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TorpedoFish posted:Voyager 1 (which gave us this portrait) is now more than 11 billion miles away from Earth. Which means it's pretty much about to run out of solar system to explore and will be moving on to the rest of the universe outside of our little neighborhood. Which is awesome. Well, rest of the Milky Way which is still a small, tiny square-meter of a neighborhood in universal terms - not that it isn't awesome.  I'd love this on my wall too. EDIT not sure if videos are okay, but this is probably one of the most badass ways to give a fallen comrade a send-off: http://www.wimp.com/fallencomrade/ DarkCrawler has a new favorite as of 21:34 on Sep 3, 2012 |
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TorpedoFish posted:
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This is what a sonic boom looks like:
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Root Bear posted:
Sadly, the shuttle in that image, Enterprise, did not go into space.
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Root Bear posted:
My first thought upon seeing this was "drat, one flew into the Empire State Building too?"
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1stGear posted:My first thought upon seeing this was "drat, one flew into the Empire State Building too?" One did. 
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Dear Prudence posted:This is what a sonic boom looks like: That's a vapour cone, they commonly occur at transonic speeds but also during low speed, high-g maneuvers in humid conditions. You can see a transonic flyby over the ocean form a great vapour cloud in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DR_5YcWNY_M And a supersonic flyby near the end of this video that doesn't, but a high-g turn halfway through that does in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BY0xNb4pubA
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 Phy posted:I caaan't quite make out Heisenberg. And I'm surprised they let Pauli in at all. 
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 I've only ever seen the black and white version of this. Heading off to pastincolour.com to see about the availability of a print. Thanks!
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I caaan't quite make out Heisenberg. And I'm surprised they let Pauli in at all. e: Planck is taller than I expected. Phy has a new favorite as of 19:50 on Sep 5, 2012 |
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Sep 5, 2012 19:47
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Probably had to invent a whole new unit of measurement for the combined IQ in this picture.
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Jesus christ. Talk about having all your egg(head)s in one basket. edit: thisiswhyyouaresittinginyourbedroomlookingatpicturesofcatsonacomputerandnotworkinginacoalmine.jpg Mr. Gibbycrumbles has a new favorite as of 20:34 on Sep 5, 2012 |
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DarkCrawler posted:Probably had to invent a whole new unit of measurement for the combined IQ in this picture. Edit for badass houses. It must be fun to sit on the balcony of the house on the far right. 
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Mr. Gibbycrumbles posted:thisiswhyyouaresittinginyourbedroomlookingatpicturesofcatsonacomputerandnotworkinginacoalmine.jpg I know you don't mean to be insensitive, but there are still coal miners today, many of them are quite bad rear end, and I wouldn't wish their job on anyone.   
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This man sets his hat on fire when he goes to work.
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Anjow posted:This man sets his hat on fire when he goes to work. Miners used to go into their extremely flammable workplaces with a loving ACETYLENE torch strapped to their heads.  They were reasonably safe by the time they started using them, but still, holy gently caress. (they're actually acetylene generators, you drop a little carbide into water in a sealed container and vent the gas to a burner) Also blacksmiths are badass now? Awesome, I wish I could grow a beard.
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Ephphatha posted:That's a vapour cone, they commonly occur at transonic speeds but also during low speed, high-g maneuvers in humid conditions. Yes, if I remember correctly from my CFD days, it happens where a shockwave forms.
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The driving wheels of a Union Pacific "Big Boy" 4-8-8-4 locomotive:
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Slung Blade posted:Also blacksmiths are badass now? Awesome, I wish I could grow a beard. They take particular rocks which usually look indistinguishable from gravel to the layman, heat them using carefully designed forges and skilled methodology often at risk to life and limb, and then hit that hot metal until they form shapes which are useful in a variety of ways when cooled. The badassery there isn't self-evident? The Greeks saw such a man as so crucial to their survival and prosperity they made his archetype a major god alongside "the loving ocean", "death", and "hot girl." Not only that but they made sure he was crippled so his usefulness would be limited to them, based on the real ancient practice of hobbling skilled craftsmen to avoid them becoming guns-for-hire to rival tribes or strong warriors in their own right. Granted they also made him super ugly, had his hot girl wife cheat on him all the time, and basically made him one of the earliest patrons of the nerd, neckbeard, Tolkein dwarf, but even that can't take away from the fact that he could do what no other god could.
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mind the walrus posted:They take particular rocks which usually look indistinguishable from gravel to the layman, heat them using carefully designed forges and skilled methodology often at risk to life and limb, and then hit that hot metal until they form shapes which are useful in a variety of ways when cooled. The badassery there isn't self-evident? A man so badass they limited his badassness so it wouldnt turn on them.
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Brother Jonathan posted:The driving wheels of a Union Pacific "Big Boy" 4-8-8-4 locomotive: I didn't believe this until I looked it up. Also, here's a slightly larger version: 
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mind the walrus posted:The Greeks saw such a man as so crucial to their survival and prosperity they made his archetype a major god alongside "the loving ocean", "death", and "hot girl." Not only that but they made sure he was crippled so his usefulness would be limited to them, based on the real ancient practice of hobbling skilled craftsmen to avoid them becoming guns-for-hire to rival tribes or strong warriors in their own right. Granted they also made him super ugly, had his hot girl wife cheat on him all the time, and basically made him one of the earliest patrons of the nerd, neckbeard, Tolkein dwarf, but even that can't take away from the fact that he could do what no other god could. <------- Forge Gods Best Gods.
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mind the walrus posted:The Greeks saw such a man as so crucial to their survival and prosperity they made his archetype a major god alongside "the loving ocean", "death", and "hot girl." Not only that but they made sure he was crippled so his usefulness would be limited to them, based on the real ancient practice of hobbling skilled craftsmen to avoid them becoming guns-for-hire to rival tribes or strong warriors in their own right. Granted they also made him super ugly, had his hot girl wife cheat on him all the time, and basically made him one of the earliest patrons of the nerd, neckbeard, Tolkein dwarf, but even that can't take away from the fact that he could do what no other god could. Hephaestus, if any of you care.
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Also Vulcan if you're a Roman wannabe  . That goes even further to lend credence to his status as one of the earliest and most famous neckbeards and neckbeard-inspirations of all time.
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mind the walrus posted:They take particular rocks which usually look indistinguishable from gravel to the layman, heat them using carefully designed forges and skilled methodology often at risk to life and limb, and then hit that hot metal until they form shapes which are useful in a variety of ways when cooled. The badassery there isn't self-evident? Oh, believe me, I know all about it. I just kinda thought other people didn't think the same way about us. Heph is my homeboy. I need to get around to building that shrine someday.
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VendaGoat posted:Hephaestus, if any of you care. Yeah, Hephaestus.
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Is she like 3 feet tall? 
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She's bending over, so she looks shorter. I don't think it's crazy to assume she's 5 feet tall or maybe a little shorter.
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Praseodymi posted:Is she like 3 feet tall? The drivers on a "Big Boy" are 68 inches in diameter. That is an average height for a woman. The picture of yours is from the front, so the perspective makes it hard to do a size comparison.
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Mr. Gibbycrumbles posted:edit: thisiswhyyouaresittinginyourbedroomlookingatpicturesofcatsonacomputerandnotworkinginacoalmine.jpg I'm a coal miner and I look at pictures of cats on the computer every day v  v
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While we're on the topic of Big Boys :
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Drag Racing Tires Surface Tension 
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Willfrey posted:While we're on the topic of Big Boys : And this is why Kodachrome should never be allowed to die. Any image it captures becomes more than real and no matter the subject matter, looks simply incredible. All the following are taken from Shorpy.com and continue with a locomotive theme simply to illustrate the point. Working on the cab of a locomotive brought in for repairs at the Chicago & North Western 40th Street shops, Chicago. December 1942.  40th Street Shop, Chicago & Northwestern R.R. December 1942.  Roundhouse at the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad yard, Chicago. December 1942.  December 1942. Melrose Park, Illinois. "Chicago & North Western RR. William London has been a railroad worker 25 years -- now working at the roundhouse at the Proviso yards."  March 1943. "Santa Fe R.R. shops, Albuquerque. Hammering out a drawbar on the steam drop hammer in the blacksmith shop."  Chicago & North Western railroad locomotive shops at Chicago. December 1942.  December 1942. Melrose Park, Ill. "L. Logan, of West Chicago, boilermaker at the Proviso Yard roundhouse, Chicago & North Western R.R."  April 1943. "Viola Sievers, one of the wipers at the Chicago & North Western roundhouse, giving a giant "H" class locomotive a bath of live steam at Clinton, Iowa. Mrs. Sievers is the sole support of her mother and has a son-in-law in the Army." 
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Trains really are badass inventions. Large, nearly unstoppable metaphors for human accomplishment and power. I'd like to take a moment to talk about a man named O. Winston Link. Link's claim to fame was special type of camera he invented allowing him to create these incredible black and white photos which he used to document the decline of the American train culture.   
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 He's pretty bad rear end, IMO. He personally knows Mr. Top'em Hat, he's proved himself to be a really useful engine, and he's got tons of friends. That's pretty bad rear end.
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Baytor posted:
No face, but pretty badass.  For a serious post, my favorite badass from Badass of the Week: Baba Deep Singh. Badass Sikh who supposedly got his head lopped off and fought on. More likely, he took a sword to the neck and adrenaline carried him through to the end of the battle. Still, pretty awesome. More here if you want to read it. That picture even showcases him and his sweet beard. 
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Willfrey posted:While we're on the topic of Big Boys : Does anyone have this shot in super giant size? Reverse image search shows this up as the biggest available.
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