[QUOTE=Cartelised;48513869]Capsule hotels are a fun concept. It'd be an interesting experience to spend a night in one of these, on the assumption that it's dirt cheap anyway.
[img]http://i.imgur.com/Or7DAgf.jpg[/img]
Odd, but endearingly efficient. You probably wouldn't want to spend more than a single night in one of these things, though.[/QUOTE]
Reminds me of the Fifth Element.
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[QUOTE]A French soldier rests for a while. 1915.[/QUOTE]
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[QUOTE]A bombed out Verdun in 1916.[/QUOTE]
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[QUOTE]French machine gunners receive instructions on how to use the Hotchkiss M1914 in 1916.[/QUOTE]
[t]https://timedotcom.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/xersc0429040.jpg?quality=65&strip=color&w=403[/t]
[QUOTE]An acoustic listening device designed to look out for enemy aircraft.[/QUOTE]
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[QUOTE]A German field cannon crew, beside a large 7.7 Felkanone 96.[/QUOTE]
[t]http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/07/19/1405797378838_wps_6_British_soldiers_in_the_t.jpg[/t]
[QUOTE]British soldiers run over the top, with a dead comrade slumped in the trench.[/QUOTE]
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[QUOTE]There are no colour/colourized photos of Russian soldiers in WW1; this is a black and white photo of some.[/QUOTE]
[t]http://i121.photobucket.com/albums/o208/Zippoy/GunDM_468x361.jpg[/t]
[QUOTE]A German MG covers No Man's Land during the battle for Passchendaele.[/QUOTE]
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[QUOTE]Scottish POWs dressed in kilts, beside a German soldier with the signature Pickelhaube. [/QUOTE]
[t]http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/07/19/1405797381306_wps_14_A_view_of_Flanders_in_the.jpg [/t]
[QUOTE]Stretcher bearers in WW1 struggle to get a wounded man to safety through the muddy wastes of Flanders.[/QUOTE]
[t] http://www.ddoughty.com/uploads/1/4/0/9/14095491/3333178.png?1436697020[/t]
[QUOTE] I apologise for the fucking awful resolution. This is a German soldier.[/QUOTE]
[t]http://nancyetroland.free.fr/public/PhotosMilitaires/wwi/attack_photo_couleur.jpg[/t]
[QUOTE]French troops charging in an open field towards German positions early in the war. Most of these men were killed before reaching the trenches.[/QUOTE]
[t]http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/08/07/1407438836733_wps_115_https_www_facebook_com_Hi.jpg[/t]
[QUOTE]The infamous Red Baron colourized.[/QUOTE]
How was Manfred von Richthofen infamous?
[QUOTE=Kljunas;48515691]How was Manfred von Richthofen infamous?[/QUOTE]
Infamous in the sense he was a really good pilot working for what most people consider the bad guys.
or so I'm assuming.
Because Manfred was the best ace of the war with 80 victories.
[QUOTE=Pat.Lithium;48514853]i don't care how much money you have spending $32k for absolute comfort on a say 14 hour flight is ridiculous.[/QUOTE]
my flight from sf to tokyo to singapore was pretty long it'd be nice to be in one of those beds tbh
[img]http://i.imgur.com/rk3RzPz.gif[/img]
Expansion of the Franks, starting with King Clovis I
[QUOTE=Kljunas;48515691]How was Manfred von Richthofen infamous?[/QUOTE]
IIRC he's still got the second-highest kill-count by any one pilot in history (unless you count the bombardiers during bombing runs or torpedo bombings or some shit, but that's obvious). The highest kill-count goes to Erich Alfred Hartmann with 352 kills to his name.
[QUOTE=Blazedol;48515699]Infamous in the sense he was a really good pilot working for what most people consider the bad guys.
or so I'm assuming.[/QUOTE]
Whoever was the bad guy in the First World War is rather subjective.
[QUOTE=Ghost656;48517371]Whoever was the bad guy in the First World War is rather subjective.[/QUOTE]
Like I said, what most people consider (or at least, over here). But people like to think in a sort of black-and-white way when it comes to war, especially when they don't know much about it.
[QUOTE=Ghost656;48517371]Whoever was the bad guy in the First World War is rather subjective.[/QUOTE]
If World War II hadn't happened, it's possible that the other Western countries might have had a good think about the fact that the Great War was basically started by the Austro-Hungarian Empire and Eastern Europe not getting along, and everybody else hated everybody else so they all just kind of joined in.
[QUOTE=Pilotguy97;48516073]IIRC he's still got the second-highest kill-count by any one pilot in history (unless you count the bombardiers during bombing runs or torpedo bombings or some shit, but that's obvious). The highest kill-count goes to Erich Alfred Hartmann with 352 kills to his name.[/QUOTE]
Not even close, there were plenty of German pilots who punched far above 80 in the Second World War.
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/BmvqYl0.png[/IMG]
How dumb do you have to be to try stab something sitting on your leg with enough force to make a hole big enough for the lizard to crawl in.
jesus christ
[QUOTE=Araknid;48521231]How dumb do you have to be to try stab something sitting on your leg with enough force to make a hole big enough for the lizard to crawl in.
jesus christ[/QUOTE]
The lizard might have made the hole bigger, but I don't know much about lizards
[QUOTE=Pilotguy97;48516073]IIRC he's still got the second-highest kill-count by any one pilot in history (unless you count the bombardiers during bombing runs or torpedo bombings or some shit, but that's obvious). The highest kill-count goes to Erich Alfred Hartmann with 352 kills to his name.[/QUOTE]
Just for info's sake, he is the highest scoring ace of WWI, he isn't the second highest of all time. That goes to Gerhard Barkhorn at 301 kills. Then the next are just more WWII Germans.
[URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_War_II_flying_aces"]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_War_II_flying_aces[/URL]
[t]http://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/McJones_office_1980.jpg[/t]
[i]Software developer Paul McJones' office desk circa 1980. Pictured on top of said desk is his Xerox Alto; the machine to which he help develop the operating system for.[/i]
[t]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d4/Skeleton_of_the_Metropole_Hotel_%285987127804%29.jpg[/t]
[QUOTE]The damage done to Dublin's Metropole Hotel after the Easter rising.[/QUOTE]
Do you guys like, post anything other than stuff from the war? It's getting kind of boring in here.
[img]http://s7.computerhistory.org/is/image/CHM/500004467-03?$re-medium$[/img]
[i]A group meeting at Xerox's PARC, mid 1970's.[/i]
That looks pretty cozy.
[vid]http://i.imgur.com/t14H63k.mp4[/vid]
[QUOTE]flyby of pluto[/QUOTE]
[t]http://media3.s-nbcnews.com/j/newscms/2015_34/1188036/150822-spencer-stone-jsw-1159a_77488d3d547b174eff906bc53e775f8d.nbcnews-ux-2880-1000.jpg[/t]
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[t]http://media3.s-nbcnews.com/j/newscms/2015_34/1188036/150822-spencer-stone-jsw-1159a_77488d3d547b174eff906bc53e775f8d.nbcnews-ux-2880-1000.jpg[/t][/QUOTE]
It would help if you provided context for that.
[QUOTE=ferrus;48520495][IMG]http://i.imgur.com/BmvqYl0.png[/IMG][/QUOTE]
Jesus fucking christ I've always has a thing about animals/parasites in my body, that would be like hell.
[QUOTE=Random Access;48529165]It would help if you provided context for that.[/QUOTE]
Clearly this is the man that flew by Pluto, he must have hit a meteor storm on his way over.
[QUOTE=Pat.Lithium;48514853]i don't care how much money you have spending $32k for absolute comfort on a say 14 hour flight is ridiculous.[/QUOTE]
aside from the fact that, you know; these are usually for business purposes so therefore its usually the company that pays the ticket.
Maybe celebrities/billionaires, but my guess the majority of their service is business
[img]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/04/Raccoon-range.png[/img]
Range of [I]Procyon lotor[/I] or the Common Raccoon.
Red is natural range, Blue is introduced
[QUOTE=Random Access;48529165]It would help if you provided context for that.[/QUOTE]
One of the americans who stopped the train hijack attempt from Amsterdam to paris, getting medicare shortly after the incident. He got stabbed with a boxcutter.
[t]https://i.imgur.com/Jm2wraN.jpg[/t]
Nikolai Zverev and his students, including Rachmaninoff standing behind him, and Scriabin in the military outfit.
Rachmaninoff and Scriabin are some of the best pianists of the past century, and perhaps of all time. Rach's hands could span a 12th on the piano which is about 11 inches. Scriabin could barely stretch a fifth but still composed some of the most technical pieces around. Sadly he injured his hand which led him to compose many pieces for the left hand.
Nikolai Zverev taught Rachmaninov, Scriabin, Sitoli, Goldenweiser and many others. They then had pupils of their own such as Kapustin and Feinberg.
He was also quite strict with his pupils. From Wikipedia:
[quote]I entered Zverev’s home with a heavy heart and foreboding, having heard tell of his severity and ‘heavy hand’, which he had no qualms of resorting to. Indeed, we were able to witness proof of this latter: Zverev had a temper, and could launch himself at a person fists flailing, or hurl some object at the offender. I myself had been the object of his fury on three or four occasions…
But all other talk of his exacting and severe manner were false. This was a man of rare intellect, generosity and kindness. He commanded a great deal of respect among the best people of his time.
Indeed, discipline entered my life. God forbid that I leave the piano five minutes before my time of three hours was up! Or one uncompleted note – such cases were capable of stirring him up into a fearsome temper. However, all our achievements and diligence paid off: he drove us, his pupils, to various houses with concerts. When I finished playing, Zverev said: “Now that is how one should play the piano!”
The impression was that he was quite mad about us, his pupils. He never took a single coin from us as payment: neither for lessons, nor for board (after all, we lived in his house). He dressed us at the best tailors, we never missed a premiere at Moscow theatres – musical or drama. Of course, no really good concert went unnoticed. And that was a time when there was so much on offer: take the famous historical concerts of Anton Rubinstein, where we had an opportunity to hear all that was the greatest!
Zverev never limited himself to bringing us up as pianists. He did his best to generally give us a good all-round upbringing. He was deeply interested in the kind of reading we did.[/quote]
Also here's Prokofiev, Shostakovich and Khachaturian:
[t]https://i.imgur.com/e62XfyZ.jpg[/t]
-snip for now-
[QUOTE=Sand Castle;48530554][vid]https://i.imgur.com/6P46kqq.webm[/vid][/QUOTE]
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