2020 New Random Pics

[varmint]

Originally Posted by Jbabl

What's happening? Pretty sure this building is in downtown Miami-

Someone playing Qbert?

[GH85Carrera]

Picture of a 1940's radio repair store's workbench in action


Trucks fueling up. Picture from 1941


Nancy Jane Lead and Zinc Mine near Miami, Ok


RCA TR-70 color video tape recorder.

[svandamme]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

da fuq is that, hooves?

[masraum]

I saw this the other day. Good luck to the guy selling a car that I don't think was popular when it was new, not running, for that much.



You might think that this is an antique, but it's not, it's modern. It's a $10k toilet.



This guy is a collector.


The cabinets below are all planes of the same model, but different brands and variations.

[GH85Carrera]

A famous photo shows the control room at Kennedy Space Center on the day of the historic Apollo 11 launch packed with hundreds of men in white shirts and skinny black ties — and, among them, a single woman sits at a console. As Apollo 11 began its flight to the moon on July 16, 1969, 28-year-old instrumentation controller JoAnn Hardin Morgan became the first woman ever permitted in the launch firing room, which is locked down in advance of a space flight. Morgan, who was the first female engineer at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, would go on to have a 40-year-long career at NASA. While she encountered challenges along the way, including being "the only woman there for a long time" and spending the first 15 years working "in a building were there wasn't a ladies rest room," Morgan says that "I had such a passion that overrode anything else, the lonely moments, the little bits of negative. They were like a mosquito bite. You just swat it and push on."
Born in Huntsville, Alabama in 1940, Morgan was inspired to pursue a career in space exploration when she saw the takeoff of Explorer-1, the first satellite launched by the United States. "As a high-school kid who liked math and science, I thought, 'This is going to change the world I’m living in,'" she recalls. Her space career began with an internship at age 17 with the U.S. Army Ballistic Missile Agency at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. After earning a bachelor's degree in mathematics at University of Florida, she went to work at Kennedy Space Center as an aerospace engineer in 1963.
While Morgan had worked on the all of the previous Apollo launches as a junior controller, she had never been allowed in the firing room during the liftoff phase. Shortly before the Apollo 11 launch, she received a promotion to senior controller and her boss wanted her to be on the console for the launch. As she later learned and recounted in an interview: "My immediate supervisor had spoken with Karl Sendler, the director of information systems... and said, 'I want to put JoAnn on console for liftoff. She’s my best communicator. I get clear information about how things are going. She’s also very disciplined.'"
In her role as instrumentation controller for the launch, Morgan was responsible for monitoring guidance computers at the Central Instrumentation Facility and the lightning and fire detection systems at the launchpad. She also had to monitor the command carrier for interference from ships or submarines trying to block commands from flight control or send commands to Apollo 11. Morgan recalls that this was of particular concern as the Soviet Union had tried to interfere with command transfers during previous Apollo missions using an offshore trawler and submarine. Fortunately, the Apollo 11 mission was a stunning success with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin successfully landing the Apollo Lunar Module Eagle on the moon in a feat broadcast to millions of people worldwide.
Following Apollo, Morgan worked on a variety of projects at NASA including developing algorithms for a Mars mission trajectory. She also received a Sloan Fellowship, which allowed her to earn a master's degree in preparation for a management role at NASA. She was made the Chief of the Computer Services Division in 1979, becoming the first female senior executive at Kennedy Space Center. While her career in NASA lasted over 40 years, she still thinks back to that groundbreaking day in Firing Room No. 1 and the historic moon landing that came after: "[After the launch] my job was done, and there was nothing I could do to contribute to the activity of the lunar module going down on the moon. So I got to enjoy watching it," she reflects. "[My husband and I] got a bottle of champagne, and turned the TV on. After we watched the landing, my husband reached over and said, 'Hon, you’re gonna be in the history books.'"

[McLovin]

Moved to PARF. No worries.

If I comment on Paul K., I'll need to ban me.

[GH85Carrera]

San Francisco


Three firemen on fire engine drawn by three horses, Washington, D.C.
c. 1912


Caudex Succulent, Ornithogalum Concodianum.


Winkfield UK NASA Minitrack station. Threading an Ampex FR600 recorder used to record satellite telemetry. c1965.

[URY914]

[GH85Carrera]

Hey, good enough!

[cstreit]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Closing the valve would probably be a pretty good theft deterrent.

[GH85Carrera]

IBM System/360 Model 40 (mid-range) mainframe computer installed at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, France. Photo is from January 1968.

[GH85Carrera]

Look again, is that a man walking into the woods? Or something different?

[daepp]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

I've actually seen that sign. It's up in the southern Sequoias on Kern Valley Road, not far from Kernville. And it's legit.

[GH85Carrera]

THE ROARING TWENTIES
The 1920s was a fascinating time.....on both sides of the Atlantic as radio amateurs re-wrote radio science and proved "short waves" was a valuable means of long distance communication.
At the end of 1923 British and East Coast Americans made "first contact" on frequencies and equipment that "professionals" had laughed at.
Then in January 1924 British radio amateur Gerald Marcuse (G2NM) made the first contact with the West Coast, proving beyond any doubt that short waves could circle the world...and the rest as they say "is history"...
And yet such amateurs are often forgotten in the pages of history.
(photo from the book "The World at their Fingertips" by John Claricoats G6CL)








An aqueduct bridge built by the Romans in 3 B.C. still exists 8 kilometers (5 miles) to the west of Aosta, Italy. Known as Pont d’Aël, it measures 60 meters (198 feet) long and stands 66 meters (217 feet) above the Grand Eyvia river. The water channel at the top of the aqueduct is 2.26 meters (7 feet) wide. The bridge featured an enclosed maintenance passage below the waterway. A modern hiking trail utilizes the ancient aqueduct to cross over the river gorge.


The Persian Carpet Flower - Edithcolea Grandis.

[Steve Carlton]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Look again, is that a man walking into the woods? Or something different?

It's a dog coming out of the woods.

[GH85Carrera]

Actinotus forsythii, the pink flannel flower or ridge flannel flower is a plant in the family Apiaceae, native to the east coast of Australia, and found in New South Wales and Victoria


Intelsat I, World's First Commercial Geosynchronous Communications Satellite.
Hughes Aircraft Company test engineer in a clean room suit inspecting a recent arrival at Cape Kennedy, the Intelsat I ("Early Bird") communications satellite along with its associated test equipment. It was launched into orbit on April 6, 1965 and went into service June 28. Intelsat's orbital design can trace it's roots back to a concept originating many years earlier by one of the founders of astronautics, Slovenian engineer Herman Potočnik. In his 1928 book "Problem der Befahrung des Weltraums - der Raketen-Motor" he expands on an idea originally proposed by Konstantin Tsiolkovsky. Using Kepler's third law of planetary motion, he proposed that if a manned space station's circular equatorial orbit is high enough (35,786 km) it's period would be slow enough to match that of the earth's and the satellite's ground point would remain stationary making it particularly useful for continuous radio communications with the astronauts on board. In a 1945 Wireless World article, Arthur C. Clarke expanded upon this idea and proposed using satellites for mass broadcasting and as telecommunications relays. In 1959, inspired by Sputnik 1, Hughes Aircraft engineer Harold Rosen designed the world's first geostationary satellite called Syncom, which evolved into the design for Intelsat I.


Isle of Skye - Scotland


Yellowstone National Park In Wyoming, USA

[NeedSpace]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Amber waves of grain? CHECK
Purple mountains majesty...ok close enough CHECK

And of course, the flag that was up when the song was made...

[Jeff Hail]

Originally Posted by svandamme

da fuq is that, hooves?

Pretty face.

Left ankle appears she was hobbled like in the movie Misery. You guys missed the right hand craw.CRAW, CRAW! The right thumb looks like a toe and the left hand fingers are as long as her head is tall.

Its a mess of a twisted picture.

[IROC]

Not a very exciting picture, but the last bite of my meal from last Friday night:



Look familiar? Probably not. It's raw horse.

[GH85Carrera]