It is currently Thu Mar 28, 2024 6:26 pm



Reply to topic  [ 603 posts ]  Go to page Previous  1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ... 41  Next
Cool Stuff 
Author Message
Felix Rex
User avatar

Joined: Fri Mar 28, 2003 6:01 pm
Posts: 16646
Location: On a slope
Reply with quote
Post Re: Cool Stuff
That's nothing new to me, but it's nice hearing it from an author. I wish more people would get that.

_________________
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.


Sun Feb 20, 2011 3:36 pm
Profile WWW
Minor Diety
User avatar

Joined: Fri Apr 11, 2003 2:17 pm
Posts: 7721
Location: Centre of the sun
Reply with quote
Post Re: Cool Stuff
Aside from the obvious Rinox-ness of this guy, this 2 min video is pretty cool.


_________________
"Well a very, very hevate, ah, heavy duh burtation tonight. We had a very derrist derrison, bite, let's go ahead and terrist teysond those fullabit who have the pit." - Serene Branson


Tue Feb 22, 2011 12:21 pm
Profile
Minor Diety
User avatar

Joined: Mon Mar 31, 2003 7:23 am
Posts: 14878
Location: behind a good glass of Duvel
Reply with quote
Post Re: Cool Stuff
You bastard. But yeah, that is pretty sweet. I didn't get it until the end. :)

_________________
"I find a Burger Tank in this place? I'm-a be a one-man cheeseburger apocalypse."

- Coach


Tue Feb 22, 2011 4:11 pm
Profile
Minor Diety
User avatar

Joined: Fri Apr 11, 2003 5:09 pm
Posts: 4003
Location: Walsall, West Mids, UK
Reply with quote
Post Re: Cool Stuff
Not sure what made me laugh more, the fact that derf branded the guy with "rinox-ness" and watching the video then brought me to tears of joy, or the fact that Rinox didn't get it until the end! hahaha

_________________
Games to complete:
GTA IV [100%] (For Multiplayer next!)
Fallout 3 [50%]
Rock Band [35%]
http://www.cafepress.com/SmeepProducts


Tue Feb 22, 2011 10:35 pm
Profile WWW
Felix Rex
User avatar

Joined: Fri Mar 28, 2003 6:01 pm
Posts: 16646
Location: On a slope
Reply with quote
Post Re: Cool Stuff
lol, yea. Jeez Ox, how much you been drinking lately? :wink:

Image

_________________
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.


Wed Feb 23, 2011 6:33 am
Profile WWW
Minor Diety
User avatar

Joined: Mon Mar 31, 2003 7:23 am
Posts: 14878
Location: behind a good glass of Duvel
Reply with quote
Post Re: Cool Stuff
Pff. :P I still kinda wonder what makes up his 'Rinox-ness' though...is it the fact that he's an asshole, a retard, wearing a bowler hat, or really everything together? :roll:

_________________
"I find a Burger Tank in this place? I'm-a be a one-man cheeseburger apocalypse."

- Coach


Wed Feb 23, 2011 8:24 am
Profile
Minor Diety
User avatar

Joined: Fri Apr 11, 2003 2:17 pm
Posts: 7721
Location: Centre of the sun
Reply with quote
Post Re: Cool Stuff
It's the whole package :) A brute, Frankish asshole.

_________________
"Well a very, very hevate, ah, heavy duh burtation tonight. We had a very derrist derrison, bite, let's go ahead and terrist teysond those fullabit who have the pit." - Serene Branson


Wed Feb 23, 2011 8:33 am
Profile
Minor Diety
User avatar

Joined: Mon Mar 31, 2003 7:23 am
Posts: 14878
Location: behind a good glass of Duvel
Reply with quote
Post Re: Cool Stuff
Haha, jeez. :lol:

On another note: and you thought you were Alpha

http://warmingglow.uproxx.com/2011/02/b ... rom-nature

_________________
"I find a Burger Tank in this place? I'm-a be a one-man cheeseburger apocalypse."

- Coach


Wed Feb 23, 2011 9:16 am
Profile
Felix Rex
User avatar

Joined: Fri Mar 28, 2003 6:01 pm
Posts: 16646
Location: On a slope
Reply with quote
Post Re: Cool Stuff
lolz... that dude and survivorman are pretty awesome. Though survivorman is probably more realistic... and whines more.


_________________
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.


Wed Feb 23, 2011 12:28 pm
Profile WWW
Minor Diety
User avatar

Joined: Fri Apr 11, 2003 2:17 pm
Posts: 7721
Location: Centre of the sun
Reply with quote
Post Re: Cool Stuff


_________________
"Well a very, very hevate, ah, heavy duh burtation tonight. We had a very derrist derrison, bite, let's go ahead and terrist teysond those fullabit who have the pit." - Serene Branson


Sat Mar 05, 2011 8:02 pm
Profile
Felix Rex
User avatar

Joined: Fri Mar 28, 2003 6:01 pm
Posts: 16646
Location: On a slope
Reply with quote
Post Re: Cool Stuff
haha, that's pretty awesome. I like watching enormous amount of energy cause havoc and destruction.


_________________
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.


Sat Mar 05, 2011 10:11 pm
Profile WWW
Minor Diety
User avatar

Joined: Fri Apr 11, 2003 2:17 pm
Posts: 7721
Location: Centre of the sun
Reply with quote
Post Re: Cool Stuff
wowzers, the power!

Tell me about it. Back in the machining factory my family owns in italy, in a drawer they keep a 5 inch half-circle chunk of swarf, 1 cm thick (steel). They found it in a used desk they bought and had delivered (random i know) and were totally flabbergasted as to how that thing could have been made. To date, they don't really know. I mean you can hold the thing in your hand and stare at it all day, it's so fascinating the amount of energy that must have been used to make it. I think the only conclusion they came to is that it must have happened as a result of a major machine failure.

_________________
"Well a very, very hevate, ah, heavy duh burtation tonight. We had a very derrist derrison, bite, let's go ahead and terrist teysond those fullabit who have the pit." - Serene Branson


Sun Mar 06, 2011 7:16 am
Profile
Minor Diety
User avatar

Joined: Mon Mar 31, 2003 7:23 am
Posts: 14878
Location: behind a good glass of Duvel
Reply with quote
Post Re: Cool Stuff
Anyone care to explain swarfs to me? The quick version, so I don't have to wiki it. I'm not familiar with them (or I have never heard of the English term, perhaps). :)

Sometimes it's fun to just stand somewhere and look at something that is in many ways not very impressive (like the thing Derf mentioned) but if you consider what's behind it all just blows you away. Malta is home to the oldest known man-made (free-standing) structures in the world, some of them 5000-6000 years old. Nowadays they are to some extent just a patterned series of rocks, but just to stand there and think that as long as 6000 years ago people were building those things and living/worshipping in them makes you feel really really small. They actually are presumed to have been covered with a wooden roof and painted with red ochre on the inside, and archeologists still aren't sure how people from that era managed to transport and arrange some of the massive rocks used in them. Interestingly, they also seem to have been built to align with the sun's position on the solstices - suggesting a level of architecture tought out before construction that is almost unbelievable (given that the temples took decades to fully build).

The (most important) temples as they look today:

Hagar Qim

Image

Image

Mnajdra

Image

Image

Image

Ggantija

Image


They all were built in similar ways, with one main room with apses and a smaller inner sactum with apses. There's actually one site that shows a similar temple design but carved out entirely out of (soft rock). I went there this year. Pretty impressive.

Hypogeum

Image

Image

Image

_________________
"I find a Burger Tank in this place? I'm-a be a one-man cheeseburger apocalypse."

- Coach


Sun Mar 06, 2011 10:56 am
Profile
Minor Diety
User avatar

Joined: Fri Apr 11, 2003 2:17 pm
Posts: 7721
Location: Centre of the sun
Reply with quote
Post Re: Cool Stuff
nice stuff on Malta.

FYI - Swarf is the material you remove from the a machining process:

Image

_________________
"Well a very, very hevate, ah, heavy duh burtation tonight. We had a very derrist derrison, bite, let's go ahead and terrist teysond those fullabit who have the pit." - Serene Branson


Sun Mar 06, 2011 3:30 pm
Profile
Felix Rex
User avatar

Joined: Fri Mar 28, 2003 6:01 pm
Posts: 16646
Location: On a slope
Reply with quote
Post Re: Cool Stuff
ah, I didn't know that either. Learn a little more every day. At least some days. Hopefully learning more than I forget due to alcohol.


_________________
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.


Sun Mar 06, 2011 9:52 pm
Profile WWW
Display posts from previous:  Sort by  
Reply to topic   [ 603 posts ]  Go to page Previous  1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ... 41  Next

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 22 guests


You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot post attachments in this forum

Jump to:  
cron
Powered by phpBB © 2000, 2002, 2005, 2007 phpBB Group.
Designed by STSoftware.