2020 New Random Pics

[Steve Carlton]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Person County, North Carolina. July, 1939.

I think Kristin Wiig grew up around there...

[GH85Carrera]

This bulbous red cedar grows along the trail to the Cheewhat Giant (Canada's largest tree) in the Pacific Rim National Park Reserve on Vancouver Island.

[bkreigsr]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

..gnarly dude..

[GH85Carrera]

[WPOZZZ]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Perfect for Guinness.

[flatbutt]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Person County, North Carolina. July, 1939.

When I see pics like this I wonder if the way they lived wrt sanitation is why that generation tended to be tougher and inmany cases longer lived.

[GH85Carrera]

[Steve Carlton]

Originally Posted by flatbutt

Zat you?

[flatbutt]

Originally Posted by Steve Carlton

Zat you?

Yup. My 70th bday party.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by flatbutt

When I see pics like this I wonder if the way they lived wrt sanitation is why that generation tended to be tougher and inmany cases longer lived.

I would have thought that on average, folks back then didn't live nearly as long as today.

Nothing says healthy family like a bunch of folks spitting all over a cake and then sharing the spit covered cake with everyone else!

[GH85Carrera]

August 16, 1960, Colonel Joseph William Kittinger II stepped away from his open gondola named "Excelsior" tethered to a massive helium balloon from an unbelievable altitude of 102,800 feet (31,300 m) above the surface of our Earth.
The atmospheric pressure so low, that during the accent, Joe's pressurization in his right glove malfunctioned, and his right hand swelled to twice its normal size.
Taking that one giant step, Joe free fell for 4 minutes and 36 seconds, slamming into the thicker atmosphere below at speeds up to 614 miles per hour (988 km/h) before opening his parachute at 18,000 feet (5,500 m).

Joseph William Kittinger II was decorated with a second Distinguished Flying Cross, and awarded the Harmon Trophy by President Dwight D. Eisenhower
Kittinger later served three combat tours of duty during the Vietnam War, flying a total of 483 combat missions.
May 11, 1972, just before the end of his third tour of duty. While flying an F-4D. Kittinger and his wingman were chasing a MiG-21 when Kittinger's Phantom II was hit by an air-to-air missile from another MiG-21 that damaged the Phantom's starboard wing and set the aircraft on fire. Kittinger and 1st Lieutenant William J. Reich ejected a few miles from Thai Nguyen and were soon captured and taken to the city of Hanoi.
Kittinger and Reich spent 11 months as prisoners of war (POWs) in the Hỏa Lò Prison, the so-called "Hanoi Hilton"




Clavulina amethystina.
These seem like tiny arms making their way to the surface from underground.
Clavulina amethystina is a species of coral fungus in the family Clavulinaceae. The violet colored coral fungus can be found in hardwood forest growing alone, scattered, or gregariously under conifers and hardwoods. The fruiting body can grow from 2 - 6 cm high and are irregularly branched or antlered.


American Radiator Building

[masraum]

I just saw this on faceplant. It reminded me of the quote about a fool and his money.



How much "marketing and merchandising" do you think the dealer is going to have to do on a car that is, apparently, so in demand that they can charge 90k over MSRP. My guess is that the marketing would go something like this.

"I'd like to cancel my order."
"OK"
"Hi, we had someone cancel their purchase agreement. You're the next guy on the list. We're willing to sell you the car for $100k over MSRP. How soon can you get here? You've got an hour and then we're calling the next guy."

[GH85Carrera]

I heard some of the rare Porsche models like the GT2s and GT3s are selling for 200K over sticker.


The Brazilian grape tree grows fruit on its trunk





The ‘Dead Man’s Fingers’ Fungus Looks As Creepy As It Sounds

[masraum]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

The Brazilian grape tree grows fruit on its trunk

That's how chocolate (cacao) grows too.



and how the "cannonball tree" grows.

[GH85Carrera]

[masraum]

Originally Posted by masraum

I just saw this on faceplant. It reminded me of the quote about a fool and his money.



How much "marketing and merchandising" do you think the dealer is going to have to do on a car that is, apparently, so in demand that they can charge 90k over MSRP. My guess is that the marketing would go something like this.

"I'd like to cancel my order."
"OK"
"Hi, we had someone cancel their purchase agreement. You're the next guy on the list. We're willing to sell you the car for $100k over MSRP. How soon can you get here? You've got an hour and then we're calling the next guy."

Apparently, the dealer has been Internet shamed.
https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a40968166/dealer-shamed-into-selling-corvette-z06-at-msrp/
https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a40968166/dealer-shamed-into-selling-corvette-z06-at-msrp/

[john70t]

Originally Posted by masraum

I just saw this on faceplant. It reminded me of the quote about a fool and his money.

I had Carfax email me unsolicited informing me my car was worth $3000.
A week later, another saying the dealership is ready to to buy it at $2300.

[GH85Carrera]

Gateway to Hell. Lava formation at West Kamokuna Skylight, Hawaii
Photo: Laszlo Kestay


I think it needs more tongue weight!




When you have dropped a wrench too many times.

[gordner]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

When you have dropped a wrench too many times.

Or if you are working on float planes, those guys tie all their tools to their wrists or belts. A lot easier than swimming lol.

[GH85Carrera]

The Amazonian royal flycatcher


Les Espaces d’Abraxas a high-density housing complex in Noisy-le-Grand, approximately 12 km (7.5 mi) from Paris. The building was designed by architect Ricardo Bofill. The construction of the building was completed in 1983.


Four and a half months after the Battle of Gettysburg, President Abraham Lincoln joined a large crowd to dedicate the Soldiers’ National Cemetery on the afternoon of November 19, 1863. After the delivering of prayers and the playing of songs, the crowd listened intently to a nearly two-hour speech by the orator, Edward Everett. Then, following a hymn, “The Consecration Chant,” President Lincoln stepped forward to deliver the Dedicatory Remarks. In just a matter of 271 words, Lincoln said everything that a broken nation needed to hear. He began by invoking the historical memory of the United States, addressed the conflict, then turned his focus to the present, and in many ways to us. For a speech that Lincoln predicted few would “long remember,” the Gettysburg Address should speak to us all today.
“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”





1812: The USS Constitution defeated the British frigate Guerriere in the Atlantic some 600 miles east of Nova Scotia. This victory provided the ship with its immortal nickname “Old Ironsides.” During the battle, the British sailors were astonished as their cannonballs bounced harmlessly off the Constitution’s hull which caused one to exclaim, “Her sides are made of iron.” The Constitution garnered a sterling reputation and provided a bright spot in what was at the time a failing war effort by the United States. The Constitution remains in service to this day making it the world’s oldest commissioned warship. It can be visited in the Charlestown Navy Yard in Massachusetts.