Random Picture Thread

This being the most viewed thread I'll post the warning here -

Internet scam starts with guy with heavy Indian accent who asks you to do stuff with your computer to convince you of a virus threat then tries to talk you into downloading an application from showmypc.com (a reputable internet company) that would give someone, probably him or a buddy, access to your computer. He probably wants to sell you bogus virus protaction or steal personal data, I didn't go any further. He'll even give you a phone number when the same heavy Indian accent announces a bogus company name, presumably a throwaway phone.

He claims to be working for MicroSoft but MS doesn't call you like that.

 

Well noted, thank you Terry

 

Claud Worth

 

One good 'Tern' deserves another

Claude was also a great artist, here's a sketch of a beautifully built barque

 

Here are a few different pictures/concepts:

http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2013/05/chinese-diy-inventions/100511

 

the caption reads:
Only one human being alive on July 21, 1969 is not in this picture.
Photo by Michael Collins/NASA

 

I have a friend who is always talking about a picnic cat.
Is this what he means?

 

Not so random.

 

dskira,

What ship is this? I thought I knew my iornclads.

 

Built in a French yard undercover as the Cheops (France was officially neutral) the CSS Stonewall became the Japanese Kotetsu, Wiki story here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_ironclad_Kōtetsu

 

Her sister ship was the Cheops.

 

Yep: should have written sphynx . . . that's the trouble with opening multiple web pages!