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CrazyDiamond

CrazyDiamond

HAL is a StarChild
I've always wondered about the golf balls on the moon...didn't know there was javelin as well! You need to zoom in on this.

A view from the Apollo 14 lunar module showing a javelin thrown at the same point in the mission to the left of center, with one of Shepard's golf balls below it.
 
VegNVape

VegNVape

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Photo by Wayne Quilliam

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stark1

stark1

Lonesome Planet
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Putin’s Satan 2– where the sun doesn’t shine


A Russian super heavy Satan 2 thermo-nuclear missile, AKA RS-28 Sarmat,
@ 15, 000 mph,
and a range of over 11,000 miles

A single 40 ton impact can take out an area comparable to Texas :hmm::hmm::science:
 
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vapviking

vapviking

Old & In the Way
Planck said:
Fuck me sideways @stark1 do you have to post this shit here. Enough already.
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@Planck, I sure do share the sentiment, and so I quote you here to preserve it. (No photo, it will be removed.)
Maybe @stark1 needs to start a "Russian Firepower" thread, or a "Putin Weapons Porn" thing, 'cause it's getting old here.

So soon we can feel it, the cherries will be blooming at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden's Cherry Esplanade.
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stark1

stark1

Lonesome Planet


“In the days of Old,
When men were Bold”....

Found

The ghostly stern, and wheel of the legendary ship, sitting proudly upright under 3000 meters of the Antarctic’s Weddell Sea, a century after Shackleton’s untimely death.





Found,
after being lost for over a century. The historic relic of the Great Age of Polar Exploration.


The Star, of HMS Endurance.


Originally christened “Polaris” when built in Norway, 3 years before The Expedition.

—Robert Falcon Scott’s last diary entry upon his desperate attempt to return to the safety of his ship after being preempted by Amundsen in reaching the South Pole “may” have inspired Shackleton to rename the somewhat inappropriately named Polaris for his Antarctic quest:

“Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale.”

Tales of Endurance. And Courage.
 
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stark1

stark1

Lonesome Planet
While Bloodymir’s invasion drags on, Ukrposhta ( Ukraine’s postal service ) recently issued some new stamps



When a Russian warship demanded a small Ukrainian island outpost to surrender, the answer was a
putin were the sun doesnt shine, fuckers! middle finger....

Initially thought to be dead, they were later found to have been captured on their island, and alive.

To commemorate this defiance, the Ukrposhta saluted the defenders of the motherland by the timely issue of this
Philatelic collectable. LMAS


 
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stark1

stark1

Lonesome Planet
Remember Ziva? From NCIS

And the flying car of 20th Century Popular Science?


Perhaps not as alluring as Ziva, or as attractive, a concept personal flying machine has achieved its untethered stage in development.

Meet ZevaZero



Intended as a personal response vehicle, and a 50 mile flight radius, this $ quarter million $ extraordinary VTOL saucer is out of range for the ordinary joe. A nice concept, neverthless.





—Awkward sauce -R?
 
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VegNVape

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The famous Fieldbrook Redwood Stump, California, not long after it was felled in 1890 . . . . . :ugh:

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I was just going to post the picture but the news article that goes along with it (from back in 2015) is too interesting not to be included . . . .

It would have been the biggest tree alive today had it not been so ignominiously felled in 1890 – reputedly to satisfy a drunken bet about making a table big enough to seat 40 guests from a single slice of tree-trunk.

But after a century of being left for dead, a giant redwood that grew as tall as a 30-storey building over the course of nearly 4,000 years in northern California is about to be reborn as a clone planted on the coast of Cornwall, possibly as early as this spring.

Scientists have managed to cultivate cuttings from the Fieldbrook Redwood Stump, which is 35ft (10.7m) in diameter, and 10 of its clones are now growing as knee-high saplings in the plant nursery at the Eden Project, near St Austell, as part of an ambitious plan to propagate and replant some of the oldest trees in America and Britain.

Sir Tim Smit, executive vice-chairman of the Eden Project, will reveal details of the tree-regeneration programme this week, including the planting of another 99 clones from 10 ancient American redwoods that were imported at the end of last year.

“The notion of putting back trees that have their own story has huge appeal,” Sir Tim said. “There are lots of ancient trees in Britain that have a piece of history attached to them.” The 100 cloned saplings are a mixture of redwood species.

The Fieldbrook stump is a Californian coast redwood, but others include the famous giant sequoia redwoods, which include the largest living tree, the 275ft General Sherman in California’s Sequoia National Park. It is said that the Fieldbrook tree was felled under the orders of William Waldorf Astor, a wealthy American living in Britain, who became embroiled in a bar-room bet about making a table seating 40 from a single cross-section of a tree.

Lord Astor certainly had a giant tree slice imported to Cliveden, his stately home in Buckinghamshire, but when he was alive he vowed to sue anyone who repeated the story.

“He probably realised that killing something that was nearly 4,000 years old for a bet didn’t really reflect very well on him,” Sir Tim said. “There’s not much dispute that the Fieldbrook stump and the redwood slice at Cliveden is the same tree, but it would be fun to carry out a DNA test to prove it.”

The Fieldbrook stump and the other nine ancient redwoods were successfully cloned by US researchers at the Archangel Ancient Tree Archive, an organisation set up by a former biker-gang member, David Milarch, who is visiting the Eden Project this week to advise on a similar scheme to propagate Britain’s ancient trees. “The climate in Cornwall and at Eden is perfect for redwoods, which helps fight climate change by storing fast amounts of carbon,”Mr Milarch said. “This new plantation will be a library of the tallest, oldest living things on Earth.” The redwoods will be planted on high ground looking out over the Atlantic. Sir Tim said: “Planting saplings which could exceed the height of a 30-storey building and live for 4,000 years requires a different kind of planning. The grove of redwoods will be an amazing and lasting enhancement to our global garden here at Eden, and a totem of hope for generations to come.”

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stark1

stark1

Lonesome Planet
With A Quack here, and a Quack there




For Ever Given. For Ever forward.



Sister ship of the 220,000 ton Ever Given which blocked the Suez Canal for a week, ladened with a load of almost 18,000 containers last year, is duplicating its sibling’s faux pas this year.

Sthuck In Chesapeke Bay.

Longer than the Eiffel Tower is tall, it is ironically named the Ever Forward.
Mon dieu!

United, we move forward.
 
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macbill

macbill

Oh No! Mr macbill!!
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Today is the 1st day I noticed a sitting goose on the avian perch in front of my condo. Canada geese lay between four and nine eggs per year. The average is five. The female lays one egg every one to two days, usually early in the morning. She does not leave the nest, eat, drink, or bathe while the eggs are incubating. The gestation period is 28 to 30 days.
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