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Penn Station, 1910
And in case you didn't know, they demolished it and built an awful new one that looks horrid.
[QUOTE=Sharker;45923848][t]http://38.media.tumblr.com/a7e79c34f91bf8cfca7a32fc44883fc2/tumblr_nbh7wzkhgn1s7e5k5o1_1280.jpg[/t]
Penn Station, 1910
And in case you didn't know, they demolished it and built an awful new one that looks horrid.[/QUOTE]
Holy crap, I never knew how beautiful it was. Whenever I'm in Penn Station it's just this dark, musky smelling place. Absolutely no windows, and the platforms are so goddamn dark it's almost scary.
[QUOTE=kaine123;45921121][IMG]http://i.imgur.com/IxDXOWG.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
[img]http://www.strategypage.com/gallery/images/sea_based_x_radar.jpg[/img]
This thing looks like a superweapon straight out of Red Alert.
[QUOTE=kaine123;45921121][IMG]http://i.imgur.com/IxDXOWG.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
Fun fact: I go to a campus on an island of dredge material and they have a few of those jack-up rigs parked near by. They're pretty big.
[editline]8th September 2014[/editline]
[QUOTE=booster;45926392][img]http://www.strategypage.com/gallery/images/sea_based_x_radar.jpg[/img]
This thing looks like a superweapon straight out of Red Alert.[/QUOTE]
It's this [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea-based_X-band_Radar[/url]
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/74/ALPR.jpg[/img]
[quote]From 1954 to 1955, the U.S. Army evaluated their need for nuclear reactor plants that would be operable in remote regions of the Arctic. The reactors were to replace diesel generators and boilers that provided electricity and space heating for the Army's radar stations. The Army Reactors Branch formed the guidelines for the project and contracted with Argonne National Laboratory to design, build, and test a prototype reactor plant to be called the Argonne Low Power Reactor (ALPR).
On January 3, 1961, the reactor was being prepared for restart after a shutdown of eleven days over the holidays. Maintenance procedures were in progress, which required the main central control rod to be manually withdrawn a few inches to reconnect it to its drive mechanism; at 9:01 p.m. this rod was suddenly withdrawn too far, causing SL-1 to go prompt critical instantly. In four milliseconds, the heat generated by the resulting enormous power surge caused water surrounding the core to begin to explosively vaporize. The water vapor caused a pressure wave to strike the top of the reactor vessel, causing water and steam to spray from the top of the vessel. This extreme form of water hammer propelled control rods, shield plugs, and the entire reactor vessel upwards. A later investigation concluded that the 26,000-pound (12,000 kg) vessel had jumped 9 feet 1 inch (2.77 m) and the upper control rod drive mechanisms had struck the ceiling of the reactor building prior to settling back into its original location.[7][10] The spray of water and steam knocked two operators onto the floor, killing one and severely injuring another. One of the shield plugs on top of the reactor vessel impaled the third man through his groin and exited his shoulder, pinning him to the ceiling.[/quote]
[quote]The third man was discovered last because he was pinned to the ceiling above the reactor by a shield plug and not easily recognizable.[7] On January 9, in relays of two at a time, a team of ten men, allowed no more than 65 seconds exposure each, used sharp hooks on the end of long poles to pull Legg's body free of the shield plug, dropping it onto a 5-by-20-foot (1.5 by 6.1 m) stretcher attached to a crane.
The bodies of all three were buried in lead-lined caskets sealed with concrete and placed in metal vaults with a concrete cover. Some highly radioactive body parts were buried in the Idaho desert as radioactive waste.[/quote]
[t]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/40/Sl-1-ineel81-3966.jpg[/t]
The Mighty Atom.
[QUOTE=booster;45926392][img]http://www.strategypage.com/gallery/images/sea_based_x_radar.jpg[/img]
This thing looks like a superweapon straight out of Red Alert.[/QUOTE]
It also looks like a giant ping-pong ball.
[QUOTE=pentium;45928707][img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/74/ALPR.jpg[/img]
[t]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/40/Sl-1-ineel81-3966.jpg[/t]
The Mighty Atom.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE]...which required the main central control rod to be manually withdrawn a few inches to reconnect it to its drive mechanism; at 9:01 p.m. this rod was suddenly withdrawn too far, causing SL-1 to go prompt critical instantly. In four milliseconds, the heat generated by the resulting enormous power surge caused water surrounding the core to begin to explosively vaporize...[/QUOTE]
[I]Fuck,[/I] I hate to say it but, that escalated quickly. How much is "too far"?
[QUOTE=pentium;45928707][img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/74/ALPR.jpg[/img]
[quote]The third man was discovered last because he was pinned to the ceiling above the reactor by a shield plug and not easily recognizable.[/quote]
[t]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/40/Sl-1-ineel81-3966.jpg[/t]
The Mighty Atom.[/QUOTE]
fuck
This is the footage from the tragically closed Back to the Future: The Ride
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZSxPCKDTpE[/media]
The film was achieved not by any computer imagery, but a live performance of puppeteers mixed with some post production tricks. The three sets were miniatures and every light was actually a bulb in which some even had sequences. The special effects were done by the same guys behind Blade Runner.
Such a marvel in special effects, sadly replaced by a much less than worthy attraction "The Simpsons Ride" in 2007 which used all CG imagery that looks no different than a video game from the last console generation. (Example: [url]http://static.squarespace.com/static/52b4a2cfe4b0c23eed655fe1/52bb332de4b0a700e59e0e41/52bcd7d1e4b0d7a3765a7044/1388107731580/SimpsonsRide_1920-1200_01.jpg?format=1500w[/url])
Even after 23 years since it debuted it looks spectacular.
Posted this an another thread, but it's plenty relevant here:
[QUOTE=StickyWicket;45930086]Discreet weaponry is a relatively new concept in history, usually warriors would be proud to boast their weapons, sporting them for all to see. In fact, let me show you some of these various anglo-saxon fittings and other ornamental wargear. They were uncovered in the Staffordshire hoard. If anyone knows of a culture which produced more beautiful jewelry than this, I would like them to tell me.
[url=https://flic.kr/p/bAY4oB][t]https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7037/6959266219_f96a1e145a_o.jpg[/t][/url]
[url=https://flic.kr/p/bAY4r2][t]https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7177/6959266359_8e7734e999_o.jpg[/t][/url]
[url=https://flic.kr/p/bAY4B4][t]https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7066/6959266941_215c6a6f3f_o.jpg[/t][/url]
[url=https://flic.kr/p/bAY4FD][t]https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7044/6959267207_8f0198ca42_o.jpg[/t][/url]
[url=https://flic.kr/p/bAY5sx][t]https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7046/6959269811_3e1b3c81f9_o.jpg[/t][/url]
[url=https://flic.kr/p/bAY5jX][t]https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7057/6959269371_5d74770690_o.jpg[/t][/url]
[url=https://flic.kr/p/bAY5xr][t]https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7051/6959270095_04a2b64daa_o.jpg[/t][/url]
[url=https://flic.kr/p/bAY6yr][t]https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7204/6959273517_d147396962_o.jpg[/t][/url]
[url=https://flic.kr/p/bAY65K][t]https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7188/6959271911_fa1296bcf2_o.jpg[/t][/url]
[url=https://flic.kr/p/brEW4U][t]https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7268/6854076218_da257af15b_o.jpg[/t][/url]
[url=https://flic.kr/p/bEzYWH][t]https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7130/7000224781_dba49feed2_o.jpg[/t][/url]
[url=https://flic.kr/p/brpysA][t]https://farm7.staticflickr.com/6031/6851076846_6daaf084af_o.jpg[/t][/url]
[url=https://flic.kr/p/bqy65A][t]https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7059/6841424254_a4857444ab_o.jpg[/t][/url]
You can see where the art styles of paganism's bestial nature and Christianity's "God's word is gold" meet. Clearly, these pieces were made with the philosophy of magnificence over comeliness.
Images from [url=https://www.flickr.com/people/57974496@N06/]staffordshirehoard[/url], on Flickr. As a testimony to their hypnotic qualities, I had to force myself from posting all the findings here. I encourage you to look at the rest.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Bradyns;45931338][video=youtube;YhMiuzyU1ag]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhMiuzyU1ag[/video][/QUOTE]
While on the topic, stationary waves are fucking cool:
[video=youtube;NpEevfOU4Z8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpEevfOU4Z8[/video]
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A father and his son during the Arapahoe Shooting:
[IMG]http://alternatekev.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/arapahoe.png?w=696&h=9260[/IMG]
[QUOTE=Griffster26;45934263](pagestretch inbound)
A father and his son during the Arapahoe Shooting:
[IMG]http://alternatekev.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/arapahoe.png?w=696&h=9260[/IMG][/QUOTE]
This was nerve-wracking to read.
I was morbidly waiting for the kid to go silent or something and see a string of texts from the dad alone.
[QUOTE=kyle877;45934375]This was nerve-wracking to read.[/QUOTE]
It was, but to be frank, if my kid was in the same school as a school shooter I'd be pretty fucking worried too.
[QUOTE=booster;45934772]It was, but to be frank, if my kid was in the same school as a school shooter I'd be pretty fucking worried too.[/QUOTE]
That's what I mean, I was waiting for something terrible to happen to the kid.
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/u9goman.jpg[/IMG]
[QUOTE=Maya Skull]Photograph by Wes C. Skiles
Octavio del Rio examines an ancient Maya skull, well-preserved in the low-oxygen environment of an underwater cave. The scene was captured by underwater photographer and explorer Wes C. Skiles, whose incredible images grace this gallery. Skiles died July 21 while filming and diving in the ocean off the Florida coast. His breathtaking coverage of blue holes is National Geographic magazine’s August cover story.
“Wes was a true explorer in every sense and a wonderful spirit,” Editor in Chief Chris Johns said. "He set a standard for underwater photography, cinematography, and exploration that is unsurpassed. It was an honor to work with him, and he will be deeply missed."[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Griffster26;45937480][IMG]http://i.imgur.com/u9goman.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
Wes C. Skiles is a badass.
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/J7b5Byw.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/z440hvx.jpg[/IMG]
They even renamed a State Park after him:
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/Ow1bOvq.jpg[/IMG]
If you have the time check out his bio. He's seen things few humans have ever seen.
[url]http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/photography/photographers/photographer-wes-skiles/[/url]
Huge inspiration in both diving and photography.
The movie Sanctum was inspired and dedicated to Wes C Skiles.
[QUOTE=OvB;45937529]
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/z440hvx.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
Wow, are there versions with higher resolution? This would be a great desktop wallpaper.
[QUOTE=Prollgurke;45940923]Wow, are there versions with higher resolution? This would be a great desktop wallpaper.[/QUOTE]
Somewhere on the Nat Geo website you can download it. Or you can order prints and that stuff too.
[editline]10th September 2014[/editline]
It's called the "Cascade Room." And it's probably his most recognized photo. It was used on the cover of a NatGeo issue. Shouldn't be too hard to find.
Some drawn maps of London
[img]http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/09/10/1410354936874_wps_38_George_Braun_and_Franz_Ho.jpg[/img]
[img]http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/09/10/1410354947345_wps_39_Rcihard_Horwood_1799_jpg.jpg[/img]
[img]http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/09/10/1410354956672_wps_42_Thomas_Porter_1655_jpg.jpg[/img]
[img]http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/09/10/1410354963863_wps_44_Edward_Langley_and_Willia.jpg[/img]
[img]http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/09/10/1410354966488_wps_45_Christopher_Greenwood_182.jpg[/img]
[img]http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/09/10/1410354970480_wps_46_George_Cruchley_1843_jpg.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=OvB;45941390]Somewhere on the Nat Geo website you can download it. Or you can order prints and that stuff too.
[editline]10th September 2014[/editline]
It's called the "Cascade Room." And it's probably his most recognized photo. It was used on the cover of a NatGeo issue. Shouldn't be too hard to find.[/QUOTE]
Sorry but I just can't find it. I can't even find a wikipedia article
[QUOTE=Prollgurke;45943022]Sorry but I just can't find it. I can't even find a wikipedia article[/QUOTE]
Here's part of it [url]http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/photography/photo-of-the-day/underwater-cave-bahamas-skiles/[/url]
Not sure if you can find the full panoramic.
Here's some more of his photography, too: [url]http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2010/08/bahamas-caves/skiles-photography?source=pod[/url]
[QUOTE=Prollgurke;45940923]Wow, are there versions with higher resolution? This would be a great desktop wallpaper.[/QUOTE]
if you [U]really [/U]want higher resolution of this image...
[url]http://national-geographic.cafepress.com/art.677022764?substrate=Wall%20Decal&size=XXL[/url]
[sp]buy it, scan it to computer[/sp]
[img]http://i.imgur.com/JNH7gje.jpg[/img]
Walt Disney riding on the locomotive on opening day at Disneyland
[img]http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120402043655/disney/images/f/f0/Ep_Ripley.jpg[/img]
The locomotive still operates today.