One of the reasons why the Americans back then don't take Japanese prisoners, because there's always dickheads hiding grenades after surrendering and then blowing themselves up.
[QUOTE=Ignhelper;47524628]One of the reasons why the Americans back then don't take Japanese prisoners, because there's always dickheads hiding grenades after surrendering and then blowing themselves up.[/QUOTE]
Well you have to understand how the Japanese were conditioned. They were taught from a very young age not only that they should kill themselves for their country, but that it was highly honorable to do so, and when facing the option between "honor" or life in a prison camp...
[QUOTE=Ignhelper;47524628]One of the reasons why the Americans back then don't take Japanese prisoners, because there's always dickheads hiding grenades after surrendering and then blowing themselves up.[/QUOTE]
It's possible it was more commonly the Japanese but I think many soldiers if they were put in the same situation, would choose to die taking down more enemies rather than just die.
That conditioning was also the reason the US decided to use nuclear weapons. They knew both sides would suffer severe losses if they invaded.
Aerogel (also known as frozen smoke) is one of the lightest man-made substances in the world. Invented in 1931 on a dare by Samuel Stephens Kistler, aerogel is 98.2% air, and weighs 1,900 g/m3. Conversely, air weighs 1,200 g/m3. It's an incredible thermal insulator, because the nanoscopic air pockets cannot convect, and the 1.8% solid matieral barely conducts.
It's made through a process called super-critical drying (which is also used to decaffinate coffe of all things), which removes the liquid from a gel without destroying the solid structure.
And despite being light enough to balance on a flower, it will happily support a brick.
[img]http://assets.inhabitat.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2013/04/Carbon-Aerogels-1.jpg[/img]
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[img]http://assets.dornob.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/aerogel-amazing-weight-properties.jpg[/img]
And it's been done with graphene.
[i][url]http://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/aerogel-grass-spines.jpg[/url][/i]
[QUOTE=Teddybeer;47535047][video=youtube;SkBpummjR5I]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkBpummjR5I[/video]
Also a cool channel to take a look at.[/QUOTE]
[url]http://www.nautiluslive.org/[/url]
Great group.
[editline]15th April 2015[/editline]
They're still commenting on the whale.
[img_thumb]http://brucemctague.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/berlin-checkpoint-stand-off.jpg[/img_thumb]
Soviet and US tanks face off each other on a street in Berlin during the Berlin Crisis. The Soviet checkpoint had direct phone communications with their commanding general in Berlin who in turn had direct phonelines with the Soviet Secretary in the Politburo. The US checkpoint had direct phone contact with the US Military Mission in Berlin who in turn had direct phone contact to the White House.
Each tank had live rounds loaded in their cannons and had explicit orders to not fire unless fired upon.
[QUOTE=Teddybeer;47535047][video=youtube;SkBpummjR5I]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkBpummjR5I[/video]
Also a cool channel to take a look at.[/QUOTE]
We used to kill these things by the thousands for the oil in their heads.
[QUOTE=QwertySecond;47534167]Aerogel (also known as frozen smoke) is one of the lightest man-made substances in the world. Invented in 1931 on a dare by Samuel Stephens Kistler, aerogel is 98.2% air, and weighs 1,900 g/m3. Conversely, air weighs 1,200 g/m3. It's an incredible thermal insulator, because the nanoscopic air pockets cannot convect, and the 1.8% solid matieral barely conducts.
It's made through a process called super-critical drying (which is also used to decaffinate coffe of all things), which removes the liquid from a gel without destroying the solid structure.
And despite being light enough to balance on a flower, it will happily support a brick.
[img]http://assets.inhabitat.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2013/04/Carbon-Aerogels-1.jpg[/img]
[t]http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--Zlh7X968--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/i41edou2biwymdkspu4r.jpg[/t][t]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/69/Aerogelflower_filtered.jpg[/t]
[img]http://assets.dornob.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/aerogel-amazing-weight-properties.jpg[/img]
And it's been done with graphene.
[i][url]http://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/aerogel-grass-spines.jpg[/url][/i][/QUOTE]
I thought this was interesting, so I decided to share it.
[video=youtube;k8OhJKR3AA4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8OhJKR3AA4[/video]
[QUOTE=CabooseRvB;47535705][img_thumb]http://brucemctague.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/berlin-checkpoint-stand-off.jpg[/img_thumb]
Soviet and US tanks face off each other on a street in Berlin during the Berlin Crisis. The Soviet checkpoint had direct phone communications with their commanding general in Berlin who in turn had direct phonelines with the Soviet Secretary in the Politburo. The US checkpoint had direct phone contact with the US Military Mission in Berlin who in turn had direct phone contact to the White House.
Each tank had live rounds loaded in their cannons and had explicit orders to not fire unless fired upon.[/QUOTE]
I can only imagine the tension, a single accidental misfire, some kid playing around with fireworks, or a nutcase with a gun could've set the entire world ablaze although I'm sure numerous precautions were taken to avoid accidents, but still.
Is that one American tank in the center a M103 because if it is I think that's the first photo I've seen of one outside of a museum or testing ground.
And I can also only imagine how it was like sitting inside those tanks all day, definitely the Soviet ones since Soviet/Russian tank designs are infamous for lack of consideration for crew comfort in favor of maintaining a lower profile while both side's tanks lacked air coordinating which I'm sure made sitting in them even more uncomfortable in the winter or summer months. But they probably cycled them frequently.
Depends what Berlin Crisis is being talked about. If it was the 1948 to '49 one the US would have won due to the nuclear disparity. If it's the 1961 Crisis it would have been nasty.
[QUOTE=download;47538055]Depends what Berlin Crisis is being talked about. If it was the 1948 to '49 one the US would have won due to the nuclear disparity. If it's the 1961 Crisis it would have been nasty.[/QUOTE]
It's most certainly the 1961 crisis, the tanks look like M48 Pattons to me.
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Art from various Medal of Honor games.
MoH does a good job of making WW2 out to be a very wistful time to be in
[QUOTE=Winstonn;47548407][t]https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=37321.0;attach=824959;image[/t]
[video=youtube;BhMSzC1crr0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhMSzC1crr0[/video][/QUOTE]
Surely an astronaut knows the connotations behind the redshirt?
[editline]17th April 2015[/editline]
I know its a captain(?) uniform, but lets not risk it.
[QUOTE=OvB;47549525]Surely an astronaut knows the connotations behind the redshirt?[/QUOTE]
The "redshirt" was a TOS thing - under which gold was "command" and red "operations" (mainly security, at the time). That uniform is clearly from the DS9/Voyager era, under which red was "command", and gold was "operations" (now mostly seen on engineering, since they just handed phasers out to anybody whenever a combat scene was called for).
Specifically, her uniform seems to match Janeway's. By Voyager the whole "doomed redshirt" trope was as dead as, well, a first-season TOS redshirt.
At first glance I thought it was janeway.
Vintage 7 Up advertisements:
[IMG]http://www.plan59.com/images/JPGs/7up_1950_family_00.jpg[/IMG]
[t]http://gogd.tjs-labs.com/pictures/7up-home-11-01-1950-025-M5.jpg[/t]
[t]https://flone73.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/7up-1950s.jpg[/t]
That's funny, I remember going through some old ads my dad was a creative director on. One of them was a 7-Up ad geared towards adults. I have them all on a DVD somewhere, wish I'd uploaded them all to youtube. I do have one he helped work on
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hogf-vx_oM4[/media]
[editline]19th April 2015[/editline]
Actually might've been ginger ale, can't remember.
[QUOTE=Griffster26;47553522]Vintage 7 Up advertisements:
[t]https://flone73.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/7up-1950s.jpg[/t][/QUOTE]
I find this one interesting. Just about all of the seniors I worked with said that they would give soda to babies to help with teething pains. You would have a harder time with this sort of ad today, but back then mothers were the key demographic. Who would do the grocery shopping? Mothers. Made sense for advertisers to show babies enjoying their fine bubbly beverage.
[editline]19th April 2015[/editline]
I love old ads. They really are a window into another time that really wasn't that long ago.
[t]http://i.imgur.com/vfBL2Lm.jpg[/t]
[QUOTE]Fidel Castro giving an interview in his car.1964.[/QUOTE]
[editline]19th April 2015[/editline]
[t]http://i.imgur.com/MJqoeS6.jpg[/t]
[QUOTE]Mt. Vesuvius spewing ash into the sky, erupting as a U.S. Army jeep speeds by shortly after the arrival of the Allied forces in Naples, Italy in 1944.[/QUOTE]
[t]http://i.imgur.com/ZbhSxJh.png[/t]
[QUOTE]Women protesting the forced Hijab in Iran, days after the 1979 Revolution[/QUOTE]
[t]http://i.imgur.com/9sQl7eQ.jpg[/t]
[QUOTE]Four horsemen riding through the streets of Amsterdam on a 'motorless day', when cars are prohibited due to the oil crisis in the Middle East, 4th November 1973[/QUOTE]
[t]http://i.imgur.com/96oI091.jpg[/t]
[QUOTE]Marilyn Monroe and Queen Elizabeth (both 30 at the time) meet at a movie premier in London. October 1956. [/QUOTE]
[t]http://i.imgur.com/dHKhdB1.jpg[/t]
[QUOTE]Panorama of destroyed Hiroshima after the nuclear detonation in 1945[/QUOTE]
[t]http://i.imgur.com/QeyLUB6.jpg[/t]
[QUOTE]Miki Sawada, granddaughter of the founder of Mitsubishi, with her now-grown "GI babies," on the way to a new life in Brazil, stopped briefly in Los Angeles in 1965. They are the abandoned children of American soldiers and Japanese girls, shunned in Japan because of their mixed race.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=TheGoodDoctorF;47557164]I find this one interesting. Just about all of the seniors I worked with said that they would give soda to babies to help with teething pains. You would have a harder time with this sort of ad today, but back then mothers were the key demographic. Who would do the grocery shopping? Mothers. Made sense for advertisers to show babies enjoying their fine bubbly beverage.
[editline]19th April 2015[/editline]
I love old ads. They really are a window into another time that really wasn't that long ago.[/QUOTE]
That's why I loved Mad Men.
Can't remember if I posted this before.
[t]http://i.imgur.com/o45m9bN.jpg[/t]
[QUOTE]Specialist Jacob William Moore, 21, stares into the distance as he clutches the hand of a seriously wounded comrade on board a medevac air ambulance racing towards Kandahar Air Field in southern Afghanistan, Nov 22, 2010. Spc Moore was part of a stretcher team carrying a wounded man to safety when they hit a second explosive device, buried in their path. The men, from the 2-502 Infantry's Attack Company were operating in Nalgham, in Zhari district. Two Americans and one Afghan soldier were killed in the attacks, four others, including Spc Moore, were wounded. The troops are part of the 101st Airborne Division - known as the screaming eagles - sent to Afghanistan in June 2010 as part of Barack Obama's surge. Moore and his comrades paid tribute to their fallen as "phenomenal soldiers". They said the general public in America have no idea what is going on in Afghanistan. Moore returned to active duty and finished out his tour in Afghanistan. In 2012 he returned to Afghanistan for a second tour of duty.[/QUOTE]
[t]http://www.idealistrevolution.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/2410.jpg[/t]
[QUOTE]The Graves of a Catholic woman and her Protestant husband, Holland, 1888[/QUOTE]
[t]http://www.idealistrevolution.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/1911.jpg[/t]
[QUOTE]The first mother in space, Anna Fisher.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=RainBD7;47564784]Can't remember if I posted this before.
[t]http://i.imgur.com/o45m9bN.jpg[/t][/QUOTE]
That's the face of someone who has seen some shit.
