The Picture Thread

[Vitolo]

Happy 30th HAL ...

I LOVE your post....
... but it's Hal's 54th birthday!
I saw the movie the day it was released in N.Y.C. 1968...
I have gone to see it a half dozen times since that 1st time.
The movie is genius, and I loved it the first time....
..but I fell asleep every time I went to see it again!

 

[DillGaff]

USS Nevada Ohio-class nuclear-powered submarine

The Navy says Ohio-class submarines stay an average of 77 of days at sea before spending about a month in port for maintenance and replenishment. It's rare for one to even be photographed outside their home ports of Bangor, Washington, and Kings Bay, Georgia. The secrecy surrounding the ballistic missile submarines makes them the "most important survivable leg of the nuclear triad," which also includes silo-based ballistic missiles on the US mainland and nuclear-capable bombers like the B-2 and B-52.

 

[stark1]

JAWS....

M Ashkenazi Goldfish

 

[macbill]

Two Feet of Snow

 

[stark1]

“Winter is a-cumin in,
Lhude sing goddamn!

& how, the wind doth ram”....



Pound, paraphrased

 

[stark1]

The skies Above, down
Under

—- The approaching “Clouds”.




From APOD

 

[stark1]

Charlie Brown’s sometime Frienemy.
Lucy

 

[macbill]

 

[cybrguy]

 

[stark1]

Not just another eating place

 

[stark1]

Sleeping away the Centuries



Tollandmund i Silkeborg

 

[stark1]

The son of BA.1 (Omicron) has arrived in the land of the free.
3 cases so far, compared to 5% of cases in UK, and 40%
In Denmark, the BA.2 variant is taking a tippy toe hold...

The shit keeps hitting the fan.

 

[stark1]

an Eastern tzar is born

—The Emperor of (natural) gaz




Its a Crimea!


*

 

[gangababa]

They're too Tucker-ed out to fight for Russia, but their heart is there.

Amazing today to see red-Americans rootin' for Putin and against a Democratic Ukraine.

 

[stark1]

O Dromeas—
—The runner, —in Grecian sheets of glass

 

[ChooChooCharlie]

panoramic San Diego Bay sunset this evening:

 

[stark1]

right coast. Sunset

Lull before bombogenisis haha

 

[Vitolo]

 

[stark1]

How do you drop a $78 million plane in international waters in the South China sea, and possibly
Lose it to the curious Chinese.....

Meet the F-35 (Stealth Fighter)




Meet the F-35 in the water




—It will take a salvage ship a minimum of ten days to get to site.

 

[CrazyDiamond]

They have a pretty good stealth fighter themselves...the Chengdu J-20.

 

[stark1]

The People’s Liberation Army Navy also has a few midget submarines in the South China Sea, to
(despite their denials) check out




the world’s most advance stealth winged fighter , the US Lockheed Martin long range F-35C Lightning II





( China might also try to claim salvage rights by declaring the downed fighter an “enviromental hazard” )

 

[stark1]

Latitude Dependent Definition for Bombogenesis :

24mb[sine (Latitude°) / sine (60°)] —drop of millibar barometric pressure in a twenty-four hour period.

24mb/(sine (60°)) = 20.78mb

NYC Latitude 40.71° N

20.78mb(sine(40.71°)) ~ 13.55mb

So in places like Shelter Island, or NYC when the barometric pressure DROP some 13 millibars in 24 hours,
Take cover. Never mind 24mb.

Bombogenesis Begins

Take a toke over the line

Temps in Florida will be so cold, iguanas will begin to DROP off their trees

 

[Shrike]

 

[stark1]

Are we Dare yet, Dada
It’s all “so-real”...

 

[stark1]

We have been debating getting a few “solar panels”—just in case, haha

Seriously tho, as the infrastructure ages/decays, there has been some serious booms here in Massachusetts. So
sad to become a statistic.



i hope the super volcano (way past due) called “Old Faithful” in jellystone doesnt choose
To erupt anytime soon. Thats going to ruin solar farming for a while

With some 100 thousand + blistering Russkies surrounding Ukraine on three sides,
Things may get toasty if the putative dictator has a bad day...

It will be a hard hit on the Euro if the puta (sorry) raise the price of natural gas at best, and worse
If it is turned off, due to “sanctions”. An ironic possibility.