Random Picture Thread

[kach22i]

Nice one Boston, and I like the retort too, sort of snappy.

Are we all on the same rock?

 

[ancient kayaker]

I guess the bank has the other rocks . . .

 

[kach22i]

Spotted an interesting image in the forum galleries today.

http://www.boatdesign.net/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/16892

More information here:
http://www.petersandbichler.com/?page_id=302

And yet more here:
http://krcf.org/krcf.org/?p=79

In April 2004 video footage appeared on the Internet showing two Tamil Tigers proudly patrolling Sri Lankan waters in a boat retrofitted in the shape of a US Air Force F117 Stealth Bomber. In 2006 Knowbotic Research decided to investigate the juxtaposition of a glaring visibility and technological blindness symbolized by the boat and, with Peter Sandichler, reconstructed a stealth boat and launched it in the Duisburg harbour. The polygonal contours of the boat were jarringly visible among the local boat traffic, but it proved invisible to quayside radar.

He sits backwards in it, I suppose using a mirror to avoid things.

That's the artist hand in the attached photo, being silly and perhaps pretending to be the head of an ET.

 

[vandutch]

I can't help but to wonder what I would feel if I saw this boat flip...

 

[Angélique]

View from ISS - Walking On Air

The stunning images and brilliant music touched me . . . . .

HD link ---> ISS - Walking On Air

This video features a series of time lapse sequences photographed by the Expedition 30 crew aboard the International Space Station. Set to the song "Walking in the Air" by Howard Blake, the video takes viewers around the world, through auroras, and over dazzling lightning displays. The sequences are as follows:

0:01 -- Stars over southern United States
0:08 -- US west coast to Canada
0:21 -- Central Europe to the Middle East
0:36 -- Aurora Australis over the Indian Ocean
0:54 -- Storms over Africa
1:08 -- Central United States
1:20 -- Midwest United States
1:33 -- United Kingdom to Baltic Sea
1:46 -- Moonset
1:55 -- Northern United States to Eastern Canada
2:12 -- Aurora Australis over the Indian Ocean
2:32 -- Comet Lovejoy
2:53 -- Aurora Borealis over Hudson Bay
3:06 -- United Kingdom to Central Europe

Song lyrics:

We're walking in the air
We're floating in the moonlit sky
The people far below are sleeping as we fly

I'm holding very tight
I'm riding in the midnight blue
I'm finding I can fly so high above with you

Far across the world
The villages go by like dreams
The rivers and the hills
The forests and the streams

Children gaze open mouth
Taken by surprise
Nobody down below believes their eyes

We're surffing in the air
We're swimming in the frozen sky
We're drifting over icy
Mountain floating by

Suddenly swooping low on an ocean deep
Arousing of a mighty monster from its sleep

We're walking in the air
We're floating in the midnight sky
And everyone who sees us greets us as we fly

This video can also be seen on the NASA website.

13 ~ 14 year old boys seems to be the experts in singing this like Aled Jones in 1985. Above ISS video was sung in 1982 by Peter Auty when he was 13 . . .

Cheers,
Angel

 

[Jolly Amaranto]

I think I am hungry now.

 

[kach22i]

http://flickrhivemind.net/Tags/ericksonaircrane/Interesting

 

[vandutch]

Bon appetit.

 

[hoytedow]

Sikorsky was a genius.

 

[Corley]

A couple of lighthouses I visited in WA. Cape Leeuwin lighthouse looks over the point where the Indian Ocean and the Southern Ocean meet. Reefs extend well offshore accounting for the lighthouses height. The other photo is of Cape Naturaliste lighthouse it sits high on rocky cliffs overlooking Geographe Bay.

 

[cor]

Looking for open water

It's that time of year when everybody hauls their boat 20 miles across the frozen bay to get out to open water for hunting.

C.O.
http://www.rudstrom.blogspot.com/

 

[Boston]

great picture COR

 

[kach22i]

They could use a hovercraft.

http://shrewsbury.net/?p=8975

 

[cor]

This would be a great spot to use a hovercraft. People head out across the bay using a snowmobile (towing a boat on a sled) and camp on the ocean beach for spring hunting. While they are there the ice starts breaking up and makes returning impossible, not enough ice for a snowmobile but too much for a boat. After a few weeks (maybe a month) the ice will all be gone and then you put the snowmobile in the boat to bring it home.

C.O.
http://www.rudstrom.blogspot.com/

 

[ancient kayaker]

This would be a great spot to use a hovercraft. People head out across the bay using a snowmobile (towing a boat on a sled) and camp on the ocean beach for spring hunting. While they are there the ice starts breaking up and makes returning impossible, not enough ice for a snowmobile but too much for a boat. After a few weeks (maybe a month) the ice will all be gone and then you put the snowmobile in the boat to bring it home.

C.O.
http://www.rudstrom.blogspot.com/

- sounds like as good an excuse as any to get off for a break!