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I think that martial arts technique is from Kung Fu, not Aikido. I gather this from the text under the pictures. Aikido is generally a non-violent martial art that redirects an opponent's energy, rather than using strikes such as this.
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The extreme car flipping was done in the James Bond movie, "The Man With The Golden Gun".
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The whitewater kayaker in the granite gorge is at California's Upper Cherry Creek - one of the best of the best. Check out this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bx_Gcnrbus
Steve Z
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I believe that the footage of the people playing "soccer" in the Radar dish is actually of people playing cricket. You can even see the wicket in the photo
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That 'moment before impact' photo is a frame from the film 'John Tucker Must Die'.
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No such compilation should go without at least one nod to Dr. Harold Edgerton, who was the first to reveal the beauty frozen in an instant of time. The first "milk drop crown" photo in existence is one that he made.
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Why is it amazing that water looks great without any added colouring?
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The fourth picture in the "High-speed photography group" isn't a photography. It is a digitally rendered image.
Source:
http://interfacelift.com/wallpaper/details.php?id=660
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These are just amazing!! Thank you for turning me on to these artists. Fantastic!
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Jackson,
Doc Edgerton was a master, brilliant inventor, and by all accounts, a warm and generous individual. His name will always be associated with this kind of work. But, in fairness, A. M. Worthington published a book of high-speed photographs of splashes in 1908. The large portion of his work was done in the late 1800's.
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I believe that the group called "Dynamics of the Droplet's Fall" should be credited to John Bush at M.I.T.: http://www-math.mit.edu/~bush/bones.html
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Thank you Martin for the info; I also put in the credit
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Great article, but you overlooked a great site ironically called Liquidartgallery.com. There are some amazing images there by michael melgar. I first saw some of his photos on dpreview but his gallery is excellent.
Dave
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High speed photography always fascinated me. The above pictures are a true inspiration.
I constructed a timer for high speed photography that allows me to trigger a flash or or a camera shutter. I was able to capture water drops, popping balloons and shuttering light bulbs without much trouble.
Please check some of my work:
http://www.universaltimer.com/gallery1.htmlArk
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Ark - awesome work, thank you. I am going to link to your site today :)
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all fantastic images.
Would be nice if you can check out my website to see some of my water drop shots.
http://www.ultimatedream.co.uk/gallery/still/still.html
or
http://www.flickr.com/photos/21583791@N06/
Akpe
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Akpe: Great work! Will link to you in the next part article. Cheers
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Красивые фотографии. Кому нравятся картины нарисованные масляной краской смотрите
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steeply
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see my photo on one of my favourite blog, priceless :)
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Very nice. Always wanted to learn how to photograph well
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The pig-thing is for fixing an animal (usually cows / pigs) while cutting their hoofs/claws. On the swiss countryside (where I live), the "Klauenschneider" (claw-cutter) is a common profession - a man with a device as on the picture mounted on a trailer moving from farm to farm!
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Wow, that defines "mudding" in a new way. A mighty challenging overland trip.
Steve Bisig
http://www.pnwadventures.com
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In fact, it's not a Siberia. This road is in european part of Russia, while the Siberia is in Asia.
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To cpcat: yes, it so.
This is Siberia.
Europian part of Russia end on Ural'skie mountain, and begin asian part Russia.
In Ekaterinburg there is a line, on the one hand which is written the Europe, and with another Asia
Best regards from Russia. Moscow.
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These people should seriously think about other means of travel... like donkeys.
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Siberian roads are prob the best to test which production vehicles are the true '4x4.' Interewesting to see a hummer, range rover and land rover to test it out.
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That strange machine on blocks looks like a rock/gravel/dirt sorter.
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The "sight seeing" "mystery machine" is an old rock crusher, used to make ROADBASE (lol) and the like.
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You can find more about the six legged machine with google and timberjack. It's a wood harvester. Here's a video of the harvester in action : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD2V8GFqk_Y
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Got it - the "church on the edge" is in Foros on crimea (ukraine)! See here: http://www.blacksea-crimea.com/Places/Foros1.html
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The monster shown from Cloverfield is actually a fan made concept unfortunately:
http://cloverfieldclues.blogspot.com/2007/09/fan-made-cloverfield-monster-art.html
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Car Parts ...
after the end of long-test the car would disaambled by
www.auto-bild.de / www.adac.de
Ahoi D.
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The "Russian" helicopter stunts aren't Russian at all.
The first and third are of RAF Westland Lynx, one of the fastest most manoeuvrable helicopters in production. The second is Armée de l'Air Eurocopters.
Both Air forces have helicopter demonstration teams.
AB
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POILed!
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More info on the Czar-52 ( the B-52 crash ) can be found
here, a report by Anthony Kern ( author of "Flight Discipline" ).
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The third pic was fairly recent - winter 2005 or 2006 in a midwestern US city - I believe it was Chicago. The plane slid off the runway in snow. A six year-old passenger in one of the cars on the street was killed.
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I love being terrified and amused at the same time!
Thank you!
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The sea-harrier was flown by Sub-Lt 'Soapy' Watson of the Royal Navy on 6 June 1983. He had a radio defect and couldn't get back to the carrier HMS Illustrious, so he landed on the only available flatish object he could find. The owners and captain of the boat got 340,000 pounds in salvage awards but the Royal Navy got back a 7 million pound aircraft rather than losing it and a very-expensively trained pilot.
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Some images are fakes. Beluga airplane (Airbus Sky Link) don't use this kind of engines :-P
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That's not a Beluga, it's a Super Guppy.
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I believe that the sliced Aeroflot in Anchorage is Tupolev Tu-134, not Il-96. Anyway, a great compilation! :)
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While Airbus Belugas do have jet engines, this is a Super Guppy, and they indeed do use turboprops.
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Can anyone tell what model aircraft
/airframe was used to make the Super Guppy?
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The Super Guppy was based off of the Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber, of World War II fame. Technically it was based off of a B-50, but a B-50 was just a B-29 airframe with turboprop engines instead of conventional piston mills.
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And then there's this fatal collision between two P-51 Mustangs at this year's EAA Airventure in Oshkosh. One of the pilots died a fiery death.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDvUc42SD4s&feature=related
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Forget to lower landing gear -> 7.9M $ Oops:
http://www.zianet.com/tedmorris/dg/bombers4.html
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Anonymous said...
"The third pic was fairly recent - winter 2005 or 2006 in a midwestern US city - I believe it was Chicago. The plane slid off the runway in snow. A six year-old passenger in one of the cars on the street was killed."
This accident occurred at Chicago's Midway Airport. The 737 landed on a runway that was too short for the weather conditions, especially when you consider the breaking action that day on an icy runway and the tailwind that was present. The landing should have never been attempted.
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To "Brian"
And your an NTSB investigator right?? BTW its braking not breaking.
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AB -> the helicopters arent all as you mentioned.
The first is Royal Army Lynx, and second is Indian Army Sarang Display team, with their Peacock colors (check it out, the chopper is made in India, HAL Dhruv) and the third chopper is Royal Navyl Lynx.
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The third one, as others pointed out, was Chicago. It happened at Midway Airport Dec 1 2005. I remember it well as I got caught in the snow storm, which was pretty bad even for Chicago standards. Midway is notorious for having short run ways, but they concluded that it was pilot error.
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The Super Guppy was based on a Boeing 377/C-97 Stratoliner, which just is a cousin to the B-29/B-50 series.
There was a series of outsize-cargo haulers by Aero Spacelines in the group, including the Mini Guppy, Pregnant Guppy, and Super Guppy (piston and turbine).
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The second picture in helicopter stunt is Indian Air Force Sarang team. The choppers used are HAL-Dhruv not Eurocopter.
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To "Brian"
And your an NTSB investigator right?? BTW its braking not breaking.
If you are going to criticize...
It is "you're" not "your".
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regarding the plane in the Russian city, I may be mistaken, but that city is most likely Pripyat, the abandoned city by Chernobyl in the Ukraine.
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Regarding the link about the interesting take on social media, whoever created that page is a dumbass.
They claim that users who install ad-blocking software (such as Adblock Plus, which I have installed and recommend to everyone) "infringes on the rights of web site owners."
That's complete bullshit. Web users can do whatever they want to to either enhance or detract from their browsing experience. The only way it would be infringing is if the web user had agreed to a contract to click on the ads, and I have never done that on any site I have been on.
The creator of that website also claims that web users who don't click on ads are "stealing bandwidth." That is more bullshit. I wonder why that guy is running that site? Oh, to make money, you say? Well guess what, just because his greedy ass doesn't make as much money as he wants doesn't mean that web surfers are "stealing" anything from him.
Unless he runs a site that requires people who view it to click on the ads via a contractual agreement, then not clicking on ads is a personal choice, not an illegal action.
I wonder if he believes that people who purchase goods from a cheap merchant as opposed to an overpriced merchant are "stealing" from the overpriced merchant.
What a dumbass. If he offers a way to make money off of his web traffic, and people don't give him money, that isn't their fault. If you don't like running a website, or aren't making enough money off of it, just shut it down. Don't make illogical and dumbass statements.
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(Seconded.)
On another note: a sea scorpion is not a scorpion, nor was it even close to 20 meters long.
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Very cool! I have 40-50 old Perry Rhodans and have long thought it would be great to scan them and share them with the internets. Maybe someday. Thanks for sharing!
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Oh, these are just gorgeous. I could cover a wall with them!
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Great stuff!
The one by Ed Emshwiller, with the guy in a red space suit and the girl holding a doll behind him, not suited up, with the lunar landscape visible outside, lookes like an illustration I've never seen before for Heinlein's "Have SPacesuit, Will Travel."
It looks to me like Kip and Peewee with Madame Pompadour.
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Very nice illustrations. Interesting to note Soviet symbols (flags, stars, etc.) figure prominently in some of the artwork. Nevertheless I suspect not a few Soviet artists were drawn to science fiction since it provided a respite from dreary socialist realism and also a chance to cover normally forbidden subjects (note that several of the magazine covers were produced during the 1930's-1950's, while Stalin was in power).
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That one, mostly in black and orange with a rocket on the right and a moon crawler on the left; from retro-futurismus.
Looks like something Batman would own -- the Bat-rocket and the Bat-moonmobile.
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Re:Newscaper.
Iirc, that illustration was from the magazine serialization of Have Spacesuit... I first saw it probably 20 years ago, at least. Nice to see it again.
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Wonderful selection! Thanks so much.
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Noel Sickles for "Rocket to the Moon", 1949; pretty decent look at cramped conditions in such a rocket.
"To Other Worlds!", Detgiz, Russia, 1939 - Is that the moon? Again, no obvious problems with it. The craters are done well.
"Mars Snooper" by Frank Tinsley, 1959 - Has nothing to do with Mars. The planet, or moon, in the sky doesn't look like Mars or Deimos or Phobos. The planet in the foreground has channels - which might make it Mars, viewed at night.
(Perry Rhodan, Jan. 1962) - ah yes, the old jungle volcanic Venus. Clark Ashton Smith had a couple of 'em. So did Asimov. At least they were right about the volcanos. "The air you breathe is a poisonous flame, not with ten thousand men could you do this"
(TM cover, Russia 1954) - A non-Titan moon of Saturn. Rhea? Dione? Those midsized moons have large cracks in 'em. So far this gets my "realism" award (the Moon-shots being disqualified because - well, everyone knew what going to the Moon would be like). Mind you I don't know the moons' axial tilt vs. Saturn's ecliptic.
art by Nikolai Nedbailo - looks more like "art from FiendFolio". That is a lot of ugly.
"First Contact", by Nikolai Nedbailo - Nedbailo takes three tabs of acid, grabs a paintbrush.
And more wackiness to follow.
Thanks for the pics!
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Perry Rhodan is German, not Russian.
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The picture of the painting by Art Emshwiller is cover art to Robert Heinlein's 1958 novel Have Spacesuit, Will Travel, showing Kip Russel in the foreground with Peewee in the background. It was the cover art for the August 1958 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, where the serialization of the novel appeared.
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Did anyone else notice that the back cover art for ELO's album Out of the Blue looks a lot like Klaus Burgle's work? Anyone know if there's a connection?
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Magusxxx: good observation!
... i love that ELO album :)
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Is it possible to purchase a print of "Galactic Manoeuvre" by Nikolai Nedbailo? Who/what should one contact about that?
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Love the 'Socialist Space Workers' image, so... wistful and optimistic.
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check out clip of a tv sci-fi sitcom pilot w/same feel --
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57o0USuiYBw
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The second picture after "Bigger Moon base," showing the Earth in the sky, a tall rocket, and a streamlined Moon crawler, looks to me like the style of Alex Schomburg.
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Actually, one of those isn't a "classic" - it was my first piece I ever did in Photoshop, must be about 12 years ago now. It's the one with the rocket on the moon with the open hatch and the moon buggy in the foreground. I've always been meaning to redo it.
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Nice. Now if only a lot of the older eastern block science fiction movies would become more readily available I would be happy.
http://cool-mo-dee.blogspot.com/
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I love Russia
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Loved these pix but am really surprised, given the time they were done, that there wasn't more in the way of propagandizing Soviet Russia's logos and imagery on the space vehicles...e.g., red stars or CCCP on the spaceships, etc.
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Aah, love this sort of stuff.
Does anybody else remember seeing a series of ads by BF Goodrich in Reader's Digest around, I don't know, early 1970s maybe? They had some quite futuristic pictures, featuring vehicles with amazing fat tyres, that left me quite impressed at that tender age.
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absolute win
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i actually owned some of these magazines! in soviet union they were sure they will be able to land and live on mars by 1980 ( i was sure about that too when i was a kid :D )
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Wow! Amazing images, thanks posting.
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Bob: thanks for linking to it
Cheers!
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"TM cover, Russia 1954 - A non-Titan moon of Saturn. Rhea? Dione?" Thanks, I wouldn't have known how to put it.
But is it only me who thinks it a bit odd that there are three people in the picture wearing suits - perhaps suggesting a non-breathable atmosphere - and yet the camera crew are standing there happily without so much as an oxygen tank and helmet? What's going on there?
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Awesome space artwork.
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What beautiful visions of the future! I love these so much I've put a link to them on my Project Sword Toys blog. Hope you don't mind. Fabulous site.
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The pictures of the eruption with the yellow flowers in the foreground where incredible. I'd like to use one of them as wallpaper but I can't find a good size of the the image. Does anyone know where to look?
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That mini tank is a prototype. It's intended to be used for crowd control in the case of riots. The short pipes at the front are smoke grenade launchers, just some off the shelf parts shared with MBT's. The launchers at the sides are teargas guns. I'm not sure about gun mounted at the top, but it looks like a high caliber gun for rubber bullets.
The astronaut patting Snoopy is Thomas P. Stafford, member of the Apollo 10 crew. Their spacecraft's nickname was "Snoopy"...
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