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What 10,000 horsepower does to a top fuel tire at launch.
TOP FUEL ACCELERATION PUT INTO PERSPECTIVE
* One Top Fuel dragster 500 cubic-inch Hemi engine makes more horsepower (10,000 HP) than the first 5 rows at the Daytona 500.
* Under full throttle, a dragster engine consumes 1.2-1.5 gallons of nitro methane per second; a fully loaded 747 consumes jet fuel at the same rate with 25% less energy being produced.
* A stock Dodge Hemi V8 engine cannot produce enough power to merely drive the dragster's supercharger.
* With 3000 CFM of air being rammed in by the supercharger on overdrive, the fuel mixture is compressed into a near-solid form before ignition. Cylinders run on the verge of hydraulic lock at full throttle.
* At the stoichiometric 1.7:1 air/fuel mixture for nitro methane the flame front temperature measures 7050 degrees F.
* Nitromethane burns yellow. The spectacular white flame seen above the stacks at night is raw burning hydrogen, dissociated from atmospheric water vapor by the searing exhaust gases.
* Dual magnetos supply 44 amps to each spark plug.
This is the output of an arc welder in each cylinder.
* Spark plug electrodes are totally consumed during a pass. After 1/2 way, the engine is dieseling from compression plus the glow of exhaust valves at 1400 degrees F. The engine can only be shut down by cutting the fuel flow.
* If spark momentarily fails early in the run, unburned nitro builds up in the affected cylinders and then explodes with sufficient force to blow cylinder heads off the block in pieces or split the block in half.
* Dragsters reach over 300 MPH before you have completed reading this sentence.
* In order to exceed 300 MPH in 4.5 seconds, dragsters must accelerate an average of over 4 G's. In order to reach 200 MPH well before half-track, the launch acce leration approaches 8 G's.
* Top Fuel engines turn approximately 540 revolutions from light to light!
* Including the burnout, the engine must only survive 900 revolutions under load.
* The redline is actually quite high at 9500 RPM.
* THE BOTTOM LINE: Assuming all the equipment is paid off, the crew worked for free, & for once, NOTHING BLOWS UP, each run costs an estimated $1,000 per second.
0 to 100 MPH in .8 seconds (the first 60 feet of the run)
0 to 200 MPH in 2.2 seconds (the first 350 feet of the run)
6 g-forces at the starting line (nothing accelerates faster on land)
6 negative g-forces upon deployment of twin drag chutes at 300 MPH An NHRA Top Fuel Dragster accelerates quicker than any other land vehicle on earth . . quicker than a jet fighter plane . . . quicker than the space shuttle.
The current Top Fuel dragster elapsed time record is 4.420 seconds for the quarter-mile (2004, Doug Kalitta). The top speed record is 337.58 MPH as measured over the last 66' of the run (2005, Tony Schumacher).
Putting this all into perspective:
You are driving the average $140,000 Lingenfelter twin-turbo powered Corvette Z06. Over a mile up the road, a Top Fuel dragster is staged & ready to launch down a quarter-mile strip as you pass. You have the advantage of a flying start. You run the 'Vette hard up through the gears and blast across the starting line & pass the dragster at an honest 200 MPH. The 'tree' goes green for both of you at that moment.
The dragster launches & starts after you. You keep your foot down hard, but you hear an incredibly brutal whine that sears your eardrums & within 3 seconds the dragster catches & passes you.
He beats you to the finish line, a quarter-mile away from where you just passed him. Think about it - from a standing start, the dragster had spotted you 200 MPH & not only caught, but nearly blasted you off the road when he passed you within a mere 1320 foot long race!
That's acceleration!

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San Angelo, Texas from 1972

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Goldfield, Nevada circa 1905. Goldfield “was one of Southern Nevada's primary mining capitals". Goldfield's gold strike in 1902 opened south and central Nevada to development. In April 1904, 'The Goldfield News' proclaimed that Goldfield was "the greatest mining camp ever known".... People flocked to Goldfield from all over the country looking to make their fortunes in this, the last of the great gold rushes.

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Extra brake ventilation? He needs a tub of JB weld!

This just blows my mind.
Do you expect me to believe that the speed limit was really that low?

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That's just an astonishing set of facts!




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Let's go to sunny California my wife says.

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CBS Telecine patch bay, sometime in 1950s-60s

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The Runit Dome, also called the Tomb, is a 115 m (377 ft) diameter, 46 cm (18 in) thick dome of concrete at sea level, encapsulating an estimated 73,000 m3 of radioactive debris, including some plutonium-239. The debris stems from nuclear tests conducted in the Enewetak Atoll by the United States between 1946 and 1958. And it is slowly leaking.

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UNIVAC Repair
Technician Joyce Cade working inside a UNIVAC I computer casing calibrating delay-line memory tanks that stored data as sound pulses in tubes of mercury, the process was temperature sensitive so this small chamber was always maintained at a very constant temperature during computer operations. On average, the UNIVAC had a malfunction about two to three times a day which kept her quite busy. Typically, the most time consuming part of her repair jobs was tracking down which vacuum tube had blown, sometimes in the most inaccessible of places. This United States Census Bureau computer installation is being used to tabulate the results of the 1954 Census of Business, Suitland, Maryland, USA. (October 19, 1955).
The UNIVAC I (Universal Automatic Computer I) was the first general-purpose electronic digital computer design for business application produced in the United States. It was designed principally by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly, the inventors of the ENIAC, and the US Census Bureau was Remington Rand's first client.

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Whales have arm, wrist & finger bones in their front fins. This is the front fin bones of a Grey whale.
All cetaceans (Whales, Dolphins, Porpoises) and Pinnipeds (Seals, Sea Lions, Walruses) have flippers. However, inside those flippers are bones that resemble a human hand, thumb included.

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Here is Actor Walter Miller holding onto Actress Allene Ray, whille performing a stunt on the roof of Manhattan's "Algonquin Hotel", during the filming of the Movie "Play Ball" in 1925

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Wow, it looks like she's 5-6' above the mattress. The setup looks super safe. Clearly fully OSHA approved!

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March 5, 1953: The 600-foot-long, 70-foot-wide Marine Angel transited the Chicago River. The freighter had only seven inches of clearance on each side at Van Buren Street, and was the largest ship to ply the river.

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Oh man is that ever a missed opportunity for some excellent whoop-des.

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The grand daddy of them all. Next to the 2N3055, this is perhaps the most famous transistor in the world. It is a good thing they got a little smaller!

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Wellston, Oklahoma. This is a postcard of the "Pioneer Tourist Camp, On Highway 66, Near Wellston, Central Okla." It appears to have a star on the gas pumps so this must be a Texaco station, making it about 1933.
Historically, Wellston is on the land that was ceded to the Kickapoo Tribe as a Reservation (The Kickapoo were originally from Illinois). However, the government later changed its mind and made the individual tribe members receive a plot of land and then had the tribe sell the surplus land back to the federal government. This created over 900,000 acres of surplus land which were "opened" to settlement through the method of "Land Runs". The run in Wellston took place in 1895.
A "Land Rush" or "Land Run" was a system by which those interested in staking a claim for a plot of land set off from a starting point and rode as fast as they could toward the land being "opened" to settlement. Once they reached it, they claimed their homestead on a "first come, first served basis". There were several "runs" in the early 1890s in Oklahoma.
Thomas Craddock claimed the land near Well's trading post and deeded land for a town that was laid out next to where Captain Creek joined Deep Fork River. A road soon linked it to Chandler and Oklahoma City, and in 1898 the Arkansas and Oklahoma Railroad, (later the St. Louis and San Francisco Railway or "Frisco") reached the town and built a station there.
Cotton farming was the main activity. During the early 1900s, the county successfully lobbied to have the "Ozark Trail" pass through it, and by 1918, the dirt-surfaced trail passed through the town. It later became Oklahoma State Highway No. 7 and as such was incorporated into the alignment of Route 66 when it was created in 1926, which passed right through the town for the next six years.
This postcard is courtesy of 66postcards.

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Cat sorting roof and pigeon proof roof.

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This is the ENIAC computer in the 1940s in bldg 328 at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland.

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NASA finds a perfectly cut, trillion-ton rectangular iceberg floating off of the Larsen C ice shelf.

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1978 Ford F250 powerstroke! Cool idea!

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Why I hired a pro to take pics for my BaT sale coming up

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The mighty Colorado River cuts through Marble Canyon, Arizona.

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Arches National Park In Utah, USA

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100-foot (30m) high trestle built to haul logs out after a forest fire, Washington 1906. Train logging was common in the early 20th century and the remains of a lot of these trestles can still be seen in the forests of the Pacific Northwest

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The new VW Scout EV. (VW bought the rights to IH). It will be built in a new factory to going up between Charlotte, NC and Columbia, SC in Blythewood, SC. Available 2024.:D



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Sniper is false, military snipers, go for center mass, they have to because they shoot at longer distances where head shots are just not possible to guarantee. 600-800 yds

Only ones where headshots are thing, are police / SWAT marksmen, (who aren't really snipers) who will shoot for instant incapacitation in hostage situations.. So headshots are more important. They shoot at much shorter distances.. 100 yds or less


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This 1906 photo shows Ezra Meeker dedicating an Oregon Trail marker.
Chronicle columnist Julie McDonald writes: The photo showed Meeker with a 1,430-pound farm wagon he used to retrace the Oregon Trail in 1906 all the way to New York. The wagon, which he said is stored at the Washington State Historical Society, was exactly like those that carried thousands of pioneers across the country to Oregon Territory in the mid-19th century — typically 10 feet long, 4 feet wide and 4 feet high with floors sloped toward the center so cargo would lean inward as the wagon rocked.
On the left in the photo stands 7-year-old Twist, an “ox” — defined as a neutered male bovine of any breed over four years of age trained to work. On the right is Dave, a 5-year-old steer purchased only weeks earlier from a Tacoma stockyard.
During a stop in Tenino, Meeker wrote in his journal, “Dave is still not an oxen.”
Each beast weighed about 1,400 pounds. Today, more than a century later, Egan said, oxen weigh about 3,000 pounds each.
Dave had an attitude and kicked Meeker so hard at Baker City, Oregon, he was lame for a month, Egan said. In fact, Meeker’s favorite companion, a Scotch collie named Jim, hated Dave, and at one point, the steer kicked the dog off a bridge.

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A boy plays in the shadow of the Berlin Wall while soldiers stand guard on the other side. Berlin Wall, Bernauer Strasse, West Berlin 1967.

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It will take a LOT of fancy caulk work to fix that non master carpenter's work! ;)

Just needs a tube of Schaeffer's African Style Caulk!
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HISTORY BUZZ: From 9/12/70: North American Air Command workers examine a large piece of metal which was found in a Kansas farm yard recently. The satellite, Soviet Cosmos #316 orbited the Earth for 8-months before it broke up recently and chunks fell into the states of Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas. The metal is being examined at Vance Air Force Base in Enid, OK.

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The "Time Lady" or "the Speaking Clock" prior to the introduction of automated equipment. Her job: giving the correct time 'live' all day long. (Photo from 1930s, US).

It's also great for ED. The stronger the pepper, the better it works. And if you use the hottest peppers, they also enlarge things.

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If it fits, it ships!

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Not a movie set, but it's like something out of Forbidden Planet. Physicist Frederic Joliot-Curie standing in his research laboratory circa 1950.

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The Pallophotophone/Photophone, a device for recording and reproducing sound on moving picture films has been perfected by C. A. Hoxie of the General engineering Laboratory of the General electric Company. A standard motion picture camera equipped with a synchronous motor is operated in conjunction with a sound recorder also equipped with a synchronous motor and the sound of either voice or music is recorded on the film. The two records are then placed on a single film and the result is the talking movie. 1922

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Yes, Please! ^Those^ are very cool! I'd buy one or two, but once I got them put together, I don't have anywhere to put them. And then the grandsons would want to play with them which is fine but also means that they'd end up missing parts, etc...

Sun, I had to run to Wallyworld to get a 20A ATO fuse for our zero-turn. The grandsons were expecting a ride and it keeled over for no apparent reason. While waiting to check out, I noticed that they have a lot more in the love dept than condoms and lube.

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Here’s a strange and beautiful photo of a lava dome during a volcanic eruption. It’s not just any bubble, though: the dome pictured is rising a whopping 65 feet (20m) into the air.

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For the first pic, seems like maybe a baby delivery issue. Paul Rosche. Clearly he was supposed to have been delivered to someone with the last name Porsche, but the stork was dislexic.

For the second one, they used to build stuff about like that in our old neighborhood. It was a neighborhood in Houston that was built in the 20's mostly on ~5000-6000sqft lots. Due to the location, when someone sells one of the old homes, they are usually sold for lot value (~500k), the home is razed, and 2-4 new "town homes" are built that cost anywhere from $550k - $1.25mil.

4 narrow homes on one larger lot. These places are essentially one room wide.
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One of the few remaining original homes. THis is where the crazy cat lady lives. In the summer, you can smell the cat pee from across the street at times.
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On the left, attached townhomes, this took forever to build and sell. On the right are two new homes since we left the neighborhood 2 years ago. They are currently advertised at 624k.
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for the neighborhood, these were really cheap, I think they were advertised as ~650k new.
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3 homes on one corner lot. The home on the corner was advertised at 1.25 or 1.29mill. The others were advertised for 850k each, I think. Sizes are 3600+sqft and 4200+sqft for the corner. The first owners of the corner lot were there less than a year. It was a young single couple. They had matching Range Rovers, and he had a GT3RS. He then bought a Mercedes GT R and kept the Porsche. The missus and I think maybe they inherited money or something.
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Workers using keypunches at Baltimore Social Security Office. Baltimore, Maryland, USA. 1965.

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I don't understand the reference. Is it a Navy thing, or am I just being dense today?