Pictures you didn't take - Page 47

glatt · 02-17-2015, 05:25 AM

I looked up this very fact a few years ago when I watched a snow melting operation in action and the answer depends very much on the ambient temperature. If it's near freezing, the energy cost to melt is very small, and as it gets colder, trucking is the better deal. I forget the break even point.

Carruthers · 02-17-2015, 05:42 AM

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Firefighters work at the scene of an overnight blaze in Philadelphia. The region has suffered freezing temperatures that have closed schools

From this morning's edition of The Times.

xoxoxoBruce · 02-17-2015, 11:31 AM

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Originally Posted by Carruthers

The TV coverage actually showed snow being dumped in the sea.
Perhaps the memo hadn't reached the crews at that point.
I wonder how much energy you have to use to melt the snow versus dumping it in the ocean.
A 350 page cost/benefit analysis and an environmental audit is needed.

Son of a bitch, I did a whole long post about the whys and wheres of ocean dumping complete with a picture a bulldozer climbing Boston's biggest snowpile (roughly 61,933,000 6-inch snowballs), and how I saw one pile at Northeastern University that was still 40 ft high at the end of June.

I must have previewed and never posted... again.

xoxoxoBruce · 02-24-2015, 12:08 AM

♪ Mummies for sale or rent, extra parts fifty cents ♪
Don’t care if you’ve got pets, won’t smoke your cigarettes
♫ Two hours of push push boom, in an 8 by 10 four-bit room
I'm a man of means by no means, so I’m selling the load. ♫

Abduls Used Mummies Lot

Lamplighter · 02-24-2015, 12:25 AM

Roger Miller would appreciate your reprise.

xoxoxoBruce · 02-26-2015, 08:08 PM

Maybe just a rumor, but I've heard this winter has been especially wintery in the northeast.
If that's true it would explain why Nantucket has Slurpee surf, waves of slush.

BigV · 02-26-2015, 09:37 PM

[icicle font]Tha's pretty damn cold.[/icicle font]

oh. wait. the font has frozen shut. durrrrrrr

Gravdigr · 03-01-2015, 03:52 PM

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Bright spots on Ceres...

I cannot wait to find out what this is. I'm expecting ice.

xoxoxoBruce · 03-01-2015, 04:09 PM

Windows, how else would they see out?

Lamplighter · 03-01-2015, 04:54 PM

I think Happy Monkey just put an LED inside a larger and more recently created tape-creation.

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Originally Posted by Happy Monkey

A side view:

glatt · 03-01-2015, 05:24 PM

It's Ceres's Vegas, Baby.

xoxoxoBruce · 03-01-2015, 07:39 PM

So we're not going to find out because what happens in Ceres's Vegas stays in Ceres's Vegas.

Gravdigr · 03-02-2015, 04:58 PM

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Ocean Beach, San Francisco, CA

Big pic apologies, but, damn.

Lamplighter · 03-03-2015, 11:57 AM

ETA:
Ooooops.
This picture is not the one I intended to post, and I don't seem to be able to edit it...
The one I intended was of a tree in a pasture... the link is below

But I just saw it in my dentist's office, and what was neat was it being a hologram.

As I moved from right to left, the tree's green leaves were replaced by golden brown.
Then as I moved further to the left, the leaves were gone and the scene changed to a winter snow scene.
Really well done. Here is a link

I wish I could show that effect here... but you just had to be there.

Lamplighter · 03-05-2015, 09:06 AM

More pics from my G-son, Sam - northeast Oregon

I think these were taken close to the OR-WA border,
because other pics showed prickly-pear cactus among the rocks

02-24-2015, 12:08 AM	#694
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	♪ Mummies for sale or rent, extra parts fifty cents ♪ Don’t care if you’ve got pets, won’t smoke your cigarettes ♫ Two hours of push push boom, in an 8 by 10 four-bit room I'm a man of means by no means, so I’m selling the load. ♫ Abduls Used Mummies Lot Attached Images __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

02-26-2015, 08:08 PM	#696
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Maybe just a rumor, but I've heard this winter has been especially wintery in the northeast. If that's true it would explain why Nantucket has Slurpee surf, waves of slush. Attached Images __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

02-26-2015, 09:37 PM	#697
BigV Goon Squad Leader Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Seattle Posts: 27,063	[icicle font]Tha's pretty damn cold.[/icicle font] oh. wait. the font has frozen shut. durrrrrrr __________________ Be Just and Fear Not.

03-01-2015, 03:52 PM	#698
Gravdigr The Un-Tuckian Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: South Central...KY that is Posts: 39,517	Bright spots on Ceres... I cannot wait to find out what this is. I'm expecting ice. __________________ These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA, EPA, FBI, DEA, CDC, or FDIC. These statements are not intended to diagnose, cause, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. If you feel you have been harmed/offended by, or, disagree with any of the above statements or images, please feel free to fuck right off.

03-01-2015, 04:09 PM	#699
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Windows, how else would they see out? __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

02-17-2015, 05:25 AM	#691
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	I looked up this very fact a few years ago when I watched a snow melting operation in action and the answer depends very much on the ambient temperature. If it's near freezing, the energy cost to melt is very small, and as it gets colder, trucking is the better deal. I forget the break even point.

02-24-2015, 12:25 AM	#695
Lamplighter Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Bottom lands of the Missoula floods Posts: 6,402	Roger Miller would appreciate your reprise.

03-01-2015, 05:24 PM	#701
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	It's Ceres's Vegas, Baby.

03-01-2015, 07:39 PM	#702
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	So we're not going to find out because what happens in Ceres's Vegas stays in Ceres's Vegas. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

03-02-2015, 04:58 PM	#703
Gravdigr The Un-Tuckian Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: South Central...KY that is Posts: 39,517	Ocean Beach, San Francisco, CA Big pic apologies, but, damn. __________________ These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA, EPA, FBI, DEA, CDC, or FDIC. These statements are not intended to diagnose, cause, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. If you feel you have been harmed/offended by, or, disagree with any of the above statements or images, please feel free to fuck right off.

03-03-2015, 11:57 AM	#704
Lamplighter Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Bottom lands of the Missoula floods Posts: 6,402	ETA: Ooooops. This picture is not the one I intended to post, and I don't seem to be able to edit it... The one I intended was of a tree in a pasture... the link is below But I just saw it in my dentist's office, and what was neat was it being a hologram. As I moved from right to left, the tree's green leaves were replaced by golden brown. Then as I moved further to the left, the leaves were gone and the scene changed to a winter snow scene. Really well done. Here is a link I wish I could show that effect here... but you just had to be there. Attached Images Last edited by Lamplighter; 03-03-2015 at 12:05 PM.

03-05-2015, 09:06 AM	#705
Lamplighter Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Bottom lands of the Missoula floods Posts: 6,402	More pics from my G-son, Sam - northeast Oregon I think these were taken close to the OR-WA border, because other pics showed prickly-pear cactus among the rocks Attached Images

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