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Posted: 12/10/2010 7:06:04 PM EDT

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Awesome photos ..............keep em coming.

Posted: 12/10/2010 7:06:29 PM EDT

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Quoted:

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http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b367/thunderw21/more%20stuff/EvelynMcHalesuicide.jpg

Whats the story with this?

http://kottke.org/08/07/the-most-beautiful-suicide

Posted: 12/10/2010 7:07:22 PM EDT

[#3]

Quoted:

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http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b367/thunderw21/more%20stuff/EvelynMcHalesuicide.jpg

Whats the story with this?

Woman jumped off the Empire State building to her death, IIRC. ETA: Beat by fiver.

Posted: 12/10/2010 7:07:37 PM EDT

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http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/11/04/article-1225042-0711FC57000005DC-753_634x693.jpg

Uh...

Posted: 12/10/2010 7:10:49 PM EDT

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Posted: 12/10/2010 7:11:18 PM EDT

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Quoted:
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/11/04/article-1225042-0711FC57000005DC-753_634x693.jpg

Yao Guai?

Posted: 12/10/2010 7:11:40 PM EDT

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SNIP

Your philosopher e-penis is turgid and mighty, I submit to it's veiny superiority. Your thoughts are deeper than mine, Camus.

I guess we got a little too thought provoking for you, huh. How about you stick to dinner pic threads instead.

I'm not going to play remedial existentialism with you, sport. It was an endless volley of self-absorbed nonsense in college 20 years ago, and I'm even less interested in doing it now. You just want to be superior, that's utterly apparent and nothing that's left your gob is new to me or inspired. Maybe you missed the idea of the thread, it wasn't to debate, puff your chest out with vague hodge-podge philosophy, or engage in one-upsmanship, all of which you're doing and I didn't ask for.

Go post a pic in a debate thread, it'll balance out the universe.

There were four interesting, thought-provoking threads tonight.

Now there are three, because of you.

I have no explanation for it. Must've hit a nerve on some deep seated memory or something. Maybe you're related to Sagan, or maybe you just have an inferiority complex.

Whatever the reason, I'm unsubscribing from this mess.

Posted: 12/10/2010 7:13:58 PM EDT

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Posted: 12/10/2010 7:14:20 PM EDT

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500 years ago we didn't even know how to define life, sentience, the size of the universe or what it's composed of. Imagine in 500 years how we'll view ourselves. Betting it's not so important in the scheme of the big old 'verse.

Exactly .

This , in it's essence , is the reason for my switching to agnosticism , over conventional Christianity-based religion.

Major re-thinking of our very existence and 'purpose' is going to happen in the next 20-50 years . . . . . . if we last that long.

Posted: 12/10/2010 7:15:55 PM EDT

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http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/kk260/honu_photo/ChildFlag.jpg

That's the one.

Posted: 12/10/2010 7:16:02 PM EDT

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I really like these threads. there are so many heavy pics out there that make you think about so much and make you feel so grateful for what you have and the fact that there are men and women out there willing to put themselves in harm's way to protect and defend our way of life. Thank you to them and to those posting pics. I am a young high school US history teacher and I like to show these kinds of pics to my kids. So many of them are ungrateful, lazy, entitled brats. I am trying to show them pics like the vulture and the kid and soldiers crying over fallen brothers to shock them out of their comfort zone and get them active in the world and grateful for what they have.

Posted: 12/10/2010 7:16:18 PM EDT

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Is the one with the Bridge Israel ?

Posted: 12/10/2010 7:17:51 PM EDT

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Quoted:

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http://media.ar15.com/media/viewFile.html?i=24188

I like the story behind that one.

Please tell.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conrad_Schumann

I love stories that end in suicide as well. Especially hangings.

I think it was sad. He jumped the Barb wire and started a new life in Bavaria with a wife, but the shadow of his past bore down on him.

Posted: 12/10/2010 7:20:17 PM EDT

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500 years ago we didn't even know how to define life, sentience, the size of the universe or what it's composed of. Imagine in 500 years how we'll view ourselves. Betting it's not so important in the scheme of the big old 'verse.

Exactly .

This , in it's essence , is the reason for my switching to agnosticism , over conventional Christianity-based religion.

Major re-thinking of our very existence and 'purpose' is going to happen in the next 20-50 years . . . . . . if we last that long.

We exist in tandem with the universe. Not of or because, there is no meaning other than to question a meaning. The universe cannot exist without being acknowledged. It is infinite regression, like particle/wave duality.

Posted: 12/10/2010 7:20:56 PM EDT

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http://www.mdl4.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Tsar_Bomba.jpg

That's a good one.

Almost looks like a painting.

my bad apparently its a french test

Posted: 12/10/2010 7:21:02 PM EDT

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Posted: 12/10/2010 7:21:09 PM EDT

[#17]

Yesterday in London

David Gilmour's (of Pink Floyd) son.

Posted: 12/10/2010 7:21:32 PM EDT

[#18]

Quoted:

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http://www.mdl4.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Tsar_Bomba.jpg

That's a good one.

Almost looks like a painting.

french i think

Posted: 12/10/2010 7:21:38 PM EDT

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the brainpower present in this picture is astounding...Solvay Conference 1927, with an impressive list of attendees who went on to collect 17 Nobel prizes.
BACK: A. Piccard, E. Henriot, P. Ehrenfest, Ed. Herzen, Th. De Donder, E. Schrödinger, J.E. Verschaffelt, W. Pauli, W. Heisenberg, R.H. Fowler, L. Brillouin;
MIDDLE: P. Debye, M. Knudsen, W.L. Bragg, H.A. Kramers, P.A.M. Dirac, A.H. Compton, L. de Broglie, M. Born, N. Bohr;
FRONT: I. Langmuir, M. Planck, M. Curie, H.A. Lorentz, A. Einstein, P. Langevin, Ch. E. Guye, C.T.R. Wilson, O.W. Richardson

I wonder how many college graduates today would recognize more than one of those names?

(I'm almost as bad, I only know 6 of them)

I wonder how many people on arfcom recognize any of those names.

Posted: 12/10/2010 7:21:58 PM EDT

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http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y91/Eyesofsilver/travis-babbitt.jpg

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y91/Eyesofsilver/web%20avatars%20and%20useful%20pics/icon_salute1.gif

The part that gets me the most is the wedding ring.

Thats what I noticed too.

Posted: 12/10/2010 7:22:04 PM EDT

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As a Fellow Linesman that's one of the worst day's because most of the time they just don't come back. That much juice usually leave pretty disabled if you do come back.

The worst is knowing that in the back of your mind.

I did line work for ten years. When I saw that, it reminded me of a friend of mine.

I do station work now...........

Posted: 12/10/2010 7:27:03 PM EDT

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Posted: 12/10/2010 7:27:33 PM EDT

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Posted: 12/10/2010 7:32:29 PM EDT

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Posted: 12/10/2010 7:33:02 PM EDT

[#25]

mother fuckers

Posted: 12/10/2010 7:34:20 PM EDT

[#26]

Treo, an eight-year-old black Labrador from the Military Working Dogs,
was presented with Britain's Dickin medal, awarded for bravery and
commitment in wartime, the highest military honor an animal can expect
at the Imperial War Museum in London on Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2010. Treo
was decorated for his work sniffing out explosives in Afghanistan. (AP
Photo/Sang Tan)

Posted: 12/10/2010 7:37:47 PM EDT

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Posted: 12/10/2010 7:38:12 PM EDT

[#28]

I got thinking about this one. What was life like for black Americans when the M14 was first fielded? What was the
world like geopolitically in relation to the US? And that rifle is still on duty, through it all.

Posted: 12/10/2010 7:40:54 PM EDT

[#29]

Saying goodbye to his brother:

...and saying his final goodbye to his brother:

Posted: 12/10/2010 7:41:52 PM EDT

[#30]

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http://i44.tinypic.com/280ijh3.jpg

Drove by there this morning.

Posted: 12/10/2010 7:42:05 PM EDT

[#31]

What's with the reflecting pool one? What happened?

Posted: 12/10/2010 7:47:08 PM EDT

[#32]

Wow there are some awesome pics in here keep them coming.

Posted: 12/10/2010 7:48:06 PM EDT

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Posted: 12/10/2010 7:49:45 PM EDT

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Posted: 12/10/2010 7:51:25 PM EDT

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Posted: 12/10/2010 7:55:14 PM EDT

[#36]

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http://i34.tinypic.com/34gxac7.jpg

One of the saddest pics I have ever seen.

Nick

Posted: 12/10/2010 7:56:52 PM EDT

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Posted: 12/10/2010 7:59:08 PM EDT

[#38]

While serving as Naval aviator during the Vietnam War, Jeremiah Denton
was participating in a bombing mission over the Vietnamese city of Thanh
Hoa, in which he was shot down and captured on July 18, 1965. He was
held as a prisoner of war for almost eight years - four of which were
spent in solitary confinement. Denton is best known for the 1966 North
Vietnamese television interview he was forced to give as a prisoner, in
which he ingeniously used the opportunity to communicate to American
Intelligence. During the interview Denton blinked his eyes in morse code
to spell out the word "T-O-R-T-U-R-E" to communicate that his captors
were torturing him and his fellow POWs.

This is a photo taken of a Sentinelese warrior shooting arrows at a
rescue helicopter in 2004. These people have lived on North Sentinel
island in the Indian ocean for an estimated 80,000 years and are
basically the last unstudied, uncontacted tribe in the world. Dating
back to the 1700s, anyone from the outside world trying to land on the
island and engage its inhabitants has been either killed or driven away
by spears and arrows. North Sentinel island was in the direct path of
2004's tsunami and the helicopter was sent a few weeks afterward to see
if anyone had survived.

edit: Actually in 1991 some anthropologists were able to drive their
boat into the shallows and hand out some coconuts, but I believe that to
be the only recorded nonviolent encounter with the Sentinelese.