2020 New Random Pics

[Zeke]

Originally Posted by 911 Rod

Can I respectfully please ask that there are no AI creations posted here?
They mess with my (and probably others) head and are not pics.

I'll agree with you but it's not going to happen. Glen makes reason. One of the things I do every day is look for the pics thread. That may come to an end.

AI is indeed the Devil.

[GH85Carrera]

ARKANSAS: The Marked Tree Siphons installation, dating to 1939, is said to be the only engineering structure of its kind in the United States. Built at a cost of $215,000, the three steel tubes integral to the design were among the largest in the world, with diameters of nine feet and lengths of 228 feet. As described by the Arkansas encyclopedia, "Their operation was deceptively simple. First, a vacuum pump primed each siphon. Once the siphon was primed, the vacuum pump was turned off, and the flow was self-sustaining. An air valve regulated the rate of flow."
Once activated, the siphons can run indefinitely, powered only by gravity. Eight decades later, the pumping process still functions properly after an overhaul in the 1990s.


Grandma's new gravy container she picked up at the garage sale.

[Dixie]

In 1967 GM marketed six women's dresses, and commissioned pop songs, to help launch the new Camaro

[john70t]

Originally Posted by Heel n Toe

I think it will be smart to allow them because they'll improve our critical thinking skills.

AI distorts reality and changes history.

Was this real?

[GH85Carrera]

Captain Lewis Nixon of Easy Company, 506th PIR the morning after VE Day, 1945. Bet that was one hell of an hangover.....!

[Steve Carlton]

Originally Posted by john70t

AI distorts reality and changes history.

Was this real?

https://grupaok.tumblr.com/post/49446682150/swarm-of-concert-goers-crowd-doyt-perry-stadium

[GH85Carrera]

The Pillars of Creation in M16 Eagle Nebula taken by Hubble Space Telescope & James Webb Space Telescope.




Yes, this is AI! Just a funny representation for an Emmy Award acceptance for a Lord of the Rings movie.

[GH85Carrera]

1954 Ferrari 375 MM Scaglietti Coupe




Our house has a huge master bedroom closet, but it is not even remotely like this.

[porsche930dude]

[GH85Carrera]

Photo Taken 12,000 years ago.
"Unearthed Photo Reveals the Pyramids Were Built by a Bunch of Super Human People"
In a groundbreaking discovery that's sure to shake the very foundations of Egyptology, archaeologists have unearthed an ancient photo depicting the construction of the pyramids. The photo, estimated to be around 12,000 years old, shows a group of workers clearly taking their work very seriously."






I don't think high heels are appropriate workshop footwear, but we can give her a pass.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

ARKANSAS: The Marked Tree Siphons installation, dating to 1939, is said to be the only engineering structure of its kind in the United States. Built at a cost of $215,000, the three steel tubes integral to the design were among the largest in the world, with diameters of nine feet and lengths of 228 feet. As described by the Arkansas encyclopedia, "Their operation was deceptively simple. First, a vacuum pump primed each siphon. Once the siphon was primed, the vacuum pump was turned off, and the flow was self-sustaining. An air valve regulated the rate of flow."
Once activated, the siphons can run indefinitely, powered only by gravity. Eight decades later, the pumping process still functions properly after an overhaul in the 1990s.

Interesting, I'm going to have to look that first one up to see what the purpose is.
I read an article about that camaro recently. https://www.hagerty.com/media/car-profiles/200000-mile-1969-camaro-is-proof-your-car-is-bored/

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Our house has a huge master bedroom closet, but it is not even remotely like this.

https://www.chron.com/z-archived-homes/article/Woodlands-woman-s-three-story-closet-is-her-5628948.php

If you were ever wondering how to throw the perfect party in a closet, this Houston area woman knows the secret: all it takes is a wonderful caterer, lots of champagne, a DJ ... oh, and a gigantic, three story, 3,000 square foot "she cave."

Theresa Roemer's closet, recently added to her Woodlands home at a cost of about $500,000, is nothing short of amazing: a spiral staircase leads up through boutique style shelving showing off handbag upon handbag, jewels, perfume and shoes (OMG, shoes like nothing you have seen!).

The former Miss Texas United America's closet was featured in a new blog post by department store Neiman Marcus ... which theoretically could consider opening the giant closet as a new Woodlands retail department.

"It started years ago when I had a closet party and all the girls came over and they said, 'I just wish it was bigger,'" That's when the glamorous fundraiser realized size was key after all, "Since then it's just been getting bigger and bigger and bigger, it's like a 'she cave'." Roemer said.

Seems bizarre and silly to me, but if you've got the cash and that's what you want...

She got her 15 mins of fame, but I think it backfired.
https://www.chron.com/neighborhood/woodlands/crime-courts/article/Self-acclaimed-Woodlands-closet-burglar-sends-5691765.php
Her house/closet was burgled after all of the hoopla.



https://people.com/crime/theresa-roemer-robbed-of-1-million-from-three-story-closet/

When Theresa Roemer returned home after a dinner out with her husband on Aug. 1, she noticed that something was very wrong. There was shattered glass on the floor of her bedroom – someone had broken into her Houston-area house and pilfered items from her closet.

But Roemer’s closet isn’t like yours. It’s a three-story, 3,000-square-foot space complete with a champagne bar. And the items missing included much of Roemer’s high-end jewelry and three large Birkin bags worth $60,000 each. The complete haul: more than $1 million.

Roemer checked the recording from her home’s security camera: The burglar entered the home through a bathroom window. Wearing a light-colored hooded jumpsuit and a baseball cap, he – or she – spent nine minutes picking through her jewelry, stuffing the items into the bags. The theft happened less than two weeks after the closet had been featured on ABC’s Good Morning America.

“It’s terrifying,” Roemer tells PEOPLE. “Someone came into my house and violated my space. I don’t feel safe anymore.”

Both Roemer and police believe that there was more than one thief. Exterior surveillance cameras caught at least two shadowy figures outside while the main burglar was inside the house.
Sentimental Items Missing

The thieves got away with some very expensive jewelry, including diamonds, watches and even a one-of-a-kind 136-carat emerald. But Roemer says that’s not what’s important to her.

“Obviously, I’m not happy that they’re gone,” she says, “but those things can be replaced. I’m most upset about the items that can never be replaced. They’re gone forever.”

In addition to the pricey jewelry, the thieves got away with some sentimental items, including bracelets that Roemer received from her deceased mother-in-law. “They’re not even worth a lot of money,” she says. “But they’re worth so much more to me.”

Another devastating loss: a silver locket containing a lock of hair from Roemer’s son, Michael, who died in a Wyoming car crash in 2006. “My son was a wonderful, wonderful boy,” says Roemer, her voice catching. “That lock of hair was all I had from him. I don’t care about anything else, but I want that back. I need that back. It’s what I have from my son. It’s ironic; the only things that aren’t worth money on the market are the things that I want back the most.”

A person claiming to be the burglar who swiped nearly a million dollars of high end jewelry from a now infamous closet in an opulent home in the Woodlands has sent several of the items to a Houston newspaper.

According to a story published online this afternoon by the Houston Press, a person called the alt-weekly earlier this week claiming to be the burglar and that he or she had items to prove it. The caller spoke through a voice modulator, according to the story, so it was impossible to tell whether it was a man or woman.

Koenigsegg


Koenigsegg and a Singer
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F40

[GH85Carrera]

Utah

[masraum]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

ARKANSAS: The Marked Tree Siphons installation, dating to 1939, is said to be the only engineering structure of its kind in the United States. Built at a cost of $215,000, the three steel tubes integral to the design were among the largest in the world, with diameters of nine feet and lengths of 228 feet. As described by the Arkansas encyclopedia, "Their operation was deceptively simple. First, a vacuum pump primed each siphon. Once the siphon was primed, the vacuum pump was turned off, and the flow was self-sustaining. An air valve regulated the rate of flow."
Once activated, the siphons can run indefinitely, powered only by gravity. Eight decades later, the pumping process still functions properly after an overhaul in the 1990s.

Lots of good info here
https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/marked-tree-siphons-3999/
Just a few excerpts

The siphons were also a unique application of an engineering structure of their type, designed to lift the flow of the St. Francis River over an earthen levee and deposit it in the river channel on the other side of the levee.

In December 1937, the Corps of Engineers began repairs to the sluiceway. On May 7, 1938, high waters washed out a ninety-foot gap in the levee. The sluiceway settled further and was damaged beyond repair. By October, the levee break was repaired and the sluiceway removed.

According to the Corps of Engineers, the sluiceway and levee failed because they were constructed on a stratum of fine sands that tended to become “quick” when saturated. Repair or replacement of the sluiceway was deemed too costly, so the Memphis District announced it would permanently dam the levee gap, with the plan that “instead of passing water under or through the dam, water will be siphoned over it.”

The Marked Tree Siphons
[IMG]These three gigantic siphons, each nine feet across and two hundred feet long, were built in 1939 for $215,000 to take water out of the St. Francis Lake, also known as the St. Francis Sunken Lands, hoist it over the levee and dump it into the St. Francis River (on the right side of the picture below) in order to keep the river navigable. Normally, that kind of thing is done with culverts, locks or sluiceways; but the ground here is so soft and sandy that those usual solutions create weak points in the levee. The siphons allow the levee to maintain its structural integrity while simultaneously allowing engineers to shift water from one side to the other. I spoke with Danny Max of the Memphis District of the Corps of Engineers, and he told me that he knew of no other such siphons on the whole planet. Sunken Lands on the left, St. Francis River on the rightThe most elegant thing about these siphons is the clever way that the flow is regulated. There are no water pumps and no moving internal valves or constrictions. Once the siphons are primed by vacuum pump, the flow can be constricted by opening an air valve introducing a bubble into the top of the arch. Once primed, the siphons can run indefinitely powered only by gravity and the flow can be adjusted with a twist of the wrist. The City of Marked Tree is named for a tree which was blazed with an "M" which marked a portage point between the St. Francis and Little River. The two rivers, which run in opposite directions, come within a quarter mile of each other here at Marked Tree. If you're paddling up the St. Francis, you can drag your boat the quarter mile overland to the Little River and go downstream to the confluence, saving yourself about eight miles of fighting the current. There are two stories about the mark on the tree. One holds that it was put there by the infamous frontier bandits of the John Murrel Gang (thus the "M"), and another holds that it was first marked by Indians. Actually, both stories could be true. The tree washed away in the flood of 1890. Incidentally the St. Francis Sunken Lands are sunken because they dropped fifty feet in elevation during the New Madrid earthquakes, the first of which, on December 16, 1811, is estimated to have been 8+ on the Richter scale making it the most powerful quake in recorded history.[/IMG]

[GH85Carrera]

Mount ARARAT. Inactive volcano. The highest peak in Turkey.


Maybe a dozer was not such a good counterweight idea after all.


Not AI, just makeup.


Ok, some Photoshop and a real BS story.




Customer states car will not start.

[Steve Carlton]

Originally Posted by masraum

F40

Good chains.

[GH85Carrera]

Would you drive this road? No railings ... no pavement ... steep hairpin turns ... and it's about 1,000 feet down. I did it in my 85 911 back in 2012. Kinda scary meeting traffic going the other way.

On the way to Mexican Hat, UT from Arches National Park, UT.




Every-time I leave my car door open for just a few minutes.....

[Steve Carlton]

Fuchs!

[masraum]

Originally Posted by Steve Carlton

Fuchs!

For fuchs sake, man!



15x9 & 15x11 on BaT - sold for $15k


Hmm, some black fuchs in 18" would look nice on my boxster.

[GH85Carrera]

Highway interchange, Jacksonville, Florida.

[red 928]

Neither are real pics, they are artist's renderings.
Basically NASA photoshop.

The telescopes send back zeros and ones:
Some represent x-rays.
Some infra-red.
Some visible spectrums, etc.
The egg-heads interpret them and create the pics shown
using the representative data.