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[QUOTE]In 1903, a prisoner named Will West (above) arrived at Leavenworth. The record clerk took one look at West's mugshots and insisted that he had seen him before. West disagreed and said that he had never been to Leavenworth before.
The clerk, however, was sure that he had seen West's mugshot before and retrieved the file based on West's measurements. Inside, was the mugshot below. When he showed it to West, he was confused. He said, "That's my picture, but I don't know where you got it because I've never been here before!"
As amazing as it sounds, West was telling the truth. He had never been to Leavenworth before. The man in the mug shot had the exact same measurements as west and was virtually identical. As a matter of fact, if this wasn't eerie enough, the mysterious twin, serving time at Leavenworth, was also named William West.
The incident called the reliability of Bertillion measurements (the then-accepted means of identifying people) into question, and it was decided that a more positive means of identification was necessary. You can then thank these two lifers named William West for helping to usher in the age of fingerprinting.[/QUOTE]
[url]http://www.slightlywarped.com/crapfactory/curiosities/2011/may/william_west.htm[/url]
woah
I wonder if they were identical twins separated at birth? From what I know, separated twins tend to act very similarly (hence all the stories of an identical twin finding their separated twin only to discover they'd made all the same life choices), so it wouldn't surprise me if they were.
[URL="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stohrem.jpg"][IMG]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/68/Stohrem.jpg[/IMG]
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An image of strontium titanate (an oxide of strontium and titanium) taken with a scanning tunneling microscope. Each circle is an atom. The brighter atoms are strontium and the darker ones in between are titanium.
good night little moth :3c
[t]http://i.imgur.com/z72o608.jpg[/t]
[B]*thump*[/B]
also look at how tiny this moth is
[t]http://i.imgur.com/ClMaTTf.jpg[/t]
i love moths <3
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also here's nice art
[url]http://monopteryx.deviantart.com/[/url]
[t]http://orig03.deviantart.net/0df6/f/2014/022/6/0/synapsid_beast_by_monopteryx-d73aydx.jpg[/t]
[t]http://orig02.deviantart.net/0bca/f/2014/329/b/4/gorynych_by_monopteryx-d87lk0b.jpg[/t]
[url]http://methuselah3000.deviantart.com/[/url]
[t]http://orig07.deviantart.net/d73b/f/2014/270/0/d/scavenging_cetavlisks_by_methuselah3000-d80q0fk.jpg[/t]
[t]http://orig01.deviantart.net/a7f2/f/2014/263/7/5/zolomon_by_methuselah3000-d7zw6g3.jpg[/t]
[QUOTE=Neat!;48192531]good night little moth :3c[/QUOTE]
moths suck yeah I said it
[QUOTE=Scot;48192973]moths suck yeah I said it[/QUOTE]
[img]http://i.imgur.com/Vm5iSpj.gif[/img]
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[t]https://i.imgur.com/Yunri47.jpg[/t]
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How do you even bring groceries or anything there
[QUOTE=Fartnugge;48177294]You would think that'd make a difference, and overall it really does, but somehow human ingenuity finds a way to fuck it up. Or sometime people don't even try like in Houston, like they wanted the old world style. City planners just closed their eyes and said, "surprise me!"
[editline]11th July 2015[/editline]
To a degree, they kinda did. There's no zoning code.[/QUOTE]
Houston: [i]"Let's build the fourth biggest city in the country and then add mass public transit!"[/i]
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"Also let's make our interstates bigger one lane at a time, so after we remove all the construction barriers and bottlenecks, we can put them back because the interstates don't meet capacity!"
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"Let's also promise to pay for highways with temporary tolls and then never remove the tolls!"
[editline]13th July 2015[/editline]
I get to periodically commute all the way through Houston on i45 and it's basically a gamble of whether my drive will take 1 hour and 45 minutes or 3 hours+ and 30 minutes+
[editline]13th July 2015[/editline]
I take the belts but even those are one fender bender away from a death march.
[QUOTE=godfatherk;48194724]How do you even bring groceries or anything there[/QUOTE]
with your legs
[QUOTE=godfatherk;48194724]How do you even bring groceries or anything there[/QUOTE]
how the hell do you even get on there?
[QUOTE=OvB;48194768]Houston: [i]"Let's build the fourth biggest city in the country and then add mass public transit!"[/i][/QUOTE]
I've been playing a lot of Cities Skylines lately, and have been having a lot of trouble with the traffic. And someone on the subreddit basically commented that, "if you grew up in a large city you're likely to have a better familiarity with traffic solutions." I thought about it and realized this doesn't help me one bit.
But enough of that, interesting picture time (that I [i]think[/i] haven't been posted before):
In WWI they built these guns at Fort Crockett near where I once lived:
[img_thumb]http://www.fortwiki.com/images/6/61/Fort_Crockett_Battery_Hoskins.jpg[/img_thumb]
And then casemated in WWII, and named them Battery Hoskins, after the first US Artillery Officer killed in WWI:
[img_thumb]http://en.tracesofwar.com/upload/3891101017091258.jpg[/img_thumb]
But nowadays they have a hotel built over them. They are half monument to the last World War, half interesting landscape decoration.
[img_thumb]http://www.fortwiki.com/images/3/3c/Fort_Travis_Battery_Hoskins_-_05.jpg[/img_thumb] [img_thumb]http://www.fortwiki.com/images/e/e4/Fort_Travis_Battery_Hoskins_-_06.jpg[/img_thumb]
And the island still has little ruins of old forts and batteries from Republic times up'til WWII, but most are far from easily accessible. I wanted to ask Facepunch, especially it's European members, if they're home areas had any forts or military features (from [i]any[/i] time period) that are now uniquely "integrated" into the normal city. I think they look pretty interesting.
[QUOTE=Fartnugge;48195653]I wanted to ask Facepunch, especially it's European members, if they're home areas had any forts or military features (from [i]any[/i] time period) that are now uniquely "integrated" into the normal city. I think they look pretty interesting.[/QUOTE]
I had a pillbox on my school field (as it was right next to an old airfield)
Also it was absolutely tiny
[QUOTE=165your4;48184399][URL="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stohrem.jpg"][IMG]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/68/Stohrem.jpg[/IMG]
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An image of strontium titanate (an oxide of strontium and titanium) taken with a scanning tunneling microscope. Each circle is an atom. The brighter atoms are strontium and the darker ones in between are titanium.[/QUOTE]
I'm a little late but this is fucking [I]blowing my mind.[/I] People have created a device to see fucking atoms, clear as day.
Fucking incredible.
Moths are cute but what do they even do? My, and most people's, experience with them is them constantly pinging off lights.
[QUOTE=Fartnugge;48195653]I wanted to ask Facepunch, especially it's European members, if they're home areas had any forts or military features (from [I]any[/I] time period) that are now uniquely "integrated" into the normal city. I think they look pretty interesting.[/QUOTE]
They're not necessarily "integrated", but the Peninsula I grew up on still has a military tunnel network made during the Second World War to deter Japanese invasion. The entire cape is still lined with rusting casemates and decaying pillboxes, but no-one's allowed near or inside, since they're all inside an active Navy training site.
There's only one tiny pillbox on a beach outside the naval grounds that the public can access. I'll have to take some pics of it next time I head back.
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I get that falling feeling a lot before I fall asleep. I'd have a fucking heart attack if I slept there.
[QUOTE=Fartnugge;48195653]Battery Hoskins[/QUOTE]
I live on that island.
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Speaking of Galveston. It was victim to the deadliest natural disaster in US history. On September 8, 1900 the island had a direct hit from a category 4 hurricane. This was before all the classifications and warnings and things we have now. Back then they just called it [I]the great storm[/I] because the definition of a hurricane didn't exist yet. They knew there was a storm in the gulf, but most were not concerned. Some evacuated. It killed [B]6,000 - 12,000[/B] and destroyed most of the island.
[quote=wikipedia]At the time of the 1900 storm[B] the highest point in the city of Galveston was only 8.7 feet (2.7 m) above sea level.[12] The hurricane brought with it a storm surge of over 15 feet (4.6 m),[20] which washed over the entire island.[/B] The surge knocked buildings off their foundations and the surf pounded them to pieces. Over 3,600 homes were destroyed[20] and a wall of debris faced the ocean.[21] The few buildings which survived, mostly solidly built mansions and houses along the Strand District, are today maintained as tourist attractions.[/quote]
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[img_thumb]http://i.imgur.com/fgRkiFQ.jpg[/img_thumb]
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[quote]The dead bodies were so numerous that burying all of them was impossible. The dead were initially weighted down on barges and dumped at sea, but when the gulf currents washed many of the bodies back onto the beach, a new solution was needed.[28] [B]Funeral pyres were set up on the beaches, or wherever dead bodies were found, and burned day and night for several weeks after the storm.[/B] The authorities passed out free whiskey to sustain the distraught men conscripted for the gruesome work of collecting and burning the dead.[18] More people were killed in this single storm than the total of those killed in all the tropical cyclones that have struck the United States since. This count is greater than 300 cyclones, as of 2009. The Galveston Hurricane of 1900 remains the deadliest natural disaster in U.S. history.[/quote]
So what did the people of Galveston do? They lived in tents and shantys, and rebuilt their city. In a big "fuck you" to nature, they jacked up all the remaining buildings 17 feet, and built a giant wall, then filled it in with dredged dirt.
[img]http://i.imgur.com/IiJCFS7.jpg[/img]
[img]http://i.imgur.com/cKMBz2f.jpg[/img]
(even this huge church!)
[img]http://i.imgur.com/A9lSQ4k.jpg[/img]
[img]http://i.imgur.com/IAXm0mz.jpg[/img]
[img]http://i.imgur.com/NlTtynL.jpg[/img]
They didn't bother with the cemeteries though so a lot of them are still to this day half underground oddities. No one seems to notice.
[img]http://i.imgur.com/9ZCKXc3.jpg[/img]
The seal of good-engineering.
[img]http://i.imgur.com/aS0Ah6n.jpg[/img]
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Then there's this place that refuses to die:
[img_thumb]http://i.imgur.com/eAHlbT8.jpg[/img_thumb]
(notice the mess of pillars on the sand. The building is rebuilt on it's old footprint each time)
[quote]Murdoch's Bathhouse is one of Galveston's most historic locations. [B]Originally built in the late 1800[/B]'s, the wood structure was constructed directly on the sand. Without the protection of a Seawall , the [B]1900[/B] storm destroyed the bathhouse. Although the structure was rebuilt in 1901, the storms of [B]1909[/B] and [B]1915[/B] were so violent, that reconstruction was required after each.
...
In [B]1961[/B], Hurricane Carla destroyed the bath house yet again.
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In 1983, Hurricane Alicia hit Galveston Island. This storm required the pier to have minor repairs.
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In [B]2008[/B], Hurricane Ike destroyed Murdochs, and in 2009, miraculously, a brand new, sparkling Murdochs returned in its place.[/quote]
Here's a 1 hour documentary about the storm from the Discovery Channel that I haven't watched but seems interesting:
[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIs994Q0ht8[/media]
I'm pretty sure this whole island is haunted.
[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_Galveston_hurricane[/url]
[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galveston_Seawall[/url]
[url]http://www.galveston.com/murdochsbathhouse/[/url]
[QUOTE=Fartnugge;48195653]
And the island still has little ruins of old forts and batteries from Republic times up'til WWII, but most are far from easily accessible. I wanted to ask Facepunch, especially it's European members, if they're home areas had any forts or military features (from [i]any[/i] time period) that are now uniquely "integrated" into the normal city. I think they look pretty interesting.[/QUOTE]
Not much integration here but down in East Sussex we were pretty much under the threat of invasion in most wars, Napoleonic and Second World War
We first ended up building the Martello Towers all along the coast line, which were virtually large towers of concrete usually with enough firing positions to defend an entire beachline.
[url=https://flic.kr/p/oq4yqh][img]https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3843/14712139192_aef7477ec3_c.jpg[/img][/url][url=https://flic.kr/p/oq4yqh]Martello Tower[/url] by [url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/hipsterhendrix/]Charlie Richards[/url], on Flickr
We also have the Eastbourne Redoubt on my beach which is a pretty iconic spot. First built to defend the sussex coastline from french invasion during the Napoleonic wars, Funnily enough the guns on the fort were only fired once in anger at a passing French warship.
[IMG]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/Redoubt_Fortress_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1739731.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8d/Redoubt_Fort%2C_Eastbourne_%28NHLE_Code_1043662%29_%28October_2012%29.JPG[/IMG]
Then theres Newhaven Fort which was built in the late 1800s and was primarily used as a Fort with AA batteries defending the port of Newhaven from German air raids during world war 2
[IMG]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/54/QF12pounder12cwtNewhavenFort1March2008.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d3/Newhaven%2C_the_fort_and_the_port_-_geograph.org.uk_-_445479.jpg[/IMG]
[QUOTE=cr2142;48200530]Newhaven Fort[/QUOTE]
god, I live a couple of miles down the coast from there, used to visit it loads as a kid
[QUOTE=cr2142;48200755]Me too, whereabouts are you mind if I ask?
Always go past Newhaven on my way to Brighton, Its not much of a pretty place but the fort definitely makes up for the visit.[/QUOTE]
Saltdean
Me too, whereabouts are you mind if I ask?
Always go past Newhaven on my way to Brighton, Its not much of a pretty place but the fort definitely makes up for the visit.
[QUOTE=OvB;48200004]I live on that island. ~Badass Galveston Stuff~ [/QUOTE]
Oh man, the memories! Murdochs comes back, [i]no matter what[/i]. I used to visit Galveston every weekend with my Dad for fishing and Greek food. We ain't Greek, but the Greeks got great food and they're always super friendly. It's cool to hear from someone else who lives there.
I grew up in Alvin, Tx just right up the road. Fun fact: I remember being in 6th grade and finding my home town in the Guinness Book of World Records- [url=http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/the-greatest-24hour-deluge-in/52828]for highest amount of rainfall in 24 hours[/url]. Hurricane Claudette stopped directly overhead and dropped 43 inches. Now, I know [i]now[/i] that it's only the title holder for the US and the World Record is someplace in the Indian Ocean, but to a 6th grader it was amazing to stumble upon.
Post some more pics of the awesome Galveston cemeteries too if you ever get the chance, those sepulchers are ornate and beautiful and very fascinating. And eat some Cajan food for me. [b]AND,[/b] if feeling adventurous, drive out to the very far end of the Seawall Blvd. At the end, you'll run into a large concrete cylinder. A gun placement used to sit on I think. If you follow the coast North West, you see a huge concrete block that was pulled by tanks for somethin' and then eventually another little fortification with rooms and gun placements and a wonderful smelling camphor tree. Last time I was there, there were these two rough lookin' hobos that were campin' out there. This old guy and a young guy. But it turns out, after talking to them, they weren't homeless! They were actually locals trying to protect the place haha. You can see it from google maps if you go to satellite view, and here's a pic I found online of it
[img_thumb]http://static.panoramio.com/photos/large/95065769.jpg[/img_thumb]
I live elsewhere now, I miss the food and diversity of the Houston area more than anything. It makes it all worth it.
[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Glanville_Conservation_Park[/url]
Fort Glanville is the best preserved Colonial fort in Australia. It's about 10km from where I live.
[thumb]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/df/10inch_gun_-_fort_glanville.jpg[/thumb]
Only one of the guns is in it's cradle, the other cradle was sold as scrap. There are also a couple of 64lb guns.
In theory the guns should be able to fire but haven't done so since ab 1910 except for blanks.
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Reminds me of those folks in Italy that sleep on rope/bag over the alps. [url]http://imgur.com/xbel78M[/url]
[QUOTE='KING]THT[WRATH;48201958']Reminds me of those folks in Italy that sleep on rope/bag over the alps. [url]http://imgur.com/xbel78M[/url][/QUOTE]
okay i like heights but that's pushing it
[QUOTE='KING]THT[WRATH;48201958']Reminds me of those folks in Italy that sleep on rope/bag over the alps. [url]http://imgur.com/xbel78M[/url][/QUOTE]
And then you roll over to get on the other comfy side
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