Something cool thread

[Chew]

On 7/6/2017 at 8:48 PM, mcsluggo said:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

But.....why?

[mcsluggo]

7 minutes ago, youngchew said:

 

But.....why?

 

who put the hot in Hottentot?

[skinsmarydu]

I question some of these pics, they just look too perfectly photoshopped.  Can anyone tell? 

They're stunning, anyway.

 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/breathtaking-shots-show-king-penguins-slideshow-wp-143416345.html

[Jumbo]

https://www.stereophile.com/content/wilson-audios-ultimate-loudspeaker-wamm-master-chronosonic

[Bang]

Gallery of Elvis playing football.


http://www.vintag.es/2011/11/elvis-playing-football.html

 

~Bang

 

 

[AsburySkinsFan]

 

Edited December 7, 2017 by AsburySkinsFan

[Dan T.]

^^ Man that is awesome and beautiful.

[SoulSkin]

In case you were wondering what alligators have been up to up to during this frigid weather. Pretty similar to what I've been doing, only minus the water and I poke my nostrils out of a blanket cocoon.

 

 

Edited January 9, 2018 by SoulSkin

[twa]

just chillin and waiting for the thaw

[mcsluggo]

[China]

 

[Renegade7]

 

[China]

13 semis line Detroit freeway to help man considering suicide

 

The Michigan State Police organized a unique way to help a man who was threatening suicide on a highway overpass: they pulled together multiple semi truck drivers to help shorten the fall.

 

Tuesday morning, all lanes of 696 were closed at Coolidge in both directions as a man threatened suicide. 

 

The first call came in a little before 1 a.m. on Tuesday as the unnamed man was on the bridge over the highway. The eastbound lanes were closed as MSP started organizing semi-truck passing through. 

 

A few minutes later, the westbound lanes were also closed as more semis showed up to cross the highway. All told, 13 semi trucks were parked under the overpass to shorten the distance he would fall, if he were to have jumped.

 

 

Thankfully, the man did not jump and the situation ended as the man walked off the bridge. He was taken by Huntington Woods Police to Beaumont hospital for evaluation.

 

Click on the link for the full article

[The Evil Genius]

Not really "cool"...but click on the tweet as there are about 50 more telling the story.

 

 

[China]

NASA Spacecraft Picked Up Weird Plasma ‘Sounds’ As It Plunged Into Saturn

 

Space music at its absolute trippiest.
 

Is Saturn “singing” to one of its moons? 

 

NASA said its Cassini spacecraft picked up something very unusual ― and unexpected ― when it plunged into Saturn on its final mission last year.

 

It detected a series of plasma waves heading from Saturn to its rings and into Enceladus, one of its moons. NASA described it as resembling an electrical circuit, with energy flowing back and forth. 

 

NASA said researchers converted those plasma waves into an audio file “in the same way a radio translates electromagnetic waves into music.” 

 

The result is the trippy sound file at the top of this story, which compresses 16 minutes of plasma waves into 28.5 seconds of out-of-this-world audio.

 

Click on the link for the full article and audio

[China]

Last Year's Colossal Antarctic Iceberg Has Started to Move at a Shocking Speed

 

1 trillion tonnes of ice that can't be stopped.

 

For a year, not a lot happened. In July 2017, the world's sixth-largest iceberg on record tore free from its Antarctic moorings after months of dramatic anticipation, in which the world watched a gigantic chasm split the Larsen C ice shelf in two.

 

But then, this colossal broken shard of ice basically hunkered down. Satellite images revealed that over a year later, the iceberg – A68 – despite being buffeted by ocean currents, tides, and winds, was effectively grounded on the shallow seabed of the Bawden Ice Rise.

 

At least, it was until now.

 

After a long period of ice-bound inactivity, A68 has suddenly begun to drift again, with satellite imagery adjusted for brightness temperature (in purple) showing one edge of the giant iceberg swinging northwards in a movement that began in July this year, but which has rapidly picked up speed since then.

 

 

"You can see at between 7-12 July 2018 the weather conditions and ocean currents conspire to swing the trillion tonnes of the giant iceberg A68 in an anticlockwise direction," polar oceanographer Mark Brandon from the Open University in the UK explains on his blog.

 

What isn't for sure is where A68 is headed, or how far it might drift along its current trajectory. From his analysis of Sentinel-1 SAR satellite imagery, Brandon says that wind is pushing the sea ice to the north of the iceberg further north, and at a rate faster than A68's rotation.

 

If this keeps up, Brandon expects the iceberg to move into a vast patch of open water and young ice to the west of where A68 currently is, where ice slicks are forming in "intense" sea ice generation.

 

"My guess is that A68a will continue rotating as it is now around that western point, until what is currently the northern edge collides with the Larsen C ice front," Brandon writes.

 

"It has a spectacular amount of momentum and it's not going to [be] stopped easily."

 

Click on the link for the full article

[JSSkinz]

 

[China]

Stealing the collection is definitely not cool.

[Renegade7]

[Renegade7]

 

[China]

NASA’s InSight beams back breathtakingly clear photo of Mars

 

NASA’s spacecraft that landed on Mars on Monday has beamed back its first clear photo of the desolate Red Planet.

 

“There’s a quiet beauty here. Looking forward to exploring my new home,” NASA tweeted late Monday, hours after its new InSight lander touched down.

 

The image came after the rover had earlier sent back a somewhat blurry photo. The space agency said that in the interim, the spacecraft had opened its solar panels, which allowed it to recharge its batteries for the mission.

 

“Our Mars Odyssey orbiter phoned home, relaying news from @NASAInSight indicating its solar panels are open & collecting sunlight on the Martian surface,” NASA wrote in the tweet. “Also in the dispatch: this snapshot from the lander’s arm showing the instruments in their new home.”

 

 

Click on the link for the full article

[China]

 

[China]

 

[JSSkinz]

These guys and gals who take on these tsunami sized waves are nuts, years ago I surfed on the east coast of Florida and I remember how big a 6-foot wave looks when you're in the water.

 

 

Edited January 29, 2019 by JSSkinz

[PokerPacker]

On 1/14/2019 at 4:27 PM, China said:

<dominoes>

Of course Mouse Trap was the first to fail.