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[Andy44]

You heard it here first - Soviet Union was a hoax perpetuated by American military–industrial complex in order to get the sweet, sweet budget money and control the population via fear. They orchestrated the biggest role-playing game named WW2 in order to maintain that hoax, up to and including fictional weapons.
Once that hoax ran it's course, they made a new one out of terrorists, <insert 911 conspiracy here>

LOL, actually, I heard it first in that video I mentioned!

As for THX-1138, a quick search will turn up lots of conspiracy kookiness around that, too.

Basically, any kind of recurring easter egg placed in movies or TV shows, especially if it involves numbers, will trigger the conspiracy types.

For that matter alone, were I a movie-maker, I would sprinkle these things everywhere and enjoy the ensuing fun.

 

[Anroalh12]

(Orbiter 2016 with D3D9:Video:Advanced:Max Load on Frecuency) Has anyone ever put 10e6 Hz? (I wanna try it xd)

 

[Thunder Chicken]

Spent the better part of the day working in the yard, edging the gardens, trimming trees, hauling rock, etc.. Wife went to the store before she went to work. When I came in to the kitchen and opened the fridge I found a sixer of nice cold beer and an uncooked sirloin steak the size of my head*.

This marriage thing is OK sometimes.

*She can't cook meat right to save her life, but bless her for leaving it for me.

 

[Fabri91]

Here a short video recorded from my home-assembled quadcopter after I started getting the hang of flying it a bit better:

Still only direct line-of-sight flying, so that explains why I kept it pointing in mostly one direction since it's very easy to get confused when facing it head-on or from the side. I've ordered the components for a very basic FPV setup, though, which should make things more interesting.

 

[liber]

 

[MaverickSawyer]

Gonna call Photoshop... Look at the engines. The fan blades are stopped.

 

[C3PO]

Gonna call Photoshop... Look at the engines. The fan blades are stopped.

What? Was that the giveaway for you? :lol:

 

[Blake]

...and according to his sun glasses, they are about to fly into what I assume is an airport terminal.

 

[liber]

...and according to his sun glasses, they are about to fly into what I assume is an airport terminal.

I think Einstein relativity apply to sunglasses fast they fly time getting slower or start to move backward. In next frame we can see how sunglasses reflect chinese worker in assembly line.

 

[Andy44]

What? Was that the giveaway for you? :lol:

:rofl:

LOL seriously!

 

[Fabri91]

As mentioned in the Chatbox, X-Plane 11 and the freeware utility Ortho4XP, which allows to generate photorealistic textures, are neat (and currently on sale on Steam, with a healthy 26% discount):

 

[C3PO]

:rofl:

LOL seriously!

I read it several times because it would have been top-notch sarcasm if you added a "".

This is a former BBC employee @ ~½ the stall speed of an airliner.

 

[Artlav]

Guess i've read about too much plane crashes and incidents.
Specifically, there was one where a front window blew out mid-flight and the pilot got sucked out. By luck he didn't go all the way out at once, so the other pilot caught his legs.
Well, the guy was flattened against the fuselage and remembers being unable to move or breath before passing out. He survived with minor injuries, after the plane was quickly landed.

So, looking at that photoshop it didn't even occur to me to point out it was shopped.

 

[C3PO]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Airways_Flight_5390

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From the flight deck, the flight and cabin crew could see his head and torso through the left direct vision window. Lancaster's face was continuously hitting that window; when cabin crew saw this and noticed that Lancaster's eyes were opened but not blinking despite the force against the window, they assumed that Lancaster was dead. Atchison ordered the cabin crew not to release Lancaster's body despite the assumption of death because he knew that a released body might fly into the left engine, in turn causing an engine fire or failure.

Yikes!!!

I've watched 3 documentaries about that incident.

 

[Andy44]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Airways_Flight_5390

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Yikes!!!

I've watched 3 documentaries about that incident.

Also an amazing fact from that wiki article: they searched the area near the accident and found not only the missing windshield pane, but also several of the bolts used to hold it onto the aircraft. Considering that the bolts had popped off an airplane doing about 375 mph at an altitude of over 17k ft, I find that to be incredible.

 

[Fabri91]

Guess i've read about too much plane crashes and incidents.
Specifically, there was one where a front window blew out mid-flight and the pilot got sucked out. By luck he didn't go all the way out at once, so the other pilot caught his legs.
Well, the guy was flattened against the fuselage and remembers being unable to move or breath before passing out. He survived with minor injuries, after the plane was quickly landed.

So, looking at that photoshop it didn't even occur to me to point out it was shopped.

That is similar to this uncommanded partial ejection event that occurred on a KA-6D carrier-borne refueling aircraft in 1991.

 

[dbeachy1]

Did someone order a kitteh from Amazon Prime?

:blink: :lol:

 

[MaverickSawyer]

Drove to see Mt. St. Helens today...

This is the "Sediment Retention System", aka a really big earthen dam on the North Fork of the Toutle River. It was built in 1989 to put an end to ash and debris choking up the river as it washed down from the landslide area to the immediate north of the mountain. It was designed to remain useable up to 2035... but it's looking like it will fall rather short of that goal.

Fun fact: For the first five years after the eruption, the Toutle River carried more sediment (total mass, not concentration) than the Mississippi and Amazon Rivers... combined.

The view from Elk Rock Vista point on the way in. This was my first view of the massive blowdown zone to the north from ground level. I'd seen it before while on airliners, but this was something else entirely.

The view from the Johnson Ridge Observatory. Johnson Ridge was renamed after US Geological Survey scientist David Johnson, who was stationed on the ridge during the eruption, and was killed by the blast. His body was never found.

I took my old refractor telescope with me on a whim, and I'm glad I did! I started looking around the crater with it and spotted some steam coming off the younger of the two lava domes. (Please forgive the poor quality... I took this through the eyepiece of the telescope with my cellphone camera...)

Another shot, not quite as good.

The younger lava dome formed from 2004 to 2008, and is reportedly still hot (not warm, hot) to the touch, even nearly a decade later.

 

[Loru]

Should be here on monday or tuesday

 

[Urwumpe]

Can't it stop raining for some minutes here.... my car reported "low oil" with 100 km left to go, now I reached my destination, but almost need scuba gear for working on my car...