2020 New Random Pics

[GH85Carrera]

Cat sorting roof and pigeon proof roof.


This is the ENIAC computer in the 1940s in bldg 328 at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland.


NASA finds a perfectly cut, trillion-ton rectangular iceberg floating off of the Larsen C ice shelf.




1978 Ford F250 powerstroke! Cool idea!

[gregpark]

Why I hired a pro to take pics for my BaT sale coming up

[GH85Carrera]

The mighty Colorado River cuts through Marble Canyon, Arizona.




Arches National Park In Utah, USA


100-foot (30m) high trestle built to haul logs out after a forest fire, Washington 1906. Train logging was common in the early 20th century and the remains of a lot of these trestles can still be seen in the forests of the Pacific Northwest

[bugstrider]

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[tdw28210]

The new VW Scout EV. (VW bought the rights to IH). It will be built in a new factory to going up between Charlotte, NC and Columbia, SC in Blythewood, SC. Available 2024.

[svandamme]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Sniper is false, military snipers, go for center mass, they have to because they shoot at longer distances where head shots are just not possible to guarantee. 600-800 yds

Only ones where headshots are thing, are police / SWAT marksmen, (who aren't really snipers) who will shoot for instant incapacitation in hostage situations.. So headshots are more important. They shoot at much shorter distances.. 100 yds or less

[GH85Carrera]

This 1906 photo shows Ezra Meeker dedicating an Oregon Trail marker.
Chronicle columnist Julie McDonald writes: The photo showed Meeker with a 1,430-pound farm wagon he used to retrace the Oregon Trail in 1906 all the way to New York. The wagon, which he said is stored at the Washington State Historical Society, was exactly like those that carried thousands of pioneers across the country to Oregon Territory in the mid-19th century — typically 10 feet long, 4 feet wide and 4 feet high with floors sloped toward the center so cargo would lean inward as the wagon rocked.
On the left in the photo stands 7-year-old Twist, an “ox” — defined as a neutered male bovine of any breed over four years of age trained to work. On the right is Dave, a 5-year-old steer purchased only weeks earlier from a Tacoma stockyard.
During a stop in Tenino, Meeker wrote in his journal, “Dave is still not an oxen.”
Each beast weighed about 1,400 pounds. Today, more than a century later, Egan said, oxen weigh about 3,000 pounds each.
Dave had an attitude and kicked Meeker so hard at Baker City, Oregon, he was lame for a month, Egan said. In fact, Meeker’s favorite companion, a Scotch collie named Jim, hated Dave, and at one point, the steer kicked the dog off a bridge.


A boy plays in the shadow of the Berlin Wall while soldiers stand guard on the other side. Berlin Wall, Bernauer Strasse, West Berlin 1967.






It will take a LOT of fancy caulk work to fix that non master carpenter's work!

[masraum]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

It will take a LOT of fancy caulk work to fix that non master carpenter's work!

Just needs a tube of Schaeffer's African Style Caulk!

[GH85Carrera]

[A930Rocket]

[red 928]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

[GH85Carrera]

Yea, just drop in anytime you want!




HISTORY BUZZ: From 9/12/70: North American Air Command workers examine a large piece of metal which was found in a Kansas farm yard recently. The satellite, Soviet Cosmos #316 orbited the Earth for 8-months before it broke up recently and chunks fell into the states of Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas. The metal is being examined at Vance Air Force Base in Enid, OK.






The "Time Lady" or "the Speaking Clock" prior to the introduction of automated equipment. Her job: giving the correct time 'live' all day long. (Photo from 1930s, US).

[masraum]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Originally Posted by red 928

It's also great for ED. The stronger the pepper, the better it works. And if you use the hottest peppers, they also enlarge things.

[porsche930dude]

[GH85Carrera]

If it fits, it ships!


Not a movie set, but it's like something out of Forbidden Planet. Physicist Frederic Joliot-Curie standing in his research laboratory circa 1950.




The Pallophotophone/Photophone, a device for recording and reproducing sound on moving picture films has been perfected by C. A. Hoxie of the General engineering Laboratory of the General electric Company. A standard motion picture camera equipped with a synchronous motor is operated in conjunction with a sound recorder also equipped with a synchronous motor and the sound of either voice or music is recorded on the film. The two records are then placed on a single film and the result is the talking movie. 1922

[masraum]

Originally Posted by porsche930dude

Yes, Please! ^Those^ are very cool! I'd buy one or two, but once I got them put together, I don't have anywhere to put them. And then the grandsons would want to play with them which is fine but also means that they'd end up missing parts, etc...

Sun, I had to run to Wallyworld to get a 20A ATO fuse for our zero-turn. The grandsons were expecting a ride and it keeled over for no apparent reason. While waiting to check out, I noticed that they have a lot more in the love dept than condoms and lube.

[GH85Carrera]

Here’s a strange and beautiful photo of a lava dome during a volcanic eruption. It’s not just any bubble, though: the dome pictured is rising a whopping 65 feet (20m) into the air.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

For the first pic, seems like maybe a baby delivery issue. Paul Rosche. Clearly he was supposed to have been delivered to someone with the last name Porsche, but the stork was dislexic.

For the second one, they used to build stuff about like that in our old neighborhood. It was a neighborhood in Houston that was built in the 20's mostly on ~5000-6000sqft lots. Due to the location, when someone sells one of the old homes, they are usually sold for lot value (~500k), the home is razed, and 2-4 new "town homes" are built that cost anywhere from $550k - $1.25mil.

4 narrow homes on one larger lot. These places are essentially one room wide.


One of the few remaining original homes. THis is where the crazy cat lady lives. In the summer, you can smell the cat pee from across the street at times.


On the left, attached townhomes, this took forever to build and sell. On the right are two new homes since we left the neighborhood 2 years ago. They are currently advertised at 624k.


for the neighborhood, these were really cheap, I think they were advertised as ~650k new.


3 homes on one corner lot. The home on the corner was advertised at 1.25 or 1.29mill. The others were advertised for 850k each, I think. Sizes are 3600+sqft and 4200+sqft for the corner. The first owners of the corner lot were there less than a year. It was a young single couple. They had matching Range Rovers, and he had a GT3RS. He then bought a Mercedes GT R and kept the Porsche. The missus and I think maybe they inherited money or something.

[GH85Carrera]

Workers using keypunches at Baltimore Social Security Office. Baltimore, Maryland, USA. 1965.

[Jim Horton]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

I don't understand the reference. Is it a Navy thing, or am I just being dense today?