[QUOTE=Trunk Monkay;46242823]Train rides are cheaper than aircraft flights.[/QUOTE]
Not really on long journeys. I just read a journal some time ago where a journalist traveled from Finland to Spain using only trains and compared it to flying. Using trains was significantly more expensive.
The trip also took four days. Using a plane would've taken some three hours. Train was more eco-friendly though.
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waterfall amidst a mountain covered in ash after a volcano eruption in iceland.
[QUOTE=revan740;46241671]That would be a super awesome vacation. You just sit on a train and visit all these different parts of the globe. The best part would be you'd see all the scenery from the ground.[/QUOTE]
And people said the train track in Snowpiercer would be ridiculous
[QUOTE=Trunk Monkay;46242823]Train rides are cheaper than aircraft flights.[/QUOTE]
That's not entirely true. It really depends on where you're coming, and going.
I can get a plane ticket to DC for 200. I can also take an Amtrak train from NYC to DC for the same price.
Amtrak is infinitely better though, even though it takes longer.
[QUOTE=download;46238656]He have this thing here in Australia called 'wine tours' where you go around to all the vineyards to try and drink wine. Except that the real reason people do it is to feel posh and get hammered.
No idea if they exist outside of Australia.[/QUOTE]we have em' here, i've been to one in cali
Two days ago was the United States Navy's Birthday.
[url=http://www.c7f.navy.mil/documents/medical/3%20-%20CDR%20McClure%20Operation%20TOMODACHI.pdf]Operation Tomodachi. Joint JPN and USN operations during disaster relief[/url]
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Captain John Paul Jones, AKA Павел де Жовес 'Pavel' Sarcophagus
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The USS Motherfucking Constitution, the state ship of the USA.
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Seahawk helicopter delivering relief supplies to Sumatrans
US Marines assisting in relief efforts in Operation Tomodachi
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[quote]While transporting 76 barrels of kerosene to those affected by the earthquake and tsunami, the aircrew of Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 265 conducts visual reconnaissance missions along the coastline of northern Japan, searching for S.O.S. signals from gatherings of Japanese citizens.[/quote]
"Haa Aaní", an art piece by Nicholas Galanin, contemporary Native American artist.
I'm not an art guy, so there's some deeper meaning here which I'm not getting, but it's a cool looking gun and y'all like guns, right?
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[quote]Hand Engraved and Carved AR15 w/ soft case
16" M4 Barrel, 5.56 nato, 1/9, M-16, Leupold Mark AR MOD 1 1.5-4x20mm P5 Dial Riflescope, Matte Black, Duplex Reticle, Fancy Grade Walnut Wood AR-15 furniture, Hand sewn Sea Otter strap.
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Was looking for the song that was in the MGS:V trailer, and I found this neato video (with the song) that has a bunch of surreal footage from early US Nuclear tests
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkAp5gAYDUQ[/media]
I think it's p interesting because it shows how we though Nuclear warfare would go before we knew it's full effects. Like at the first detonation, the film shows troops hopping out of their trenches and advancing towards the explosion, completely unaware of the fallout.
[QUOTE=Trunk Monkay;46247516]
I think it's p interesting because it shows how we though Nuclear warfare would go before we knew it's full effects. Like at the first detonation, the film shows troops hopping out of their trenches and advancing towards the explosion, completely unaware of the fallout.[/QUOTE]
It wouldn't surprise me if they were ordered to advance on it.
They were.
[QUOTE=$$>MUFFIN<$$;46248311]It wouldn't surprise me if they were ordered to advance on it.[/QUOTE]
It's blatantly obvious they were. No nimrod would jump out of his trench and start running toward a nuclear detonation on his own accord.
That's one hell of a lazy edited muzzleflash.
Also a nice target for artillery.
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This 109 G-4 crashed a while back in Denmark, they restored it and it seems to be right back into its old shape :)
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waterfall amidst a mountain covered in ash after a volcano eruption in iceland.[/QUOTE]
Doesn't really work here, but stuff covered in volcanic ash reminds me of untextured 3D models.
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[QUOTE]Official presidential portrait of Menem[/QUOTE]
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An x-ray of a man with a tooth near his sinus.
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It's like if chemistry had progressed faster than metallurgy.
[QUOTE=download;46249621]It's like if chemistry had progressed faster than metallurgy.[/QUOTE]
There is a rifle there, so its like everything progressed faster than logic.
I like it though, everyone associates ww1 with mud, blood, trenches and festering wounds but there would have been all that before ww1. I can't imagine how bloody, muddy and hopeless battles must have been in medieval times.
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They all borked, didn't they. Well [URL=http://www.keiththompsonart.com/gallery.html]have the link to his gallery instead. I'd rather direct traffic than rehost.[/URL]
[QUOTE=mdeceiver79;46249643]There is a rifle there, so its like everything progressed faster than logic.
I like it though, everyone associates ww1 with mud, blood, trenches and festering wounds but there would have been all that before ww1. I can't imagine how bloody, muddy and hopeless battles must have been in medieval times.[/QUOTE]Before the mid 19th century, majority of soldiers died of disease rather than combat iirc.
[QUOTE=Sgt Doom;46249834]Before the mid 19th century, majority of soldiers died of disease rather than combat iirc.[/QUOTE]
The boer wars saw more brits die from disease than from the commandos shooting them.
Even ww1 had more people die from spanish flu and infections than straight off injury. The Ottomans lost 10000s of men to cold and disease, men without shoes truding through snow 1000s died over night as they froze in their sleep.
In africa the germans played run around with the brits, in a kind of guerilla campaign, despite barely any combat the brits were beaten by the jungle and disease.
I think even ww2 had a fair amount of diseases and stuff.
Crazy how many people died from silly things like drinking muddy water instead of boiling it first.
[QUOTE=CabooseRvB;46244723]Two days ago was the United States Navy's Birthday.
[url=http://www.c7f.navy.mil/documents/medical/3%20-%20CDR%20McClure%20Operation%20TOMODACHI.pdf]Operation Tomodachi. Joint JPN and USN operations during disaster relief[/url][/QUOTE]
For those who don't know, ともだち or Tomodachi means Friend
[QUOTE=mdeceiver79;46249891]The boer wars saw more brits die from disease than from the commandos shooting them.
Even ww1 had more people die from spanish flu and infections than straight off injury. The Ottomans lost 10000s of men to cold and disease, men without shoes truding through snow 1000s died over night as they froze in their sleep.
In africa the germans played run around with the brits, in a kind of guerilla campaign, despite barely any combat the brits were beaten by the jungle and disease.
I think even ww2 had a fair amount of diseases and stuff.
Crazy how many people died from silly things like drinking muddy water instead of boiling it first.[/QUOTE]Imagine how different a film Saving Private Ryan would've become
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An x-ray of a man with a tooth near his sinus.[/QUOTE]
Imagine blowing your nose and a tooth shoots out.
[QUOTE=OvB;46251869]Imagine blowing your nose and a tooth shoots out.[/QUOTE]
b movie superpower.
[QUOTE=Sgt Doom;46250476]Imagine how different a film Saving Private Ryan would've become[/QUOTE]
Not that much different. The reason disease festers like it did in WWI and previous wars is because of trenches and having to stay in the same spot for a long ass time. In those situations, you've got disease carrying rats nipping at your toes when you sleep, improperly maintained latrines, and contaminated water that makes for bad time.
The guys in Saving Private Ryan wouldn't have really been affected by this because they were constantly on the move. When they did have to sit in one place, it tended to be a house or village where things like rats and bad latrines weren't a big worry.
Now, on the Eastern Front, thats a whole 'nother story. Trench warfare was used heavily on the eastern front, and because of that, all the nasty trench-diseases and infections came with it as well.
[QUOTE=Trunk Monkay;46252452]Not that much different. The reason disease festers like it did in WWI and previous wars is because of trenches and having to stay in the same spot for a long ass time. In those situations, you've got disease carrying rats nipping at your toes when you sleep, improperly maintained latrines, and contaminated water that makes for bad time.
The guys in Saving Private Ryan wouldn't have really been affected by this because they were constantly on the move. When they did have to sit in one place, it tended to be a house or village where things like rats and bad latrines weren't a big worry.
Now, on the Eastern Front, thats a whole 'nother story. Trench warfare was used heavily on the eastern front, and because of that, all the nasty trench-diseases and infections came with it as well.[/QUOTE]Don't overanalyze it you boring old sod :c
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