best one ever
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Time lapse of nuclear explosions.

Just like watchibg a Defcon game in real life.

Wish I could make that a live background for my phone. Screw class I'd just watch that.

Jesus christ

Next time someone tells me how the reactor in Japan is going to give half the planet cancer Im going to ask them if they know how manu nukes have been set off all around the world.

So, Full Tilt Boogie, have you heard about how the reactor in Japan is going to give half the planet cancer?

Don't you know how many nukes have been set off over the years? .................Gosh

Why no, TorqueZombie, I don't. But I do know that the reactor in Japan is going to give half the world cancer!!!!!

Not to nit pick but it's 12/8 to 6/8.

My car turned into a fastback:
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OMG....those lines..... so natural!!

I not good at this, mayn.

Adam Carolla (2nd attempt)

http://web.gbtv.com/shared/flash/vid...&property=gbtv

THANKS!. I work in the nuke power field, and while the stuff that happened in Japan is not cool, and we should learn lessons from it, its also not much material or radiation released in comparison.

Those detections of radiation from the japan reactor? Super sensitive so we could detect if someone lit of a nuke after the test ban tready.

Over 1000 tests = tons of material released into the environment. TONS.

failed again, request banned :giggle:

if you hit quote and copy the link into ie it will ask you if you want to download the swf file

Thank you for that.

Most people don't have a clue what happens outside of pop culture in their own lifetimes, much less have any real perspective. They can tell you who won American Idol but not who their congressional representatives are.

Thats what I thought.
Ive always been a proponent of nuclear power and find myself constantly defending it to less educated people that I know. So when this happened I was almost certain that it was media scare tactics.

Its bizare how afraid of nuclear power people are. People still talk about 3 mile island like it was a national disaster when, from what I understand, the radiation most people were exposed to was less than a medical x-ray even with such a gross oversight.


So, Keep buying oil or this could happen to you:
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America wins!

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USA! USA! USA!

(:D)

The perfect fastback. How can you beat a natural wind tunnel design!!!!

Waterford?

nah, screw working for the utility. Consulting.

Nuclear explosions + moody music = win for 10 minutes

Such a shame; only the second and third nuclear explosions ever led to peace. We should have done much more to provoke world peace.

Like maybe fusing the entire Middle East into a big piece of glass? That would go a long way towards that goal. But I'm a touch cynical.

I vote yes, the holy land needs to be nuked. Nothing left to fight over or for.

Glad I'm not the only who thinks if we make it un-livible for the next few generations people will forget ehy they were fighting over it.

On the contrary.
The war was already over at that point, Japan had lost all strategic points and was only fighting in fleeting desperation.
They chose to drop the bomb simply to show the Russians that we had it and we re willing to use it. Thus launching the cold war.

There is truth here.

In April of 1941, Japan and the Soviet Union signed a Neutrality Pact with one another. Despite the opposite alignments of the two empires (remember, the Russians were our allies), this treaty made good sense, particularly for the Japanese. It afforded them the opportunity to continue their war of expansion to the south and east (furthering their goal of establishing dominance in the Pacific), while assuaging the Russians of the fear that Japan's activities in China might creep further west into territory which would threaten the USSR's claims in western Asia.

By 1945, however, it was clear to Soviet leaders that Japan's conquest was at an end, and the idea began to be floated that, just as the USSR had successfully expanded its territory into eastern Europe, by entering the Pacific war on the side of the Allied powers at this late stage, they might stand to benefit by gaining control of certain territories in the Pacific region as well. Thus, in April of 1945, the Soviet Union denounced this pact and declared war on Japan, beginning with the invasion of Manchuria, a part of China which was then held by the Japanese.

This was, for all intents and purposes, the last nail in Japan's coffin. Japanese leaders, who had already begun to float the idea of surrender, now begun to conduct formal talks with the USSR through their ambassador in Switzerland. Why the USSR? Simple- the Soviets had no axe to grind. Most of the other Allied nations (the US not least among them) were by this point felt to be fighting for revenge. But because the USSR and Japan had not long been at conflict, and little in the way of atrocities had yet been committed (eg: no long history of horrific mistreatment of POWs or the like), it was felt by the Japanese that Russia would be least predisposed towards converting the act of surrender into a final grand show of retribution.

Now, from the standpoint of the US and its western Allies, this was not an acceptable state of affairs. Even before the war's end, Cold-war-style tensions had already begun to grow. Were Japan to surrender to the Soviet Union, the Soviets would be permitted to expand their empire even further, gaining a dangerous foothold in a region already afflicted by one communist government, and considered to be of dramatic strategic importance to the US. The East / West division of Germany, in particular, was a debacle that the US and Britain did not wish to see repeated.


With this perspective in mind, it becomes obvious why the US felt it imperative that the war be prolonged until such a time that Japan could be brought to unconditional surrender on America's terms, rather than allowing the Soviet Union to broker the terms of peace. The use of the atomic bomb did not provide the quickest possible conclusion of the war, but it did allow the US to ensure that the Soviets were excluded from the post-war settlement of Japan's territories.

I love it when I get to see a new perspective on something - thanks for that

picture thread. relevant photos:

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uncanny right?

Needs LSx swap

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:bowrofl: Those had me ------- dying!

Billy West is the man

behold:
New shocks for the daily
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This looks pretty bauce:

I think I saw a Formula Vee in there, which is mega bawse.

LOL, sounds slow and boring.

Bullshit.
I had a ton of fun racing Formula Vees. 50hp isnt so bad when the car weighs 900 lbs. Faster than a spec Miata on the technical tracks.

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Last I heard, the guy I sold me Vee to was pretty competitive with it up north somewhere.

I bet it would be faster if he took off those doughnut tires and got some real racecar rubbers.

http://www.panteraplace.com/Tech%20I...0tires%206.jpg

mmmm Pantera. My highschool shop teacher restores those things. They are harder to fit into than a lotus... and start on fire just as easy as lambos. Hello ford V8 headers tucked in a tiny space. You also pretty much guaranteed have to push start the damn things cause the starters fry from heat in the engine bay.

Since I didn't see this in the previous 5 pages...

I would say speak for yourself there, but I believe you're about my parents age IIRC. About five years ago I started a game to ask waitresses questions about famous people of history and see what kind of answers I get. No female between the ages of 16 and 28 I've encountered as a waitress can answer who John Wilkes Booth WAS, let alone what he did. Same goes for Lee Harvey Oswald. An acquaintance's 16 year old daughter can't tell you a single president on ANY US Currency and think's I'm dumb for expecting her to. My only comment was something along the lines of "would you want to check the dollar bills guys are throwing at you while you're taking your clothes off on stage?" If she keeps going the path she is, that'll be the only way she will ever make any money.


"Now I know what a TV Dinner feels like."

Is it just me, or did someone plug up the holes on the bottom?? :rofl:

http://www.dvdactive.com/images/edit...t/2007/7/3.jpg



Took this today on US-71. Went blowing by it and almost didn't give a second look until I glanced in my mirror. Nearly locked up the brakes after seeing the hood...

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Couple geezers..

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That little video just shows you how effing STUPID "pop" music really is..

That would actually make the car significantly slower because of the weight of the tires.

Also, friction is independent of surface area.

Ever driven a formula ford? Same wieght, 2x the powa. Which is slow compared to an atlantic, or F500. Open wheel cars ftw.

easy there gramps, I'm sure Vivaldi thinks your Mozart fetish is pretty lowbrow too.

We've all been thinking this at some point right?

There was a girl I went to HS with who thought WW2 was in the 70's...
The part where your friends daughter thinks your dumb for asking is the part that troubles me, that sort of attitude is why we're behind the rest of the world in education. No more participation trophies, no more of this "everyone is a unique snowflake who can do anything they want" attitude, it's bringing us down.

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