• Auxiliary Pics
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[t]http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20140920132247/althistory/images/2/2e/PAR67320.jpg[/t] Prague Spring, 1968.
[img_thumb]http://i.imgur.com/5flOn4b.jpg[/img_thumb] Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill posing for a photo 1885 [editline]30th October 2014[/editline] [img]http://i.imgur.com/zdIgvD9.png[/img] An Army First Sergeant has a unique teaching method. Utilizing Betty Grable's pin-up photo, he teaches his soldiers how to read parts of a map. [editline]30th October 2014[/editline] [img]http://i.imgur.com/nNDeBCu.jpg[/img] Outlined is the 'target zone' where 279 B-29's dropped 1,665 tons of bombs on March 10 1945
I took a picture of the ISS with my phone's "naked" eye: [img]http://i.imgur.com/HZ1arD8.png[/img]
lies, that's clearly a
Dude, good effort actually getting a picture of the ISS. Was out the back of the house one night trying to get a picture of it with my telescope. Little did I know I'd only see it in the sky for like 6 seconds before it blazed past me. Thing's going at ludicrous speed.
how exactly did you take a photo of something 330km away with your phone
[QUOTE=CMB Unit 01;46370900]Dude, good effort actually getting a picture of the ISS. Was out the back of the house one night trying to get a picture of it with my telescope. Little did I know I'd only see it in the sky for like 6 seconds before it blazed past me. Thing's going at ludicrous speed.[/QUOTE] Must have been at a really low angle. It usually takes a good few miutes to pass through on a high trajectory. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGfLY1bU3U0[/media] [QUOTE=Scot;46371203]how exactly did you take a photo of something 330km away with your phone[/QUOTE] The sky is dark, the station is lighter than any star. I cropped the image, it actually takes a small part of the photo. Plus, it's not actually that long, that's just the blur (I was holding the phone in my hands) It's real size on this picture would be as big as one of the little white parts. To compare, here's a view through a "10-inch Newtonian reflector" (whatever that means) [img]http://science.nasa.gov/media/medialibrary/2009/03/17/17mar_bigconstruction_resources/vandebergh1.jpg[/img]
A photo of the single most expensive object in human history.
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[QUOTE=CabooseRvB;46368853] [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/nNDeBCu.jpg[/IMG] Outlined is the 'target zone' where 279 B-29's dropped 1,665 tons of bombs on March 10 1945[/QUOTE] Keep in mind that almost every bomb dropped on Tokyo was incendiary, meaning that it [URL="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/90/Firebombing_of_Tokyo.jpg"]burned like a motherfucker[/URL] and anyone who got caught up in it's path was given an [URL="http://www.ww2incolor.com/d/38430-7/f01"]extremely painful[/URL] and [URL="http://livedoor.blogimg.jp/ronsoku2/imgs/8/f/8f31e38d.jpg"]gruesome death[/URL]. Considering most of Tokyo at the time was made of wood, it was [URL="http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/ww2_19/s_w19_09101251.jpg"]insanely effective[/URL]. Around 100,000 were killed on that single night, all burned alive. One of the worst Allied [URL="http://pic12.997788.com/bbspic/00/0000/000002/00000236/00000236135.jpg"]crimes [/URL]of the war, worse than Hiroshima and Dresden.
[QUOTE=Trunk Monkay;46374889]Keep in mind that almost every bomb dropped on Tokyo was incendiary, meaning that it [URL="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/90/Firebombing_of_Tokyo.jpg"]burned like a motherfucker[/URL] and anyone who got caught up in it's path was given an [URL="http://www.ww2incolor.com/d/38430-7/f01"]extremely painful[/URL] and [URL="http://livedoor.blogimg.jp/ronsoku2/imgs/8/f/8f31e38d.jpg"]gruesome death[/URL]. Considering most of Tokyo at the time was made of wood, it was [URL="http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/ww2_19/s_w19_09101251.jpg"]insanely effective[/URL]. Around 100,000 were killed on that single night, all burned alive. One of the worst Allied [URL="http://pic12.997788.com/bbspic/00/0000/000002/00000236/00000236135.jpg"]crimes [/URL]of the war, worse than Hiroshima and Dresden.[/QUOTE] You don't need to tell me that they were special bombs to make me feel bad. I think it's sick enough that they killed thousands of innocent civilians and are celebrating it with such posters.
[QUOTE=Trunk Monkay;46374889]Keep in mind that almost every bomb dropped on Tokyo was incendiary, meaning that it [URL="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/90/Firebombing_of_Tokyo.jpg"]burned like a motherfucker[/URL] and anyone who got caught up in it's path was given an [URL="http://www.ww2incolor.com/d/38430-7/f01"]extremely painful[/URL] and [URL="http://livedoor.blogimg.jp/ronsoku2/imgs/8/f/8f31e38d.jpg"]gruesome death[/URL]. Considering most of Tokyo at the time was made of wood, it was [URL="http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/ww2_19/s_w19_09101251.jpg"]insanely effective[/URL]. Around 100,000 were killed on that single night, all burned alive. One of the worst Allied [URL="http://pic12.997788.com/bbspic/00/0000/000002/00000236/00000236135.jpg"]crimes [/URL]of the war, worse than Hiroshima and Dresden.[/QUOTE] I doubt we need a history lesson with every photo
Strategic bombing of civilians wasn't a warcrime until 1947.
I don't see what's so bad about explaining the bombings on Japan. You guys all seem to like mentioning Japan's or Germany's warcrimes.
I've always wondered if there were any allied citizens that just happened to be in Tokyo when the firebombing happened
[QUOTE=Mr. Bleak;46376521]I've always wondered if there were any allied citizens that just happened to be in Tokyo when the firebombing happened[/QUOTE] POWs and captured Aleut were in cities that were bombed
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;46375474]I doubt we need a history lesson with every photo[/QUOTE] Too bad.
SpaceShipTwo crashed, something to do with an engine explosion three on board, at least one dead [t]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/41/White_Knight_Two_and_SpaceShipTwo_from_directly_below.jpg[/t] [t]http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=35974.0;attach=618777;image[/t]
[IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b8/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-J05235,_Berlin,_Gro%C3%9Fkundgebung_im_Sportpalast.jpg[/IMG] Joseph Goebbels delivering his infamous "Total War" speech [QUOTE]I ask you: Do you want total war? If necessary, do you want a war more total and radical than anything that we can even yet imagine?[/QUOTE] [QUOTE]Now, people, rise up, and let the storm break loose![/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Winstonn;46378945]SpaceShipTwo crashed, something to do with an engine explosion three on board, at least one dead [t]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/41/White_Knight_Two_and_SpaceShipTwo_from_directly_below.jpg[/t] [t]http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=35974.0;attach=618777;image[/t][/QUOTE] When did that happen?
[QUOTE=lekkimsm;46379373]When did that happen?[/QUOTE] Today [editline]dsddsad[/editline] [img]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B1TyKcCCYAA-OrR.png:large[/img]
[QUOTE=CabooseRvB;46368853] [img]http://i.imgur.com/zdIgvD9.png[/img] An Army First Sergeant has a unique teaching method. Utilizing Betty Grable's pin-up photo, he teaches his soldiers how to read parts of a map.[/QUOTE] Just a first sergeant? According to his sleeve, he's more like First Master Sergeant of Map sergeant super sergeant wargod sergeant
sergeant master sergeant the most important person of master sergeants to the max
Supersotajumala
give the nuclear missile bomb to us leader of enemy boss
[QUOTE=Ramone;46380606]Supersotajumala[/QUOTE] Most I've ever met was ylisotajumala :(
[QUOTE=Joazzz;46380334]sergeant master sergeant the most important person of master sergeants to the max[/QUOTE] Needs picture of the office of a man whose last name is Major, his rank was Lt. Colonel and his office was "private" -> "Lt. Colonel Major Private"
[QUOTE=Ramone;46380160]Just a first sergeant? According to his sleeve, he's more like First Master Sergeant of Map sergeant super sergeant wargod sergeant[/QUOTE] [t]http://www.gamersglobal.de/sites/gamersglobal.de/files/userupload/user3454/DutyCalls/RankUpMax.JPG[/t]
[QUOTE=Ramone;46380160]Just a first sergeant? According to his sleeve, he's more like First Master Sergeant of Map sergeant super sergeant wargod sergeant[/QUOTE] First Sergeant, 3 Years of War Service, and 7 stripes x 3 years a stripe = 21 years of Military Service. So yeah, basically a First Master Sergeant of Sergeants [editline]31st October 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=maximizer39v2;46355684]You still have to stack all the rounds in the tray but it'd probably take way less time. Only annoying thing is that you'd have to get different ones for different sizes of rounds[/QUOTE] I learned that including tax, it costs about $450. I'll stick to hand loading, fucking hell
[img]http://i.imgur.com/JlNQBzt.jpg[/img] US Marines battling in Peleliu [img]http://i.imgur.com/soTe9DC.jpg[/img] US Soldier cradling a dog during the Battle of Khe Sanh [img]http://i.imgur.com/JPGGF0w.jpg[/img] MIG Pilot flies underneath a bridge. [editline]31st October 2014[/editline] [img]https://41.media.tumblr.com/1e1e021a0a2f9ecaf20ef50046886ac5/tumblr_mwodxx3sSL1qivon6o1_400.jpg[/img] US Soldier at Khe Sanh
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