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Mordhaus
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Mordhaus
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1954 How to dial your phone by Bell System
FlowersInHisHairMmmmmmmid-Atlantic accent.
PACIFIC RIM UPRISING - Exclusive IMAX Trailer
newtboyHesitant, this looks like another memberberry vehicle. I'm sure it's better than Atlantic Rim, but that's a low bar.
ant
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siftbotYour video, Virgin Atlantic: Flying with kids!, has made it into the Top 15 New Videos listing. Congratulations on your achievement. For your contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.
Pacific Rim Uprising - Official Trailer
newtboyI think it's really part 3. There was a straight to DVD Atlantic Rim a few years back.
What makes you say it's a reboot? Looks like it's a sequel to me (main character is even Idris Elba's characters son).
That said, I see where you're coming from. I loved Pacific Rim; I didn't even know they were making a sequel and then I saw this and I was stoked... until I watched it.
And meh... doesn't do it for me. Shame they could get Del Toro back, and the less said about the shitty soundtrack for the trailer the better.
Still gonna watch it though, which is more than I can say about Justice League.
Now I have to go watch the Thor Ragnarok trailer again to cheer myself up.
USS Abraham Lincoln performs highspeed turns in the Atlantic
SFOGuyAtlantic Drift!
Why It's Almost Impossible to Run a Two-Hour Marathon
oritteropoI think the attempt itself counts as a test!
This article from the Atlantic talks a little about why the Kenyans make such great runners - https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/04/why-kenyans-make-such-great-runners-a-story-of-genes-and-cultures/256015/
There was certainly scope for the Wired vid to be much longer and more in-depth. They had an equally short and unsatisfying article about a journalist who trained for a 90 minute half marathon using the same training techniques the Kenyans use here - https://www.wired.com/2017/05/two-hour-marathon-nike-half-marathon/?mbid=synd_digg
Yes, by using both pacers and wind blockers, the Nike attempt wouldn't have counted as a world record. At one point it was considered that a sub-4 minute mile was scientifically impossible. The science here would be more reassuring if they talked about that fancy equation, and how it matches various real world runners very well. For example, runner A has a VO2 max of 60, and an efficiency of 95% of theoretical peak. It should be impossible for him to get below the equation's theoretical best time of 2:07, but the best in the world with those stats should get close. Science is all about building a model you think is representative of real life, then test it. I don't see any testing of the model here to prove its validity.
The Future of Airliners? - Aurora D8
SFOGuy? I can't drive across the Pacific to Hawaii...or the Atlantic to Europe...Although, for low budget buses between city pairs (East Coast NYC-Boston, Washington-Bos, Orlando-Miami? West Coast SFO-LAX-San Diego...) ---maybe?
I'm predicting that once self-driving cars are mainstream in the next 20 years the airlines will be in a lot of trouble. With a majority of self driving cars on the road, I think the safety numbers will shift to cars being the safer form of travel, and likely very few traffic jams. We may not even need traffic lights eventually as traffic learns to flow smoothly.
Should we Build a Wall? Great Walls through History
MilkmanDan jokingly says...I am attempting to play Devil's Advocate and argue that while none of those walls really did much to serve their design goal of keeping "others" out, they may have been "successful" in other ways. This is what I came up with:
Hadrian's Wall: Served as the inspiration for The Wall in A Song of Fire and Ice / Game of Thrones. GoT is awesome, so ... totally worth it.
The Great Wall of China: Did essentially nothing to keep out Mongols, and up to a million or so people died making it, but hey -- today it is one of the biggest draws for tourism into China. China made $618 billion in tourism in 2015 alone, so surely it has already covered the adjusted-for-inflation cost to build it of $380 billion!
The Atlantic Wall: Sure, the Allies broke through it in Normandy in one day. But it forced them to plan how and where to attack it for months, and did result in ~10,000 Allied deaths compared to ~6,000 Germans.
However, that is tiny compared to the really bloody battles of WW2 like Stalingrad (~1.5 million dead), basically the result of Russia using their people as an expendable "meat wall" against the far better-equipped Germans.
...Hmmm -- maybe instead of a literal wall, we should follow a similar approach and just throw lots of expendable bodies at our border with Mexico. I suggest starting with 435 utterly worthless people (US Congressmen) and 55,600 functionally worthless people (TSA employees). Everybody wins!
Liberal Redneck - An Appeal to Sanity
Engels says...Dude, Obama was 'pals' with Putin for a while too, until shit got real and Obama had to put his foot down on some stuff. If you think Trump has thick enough skin to withstand Putin, I have a casino in Atlantic City to sell you.
Refraction - Telephoto Timelapse Video
eric3579Vimeo description:
Atmospheric refraction plays with the light of any object near the horizon. Here stars, startrails and the sun, filmed in timelapse photography from two major observatories in Chile, display immense distortion above inversion layers in the outskirts of the Atacama desert, Chile. The moon scene is filmed near Boston at the Atlantic Ocean shoreline. The mirage is an optical phenomenon in which light rays are refracted and bent in the atmosphere and produce distorted or multiple images of the object.
Guirec Soudée sailing the Atlantic with chicken Monique
newtboyNice. Solo across the Atlantic....no one can say he's a chicken.
(pause for groans and hissing)
Did anyone else think the concept and the picture in the thumbnail was pure Shia LeBeouf?
Why Obama is one of the most consequential presidents ever
Jinx says...He was really extremely inconsequential for comedians. I remember Bush jokes were practically a genre of their own. Anyway, as a snooty European I am looking forward to again being able to look down by nose and across the Atlantic. Almost 8 years of President Envy is hard, its about time we return to our natural state of smug superiority.
eric3579
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radxHere's an informative piece about the storm in the Northern Atlantic that is predicted to push temperatures above freezing at the North Pole this week:
https://t.co/Qn6aeOWbdN