Awesome Pictures Thread

[Bunk]

I finally found a worthy entry

[Tale]

Can something be sad and awesome at the same time? Temple in Sichuan after the earthquake.

[Tale]

Crocodile vs Shark.

[lac]

All kinds of awesome - time flies

[Ironwood]

Christ, I had that.

 

[Engels]

woot Zed-Ex!1!!

[teler]

I didn't say which ones weren't awesome.  Man.

By man I clearly meant:

[Cadaverine]

 

Textbook definition of not awesome.  The very antithesis of, even.

[Sky]

Maybe she can hang out with fat spiderman.

[climbjtree]

I feel like this is awesome. It's from my last noteworthy dirtbike wreck. And it was taken on a phone, so lay off about the quality.

[Engels]

what did they do? Stick bobby pins in your finger?

[climbjtree]

Basically. I didn't realize how long they were until they took them out. They went all the way up to the first knuckle, crisscrossing in the middle.

[Tale]

If you're going to define the above superheroes as awesome, Padme wants in:

[Oban]

Basically. I didn't realize how long they were until they took them out. They went all the way up to the first knuckle, crisscrossing in the middle.

...and why did you do this?

[climbjtree]

They did that, because I had broken it so badly. Basically I landed on top of my dirtbike and my hand went into the spokes of the still spinning rear wheel. That particular finger was rotated to where the fingernail was nearly opposite of where it should be, and after setting it without pins it would start to rotate again. Therefore, pins were needed to keep it right side up. It's still all jacked up though. 

[Oban]

I have never been so happy about nationalized health care than I am right now.

[climbjtree]

Hey, get it right! That's military health care!

[Teleku]

Think these pictures are pretty cool.  A look at the flying death ray Megawatt laser we are working on:


Heres an up close/awesome shot of the lense:

[Merusk]

Goddamn that's sweet.

Also reminds me of the History Channel's "Dogfights of the Future" special.  If you haven't seen it and are into Military stuff, Tivo it. It's pretty damn cool, even if it DID smack a bit of "America, we will ALWAYS kick everyone else's ass."

[WayAbvPar]

I have caught almost the entire thing in about 4 different sittings (it is great to switch to when whatever I am watching is on commercial). Some really cool stuff.

[rk47]

0-60 in three seconds. Got to wonder what that sixty to zero would do to you , though.

Rock your face off, duh.

we need a game like that. multiplayer. my god imagine shooting off one wheel, seeing the guy flying off a cliff at 60 mph is quite satisfying.....

[lac]

A look at the flying death ray Megawatt laser we are working on:

Whats up with the extended clitoris thingy?

[Teleku]

A look at the flying death ray Megawatt laser we are working on:

Whats up with the extended clitoris thingy?

If your talking about the thing sticking out from the bottom of the plane, I believe its part of the radar used to track the target the laser is suppose to blast.  As I recall, the idea is that the radar first picks up a target.  Then the laser shoots a very wide and weak laser blast in that direction to track the target, then a more narrower laser blast to pinpoint the speed/size of the target, then shoots the very focused high energy blast to take out the missile.  All of that is suppose to only take a few seconds.

Though now I hear people are getting worried because it could hypothetically be used to take out satellites (though its not designed to. It works by detecting heat exhaust from things like missiles.  Though I'm sure you could modify it....).  It hypothetical range, at best, will be about 600 KM to take out a missile.  So I guess if you just angle it up and aim at space....

[Merusk]

Missile.. plane.. large airborne gorillas.

The uses are only limited by range and your imagination!

[bhodi]

A look at the flying death ray Megawatt laser we are working on:

Whats up with the extended clitoris thingy?

Though now I hear people are getting worried because it could hypothetically be used to take out satellites (though its not designed to. It works by detecting heat exhaust from things like missiles.  Though I'm sure you could modify it....).  It hypothetical range, at best, will be about 600 KM to take out a missile.  So I guess if you just angle it up and aim at space....

My first gut feeling is that it wouldn't work. I'd be interested to see actual text on the topic, though.

From what I understand about the system, it only works during the boost phase of a missile, before the missile is going too fast to track. It works by flash heating the missile during this phase, it doesn't actually destroy it or burn it, it just causes enough instability that the missile shakes itself apart. Satellites are a whole other ballgame; low earth orbit satellites are flying quite fast relative to the surface of the earth; miles per second in all cases, and geostationary ones are 35,000km out. One's moving too fast to hit, the other's too far away.

[Teleku]

Exactly.  Its pretty hard to track the satellite and hit it with the way the system is set up, I believe.  Though again, I have seen several places when looking up info on the laser where its been brought up as a potential concern (by those who want to stop the weaponization of space).  Didn't really bother to read how probable it was though.  However, if it could hit it, I believe satellites are VERY delicate, and it wouldn't take much to disable/fry it.  But who knows.

Though your not quite right on the "shakes itself apart" angle.  At least from what I read, it does burn though the side of the missile.  Its just that during the boost phase, its not only going slow enough to track, but its got tons of fuel and a thin skin.  By hitting it with the laser, the side of the missile is thin enough to let the laser weaken it to the point that it blows itself up because it cant contain whats going on inside.  I guess that's sort of similar to what you said, but it IS burning into it ;).  However, because of that, its not really designed to take out other things, like satellites.  Or ground based targets.

THOSE will be taken care of by the Advanced Tactical Laser which is taking a similar COIL system and putting it in a AC-130 gunship for use against precision ground targets.  They have already installed the system onto an AC-130, and announced they had successfully fired the weapon while it was on the ground early this month.

They plan to test fire it against ground targets while flying around sometime later this year.   

[photek]

Rest of the set : http://www.flickr.com/photos/fernandopinto77/sets/72157600048421399/

[Teleku]

Heh, I live about 15 miles from where that tiger is located.

[Viin]

THOSE will be taken care of by the Advanced Tactical Laser which is taking a similar COIL system and putting it in a AC-130 gunship for use against precision ground targets.  They have already installed the system onto an AC-130, and announced they had successfully fired the weapon while it was on the ground early this month.

They plan to test fire it against ground targets while flying around sometime later this year.   

Those AC-130's are sick. I totally should have become a gunner (my AFSC is/was the same one the gunners have).

[Murgos]

... ground based targets.

THOSE will be taken care of by the Advanced Tactical Laser which is taking a similar COIL system and putting it in a AC-130 gunship for use against precision ground targets.  They have already installed the system onto an AC-130, and announced they had successfully fired the weapon while it was on the ground early this month.

They plan to test fire it against ground targets while flying around sometime later this year.   

Popcorn?

[Oban]

[Venkman]

Dammit! You beat me to it. This thread is full of it though, so no loss:

The uses are only limited by range and your imagination!

All you need is a tracking system in space and you could vaporize a human target from space!

[stu]

[schild]

Now that is a bicep tattoo.

[Sky]

Now that is a bicep tattoo.

Bzzt. Perfect tramp stamp.