In low lux conditions? I Beg to differ, Sir.

Haha, could be. That scares me more than the idea of aliens.

http://thedearleader.com/images/Kim-Jong-Il-2.jpg
Looks alien to me.

Some people think they already have landed and have been here for some time.

lol, my goddamn car photos are bad enough for people to believe they are not mine and are a government scandle.

Actually, think footage #3 of the Jerusalem video was pretty good quality.

In the dark? I think not. But yeah, I think some more credible stuff with start showing up. Considering sitings are growing in the 1000's every year.

You can start begging.

Congratulations, your cryphone's video capture is better than a 1980 Sony BETA Cam? :ugh2:

I still don't believe it would capture an alleged "UFO" any better. *Shrug*

http://www.kmbc.com/news/28972034/detail.html

:laugh:

While camping out in the woods of Virginia back in highschool a big group of us saw some pretty weird shit in the sky one night. A big weird colorful cloud sorta thing, kinda like in those videos but moving/changing shape very slowly like a regular cloud. It just appeared, stayed there for a few hours, then poof it was gone. Made us not want to be out in the middle of no where.

WTF?



Some of the stuff you can do with a scope.. lol..

I might be selling my Miata to mod my vette a little bit:

That's at Cars and Coffee in Irvine.

can you see if you can find some info on those cars? I want some similar work done to my vette

Some dumb ass orange county kids I'm sure.

it all looks like high quality one-off stuff, I think I might try to buy a fiberglass kit since I'm kind of a DIY dude

I definitely think that we are not alone. Have we ever had visitors? I won't rule out the possibility but it seems unlikely. Our current understanding of the universe and physics says than either time or the absurd amount of energy required to travel quickly would make any attempt pointless. But hey, maybe some other planet didn't have multiple mass extinction events like ours. Imagine a society with millions of years of recorded history that progresses at a rate similar to humans. Maybe they have discovered a way to travel at superluminal velocities.

As far as these UFO sightings go....lenticular cloud anyone?
http://www.thelivingmoon.com/43ancie...ar_UFO_001.jpg

Are those markers whizzing past on the left per mile? If so gawddamn.

And pics...

http://image.baggersmag.com/f/904059...thead+left.jpg

http://image.baggersmag.com/f/898601...head+right.jpg

Spotted downtown the other day at the Pro Cycling event
https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...1&d=1314319651

1/4 mile markers. he cuts the throttle at the 5 mile mark.

You just ruined it for me Tim.

yeah me too, so sorrie.

EDIT: that new HD camera in the ad at the end seems pretty slick though. Good to have an alternative to gopro.

Dude.. No. Not only No, but Fuck No. HELL Fucking no.. Just no..


You want a unique vette? Sell your soul to satan and buy a ZR1 in that sexy fucking graphite color. Add 2 turbochargers and make more power than God could handle.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LiOfqUKwUk...524304802.jpeg

This is one I jizzed on at the AutoShow right after it was announced. Nissan had their stupid GTR up on a rotator with ropes and shit, GM plopped this out in the middle of their booth.
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426 Miles per Hour = 624.8 Feet per Second

So basically covering 1/8th a mile every second. That is fucking insane!

I hate "Choppers" in the "Orange County Chopper" definition. Every one of their fucking bikes looks the same and if I see one more spider web bike I'm going to fucking puke. Saw an episode the other day where OCC celebrated 10 years and started to carry Ducatis. They put fucking spider webs in paint on a Ducati Monster. :jerkit:

This bike which you've posted a picture to.. Fucking sick. I'd ride it. Would MUCH prefer the front wheel be where it belongs and not all faggged out like that.. but still sick!


Are those GoPRO video cameras really shitty as everyone says? Was going to buy one for the longest time but have been put off by the negative reviews. Hell, noticed Mythbusters started using them for helmet and gun cams..

This is how it sits right now, I don't know... it just doesn't do it for me anymore...

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^Spoiled.
Get an NSX, add supercharger.

I test drove one before I bought my C5. I didn't like it and if you think those Basch superchargers are cool or something, you are crazy.

I have no knowledge of Basch superchargers. I'm just under the impression that a NSX could use more power and it looks to be easier to add a supercharger then one or two turbo(s) b/c of the way the engine is set up in the engine bay.

sorry bro I don't have NASA's budget circa 2009.

Quoted this specifically to include the picture.

Does it for me.


About eight months ago a friend was selling his high mile '04 Z06. He traveled 120 miles round trip everyday to and from work so most was highway driven. Think it was 158,xxx or something pretty close. Tells me his friend price was $14k. I drove it. Committed blasphemy off every red light for 2 miles. Offered to trade my Mazdaspeed6 jokingly and he said yes. :drool: I got cold feet and bitched out, told him I didn't like the color. :greddy: Come on, it WAS fucking yellow..... Yes, I'm an idiot for turning it down. :loser: Seriously though, I didn't have a garage to keep it in and between the bird shit and tree sap shitting all over it, would've been a pretty sad sight.

He sold it to some genius dumbfuck rich ---- who gave it to his son. Totaled in 3 weeks.




NSX doesn't do it for me. Have you ever worked on a midship TRANSVERSE MOUNTED engine car? Fuck that. Blow the engine, then what? They're awful cool looking for a [H]omocar, but as usual I think they're way overrated. Course I'm a little bias- Only honda I'd ever drive would be a 5th gen Prelude if it were built the way they should have. Front engine, Rear Wheel Drive, IRS, 6 speed manual gearbox, weigh no more than 2000 pounds, and come factory with 200hp/200tq @ rear wheels. No. I said PRELUDE, NOT S2000.



Does this Scratch your Itch?
:: C5 Z06 Corvette Twin Turbo Halltech stats ::
Horsepower 1000 hp / 745.7 kw @ 6300 rpm
Torque 1458 ft/lbs 1976.78 N @ 4800 rpm
Redline 7000 rpm

http://www.z06-corvette.com/super/co...alltech-01.jpg


I don't know what to tell you. Can't really find much for body modifications on C5's that I care for. Kind of hard to improve perfection. :makeout:

HOW MUCH TORQUE??!?
fml

That's what's up. You have any idea how much pussy that little bro got during those three weeks?

Believe it or not, I also have the same Prelude argument with my homeboys and it always goes the same way:

Pusha: Man, they should have made the Prelude RWD.
bro: ni66a you crazy, everyone knows the h22 makes mad torque
Pusha: But at what cost?
bro: the cost of not being able to drift but you can snap axles like a mo fucka
Pusha: ...
bro: homeboy you just jealous with your inefficient RWD crap


My car is immaculate. ~32k miles and it's PRISTINE. I've had it listed for sale twice but I can never bring myself to let it go. I fluff my chest hair, jump in it and use both feet to push in the clutch. Haters will hate and one day I'll finish my Miata and boost my C5.

Even the ugly-ass shift knob grew on me:

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my car makes a quarter of that and it's plenty tail-happy, I couldn't imagine

it's probably at like 4k rpm, though

http://becauseracecar.org/wp-content...08/4TURBOS.jpg

And on that bombshell... Good night.

Worlds first honda with low end torque? :giggle:

Hahahaha, 4g64 much...
Yanks...

Dann

Lots of hondas make peak torque at low RPM... like 90% of them
all the good ones dont though, since peak torque is a meaningless number used by retarded domestic owners who listen to Carroll Shelby too much

Less chatty, more random image.

http://www.geeksaresexy.net/wp-conte...2011/08/11.jpg
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^^^ so awesome. so true.



http://www.tobytoons.com/td/files/to...3_garofalo.jpg

Manufacturing VP's company car is one of these. It's....sick. But IMHO I don't like the lack of "dish" to the wheels on a car that has such wide tires. Call me ricer, but I really dont like the flat face of vett wheels. There's another ZR1 locally, same color, that has some full anodized black Fikse's with a nice dish to them...now that car looks f'in incredible.



I can't agree more.

I've used my brother's gopro and I think it works great. I figured if there's competition maybe price would go down or features would increase, competition is always good. My big problem with them however is that I cannot edit the video files. My computers suck and I don't have good software. boohoo.

Wow, Really?? Are you that ignorant??

Horsepower means shit. Its nothing more than a mathematical calculation of TORQUE and engine RPM. There mere dictionary definition of the word "horsepower" pretty much speaks it all:

horse·pow·er   [hawrs-pou-er]
noun
1. a foot-pound-second unit of power, equivalent to 550 foot-pounds per second, or 745.7 watts.

The formula is something along the lines of 2π(force * radius)(RPM)/33,000 ft-lb/min = HP

Without mechanical torque and James Watt your precious horsepower would simply not exist so GTFO with your "Listen to Carol Shelby too much" bullshit. By the way, how many professional race series have you won? How many cars have you designed and built from the ground up? Yeah, none.

http://wcatnews.files.wordpress.com/...3/retard-1.jpg

Without torque, that retard would only be a retard instead of a tire smoking retard.

I could use a little dish on the wheels.. The ZR1 is kind of a take it or leave it with dished wheels to me, though. Admittedly, the Six ZR1's I've seen all had stock wheels so I've no idea what it would look like really. Have pl0x? My department's VP's company car is a TL-S.. lol.


All of the complaints I can recall were audio related on the GoPro's in relation to motion. Guess the sound gets pretty bad with wind noise? I had the impression the cameras were designed to not have wind noise?

Seems there are a few personal sports HD cameras on the market which I just found via google search. Only one I've ever heard of is the GoPro, though. Some true competition in that market wouldn't be a bad thing honestly.



Just noticed when I want to search for something mid post (or anytime, really) I'll just open a new Chrome Tab and don't seem to bother ever closing them. Current count is 43 open tabs and performance hasn't suffered a bit!

http://jugrnot.com/chrome.jpg


What makes math fun?


Redneck Math FAIL:

That's gotta hurt like hell.

Cocksuckers at youtube terminated the account of the last video. So here is another upload...

Redneck Math Fail:


I don't care if you love him or hate him. I want this kids fucking dayjob:



Edit: Thought I'd comment after posting this. That is a $30,000 machine gun and the ammo it fires is about $3.00 a round. At that price a 500 round tin would run you about $1500.00.. Just food for thought considering he fired off an entire tin of ammo.

I know everyone has seen the "I'm on a boat" video.. Found some pretty interesting remixes of the video.. Think this is one of the better ones I've seen:



Don't forget about dick in a box:








On that note, fuck you bitches. I'm going to the golf course!!

fuck that russian guy, i want to be the guy who can afford to own that massive mayhem on wheels.

He did a great job of firing way too long. Either way great video though. Love that guy.

Take a good look at the background. Video was shot in New Jersey.

I shot this with the camera built into my Android phone, handheld. It's a tad blurrier than usual, as I was naked, freezing, covered in tequila, and blind drunk at the time, so my hands were shaking quite a bit.

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Well shit, sounds like you need to go spot some UFOs so we can clear up the whole blurry thing (even though we were talking about video not photo).

my god, it's full of starts.
that's an *amazing* shot for a phone.

jk, bitch you be trollin
http://s95367906.onlinehome.us/photo...be_trollin.png

You needed google to tell you that?

I'm shitfaced
https://s-hphotos-ash4.fbcdn.net/327..._5743376_o.jpg
me, 40 minutes ago

I'm down about 6 beers. Fuck San Angelo, can't go out because I run into students, too much shti this weekend to go to Austin. So I sit here and post on MT.net lululul

I had that glass of that tequila, followed by 2 beers. It was a difficult Friday.

I don't have to work again until Monday night...

Lots of shit to get done though.

Here's a picture:

Nice pl0x Joe!! What model do you have? I'm guessing one of the newer Moto Droids?
(Edit: Joe you bastard...)

TBH, I was impressed at the video capture of the fireworks. Didn't believe it so I checked out some other videos. Pretty crazy for what amounts to a 2mm CCD camera!


I've got an HTC EVO and it took pretty decent pictures at first. Noticed as of late the quality has really gone down hill. Someone suggested that my lens was scratched which would affect the pictures quality. It is indeed scratched up pretty bad. I realize none of these are particurally great, but not bad for a 3 year old phone.

http://jugrnot.com/IMAG0038.jpg
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I've been playing with a new ROM lately and found several things wrong with it, one of which is unable to tap to focus the camera.. I'm sure that has some negative affect also.


More random pictures from my phone:


This is my old man's pickup. 1996 Ford Ranger 2.3L 5 speed. Aside from brakes, tires, oil, filters, and gasoline it's 100% stock as delivered from Kentucky. Never in my wildest dreams would've imagined this. Too bad it gets 9mpg on the highway now.
http://jugrnot.com/IMG_20110424.jpg


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This was taken just over two weeks ago. I'm sitting at 381k currently. Most of these miles were with some primitive turbo kit that made pretty good power but shit fuel economy but it's all back to stock now. I average around 17 mpg on the highway.

1997 Ford F250 7.3L 4x4

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I'm always trying to kill it

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I keep my bed loaded down

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Hahaha.

It is impressive, you must admit, to compare what is actually possible with your average cell phone today as compared to a midrange digital camera of just 8 or 10 years ago. Remember when they used floppies? Of course, one thing you'll never get in a phone-sized camera is a decent lens, and a 100MP sensor is for shit if it's got crappy optics in front of it.


There is one thing which really bugs me about every cell-phone camera I've seen, and it's something that would be really quite trivial to fix. There's no way to control the shutter speed.

By definition, a cell-phone camera is always going to be hand-held. So why is it even possible for them to shoot any slower than, say, 1/30? The automatic controls always seem to be hyper-fixated on getting a good exposure, but why? I can fix an underexposed low-light shot in PaintShop, but there's absolutely nothing I can do about a properly-exposed but blurry shot.

This is all just software anyway, so why the hell is there no camera app that lets me manually set the exposure time? Let me decide if I want to sacrifice exposure in exchange for a shot which can be pushed later.

Most point-n-shoot models have this same flaw. My old CoolPix 4300 allowed SLR-style manual shutter and aperture control, and when it came time to replace it, I searched for months to find a modern camera with the same functionality (thank you Canon for producing the S90.)



Unrelated, F2.8 at 500mm:

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(No, that isn't photoshopped. It's a real lens.)

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http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/imag...8063-sigma.jpg

http://www.studiolighting.net/wp-con...sigma500mm.jpg

http://www.tobiashjorth.com/wp-conte...0500mmf2.8.jpg


Why do you need such a thing? Well, what if you want to photograph a small bird from a quarter-mile away?

http://www.tobiashjorth.com/wp-content/uploads/235.jpg

Only $25,999 http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/produc...2_8_EX_DG.html

Yeah I remember this picture from a few weeks ago. See, I EXPECT a diesel to live past 250k miles bone stock on the low end. Granted, the Ford Lima 2.3 is one of the most durable 4 cylinder engines (though absolutely gutless without boost) ever created, I'm still shocked its lasted this long and lacking any sort of problems.

Shit, my cell phone is better than some digital point and shoot cameras on the market currently! Granted that category is typically full of sub-$100.00 cameras..

You're correct about both exposure and lens. I've seen some silly magnetic "slip on" lens upgrades, which I've been interested in trying. Not practical to mount something like this full time, though.

http://ak.buy.com/PI/0/500/223454852.jpg

Still thinking about buying a set just for grins. First I'm going to replace my lens cover on the back of the phone..

http://jugrnot.com/IMG_7849.jpg

Don't own a macro lens so its pretty difficult to photograph the scratches. They're pretty bad and I kinda hope that's the cause of my problem. If not, maybe the EVO replacement will have a better camera. *shrug*


My real complaint is the absolute lack of proper fucking white balance in most cameras on the market. My 40D has great automatic balance but the manual ability is fantastic..


Random picture of a block I'm working on.

http://jugrnot.com/IMG_7663.jpg

Seriously, load up your truck with this stuff instead
http://en.schweden-snus.com/media/ca.../g_portion.jpg

If you're gonna do snus, do the swedish original :)

Can't tell if serious.

If serious, *you* are that ignorant.

You see, "TORQUE" is completely useless without a little sumpin-sumpin we call "RPM".

Horsepower is the actual measure of useable power that we get from our engine. Horsepower does "work", Torque does not.

It's identical to saying that your solar panel system is better than mine because it produces twice as many Amps, when in reality, my system produces 1.5 times as many watts as yours does. Sure, you can't get to a meaningful number of my watts without having your amps, but saying that amps are a better unit of measure completely bypasses the fact that you also need volts to produce power.

A car with 200 TQ/500 HP will completely destroy a similar car with 500 TQ/200 HP.

http://strangefunnyworld.com/wp-cont...ny-signs-1.jpg

An example of "amps":
http://images.fanpop.com/images/imag...82_171_216.jpg

Correct me if I'm wrong, but that will depend on the application right?

I mean, having 500 ft/lbs of torque would be great at pushing/pulling shit around, vs something with 200 ft/lbs of torque and the moar horse power.

I've seen a lot of those lens adapters around. Never used one on a cell-phone, though I did buy a couple of wide-angle lens adapters for my old Coolpix camera.

Frankly, they were crap. Beyond the obvious barrel distortion, which I can fix in software, they exhibited significant chromatic aberration and softening of the image which got progressively worse towards the edges of the frame. They might be ok for clipping onto the front of a camcorder, but on a high-resolution still camera, they're worse than nothing.

Cheap lenses are cheap. That's really what it boils down to. And no add-on lens is going to improve the quality of crappy built-in optics pointed at a tiny imaging sensor.


I just wish the shutter speed could be controlled. That's really all it would take to make me happy. Give me the option to take a sharp but underexposed photo instead of forcing me to end up with correctly-exposed but blurry shots.

It's all about gearing. You can gear anything to produce 100x more torque than it normally does, but gearing will never change the amount of horsepower. I could easily gear the 200ft/lb engine to produce 1000 ft/lb of torque, and it would still be producing 500hp. I could also easily gear the 500ft/lb engine to produce that same 1000ft/lb of torque....and it would still be producing only 200hp.

You now have 2 engines producing 1000 ft/lb of torque. Given flat torque curves, one of them (the 200hp engine) Now spins up to 1050 RPM, while the other engine (the 500hp engine) will spin up to 2625 RPM.

So if this engine, with the above mentioned gearing in place was directly turning the wheels without any more additional gearing (a.k.a. transmission), the question is: Do you want a car that will produce 1000ft/lb of torque up to 71.6 MPH (200hp), or do you want the car that will produce that exact same amount of torque up to 178.9 MPH (500hp)

How does gearing affect you? A stock 1994 5-speed Miata is geared to put over 1400 FT/LB of torque to the road in first gear....think about that.