Awesome Pictures Thread

[01101010]

Those train snow blowers are cool, but slow as shite.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCqEBdjaXpM

[kaid]

well you can only go so fast or you risk derailing the train. At that point you are basically hitting a giant wall the fact they go as fast as they do is impressive.

[Sky]

Move your cursor in time with her.

[Shannow]

Welp, at least 'Let it go' isnt stuck in my head anymore..

An image of every single satellite orbiting Earth.

[Nevermore]

Not *every* satellite.  They left off the one big one. 

[Tannhauser]

Uranus?

[Chimpy]

Not *every* satellite.  They left off the one big one. 

They took the picture from there, duh!

[Venkman]

Sorry, it's not to scale /docbrown.

Which reminds me, I was able to use "you're not thinking fourth dimensionally" in a meeting yesterday. And the other people got it 

[KallDrexx]

both survived

[HaemishM]

I saw that on the news this morning. I don't know how the fuck nobody was killed by that.

[01101010]

I saw that on the news this morning. I don't know how the fuck nobody was killed by that.

Life... um... finds a way.   

[Hawkbit]

My brain has broken while trying to calculate the odds of both people being relatively unhurt after an accident like that. 

[01101010]

My brain has broken while trying to calculate the odds of both people being relatively unhurt after an accident like that. 

Hell, that plane seemed to hold up fairly well too.

[Nevermore]

Takeoff speed of a single engine plane like that is only what? 60mph or so? 

[Viin]

For that one, yeah there abouts.

[01101010]

Yeah but still... 60mph crash is horrific to begin with, but that plane didn't snap a wing or tail fin or anything.

[MahrinSkel]

Yeah but still... 60mph crash is horrific to begin with, but that plane didn't snap a wing or tail fin or anything.

It did crunch the nose and engine pretty good, which is what seems to have absorbed all the impact.  It didn't fly again without major rebuilding.

--Dave

[Paelos]

Crazy odds.

[Goumindong]

I saw that on the news this morning. I don't know how the fuck nobody was killed by that.

The plane doesn't decelerate very fast because the person isn't much mass. Cessna stall speed is around 35 knots with takeoff speed around 55. You can tell by the video that he is flying into the wind so his ground speed is probably around 55 MPH. Most of the deceleration of the plane seems to occur into the seat which makes absorbing it easier.

The parachuter is in brace position for the landing and is wearing a harness. This puts the acceleration forces directly onto his center of mass rather than any extremities which is ideal (I think). If there is any elasticity to the chute hitting at that point will minimize his acceleration as well. He comes down on his back in an almost perfect form to take the fall and slides, minimizing the impact deceleration and taking almost none to the extremities.

All in all extremely lucky that it played out that way.

[Nebu]

The plane doesn't decelerate very fast because the person isn't much mass. Cessna stall speed is around 35 knots with takeoff speed around 55. You can tell by the video that he is flying into the wind so his ground speed is probably around 55 MPH. Most of the deceleration of the plane seems to occur into the seat which makes absorbing it easier.

The parachuter is in brace position for the landing and is wearing a harness. This puts the acceleration forces directly onto his center of mass rather than any extremities which is ideal (I think). If there is any elasticity to the chute hitting at that point will minimize his acceleration as well. He comes down on his back in an almost perfect form to take the fall and slides, minimizing the impact deceleration and taking almost none to the extremities.

All in all extremely lucky that it played out that way.

I bet you're fun to watch Sci Fi movies with.   

[Goumindong]

The plane doesn't decelerate very fast because the person isn't much mass. Cessna stall speed is around 35 knots with takeoff speed around 55. You can tell by the video that he is flying into the wind so his ground speed is probably around 55 MPH. Most of the deceleration of the plane seems to occur into the seat which makes absorbing it easier.

The parachuter is in brace position for the landing and is wearing a harness. This puts the acceleration forces directly onto his center of mass rather than any extremities which is ideal (I think). If there is any elasticity to the chute hitting at that point will minimize his acceleration as well. He comes down on his back in an almost perfect form to take the fall and slides, minimizing the impact deceleration and taking almost none to the extremities.

All in all extremely lucky that it played out that way.

I bet you're fun to watch Sci Fi movies with.   

I don't talk about Sci Fi movies unless its on a forum to talk about Sci Fi movies

[SurfD]

very hard to tell, but i could swear that the pilot of the plane actually got thrown out the pilot side door when the plane hit the ground.

[Cadaverine]

I thought so too, initially,  but on further inspection it looks to be the cowling.

[Miasma]

Uh oh, a crocodile is attacking a gnu.


Hippo rescue squad activate:


My hero.

[Chimpy]

Then the hippo turned around and killed the cameraman, right?

[Miasma]

In case anyone ever goes on safari that's true though, hippos are in the top ten of animals that kill humans.  Above bears, dogs, rabid cats etc.  They don't like it if you come near their water, especially if there are baby hippos around.

[Khaldun]

Actually the main issue w/hippos that results in injuries and deaths is when people go to water in the early early morning to fetch water for the day and accidentally get in between a herd of hippos and the water (they sleep in from the bank a ways). They panic and stampede if they think someone has cut them off from water. At which point, injury and death are pretty common.

I almost got in this situation myself once and largely escaped harm by climbing a tree really fast.

[kaid]

They also intensely dislike being bumped and given how they like hanging out right below the surface of the water a lot of people get into trouble bumping into them with rafts/small boats never realizing a hippo is there till it rears up and attacks you.

[KallDrexx]

Small image doesn't really justice though, you should watch the full time lapse video

[RhyssaFireheart]

That is gorgeous!

[Ironwood]

Looks like an alien world.

[Shannow]

Looks like an alien world.

My first thought was, is that from the Mars Rover?
I gotta get my kids out of the city to see what stars actually look like..

[Ironwood]

We've been having some good night skies here, but usually it's too fucking cloudy.

[lamaros]

I saw that on the news this morning. I don't know how the fuck nobody was killed by that.

The plane doesn't decelerate very fast because the person isn't much mass. Cessna stall speed is around 35 knots with takeoff speed around 55. You can tell by the video that he is flying into the wind so his ground speed is probably around 55 MPH. Most of the deceleration of the plane seems to occur into the seat which makes absorbing it easier.

The parachuter is in brace position for the landing and is wearing a harness. This puts the acceleration forces directly onto his center of mass rather than any extremities which is ideal (I think). If there is any elasticity to the chute hitting at that point will minimize his acceleration as well. He comes down on his back in an almost perfect form to take the fall and slides, minimizing the impact deceleration and taking almost none to the extremities.

All in all extremely lucky that it played out that way.

His chute was open enough to decelerate him quite a lot. Also he lands on his pack and ass and rolls on to his legs. Pretty amazing timing.

[TheWalrus]

Life... um... finds a way.   

I know I'm late to the party, but I read this in /Goldblum, from Jurassic park.