The Swamp

Manny HR
Sorry
Elephant

h/t

I fast-forwarded 6 times and he was still running the bases.

Jerloma wrote:I fast-forwarded 6 times and he was still running the bases.

The Pirates suck!

rass wrote:Manny HR
Sorry
Elephant

I was hoping he'd turn up on a Cricket pitch somewhere.

Can this pass as the Confessions thread for the time being? I watch a lot of Japanese (and Korean) baseball. Hey, in the early hours of dawn, there's no other sports on TV and we get (this being an extension of Hongkouver) a full "cultural" television package.

I believe Degen gets the same? He's an hour east.

The upside is that we get tons of international sport; lots of baseball and cricket and soccer. The downside? The downside is not really a downside. Japanese Baseball announcers are not exactly Vin Scully. They're more appropriately compared to a TV announcer, even on a ground ball to second, live on the spot, where Godzilla is rampaging.

Scottie wrote:

rass wrote:Manny HR
Sorry
Elephant

I was hoping he'd turn up on a Cricket pitch somewhere.

Can this pass as the Confessions thread for the time being? I watch a lot of Japanese (and Korean) baseball. Hey, in the early hours of dawn, there's no other sports on TV and we get (this being an extension of Hongkouver) a full "cultural" television package.

I believe Degen gets the same? He's an hour east.

The upside is that we get tons of international sport; lots of baseball and cricket and soccer. The downside? The downside is not really a downside. Japanese Baseball announcers are not exactly Vin Scully. They're more appropriately compared to a TV announcer, even on a ground ball to second, live on the spot, where Godzilla is rampaging.

That's when you really need Pat Summerall. "Godzilla...pregnant pause....building gone."

This looks fun.

In early WW II the Germans used a massive glider to transport tanks.

The thing was so heavy it took three planes and two detachable rocket engines to get it airborne.

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This seems as inefficient as hell to me, but I guess if you don't have road or rail access, it's your only option. Needless to say, these were not very hard to shoot down.

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Sabo wrote:This looks fun.

As a kid I went to a soccer camp in Lake Placid every summer and they had a soccer golf course set up around the entire campus. It was just six foot broom sticks in the ground with spray painted circles around the sticks for holes, but that course looks fucking awesome. I'd actually try watching that if it was televised. Soccer golf was a lot of fun to play on just a regular field, but on a golf course with giant holes, that looks like a blast.

probably posted this before but this is one of my favourite youtube videos. dinosaurs and lasers, what else do you need?

Maybe I will vote this time

Another favourite of mine. catchy song.

bfj wrote:Ridiculous Hockey Save

Holy Shit.

wlu_lax6 wrote:

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Bizarre. I kept watching the beginning looking for an instigation, but saw none. I think the other players who attacked the kid did so assuming he had started a fight with their team.

Nonlinear FC wrote:

bfj wrote:Ridiculous Hockey Save

Holy Shit.

Very impressive the way it turned out, but in hindsight, a reckless move. It was more likely to knock the puck into the net then keep it out.

Though I guess there's no way for the goalie to figure that out in the 0.01 seconds he had to react.

Better get busy, Henry!

howard wrote:Maybe I will vote this time

This is real. Bloomberg is in trouble.

Got my vote.

Johnny Hotcakes wrote:

howard wrote:Maybe I will vote this time

This is real. Bloomberg is in trouble.

Got my vote.

Why didn't you vote for him the first nine times he ran for something?

Johnny Hotcakes wrote:

howard wrote:Maybe I will vote this time

This is real. Bloomberg is in trouble.

Got my vote.

Bloomberg better be done. NYC Mayor has a two-term limit, and he is on his third term. OMG, dictatorship!!!!!!!

Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan. Fuck.

cerrano wrote:

I can't see any of the videos posted here, but I want to guess this is that civilian cargo plane that crashed in Afghanistan. If not, someone needs to post that video.

kranepool wrote:Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan. Fuck.

i've had recurring dreams of planes falling out of the sky nearby. this is exactly what it looks like in my dreams.

Here's a video of Europe's changing borders starting from 1000 A.D. to present.

Pretty cool.

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I was going to post that Bagram Air Field vid. Fucking scary as hell.

Apparently the cargo wasn't strapped down properly, shifted in the cargo bay, and forced a stall out of the engines. I haven't read up or Googled much about it, but that's referring to what little I've read.

cerrano wrote:

kranepool wrote:Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan. Fuck.

i've had recurring dreams of planes falling out of the sky nearby. this is exactly what it looks like in my dreams.

I've had dreams like that since I was a little kid. They aren't scary dreams, either. Just kind of "oh, that plane is going to crash." Then it does. After 9/11 I watched every plane for months basically expecting i to fly into a building, similar to my recurring dreams (occasionally they would fly into buildings, but usually crash into the ground).

The Hobbit just doesn't hold my attention.

But I would totally watch this version. (Happy 80th birthday, by the way.)

Johnnie wrote:I was going to post that Bagram Air Field vid. Fucking scary as hell.

Apparently the cargo wasn't strapped down properly, shifted in the cargo bay, and forced a stall out of the engines. I haven't read up or Googled much about it, but that's referring to what little I've read.

Good lord. Either that or the pilot thought he was in an F-16 and could go straight up. Fuck.

How much would cargo have to weigh in order for a shift to force a huge plane, with an apparently full fuel load, to stall like that? Were they carrying tanks?

Sabo wrote:Here's a video of Europe's changing borders starting from 1000 A.D. to present.

Pretty cool.

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I love stuff like that.

But was Bohemia really such a large independent country so deep into the 1700s? I'm pretty sure they were incorporated into the Austrian Empire, and then Austria-Hungary by then.

Sabo wrote:Here's a video of Europe's changing borders starting from 1000 A.D. to present.

Pretty cool.

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The music in that is fantastic.

Pretty amazing work by IBM here.

Steve of phpBB wrote:

Johnnie wrote:I was going to post that Bagram Air Field vid. Fucking scary as hell.

Apparently the cargo wasn't strapped down properly, shifted in the cargo bay, and forced a stall out of the engines. I haven't read up or Googled much about it, but that's referring to what little I've read.

Good lord. Either that or the pilot thought he was in an F-16 and could go straight up. Fuck.

How much would cargo have to weigh in order for a shift to force a huge plane, with an apparently full fuel load, to stall like that? Were they carrying tanks?

Doubtful that the pilot would do something like that.

Here's an article with a few minor details. Overall, they are going to have to have a serious investigation for the specifics. A crash that violent and chaotic looks almost unreal when you see how the plane just drops.

kranepool wrote:The Hobbit just doesn't hold my attention.

But I would totally watch this version. (Happy 80th birthday, by the way.)

Awesome. I love Willie. That is the only way I would have any interest in watching a movie version of The Hobbit. The book bored the fuck out of me. I quit the LOTR books half way through, and fell asleep during the first LOTR movie in the theater and never bothered watching the rest. I'll assume the talking trees ate them all and they never made it to Mordor.

Shirley wrote:Pretty amazing work by IBM here.

Incredible stuff. Here is the making of video, which makes it even more impressive:




All that technology to make a black and white Atari game.

Guy has his mom watch The Matrix and then remakes it according to her interpretation...

Shirley wrote:Pretty amazing work by IBM here.

The first thing that comes to my mind when I watch this is, bullshit, that ain't an atom. That's just elementary school graphics.

This video and song is fucking hysterical.

Now we know why the Blackhawks win so much.

Bad Lip Reading-Walking Dead

POV Video of Peregrine Falcon Killing a Duck in Mid Air

(Fast-forward to 2:40 if you're not into the build-up)



Via petapixel.com (a very cool site; check out the Inspiration section. Fantastic.)



Story

. . . a Peregrine Falcon can reach speeds in excess of 200/mph during its characteristic high-speed hunting dives . . . can see prey from as far as 6 miles away . . .