Something cool thread

[CousinsCowgirl84]

6 hours ago, Califan007 said:

Actually the reality of this would be terrifying, not cool lol...

 

 

Looks like he found the detonator... unlucky flag placement.

Let’s talk about Elon’s large rocket....

 

 

 

29 engines in his booster.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Califan007 The Constipated]

Assuming this is true...very cool bit of trivia.

 

 

 

[Califan007 The Constipated]

 

 

[dfitzo53]

This is one of those times where the current reactions are insufficient.

[Califan007 The Constipated]

 

 

[Commander -JB-]

On 8/5/2021 at 6:53 AM, CousinsCowgirl84 said:

Looks like he found the detonator... unlucky flag placement.

Let’s talk about Elon’s large rocket....

 

 

 

29 engines in his booster.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

One look at that thing and a stark realization that one is not nearly as smart as they think they are should immediately rain upon us LOL

[Commander -JB-]

Now this is the coolest **** ever!

plot twist lolol

[Califan007 The Constipated]

^^ That Birds of Paradise video is a trip...

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[zCommander]

12 hours ago, Califan007 said:

^^ That Birds of Paradise video is a trip...

 

That last bird that does all that dance to mate... sure looks like the same dance guys do by taking out the girl for some dinner, movie, dancing and drinks to get laid....lol

[Califan007 The Constipated]

 

 

[Califan007 The Constipated]

 

 

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[BleedBNG]

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There’s sheet music on a guy’s butt in this painting: here’s how it sounds

 

A 600-year old painting. Sheet music. A butt. Sheet music on the said butt. Those are the things we will be discussing today and I’m not entirely sure why but it does exist.

 

The 600-year-old painting in question is Hieronymus Bosch’s most notable form of art, Garden of Earthly Delights. The painting dates back to the 1490s and is one of Museo del Prado in Madrid’s most prized artifacts.

 

 

With the swell of medieval art-inspired memes that have surfaced the past few years, it makes sense for this painting to have its own share of meme-famy. I mean, it’s a painting featuring a man whose upper body has been crushed by a gigantic harp with literal measures of notes splayed on his arse–it was practically begging to become a meme. We don’t even have to talk about the judgmental white guy judgmentally judging the aforementioned buttocks.

 

 

More than a meme though, someone had actually attempted to perform the piece. Amelia Hamrick first learned to play the song and her cover drew in massive views over on Tumblr. The popularized version as of today though was a lute, harp, and hurdy-gurdy cover posted on Youtube by James Spalink who had just turned this into a real medieval jam session aptly named “Hieronymus Bosch Butt Music.”

 

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[EmirOfShmo]

Found this short 6 minute video about the college trophy they hand out annually to the best walk-on football player in the country. The story behind the statue is pretty cool. 

 

 

[Califan007 The Constipated]

21 hours ago, EmirOfShmo said:

Found this short 6 minute video about the college trophy they hand out annually to the best walk-on football player in the country. The story behind the statue is pretty cool. 

 

 

 

 

Never knew this story...damn.

[The Evil Genius]

 

[gbear]

He lost his first match today, but wow...i think he is better than me (maybe than I ever was), and I played a ton of table tennis growing up.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4FiBl2WSOs

[dfitzo53]

I mean "still evolving" is kind of a whatever phrase that will never stop being true as far as we know. As long as people are reproducing there will be mutations in the gene pool and some of them may eventually be selected for.

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On 5/21/2021 at 10:12 PM, China said:

Long-lost van Gogh masterpiece ‘discovered’ by NYC collector

 

The art collector and luminary who founded the New York Academy of Art with Andy Warhol in 1979 says he’s rediscovered a long-lost Vincent van Gogh masterpiece at an obscure country auction. 

 

New York collector Stuart Pivar says the painting, “Auvers, 1890” — in its original condition and signed on the back by “Vincent” — is a “once-in-a-lifetime find.” And the van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam has requested he send it to them for immediate authentication.

 

 

The piece, if authentic, was likely painted in the last two months of the famed artist’s life. Van Gogh shot himself in a wheat field in July 1890 — possibly in one of the fields that appears in the painting, Pivar believes.

 

Van Gogh obsessively painted more than 70 works in the last two months of his life in Auvers, on the outskirts of Paris.

 

Pivar said, “This is what we are considering to be the greatest art find in 100 years. It’s the biggest painting van Gogh ever made [and] the only one he ever made in a square format. It is on its way to the van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam because they have requested to see it and authenticate it.

 

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Museum says art collector’s van Gogh piece is a fake: suit

 

A Dutch museum says a supposed long-lost van Gogh painting is a fake, much to the chagrin of a notable New York art collector who’s fighting the determination in a new $300 million lawsuit.

 

Stuart Pivar — who founded the New York Academy of Art with Andy Warhol in 1979 — says he found the work, which he believes is Vincent van Gogh’s “Auvers, 1890” at a country auction in March.

 

Pivar has “every reason to believe [the painting] was an authentic work of art created by Vincent van Gogh,” his Manhattan Supreme Court lawsuit from Tuesday claims.

 

But the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam said it could not authenticate the piece in a determination from Aug. 13, the suit says.

 

The 90-year-old plastic chemistry scientist and prolific art collector says the museum made the “cursory” finding without even looking at the work in person or conducting forensic testing on it — despite his repeated offers to ship it oversees, the court papers allege.

 

“Defendant rejected the authenticity of the painting after nothing more than a cursory review of electronic photographs emailed by plaintiff to defendant,” the suit charges. “The painting would be one of van Gogh’s largest paintings if certified as authentic by the defendant and … would have a present fair market value of $300,000,000.”

 

“The general tone and nature of the [museum’s] report … demonstrates that the defendant had determined that the painting was not authentic prior to examining the submissions provided by plaintiff and that defendant consequently rejected every option available to defendant to reach a different conclusion,” the suit further claims.

 

Head of Collections and Research Marije Vellekoop wrote an Aug. 13 letter to Pivar, that accompanied the museum’s report, claiming that his piece in no way resembles a true van Gogh.

“We do not believe that an inspection … in our museum is necessary,” said the letter, a copy of which was included in the court papers.

 

“In our opinion, it is evidently clear from the material presented to us, that the painting ‘Auvers’ cannot be attributed to Vincent van Gogh,” the letter continued.

 

“The rejected work is in our opinion stylistically, iconographically or technically … clearly too far removed from Van Gogh’s own work that research and further discussion is deemed pointless,” Vellekoop wrote.

 

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How did artifacts, thousands of years old, turn up in a Mississippi alligator's stomach?

 

What does a 750-pound alligator eat? Well, just about anything it wants, but items found in this particular Mississippi alligator's stomach defy odds and date back thousands of years.

 

Shane Smith, owner of Red Antler Processing in Yazoo City, said he was examining contents of a 13-foot, 5-inch alligator that weighed 750 pounds and discovered two unusual objects. One he couldn't identify, but the other was clearly a broken stone arrowhead. 

 

The story first began to unfold in April when a wild game processor in South Carolina reported opening the stomach of an alligator and finding unusual items. Smith read it and was skeptical.

 

"The curiosity struck me when I saw a post online about someone finding dog tags in an alligator's stomach," Smith said. "I'm one that doesn't believe in fake news."

 

To satisfy that curiosity, Smith decided to examine contents of the larger alligators he processed. The first was a 13-foot, 2-inch, 787-pound gator taken by Ty Powell of Columbia.

 

"We found a bullet in it and it had not been fired from a gun," Smith said. "I don't know how it got in there."

 

The second alligator he opened, which was harvested at Eagle Lake, contained many of the things the first did, including bones, hair, feathers and stones. Then, something else caught his eye.

 

 

A prehistoric arrow point and another prehistoric object known as a plummet were discovered in the stomach of a 13-ft alligator.

 

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