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Many years ago, my dad posited that the little grey men-type aliens were actually time travellers from the future. Mankind would need bigger brains and puny hands.
dv said:
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Uncanny, I wonder how they knew.
Bubblecar said:
dv said:
That thread is becoming unwieldy.1913
Uncanny, I wonder how they knew.
I see one of the names in there is J.H.Kellogg.
Divine Angel said:
Many years ago, my dad posited that the little grey men-type aliens were actually time travellers from the future. Mankind would need bigger brains and puny hands.
Your dad is all over it, I think that Tunguska was a time traveler event that went horribly wrong and someone in the future pressed the destruct button.
Peak Warming Man said:
Divine Angel said:
Many years ago, my dad posited that the little grey men-type aliens were actually time travellers from the future. Mankind would need bigger brains and puny hands.
Your dad is all over it, I think that Tunguska was a time traveler event that went horribly wrong and someone in the future pressed the destruct button.
Shoosh!
They’ll come and try again!
This is real footage from 120 years ago. None of the people in it knew that the city around them had four days left…
What you are watching is a cable car gliding down Market Street in San Francisco, filmed on the 14th of April, 1906.
The camera was mounted on the front of the car, so you see the city exactly as it was: the crowds, the horse-drawn carriages, the early automobiles weaving through traffic, the men in hats, the great buildings rising on either side. An ordinary spring afternoon in a thriving American city.
Four days later, on the morning of the 18th of April, a magnitude 7.9 earthquake struck. The shaking lasted under a minute, but it ignited fires that burned through the city for days…
By the time it was over, more than 3,000 people were dead and roughly 80 percent of San Francisco had been destroyed. Almost every building you see in this footage was gone.
And the film itself nearly went with it.
The negative was placed on a train bound for New York on the 17th of April, the day before the earthquake. Had it left a single day later, it would have burned in the fire along with the studio that made it.
This entire moving record of a lost city survives because of one day.
Spiny Norman said:
This is real footage from 120 years ago. None of the people in it knew that the city around them had four days left…What you are watching is a cable car gliding down Market Street in San Francisco, filmed on the 14th of April, 1906.
The camera was mounted on the front of the car, so you see the city exactly as it was: the crowds, the horse-drawn carriages, the early automobiles weaving through traffic, the men in hats, the great buildings rising on either side. An ordinary spring afternoon in a thriving American city.
Four days later, on the morning of the 18th of April, a magnitude 7.9 earthquake struck. The shaking lasted under a minute, but it ignited fires that burned through the city for days…
By the time it was over, more than 3,000 people were dead and roughly 80 percent of San Francisco had been destroyed. Almost every building you see in this footage was gone.
And the film itself nearly went with it.
The negative was placed on a train bound for New York on the 17th of April, the day before the earthquake. Had it left a single day later, it would have burned in the fire along with the studio that made it.
This entire moving record of a lost city survives because of one day.
Road rules would seem to be optional.
Looks like the owner had a history of violins.
Peak Warming Man said:
Spiny Norman said:
This is real footage from 120 years ago. None of the people in it knew that the city around them had four days left…What you are watching is a cable car gliding down Market Street in San Francisco, filmed on the 14th of April, 1906.
The camera was mounted on the front of the car, so you see the city exactly as it was: the crowds, the horse-drawn carriages, the early automobiles weaving through traffic, the men in hats, the great buildings rising on either side. An ordinary spring afternoon in a thriving American city.
Four days later, on the morning of the 18th of April, a magnitude 7.9 earthquake struck. The shaking lasted under a minute, but it ignited fires that burned through the city for days…
By the time it was over, more than 3,000 people were dead and roughly 80 percent of San Francisco had been destroyed. Almost every building you see in this footage was gone.
And the film itself nearly went with it.
The negative was placed on a train bound for New York on the 17th of April, the day before the earthquake. Had it left a single day later, it would have burned in the fire along with the studio that made it.
This entire moving record of a lost city survives because of one day.
Road rules would seem to be optional.
The reason the cars seem a bit chaotic is because there were only a few of them on the street, hired by the filmmaker, so they kept turning out of the frame and reappearing to make it seem like the road was full of cars.
Globus INK, Soviet-era electromechanical space navigation computer used in the 1960s the system calculated orbital parameters using an intricate internal clockwork mechanism comprising over 500 gears, cams, and differentials
These men are being transformed into ‘human fireworks’, wearing asbestos suits to protect them. They are preparing for a wrestle display at the Crystal Palace in 1933.
Fat man Plutonium Core.
https://www.reddit.com/r/AtomicPorn/comments/1uyc91w/fat_man_plutonium_core/
Vauxhall London 1933. So much of interest in this photo: horse and cart, motorbike with sidecar, lavatory with wonderful wrought iron, tanker truck, tram, bus, period cars, cyclist and a pedestrian.
American B-25 bombers fly past the erupting volcano Vesuvius. Italy, March 1944
Spiny Norman said:
American B-25 bombers fly past the erupting volcano Vesuvius. Italy, March 1944
Little did they know that under the cold pyroclastic flow on the right flank was an undiscovered town and hundreds of dead bodies.
Maybe someone should check under the others.
Two views of a pleasing home library, from the House Beautiful Furnishing Annual, 1926.
Bubblecar said:
Two views of a pleasing home library, from the House Beautiful Furnishing Annual, 1926.
I could sit in that leather chair nursing a balloon of brandy with a roaring fire in the fireplace while reading a spiffing who dunnit.
Peak Warming Man said:
Bubblecar said:
Two views of a pleasing home library, from the House Beautiful Furnishing Annual, 1926.
I could sit in that leather chair nursing a balloon of brandy with a roaring fire in the fireplace while reading a spiffing who dunnit.
Wishing it won’t make it happen!
Sound effects being created at the Walt Disney Studio, 1941. I believe they were called the Foley props.
It’s for some short cartoon with a train. Quite effective.
Mirin Dajo, the Dutchman who let doctors run rapiers and hollow tubes clean through his torso in the 1940s, pictured mid-performance with a foil through his chest and (right) hoses threaded through his body turning him into a literal human fountain on stage.
No photos as it may be disturbing to some here.
Photo of a hiker watching the eruption of Mt. St. Helens from Mt. Adams, about 37 miles to the east. Photo from Mt Adams by John V. Christiansen around 8:32 am local time on May 18, 1980 & published in a 1981 National Geographic magazine.
Historical Photograph
Spiny Norman said:
Photo of a hiker watching the eruption of Mt. St. Helens from Mt. Adams, about 37 miles to the east. Photo from Mt Adams by John V. Christiansen around 8:32 am local time on May 18, 1980 & published in a 1981 National Geographic magazine.
Historical Photograph
Apocalypse then.
Spiny Norman said:
Photo of a hiker watching the eruption of Mt. St. Helens from Mt. Adams, about 37 miles to the east. Photo from Mt Adams by John V. Christiansen around 8:32 am local time on May 18, 1980 & published in a 1981 National Geographic magazine.
Historical Photograph
Nuh uh, hold on a cotton pickin’ minute.
I got pulled up the other day for saying a film from 1980 was old. Therefore, a photo from 1980 also is not old and does not belong in the Old Photos thread.
Spiny Norman said:
Photo of a hiker watching the eruption of Mt. St. Helens from Mt. Adams, about 37 miles to the east. Photo from Mt Adams by John V. Christiansen around 8:32 am local time on May 18, 1980 & published in a 1981 National Geographic magazine.
Historical Photograph
Did the hiker(s) survive?
captain_spalding said:
Spiny Norman said:
Photo of a hiker watching the eruption of Mt. St. Helens from Mt. Adams, about 37 miles to the east. Photo from Mt Adams by John V. Christiansen around 8:32 am local time on May 18, 1980 & published in a 1981 National Geographic magazine.
Historical PhotographDid the hiker(s) survive?
Don’t know, but the camera film did at least.
captain_spalding said:
Spiny Norman said:
Photo of a hiker watching the eruption of Mt. St. Helens from Mt. Adams, about 37 miles to the east. Photo from Mt Adams by John V. Christiansen around 8:32 am local time on May 18, 1980 & published in a 1981 National Geographic magazine.
Historical PhotographDid the hiker(s) survive?
One of the two (hiker or photographer) must have survived. 1980s era would have film cameras, which needed to be handed in to a shop to be developed and printed.
Spiny Norman said:
Photo of a hiker watching the eruption of Mt. St. Helens from Mt. Adams, about 37 miles to the east. Photo from Mt Adams by John V. Christiansen around 8:32 am local time on May 18, 1980 & published in a 1981 National Geographic magazine.
Historical Photograph
In the area between the first pics cloud and the second pics cloud, there were several humans. They didn’t make it. :(
party_pants said:
captain_spalding said:
Spiny Norman said:
Photo of a hiker watching the eruption of Mt. St. Helens from Mt. Adams, about 37 miles to the east. Photo from Mt Adams by John V. Christiansen around 8:32 am local time on May 18, 1980 & published in a 1981 National Geographic magazine.
Historical PhotographDid the hiker(s) survive?
One of the two (hiker or photographer) must have survived. 1980s era would have film cameras, which needed to be handed in to a shop to be developed and printed.
I don’t know about that one, but Robert Landsburgh didn’t. Although he did manage to protect his photos.
buffy said:
party_pants said:
captain_spalding said:Did the hiker(s) survive?
One of the two (hiker or photographer) must have survived. 1980s era would have film cameras, which needed to be handed in to a shop to be developed and printed.
I don’t know about that one, but Robert Landsburgh didn’t. Although he did manage to protect his photos.
And for good measure, here is another well known photo from that day
I’ve read a bit about volcanoes, and I’ve got the National Geographic with Landsburgh’s photos in it with my volcano books.
buffy said:
buffy said:
party_pants said:One of the two (hiker or photographer) must have survived. 1980s era would have film cameras, which needed to be handed in to a shop to be developed and printed.
I don’t know about that one, but Robert Landsburgh didn’t. Although he did manage to protect his photos.
And for good measure, here is another well known photo from that day
I’ve read a bit about volcanoes, and I’ve got the National Geographic with Landsburgh’s photos in it with my volcano books.
Fascinating!
An unimpeded view of a Boeing 707’s port side engines, each equipped with stage 3 hush kits, the Boeing 707-420 variant carrying these engines held the title for the loudest passenger takeoffs in aviation history
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Looks like they’d lose a fair bit of thrust with the exhaust like that.
Pratt & Whitney JT3D’s I think.
Spiny Norman said:
An unimpeded view of a Boeing 707’s port side engines, each equipped with stage 3 hush kits, the Boeing 707-420 variant carrying these engines held the title for the loudest passenger takeoffs in aviation history
The loudest passenger takeoff in history, imagine what it would have been like without the hush kit.
Karen next door would have demanded to see the manager.
dv said:
From an old MAD magazine, by the look.
Who remembers seeing this New Zealand Insurance – Australian Ad from the 80s – My Favourite
I can just remember this one from the good old days.
German scientists wind tunnel testing a Messerschmitt Bf 109, 1940.
Charles Hawtrey and Jon Pertwee in Carry on Cleo, 1964.
Bubblecar said:
Charles Hawtrey and Jon Pertwee in Carry on Cleo, 1964.
I have that movie (in colour) Jon Pertwee had a lot of cameos in Carry On movies.
Woodie said:
Bubblecar said:
Charles Hawtrey and Jon Pertwee in Carry on Cleo, 1964.
I have that movie (in colour) Jon Pertwee had a lot of cameos in Carry On movies.
Here he is as Dr Fettle in Carry on Screaming, 1966.
Charles Hawtrey looking frail in 1988, shortly before his death at 73.
In the Late 1800s, Scientists Believed Zebras Could Replace Horses—But After Decades of Training, Crossbreeding, and Failed Experiments, Their Wild Nature Proved Impossible to Tame
On August 15, 1961, Conrad Schumann was assigned to guard the Berlin Wall on its third day of construction. Instead, he spontaneously leaped over the barbed wire into West Germany, saying he didn’t want to “live enclosed” in East Germany — a dramatic escape captured by photographer Peter Leibing.
Spiny Norman said:
On August 15, 1961, Conrad Schumann was assigned to guard the Berlin Wall on its third day of construction. Instead, he spontaneously leaped over the barbed wire into West Germany, saying he didn’t want to “live enclosed” in East Germany — a dramatic escape captured by photographer Peter Leibing.
Saw this on another Reddit thread somewhere – the responses didn’t fill one with much hope for humanity – it’s dispiriting how shitty some people can be.
Vostok Station is located deep inland in Antarctica, famously known as the “Pole of Cold” (it holds the record for the lowest natural temperature ever recorded on Earth at -89.2 °C / −128.6 °F). On April 12, 1982 right at the start of the brutal, pitch-black Antarctic winter a massive short circuit triggered a catastrophic fire in the station’s primary diesel power plant, One mechanic tragically died trying to fight the blaze,
Within minutes the station lost all three of its main generators. They were left completely in the dark with outdoor temperatures plummeting past −70 °C (−94 °F)
Moscow radioed the crew and helped them track down an old, obsolete backup generator that had been decommissioned and buried deep under the snow years prior, They dug it out and miraculously coaxed it to life, getting just enough power to run a basic radio transmitter and a couple of lightbulb, They abandoned their individual quarters and crammed all 20 remaining men into just a couple of small rooms to pool their body heat and conserve fuel and For nearly eight months, they lived in sub zero indoor temperatures, breathing in heavy soot from the improvised stoves, completely cut off from the rest of humanity
The nightmare finally ended in November 1982, when the heavy spring weather arrived and a tractor sledge supply train successfully reached them from the coast. Because of strict Soviet censorship and secrecy during the Cold War, the USSR kept completely quiet about the disaster, only revealing the story to the public a year later when the scientists safely returned home.
-89° is just a wee bit brisk.
Spiny Norman said:
Vostok Station is located deep inland in Antarctica, famously known as the “Pole of Cold” (it holds the record for the lowest natural temperature ever recorded on Earth at -89.2 °C / −128.6 °F). On April 12, 1982 right at the start of the brutal, pitch-black Antarctic winter a massive short circuit triggered a catastrophic fire in the station’s primary diesel power plant, One mechanic tragically died trying to fight the blaze,
Within minutes the station lost all three of its main generators. They were left completely in the dark with outdoor temperatures plummeting past −70 °C (−94 °F)
Moscow radioed the crew and helped them track down an old, obsolete backup generator that had been decommissioned and buried deep under the snow years prior, They dug it out and miraculously coaxed it to life, getting just enough power to run a basic radio transmitter and a couple of lightbulb, They abandoned their individual quarters and crammed all 20 remaining men into just a couple of small rooms to pool their body heat and conserve fuel and For nearly eight months, they lived in sub zero indoor temperatures, breathing in heavy soot from the improvised stoves, completely cut off from the rest of humanity
The nightmare finally ended in November 1982, when the heavy spring weather arrived and a tractor sledge supply train successfully reached them from the coast. Because of strict Soviet censorship and secrecy during the Cold War, the USSR kept completely quiet about the disaster, only revealing the story to the public a year later when the scientists safely returned home.
-89° is just a wee bit brisk.
Great, now my carbon dioxide is frozen solid
‘Mad Jack’ Churchill (second from right) leads his men, sword in hand, from a Eureka boat. Circa 1941. Churchill captured 42 Germans armed with only a sword, killed a Nazi with a longbow and escaped from a concentration camp, twice.
Spiny Norman said:
‘Mad Jack’ Churchill (second from right) leads his men, sword in hand, from a Eureka boat. Circa 1941. Churchill captured 42 Germans armed with only a sword, killed a Nazi with a longbow and escaped from a concentration camp, twice.
That particular photo is from a training exercise in Inveraray.
Spiny Norman said:
‘Mad Jack’ Churchill (second from right) leads his men, sword in hand, from a Eureka boat. Circa 1941. Churchill captured 42 Germans armed with only a sword, killed a Nazi with a longbow and escaped from a concentration camp, twice.
Impressive man.
Interesting the Germans soldiers protected him and his fellow soldiers from the SS
Orson Welles performs a card trick for eight-year-old Natalie Wood during production of Tomorrow Is Forever, released in 1946.
A London cafe owner declares his policy in the event of an invasion during WWII (1940s)
In 1989, John Glennie set sail for a 3-week trip to Tonga. A 60-foot wave flipped his boat upside down. He and 3 men survived 119 days inside the hull on 3oz of soft drink a day. His country declared them drowned, then called them liars when they came home. A barnacle cleared his name.
The barnacle owed them nothing, it was kind to do that.
Suitcases of people sent to concentration camps. Poland, Gdańsk, World War II Museum, Each individual suitcase stands for a real human life, a displaced family and the personal belongings they were restricted to carry.
A woman helping her friend with her Kangru-Spring-Shu, a pair of boots fitted with springs, ca. 1935.
https://www.reddit.com/r/UtterlyUniquePhotos/comments/1vbzu2t/a_woman_helping_her_friend_with_her/
Looks perfectly safe, I wonder why they aren’t used anymore?
Private, promoted to Corporal after the Battle of Monte Cassino, Wojtek, the Soldier Bear of the Polish II Corps, standing in formation.
Spiny Norman said:
Suitcases of people sent to concentration camps. Poland, Gdańsk, World War II Museum, Each individual suitcase stands for a real human life, a displaced family and the personal belongings they were restricted to carry.
Poland was where Hitler staged and started his first mass killings of people with disabled. It is so chilling to see all the suitcases..
Foolish Italian family, no date.
Bubblecar said:
Foolish Italian family, no date.
That is amazing that they got all the children on the back.
ms spock said:
Bubblecar said:
Foolish Italian family, no date.
That is amazing that they got all the children on the back.
How do you know there isn’t one more on the side of the road back there somewhere?
From The Australian Motor Cyclist 1938.
Bubblecar said:
From The Australian Motor Cyclist 1938.
In standard trim, the Ariel Red Hunter went faster in third gear than in fourth.
Michael V said:
Bubblecar said:
From The Australian Motor Cyclist 1938.
In standard trim, the Ariel Red Hunter went faster in third gear than in fourth.
I notice that none of those old motorcycles are fitted with rear view mirrors.
1937. Those old fully enclosed sidecars look a cosy way to travel.
Bubblecar said:
Michael V said:
Bubblecar said:
From The Australian Motor Cyclist 1938.
In standard trim, the Ariel Red Hunter went faster in third gear than in fourth.
I notice that none of those old motorcycles are fitted with rear view mirrors.
Huh!
That is not something I had ever observed. I wonder when they became compulsory.
Bubblecar said:
1937. Those old fully enclosed sidecars look a cosy way to travel.
Interestingly, the bike has a full-width front brake – very unusual for that era.
Michael V said:
Bubblecar said:
Michael V said:In standard trim, the Ariel Red Hunter went faster in third gear than in fourth.
I notice that none of those old motorcycles are fitted with rear view mirrors.
Huh!
That is not something I had ever observed. I wonder when they became compulsory.
FWIW the first mirror used in cars was a racing car at Indianapolis Speedway. In the early 1930’s I think.
Michael V said:
Bubblecar said:
Michael V said:In standard trim, the Ariel Red Hunter went faster in third gear than in fourth.
I notice that none of those old motorcycles are fitted with rear view mirrors.
Huh!
That is not something I had ever observed. I wonder when they became compulsory.
I can’t find a specific date. It seems they may have been optional accessories until at least the mid 1950s.
Mind you, even bikes that didn’t come with mirrors must have at least one right-side mirror now in order to be legally ridden on public roads.
Spiny Norman said:
Michael V said:
Bubblecar said:I notice that none of those old motorcycles are fitted with rear view mirrors.
Huh!
That is not something I had ever observed. I wonder when they became compulsory.
FWIW the first mirror used in cars was a racing car at Indianapolis Speedway. In the early 1930’s I think.
Huh!
Bubblecar said:
Michael V said:
Bubblecar said:
From The Australian Motor Cyclist 1938.
In standard trim, the Ariel Red Hunter went faster in third gear than in fourth.
I notice that none of those old motorcycles are fitted with rear view mirrors.
In my 2nd office job after uni I worked with a guy who rode an old Ariel to work. I think it was a 1000 square four.
Humphrey Bogart’s shoes on the set of Casablanca. Bogart was about 5’8” (173cm), Bergman about 5’9” (175cm).
Spiny Norman said:
Humphrey Bogart’s shoes on the set of Casablanca. Bogart was about 5’8” (173cm), Bergman about 5’9” (175cm).
Heh.
I bet they didn’t behave.
dv said:
👀
dv said:
Why do Goody’s feet look like Inspector Poirot?
Witty Rejoinder said:
dv said:
Why do Goody’s feet look like Inspector Poirot?
Goofy
dv said:
Early version of Mickey, when he was known as Maniac Mouse.