Official Cool Picture - Video Thread.

[easy rider]

USS Missouri. Currently in Hawaii.
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Despite what they showed in the movie Battleship, it would take many months if not over a year to make her move on it's own.

 

[BRD@66]

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That's gonna take A LOT of frog lube.

 

[easy rider]

That's gonna take A LOT of frog lube.

And duct tape.

 

[benenglish]

Despite what they showed in the movie Battleship, it would take many months if not over a year to make her move on it's own.

I remember looking this up after the movie. If the ship were in perfect, ready-to-run condition but completely cold, with boilers off, the time to achieve initial heat, steam, and electrical power to start core systems; then more heat, more steam, and actual motive power is measured in days. IIRC, when the ship was active the transition from cold to moving took a week to ten days.

In the movie, it took about two minutes. Actually, I think the gap between lighting the first boiler and having steam was just a few seconds.

That film was, as expected, totally unrealistic garbage. Numerous youtubers and all the critics have torn it apart.

Screw reality, though. It's a throwaway popcorn flick designed to entertain for a couple of hours and it did that. Successful movies can be ridiculous and I liked this one. I like pretty much any movie that celebrates a battleship taking hits, continuing to fight, and coming out on top.

 

[Vaquero]

Redbox tonite

 

[easy rider]

I remember looking this up after the movie. If the ship were in perfect, ready-to-run condition but completely cold, with boilers off, the time to achieve initial heat, steam, and electrical power to start core systems; then more heat, more steam, and actual motive power is measured in days. IIRC, when the ship was active the transition from cold to moving took a week to ten days.

In the movie, it took about two minutes. Actually, I think the gap between lighting the first boiler and having steam was just a few seconds.

That film was, as expected, totally unrealistic garbage. Numerous youtubers and all the critics have torn it apart.

Screw reality, though. It's a throwaway popcorn flick designed to entertain for a couple of hours and it did that. Successful movies can be ridiculous and I liked this one. I like pretty much any movie that celebrates a battleship taking hits, continuing to fight, and coming out on top.

Not that I'm out to ruin the movie, but I witnessed the decommissioning of the Missouri and it was very much scavenged. Engineering spaces are mainly empty of equipment. From the outside it looks complete, but the inside is a whole different story. Also, before decommissioning all was ordinance removed.

 

[benenglish]

Off Topic Warning

Redbox tonite

Good choice. Stupid, feel-good sci-fi where aliens come to Earth and get their collective butt kicked are always reliable fun.

Heck, I totally loved Battle: Los Angeles even though it got 35% on Rotten Tomatoes and Roger Ebert (whose reviews I've found illuminating, even if I often disagree) called the movie "noisy, violent, ugly, and stupid" and singled out the director as completely incompetent.

So, my standards for a fun movie are the same as my standards for a fun woman: quite low.

 

[benenglish]

Not that I'm out to ruin the movie...

You can't ruin the movie. Everybody who saw it knew, going in, that it was going to be ridiculous.

 

[easy rider]

Off Topic Warning

Good choice. Stupid, feel-good sci-fi where aliens come to Earth and get their collective butt kicked are always reliable fun.

Heck, I totally loved Battle: Los Angeles even though it got 35% on Rotten Tomatoes and Roger Ebert (whose reviews I've found illuminating, even if I often disagree) called the movie "noisy, violent, ugly, and stupid" and singled out the director as completely incompetent.

So, my standards for a fun movie are the same as my standards for a fun woman: quite low.

It was entertaining, even though I laughed when I saw the ship fire up and saw that lo and behold it had ordinance on board.

 

[benenglish]

To get back to the thread topic, a couple of cool pictures.

First, the Royal Clipper, the largest full-rigged sailing ship in the world.

 

[benenglish]

...I laughed when I saw the ship fire up and saw that lo and behold it had ordinance on board.

The "old dogs teaching tricks to the new kids" theme more than made up for that. For those few little scenes where the WWII vets taught the young sailors, the movie endeared itself to me.

 

[benenglish]

Next, a random shipwreck somewhere in Portugal.

 

[benenglish]

Finally, keeping a nautical theme and included only because I had a co-worker who would head over there to dive every few years, a light tank out of its element in Truk lagoon.

 

[easy rider]

To get back to the thread topic, a couple of cool pictures.

First, the Royal Clipper, the largest full-rigged sailing ship in the world.

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Beautiful, love those tall ships.

 

[benenglish]

How about some classic cool pictures that everyone has seen but are always fun?

Lunch Atop A Skyscraper, from 1932:

 

[benenglish]

I was in the eighth grade and had discovered photography. No one will ever be able to figure out how many hours I spent trying to recreate the feelings, themes, and techniques shown in this Philippe Halsman portrait of Dali. I included my best efforts in a presentation for a science class, titling it "Manipulation of Light".

The Halsman photo survives until now; mine didn't. We're all better off for that.

 

[benenglish]

"Leap to Freedom"

Some desires are present in every human heart. This is Hans Conrad Schumann in 1961. He was the first East German soldier known to have escaped as the Berlin Wall began construction. This photo and its worldwide publication spurred the East Germans to throw up the wall as fast as possible lest more people try to escape.

Schumann, unfortunately, was weighed down by his fame and couldn't reconcile just being a 19-year-old who wanted to be free and live a normal life with his elevation in the popular press to being a symbol of freedom. Ultimately, he committed suicide.

 

[benenglish]

On a lighter note, I didn't know there was such a thing as bioluminescent squid.

Firefly Squid, Japan.

 

[benenglish]

The ESA Rosetta probe, taking a picture of itself with comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in the background.

 

[benenglish]

U.S. Marine Corps Silent Drill Platoon. So much respect...