[QUOTE=Ignhelper;48026025]Speaking of tables, they were selling this concrete round table with that endless void illusion (which some FPer did for a cheap price, made with mirror and LED lights or something) and they were selling it at like $10 000 or something.[/QUOTE]
You're not paying for a table, you're paying for [I]~art~[/I]
[QUOTE=Amiga OS;48031560][IMG]https://i.imgur.com/4Tg2M3d.jpg[/IMG]
[editline]23rd June 2015[/editline]
The IKEA cookbook[/QUOTE]
You post this kind of stuff on Instagram and its bound to get you a ton of followers. All that symmetry stuff.
[QUOTE=Amiga OS;48019436][vid]http://i.imgur.com/AarvtN7.webm[/vid][/QUOTE]
Best future.
[QUOTE=Ignhelper;48026025]Speaking of tables, they were selling this concrete round table with that endless void illusion (which some FPer did for a cheap price, made with mirror and LED lights or something) and they were selling it at like $10 000 or something.[/QUOTE]
[url]http://duffylondon.com/product/tables/abyss-table/[/url]
15800€
I'd totally get it if I was loaded off my ass but fuck.
[QUOTE=Freakie;48046155][url]http://duffylondon.com/product/tables/abyss-table/[/url]
15800€
I'd totally get it if I was loaded off my ass but fuck.[/QUOTE]
loaded of your ass buttfuck?
dam son
[img]https://40.media.tumblr.com/f76810eb727428b429d39dc1364fcc90/tumblr_nnp3jvFDqG1r51oypo10_1280.jpg[/img]
Tianzi Mountains, China
[img]https://41.media.tumblr.com/efef4bb1e39c292efb2aa7aead3a01ed/tumblr_nnp3jvFDqG1r51oypo8_1280.jpg[/img]
Fly Geiser, Nevada, USA
[img]https://41.media.tumblr.com/53e85f42cf77d427ec0d2aa3f71ad715/tumblr_nnp3jvFDqG1r51oypo3_1280.jpg[/img]
Dragonblood trees, Socotra, Yemen
[img]https://41.media.tumblr.com/6f4a2d6ab92504e190e7de3caa3b13a0/tumblr_nnp3jvFDqG1r51oypo4_1280.jpg[/img]
Pamukkale, Turkey
[img]https://40.media.tumblr.com/75608f14dcff51c18e215d5c62319c8d/tumblr_nnp3jvFDqG1r51oypo1_1280.jpg[/img]
Glowworms Cave, New Zealand
[img]https://40.media.tumblr.com/2cf78b4d0ea1e7382a0dbbaeaf27d08e/tumblr_nnp3jvFDqG1r51oypo9_1280.jpg[/img]
Abraham Lake, Canada
[img]https://41.media.tumblr.com/9e5fbb858131bf505d9fa0e53d781836/tumblr_nnp3jvFDqG1r51oypo2_1280.jpg[/img]
Mount Roraima, Brazil - Venezuela - Guiana
[img]https://41.media.tumblr.com/394bb7ca7f747cda377531c3544b62dd/tumblr_nnp3jvFDqG1r51oypo7_1280.jpg[/img]
Dallol Volcano, Ethiopia
[img]https://40.media.tumblr.com/ee6f4d668828e65264a856d86229dc31/tumblr_nnp3jvFDqG1r51oypo5_1280.jpg[/img]
Son Doong Cave, Vietnam
[img]https://41.media.tumblr.com/007cad7efb06775a63379ab1924bcdbd/tumblr_nnp3jvFDqG1r51oypo6_1280.jpg[/img]
Giants Causeway, Northern Ireland
The giants causeway had always confused me
Are there any higher res versions of those photos? They are beautiful.
[QUOTE=paul simon;48052517]The giants causeway had always confused me[/QUOTE]
"The Giant's Causeway is an area of about 40,000 interlocking basalt columns, the result of an ancient volcanic eruption"
Pretty dang cool.
[QUOTE=paul simon;48052517]The giants causeway had always confused me[/QUOTE]
[URL="http://www.researchgate.net/post/Why_are_basalt_columns_pentagonal_or_hexagonal"]http://www.researchgate.net/post/Why_are_basalt_columns_pentagonal_or_hexagonal[/URL]
[QUOTE="José Madeira"]Columnar jointing is the result of contraction by cooling of lava bodies; tension fractures propagate from the outer surfaces inwards trough discrete fracturing events (hence the crenulations often found in the faces of the prisms). Because it is not possible to contract the body of cooling lava as whole, traction fractures form in relation with a set of points with a six coordination distribution (the tightest possible distribution) over the cooling surface. But, because the lava body is not absolutelly homogeneous, the columns may vary from triangular to heptagonal prisms, instead of beeing perfectly hexagonal. These may form perpendicular to the surface of lava flows (growing both from the top surface and also from the base), in either subaerial and subaquatic sheet flows, in dikes perpendicular to the dike walls, and in cilindrical conduits (volcanic chimneys) with a radial geometry. The width of the columns depends mostly in the cooling rate and tend to be wider in subaerial lava flows and thinner and wavy in subaquatic flows. Because this structure is formed perpendicular to the cooling surfaces it may help understanding the geometry of the lava bodies and that of the topography on which a lava flowed . For instance a lava flow filling a valley may present a radial disposition of the lower set of columns[/QUOTE]
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Speaking of volcanism, have some lava lakes. There are only two permanent lava lakes in the world: Erta Ale in Ethiopia and Mt. Erebus in Antarctica.
Erta Ale:
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/9xXTBbf.jpg[/IMG]
The really cool thing about Erta Ale is that the lava wells up along spreading centers, cools to form a crust, moves laterally away from the spreading center, and is eventually subducted back down into the lava below just like the tectonic plates on the earth. Also, it happens fast enough that you can see it happening with time lapse photography:
[video=youtube;maSYZW8-8IQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maSYZW8-8IQ[/video]
[IMG]http://cdn.agilitycms.com/henrys/Blog-Most-Dangerous-Places-Erta-Ale-Ethiopia.jpg[/IMG]
Mt. Erebus:
[IMG]http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2012/07/mount-erebus/img/03-erebus-lava_1600.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2012/07/mount-erebus/img/04-main-erebus-crater_1600.jpg[/IMG]
Cool fact: Mt. Erebus's lava lake is constantly churning and mixing. This allows crystals of feldspar suspended in the lava scavenge large amounts of the elements that compose them, causing them to grow to enormous sizes (the crystals are just a few inches in length, but crystals formed from erupted lavas are almost always too small to see with the naked eye. Thus they are enormous for extrusive minerals). Mt. Erebus erupts lava bombs (blobs of lava hurled out of the volcano) which contain the large feldspar crystals. The rest of the bomb cools to form a soft, frothly glass which quickly weathers away, leaving behind just the feldspar crystals. This process has resulted in Mt. Erebus being covered in a thick layer of unusually large and well formed feldspar crystals.
Imagine if there was a type of crocodile that only could survive in lava lakes, that would be cool.
Since we talkin' about volcanoes and stuff
[video=youtube;pHR6ZjN2_f0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHR6ZjN2_f0[/video]
well not really a volcano but still
[t]http://i.imgur.com/lHs6L4m.png[/t]
Countries with populations smaller than Tokyo
I was wondering what the fuck that one the right was supposed to be but I think it's micronesia.
[editline]26th June 2015[/editline]
in my micronesia related wikipedia travels I found this sick looking island which is apparently what a Battlefield map was based on
[IMG]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Wake_Island_air.JPG/1024px-Wake_Island_air.JPG[/IMG]
wanna go there? tough shit it's owned by the US air force.
Also when the US detonated the castle bravo nuke in micronesia they vaporised two islands.
US pls go
[QUOTE=Scot;48057629]I was wondering what the fuck that one the right was supposed to be but I think it's micronesia.
[editline]26th June 2015[/editline]
in my micronesia related wikipedia travels I found this sick looking island which is apparently what a Battlefield map was based on
[IMG]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Wake_Island_air.JPG/1024px-Wake_Island_air.JPG[/IMG]
wanna go there? tough shit it's owned by the US air force.
Also when the US detonated the castle bravo nuke in micronesia they vaporised two islands.
US pls go[/QUOTE]
Oh someone has made this map for ArmA 3 in great detail
I also love how the US claimed ownership of it, while on the way to go and fuck up some bad guys in the Phillipines in the 1800s an american admiral was told to stop by, dump an american flag on it and carry on. A year later they came back and formally claimed it as US soil, and eventually it became an airbase/marine garrison that was besieged on the same day as the Pearl Harbour attack, and with about 1,000 japanese casualties to around 52 US servicemen killed, it fell into Japanese ownership. The Japanese then set about their favourite wartime hobby, killing just about anybody they didn't like the look of and digging in for a mostly pointless four years of occupation that ended with the Japanese surrender in 1945. There is still a rock on the island inscribed "98 US PW 5-10-43", marking the date on which 98 US prisoners of war were executed by machine gun, save the man who left this message who was supposedly beheaded. After the war the IJA garrison commanders were sentenced to death for war crimes. A large number of civilian contractors were also killed during the initial battle.
Legal status of Polygamy
[t]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a8/Legality_of_polygamy.png[/t]
Blue:Polygamy fully outlawed/abolished and practice fully criminalised
Lighter Blue: Polygamy generally illegal, but practice not fully criminalised
Gray:???
Black: legal
Weird, I thought polygamy was legal in the US
[QUOTE=paul simon;48058164]Oh someone has made this map for ArmA 3 in great detail[/QUOTE]
I wouldn't go as far as saying great detail.
[QUOTE=noh_mercy;48058738]Legal status of Polygamy
[t]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a8/Legality_of_polygamy.png[/t]
Blue:Polygamy fully outlawed/abolished and practice fully criminalised
Lighter Blue: Polygamy generally illegal, but practice not fully criminalised
Gray:???
Black: legal[/QUOTE]
I never knew Islam allowed that.
[QUOTE=noh_mercy;48058738]Legal status of Polygamy
[t]http://s23.postimg.org/pvyqoe9y2/fixed.jpg[/t]
Blue:Polygamy fully outlawed/abolished and practice fully criminalised
Lighter Blue: Polygamy generally illegal, but practice not fully criminalised
Gray:???
Black: legal[/QUOTE]
FTFY
[video=youtube;jzfvZycpg_E]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzfvZycpg_E[/video]
1:25 is what reminded me of this video
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;48060364]I never knew Islam allowed that.[/QUOTE]
Not in the way you would think. For example, in Islam, if your brother goes off to war and dies, his wife can stay with you and your wife so she can be taken care of, especially if she also has children. Not exactly a marriage. I'm not sure if it's practiced all that much anymore, if at all.
[QUOTE=noh_mercy;48058738]Legal status of Polygamy
[t]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a8/Legality_of_polygamy.png[/t]
Blue:Polygamy fully outlawed/abolished and practice fully criminalised
Lighter Blue: Polygamy generally illegal, but practice not fully criminalised
Gray:???
Black: legal[/QUOTE]
Should be legal provided everyone in the marriage consents. My guess would be that in every one of those countries it's the husband marrying extra wives without having to ask for permission from everyone else.
[editline]27th June 2015[/editline]
Ménage à trois would be an example.
[QUOTE=TAU!;48061554]Not in the way you would think. For example, in Islam, if your brother goes off to war and dies, his wife can stay with you and your wife so she can be taken care off, especially if she also has children. Not exactly a marriage. I'm not sure if it's practiced all that much anymore, if at all.[/QUOTE]
If that's what the map is going by, it's horribly inaccurate and flawed.
[editline]27th June 2015[/editline]
Besides, where in the US is it illegal to have one's sister-in-law live in one's own house? :v:
[QUOTE][IMG]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/33/Near_Algiers%2C_%22Torch%22_troops_hit_the_beaches_behind_a_large_American_flag_%22Left%22_hoping_for_the_French_Army_not_fire..._-_NARA_-_195516.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
US troops hitting the beach near Algiers during Operation Torch, 1942
The biggest hurdle for polygamy to me is if you'd get any legal benefits to having more spouses. It would have to be set up in a manner where people wouldn't be able to game the system and marry people just for a legal benefit.
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