[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGqeyQhBPMI[/media]
just wanted to share this video clip is all
[QUOTE=paul simon;46479279][img]https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2948/15491610455_ac2c498f9d_c.jpg[/img][/url]
(all are clickable for full res)[/QUOTE]
This one was kind of dull, but the rest were incredible.
[img]http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/ww2_20/s_w12_50528046.jpg[/img]
German POW's groom the cemetery at Omaha Beach 1 year after D-day. June, 1945.
speaking of old
THIS did not exist when I was born
[img]http://boxedinfinity.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/zelda-cartridge.jpg[/img]
[quote]the first home console title to include an internal battery for saving data.[/quote]
My mother and brother picked it up and played it a few months after I was born, then when I was old enough I did too. However, the internal battery in the first one died so we had to buy a new copy (we didn't know you could probably fix it). The old game to this day has sharpie on it that says "Does not save!"
Celebrities that served their country.
[img]http://i.imgur.com/JkpnFNN.jpg[/img]
Army Staff Sergeant Leonard Nimoy
[img]http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/air-force-morgan-freeman.jpg[/img]
Airman Morgan Freeman
[img]http://toprightnewscom.c.presscdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/02-ice-t.jpg[/img]
Army Specialist Tracy Marrow AKA Ice-T
[img]http://toprightnewscom.c.presscdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/08-montel.jpg[/img]
Marine Lieutenant Montel Williams
Holy shit Morgan freeman.
[QUOTE=CabooseRvB;46482513]Celebrities that served their country.
[img]http://toprightnewscom.c.presscdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/02-ice-t.jpg[/img]
Army Specialist Tracy Marrow AKA Ice-T
[/QUOTE]
These are cool, but that looks nothing like Ice-T.
Soviet Combat Engineer advances on German position in the ruins of Stalingrad
[img]https://33.media.tumblr.com/43b40522d57b673ecba6d619b5a3164f/tumblr_n21kod4Ldm1reg6u1o1_1280.jpg[/img]
[t]http://i.imgur.com/xfGY0Fb.jpg[/t]
[QUOTE=Trunk Monkay;46485514]Werfing Flammen[/QUOTE]
Flamethrowers scare the shit out of me. It's a horrific way to be wounded/worse. Having heard the weird roar they make and the way it just throws intense heat all around, even behind the wielder, they just seem like one of the worst infantry sized weapons that could be deployed.
[QUOTE=Xion21;46486188]Flamethrowers scare the shit out of me. It's a horrific way to be wounded/worse. Having heard the weird roar they make and the way it just throws intense heat all around, even behind the wielder, they just seem like one of the worst infantry sized weapons that could be deployed.[/QUOTE]
the flame thats werfing
[QUOTE=Xion21;46486188]Flamethrowers scare the shit out of me. It's a horrific way to be wounded/worse. Having heard the weird roar they make and the way it just throws intense heat all around, even behind the wielder, they just seem like one of the worst infantry sized weapons that could be deployed.[/QUOTE]
I mean, Davy Crocketts were practically infantry-sized Nukes. It's a good thing that everyone decided that tactical nukes were a bad idea.
[QUOTE=Xion21;46486188]Flamethrowers scare the shit out of me. It's a horrific way to be wounded/worse. Having heard the weird roar they make and the way it just throws intense heat all around, even behind the wielder, they just seem like one of the worst infantry sized weapons that could be deployed.[/QUOTE]
If it makes you feel any better, after the substance sticks to your skin and burns through your epidural and underlying nerve bed you cease the ability to feel pain, or anything really. You will only be in pain for maybe 10 or so seconds provided your body's surface area is sufficiently coated. Afterwards you'll most likely die of suffocation as your airway and lungs will likely be scorched by the heat. You wouldn't be entirely conscious of this happening either, as the rapid and extreme change to your body will either render you unconscious within the first few seconds or at least unaware of whats happening.
I don't wanna be 'that guy' but it really makes me question why someone would depict this as worse to, say drowning or being gassed, in which the latter would leave you convulsing, in pain and shitting all over yourself, and may take longer than the 30 or so seconds for immolation.
[url]http://i.imgur.com/7qY6FNj.gifv[/url]
As you can see most of the tissue is covered in the flame and on some parts, completely burned to the bone, the movements towards the end are not the direct results of him trying to move away, the remaining muscle tissue is contracting due to the extreme heat. Don't want to be a creepo but my classes have covered some of the intricacies involved in immolation and I wanted to share.
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most likely because the last kind of sensation you would feel before succumbing to the extreme heat is intense pain? It doesn't take a genius to understand that.
[QUOTE=TAU!;46486301]...
most likely because the last kind of sensation you would feel before succumbing to the extreme heat is intense pain? It doesn't take a genius to understand that.[/QUOTE]
I'd reasonably imagine you would be so far off the reservation mentally speaking that you wouldn't be able to recognize you are burning after a few seconds. When you drown you get to watch as you feebly head for the surface and your lungs explode, or when you do reach the surface you get to live for a few hours in agony as your lungs struggle to maintain a proper rhythm or strength to move air. I guess it's all perspective anyway. When you talk about things like this it's not much a question of how quick or how much suffering and the severity of that pain over a period of time, you can't really measure those with dead people, but rather what a third-party perceives as the worst.
I imagine being hyped up on a drug so you can't pass out while being fed through something sharp and automated feet first would probably be the worst.
[QUOTE=Hiccuper;46467819]I'm 21 and it still feels like yesterday when I was 14 and getting condescending replies from 16 year-olds here.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Pilotguy97;46479232]I was born in 1997 and [I]I[/I] feel old.
I worked lighting for my school auditorium and, on account of my year graduating a last week, my job's being taken over by people born years after 9/11.[/QUOTE]
I'm 25. My youngest brother turned 20 last weekend. I still see him as the little 13 year old who looks up to me.
I have somehow never seen this before, Saturn eclipsing the sun
[t]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/ba/Saturn_eclipse.jpg[/t]
The dot on the left near the rings is earth.
Almost looks like a CGI.
[t]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/United_States_of_Colombia_%28orthographic_projection%29.svg/550px-United_States_of_Colombia_%28orthographic_projection%29.svg.png[/t]
[QUOTE]The United States of Colombia lasting from 1861 to 1886[/QUOTE]
I now wonder what other attempts to mimic the USA had been made in the past.
[editline]14th November 2014[/editline]
It also shows that Colombia's good relationship with the USA has a long history, doesn't it?
[QUOTE=godfatherk;46487555][t]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/United_States_of_Colombia_%28orthographic_projection%29.svg/550px-United_States_of_Colombia_%28orthographic_projection%29.svg.png[/t]
I now wonder what other attempts to mimic the USA had been made in the past.
[editline]14th November 2014[/editline]
It also shows that Colombia's good relationship with the USA has a long history, doesn't it?[/QUOTE]
Mexico used to be called the united states of mexico, they only officially changed it recently.
[QUOTE=Scot;46487155]I have somehow never seen this before, Saturn eclipsing the sun
pic
The dot on the left near the rings is earth.[/QUOTE]
That one was taken back in 2006 at a time when Saturn's south pole was facing the sun, so southern summer, so we have a view looking down onto the north pole and the northern face of the rings.
In July of 2013 there was an event where people all over the world would wave/whatever at where Saturn was in the sky called [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_the_Earth_Smiled]"The Day The Earth Smiled"[/url], envisaged by Carolyn Porco, the Cassini mission's imaging team lead. At the same time they would image the Earth-moon system behind Saturn's rings as part of a new composite image, this time in northern summer, looking up at the south pole and with the Earth in the lower right.
[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOwoNMhOepw[/url]
[highlight][url=http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/gallery/PIA17172_fullUNANNOTATED.jpg]Full resolution un-annotated version[/url][/highlight]
Half resolution annotated version:
[t]http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/gallery/PIA17172_full_ANNOTATED.jpg[/t]
On the left you can see Enceladus, one of the many moons, casting its shadow across Saturn's E-ring, an enormous ring of ice particles largely the product of the ice geysers on Enceladus
[img]http://puu.sh/cQrGn/84c24bc411.jpg[/img]
At the bottom you can see another moon, Tethys
[img]http://puu.sh/cQs5L/a1bec0a35e.jpg[/img]
And at the top right you can see Mimas, a Deathstar-looking ice moon, silhouetted against the rings
[img]http://puu.sh/cQrI5/75bf1a42d7.jpg[/img]
Porco, alongside Carl Sagan, also participated in the design, planning and execution of the Pale Blue Dot image taken by Voyager 1.
[QUOTE=godfatherk;46487555][t]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/United_States_of_Colombia_%28orthographic_projection%29.svg/550px-United_States_of_Colombia_%28orthographic_projection%29.svg.png[/t]
I now wonder what other attempts to mimic the USA had been made in the past.
[editline]14th November 2014[/editline]
It also shows that Colombia's good relationship with the USA has a long history, doesn't it?[/QUOTE]
United States of Brazil and the Federal Republic of Central America.
[QUOTE=Griffster26;46488127]United States of Brazil and the Federal Republic of Central America.[/QUOTE]
Russia also happens to be a federation.
[img]http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/ww2_20/s_w13_60701026.jpg[/img]
[quote]Sudeten Germans make their way to the railway station in Liberec, in former Czechoslovakia, to be transferred to Germany in this July, 1946 photo. After the end of the war, millions of German nationals and ethnic Germans were forcibly expelled from both territory Germany had annexed, and formerly German lands that were transferred to Poland and the Soviet Union. The estimated numbers of Germans involved ranges from 12 to 14 million, with a further estimate of between 500,000 and 2 million dying during the expulsion.[/quote]
[QUOTE=Oxu365;46488386]Russia also happens to be a federation.[/QUOTE]
and germany
[IMG]https://laststandonzombieisland.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/som_yeorn_e01542_slide.jpg[/IMG]
A painting of the battle of Taranto.
[QUOTE=kaine123;46490211][IMG]http://i.imgur.com/kGKMpDq.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/kVeudb8.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/wmq8pp9.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
[QUOTE] Doesn't mean post purposefully unfunny stuff, just stuff more worthy of a different rating.
[B]Focus is on friendly (cute,) informative, winner, artistic, useful, etc.[/B]
Basically, [B]cool/cute/useful/awesome stuff general thread.[/B][/QUOTE]
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