[QUOTE=racerfan;47823613][video=youtube;rBcjhqWigK8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBcjhqWigK8[/video]
Time-lapse repainting of a Boeing 737[/QUOTE]
Clean and elegant
[QUOTE=racerfan;47823613][video=youtube;rBcjhqWigK8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBcjhqWigK8[/video]
Time-lapse repainting of a Boeing 737[/QUOTE]
For some reason, it never really occurred to me that you would have to paint a plane by hand. Pretty cool process, it doesn't really look too different from how you paint a room, tape off what you don't want to be painted and do things in sections :v:
[img]http://backstoryradio.org/files/2013/10/KHRUSHCHEV-FOR-TUMBLR1.jpg[/img]
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[img]http://www.allrussias.com/images/leaders11.jpg[/img]
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He just loved corn
[quote]
With food shortages often plaguing the massive Soviet population, Khruschev had become obsessed with the idea of creating a Midwest-style “corn belt” on the Russian steppes. Corn could solve the Soviet Union’s persistent food insecurity, Khruschev thought, and in the mid-1950s he’d sent Soviet agriculturalists to study American farming techniques and figure out how to do it. As Khruschev’s son Sergei explained: “The goal of my father was to improve the life of the Soviet people. So his first priority was to increase food production,” making agriculture “one of his main priorities at the time.”
Enter Roswell Garst: an Iowa farmer determined to get his hybrid corn seeds onto the Soviet delegation’s radar. So determined, in fact, that he effectively “kidnapped” the Soviet agricultural delegation visiting Iowa State University, Garst’s granddaughter Liz said, so they could see his farm’s productivity. The delegation was impressed, and Garst was soon on his way to the Soviet Union for meetings with officials, and with Khrushchev himself. The two hit it off, their personal rapport making an unlikely crack in the Iron Curtain.
In the end, Khrushchev’s corn-belt dream would end up more of a nightmare. Russian farmers started planting corn everywhere, he later reflected, and they didn’t always implement Garst’s methods. When Siberian farmers tried their hand at corn farming, the result was an unsurprising failure. Some collective farms elsewhere produced bumper crops, but then lacked the tools to harvest them. Over time, the corn crop did start to improve in quality and yield, but the more immediate result was a political disaster for the Soviet premier – who would be ousted from office in 1964. As Khrushchev noted in his memoir: “Corn was discredited, and so was I.”[/quote]
But corn is delicious
[QUOTE=racerfan;47823613][video=youtube;rBcjhqWigK8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBcjhqWigK8[/video]
Time-lapse repainting of a Boeing 737[/QUOTE]
At first i thought "oh so they just paint over the old paint?"
and then it all fell off.
[t]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f4/SantaCruz-CuevaManos-P2210651b.jpg[/t]
[T]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3c/Cuevamanos1.JPG[/T]
[QUOTE]Cueva de las Manos (Spanish for Cave of Hands) is a cave or a series of caves located in the province of Santa Cruz, Argentina, 163 km (101 mi) south of the town of Perito Moreno. It is famous for (and gets its name from) the paintings of hands. The art in the cave dates from 13,000 to 9,000 years ago. Several waves of people occupied the cave, and early artwork has been carbon-dated to ca. 9300 BP (about 7300 BC). The age of the paintings was calculated from the remains of bone-made pipes used for spraying the paint on the wall of the cave to create silhouettes of hands.
The site was last inhabited around 700 AD, possibly by ancestors of the Tehuelche people. It was entered on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1991.[/QUOTE]
Notice the 2nd image, not all paintings are of hands.
Man evolved from chickens confirmed.
Ship cats, little adorable; mysterious buggers
[IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/da/Blackie_and_Churchill.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/09/A_cat_on_HMAS_Encounter.jpg[/IMG]
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship%27s_cat[/url]
These little things were bought onto ships by the Egyptians to kill of rodents onboard, but were also thought to bring good luck to a ship; or bad luck if it was not found onboard when it has set sail.
Some famous cats
[B]Unsinkable Sam[/B] (Literally the luckiest cat ever)
[QUOTE]Previously named Oscar, he was the ship's cat of the German battleship Bismarck. When she was sunk on 27 May 1941, only 116 out of a crew of over 2,200 survived. Oscar was picked up by the destroyer HMS Cossack. Cossack herself was torpedoed and sunk a few months later, on 24 October, killing 159 of her crew, but Oscar again survived to be rescued, and was taken to Gibraltar. He became the ship's cat of HMS Ark Royal, which was torpedoed and sunk in November that year. Oscar was again rescued, but it was decided at that time to transfer him to a home on land. By now known as Unsinkable Sam, he was given a new job as mouse-catcher in the Governor General of Gibraltar's office buildings. He eventually returned to the UK and spent the rest of his life at the 'Home for Sailors'. A portrait of him hangs in the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich. [/QUOTE]
[B]U-Boat[/B]
[QUOTE]U-boat was another ship's cat aboard a Royal Navy vessel in the Second World War, who would take shore leave whenever his ship came into port. He would spend days on shore, usually returning only just before his ship sailed. One day, U-boat failed to return in time for roll call and his ship was forced to sail. As she pulled away from the quay, U-boat was seen running down the dock after the departing ship. He made a death-defying leap onto the ship and succeeded in making it aboard. He was reported to be undaunted by his experience, proceeding to wash himself on deck. The crew members were reportedly delighted their good luck charm had returned[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=maxspeed3006;47832926]
Notice the 2nd image, not all paintings are of hands.[/QUOTE]
Only logical answer is ancient aliens.
THATS A DINOSAUR HAND
Everything was a lie!!
[QUOTE=cr2142;47834028]Ship cats, little adorable; mysterious buggers[/QUOTE]
Seems unsinkable sam was a bit of a bad luck charm if anything.
[QUOTE=cr2142;47834028][B]U-Boat[/B][/QUOTE]
if this cat got lost i can imagine the whole crew freaking the fuck out as someone tries to call for it shouting "u-boat! u-boat!" around the ship
[QUOTE=Scot;47834239]Seems unsinkable sam was a bit of a bad luck charm if anything.[/QUOTE]
Maybe so, after the sinking of Ark Royal (according to wikipedia), "transferred to HMS [I]Lightning[/I] and the same HMS[I] Legion[/I] which had rescued the crew of [I]Cossack[/I]. [I]Legion[/I] would itself be sunk in 1942, and [I]Lightning[/I] in 1943."
[QUOTE=OvB;47834029]Only logical answer is ancient aliens.[/QUOTE]
I'm still looking for a lefty on there
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[img]http://i.imgur.com/JIMWXgQ.png[/img]
[QUOTE=Spherical Orb;47835957]Maybe so, after the sinking of Ark Royal (according to wikipedia), "transferred to HMS [I]Lightning[/I] and the same HMS[I] Legion[/I] which had rescued the crew of [I]Cossack[/I]. [I]Legion[/I] would itself be sunk in 1942, and [I]Lightning[/I] in 1943."[/QUOTE]
Shit guys, we may be onto something huge, this cat was in deep
[sp]inner circle guys[/sp]
Impractical as it was, you cannot possibly deny that samurai armor looks particularly menacing. Well, you could if you wanted, but I'm a sucker for feudal Japan, so whatever.
I'm not sure in what eras I'm posting right now, if someone could educate me a bit more on kabutos, menpo's and samurai in general, that would be cool.
[t]http://nicosiabujinkan.com/main/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Samurai_with_sword-1860.jpg[/t]
[t]http://tokyo-samurai-armor.com/all_japanese_armor_arrivals/edo_samurai_7.jpg[/t]
I only know this is Edo era because it says so in the filename :v:
[t]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0e/Samurai.jpg[/t]
[t]http://en.academic.ru/pictures/enwiki/83/Samurai_Tokugawa_Era.jpg[/t]
This is from the Tokugawa era, because of the same stupid reason :v:
[t]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ef/Antique_Japanese_%28samurai%29_menpo_2.jpg[/t]
Menpo mengu, or half-face mask.
[t]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b2/Samurai_wearing_kusari_katabira_%28chain_armor%29.jpg[/t]
[url=http://androidjones.com/]andrew jones's[/url] stuff is rad as fuck
[t]http://androidjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/nelson_mandela_android_jones_x.jpg[/t]
[t]http://androidjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Humming_Dragon_Crop.jpg[/t]
Tromsø, the norwegian island I live on right now.
[IMG]http://www.mariesme.no/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/DSC_0353.jpg[/IMG]
I live in the left, large gray building in the middle of the shot, it's student's housing
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[IMG]http://wed.npolar.no/BluelightprintDESTTROMSOE.jpg/image.jpg[/IMG]
This is literally my every day view
I fucking love Norway
Now this is really fucking amazing. I'm just reading up on a British adventurer and seaman named William Adams, apparently the first (documented) Westener to integrate into the ranks of the samurai.
[quote]The English sailor and adventurer William Adams (1564–1620) seems to have been the first Westerner to receive the dignity of samurai. The Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu presented him with two swords representing the authority of a samurai, and decreed that William Adams the sailor was dead and that Anjin Miura (三浦按針), a samurai, was born. Adams also received the title of hatamoto (bannerman), a high-prestige position as a direct retainer in the Shogun's court. He was provided with generous revenues: "For the services that I have done and do daily, being employed in the Emperor's service, the emperor has given me a living" (Letters). He was granted a fief in Hemi (逸見) within the boundaries of present-day Yokosuka City, "with eighty or ninety husbandmen, that be my slaves or servants" (Letters). His estate was valued at 250 koku. He finally wrote "God hath provided for me after my great misery," (Letters) by which he meant the disaster-ridden voyage that initially brought him to Japan.[/quote]
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Adams_(sailor)[/url]
This is really inspirational.
The grave of Anjin Miura:
[t]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/34/MiuraAnjinNoHaka.jpg[/t]
[editline]30th May 2015[/editline]
Oh my God how have I never heard of this man before
[editline]30th May 2015[/editline]
This is just crazy, two pieces of history I have a very serious affection towards tangled up into one amazing story
Was reading up on Japanese crimes in ww2. The fucker behind unit 731 enjoyed immunity to provide US with bio weapons information
[IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ae/Shiro-ishii.jpg[/IMG]
[QUOTE]The Khabarovsk War Crime Trials held by the Soviets tried and found guilty some members of Japan's bacteriological and chemical warfare unit, also known as Unit 731. However, those who surrendered to the Americans were never brought to trial. As Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers, MacArthur gave immunity to Shiro Ishii and all members of the bacteriological research units in exchange for germ warfare data based on human experimentation. On May 6, 1947, he wrote to Washington that "additional data, possibly some statements from Ishii probably can be obtained by informing Japanese involved that information will be retained in intelligence channels and will not be employed as 'War Crimes' evidence".[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Recurracy;47839545]Impractical as it was, you cannot possibly deny that samurai armor looks particularly menacing. Well, you could if you wanted, but I'm a sucker for feudal Japan, so whatever.
I'm not sure in what eras I'm posting right now, if someone could educate me a bit more on kabutos, menpo's and samurai in general, that would be cool.
[t]http://nicosiabujinkan.com/main/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Samurai_with_sword-1860.jpg[/t]
[t]http://tokyo-samurai-armor.com/all_japanese_armor_arrivals/edo_samurai_7.jpg[/t]
I only know this is Edo era because it says so in the filename :v:
[t]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0e/Samurai.jpg[/t]
[t]http://en.academic.ru/pictures/enwiki/83/Samurai_Tokugawa_Era.jpg[/t]
This is from the Tokugawa era, because of the same stupid reason :v:
[t]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ef/Antique_Japanese_%28samurai%29_menpo_2.jpg[/t]
Menpo mengu, or half-face mask.
[t]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b2/Samurai_wearing_kusari_katabira_%28chain_armor%29.jpg[/t][/QUOTE]
Samurai armour wasn't impractical, at all. If it was, it wouldn't have been used, simple enough.
It provides adequate mobility, as this video showcases. I haven't found more videos, but I know you can do rolls and stuff in it as well.
[media]https://youtu.be/OWsqzeCtlRY?list=PLPwlq366OwYsEZ8-8PTfXwaikNvIOa5ew[/media]
The armour itself is sturdy and can take a lot of shit. It was usually made out of plate and leather lamellars with some chainmail backing, and it was laced with silk. Interestingly enough, the silk acted as a bit of extra protection as tightly woven silk get properties a bit similar to kevlar. This made parts of the armour more or less arrow-proof, which is obviously super. As far as weapons go, it will more or less deflect any slashing or cutting, but it was probably susceptible to being pierced by spears.
There are also later examples of armour being shotproof, but this was only the cuirass. Also worth noting obviously that 16th century muskets aren't exactly top tier guns.
tl;dr: yorois are awesome and they exist for a reason.
what is that?
[QUOTE=ProfHappycat7;47842869]what is that?[/QUOTE]
Looks like honeycomb
[IMG]http://www.treatt.com/images/Products/honeycomb.jpg[/IMG]
[QUOTE=G-Strogg;47841986]Samurai armour wasn't impractical, at all. If it was, it wouldn't have been used, simple enough.
It provides adequate mobility, as this video showcases. I haven't found more videos, but I know you can do rolls and stuff in it as well.
[media]https://youtu.be/OWsqzeCtlRY?list=PLPwlq366OwYsEZ8-8PTfXwaikNvIOa5ew[/media]
The armour itself is sturdy and can take a lot of shit. It was usually made out of plate and leather lamellars with some chainmail backing, and it was laced with silk. Interestingly enough, the silk acted as a bit of extra protection as tightly woven silk get properties a bit similar to kevlar. This made parts of the armour more or less arrow-proof, which is obviously super. As far as weapons go, it will more or less deflect any slashing or cutting, but it was probably susceptible to being pierced by spears.
There are also later examples of armour being shotproof, but this was only the cuirass. Also worth noting obviously that 16th century muskets aren't exactly top tier guns.
tl;dr: yorois are awesome and they exist for a reason.[/QUOTE]
I'm so glad people are waking up to the fact that medieval armor was really mobile.
People could do cartwheels in full European plate armor, like srs. These guys that go "Yeah it was like an immobile death machine" ugh
Samurai armor and weapons and tactics were designed to be good at the type of warfare waged in Japan.
Knightly armor and weapons and tactics were designed to be good at the type of warfare waged in Europe.
Samurai were primarily archers, not swordsmen. That's why they had light full-coverage armor, supplemented with sloped plates - perfect for deflecting projectiles. Their swords were their backup, for when the enemy got too close. Samurai were the high-ranking soldiers, but most of the armies were poorly-armored pikemen - so their swords were sharp, not hard, and slashing weapons, not stabbing ones.
Knights were primarily cavalry, not swordsmen. Their swords were backup weapons, for when they were dismounted from their horse. And armor was common enough on the battlefield that the common swords were thrusting-type - not very sharp (some styles actually call for gripping the sword by the blade at times!), but hard, to withstand the impact they would produce. Polearms were again common for infantry, which were a somewhat-effective counter for mounted knights, but the frequent extra-european wars (like the Crusades) against different types of armies made them less disposable, and social inertia took care of the rest. Only when guns were cheap enough to field en masse did the knights cease to be effective.
A war between medieval Japan and medieval Europe would have been hard to predict, simply because the styles of warfare were so different. I would expect the winner would be whoever's terrain formed the battlefield - different styles of warfare often evolve due to the terrain being fought over. I have a hard time imagining an army of crusaders fighting effectively in a flooded rice paddy, and I have an equally hard time imagining an army of ashigaru being victorious in the Swiss Alps.
Yeah I've just been reading up on the samurai culture since not too long ago, so any misinformation on my end is completely my ignorance speaking, heh.
Funny that the common misconception is that the samurai were exceptionally skilled swordsmen first and fore-most rather than archers though, where did that come from?
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[QUOTE=Ignhelper;47840205]Was reading up on Japanese crimes in ww2. The fucker behind unit 731 enjoyed immunity to provide US with bio weapons information
[IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ae/Shiro-ishii.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
Ive always been torn on these kind of things.
On one hand we see a morally evil person who had no real sense of value of life. On the other hand we gained a LOT of medical knowledge concerning many things from these people. After all they didn't just research how to use bio weapons but also how to contain and control it which involves treatment as well. It puts into perspective what we gained and lost from working with such a person, but honestly I support the decision done. Instead of just giving up more lives and letting these people rot, we used them and their data to further progress.
Sometimes we forget that a lot of the progress we have made is on the back of terrible people who were willing to forego morals and ethics. Does this make them right or good people? Hell no, but it certainly gives you something to think about concerning our nature and the advancement of the human race.
[QUOTE=Recurracy;47844636]
Funny that the common misconception is that the samurai were exceptionally skilled swordsmen first and fore-most rather than archers though, where did that come from?[/QUOTE]
Probably related to both anime and the western romanticizing of samurai and katana as 'the pinnacle of swords and warriors'.
The only person I know of that depicts Japanese warfare in a realistic way is Stephen Turnbull and his books. Most of them are on scribd so you can just do the free week and read up on that shit.
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