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Originally Posted by Seahawk (Post 11701774)

The Village of Sar Agha Seyed from above:

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At ground level. Wow!

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Sitting on the side of Battle Mountain is the old company town of Gilman. The now-abandoned town was initially founded in 1886 by miners searching for silver but later became a center of lead and zinc mining.

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VVV I know. Glen posts just some amazing pictures and I get curious.

My best friend and I are going to do a lap, a month or so, around the US next year...I keep a running word doc on places he posts that I have not been to.

Find the dog, from today:

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Originally Posted by Bob Kontak (Post 11703637)

At ground level. Wow!

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I like my drinks, "NFL"....No F***ing Lemon....

Looks like asbestos/fiberglass for walls and likely going to be dumped.

Jaba the Hut got hit by a semi?

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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera (Post 11704165)

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Silly Putty :confused:

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Originally Posted by masraum (Post 11704262)

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Pink slime. Look it up. You eat that.

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Originally Posted by Captain Ahab Jr (Post 11704269)

Silly Putty :confused:

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Tractor-trailer overturns and spills meat onto highway, resulting in traffic restrictions

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PHOTOS: Tractor-trailer carrying meat product overturns on I-70 A tractor-trailer carrying meat product overturned on I-70 in Rostraver on Friday evening.

By WPXI.com News Staff
May 20, 2022 at 9:12 pm EDT
ROSTRAVER, Pa. — Meat was dumped all over a highway after a tractor-trailer overturned in Rostraver.

Crews had to restrict I-70 West to one lane due to the overflow of meat onto the road.

PHOTOS: Tractor-trailer carrying meat product overturns on I-70

Rostraver Central Fire departments say that two people were treated by medics on scene.

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Originally Posted by devodave (Post 11704274)

Ahh, thanks, it will be gone in no time, clean up crew has arrived :cool:

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Originally Posted by Por_sha911 (Post 11704271)

Pink slime. Look it up. You eat that.

Yep, that's what I posted a pic of and that's exactly what it looked like to me.

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Originally Posted by devodave (Post 11704274)

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A hamburger made from ground beef containing what is derisively referred to as "pink slime," or what the meat industry calls "lean, finely textured beef," right, and one made from pure 85% lean ground beef are displayed in front of uncooked portions of those meats Thursday, March 15, 2012 in Concord, N.H. Under a change announced Thursday by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, districts that get food through the government's school lunch program will be allowed to say no to ground beef containing the ammonia-treated filler and choose filler-free meat instead. The low-cost filler is made from fatty meat scraps that are heated to remove most of the fat, then treated with ammonium hydroxide gas to kill bacteria such as E. coli and salmonella. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)

These days most of my meat comes direct from farms, whether it be beef, chicken or whatever. I don't think I'm getting much pink slime, but I'm sure I've had it somewhere, some time before.

We modern folks are so squeamish about what we eat. If we only knew what goes on behind the scenes. I have a pretty good idea but it really does not bother me. As long as I don't get sick and it tastes good, I'm OK. I have survived for 70 years so far but still may live to regret what I have spent a lifetime eating.
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A cave in Oklahoma.

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May 25, 1927 – Lieutenant James Doolittle was the first person to do an outside loop in an Army Racer. Chuck Yeager was only 4 yrs old then, but by age 21, he was doing this & more in combat

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Originally Posted by devodave (Post 11704274)

THeres a walk down memory lane...when I got my pilots license, I flew into and landed at rostraver airport about 50 times obtaining my pilots license! The meat photo just makes the town more exciting! Actually speaking of which, I am getting together with my flight instructor after 10 years. He now flies boeing 777s. Quite an uptick from the cessna 152 I used to slosh around!

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Originally Posted by masraum (Post 11704312)

Yep, that's what I posted a pic of and that's exactly what it looked like to me.

These days most of my meat comes direct from farms, whether it be beef, chicken or whatever. I don't think I'm getting much pink slime, but I'm sure I've had it somewhere, some time before.

Catsup, steak sauce, and many other
condiments were developed to cover
the bad taste of spoiling meat.
Before refrigeration was common in homes
(1930 ish) much of meat that the average
consumer would be able to afford would
turn your stomach today by the smell if nothing else.
But yeah, we have it tough ;)

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British model Jenny Clare posing next to her Mini. London, 1972

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^^^^ Gotta love the early 70s miniskirts. At our high school the girls skirts had to be no shorter than where the girls thumbs were when their arms were straight down at their sides. So stand up, relax your arms, notice where your thumbs are. That was the skirt length for the girls, and I will admit it was a bit of a distraction, that I enjoyed. Many of the girls had a teacher do a skirt length check. As soon as they passed, they would hike the belt line up to shorten the skirts. :D

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Barcelona, Spain

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A mapping team (surveyors) from the United States Geological Society visited the boom town of Goldfield, Nevada in 1907 and reported an interesting event: "On a windy day in July 1905, a fire was started which destroyed several blocks of tents and buildings. It is a matter of interest that at least one building was saved by using beer to prevent its igniting; the bottles were thrown against the building as modern grenades are used."

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The Million Dollar Highway. Colorado.
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Painted Eucalyptus trees on the Road to Hana, Maui. The way the light was hitting them was amazing. So sad all the initials and other stuff carved into them.

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Test pilot George Aird, ejected from his English Electric Lightning F1 aircraft at a fantastically low altitude in Hatfield, Hertfordshire September 13, 1962
Jim Meads, September 13, 1962
Jim lived next door to a de Havilland test pilot Bob Sowray who had mentioned to Jim that he was planning to fly an English Electric Lightning F1.
These planes are British fighter aircrafts that served as an interceptor during the 1960s, 70s and into the late 80s.
They are the only UK designed and built fighter capable of reaching Mach 2 and at the time they were top secret.
Jim had planned to go for a walk with his children that day and took his camera along so he could picture Bob landing the Lightning at the airfield.
Later that day Jim had found a good spot in a field next to the runway and waited patiently for the plane to return to land.
It turned out, however, that the pilot of the plane wasn't Bob and instead was another gentleman called George Aird - another test pilot working for de Havilland.
George had taken the plane for a demonstration flight along the south coast and, as he made his way back to Hertfordshire, he approached Hatfield from the north east so he could land.
Unfortunately, there was a serious problem with the plane that George soon realised.
There was a fire in the plane's reheat zone. Unburnt fuel in the rear fuselage had actually been ignited by a small crack in the jet pipe which weakened the tailplane actuator anchorage.
This meant the tailplane control system, which provides stability and control, had failed.
At this point George was only flying at around 100 feet when the plane suddenly and violent pitched itself upwards.
Soon realising the danger he was in, George made the brave decision to eject himself from the plane at this frighteningly low altitude.
Just before this, Jim, the photographer, witnessed this while a local tractor driver called Mick Sutterby, who was 23 at the time, had been telling him to move off the land he was on.
While they were talking they suddenly heard a loud bang as the pilot ejected and they saw the plane come down nose first giving Jim a split second to capture the photo.
Fortunately, George survived this crash and landed through the roof of a nearby greenhouse.
He landed feet first and broke both of his legs before he fell unconcious. It wasn't until the sprinklers in the green house for the tomatoes went off when he awoke to find out that he had survived.
Reportedly George said he first thought he was in heaven. However, he was back flying again in just six months and back on the Lightning a year afterwards.
The photo taken by Jim shows Mick Sutterby sat on his tractor turning around watching the plane come down.
George can also be seen ejecting out from the plane while it comes nose first down to the field just a short distance from where Jim and Mick are standing.
Following the crash, Jim's photo was reportedly restricted by the Air Ministry as the plane was a secret at that point.
Eventually the photo was released and Jim was able to take the photo to national newspapers so they could run the story.
He reportedly took it to the Daily Mail who believed the photo was fake before he then went to the Daily Mirror - HertsLive's sister paper.
The Daily Mirror paid Jim a large sum of money for the rights of the photo and they ran a centre double page spread on October 9, 1962.

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May 27th, 1958; A legend was born. The Double Ugly, Lead Sled, Flying Anvil, St. Louis Slugger, Flying Brick, Snoopy, Rhino, Old Smokey, the triumph of thrust over aerodynamics, and "World's Leading Distributor of MiG Parts" more simply known as the Phantom; made its maiden flight on 27 May 1958 with Robert C. Little at the controls. There were proposals to name the F4H "Satan" and "Mithras", the Persian god of light. In the end, the aircraft was given the less controversial name "Phantom II"
Soon afterwards, the Double Ugly squared off against the XF8U-3 Crusader III, and on 17 December 1958 the F4H was declared a winner.
During her service, the Phantom served many countries, including Australia, Egypt, Germany, United Kingdom, Greece, Iran, Israel, Japan, Spain, South Korea and Turkey, and is the only aircraft to have flown the colours of both the USAF Thunderbirds as well as the USN Blue Angels.
Pictured: Operation Top Flight: On 6 December 1959, the second XF4H-1 performed a zoom climb to a world record 98,557 ft. Commander Lawrence E. Flint, Jr., USN accelerated his aircraft to Mach 2.5, 1,650 mph; at 47,000 ft and climbed to 90,000 ft at a 45° angle. He then shut down the engines and glided to the peak altitude. As the aircraft fell through 70,000 ft, Flint restarted the engines and resumed normal flight.

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UK may have had a Butt Hole Road which was renamed Archers Way but Austria had a village called....

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Renamed FUGGING in 2021