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I’d add in the stranger and the third man
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Also German Expressionists, in particular Fritz Lang and most especially M. Pre-Noir but the ones who escaped  made Noir when they got to Hollywood so, yeah?
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qirex posted:I’d add in the stranger and the third man there are also euro-noir movies (raffifi, long good friday, bob le flambeur, le cercle rouge, le samourai) and modern neo-noir (red rock west, usual suspects, la confidential, grifters. last seduction, blood simple, plus chinatown and oh yeah blade runner)
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Apr 25, 2020 00:39
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And Noir literally is the direct and immediate cultural and political precursor to Punk and it's several hyphenations so  .
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Apr 25, 2020 00:41
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do any of those movies feature blimps though?
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gonadic io posted:do any of those movies feature blimps though? There might be one in the background of Metropolis?
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gonadic io posted:do any of those movies feature blimps though?
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Schadenboner posted:Found Sky Captain, watching now. Just pipe this poo poo into my veins. also lol at the airplane putting away its sky propeller and unpacking some water ones
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FMguru posted:orson welles is in several of them, so yes rude Pickup on South Street and The Crimson Kimono are both personal favorites.
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LanceHunter posted:I imagine a massive luxury dirigible would be an enormous pain in the rear end to dock. Add in having to deal with airspace restrictions, helium costs, and not being able to have mega-yacht levels of "and orgy suite, a drug suite, a private room, and a few guest rooms" space and it's just not worth it. the huge blimp hangars down in orange county are p cool.
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gonadic io posted:How come none of the Saudi princes or Jeff bezoses of the world have made a modern luxury blimp?? You can make them way bigger than an RV and sure they have super yachts but you're restricted to the coastline with those! sergey brin is literally building a giant luxury blimp in the moffett field hangar that google bought for him. it's entirely so that he can one-up the megayachts the saudi princes and russian oil barons show off. he claims it will be used for "humanitarian missions like dropping aid packages" but that can undoubtedly be better served by, e.g., a truck
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me, if i were a billionaire i'd convert a ww2 PBY-5 catalina into a yacht. they held a 10-man crew and had big observation blisters in the back so you could probably live really well in one of those. oh, george clooney has a place on lake como? well i will tomorrow, i suppose. today i'm on lake geneva. i would also convert it to turboprop though because jet fuel is a hell of a lot more available than 150-octane avgas and also gently caress traveling the world on an 80 year old radial.
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Apr 25, 2020 03:04
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the problem is that you’re going to eventually die flying it around i think an l-39 would be way more efficient
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eh, there are worse ways to go. like, elon musk has a AMEL/IR and he doesn't even fly planes any more (his medical expired a decade ago). he's most likely going to die of a stroke from some stupid silicon valley designer brain drug cocktail. what's the loving point of having a billion dollars if you don't live your 7 year old dreams of having a flying house
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Apr 25, 2020 03:10
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Elon’s problem is he wants that house to be on mars and nothing less
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hobbesmaster posted:the problem is that you’re going to eventually die flying it around yeah but then your death certificate will list cause of death as misadventure
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and it’d be suicide for lawn darting one of these? checks out I guess
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taqueso posted:Basically they have it exactly backwards. Rotate the current design 180 so the glass bits are near the back of the head where it can't hurt your eyes. Meanwhile your eyes are protected by the strong shell You mean something like 
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Sagebrush posted:me, if i were a billionaire i'd convert a ww2 PBY-5 catalina into a yacht. they held a 10-man crew and had big observation blisters in the back so you could probably live really well in one of those its been done http://www.vintagewings.ca/VintageNews/Stories/tabid/116/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/424/Sweet-Dreams-and-Nightmares.aspx didn't end well, if the url wasn't a giveaway
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rotor posted:its been done avoiding conflict zones sounds like a good idea in general imo
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hobbesmaster posted:avoiding conflict zones sounds like a good idea in general imo i don't think saudi arabia in 1959 was a conflict zone so much as a no law zone
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i guess thats sort of a distinction without a difference tho
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rotor posted:i don't think saudi arabia in 1959 was a conflict zone so much as a no law zone in 1959 it probably depended on your proximity to saud
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Sagebrush posted:had big observation blisters in the back Ugh, i feel this one!
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rotor posted:its been done this is an incredible read
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ArmZ posted:this is an incredible read its a great story even if it ends badly
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rotor posted:its been done in case you weren’t sure whether rich people have always been dumb as gently caress, here you go. also lol that the author of that article is tut-tutting at people tagging up the garbage some dumbshit abandoned in their country. Midjack fucked around with this message at 07:17 on Apr 25, 2020 |
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"surely this american flag will protect us"
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if he was in an aramco area it would’ve
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rotor posted:its been done lol good. awesome photos in this article 
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rotor posted:its been done I was hoping someone would post this, i remember reading it but lost the link. eccentric transportation hobbies are the true benefit of being super rich. In WW2 they used catalinas to do Perth to London transport, going south of india: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Double_Sunrise Three passengers, 27 to 33 hours (plus 8 to get to Perth in the first place if you were coming from Sydney), compass navigation, all at about 200kph.
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hobbesmaster posted:and it’d be suicide for lawn darting one of these? I had forgotten how sexy the Czech roundel was.  And my Short Sunderland laughs in the faces of your Catalinas: you are all as babby! 
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hobbesmaster posted:in 1959 it probably depended on your proximity to saud also in 2020
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rotor posted:its been done yeah that story was where i originally got the idea for it lol. a company in the 50s converted a handful of them that way and life magazine did a story on it     in general i would probably avoid landing anywhere between greece and india.
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hobbesmaster posted:the problem is that you’re going to eventually die flying it around
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50s ladies still living that "razors and nylons are rationed" life...
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LanceHunter posted:50s ladies still living that "razors and nylons are rationed" life... 50s ladies flying a PBY around the world for fun can live whatever life they like
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 so, odds on how long before this tech is modified to be rear end-seeking.
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NoneMoreNegative posted:
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NoneMoreNegative posted:
itd have to exist first, like most tesla press announcements it was never seen again
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