MORE random pics......

[rick-l]

Originally posted by BRPORSCHE
Built this bad boy last week. Hope to pass it on to my Grandkids.

WTF is it?

Pink sawhorses to hold your beer?

[BRPORSCHE]

The new American sport. Beer Pong

[URY914]

[widebody911]

36 screaming horses, ready to roll...

[svandamme]

Originally posted by widebody911
36 screaming horses, ready to roll...

how much if you turn on the naws?

[kach22i]

Originally posted by widebody911
36 screaming horses, ready to roll...

I was going to post this before I saw the engine, nothing meant by this picture - no statement, just odd timing.


Random Picture:
http://www.tjimaging.com/ted/2003-07-20photolog.htm

[JeremyD]

Originally posted by BRPORSCHE
The new American sport. Beer Pong

[efhughes3]

604-hp, 738-lb-ft biturbo V12 from AMG
www.fiskercb.com

[M.D. Holloway]

A British backhoe manufacturer takes its new engine to an unlikely work site: Utah’s Bonneville Salt Flats.




Past owners of the notoriously wheezy diesel Rabbit will find it hard to believe, but this blurry streak is also powered by a four-cylinder diesel. Two of them, actually: one for the front wheels and one for the rear. Built for use in front-loaders and forklifts, the 4.4-liter engines were specially tuned to 750 horsepower each by U.K. construction-equipment company JCB as part of an effort to set a new speed record for a diesel-powered car. It paid off. On August 23, Andy Green—holder of the current overall land-speed record of 763 mph—piloted the svelte, ice-cooled machine to a new record in the Utah desert, averaging 350 mph in two 11-mile runs.

[M.D. Holloway]

Powered by vegetable oil and animal fat, a sleek new boat aims to circumnavigate the globe in record time.







New Zealand engineer Pete Bethune had a grand plan: Bring attention to the potential of biodiesel by building an innovative powerboat capable of setting an overall speed record for world circumnavigation. And he had a gruesomely flamboyant first step: Suck fat out of his own body to provide some of the fuel. Unfortunately, the quarter of a pound Bethune had lipoed created only enough biodiesel to power his one-of-a-kind boat, christened Earthrace, about 300 feet. To make the trip around the world, the 78-foot tri-hull will need 35,000 gallons of fuel (at its cruising speed of 15 to 25 knots, it gets about a mile a gallon). If all goes as planned, Bethune will raise the remaining $400,000 he needs to fund the voyage by March and set off on his 65-day quest. “I look forward to getting on the water,” Bethune says, “and proving to the world that renewable fuels are synonymous with power and performance. The biodiesel-fueled boat has a triple-hull design that allows it to pierce 50-foot waves.”

[M.D. Holloway]

[onlycafe]

"Pete Bethune had a grand plan: Bring attention to the potential of biodiesel by building an innovative powerboat capable of setting an overall speed record for world circumnavigation. And he had a gruesomely flamboyant first step: Suck fat out of his own body to provide some of the fuel. Unfortunately, the quarter of a pound Bethune had lipoed created only enough biodiesel to power his one-of-a-kind boat, christened Earthrace, about 300 feet. To make the trip around the world, the 78-foot tri-hull will need 35,000 gallons of fuel (at its cruising speed of 15 to 25 knots, it gets about a mile a gallon). If all goes as planned, Bethune will raise the remaining $400,000 he needs to fund the voyage by March and set off on his 65-day quest. “I nonymous with power and performance. The biodiesel-fueled boat has a triple-hull design that allows it to pierce 50-foot waves.”



he needs a crew of lard asses and many many triple cheeseburgers.

[URY914]

[M.D. Holloway]

In early May, Harry Coker of Tallassee, Alabama, peered into his parked 1955 Chevy and saw a yellow-jacket nest “the size of a spare tire” on the floor of the backseat. Six weeks later, Coker went back—and found the nest had grown to fill the entire car. Yellow jackets normally construct hives no bigger than a basketball, populated by one queen and at most 3,000 workers. But this year, giant nests are cropping up all over Georgia and Alabama. Auburn University entomologist Charles Ray has documented at least 60, some containing 100,000 workers and hundreds of queens. Ray finds the sudden phenomenon puzzling but speculates that warmer lows in winter—January was six degrees above average this year in Alabama—allowed workers usually killed off by cold to survive into spring, altering the behavior of some colonies.

[masraum]

Yep, we had a big thread on the Steven King style yellow-jacket nests last year. Super creepy, and neat in a creepy kind of way.

[kach22i]

Originally posted by LubeMaster77
[January was six degrees above average this year in Alabama—allowed workers usually killed off by cold to survive into spring, altering the behavior of some colonies.

Global warming and bees don't mix.

http://jasonjeffrey.wordpress.com/2007/02/22/fark-headline-swarms-of-giant-hornets-invade-france-accept-nations-surrender-now-headed-for-britain-everybody-panic/


Fark Headline - Swarms of giant hornets invade France, accept nation’s surrender, now headed for Britain. EVERYBODY PANIC

Oh, the story is from "THE SUN", never mind.

Link:
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2007080651,00.html

[gassy]

[svandamme]

Originally posted by kach22i


Fark Headline - Swarms of giant hornets invade France, accept nation’s surrender, now headed for Britain. EVERYBODY PANIC

Oh, the story is from "THE SUN", never mind.

Link:
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2007080651,00.html [/B]

lol, nothing in Belgian or Dutch media about it
and i'de think they'de arrive here before they even cross the channel

[kach22i]

Originally posted by svandamme
lol, nothing in Belgian or Dutch media about it
and i'de think they'de arrive here before they even cross the channel

Isn't "THE SUN" a tabloid magazine where 50% of the stories are true and 50% are fake, and it's fun for the reader to figure out which is which?

[svandamme]

50% true??? i think that's optimistic