2020 New Random Pics

[porsche930dude]

[flatbutt]

Originally Posted by red 928

Life can be so cruel.

[Racerbvd]

[red 928]

[GH85Carrera]

RHINO FERRIES.
“Rhino Ferries,” designed by Navy’s Civil Engineering Corps to bridge the gap between ship and shore, are pontoons owered by two outboard motors of 143 hp and complete with steering gear. Ferries are formed of 30 pontoons in length by 6’ wide, displaced approximately 275 tons, speed of about 4 knots and a shallower draft than LST’s. Ferry in profile, as it moves toward the shore with a full cargo topside. They can carry every type of cargo and land on almost any type of shore. Photograph received 6 June 1944. (National Museum of U.S. Navy)

[john70t]

I tried to watch his intro video but could only take 15mins of it

[john70t]

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[GH85Carrera]

Very effective wheel chocks. That aircraft will not go anywhere!








Two enormous gyroscopes being installed in the USS Henderson as a roll stabilizing system during its construction in April 1917 at the Philadelphia Navy Yard in World War 1.
The Henderson, a transport of 80 ton displacement, was the first large ship to be gyroscopically stabilized to prevent the ship from rolling from side to side with ocean swells.
The gyros, built by Sperry Rand, consist of two 25 ton, 9 ft diameter flywheels which during operation are spun at 1100 RPM in opposite directions by 75 HP AC electric motors.
Each gyro case is mounted on a vertical bearing which can be turned by a 75 HP servo motor. When a small sensor gyro on the ship's bridge sensed the ship roll, it ordered the servo motor to rotate the gyros about the vertical axis in a direction so the gyro's precession would oppose the ship's roll.
During trials they were able to keep the ship roll down to 3 degrees in the roughest seas.
This technology was replaced by roll stabilizer fins and is not used today.


1934 Auburn Speedster

[svandamme]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

(NARA)

I can imagine that the BMW marketing people in Germany have a bit of a cardiac arrhythmia when they see that.

[TimT]

I guesss its ok to post a video

On our dyno. A Shelby making over 600hp with a less than 600hp driveshaft.

[GH85Carrera]

Cheyenne. Laramie County, Wyoming." Taken in 1869. From the National Archives Catalog.


A high resolution image of a Solar Eclipse!
Credit: Sebastian Voltmer
It looks more like an AI photo of what we might see with super vision.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by john70t

#1 Mountain climbing is potentially deadly.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/10/11/rival-mountaineers-killed-shishapangma-nepal-world-record/

Two climbers who were competing for the title of the first American woman to scale all 14 of the world’s 8,000 metre-high mountains have died at the last hurdle on the same remote peak in Tibet.

Gina Marie Rzucidlo and Anna Gutu were climbing the 26,335ft Mount Shishapangma, in Tibet, in separate teams when they both lost their lives.

For both, it was the final summit in their bid to climb all 14 of the world’s highest peaks.

They died in separate locations when avalanches hit the mountain at the weekend.

Ms Gutu died alongside her Nepalese guide, Mingmar Sherpa.

Fellow American climber Ms Rzucidlo and her Nepalese guide, Tenjen Sherpa, were declared missing on the same day when avalanches hit the slopes at elevations of 7,600m – about 25,000ft – and 8,000m, about 26,000ft.

Anna Gutu (left), Gina Marie Rzucidlo (right)


#2 Vinegar and baking soda independently will clean stuff (acid and base). But if you mix them, they neutralize each other which kills the cleaning capability of both. Then you add a dishwashing tablet (why not just some dish soap?). Then you add coke and lemon juice, so you're back to an acid (2 of them). So that seems like someone read one of those home made cleaning things and decided "if all of these things work, they should work even better if you mix them all!"

#3 No, no, nope. No idea why someone felt the need to combine a statue of a woman and a relief map of the moon with all of the craters. I wonder if that is AI or real.

[jcwade]

Originally Posted by masraum

#3 No, no, nope. No idea why someone felt the need to combine a statue of a woman and a relief map of the moon with all of the craters. I wonder if that is AI or real.

Out of respect for our eyes, I will not repost the picture of the statue, but I think that is Kim Kardashian's derriere.
Based on un-photoshoppped images I have had the misfortune to chance upon.

[GH85Carrera]

[Steve Carlton]

Goldfinger's voice was dubbed in, as Gert Fröbe's accent wasn't adequate.

[GH85Carrera]

I have no idea what she is doing with a large wrench when the engine is out of the car, and high heels are not a good work shoe for automotive repair.

[john70t]

[Jim Horton]

Originally Posted by TimT

I guesss its ok to post a video

On our dyno. A Shelby making over 600hp with a less than 600hp driveshaft.

That's not a Shelby, unless the owner converted it back to standard fastback Mustang body configuration. More likely its a GTA.

[HobieMarty]

^^^ yeah I noticed that also. Wrong taillights for sure.

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