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I think I can do better body work than that!

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African Jacana (Actophilornis africanus) -male- carrying all four chicks under his wings just leaving their long legs and toes exposed. Photo made in Botswana by Charl Stols.

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I think I can do better body work than that!

That makes the gypsy dent repair guys look like pros.

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Interesting that Lake Erie is so much shallower than the others..

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The engines on the SR 71 .
The geniuses at the Skunk Works had to figure out a way an air breathing J 58 engine could handle supersonic airflow.
By using the inlet spike in the engine And the bypass doors, they were able to change the airflow from supersonic to subsonic. The front of the engine there is a sharp spike. The shape is not random. It sets up the shockwave in front of the inlet to protect it from the full impact of the air ahead. It also sets up the shockwaves inside the inlet, to slow the air down to subsonic speeds before it hits the compressor.

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Followed up with "Automatic or manual transmission, lol.

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Followed up with "Automatic or manual transmission, lol.

"Then V6 or V8?"

I used to work in parts, and was smarter than the average bear. It was a long time ago when the computers weren't as advanced/complete as they are now. We also had a full rack (2 actually) of paper catalogs.

I used to have folks get pissed at me for that sort of thing, but not for headlights. And the problem was usually that they didn't know crap about their vehicle, so rather than say "I don't know about my car" they would get mad to deflect attention from them onto you. I remember one case in particular was for an older (probably early 80s) economy car, probably something like a Toyota Tercel. The guy came in for brake pads. I asked him "what size engine, 1.2L or 1.6L". THe guy responded with "4 cyl." So I had to say "yes, 1.2 and 1.6 are both 4 cyl, but 2 different sizes, and I need to know which one to get you the right brakes." My system hadn't asked me, but when i got to the brake pad page, it said "for 1.2L brake pads are part no XX. For 1.6L brake pads are part no YY."

Moderns systems won't let you go to the next step without specifying engine, transmission, etc.... Parts folks occasionally give out the wrong part, possibly because they make assumptions, but also often because the customer gives them the wrong information (customer doesn't know, so they guess). So it's better for the person providing the parts if they get all of the answers to reduce the risk of wrong parts, and to at least put the likelihood of incorrect parts on the customer.

Yes, there are or could be issues with the data in the software, but most of the time the issue is human error, either the parts guy looked at the F596, but accidentally grabbed the F569 off the shelf or fat fingered the year of the car or the customer told him the wrong data or....

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I last worked in an auto parts store in Jan of 1995. At the time, most of the 80s GM fwd cars took brake pads with "183" in the part number or "215" (for the HD brakes).
Just one of those stupid things that's stuck in my brain.

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Wholly SHIRT-balls!!!! That’s a cool shot!!!!

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Wholly ****-balls!!!! That’s a cool shot!!!!

I thought it was impossible due to the magnification needed to make Saturn that large, but I guess it's real, although enhanced.

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I feel like they missed the mark a bit on the example used for the helical gear.

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The Apollo 11 first stage falls away as the second stage ignites. The space craft is at about 38 miles altitude and 55 miles downrange. (Photo:NASA)

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The Berliet T100 was a truck manufactured by Berliet in the 1950s.
At the time it was the largest truck in the world.
Each tire weighs 2,200lbs.

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Undulatus Asperatus Clouds over Kentucky, USA

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Milky Way over Superstition mountains, lost Dutchman state park!

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A replica of the titanic radio room.

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THE LOUDEST AIRCRAFT EVER: fitted with a Allison XT40-A-1 turboprop engine of 5,850 shaft horsepower. one of the fastest single-engine, propeller-driven aircraft ever built!!

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1936 Peugeot 402 Eclipse

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On base at Maxwell, AFB in Montgomery, AL they had a playground just like that. We would have 5 or 6 boys all bike home, and get each of our moms to give us a sheet of wax paper. Then we would all slide down on the waxed paper a few times, and wax the slide. With jeans on we could get going fast enough to "get air" on the hump and try to "fly" the furthest, and NOT fall down when you feet hit the ground at the bottom while going really fast. Lots of scraped knees and elbows and laughter.

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The olive tree of Vouves, on Crete. This tree, which has a trunk 15 feet in diameter, is at least 2,000 years old, and likely 2,900 years older,based on the graveyard found nearby. This tree likely lived through the writing of the Iliad, the golden age of Athens, the rise & fall of the Roman Empire

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The olive tree of Vouves, on Crete. This tree, which has a trunk 15 feet in diameter, is at least 2,000 years old, and likely 2,900 years older, based on the graveyard found nearby. This tree likely lived through the writing of the Iliad, the golden age of Athens, the rise & fall of the Roman Empire

Imagine how many dogs have peed on it.

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Oswald's Grocery has marked these down. Great for grilling.
For some reason they just aren't Effing selling.

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Tonight was my first ever attempt at catching the ISS in transit of the moon. I had tried last year with the Chinese space station and actually caught it but it was only a few pixels in size.
I had been waiting months for the right timing but the clouds kept stopping me. Tonight was the night!
With only a 0.56sec total transit time and half illuminated moon to work with, I was hoping for one, maybe 2 frames with the station visible. I ended up with 3! One on each extreme edge of light and one centered nicely. To say the least, I'm ecstatic that there is any detail at all!
Used a Canon 70D 8 frames/sec crop sensor
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We had one like that at my elementary school, I use to carry my bicycle up it and ride it down the slide:D

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This is a funny one, one of my Masonic brothers and I stopped by a biker bar, in a rougher area of Jacksonville, deep on the Westside.
I start talking to the young bartender and she asked what difference bar I went to BITD, and when I mentioned the bar I use to go to that my friend John use to own (and I sometimes worked the door, bartender, DJed, what ever he was short on. It was named DOCKSIDE.
The cute young lady responded

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you probably f**ked my Grandmother, she used to hang out there and was wild

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Until she gave me her number and told me her schedule :D and wanted me to text her right then so she could have my number

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Milky Way over Superstition mountains, lost Dutchman state park!

I'm sure Glen knows this, but that pic's HEAVILY modified. I live prob 12 miles from there and have hiked/ran/camped out there many times.

Ain't never seen it like that. Not once.

Le rando...

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My SIL made this beer for his wedding to my daughter. He and my daughter worked together to design the label. We had some before and after the wedding.

Such great fun.