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Link Posted: 4/18/2022 11:47:08 PM EDT
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Originally Posted By CherokeeRose:
I love visiting this thread when I don't want to sleep again, ever...

Y'all know Giger is kind of weird, right? like, as in, he never had a girlfriend and sleeps in his mom's bed kind of weird...
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H. R. Giger the Alien guy?
Link Posted: 4/19/2022 3:51:23 PM EDT
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Originally Posted By Notrega:
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arright, what happened here? did the train lose traction because of snow & the powered wheels stayed in one place & cooked?
Link Posted: 4/19/2022 4:18:16 PM EDT
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Originally Posted By CherokeeRose:
I love visiting this thread when I don't want to sleep again, ever...

Y'all know Giger is kind of weird, right? like, as in, he never had a girlfriend and sleeps in his mom's bed kind of weird...
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You know most artists are kind of weird, compared to most folks, right?
Link Posted: 4/19/2022 10:07:19 PM EDT
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Originally Posted By olscruffy:

arright, what happened here? did the train lose traction because of snow & the powered wheels stayed in one place & cooked?
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Originally Posted By olscruffy:
Originally Posted By Notrega:
https://i.imgur.com/LhyHPHL.png

arright, what happened here? did the train lose traction because of snow & the powered wheels stayed in one place & cooked?


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locomotive_wheelslip

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INSANE CSX Locomotive Wheel Slip
Link Posted: 4/19/2022 10:11:19 PM EDT
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Originally Posted By Notrega:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSmtV8hrlAY
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Originally Posted By olscruffy:
Originally Posted By Notrega:
https://i.imgur.com/LhyHPHL.png

arright, what happened here? did the train lose traction because of snow & the powered wheels stayed in one place & cooked?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSmtV8hrlAY
Wicked burnout!

Link Posted: 4/19/2022 10:52:28 PM EDT
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Link Posted: 4/20/2022 8:00:15 AM EDT
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Originally Posted By olscruffy:

arright, what happened here? did the train lose traction because of snow & the powered wheels stayed in one place & cooked?
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Some dude was standing next to the tracks yelling "DO A BURNOUT". Conductor couldn't help himself.
Link Posted: 4/20/2022 9:27:02 AM EDT
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Originally Posted By CajunMojo:


Some dude was standing next to the tracks yelling "DO A BURNOUT". Conductor couldn't help himself.
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Casey Jones finally got the linelock working.
Link Posted: 4/20/2022 12:29:32 PM EDT
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Casey Jones finally got the linelock working.
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Originally Posted By nvroundman:
Originally Posted By CajunMojo:


Some dude was standing next to the tracks yelling "DO A BURNOUT". Conductor couldn't help himself.

Casey Jones finally got the linelock working.

He thought he was on a treadmill.
Link Posted: 4/20/2022 3:39:07 PM EDT
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Uparmored hermit crab

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Link Posted: 4/20/2022 3:41:26 PM EDT
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Link Posted: 4/20/2022 5:09:06 PM EDT
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Lol, nvermind, I was looking at stuff from 2014 posts

Link Posted: 4/20/2022 6:01:07 PM EDT
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Link Posted: 4/20/2022 6:24:33 PM EDT
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There's a lake near Panama City (deer point) that I went out on a boat at night (mid to late 90s) that looked just like that.
Link Posted: 4/20/2022 6:31:03 PM EDT
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Pretty refined tastes for a crab.
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Especially for one in Saipan where the photo was taken.
Link Posted: 4/20/2022 8:22:01 PM EDT
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you can 3d print it:

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1468073
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Link Posted: 4/20/2022 10:45:30 PM EDT
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Originally Posted By SgtKiwi:


There's a lake near Panama City (deer point) that I went out on a boat at night (mid to late 90s) that looked just like that.
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Now that is cool. Didn't have any idea where it was.


https://imgur.com/gallery/tRhKbhU
Link Posted: 4/20/2022 11:27:51 PM EDT
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400 ton truck vs 40 ton truck
Link Posted: 4/21/2022 11:44:47 AM EDT
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Originally Posted By Notrega:
Originally Posted By olscruffy:
Originally Posted By Notrega:
https://i.imgur.com/LhyHPHL.png

arright, what happened here? did the train lose traction because of snow & the powered wheels stayed in one place & cooked?


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locomotive_wheelslip

https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/107026/Screen_Shot_2022-04-19_at_10_11_58_PM_pn-2355165.JPG

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSmtV8hrlAY

I don't know how that would happen by itself.  The newer stuff has traction control and locos usually have at least 2 sets of driving axles / combos per bogie, and for freight, 3.  So one axle digging in like that seems odd.
Link Posted: 4/21/2022 10:27:53 PM EDT
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Link Posted: 4/21/2022 10:52:55 PM EDT
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Originally Posted By not_sure:

I don't know how that would happen by itself.  The newer stuff has traction control and locos usually have at least 2 sets of driving axles / combos per bogie, and for freight, 3.  So one axle digging in like that seems odd.
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It's possible there is another burned down section a couple feet left or right of that picture. This photo's caption started there were 6 more ground down areas to right of camera




Also of interest
A seriously "oh crap" moment : Australian Railways




Link Posted: 4/21/2022 11:11:18 PM EDT
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The brakes were on, but the dummy locomotive was turning
Link Posted: 4/23/2022 9:22:35 AM EDT
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Beautiful.


Link Posted: 4/23/2022 9:48:41 AM EDT
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Not sure if the size of this Chinese ship is exaggerated some? There is a replica of one of Columbus' ships in Columbus Ohio. It is shockingly small, and I can't imagine crossing an ocean on that thing.

I think this is supposed to be a replica of the ship above. It looks smaller.

Link Posted: 4/23/2022 10:11:59 AM EDT
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Link Posted: 4/23/2022 12:38:27 PM EDT
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Zheng He made a map going from china to south america to africa and back home

Columbus cribbed
Link Posted: 4/23/2022 6:56:07 PM EDT
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seems Zeng was way ahead of his time in informing about his preferred personal pronoun
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Link Posted: 4/23/2022 8:38:17 PM EDT
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Originally Posted By doc_Zox:
Zheng He made a map going from china to south america to africa and back home

Columbus cribbed
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...China claims South America and Africa as part of China.
Link Posted: 4/23/2022 11:08:15 PM EDT
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Originally Posted By not_sure:

...China claims South America and Africa as part of China.
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Nonsense!
The Pope carved up the New World!
Link Posted: 4/24/2022 4:07:22 AM EDT
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Originally Posted By Leisure_Shoot:
https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/46582/Screenshot_20220422-120537_Facebook-2358895.png

Not sure if the size of this Chinese ship is exaggerated some? There is a replica of one of Columbus' ships in Columbus Ohio. It is shockingly small, and I can't imagine crossing an ocean on that thing.

I think this is supposed to be a replica of the ship above. It looks smaller.
https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/46582/TreasureShip-2358903.jpg
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Edit - did some more digging

The nine masted 137m monster that's in the first pic may not have existed and is probably just historical china-strong propaganda. The largest ship in Zheng's fleet that we have good records of was a 6 masted 75m. The replica in the second pic was a more common "medium" example (they built 60+ oversized cargo ships for his fleets) which was 5 masts and 63m. That's still a damn big ship for the time (enormously bigger than anything built in Europe that century - Spanish flagships were around 25m with the largest cargo ships being a bit bigger and all being much narrower) and they built plenty. Quite an achievement, why exagerate it? Smacks of national insecurity, since they can't pull off anything like that today...

For context, the Santa Maria was 19m but she was a very average sized ocean-going ship. The largest Carrack (15-16th century ocean going ship} was Great Michael at 73m in 1507 but that was unique. Nothing got close to the displacement of the largest of Zheng's treasure ships (that we think did actually exist).

European wooden ships would later get into the 100m+ range (still narrower in the beam then the Chinese ships) and issues with the flexibility of wood were found and declared to be insurmountable.

Zheng's fleet was exceptional and purpose built - it was a national project that Zheng was placed in charge of, very different to Columbus. Zheng was also a eunuch, so apparently it did not take balls. I guess that explains why he spent the later half of his life exploring rather than drinking and fucking like his contemporaries. Columbus's fleet was just some ships that Columbus knew the owners of that he managed to convince the queen to pay for requisitioning (he didn't even buy them, he chartered them).
Link Posted: 4/24/2022 8:38:41 AM EDT
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Boy, ain't that the truth...


Link Posted: 4/24/2022 8:50:01 AM EDT
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400 ton truck vs 40 ton truck
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400 ton truck vs 40 ton truck


I used to share the road with 400 ton trucks in a 6 ton truck, often a night.
Link Posted: 4/24/2022 10:01:53 AM EDT
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Art Nouveau door, Brussels, Belgium



The building


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My name is Giovanni Giorgio but... In my heart I remain a kid
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Gun safety glass 1956 somewhere in Indiana.
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wow , thanks . that is a mind bender for sure .
Link Posted: 4/25/2022 8:17:29 PM EDT
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. The Astronomia Sky


The Astronomia is the epitome of 21st century haute horlogerie and a globally recognized symbol of Jacob & Co watchmaking expertise. A world-first both in the boldness of its unprecedented concept and its entirely mechanical construction, the Astronomia has gone beyond impressive horological achievements and has been regarded as an outstanding multidisciplinary engineering achievement.
Link Posted: 4/25/2022 10:00:26 PM EDT
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Originally Posted By 15jonshoot:
. The Astronomia Sky


The Astronomia is the epitome of 21st century haute horlogerie and a globally recognized symbol of Jacob & Co watchmaking expertise. A world-first both in the boldness of its unprecedented concept and its entirely mechanical construction, the Astronomia has gone beyond impressive horological achievements and has been regarded as an outstanding multidisciplinary engineering achievement.
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WOW - No price tag... hmmm LOL

Edit - HOLY FUCK

Link Posted: 4/25/2022 10:07:58 PM EDT
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Shamelessly stolen from @JustinU235 New Core thread.



Link Posted: 4/25/2022 10:10:15 PM EDT
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Originally Posted By Notrega:
Shamelessly stolen from @JustinU235 New Core thread.

https://i.postimg.cc/RCJ3prY7/IMG-1529.jpg

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I'm honored!!!
Link Posted: 4/26/2022 11:04:06 AM EDT
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