[QUOTE=MenteR;48390340]Kawah Ijen volcano in Indonesia. The only volcano with blue lava because of the sulfur.
[t]http://www.learnsomething.tips/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/ew42at.jpg[/t]
[t]https://javabromo.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/wpid-ijeen.jpg[/t]
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[t]http://images.nationalgeographic.com/wpf/media-content/photos/000/758/cache/75879_990x742-cb1390850757.jpg[/t][/QUOTE]
DAMN that's cool. I had no idea that could happen
[t]http://i.imgur.com/3T3KCzG.jpg[/t] [t]http://i.imgur.com/RYtqBzJ.jpg[/t] [t]http://i.imgur.com/AnNhLyq.jpg[/t]
So a boat was borrowed, and a few more shots were taken from the water, which was even more awesome ... Less crowd too.
[URL="http://imgur.com/a/DOf7i"]Rest of the pics here.[/URL]
This was also the biggest firework show in Denmarks history. 1200 kilos of good stuff, over a 17 minute show.
[t]http://i.imgur.com/6OIsIR7.jpg[/t] [t]http://i.imgur.com/wS9l0On.jpg[/t]
THE GOD DAMN AMOUNT OF PEOPLE!!!
[vid]https://d.maxfile.ro/mghddwyfyh.mp4[/vid]
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[QUOTE]Jeffrey David Sachs is an American economist and director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University. He is known as one of the world's leading experts on economic development and the fight against poverty.[/QUOTE]
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[QUOTE]PRC propaganda sign in Xiamen reading "Achieve peaceful reunification under one country, two systems"[/QUOTE]
[t]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/Three_Principles_of_the_People_Unites_China.jpg/800px-Three_Principles_of_the_People_Unites_China.jpg[/t]
[QUOTE]ROC propaganda sign in Kinmen reading "The Three Principles of the People unites China"[/QUOTE]
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[t]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Embassy_of_China%2C_Canberra.jpg/800px-Embassy_of_China%2C_Canberra.jpg[/t]
[QUOTE]PRC embassy in Australia, in which Australia doesn't recognize the ROC[/QUOTE]
[t]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/Taiwanese_Embassy_in_Mbabane.JPG/800px-Taiwanese_Embassy_in_Mbabane.JPG[/t]
[QUOTE]ROC embassy in Swaziland, in which Swaziland doesn't recognize the PRC[/QUOTE]
[quote]I made one great mistake in my life: When I signed a letter to FDR recommending atom bombs be made. -- Albert Einstein [/quote]
[img]http://www.dannen.com/images/ae-fdr1.gif[/img]
[img]http://www.dannen.com/images/ae-fdr2.gif[/img]
[img]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e7/Roosevelt-einstein-letter.png[/img]
You wouldn't happen to have posted that because it's the 7[B]0[/B]th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombings, would you?
[QUOTE=OvB;48395017]You wouldn't happen to have posted that because it's the 7th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombings, would you?[/QUOTE]
I too remember the 2008 Hiroshima nuclear bombings. Some theorise that it was a misguided attempt to end anime forcibly, not realising that anime cannot be killed with conventional weaponry.
[t]http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/history/oral_histories/SlezakTR/gallery/hires/S69-40055.jpg[/t]
[QUOTE]Terry Slezak in the Lunar Receiving Lab showing Moon dust on his hand from the Apollo[/QUOTE]
[editline]7th August 2015[/editline]
[t]http://airandspace.si.edu/webimages/640/5503_640.jpg[/t]
[t]http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/142019main_dustycernan1_med2.jpg[/t]
[QUOTE]Apollo astronaut Eugene Cernan, after an encounter with lunar dust.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE]Moondust. "I wish I could send you some," says Apollo 17 astronaut Gene Cernan. Just a thimbleful scooped fresh off the lunar surface. "It's amazing stuff."
Feel it--it's soft like snow, yet strangely abrasive.
Taste it--"not half bad," according to Apollo 16 astronaut John Young.
Sniff it--"it smells like spent gunpowder," says Cernan.
How do you sniff moondust?
Every Apollo astronaut did it. They couldn't touch their noses to the lunar surface. But, after every moonwalk (or "EVA"), they would tramp the stuff back inside the lander. Moondust was incredibly clingy, sticking to boots, gloves and other exposed surfaces. No matter how hard they tried to brush their suits before re-entering the cabin, some dust (and sometimes a lot of dust) made its way inside.[/QUOTE]
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[QUOTE]Scientist-astronaut Harrison Schmitt, Apollo 17 lunar module pilot, uses an adjustable sampling scoop to retrieve lunar samples during the second Apollo 17 extravehicular activity (EVA), at Station 5 at the Taurus-Littrow landing site. A gnomon is atop the large rock in the foreground. The gnomon is a stadia rod mounted on a tripod, and serves as an indicator of the gravitational vector and provides accurate vertical reference and calibrated length for determining size and position of objects in near-field photographs. The color scale of blue, orange and green is used to accurately determine color for photography. The rod of it is 18 inches long. The scoop Dr. Schmitt is using is 11 3/4 inches long and is attached to a tool extension which adds a potential 30 inches of length to the scoop. The pan portion, obscured in this view, has a flat bottom, flanged on both sides with a partial cover on the top. It is used to retrieve sand, dust and lunar samples too small for the tongs, another geological tool used by the astronauts. The pan and the adjusting mechanism are made of stainless steel and the handle is made of aluminum. Within the foreground of this scene, three lunar samples were taken--numbers 75060, 75075 and 75080. Astronaut Eugene A. Cernan, crew commander, was using a 60mm lens on the 70mm Hasselblad camera and type SO-368 film to take this photograph.[/QUOTE]
[t]http://www.lpi.usra.edu/lunar/samples/apollo/tools/images/envcon_lg.gif[/t]
[QUOTE]Curiously, back on Earth, moondust has no smell. There are hundreds of pounds of moondust at the Lunar Sample Lab in Houston. There, Lofgren has held dusty moon rocks with his own hands. He's sniffed the rocks, sniffed the air, sniffed his hands. "It does not smell like gunpowder," he says.
Were the Apollo crews imagining things? No. Lofgren and others have a better explanation:
Moondust on Earth has been "pacified." All of the samples brought back by Apollo astronauts have been in contact with moist, oxygen-rich air. Any smelly chemical reactions (or evaporations) ended long ago.
This wasn't supposed to happen. Astronauts took special "thermos" containers to the moon to hold the samples in vacuum. But the jagged edges of the dust unexpectedly cut the seals of the containers, allowing oxygen and water vapor to sneak in during the 3-day trip back to Earth. No one can say how much the dust was altered by that exposure.[/QUOTE]
[t]http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/0012/lunarscape_apollo17_big.jpg[/t]
[QUOTE]The moon--a 4 billion year old desert.[/QUOTE]
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[QUOTE]Apollo 15 astronaut Dave Scott ascends the cushiony base of Mt. Hadley Delta.[/QUOTE]
I hope we go back to the Moon one day. There must be something left to discover.
[QUOTE=Jamsponge;48399784]I hope we go back to the Moon one day. There must be something left to discover.[/QUOTE]
[I]aliens[/I]
or well
[I]moonliens[/I]
Different shapes of rock
we need a science base on the moon damnit
or any base really
i unno
fire
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[QUOTE=Jamsponge;48399784]I hope we go back to the Moon one day. There must be something left to discover.[/QUOTE]
nasa website says they're sending astronauts on the moon in 2016.
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/4g1JnqG.jpg[/IMG]
[QUOTE=godfatherk;48400250]nasa website says they're sending astronauts on the moon in 2016.[/QUOTE]
That sounds extremely unlikely to me, link?
[QUOTE=godfatherk;48400250]nasa website says they're sending astronauts on the moon in 2016.[/QUOTE]
I'd love to see a link to that. Humans aren't scheduled to even orbit the moon until 2021 for EM-2.
[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploration_Mission_2[/url]
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[quote]Feel it--it's soft like snow, yet strangely abrasive.
Taste it--"not half bad," according to Apollo 16 astronaut John Young.
Sniff it--"it smells like spent gunpowder," says Cernan.[/quote]
NASA doctors would have a shit-fit if you did this today.
[QUOTE=Teddybeer;48403014]They probably also had back then. But what are you going to do against astronauts several days away from earth? Ground them?[/QUOTE]
Although, back then Asbestos was still widely in use so maybe they weren't as concerned as they would be today about the possible heath defects to inhaling foreign powders.
[QUOTE]Feel it--it's soft like snow, yet strangely abrasive.
Taste it--"not half bad," according to Apollo 16 astronaut John Young.
Sniff it--"it smells like spent gunpowder," says Cernan.[/QUOTE]
It might sound ridiculous, but I find it amusing and for some reason heartwarming that even in foreign worlds our basic senses retain usefulness.
[QUOTE=OvB;48402810]I'd love to see a link to that. Humans aren't scheduled to even orbit the moon until 2021 for EM-2.
[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploration_Mission_2[/url]
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NASA doctors would have a shit-fit if you did this today.[/QUOTE]
Oh, I just read it [URL="http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2006/17jan_jack"]here[/URL].
Just realized that the article is from 2006
[QUOTE]NASA is going back to the moon, with a first wave of astronauts due to arrive in 2018 or so. The long-term goal is to establish a permanent outpost. Skis and sleds might come in handy for workaday transportation or weekend recreation.
Schmitt wishes he could go, too. The powder is out of this world.[/QUOTE]
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[QUOTE]South Vietnamese government troops from the 2nd Battalion of the 36th Infantry sleep in a U.S. Navy troop carrier on their way back to the Provincial capital of Ca Mau in Aug. 1962 during the Vietnam War. The soldiers were on a four-day and night operation against the Viet Cong Communists in the swamplands of the southern tip of the country. (Photo by AP Photo/Horst Faas)[/QUOTE]
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[quote]US Marines with captured Japanese flags at the Battle of Cape Gloucester(New Britain, Papua New Guinea 1944)[/quote]
they've seen shit and shit accessories
[QUOTE=OvB;48403047]Although, back then Asbestos was still widely in use so maybe they weren't as concerned as they would be today about the possible heath defects to inhaling foreign powders.[/QUOTE]
IIRC, weren't the first Apollo team to land on the moon quarantined for a month to avoid any possible infectious diseases spreading through Earth?
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[QUOTE]Resist the Beijing Aggressor!
The dot marks the Vietnamese capital of Hanoi.
This poster dates from the four-week Sino-Vietnamese War of 1979. Chinese forces expected to capture Hanoi within a week, but unexpectedly fierce resistance convinced them to pull back without even laying siege to the city. Still the invasion was not a total failure. It demonstrated to the Vietnamese that their Soviet allies might offer material and moral support, but
were unwilling to risk a direct confrontation.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE]China crawls out of Vietnam
Not yet knowing the lesson himself, this man
Wanted to teach it to Vietnam.
But...
Snarling all the way,
He barely carries his foot away.
[t]http://i.imgur.com/8KmbwAL.jpg[/t]
China's defeat in Vietnam was not quite so debilitating. But while Deng Xiaoping had boasted before the war to President Jimmy Carter that "The little child is getting naughty, it's time he be spanked," in fact nearly the reverse occurred.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Amiga OS;48409060][IMG]http://40.media.tumblr.com/bfce65d6a45793d0c8ca7720b1c1bac7/tumblr_ngwdtoj0Cw1ql8t12o1_1280.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
What's the context?
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