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  • treitz3
    treitz3 Posts: 19,947
    Zero to 60 in 4.0 minutes flat.

    Tom
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  • mrbigbluelight
    mrbigbluelight Posts: 9,878
    That's quite the deal ! That whole piece of transportation nirvana just screams "Class" !
    👍🤗

    Probably already sold by now
    😩😥
    Sal Palooza
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  • SCompRacer
    SCompRacer Posts: 9,086
    How does one gracefully enter and exit?
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  • treitz3
    treitz3 Posts: 19,947
    This is called the "Tilt Test" that helped prove that London's Double-Decker buses were safe and not a tipping hazard, circa 1933.

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    Tom
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  • mrbigbluelight
    mrbigbluelight Posts: 9,878
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    Sal Palooza
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  • treitz3
    treitz3 Posts: 19,947
    I am surprised that there is no more oceanic life than there is. That's the beginning of a reef! Cool photo, nonetheless. Even if it is photo-shopped (which I am not claiming it is).

    Tom
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  • treitz3
    treitz3 Posts: 19,947
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    Tom
    ~ In search of accurate reproduction of music. Real sound is my reference and while perfection may not be attainable? If I chase it, I might just catch excellence. ~
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  • CH46E
    CH46E Posts: 3,595
    edited January 2022
    treitz3 wrote: »
    This is called the "Tilt Test" that helped prove that London's Double-Decker buses were safe and not a tipping hazard, circa 1933.

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    Tom

    Looks like they were trying to fool someone. I see chains holding it down. Also the pendulum points outside (center of gravity?) the right side of the bus. That should be impossible right? Not to mention the back rope at the top of the bus looks to be pulled tight.

    Funny too that Tom's bus pic appears to be at the same angle as MrBigbluelite's ship photo in the next post. Hahah
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  • treitz3
    treitz3 Posts: 19,947
    Hi, Chris! Happy New Years to you and yours, sir! The chains might still be "loose" but that's a good catch. I didn't notice that before. I was thinking that if Oprah had climbed up into the second story?

    All bets would be off at that point.

    Tom
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  • txcoastal1
    txcoastal1 Posts: 13,499
    edited January 2022
    Willow wrote: »
    NotaSuv wrote: »
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    If this is your bumper sticker you are an ash hole.

    It's the US not Canada...left lane is a passing lane


    Hmmmm

    https://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-drive/culture/commuting/is-the-left-lane-just-reserved-for-passing/article37990066/
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  • mrbigbluelight
    mrbigbluelight Posts: 9,878
    The bus and sunken ship look to be ballpark 30 degree tilt.
    Aboard Navy ships, at 20+ degree list you start to experience this:

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    In the movie "The Caine Mutiny" the mutiny occurred because the ship was repeatedly listing at 30 degrees and taking waves broadside instead of head on because Captain Bogart had basically flipped out.

    That was somewhat based on Admirals Halsey and McCains foulups by not avoiding 2 typhoons in the Pacific during WWII.

    Carrier USS Langley on the outskirts of the 2nd typhoon

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    The flight deck of USS Hornet
    after the 2nd typhoon

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    That takes some serious doings.

    My late Uncle I think had been transferred on to the Hornet after having had the carrier USS Wasp he had been on torpedoed and sunk.

    Here's the USS Wasp sitting on the bottom off of Guadalcanal

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    Sal Palooza
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  • CH46E
    CH46E Posts: 3,595
    Was the USS Hornet not the carrier that carried The Doolittle Raid men?
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  • mrbigbluelight
    mrbigbluelight Posts: 9,878
    edited January 2022
    Yes it was.
    The Hornet had a few miles on it to be sure, seeing a lot of action.

    When the Wasp was torpedoed off of Guadalcanal by a Japanese sub, it didn't initially sink but the carrier was basically done for . So when the crew abandoned ship (76 sailors had died) the crews were transferred to nearby ships and it sunk by a torpedo from a US sub.

    That's how my uncle went from the Wasp to the Hornet which was also at Guadalcanal.
    He saw some stuff.
    Sal Palooza
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 34,918
    mrbigbluelight wrote: »
    ...

    That was somewhat based on Admirals Halsey and McCains foulups by not avoiding 2 typhoons in the Pacific during WWII.

    Carrier USS Langley on the outskirts of the 2nd typhoon

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    I'm not sure whether the fellow in the foreground is smiling or grimacing. :|


    Not to change the subject (me?!?), but, I guess there's some weather in NoVA today. :#
    Our son is getting a crash course in the manifold pleasures of home ownership, it seems.

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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 34,918
    edited January 2022
    Not as beautiful as (^^^) -- and way colder -- but still... not bad.

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    No alligators, either, which I would see as a "plus". YMMV. :)
    Maybe a moose (our neighbor thought she saw one trudging up our hill yesterday... but we didn't find any unambiguously moosey feetsprints. :# )
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  • boston1450
    boston1450 Posts: 7,758
    ^^^^ one came across my driveway last night. They visit daily. Cold here too. 6 degrees & no mosquito's :) I love wintah
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 34,918
    boston1450 wrote: »
    ^^^^ one came across my driveway last night. They visit daily. Cold here too. 6 degrees & no mosquito's :) I love wintah

    I was thinkin' alligator when I read your post. Had to read it twice. ;)
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  • boston1450
    boston1450 Posts: 7,758
    Lmao I don't think so :D
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  • boston1450
    boston1450 Posts: 7,758
    In 1972 we moved to Charleston SC area ( Mary Scott Ln, Boulder Bluff SC) & on Christmas day we had a alligator in the backyard. We chased it. We never saw one except on tv or books. So that was fun. There was a shittpond down the road, which did have a fence around it. I never went to investigate tho
    Randy-Maine
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  • NotaSuv
    NotaSuv Posts: 3,871
    mrbigbluelight wrote: »
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    looks like the Odyssey Wreck, Roatan,
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  • CH46E
    CH46E Posts: 3,595
    This was the biggest one I saw today.

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  • NotaSuv
    NotaSuv Posts: 3,871
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    NotaSuv Posts: 3,871
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  • mrbigbluelight
    mrbigbluelight Posts: 9,878
    edited January 2022
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    The "eruption" of Mount Edgecumbe in Alaska.
    The story of the man behind this event is worth reading.

    BTW: Why can't more women be like this man's encouraging wife
    "Just don't make an a$$ out of yourself". 👍🤗❤️

    http://hoaxes.org/af_database/permalink/the_eruption_of_mount_edgecumbe/
    Sal Palooza
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  • BlueBirdMusic
    BlueBirdMusic Posts: 2,746
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    "Sometimes you have to look to the past to understand where you are going in the future"
    Harry / Marietta GA
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  • BlueBirdMusic
    BlueBirdMusic Posts: 2,746
    NotaSuv wrote: »
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    Cat Wall Clock in Art Deco style
    "Sometimes you have to look to the past to understand where you are going in the future"
    Harry / Marietta GA
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 34,918
    edited January 2022
    BlueBirdMusic wrote: »
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    That Shure Sonodyne mic in the top center may have been introduced that long ago (I have my doubts, but I am too lazy to check!) -- but it was in continuous production for a long, long time.

    Here 'tis in the 1963 Allied catalog, e.g.
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    https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Catalogs/Allied-Catalogs/Allied-Catalog-1963.pdf
    Pretty sure it was around for quite a while after that.
    B)

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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 34,918
    edited January 2022
    OK -- I looked it up; couldn't resist :)
    The famous Shure 55 Unidyne debuted in 1939 and has been in continuous production ever since. This is the mic "everyone" associates with Elvis. :) It's also the mic in the bottom left panel of the photo posted earlier.

    The historian's cagey about the 51 Sonodyne, but it looks like it came along in the 'forties.
    https://www.shure.com/en-MEA/performance-production/louder/the-history-of-moving-coil-dynamic-microphones-and-artifacts-from-the-shure-archives

    EDIT: I think the one on the bottom right is an Astatic 10 family member; I dunno which, though.
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    http://www.k6sgh.com/astatics.htm

    I should probably also know most of the others -- but I don't offhand. :p@SeleniumFalcon probably does, though! He probably has some of 'em, too! ;)
    Very few really nice mics here, and none of the serious mics (Neumann, Telefunken, RCA ribbons, that kind of stuff) -- not even a Unidyne :(
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  • motorhead43026
    motorhead43026 Posts: 3,998
    Those mics were pricey for the times.
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