]18th August 2014[/editline] Expensive doesn't mean it's better than normal drinks. [editline]18th August 2014[/editline] It does look amazing and the production of it is really cool. [editline]18th August 2014[/editline] I want that.
[img]http://www.meh.ro/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/meh.ro10607.jpg[/img] [img]http://th09.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/i/2014/220/f/5/hong_kong_with_love_by_photoport-d7u8bs5.jpg[/img] [img]http://th00.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/f/2013/132/8/f/8f3f23232013bd959a324acf458da9cd-d653sv2.jpg[/img] [editline]19th August 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=joost1120;45730657]I can make a much more expensive drink: concentrated Chloroplatinic acid. [editline]18th August 2014[/editline] Expensive doesn't mean it's better than normal drinks. [editline]18th August 2014[/editline] It does look amazing and the production of it is really cool. [editline]18th August 2014[/editline] I want that.[/QUOTE] That's like saying a 5 star restaurant food is just as good as McDonald's.
On the topic of the Holocaust, I went to the Imperial War Museum recently and saw their exhibition on the Holocaust. At the end, they had a wall showing key figureheads in the Final Solution and what happened to them. What intrigued me was Mengele's entry. It says he drowned whilst swimming in the late 70s, with his identity being discovered only a few years afterwards. Looking at Wikipedia, it says the same thing. However, I've always heard (and I'm sure it said, last time I checked) that nobody ever knew what happened to him. It kind of feels like that Bearenstein/ Bearenstain thing all over again.. Did anybody already know what had happened to him, or am I just being paranoid?
[QUOTE=Jamsponge;45732120]On the topic of the Holocaust, I went to the Imperial War Museum recently and saw their exhibition on the Holocaust. At the end, they had a wall showing key figureheads in the Final Solution and what happened to them. What intrigued me was Mengele's entry. It says he drowned whilst swimming in the late 70s, with his identity being discovered only a few years afterwards. Looking at Wikipedia, it says the same thing. However, I've always heard (and I'm sure it said, last time I checked) that nobody ever knew what happened to him. It kind of feels like that Bearenstein/ Bearenstain thing all over again.. Did anybody already know what had happened to him, or am I just being paranoid?[/QUOTE] It's not that unusual for the general populace to end up not knowing about a mystery like that being solved. Similar things happened with the Bermuda Triangle and such as well. The mystery is solved but because people prefer a good mystery it mostly goes ignored by the general populace.
[QUOTE=Jamsponge;45732120] What intrigued me was Mengele's entry. It says he drowned whilst swimming in the late 70s[/QUOTE] I've always hypothesized that Mengele was drowned by the Mossad.
[QUOTE=Zillamaster55;45732188]I've always hypothesized that Mengele was drowned by the Mossad.[/QUOTE] Considering Mossad actually raised a bounty on him several years after his death (only to be informed of such an event), I doubt that somewhat.
They believe he had a stroke leading to drowning because he had had several in the years previous to his death. I don't think there are many poisons that can cause stroking.
[QUOTE=Alice3173;45732181]It's not that unusual for the general populace to end up not knowing about a mystery like that being solved. Similar things happened with the Bermuda Triangle and such as well. The mystery is solved but because people prefer a good mystery it mostly goes ignored by the general populace.[/QUOTE] the bermuda triangle thing was solved? what was it?
[QUOTE=Jamsponge;45732120]On the topic of the Holocaust, I went to the Imperial War Museum recently and saw their exhibition on the Holocaust. At the end, they had a wall showing key figureheads in the Final Solution and what happened to them. What intrigued me was Mengele's entry. It says he drowned whilst swimming in the late 70s, with his identity being discovered only a few years afterwards. Looking at Wikipedia, it says the same thing. However, I've always heard (and I'm sure it said, last time I checked) that nobody ever knew what happened to him. It kind of feels like that Bearenstein/ Bearenstain thing all over again.. Did anybody already know what had happened to him, or am I just being paranoid?[/QUOTE] It's like the "mystery" of Hitler's body. The rumor was always that he shot himself but nobody knows what happened to his body. Some say that it was carried off into the Bavarian mountains by some die-hard surviving SS figureheads and buried there or carried to Argentina or some other South American country. What actually happened is that his body was burned alongside Eva's, Joseph Goebbels, and Goebel's family. The body was then found by the soviets, they took the skull and had a dentist x-ray the teeth and cross reference it with older x-rays of Hitler's jaw to confirm the body. The Soviets then carried it to the east side of Berlin and buried it somewhere on the Soviet Embassy's property. Some point later they dug up the body, took the Skull fragments and saved them in the Moscow Archives (where they still remain to this day), and disposed of the rest of the body. I assume they saved the charred corpse so long because they wanted to figure out a fancy way to disgrace it at some point, but just gave up since it was burned beyond recognition. [editline]19th August 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=Schmaaa;45733693]the bermuda triangle thing was solved? what was it?[/QUOTE] methane pockets fuckin up everything. Causes altimeters on aircraft to give bad readings and incompetent pilots crash because of it.
[QUOTE=Schmaaa;45733693]the bermuda triangle thing was solved? what was it?[/QUOTE] afaik it's a bunch of coincidences The place is highly populated by amateur sailors and pilots, so by relativity, more accidents happen That coupled with the fact that the place's prone to sudden storms, creates an area where accidents happen quite a lot And by the way, since there's the whole "mystery" surrounding it, you're more likely to hear about an accident that happened there than an accident that happened elsewhere, only fueling the myths further.
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