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Re: the longest thread, thread - Occasionally NSFW
Posted: Wed May 01, 2013 2:52 pm
by BigBallinStalin
Quirk wrote:
They forgot to insert the images of the labor union members hitting and generally oppressing people who wanted to work for a lower wage, or were black, or 'foreign'.
Ah, "solidarity."
Re: the longest thread, thread - Occasionally NSFW
Posted: Thu May 02, 2013 9:24 am
by AndyDufresne
I saw this picture on the front page of NPR.org yesterday.
**Leaves behind a bowl of bananas on a skateboard**--Andy
Re: the longest thread, thread - Occasionally NSFW
Posted: Thu May 02, 2013 9:32 am
by Gillipig
AndyDufresne wrote:I saw this picture on the front page of NPR.org yesterday.
**Leaves behind a bowl of bananas on a skateboard**--Andy
An old lady on a skateboard? I don't see what's funny...
Re: the longest thread, thread - Occasionally NSFW
Posted: Thu May 02, 2013 9:45 am
by strike wolf
Well it was on NPR.
Re: the longest thread, thread - Occasionally NSFW
Posted: Thu May 02, 2013 9:46 am
by Gillipig
strike wolf wrote:Well it was on NPR.
National Patriarch Republic??
Re: the longest thread, thread - Occasionally NSFW
Posted: Thu May 02, 2013 11:46 am
by rdsrds2120
Gillipig wrote:strike wolf wrote:Well it was on NPR.
National Patriarch Republic??
Down with democracy! Ner med demokrati!
BMO
Re: the longest thread, thread - Occasionally NSFW
Posted: Thu May 02, 2013 11:59 am
by DoomYoshi
AndyDufresne wrote:I saw this picture on the front page of NPR.org yesterday.
**Leaves behind a bowl of bananas on a skateboard**--Andy
You know you can use a radio to listen to NPR. Then you don't have to witness their advertisements for skateboarding escort 2 for 1 specials.
Re: the longest thread, thread - Occasionally NSFW
Posted: Thu May 02, 2013 12:21 pm
by AndyDufresne
I do, I listen to NPR while I work usually, after some ESPN radio.
**Munches on a banana**
--Andy
Re: the longest thread, thread - Occasionally NSFW
Posted: Fri May 03, 2013 1:36 pm
by AndyDufresne
And now, some photos of Saturn.NASA Probe Gets Close Views of Large Saturn Hurricane
[spoiler=Caption]
Spring at the North Pole
The north pole of Saturn, in the fresh light of spring, is revealed in this color image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The north pole was previously hidden from the gaze of Cassini's imaging cameras because it was winter in the northern hemisphere when the spacecraft arrived at the Saturn system in 2004.
A hurricane-like storm circling Saturn's north pole at about 89 degrees north latitude is inside the famous "hexagon" feature, which scientists think is a wandering jet stream that whips around the north pole at about 220 miles per hour (98 meters per second). It folds into a six-sided shape because the hexagon is a stationary wave that guides the path of the gas in the jet. The hexagon borders occur at about 77 degrees north latitude and the feature is wider than two Earths. Saturn's rings can be seen at the upper right of the image.
Images with red, green and blue spectral filters were combined to create this natural-color view, which is what the human eye would see if we were there at Saturn. The image here was acquired with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera on Nov. 27, 2012 at a distance of approximately 260,000 miles (418,000 kilometers) from Saturn and at a sun-Saturn-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 96 degrees. Image scale is 18 miles (28.6 kilometers) per pixel.
The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging operations center is based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colo. [/spoiler]
[spoiler=caption]
Enter the Vortex ... in Psychedelic Color
This spectacular, vertigo inducing, false-color image from NASA's Cassini mission highlights the storms at Saturn's north pole. The angry eye of a hurricane-like storm appears dark red while the fast-moving hexagonal jet stream framing it is a yellowish green. Low-lying clouds circling inside the hexagonal feature appear as muted orange color. A second, smaller vortex pops out in teal at the lower right of the image. The rings of Saturn appear in vivid blue at the top right.
The images were taken with Cassini's wide-angle camera using a combination of spectral filters sensitive to wavelengths of near-infrared light. The images filtered at 890 nanometers are projected as blue. The images filtered at 728 nanometers are projected as green, and images filtered at 752 nanometers are projected as red. At Saturn, this scheme means colors correlate to different altitudes in the planet's polar atmosphere: red indicates deep, while green shows clouds that are higher in altitude. High clouds are typically associated with locations of intense upwelling in a storm. These images help scientists learn the distribution and frequencies of such storms. The rings are bright blue in this color scheme because there is no methane gas between the ring particles and the camera.
The view was acquired at a distance of approximately 261,000 miles (419,000 kilometers) from Saturn and at a sun-Saturn-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 94 degrees. Image scale is 13 miles (22 kilometers) per pixel.
The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging operations center is based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colo. [/spoiler]
[spoiler=Caption]
The Rose
The spinning vortex of Saturn's north polar storm resembles a deep red rose of giant proportions surrounded by green foliage in this false-color image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Measurements have sized the eye at a staggering 1,250 miles (2,000 kilometers) across with cloud speeds as fast as 330 miles per hour (150 meters per second).
This image is among the first sunlit views of Saturn's north pole captured by Cassini's imaging cameras. When the spacecraft arrived in the Saturnian system in 2004, it was northern winter and the north pole was in darkness. Saturn's north pole was last imaged under sunlight by NASA's Voyager 2 in 1981; however, the observation geometry did not allow for detailed views of the poles. Consequently, it is not known how long this newly discovered north-polar hurricane has been active.
The images were taken with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Nov. 27, 2012, using a combination of spectral filters sensitive to wavelengths of near-infrared light. The images filtered at 890 nanometers are projected as blue. The images filtered at 728 nanometers are projected as green, and images filtered at 752 nanometers are projected as red. In this scheme, red indicates low clouds and green indicates high ones.
The view was acquired at a distance of approximately 261,000 miles (419,000 kilometers) from Saturn and at a sun-Saturn-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 94 degrees. Image scale is 1 mile (2 kilometers) per pixel. The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging operations center is based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colo. [/spoiler]
**Munches on an interplanetary banana**--Andy
Re: the longest thread, thread - Occasionally NSFW
Posted: Fri May 03, 2013 1:50 pm
by Quirk
Pretty cool. Thanks for posting them, Andy. I plan to start posting pics (other than bananas) again soon.
Posted: Fri May 03, 2013 4:00 pm
by 2dimes
I think the one on our left is hot. Don't tell the cops.
AndyDufresne wrote:I saw this picture on the front page of NPR.org yesterday.
**Leaves behind a bowl of bananas on a skateboard**--Andy
Re: the longest thread, thread - Occasionally NSFW
Posted: Sat May 04, 2013 6:22 am
by Gillipig
rdsrds2120 wrote:Gillipig wrote:strike wolf wrote:Well it was on NPR.
National Patriarch Republic??
Down with democracy! Ner med demokrati
n!
BMO
You got to bend it! I fixed it for you.
Re: the longest thread, thread - Occasionally NSFW
Posted: Sat May 04, 2013 11:36 am
by muy_thaiguy
[bigimg]http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uZPZ06hcPFQ/TtEYZyiSOMI/AAAAAAAAATw/YNzejq5WYdk/s1600/Funny+Banana.jpg[/bigimg]
Posted: Sat May 04, 2013 1:18 pm
by 2dimes
Re: the longest thread, thread - Occasionally NSFW
Posted: Sat May 04, 2013 11:40 pm
by strike wolf
Boring weekend here. Finals are coming up and I'm the only one who doesn't have any tests to study for. Well at least none till Thursday and I'm in good shape for that class (I'd have to get a 65 or worse not to get an A in the class and I already know the material well). I've literally done as much as I could think of to keep myself busy today. I studied for a while even though I already feel like I'm ready for the test. I played guitar until my hands got tired, a couple hours of video games and I'm still bored out of my mind.
Re: the longest thread, thread - Occasionally NSFW
Posted: Sun May 05, 2013 2:04 am
by muy_thaiguy
Did my finals. Might I recomend Minecraft? There are versions for the Xbox and the PC.
Re: the longest thread, thread - Occasionally NSFW
Posted: Tue May 07, 2013 1:23 pm
by AndyDufresne
We should all support this:
The Good, The Bad and The Monkey. (
Kickstarter)
"... is a classic spaghetti western with a twist. Imagine the kind of movie Sergio Leone would have made if he could only cast primates...then he turned it into a comic!"
[spoiler=Look Inside]
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**Munches on a banana**--Andy
Re: the longest thread, thread - Occasionally NSFW
Posted: Tue May 07, 2013 11:00 pm
by Quirk
BPotW
Re: the longest thread, thread - Occasionally NSFW
Posted: Wed May 08, 2013 8:09 am
by Gillipig
Haggis posted this in the comics thread. Thought I'd repost it here because this is the all monkey and banana related thread.
[bigimg]http://abstrusegoose.com/strips/see_monkey_do.png[/bigimg]
Re: the longest thread, thread - Occasionally NSFW
Posted: Thu May 09, 2013 12:38 am
by strike wolf
But we're apes....hairless apes!
Re: the longest thread, thread - Occasionally NSFW
Posted: Thu May 09, 2013 3:23 am
by Gillipig
strike wolf wrote:But we're apes....hairless apes!
Speak for yourself, I've got quite a lot of hair as it happens.
Furless, aye, but not hairless. Silly to call humans hairless when it's fur we mean when we say it.
Re: the longest thread, thread - Occasionally NSFW
Posted: Thu May 09, 2013 10:25 am
by AndyDufresne
This just in, a Tie Fighter
(aka the International Space Station) was spotted transiting our sun.
[bigimg]http://25.media.tumblr.com/2fce5c67d0437cae73a53aeb0105611e/tumblr_mmdxqqiXCn1qbn5m1o3_1280.jpg[/bigimg]
**Munches on a banana**--Andy
Posted: Thu May 09, 2013 12:38 pm
by 2dimes
Re: the longest thread, thread - Occasionally NSFW
Posted: Fri May 10, 2013 1:31 am
by Gillipig
AndyDufresne wrote:This just in, a Tie Fighter
(aka the International Space Station) was spotted transiting our sun.
[bigimg]http://25.media.tumblr.com/2fce5c67d0437cae73a53aeb0105611e/tumblr_mmdxqqiXCn1qbn5m1o3_1280.jpg[/bigimg]
**Munches on a banana**--Andy
An alien warship!!
Re: the longest thread, thread - Occasionally NSFW
Posted: Fri May 10, 2013 10:49 am
by AndyDufresne
Feel like hanging out with the Dalai Lama? Evidently some live webcasts today and tomorrow:
http://dalailama.com/livewebMay 10: Symposium
His Holiness will participate in a symposium with scientists and scholars entitled "Life and After Life" Maitripa College in Portland, Oregon, USA. Live webcast can be viewed at
http://www.dalailama.com/live-portland10amTime: 9:00am - 11:00am PDT
May 10: Public Talk
His Holiness will give a public talk on "The Path to Peace and Happiness in the Global Society" at the University of Oregon's Matthew Knight Arena in Eugene, Oregon, USA. Live webcast can be viewed at
http://www.uoregon.edu/Time: 1:30pm - 3:30pm PDT
May 11: Environmental Summit
His Holiness along with political and environmental leaders will discuss "Universal Responsibility & the Global Environment" at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Portland, Oregon, USA. Live webcast can be viewed at
http://www.dalailama.com/live-portland11amTime: 9:30am - 11:30am PDT
May 11: Public Talk
His Holiness will give a talk on "Inspiration for the Global Environment" at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Portland, Oregon, USA. Live webcast can be viewed at
http://www.dalailama.com/live-portland11pmTime: 1:30pm - 3:30pm PDT
**Munches on a banana**--Andy
