2020 New Random Pics

[GH85Carrera]

Yea, it is obvious Photoshop "enhancement" and blending of photos. Still, a cool image.






For sale, $100K, some minor rust.



Get on board, they said, you have a nice job they said, nice and warm they said
Boiler men working deep in the Titanic.
48 survived of 167.
The ship had 29 boilers in total being fed coal 24 hours a day.

[A930Rocket]

[masraum]

Originally Posted by DonDavis

I'm sure Glen knows this, but that pic's HEAVILY modified. I live prob 12 miles from there and have hiked/ran/camped out there many times.

Ain't never seen it like that. Not once.

It's the difference between eyes and a camera. It's the same as looking through a telescope or photographing through a telescope. None of the pics that you see of the night sky are how they look to the naked eye.

You can think of it as being like a rain gauge. You eye is like sticking a rain gauge in the rain for 0.1 second and then checking to see how much rain you got. Using a camera (always done via longish shutter speed, and then digitally enhanced) is like sticking that same rain gauge out in the rain for an hour. When the rain gauge is stuck out for an hour, you collect a lot more rain.

Eyes only catch an instant of light, while a camera sensor with a "long" exposure can collect a lot more light. Camera sensors are in some ways more sensitive too.

The digital enhancement process does not involve creating anything that's not captured in the photo or that wasn't "visible" at the time. It involves removing the "noise" and enhancing the signal.

[Racerbvd]

[Baz]

[astrochex]

Byron - what is the story here?

Originally Posted by Racerbvd

[GH85Carrera]

[Racerbvd]

Originally Posted by astrochex

Byron - what is the story here?


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A group of us use to set set up the Porsche corral at the Rolex in Daytona on Friday and we would go to Hooters for lunch, we did that for years. This particular time, Derek Bell and his son grabbed the table right behind me, and in my typical fashion I was flirting with our Hooters girl. Well, I was about to get her phone number (she wanted to check out the race and was off on Saturday, so she pulled out her pen and asked me to hand her my menu, at the same time, Derek Bell grabbed both the menu and pen and proceeded to sign it. I did see her a few times after that.

[GH85Carrera]

Back to 1924. 99 Years ago.

[GH85Carrera]

A well-preserved Neolithic knife, the blade was made of flint and fastened with birch tar in a handle made of wood. From the pile dwelling settlement at Wangen-Hinterhorn, Lake Constance, dating 3800-3500 BC.

[GH85Carrera]

From a 1937 interview, the Comanche elder named Pauau was close to 80 years of age. He as a young boy along with other relatives were rounded up and gathered together nearly 69 years ago at Fort Sill.
As Pauau seemed to not want to mess with English, he shared his understanding of earlier Comanche life through the well-known Comanche Lee Motah.
Pauau remembered that assorted trails came together in the vicinity of Fort Sill, (Oklahoma). The Comanches often walked the paths and the women rode horseback. He added that abundance of game was available for the tribal people. In the summertime, choice meat portions were cut into long thin strips. The meat was hung over poles resting on the top of forked poles. The strips were soon dried by the sun. The food was put into rawhide or buckskin bags. As one so desired, the meat pieces were easily taken out of the bag.
With the cold and blizzards of winter, Lee Motah shared that his father as well as the elder Pauau informed him that the Comanche teepee in winter was very comfortable. The teepee was secured by stakes in a very tight manner to the earth and the teepee was made of tightly sewn skins. Thick grass mats resting on an elevated stick platform were made ready with supporting stakes. With the well-built fire situated right in the middle of the teepee below the opening at the top, the Comanches enjoyed warm sleeping.
As he ended his discussion, Lee Motah shared the following:
"Our fathers had much better health than we do, too. A simple outdoor life gave them resistance to the elements, as a simple diet gave their teeth resistance to decay."
A remarkable historical picture described as Mow Way or Hand Shaker's Camp, Dates 1867-75, by William S. Soule. Photographs of Native Americans and Camps in Kansas and Oklahoma, 1867-1874. Courtesy of the National Anthropological Archives, National Museum of Natural History, maintained by the Smithsonian Institution. Additional information from the Wichita Falls Record News, Wichita Falls, Texas.






This is a thermal generator to make enough electricity to play the radio and produce heat for the room. See the photo above.

[astrochex]

Great story, Byron, thanks for sharing.

[GH85Carrera]

[GH85Carrera]

Passenger trains in the United States vs Europe


The Arcadia Round Barn is an iconic landmark and tourist attraction on historic U.S. Route 66 in Arcadia, Oklahoma. It was built by local farmer William Harrison Odor in 1898 using native bur oak boards soaked while green and forced into the curves needed for the walls and roof rafters. In 1926, State Highway 7 through Arcadia, still unpaved, was designated U. S. Highway 66, part of the new national highway system with it finally being paved in 1929.
In April of 1946, ownership of the barn passed to Frank and Katie Vrana. For the next 30 years, Vrana used the barn to store hay and as a workplace. A large door cut into the northeast side of the barn weakened the structure and high winds from a storm caused the barn to lean. By 1977, when the Arcadia Round Barn was placed on the National Register of Historic Places, the structure was rapidly decaying, the target of vandals and arsonists.
Luke Robison, a retired builder, and carpenter became aware of the barn’s plight and formed The Arcadia Historical and Preservation Society with his wife Anna and Beverly White. On May 27, 1988, Frank Vrana's descendants donated the barn to the Society. Robison had just begun to shore up the structure a few days before when, on June 29, 1988, at 12:09 pm, the decaying roof of the barn “just kind of sighed and fell in," according to one witness. The Society remained undeterred, determined to proceed with the restoration. Restoration work began in 1989 and was completed in April 1992. In November of 1993, the National Trust for Historic Preservation honored those involved in the restoration of the Round Barn with a National Honor Award for outstanding craftsmanship and preservation.


My car in front of the same barn.

[Icemaster]

Originally Posted by Racerbvd

F**k you Shoresy!

[GH85Carrera]

This hill that stayed for years on some of your screens with the Windows XP desktop, is actually an unedited photograph of a real place taken in January 1996: Los Carneros American Viticultural Area of Sonoma County, California, United States.






That brake pas was tired of the abuse and decided to strike back!

[GH85Carrera]

A group of switchboard operators at work in Helena in 1906. Montana’s first telephone arrived in 1876, which was the same year Alexander Graham Bell patented his invention. By the 1890s many Montana cities had telephone exchanges. Early female telephone operators worked long hours for low pay. By 1907 Montana legislature enacted a law banning the employment of girls younger than 16 as operators and in 1909 limited operator hours to nine hours per day in cities and towns of more than 3,000 people, except for special circumstances of illness or emergency.

[VINMAN]

[masraum]

Originally Posted by Icemaster

F**k you Shoresy!

LMAO

[GH85Carrera]

A 19th-century family at their sod house on the Plains showing off their goods in the yard.