2020 New Random Pics

[GH85Carrera]

Edinburgh, Scotland.

[Skytrooper]

I have eaten on that balcony in Edinburgh!! This is Victoria Street. The Grassmarket is below at the end of the street. The Royal Mile is up the street, and there is a stairway between the buildings to the Royal Mile. Edinburgh is one of my favorite cities in the world. Prague is a close second.

[GH85Carrera]

Apollo 11. Landing Site
Photo ID: AS11-40-5917
Date: July 1969
One of the Landing Gear Footpads is visible in this photograph by Pilot Edwin E. Aldrin, captured during Lunar Module inspection.
Location: Moon surface. Nearside, Southwest of Mare Tranquillitatis.
Photo Credit: NASA. JSC.
Illumination adjustment and compensation
balance for red and green: The New Moon.


Apollo12, EVA-1, Nov. 19, 1969
Alan Bean & LM Intrepid (as you've probably never seen before) photographed by Pete Conrad.
Stitching & processing of As12-46-6725, 6728 & 6729.
Credits : NASA/JSC Processing : Laurent Saulnier




Phoenix and Tucson from the Space Station.


Highway 89A, between Sedona and Flagstaff. Beautiful and fun road.


The beefsteak fungus (Fistulina hepatica), also known as the ox tongue, is a mushroom that can be found primarily on oak or chestnut tree trunks.

[GH85Carrera]

There is a child in both photos in the very same position with a different color coat on. Really important when choosing winter clothes.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

There is a child in both photos in the very same position with a different color coat on. Really important when choosing winter clothes.

This photo and caption reminds me of the crap that they try to pull in an infomercial.

"a different color coat on"

Right, and black shoes, and black leggings, and a black hat, and apparently, also black face. I guess the first pic was a little girl coming from school, and the second pic was of the same little girl wearing a black coat on her way to her ninja class.

[Jeff Higgins]

Originally Posted by masraum

This photo and caption reminds me of the crap that they try to pull in an infomercial.

"a different color coat on"

Right, and black shoes, and black leggings, and a black hat, and apparently, also black face. I guess the first pic was a little girl coming from school, and the second pic was of the same little girl wearing a black coat on her way to her ninja class.

OK Grumpy McGrumperson. Maybe skip the next cup of coffee.

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[GH85Carrera]

These are called Scud clouds. This was recently captured in South Carolina.

[GH85Carrera]

The Shambles, York England in the early hours of this morning. The best preserved medieval street in Europe. It looks like a movie set.

[daepp]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

American computer scientist and United States Navy rear admiral Grace Hopper born (December 9, 1906 – January 1, 1992). A pioneer of computer programming, Hopper devised the theory of machine-independent programming languages. The FLOW-MATIC programming language she created using this theory was later extended to create COBOL, an early high-level programming language still in use today.

Ol' Adm Hopper is also credited with finding the first "bug" in a computer - BITDays of vacuum tubes...

"On September 9, 1947, a team of computer scientists and engineers reported the world’s first computer bug. Today, software bugs can impact the functioning, safety, and security of computer operating systems. “Debugging” and bug management are important parts of the computer science industry.

This bug, however, was literally a bug. “First actual case of bug being found,” one of the team members wrote in the logbook. The team at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, found that their computer, the Mark II, was delivering consistent errors. When they opened the computer’s hardware, they found ... a moth. The trapped insect had helped short out a vacuum tube.

Among the team who found the first-reported computer bug was computer-language pioneer Dr. Grace Hopper. She is often given credit for reporting the bug - but at a minimum she was the person who likely made the incident famous."

[daepp]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

These guys are big fans of bench seats as well....






Random:

[Seahawk]

Originally Posted by daepp

Ol' Adm Hopper is also credited with finding the first "bug" in a computer - BIT Days of vacuum tubes...

Admiral Hopper was the best...I have read a lot about her and it makes me happy.

What a mind.

[Seahawk]

Oops, forgot pic.

From a few years ago:

[GH85Carrera]

Banff National Park, Canada

[GH85Carrera]

Start at mile zero on each end.
Historic Route 20 is the longest federal highway in the United States. It stretches across twelve states and has its ends at Boston, MA and Newport, OR.
The 3,365 miles was determined back in 1989. This number also included alternate alignments and older alignments now bypassed.
Route 20's designation has an eastern and western component as it is not signed through Yellowstone National Park.

[Jim Horton]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Nope; bogus claim. Here is the actual picture in the newspaper where it first appeared, and the caption that explained what it was for.

[GH85Carrera]

Love Field, Dallas, Texas (1950s)


This moose team belonged to W.R. (Billy/Buffalo Bill) Day. They were found by a Metis near Baptiste Lake in 1910 and were reared by bottle and broken to drive by Mr. Day at Athabasca Landing during the winter of 1910. Mr. Day and the moose team hauled mail and supplies to Wabasca, Edmonton, Pelican Mountains, Calling Lake, Athabasca, Colinton, Rochester, Tawatinaw, Clyde, Legal, Carbondale and St. Albert. Buffalo Bill and his wife also ran a store at Calling Lake.
Photograph J.H. Gano; Mrs. L. Lyons fonds.
W.R. (Billy) Day driving two moose (Pete and Nellie) at Edmonton Exhibition, 1911. A.11262






Photo: A homesteader and his family in front of their sod house in Cherry County, Nebraska. C.1900 (Photograph by Solomon D. Butcher)
In a 1959 correspondence from Ollie M. Hoback to his half-sister, Mrs. Clay Jenkins, an account unfolds detailing the construction of a sod house by his father on the vast Nebraska prairie. The letter provides insights into this bygone era, capturing the essence of the laborious task undertaken by Ollie's father.
“In the fall of 1883, my father, Isaac Newton Hoback, built a sod house astride the section line, whereby one half of the house was on his homestead, and the other half on presumption land. The law said the homesteader had to make the homestead his home (and only home) for at least six months of the year.
On a presumption, one had to live on it six months and pay $1.25 an acre. By this method, one could live in one end of the house for six months, and then move to the other end for six months, satisfying the law.
Our land was about three miles from McCook, Nebraska. I watched Father plow the sod for his house. The Buffalo Grass roots held the sod together for great lengths—a mile if you wanted to plow that far. The sod would turn over just like a board.
After the first furrow was turned, the second one would lay down and fit into the furrow space left by the first one. The field would just lie there like a smooth black expanse. Any fair team of horses could pull a twelve inch plow, so the sod strips were four inches thick, twelve inches wide and cut the length you wanted to use for the width of your house walls. Father used a sharp spade and a measuring stick for uniform size.
He took the regular bed off the wagon and laid flat planks on to make a flat bed. He picked up the cut sods and hauled them to the house, building the house walls as he unloaded the wagon. He drove the wagon along side the sod strips, loaded, and pulled the wagon so near that the sod could be placed right in the proper wall location.
When the walls were about five feet high, he started standing on the wagon bed to place the sods. There was no mortar or daubing for the sod house, nor was there a foundation.
The first block of sod was laid grass side down on the grassy ground. Subsequent blocks were also laid grass side down and the grass acted as a sealant and a mortar to seal sod to sod.
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