Originally Posted By junker46:
The other side of Atom Heart Mother.
https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/q94/junker46/(edited)_b24_france_postww2.jpeg

Originally Posted By thesandstertx:
"My brother-in-law shadowed a coroner for a few weeks who showed him this strange contraption from a case 40+ years old. Apparently a young man constructed a suicide helmet that fired eight shotgun shells into his head simultaneously. "





http://i.imgur.com/0bVIYlf.jpg
From my brother-in-law:
"At the apex of each projection there is a hollow metal tube into which a nail was fitted so as to be very close to the primer on each of the protrusion's shotgun shells. The inside pic [below] shows a few of the shells pretty clearly. The nails were all wired together as well and wire leads were then attached to an arc welder which was to provide the electricity that would ignite the primer and cause them to fire. The nails are all absent from the helmet in its current state, as are the wires that connected the nails together, and the wire that was to connect to the arc welder. The wiring was believed to be metal from coat hangers. The whole helmet is covered in a fiberglass/epoxy shell that both maintained the integrity of the helmet during the blast and contained the resulting mess.
http://i.imgur.com/BpaaTo3.jpg
The side with the three protrusions was the front, and the one at the top of the head was wired up like the others, but also had a manual activation, as though it was his fail-safe if the electricity didn't cause the shells to fire. There's a bit of rubber tubing that was designed to go from one side of the protrusion on the top of the helmet to the other side of that same protrusion, like a sling-shot. The pathologist that did the autopsy said that the rubber tubing was attached to the nail in the top such that the nail could be pulled straight up, which put tension on the tubing and when released would propel the nail into the primer of the top shell, causing it to detonate and fire.






http://i.imgur.com/z2dDKiO.jpg
There are holes visible in the helmet opposite some of the shells - they're the holes from the shot - .33 inch lead balls - that passed through his head and embedded themselves in the helmet. He knew something about the skull: thicker and stronger at the front where he placed three shells. it would have made more sense - for maximum kill power - to put the shells at his temples, but it seems like he may have been trying to tic boxes for both 'homogenous skull obliteration' and 'maximum death.'

This kid was sharp. On one side, there's a hole through the helmet from the shell opposite it. It also looks like he placed the shells in such a way so the shot would penetrate the majority of the brain tissue. The inside pic shows this pretty well and you can see the holes at 6, 12, and 2 o'clock opposite the shells at 12, 6, and 7 o'clock respectively. The others were aimed downward enough to miss the helmet oppositely, or simply didn't go through the cranium.

Not only was this a feat of electrical design, but it had a backup system, and was made specifically to defeat the skull anatomy. This kid was brilliant. And all pre-internet."
http://i.imgur.com/mgesP2X.jpg

Originally Posted By solid:


Holy crap, I remember this incident and it being posted here afterwards.

Originally Posted By -Obsessed-:


Arfcom existed 40 years ago?

Originally Posted By NIevo:

My vote for page winner would be those who actually put a description or caption with the picture

I love this thread but damn it's annoying when  you see a great WTF picture but have no idea of the context.

Originally Posted By 15jonshoot:

Margaret Hamilton, NASA's lead developer for Apollo program, stands next to all the code she wrote by hand that took humanity to the moon in 1969.

Originally Posted By thezentree:


That's a pain in the ass if you're sitting in the crapper staring at your phone.

But, as a total freeloader, I am not going to complain.

Originally Posted By FrankSymptoms:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8Hgjq7eax-4/StIs6ps7ANI/AAAAAAAAGWQ/HLUROS99x4w/s400/Brown+Material+Road.jpg

ETA This sign is somewhere north of the Grapevine, California. Lots of oil fields out there.

Originally Posted By FrankSymptoms:

Bakersfield... If God wanted to give Earth an enema...

Originally Posted By doc_Zox:
Given the height of the bricks,
that is a lot of dick shots

Originally Posted By Scott-S6:

And I didn't just say it works, I said that it works fine - exactly the same way that it works on desktop.

What's so difficult about long pressing on an image and then selecting "search Google for this image" or "search with Google lens" that makes it a pain in the ass compared to right clicking and doing the same?