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jedidia
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What... the... hell? :rofl:
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Just wasted a bit of time reminiscing.
1977 Formula 1 highlights series, the first year I watched a complete season of the sport. My father went and got our first Sharp color TV for it, as by chance I had watched on a BW TV the very race of the previous season in which Lauda burned at the Nürburgring, the race on which the movie Rush was based, and I had got the bug which lasted up until Schumacher's dominance became boring. I had debated whether I should watch the movie out of interest - it has been out a while now - or leave what I remember as just that. I watched these to help make the decision; I opted for the latter. It just seems to me now that F1 drivers then were a bunch of guys who drank, smoked and partied and occasionally drove fast - nothing like the obsessively motivated, industry honed professionals of today - who I find frankly rather characterless and a bit boring - though that impression is probably just my appreciation of them deteriorating as I got older.
Then there were the cars themselves - they actually did not look like the same vehicle with a different paint job...
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9R4d6V-EbHg"]f1 1977 season part 1 - YouTube[/ame]
EDIT: BTW, I might add, we did not see them "live" here in Ecuador back then. We used to get them on local TV a couple of weeks late.
1977 Formula 1 highlights series, the first year I watched a complete season of the sport. My father went and got our first Sharp color TV for it, as by chance I had watched on a BW TV the very race of the previous season in which Lauda burned at the Nürburgring, the race on which the movie Rush was based, and I had got the bug which lasted up until Schumacher's dominance became boring. I had debated whether I should watch the movie out of interest - it has been out a while now - or leave what I remember as just that. I watched these to help make the decision; I opted for the latter. It just seems to me now that F1 drivers then were a bunch of guys who drank, smoked and partied and occasionally drove fast - nothing like the obsessively motivated, industry honed professionals of today - who I find frankly rather characterless and a bit boring - though that impression is probably just my appreciation of them deteriorating as I got older.
Then there were the cars themselves - they actually did not look like the same vehicle with a different paint job...
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9R4d6V-EbHg"]f1 1977 season part 1 - YouTube[/ame]
EDIT: BTW, I might add, we did not see them "live" here in Ecuador back then. We used to get them on local TV a couple of weeks late.
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166 foot jump... with a semi truck.
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Thunder Chicken
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Some thrust vectoring porn courtesy of Sukhoi:
Damn, does Sukhoi make a sexy fighter jet or what?
Damn, does Sukhoi make a sexy fighter jet or what?
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Ever wondered what happens inside a rocket during launch...
| Saturn I (SA-5) | |
| Saturn Ib (AS-203) | |
| Falxon IX (CRS-4) | |
| Falcon IX (CRS-5) | |
Space Architect Galina Balashova
For the longest time her work was deemed highly secret, as Galina Balashova designed the interiors for the spaceships of the Soviet space program. Now she is 83 years old and an exhibition in Frankfurt pays tribute to the architect’s efforts.
http://www.dw.com/en/space-architect-galina-balashova/av-18628245
For the longest time her work was deemed highly secret, as Galina Balashova designed the interiors for the spaceships of the Soviet space program. Now she is 83 years old and an exhibition in Frankfurt pays tribute to the architect’s efforts.
http://www.dw.com/en/space-architect-galina-balashova/av-18628245
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Awesomeness from Canada:
The Pan Am Games are pretty much invisible to the U.S.
Dear Canada,
More Serena Ryder, less (like zero) Beiber.
Thanks and Love,
The United States
The Pan Am Games are pretty much invisible to the U.S.
Dear Canada,
More Serena Ryder, less (like zero) Beiber.
Thanks and Love,
The United States
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Someone dropped a match...
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And maybe some more Triumph and Rush, while you're at it.
BTW, we apologize for Kanye West.
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Nah, just more spectacular and brighter due to it being the night.Holy! That's bigger than the Pepcon blast!
Pepcon was around a kiloton, this one is only 0.03 kt.
However, here we have much more than just rocket fuel going boom - lots of unhealthy chemicals.
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Holy
The title on the second video says that it was taken from about 1 km away, and damage in the vicinity of the camera seems light or nonexistent. Pepcon did damage up to 10 mi out.
Thunder Chicken
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I *hate* how we get put into bubbles which isolate us from media from other nations. Really, Canada is a short drive from where I live, but unless I am in northern NH or VT I can't get Canadian radio, and Google seems to steer me to "American" media.
Last summer I spent a month up in St John's, and it was eye-opening to learn about our northern neighbor. There seems to be some unspoken law against knowing what Canadians watch on TV or listen to on the radio down here. Pisses me off to no end. There isn't a technological reason for it; it is just distributors putting a cap on things.
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360 panorama from a P-51. Check your 4 and 8 o'clock, there is an F22 out there.
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RFjROsovWs"]Amazing P-51/F-22 Flight - Heritage Flight Museum 360Video - YouTube[/ame]
This might not work well for Firefox users - other should be able to pan around during the video play.
EDIT: I actually can't even get this on Chrome on my home netbook. I was able to scroll around using Chrome on my school desktop. Anybody know the trick for this?
---------- Post added at 10:58 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:07 PM ----------
Here's a throwback to my childhood: G-Force
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RFjROsovWs"]Amazing P-51/F-22 Flight - Heritage Flight Museum 360Video - YouTube[/ame]
This might not work well for Firefox users - other should be able to pan around during the video play.
EDIT: I actually can't even get this on Chrome on my home netbook. I was able to scroll around using Chrome on my school desktop. Anybody know the trick for this?
---------- Post added at 10:58 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:07 PM ----------
Here's a throwback to my childhood: G-Force
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