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[mjohnson]

Originally Posted by Seahawk

I agree. In that same vein, "Longitude" is a great book:

You might already know, but a few of Harrison's timepieces have been restored and are on display (and running) the Greenwich Observatory in the UK.

Harrison invented many of the technologies still used on (mechanical) wrists today. In a competition between the mechanical guy and the astronomers somehow the judges (the astronomers) kept accidentally breaking the mechanisms. "Ooh, sorry. Too bad. Try again..."

With so much in London to see for free, that is one museum I'd pay to get into another time.

[jcwade]

We have swastikas on lamp post in Glendale, Ca.
The ****'s ruined a traditional native symbol. My wife bought a spoon (not the kind you are thinking of) with a swastika on it, in the PNW.
I'm not really happy about it, but I can defend it based on the history.

If you think about the cross, it was a Roman torture device used on thousands of people (see Spartacus).
If Jesus came back today, in thousands of years, people would be wearing little gas chambers or electric chairs around their necks.
Everything is relative.
But history reigns supreme.

Ya just gotta believe in it.

[mrbeverlyhills]

The grounds and the museum are amazing as is the return journey via overland rail; The Docklands light rail. Best way to get there is take a tourist boat trip on the Thames from Westminister, all the guides do stand up, it's hilarious.

[kevin993]

Originally Posted by IROC

Below is my Dad sitting on the sister car to the one above circa 1998 or so (sorry for the crappy scan). This car was owned by a guy here in Knoxville.

Very cool. Found my photos of 956-105 from Rennsport Reunion in 2015. Wonder if it is the same car.

[masraum]

[john70t]

Originally Posted by GG Allin

But them swa-stickers.

Older than Buddhism itself. From India to China to eventually old Zen Japan long ago
I think it means 'circle of life' or something to that effect.

[craigster59]

[GH85Carrera]

Whoops. Sorry buddy I didn't see it there.


Phyllis G. Bolds, research physicist at the Air Research Lab of the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio analyzes radar signal data on fighter planes as it travels through a fuselage resulting in a compilation of indirect radar cross-section measurements collected on a strip chart. Bolds started work in 1955 as a physicist in the Electronics Technology Laboratory, radar branch. She then transferred to the Flight Dynamics Laboratory in 1957, to investigate dynamic operating environments like high-speed aeroelastic fuselage vibrations and aeroacoustic phenomena in aircraft. She quickly earned the respect of her leadership and colleagues through her work on gathering aircraft vibration data on numerous Air Force aircraft including the Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit, the McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle, and the Douglas C-133 Cargomaster. Excessive aircraft vibrations are detrimental to the safety of the pilots and the success of their mission. Bolds also published numerous technical documents on this topic during her 30-year career, here is a sampler:

[rockfan4]

Somebody's bad day could be your windfall if you're looking for a drivetrain.
Ends Tuesday. As I'm posting it's at $3200, no reserve
https://www.copart.com/lot/67935622/salvage-2007-porsche-cayman-s-in-cicero

[VINMAN]

[GH85Carrera]

Does anyone know how that would work? If miss my password entry three times, I have to go through a password reset procedure, on most web sites. How can a hacker bang away on a password over and over and not get locke out instantly? From what I read, on my phone, it makes me wait for a set amount of time before I can try again, and I fail a second time it is a long wait. It does make me want to set up two factor authentication, but it is really necessary? I don't use my name as a "username" on sites that allow me to pick my own username. I have never been hacked, and I want to keep it that way.

[LEAKYSEALS951]

Same guy.

[GH85Carrera]

At my old office, it was a 4,000 sq foot metal building. Just two doors. The local fire department would inspect local businesses to evaluate their fire safety. We were not doing anything with flammable materials. They asked my manager what steps we have in our fire safety procedure. Without hesitation he replied big steps toward the door yelling fire, fire fire, run run run, and calling 911. No fire fighting from us, that is the job of the fire department. We did have some fire extinguishers we might have tried on a small fire, but it was not part of a plan.




In 1967, U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service communications operator John Dullinger was 1 of 79 employees who received messages over radio waves, sometimes in Morse Code and relayed messages. Before cell phones and WiFi, INS operators worked with a bank of radio and teletype equipment to transmit messages.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by LEAKYSEALS951

Same guy.

[GH85Carrera]

Nope, that is far enough! Ain't going out there.






IBM RAMAC 305 computer system, designed around the RAMAC 350 disk drive system with 50 platters. The 350 drive was also used with some 1401 systems and some larger IBM business computers of that era


Astronaut John Glenn tape records details of his mission on board a ship after his successful space flight in the Mercury space capsule, Friendship 7, Feb. 20, 1962.


The Pump of Death
By the gentle author
Watch these guys pump water. They seem unaware they are in the presence of the notorious “Pump of Death” In 1876, the water began to taste strange and was found to contain liquid human remains which had seeped into the underground stream from cemeteries.
Several hundred people died in the resultant Aldgate Pump Epidemic as a result of drinking polluted water – though this was obviously a distant memory by the nineteen twenties when Whittard’s tea merchants used to “always get the kettles filled at the Aldgate Pump so that only the purest water was used for tea tasting.”
Yet before it transferred to a supply from the New River Company of Islington, the spring water of the Aldgate Pump was appreciated by many for its abundant health-giving mineral salts, until – in an unexpectedly horrific development – it was discovered that the calcium in the water had leached from human bones.
This bizarre phenomenon quickly entered popular lore, so that a bouncing cheque was referred to as “a draught upon Aldgate Pump,” and in rhyming slang “Aldgate Pump” meant to be annoyed – “to get the hump.” The terrible revelation confirmed widespread morbid prejudice about the East End, of which Aldgate Pump was a landmark defining the beginning of the territory. The “Pump of Death” became emblematic of the perceived degradation of life in East London and it was once declared with superlative partiality that “East of Aldgate Pump, people cared for nothing but drink, vice and crime.”
Today this sturdy late-eighteenth century stone pump stands sentinel as the battered reminder of a former world, no longer functional, and lost amongst the traffic and recent developments of the modern City. No-one notices it anymore and its fearsome history is almost forgotten, despite the impressive provenance of this dignified ancient landmark, where all mileages East of London are calculated. Even in the old photographs you can trace how the venerable pump became marginalised, cut down and ultimately ignored. Aldgate Well was first mentioned in the thirteenth century – in the reign of King John – and referred to by sixteenth century historian, John Stowe, who described the execution of the Bailiff of Romford on the gibbet “near the well within Aldgate.” In “The Uncommercial Traveller,” Charles Dickens wrote, “My day’s business beckoned me to the East End of London, I had turned my face to that part of the compass… and had got past Aldgate Pump.” And before the “Pump of Death” incident, Music Hall composer Edgar Bateman nicknamed “The Shakespeare of Aldgate Pump,” wrote a comic song in celebration of Aldgate Pump – including the lyric line “I never shall forget the gal I met near Aldgate Pump…”
The pump was first installed upon the well head in the sixteenth century, and subsequently replaced in the eighteenth century by the gracefully tapered and rusticated Portland stone obelisk that stands today with a nineteenth century gabled capping. The most remarkable detail to survive to our day is the elegant brass spout in the form of a wolf’s head – still snarling ferociously in a vain attempt to maintain its “Pump of Death” reputation – put there to signify the last of these creatures to be shot outside the City of London.
Tantalisingly, the brass button that controls the water outlet is still there, yet, although it is irresistible to press it, the water ceased flowing in the last century. A drain remains beneath the spout where the stone is weathered from the action of water over centuries and there is an elegant wrought iron pump handle – enough details to convince me that the water might return one day.

[GH85Carrera]

1939 Wagoner, Ok


Two former RN ships-of-the-line converted into training barracks, HMS Duke of Wellington and HMS Marlborough,circa 1895


There’s someone who knows how to load a truck

[rcooled]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

I think I saw this house somewhere in the Los Angeles area. If I'm remembering correctly, the Middle-Eastern owners at the time had all those statues painted in realistic colors, much to the dismay of their neighbors.


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[GH85Carrera]

Something does not look quite right here!










1873 Pattern Trade Dollar
This is known as the frowning bust pattern. Featuring Lady Liberty facing left, her hair tied tightly behind her head. On the reverse, the small eagle has one claw on the ground, the other supports the shield at the very top. Historically, the Mint developed new designs either internally or through outside competitions. As the selection process narrowed, actual sample coins were made of the various designs. These "Pattern" coins allowed Mint officials to see how the proposed designs would look in three-dimensional relief, to test for any problems in producing the coins, and to try out new metal alloys. The coins that are not selected are referred to as Pattern Coins. This particular pattern Trade Dollar is a rarity 4. Which means there is only 76-200 known.

[GH85Carrera]

1943 - Gilmore Gas Station


Another image of Ingenuity by Perseverance taken on Sol-713 (February 21, 2023) with its Mastcam-Z camera at full zoom. Ingenuity is visible here at its Flight 44 landing location on the side of a hill. At the time, both were 529 meters (1735.56 feet) apart. (JS)

[masraum]

This is a really sad photo Pierre Levegh at the 1952 24 hours of Le Mans This picture was taken just after his car had broken down in the race, with under 40 minutes of the race left to run, at the time he was four laps in the lead. He had driven the 23 hours solo a quite extraordinary feat. You can see how sad his wife felt for him. She was awarded the coupe de Dames as she had been keeping his times for the duration of the race, she is still holding the stopwatch. In those days you had to take the chequered flag to have been deemed to finish. Pierre Levegh was so close to victory but ended unclassified and did not appear in the results. Photo courtesy of Ouest France.