-
Those "unexploded bombs" may have been harmless drop tanks (for fuel), discarded when empty.
Read more
-
I think the car pulling the sleigh in "Best transportation is the one you invent yourself" is a Toyota Camry, but I'm not sure.
Read more
-
Yep it's a Camry
Read more
-
I've seen that place with the bombs in Laos.
I also met and sat with a Lao guy in hospital who had made a barbeque between TWO unexploded bombs using a casing from a third as the barbeque plate.
UNFORTUNATELY the bombs on the bottom were NOT cleared and one of them promptly blew up!
He survived but in much worse condition than he had previously been in.
Bombs are however used for loads of thing across Laos. Most of them ARE cleared of UXO before being given back to the villagers and the majority of villagers and children are aware that bombs are bad, but some sadly still aren't and get blown up.
Brought back memories seeing that though.
Read more
-
Those pictures of chains of transportation vehicles reminded me of my first summer as a camp counselor. The camp had received 30 or so new aluminum canoes to replace the remnants of the previous canoe flotilla. The problem was that there was no road into camp, and canoeing up three miles one at a time was an unacceptible solution. So they tied all of the canoes together, bow to stern, and tied them to the back of a power boat— with the waterfront director in the very last one as a rudder. It worked pretty well, actually.
And that reminds me of when we got the new fridge and freezer to replace the vintage 1950s ones, especially as they arrived on a Thursday afternoon and the entire staff, bar three of us, went across the lake to fetch them. Evening flags had the three of us doing the whole routine, and suddenly looking up to see the missing staff members, saluting— in the backs of tiny little power boats, with a large appliance barely balanced across the front. (They were all standing as far back as possible, so as not to lose the appliance off the front.)
Incidentally, the fridge and freezer wouldn't fit through the front doors. We had to move them into the kitchen through the side shed after removing the stairs.
Ah, memories. Pity I didn't have a camera on me either time.
Read more
-
Those were in fact bombs; the yellow stripe is standard NATO colour coding for high explosives. Besides, external fuel tanks are made of much thinner metal and wouldn't last very long like that.
Read more
-
Those are not "unexploded bombs" but empty cluster submunition tanks.
See examples of them here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluster_bomb
Read more
-
Ivan Rerbrov is a German Singer. His real Name is Hans Rolf Rippert. Back in the 70s he also was on TV as a commedian. There is even an english Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Rebroff
Read more
-
That 'strange Russian Army unit', as you are calling it, is a simple Bell SK5 Army hovercraft used in the Vietnam war.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PACV
http://www.quicktechhobby.com/Hovercrafts/Hovercrafts/SK-5%20HOVERCRAFT.htm
Read more
-
Thank you guys, I updated the info
Read more
-
A lovely collection of images! I hope you have a wonderful Christmas.
Read more
-
Bit late, but Merry Christmas, matey!
Read more
-
Merry christmas!
Read more
-
My mum grew up on Romney Marsh during the 1920s and 30s. Some time around 1930 the whole school went on a trip to the seaside (which was only a few miles away) and travelled by flat car drawn behind a traction engine. Because of the very flat terrain, from their perch on the school wall they could see the puffs of steam and smoke and hear the chuffing for nearly half an hour before it arrived. The excitment for a bunch of rural children few of whom had ever been near a car let alone ridden in one must have been intense.
Can't imagine the safety lot liking kids riding on an open flatbed but of course they only travelled at walking pace.
Read more
-
Smoke and ashes, yes. Loud, no. The old timers here preferred them for threshing because a man on the tractor could talk to a man at the rear of the threshing machine, 60-80 feet away. Try that with a gas tractor let alone a diesel. Besides, the fuel (straw) was free.
Read more
-
Stuff the hole in the ozone whatever it is, bring back steam power!
Read more
-
Keep in mind that 100 horsepower is a *lot* for a steam engine. They are the kings of torque. In most US tractor pulls team traction engines are ineligible to compete. Given their torque and weight, they go about as fast with the sled as without it. :-)
Read more
-
Some nice pictures there. thanks
Read more
-
look at this link,it's amazing:
www.freeweb.deltha.hu/zastava.in.hu/wood-gas.htm
Read more
-
Here is a great Video "Oil Drum" By Alan Shapiro
(Johnny Cash Recorded two of Alan's songs)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_zWyf9R0Qc
Read more
-
I've seen several of these vehicles. The Lake District steam bus was built up as a bus literally 1 mile from here. Fantastic vehicles. I'm a steam boat guy myself.
Read more
-
I see photos of two which my dad was involved in, in OF and MP. MP was his when he was a lad, photos are at:
http://pacificcoast.net/~wx732/Photos%20for%20Traction%20Talk/David's%20B&W/DavidsPhotos.html
(by the way, those are both waggons, with two g's. English is a flexable language when you invent the word)
James Powell
Read more
-
thank you James, I updated the post with your photo
Read more
-
Great photos, thanks. However I really have to wonder why you think steam is in any way toxic or noxious - it is just hot water! Far, far less toxic than even the most cleaned-up catalytic-converter equipped gasoline or diesel motor.
As another poster pointed out, steam power tends to be quieter than internal combustion engines of equivalent power, and modern steam engine designs are remarkably fuel efficient.
Read more
-
I thought I read somewhere that the first steam buses in London were used in 1831.
London
Read more
-
Haha, that Global Subway map is an epic failure. According to it, Melbourne is in the middle of South Autralia, when in reality it's actually just south of Sydney. Whoever made it is obviously a fool.
Read more
-
I thought all you Aussies were jolly. Maybe just the ones who come to the US, I dunno. Merry Christmas anyway!
Read more
-
A Fountain? Some shit? A spiral? House? Clothespin? Boldest work of art in recent history?
Stake your claim: http://www.makefive.com/categories/entertainment/art/boldest-works-of-art-in-recent-history
Read more
-
You're an epic failure, the map wasn't made to be proportional, and if it was, who would care about Melbourne being in the wrong place when Africa is only a little bigger than that of Spain.
Read more
-
That's a cool transit map. If you enlarge the image, and read the text at the bottom, you will see it is from a new book that looks like it might be worth a look, too.
I wonder if our genius first poster noticed any other subtle distortions in the map. :)
Read more
-
That is the way transit maps are often drawn; with no regard to actual geography for the simplicity of the map as a whole
Read more
-
Minneapolis and Chicago should change places on the world-rail-map to be more accurate.
Read more
-
Well I guess tehfix0r's confusion stems from the fact that Australian cities do not have a proper subway system, and is why he/she didn't get the inherit joke of the geographically compromised map.
For instance the London Tube map is wildly out of scale, and makes understanding London's layout very difficult.
I would suggest in future that you be a little less quick to judge others, tehfix0r. In accusing others of being fools, you brutally revealed your own ignorance...
Read more
-
What do you mean that Minneapolis and Chicago should change places? I always go from Detroit to Chicago via Minneapolis!
Maybe that explains why Northwest airlines is in such great financial shape.
Read more
-
About Flannery O'Connor: "a view of the world that mocks justice, that mocks philosophy, that mocks marriage, that regards these and all other human aspirations as not merely vain, but corrupt."
Flannery O'Connor was a devout Christian. Her fixation of human baseness and the vanity of human wishes is most likely a reflection on our fallen nature or something like that.
Or maybe, as a fervent catholic living in the South, she just disliked protestants!
-
Nice work. I prefer the near-future fiction pictures-- lots of great ideas. The retro future pic of the pyramid skyscrapers is really inspirational-- because it's actually feasible... with some urban planning-- what a skyline!
Read more
-
Flannery O'Connor is a writer about still-flawed future saints, and a God-haunted world awaiting its remaking by God. The grandmother story, for example, is the story of what it's like to suddenly be in the position of a martyr, from the point of view of the outside world. It is a naked sort of faith, shining in shards against the darkness, but with tons of darkness. She was pretty much sick, dying, and/or in pain during the bulk of her writing life, and she apparently had no taste for writing about people not in such condition.
O'Connor's letters are a great deal more approachable and gentle, although still challenging. Probably her most famous quote from them was her emphatic denial that the Eucharist was a symbol. "If it's a symbol, to hell with it!"
I am profoundly grateful that I did not read any O'Connor short story until middle age. She is all about hard grace. Hard like rocks upside the head.
Read more
-
They don't need tickets - in India 4th class is free of charge. Can you imagine a conductor running on top of the roof? :)
Read more
-
What about the road from Raikot Bridge to Fairy Meadows in Northern Areas, Pakistan.
Definitely the most scariest road I ever drove on:
http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=fairy%20meadows%20raikot%20bridge&w=all
Read more
-
Wao! I would not ever drive there.
PS: Do a search for "caracol" in Google Images and you'll notice why the "Los Caracoles" Pass is called so xD (I'm spanish and laughed when I saw the name)
Read more
-
I've been on Caracoles 4 times- it is crazy scary! (and btw a caracol is a snail, in Spanish. Hence the name.)
Read more
-
There are definitely stretches along the White Rim Road through Canyonlands NP in Utah that compete with these road. Maybe not in terms of treachery over the entire length, but it's quite a remarkable thing. Here are two photos I took for reference:
Photo 1 and
Photo 2. I've actually posted quite a few images recently from my trips to the
White Rim Road.
-
Aaaah. Or how about the Irohazaka Road in Nikko (Japan)? Not only does it look like
this, they've got all the hairpins numbered and named, with little signs with flowers on them. A quite harrowing experience, and I wasn't even doing the driving.
-
Wow, I've been at the Tirana - Elbasan path! It was very dangerous, and I'm one of those who just don't feel safe in a car. Some truck-drivers drove like crazy and we saw two accidents on the way!
Read more
-
The last photo is shopped. There's not enough shadow on the left-hand railing.
Read more
-
I don't see Byrn's comment on the shadow. I do a lot of PS and can't find your reference.
Read more
-
Agreed, I've being using PS for a decade and I can't find any evidence that the last image was tampered with. The shadows look healthy, other than the fact the image was taken with a medium-grade digital camera - or is highly compressed. I question Byrn's claim...
Read more
-
One note about the Skipper's Canyon road: the tourist buses definitely DO NOT go on that road. I used to live nearby and have been on that road several times. It was put in during the gold rush in the 19th century and really has had little work done since then. The blue vehicles shown in the one picture are the biggest ones that go out there. With that said, I agree that it is an awesome and hair-raising road to be on!
Also in NZ, though not as dangerous as it once was, is the Rimutaka Road (or as the locals call it, Rima-puka Road) between Wellington and the Wairarapa valley. It's been widened lately but still has its share of bad accidents.
One more is the Cardrona Road between Wanaka and Queenstown, though this too has been redone (paved now) so it has lost a bit of its original "charm" ;-) . Still enough to make you hurl when making the final descent into Queenstown.
Read more
-
I remember driving on the AlCan Highway before it was paved. The road from Dawson Creek, BC to the border of Alaska was all gravel road. 1,300 miles of fun! haha!
I wish I had some pictures of the hot springs and the herd of Dall sheep. It was the experience of a lifetime for me!
Read more
-
The Alps in Northern Italy are the scariest I've been over. No railings of course, but what really got me were the shrines at the hairpins in memory of the people who didn't make it.
Read more
-
My two cents:
Main road, Pilon, Santiago de Cuba
http://shrani.si/f/a/pb/1yRyIqAg/kuba-143.jpg
Read more
-
i went on los caracoles the day before yesterday... it's pretty tame even including the crazy driving at that spot. other parts along the road are less interesting but more dangerous.
Read more
-
The Caracoles I consider it comparing to others a quite safe route, and I drive fast.
It is not the best but is much away of being a high risk route. Accidents are very unsusual.
The one is worst than others is the way to go up to other ski resorts like the way to Farellones/Valle Nevado. 36 kms (22.3 miles) of curves through a 2 way traffic very narrow road. http://www.caleuche.com/Chile/IMAGENES/MONTANAS/CaminoFarallones.jpg
Read more
-
I laughed at the one with huge sand hill over it.. hilarious.
While taking a roadtrip in Costa Rica I found HORRIBLE roads.. took us hours to go just a few miles. SHEESH..
check out some of our roadtrips here
with awesome pictures:
(we're photographers)
www.theDNAlife.com
Read more
-
we drove down the Remarkables in heavy snowfall and were hugging the mountain so tightly that we crashed into a ditch. It's a terrifying road with sheer drops - that photo shows the safe part at the bottom as far as i can tell.
My heart skipped numerous beats driving up and down that mountain.
Read more
-
The last photo from Part 5 is from Turkey. The truck is from a city called Van, one of the easternmost city in Turkey and is just south of Mount Ararat and west of Armenia. And no, that photo is not photoshopped. :) Turkish villagers are known to do some stupid stuff once in a while..
Read more
-
It's not a traffic jam, but transporters on strike. See
here
|
SFSite
4 Comments:
where do you get one of those Game Hiding Device things?
The second picture from Salamanca, Spain is not from the cathedral but from the old university facade. The university facade is also well known for its hidden image of a frog sitting on a skull, said to give good luck to students on their finals if they were able to locate it.
where do i get one of them cat turning signals?
El astronauta de Salamanca fue incluido en la restaurancion de la fachada de la universidad en 1993.
Post a Comment
<< Home