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Wow, lucky people! If it had just rolled a bit more they would have been smashed!
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Simond
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"You're really a good person, aren't you? So, there's no path for you to take here. Go home. This isn't a place for someone like you."
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01101010
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You call it an accident. I call it justice.
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Does any one know where the love of God goes...When the waves turn the minutes to hours? -G. Lightfoot
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"Mr Soft Owl has Seen Some Shit." - Sun Tzu
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That lake is one of the most amazing things I've ever seen.
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Abagadro
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He's using some false perspective to make it look higher and closer to the edge than it really is. Cool photo though.
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"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
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Simond
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"You're really a good person, aren't you? So, there's no path for you to take here. Go home. This isn't a place for someone like you."
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Ironwood
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I have only just heard of Son Doong Cave. I could fill this thread with pics. I am in love.  |
"Mr Soft Owl has Seen Some Shit." - Sun Tzu
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Nothing in this post represents the views of my current or previous employers.
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Lakov_Sanite
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Schrondinger seems distracted.
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~a horrific, dark simulacrum that glares balefully at us, with evil intent.
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01101010
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You call it an accident. I call it justice.
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Schrondinger seems distracted.
Worried about his cat probably. |
Does any one know where the love of God goes...When the waves turn the minutes to hours? -G. Lightfoot
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Samwise
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I kinda want to 'shop a hat and sunglasses onto Heisenberg.  I think Schrodinger looks distracted because Pauli is eyebanging him. |
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Bunk
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Nebu
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HOLY SHIT. So many quality brains in one picture! |
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Ragnoros
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HOLY SHIT.
So many quality brains in one picture!
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K9
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I love the smell of facepalm in the morning
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calapine
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Well, that's going to end in a lawsuit by Oracle.  |
Restoration is a perfectly valid school of magic!
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Merusk
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Modern yacht racing.  "part of the craft touches the water, it's still a boat, not an airplane!" |
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Abagadro
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Those AC72s are freaking crazy.
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"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
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KallDrexx
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Can't imagine how much those things weigh and yet still fly above the water
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Nevermore
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13,000 lbs, which is roughly 3 Toyota Tundras.
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Over and out.
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Pagz
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I AM GOING TO WRESTLE THIS BEAR WITH MY BARE HANDS!
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K9
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Those AC72s are freaking crazy.
Their ability to turn in such a small space blows my mind. If I had a spare $400M I'd be tempted to throw it at one of these. Modern yacht racing. "part of the craft touches the water, it's still a boat, not an airplane!" Well they're using a fixed win rather than a sail, so they're almost there. |
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ajax34i
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On the Oracle boat, I can see that the right side middle fin is raised up through the hull so it's not in use. The fin is shaped like an L (backwards) so the vertical part steers and the bottom part hydrofoils the boat up into the air. They pull back on the top of it and it'll angle the foil to lift more (I can see the left L fin doesn't go straight down it's angled backwards a bit). It's amazing that they're balancing the weight of that whole boat + wind forces from the sail on the left L fin, pretty much.
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« Last Edit: September 27, 2013, 01:45:50 PM by ajax34i »
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K9
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I didn't even notice that; thanks for the detail, it's really interesting.
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Chimpy
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Those AC72s are freaking crazy.
As I said to a guy I work with as we watched the final race the other day "you know something is fucked up when you have to use cigarette boats as chase boats in a sailing race". 40 frickin knots powered by an 18 knot wind. |
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Simond
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"You're really a good person, aren't you? So, there's no path for you to take here. Go home. This isn't a place for someone like you."
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Tale
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Morat20
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Those AC72s are freaking crazy.
As I said to a guy I work with as we watched the final race the other day "you know something is fucked up when you have to use cigarette boats as chase boats in a sailing race". 40 frickin knots powered by an 18 knot wind. I heard a lot of bitching about those boats from people who, you know, sail boats. Apparently one of the weird rules for the Cup is the winner of the Cup gets to set the rules for the next cup, and Ellison basically wanted to make it "more exciting" or some shit (like literally NASCARing it) and so went with these insane boats. Insanely expensive, and insanely dangerous. And apparently the more exciting/more people watching thing sorta blew up. If it hadn't been for the whole come from behind thing, they'd have had the worst crowd for years. I guess, in general, people who watched like watching a sport they could comprehend --- you know, with boats shaped like boats they're vaguely familiar with and sail plans that are vaguely similar to the stuff they sail. Kinda within reach, you know? He basically replaced, say, a marathon with some weird Fomula-1 racing thing where they road light-cycles. :) |
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Trippy
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The AC72 was of course specifically designed for this year's America's Cup but multi-hulled boats and wing sails have been raced in the America's Cups for quite some time now. Dennis Connor used one to win the 1988 America's Cup.
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Teleku
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Abagadro
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The problem is that it is going to price everyone so far out of the competition that there will be 2 or 3 teams total in the world. Not much of a competition at that point.
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