AC-130U Spooky/Spectre Gunship
The AC-130 gunship’s primary missions are close air support, air interdiction and force protection. Missions in close air support are troops in contact, convoy escort and urban operations. Air interdiction missions are conducted against preplanned targets or targets of opportunity. Force protection missions include air base defense and facilities defense. (U.S. Air Force photo)
Obama and Edwards
Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., left, is joined by former Democratic presidential hopeful, John Edwards, at a rally in Grand Rapids, Mich., Wednesday, May 14, 2008. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
Aircraft Carrier Mech Take Off
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I’d Tap That Ass
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Blind Fury Movie Poster – A real life Iaijutsu
I use to love this movie as a kid that dude was super kick ass. It’s apparently a knock off of a long running Japenese show – en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zatoichi
F-35 Helmet
Assorted pictures of the helmet mounted display developed for the F-35 Lightning II, Looks like something out of Macross or similar.
www.vsi-hmcs.com/pages_hmcs/03a_f35day.html
Night Thunderhead animation
www.flickr.com/photos/18982521@N00
To see an animation:
www.flickr.com/photos/18982521@N00/231563196/sizes/o/
Radiolarians
The 71st plate from German biologist Ernst Haeckel’s Kunstformen der Natur, showing radiolarians of the order Stephoidea. Radiolarians form intricate mineral skeletons, usually with a central capsule dividing the cell into inner and outer portions. Radiolarians are found as zooplankton throughout the ocean and are important diagnostic fossils, found from the Cambrian period onwards.
Image credit: Ernst Haeckel
WIKI POD
Tetris Storage Unit In Use
A couple of people were commenting in the earlier post of this that it didn’t look like it could support much; so i figured I’d do a repost of it with stuff in it. Pretty much just aimed at storminator actually.
Hail!
It’s hailing right now in Erie County, NY. Not quite golf ball sized, but the next best thing. You don’t want to get caught out in this!
Game over man!
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Farming with Dynamite is Dyno-mite!
www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/www/dupont/FarmingWithDynamite/Limage04.html
Not Going Anywhere
This weekend a 120 hidden gardens in the city of Rotterdam opened for everybody to see. Mostly local residents showing their private gardens. Since Most of Rotterdam is build with inner courtyards surrounded by housing, you never get to see these private gardens and enjoy them.
This particular image was taken in the bloklandstraat in a courtyard named schoonoord, amidst of all the flowers, trees and gardendwarfs someone parked this rusty vehicle.
Foul beasts
These 2 woke me up one morning.
Once upon a mid-day dreary, while I pondered weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten porn,
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a quacking,
As of some one gently quacking, quacking at my chamber door.
`’Tis some visitor,’ I muttered, `quacking at my chamber door –
Only this, and nothing more.’
Ceratopsians
Diagram showing the appearances and relative sizes of 18 basal species of Ceratopsians (frilled, beaked dinosaurs typified by Triceratops). Animals are shown in order of geologic stage from left to right and top to bottom, with species names and stage information as annotation.
Ceratopsians were beaked herbivores who lived in what are now North America and Asia, during the Cretaceous Period. Early members such as Psittacosaurus were small and bipedal. Later members, including ceratopsids like Centrosaurus and Triceratops, became very large quadrupeds and developed elaborate facial horns and a neck frill.
Image credit: ArthurWeasley
Multi-use liquor bottle
Sorry about the picture quality, just don’t make phone cameras like they used to. Pic of the most looked at bottle in the liquor store I work at…for obvious reasons.