2020 New Random Pics

[masraum]

Charles V’s Nemean Lion Parade burgonet. Made by Filippo Nė gróli in Milan c. 1541.

[GH85Carrera]

[daepp]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Rodents? Or cat thieving scum?

[GH85Carrera]

Alice Cooper & Keith Moon show off their new Rolls Royce cars bought in Malibu, July 25, 1976. Cooper bought a 1976 Silver Shadow and Moon purchased a Phantom. Source: Mirrorpix/Kent Gavin

[Zeke]

Originally Posted by daepp

Rodents? Or cat thieving scum?

IDT it would stop either. This might.

[GH85Carrera]

An original color photo from 1910 of a Bashkir woman wearing traditional clothing photographed by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky in the Ural Mountains, Russian Empire.

[Zeke]

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How would I go about getting a poster of that? Best pic of all time.

Going hell bent for sideways and flipping people off is my life in one take.

[GH85Carrera]

VOLSCAN, The First Computer with Graphical User Interface
Also known as the "Air Traffic Control Central" or USAF AN/GSN-3 was an automatic electronic system for bringing differing aircraft into an air base at precise intervals of 30 seconds. The system is not a radar set; rather it is a combination of electronic, tracking, and computing units which are capable of automatic control of all planes approaching multiple airports. Designed by the Air Force Cambridge Research Center (AFCRC) in 1949, the AVCO Manufacturing Corporation, Crosley Division, developed and built VOLSCAN (VOLume SCANing radar system).
It was capable of controlling an entire area from one site. Thus, in a 1953 demonstration near Boston, Massachusetts, aircraft were "fed into" Norwood Airport, Beverly Airport, the Weymouth Naval Air Station, and Logan Airport. When the incoming planes were about 100 km from Boston, they were seen by VOLSCAN's AN/CPN-18 radar "eyes" and their radar echoes appeared on the circular screen of the radar scope in the bunker. The screen gives a maplike picture of the entire control area and the planes appear as tiny yellow dots moving across it. Meanwhile the planes have told VOLSCAN's "ears," the traffic operator, for which airport they are bound and she points a VOLSCAN Light Gun at the aircraft's signal on the scope. Instantly, a small square of yellow light called a tracking gate surrounds the radar's blip. Each plane scheduled to land is enclosed by one of these gates. As each plane's signal moves, the little tracking gate follows it, sorting out its data from that of all other planes, and memorizing its position and velocity. These gates are produced by automatic tracking-while-scanning devices called "ANTRACS" which are VOLSCAN's memory cells. Even if the radar echo fades out. they will continue to move in accordance with their memory of the aircraft's past performance, thus predicting where the aircraft will appear when the fade has passed. Once the gate is tracking the aircraft's signal, the traffic operator pushes a button which starts VOLSCAN's cortex operating. This device, the reasoning and calculating section of VOLSCAN's brain, is called "DATAC." An electronic traffic manager considers the plane's relationship to the airport and to other inbound aircraft and automatically selects a schedule which will permit it to arrive as early as possible without conflicting with other planes. Once it has selected the schedule DATAC continuously calculates control orders for the aircraft consisting of headings to fly, altitudes, airspeed, and discrete instructions, such as, slow down, lower landing gear, etc. These control orders from DATAC can be remoted and displayed in the aircraft or they can be fed directly into the automatic pilot. In the latter case, DATAC actually would be flying the plane from the ground. Such remoting will take place over the standard data link. Since data link is not yet available in all aircraft, VOLSCAN now uses relay men, who merely read DATAC's orders over a voice radio channel to the pilot.
The Air Force Cambridge Research Center (AFCRC) in Bedford, Massachusetts was a Cold War systems development organization that participated in Semi-Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) development, which borrowed some of its display concepts and technologies from this earlier VOLSCAN computer system.

[Steve Carlton]

Originally Posted by Zeke

How would I go about getting a poster of that? Best pic of all time.

Going hell bent for sideways and flipping people off is my life in one take.

I don't see a high resolution or poster version. Found this:

https://bangshift.com/general-news/*****in-old-photo-a-1950s-sprint-car-driver-and-his-crewman-throw-each-other-the-bird-at-speed/

Put the 5 letter version of bich where the asterisks are.

[GH85Carrera]

Here is a mid-1950s photo of the iconic Milk Bottle Grocery, Oklahoma City site along Route 66 with "Townley's Dairy" on the milk bottle. Constructed in 1930, the tiny, 350-square-foot triangular commercial building of red brick is located on a speck of real estate right in the right-of-way of a busy urban thoroughfare. It sits at an old streetcar stop along a line that ran diagonally across Classen Boulevard, which served as a segment of Route 66’s original Oklahoma City alignment. If conducting business in a tiny brick store in the middle of a city street is not remarkable enough, the towering milk bottle perched on the store’s flat roof confirms that the Milk Bottle Grocery is a Mother Road must-see. Originally Steffen's Dairy was on the bottle. Then Townley's for many years and Braum's today. The dairies had nothing to do with ownership of the building. Only advertising there is a prominent spot all these years. Originally a streetcar stop, built in 1930. Housed the Triangle Grocery from 1940-48 when the name was changed to the Milk Bottle Grocery after the bottle was added. Built of sheet metal around 1948, the eye-catching milk bottle was, and still is, quite an advertising gimmick for the dairy industry. The Milk Bottle Grocery was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. It is still there in 2023 going strong.




The Baobab or reniala is a prehistoric species dating back to over 200 million years ago. Reniala means "mother of the forest" in Malagasy. This is the largest Baobab in Madagascar recording a girth of 28.88m.


There were once six Cherry’s Hamburgers locations in Oklahoma City, including one on 23rd Street a few blocks west of the state capitol. The Oklahoma Historical Society identifies this as the Route 66 location, which was offering root beer for a nickel and ten cent malts when this view was taken about 1949. (Oklahoma Historical Society)

[Zeke]

Originally Posted by Steve Carlton

I don't see a high resolution or poster version. Found this:

https://bangshift.com/general-news/*****in-old-photo-a-1950s-sprint-car-driver-and-his-crewman-throw-each-other-the-bird-at-speed/

Put the 5 letter version of bich where the asterisks are.

I bought the last one on Etsy. Thanks. Here's another just to keep up with the thread rules:

[GH85Carrera]

The cop is a car guy!


This is what the Burning Man festival looks like from space.




The McDonald brother’s store in San Bernadino, California, 1953.

[masraum]

Cool. I'm sure it was carved by aliens because ancient people weren't smart and didn't know how to do anything. That's the kind of message that I feel we often get from folks studying past civilizations and accomplishments of humans in the past. It seems like there are enough accomplishments left from past civilizations that we haven't been able to figure out that maybe it would be universally accepted that past civilizations/men may have known a thing or two.

[GH85Carrera]

A complete Rainbow... photo was taken at around 30k ft above the Earth. On the ground, we usually only see the arc half of the circle.
Credit Photo: Lloyd J Ferraro

[ErVikingo]

[QUOTE=Zeke;11937373]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

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How would I go about getting a poster of that? Best pic of all time.

Going hell bent for sideways and flipping people off is my life in one take.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/851591075/vintage-reproduction-racing-poster-usac

random my new "truck":

[Zeke]

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Originally Posted by Zeke

pic

As I said, I bought it.

[A930Rocket]

I just bought this one. Been looking for years for one.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by A930Rocket

I just bought this one. Been looking for years for one.

Where did you get that? Autochroma?

When I was in college, I had a Road & Track subscription. I got a package in the mail one day. When I picked it up it was a poster tube from PCNA. I had definitely NEVER had any dealing with them ever before, and was an 18 yo college student. The tube included a letter that basically said "come on down for a test drive." And inside the tube was a poster of ^that^ photo without the text at the bottom. Down the left side it had the letters PORSCHE in red text, and then where the license plate should be was a sticker that looked like a license plate that had my last name on it. I really wish I still had that poster.

I actually found a guy in Houston in the PCA that had a copy of the poster with his name on it. I borrowed it and took it to a place to get scanned. They scanned it and did an absolute crap job. I'm not sure if I've still got the disk with the file on it or the file.

https://www.etsy.com/shop/AUTOchroma
^they^ don't seem to currently have that one.

This is pretty funny. I've never seen it before.

[A930Rocket]

I bought it on Etsy after looking at Zeke’s purchase.

What’s funny is the website said I bought the last a 30“ x 40“ poster. Looking just now, it says there are two left in that size.😂

[GH85Carrera]

I have the flying Turbo poster framed and mounted in my garage on the wall With my last name on it. Porsche mailed it to me.







Rhodotus palmatus is an uncommon fungus species with a circumboreal distribution. It's s listed as critically endangered in 12 countries.




For scale, that blue thing in the bottom left is a human being.
Now that is a big supersharger!


What does a volcano eruption look like from space? The Space Shuttle Endeavour STS-68 crew captured this view of the Kliuchevskoi volcano eruption plume in 1994.