Post something just for the heck of it

[ChristianGianni]

 

[Kulindahr]

A television set in a fake marble plastic cabinet? Sounds like something Donald Trump would have.

I saw one in a motel once. The entire lounge was done in fake marble,

 

[Kulindahr]

In Norway

Reminds me of when I was in grad school in Indiana and a snowstorm hit the day before we had an ice skating party with the local school of nurses planned. The other guys thought I was crazy but we convinced the school president to tell maintenance to let us borrow two snow-blowers. We rigged chains on the tires, put on our skates, and proceeded to carve paths around the frozen lake plus one big central circle.

The guys in the cottage-dorms on the lee side of the lake weren't happy; all the snow we blew into the air was carried by the wind and built drifts reaching thirty feet high -- which mostly buried those cottages.

 

[Kulindahr]

Actual rescue operation carried out in Afghanistan.

The Chinook pilot flies an EMS rescue helicopter in civilian life.

 

[Rickrock]

^ Truly an amazing picture and operation.

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

^ Truly an amazing picture and operation.

Shame it didn't really work out for the US in Afghanistan.

 

[Kulindahr]

^ Truly an amazing picture and operation.

When I came across it I just stared at it for easily a dozen seconds, then I started to think about what would be necessary to actually do it -- and that was even more mind-boggling! Just thinking of the forces that pilot is balancing makes me feel like I've never really been skilled at anything in comparison.

 

[Kulindahr]

Shame it didn't really work out for the US in Afghanistan.

It was impossible from the start. Historically, if you want to go in and stay long enough to transform a nation you have to stay at least three full generations -- and no democracy is capable of such a commitment, it takes a monarchy that is at least semi-benevolent. Rome accomplished it only in a few of its provinces, and the British Empire is the most recent example, turning India from a mess of petty principalities jockeying for influence and power and occasionally conquest into a subcontinent with (and noting one glaring exception) a common identity -- and they did it accidentally.

 

[rareboy]

 

[ChristianGianni]

 

[ChristianGianni]

 

[Charon]

 

[Alistair]

 

[Kulindahr]

 

[johaninsc]

 

[johaninsc]

 

[Kulindahr]

Recent photo from Mars:

 

[cityboy-stl]

Recent photo from Mars:

Wow! Yogi went to Mars! Smarter than your average bear, that Yogi.

 

[Kulindahr]

 

[Alistair]