Awesome Pictures Thread

[Count Nerfedalot]

cool pic! where in Sydney is that, it seems vaguely familiar?  SW I'm guessing, is that one of the Olympic complexes in the foreground?

[Chimpy]

I don't think that is Olympic park, the pools there were all indoors.

[pants]

I'm not 100% sure.  The big brown building looks like its University of Technology, Sydney, which is about 5km southwest from the middle of the city.  So I guess the pool is just a suburban pool - maybe Balmain? Its not the olympic area, thats for sure.

[lamaros]

Does look like UTS, but not sure that the other buildings around are right. Prince Alfred Park if it is, but more likely maybe out west near Parramatta.

[Sir T]

I;'m doing with awesome on this one. In some areas of the world, Krampus the demon traditionally travels with St. Nicholas in his trips to deliver presents. Rather than tossing a lump of coal at the brats, Krampus whips naughty children with his birch whip, and for especially deserving children he will carry them off in his barrel, all while St. Nicholas gases on benevolently.

Its the most wonderful time of the year!!



Needless to say Krampus is pretty popular. This is one of the tamer Christmas cards featuring him. You can see a further collection of imagery here. Its not exactly modern Disney. Enjoy!

http://monsterbrains.blogspot.ie/2007_12_02_archive.html

[Signe]

I got my family Krampus or Cthulumas shirts this year.  Mostly from Woot.  I'm surprised at how nice they are for $12 to $20 a pop.  The $20 ones were for sweatshirts and they're pretty awesome.

[satael]

The word for santa claus in finnish is "joulupukki" which would be "yule goat" if translated literally. Unfortunately (in my opinion) the name is pretty much the only thing remaining from the less christian days (and the only goats on christmas here are ornaments made of straw).

something along the lines of what the original "joulupukki costume" looked like in Finland:

[01101010]

Yeah, nothing like the scariest creature on Earth delivering gifts to children. That could also be said for the old hermit living up north...

[Ironwood]

Hey, I'm right here.

[Paelos]

Hey, I'm right here.

Merry Christmas!

[calapine]

St Lucy's Day in Finnland.







The big candle crown made me snicker. Full album

[Signe]

And Lucy buns, too!  Yum!  They're one of my favourite yellow things!

(I always sound excited.  Sorry.)

[Sky]

I, too, want to taste Lucy's buns.

[Miguel]

I, too, want to taste Lucy's buns.

 

[Signe]

I said BUN not BUM!

[Rendakor]

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bun&defid=461385

[Sky]

I said BUN not BUM!

What kind of gentleman do you take me for, madame!?

Ass to mouth is disgusting.

[apocrypha]

Didn't quite know where to put this. Animated wind forecast map, very beautiful. Have a play with the overlays and altitude settings.

http://www.windyty.com/

[Tale]

Just two guys chatting about building x-wings.

[MahrinSkel]

Wow.  If I had to guess, I would say that Elon Musk is right, the problem John Carmack is describing would apply to normal fins that are trying to redirect air, supersonic they create shockwave bubbles that confound any attempt to steer (air-to-air missiles have the same problem around Mach 5-6, and it's why everything that goes faster uses motor gimbaling to steer).  But unless it's easier for the shockwave to form around the entire "x-wing" grate than to flow through it, you should be able to direct air with those.  Not efficiently, but you don't need to nudge a lot of air at supersonic speeds to get enough of a reaction to steer.

I'd expect that experts in supersonic aerodynamics are behind the design, and have done everything short of actually dropping something into the atmosphere at Mach 10+ to test it. Only other prospect that springs to mind would be trying to slightly tilt the heat shield, but I suspect that would have stability problems.

But hell, I know less than Carmack, I'm just guessing.

--Dave

[Goumindong]

My intuition is that Carmack is right. At those types of speeds any disruption is going to create a low pressure zone that will stall the fins. The body of the craft will do it if the fins themselves don't. Its going to be like a supercavitating torpedo. Fins will do nothing because the front of the craft will be creating a low pressure zone that extends past the entire potential fin structure; stalling them.

Maybe Elon and crew have solved the problems

[Teleku]

It's to bad the latest launch got scrubbed till after new years.  Really want to see the barge landing attempt.

[apocrypha]

[Teleku]

Neeeeeeeeeerd!

That is really well done though.

[apocrypha]

I don't even play WoW any more, I just thought it was well done.

I am a nerd though, no doubt

[Lakov_Sanite]

Green jesus ruins it.

[Signe]

I didn't know where it was from but even I thought it was adorable.  I can't seem to find green Jesus, though.  Or Waldo.

[Lakov_Sanite]

Kind of odd there's no blackrock mountain or dark portal since they are so big in the lore, just a really big spot devoted to karazhan.

[Trippy]

I didn't know where it was from but even I thought it was adorable.  I can't seem to find green Jesus, though.  Or Waldo.

It's a map of World of Warcraft.

[Signe]

I didn't know where it was from but even I thought it was adorable.  I can't seem to find green Jesus, though.  Or Waldo.

It's a map of World of Warcraft.

Yeah, I figured from Apocrypha's post.  What is green jesus?

[Trippy]

Thrall is Green Jesus.

[Bzalthek]

I thought the goblin statue in booty bay was the "green jesus"

[Teleku]

I still cannot find anything resembling green Jesus on that map.

[Chimpy]

I still cannot find anything resembling green Jesus on that map.

He is yellow on the drawing, but goblins are green in the game thus why he is called "green jesus".

[Kail]

I still cannot find anything resembling green Jesus on that map.

I think that's him in the centre, giving the finger to the maelstrom, with the little cross in the middle.  Otherwise, I can't see him either.