Random Picture Thread

[The Iron]

Chicken egg pool

 

[The Iron]

Mop comes to life.

 

[Blitzballer]

West Berlin policemen and East German soldiers face each other after a young girl made it across the border, 1955......

 

[Blitzballer]

 

[SALTIRE]

West Berlin policemen and East German soldiers face each other after a young girl made it across the border, 1955......

That is a great and powerful photo.

 

[Blitzballer]

That is a great and powerful photo.

Powerful indeed mate.
I love looking at these old pics.

 

[The Iron]

 

[SALTIRE]

Smart but I don't want to appear pedantic as all of the gas giants in our solar system have rings and not just Saturn.

 

[JimJams]

So what's your point?

 

[SALTIRE]

So what's your point?

Just that the text in the pic should have been more general and not specific to Saturn - understand?

 

[Ebeneezer Goode]

Just that the text in the pic should have been more general and not specific to Saturn - understand?

Presumably those images show how the rings of Saturn would look, specifically.

 

[silkyman]

If the earth had rings like Jupiter, they would be a lot thinner, and if they were like Uranus (huk), then they would need to swap the equatorial and arctic images around (ish)

So, those pictures are very much what it would look like if the Earth had rings like Saturn, rather than any of the other planets.

 

[JimJams]

Just that the text in the pic should have been more general and not specific to Saturn - understand?

You're pointing it out like there's a flaw in what's said and there isn't. It doesn't say if the Earth had rings like only Saturn does, or that nowhere else has them. You can't gripe at a flaw that you've imagined yourself.
If I said "I wish I had a Lamborghini like Jay Kay" coming back with "Just to be pedantic, there are lots of other people with Lamborghini's like Simon Cowell" is a bit redundant. "I'm sorry to point out that although there is absolutely nothing wrong with what was said, I'm going to jump in with some extra unnecessary information on the subject, which you hadn't included but actually has no real bearing on things whatsoever anyway, thank you bye." Understand?

Oh and wot Silks said.

 

[SALTIRE]

If the earth had rings like Jupiter, they would be a lot thinner, and if they were like Uranus (huk), then they would need to swap the equatorial and arctic images around (ish)

So, those pictures are very much what it would look like if the Earth had rings like Saturn, rather than any of the other planets.

Ah that is fine, but if it is making just a generic point that only Saturn has rings in the solar system, then that is wrong and was my point. Earth couldn't have a ring system made of ice and dust like Saturn as it wouldn't last long, though it could probably support a small rocky ring system. It would be pretty cool to see however; I remember playing Frontier : Elite II twenty-odd years back, and landing on a world that had rings on it and wondering what it would be like on Earth, so from an aesthetic pov, I've always wondered about how it would look.

 

[JimJams]

But it didn't make that point so you had none!

 

[The Iron]

Some images from the blood supermoon lunar eclipse.

 

[PaulHaddock]

I don't know why this makes me laugh so much

 

[SALTIRE]

Some images from the blood supermoon lunar eclipse.

Watched it, to the naked eye the moon at eclipse looked like the Death Star.

 

[Blitzballer]

 

[JimJams]

 

[SALTIRE]

I'm sure David Cameron would be very interested in the first two!

This last one is a typical Saturday night here in Dundee!

 

[Ebeneezer Goode]

The saddest part is that you can see they tried to fight it. They were in the thick of things, so to speak.

 

[D B Disco]

 

[D B Disco]

 

[The Iron]

 

[Ebeneezer Goode]

 

[The Iron]

Woman at petrol station sets man's car on fire, for refusing to give her a cigarette.

 

[IanH]

Shame she couldn't quite get the joke right. One whole too many.

 

[Blitzballer]

Woman at petrol station sets man's car on fire, for refusing to give her a cigarette.

What a c**t, shame she didn't go up with it

 

[Blitzballer]