EtherealN Posted December 29, 2011 Share Posted December 29, 2011 There's another case, forget his name, of a guy that has done some amazing things with large rocks - he's building a replica of Stonehenge using only stone age tools. No block and tackle, no wheels, no nothing. Yet he, alone, hoists stones weighing many many tonnes high up into the air, he transports said blocks across ground alone, and walking pace, etcetera etcetera... ...His methods are all extremely obvious once you see it in action, but very few of us would actually be placed with the problem "take this 10 tonne stone and hoist it 6 meters up into the air and then place it on top of those two standing stones" and actually succeed unless we got to use modern construction machinery. This dude has done it single-handedly. And if one dude can do it, imagine what can be done when you have some of the biggest empires of the ancient world put their best labor pretty much under the whip (though, in the case of Egypt the whole slaves-built-the-pyramids thing is pretty much a myth)... To be honest, I'm surprised we don't have MORE of those impressive buildings scattered around the world. I know for sure what I'd do if I got a command economy and absolute power over a million or three hapless subjects with stone masonry skills, and it wouldn't be limited to just silly little pyramids. There'd probably be some way more graphic monuments scattered around just for the hell of it. :P [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Daniel "EtherealN" Agorander | Даниэль "эфирныйн" Агорандер Intel i7 2600K @ 4.4GHz, ASUS Sabertooth P67, 8GB Corsair Vengeance @ 1600MHz, ASUS GTX 560Ti DirectCU II 1GB, Samsung 830series 512GB SSD, Corsair AX850w, two BENQ screens and TM HOTAS Warthog DCS: A-10C Warthog FAQ | DCS: P-51D FAQ | Remember to read the Forum Rules | | | Life of a Game Tester Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sobek Posted December 29, 2011 Share Posted December 29, 2011 [...] Good thing you're not in charge then. :) Good, fast, cheap. Choose any two. Come let's eat grandpa! Use punctuation, save lives! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EtherealN Posted December 29, 2011 Share Posted December 29, 2011 Yeah, probably. :D [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Daniel "EtherealN" Agorander | Даниэль "эфирныйн" Агорандер Intel i7 2600K @ 4.4GHz, ASUS Sabertooth P67, 8GB Corsair Vengeance @ 1600MHz, ASUS GTX 560Ti DirectCU II 1GB, Samsung 830series 512GB SSD, Corsair AX850w, two BENQ screens and TM HOTAS Warthog DCS: A-10C Warthog FAQ | DCS: P-51D FAQ | Remember to read the Forum Rules | | | Life of a Game Tester Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Depth Posted December 29, 2011 Share Posted December 29, 2011 The ability to join and weld 16" thick steel plates is also a skill that has died off. Thickest carbon steel I've welded was S420 grade steel 200mm/7.8 inches thick during the construction and mating of the the Gjøa rig. Because it was positional welding it had to be done manually with 1.2mm flux core pipewire. Needless to say it took a while but there were never any problems and it all went really smooth. Given an open horizontal weld I don't see why it would be a problem to weld 400mm steel with thick high output electrodes or an automatic welding machine, provided the engineers do their jobs to find a counter to the heat contraction of the steel. [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EtherealN Posted December 31, 2011 Share Posted December 31, 2011 Something funny I saw on the net today: :D [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Daniel "EtherealN" Agorander | Даниэль "эфирныйн" Агорандер Intel i7 2600K @ 4.4GHz, ASUS Sabertooth P67, 8GB Corsair Vengeance @ 1600MHz, ASUS GTX 560Ti DirectCU II 1GB, Samsung 830series 512GB SSD, Corsair AX850w, two BENQ screens and TM HOTAS Warthog DCS: A-10C Warthog FAQ | DCS: P-51D FAQ | Remember to read the Forum Rules | | | Life of a Game Tester Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manfrez01 Posted December 31, 2011 Share Posted December 31, 2011 Something funny I saw on the net today: :D Repost (Posted by me in the funny things, a day before.) http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=29347&page=255 :megalol: [sIGPIC]http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/7877/72368977.jpg[/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manfrez01 Posted December 31, 2011 Share Posted December 31, 2011 And Happy New Year FOr all folks. [sIGPIC]http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/7877/72368977.jpg[/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ED Team BIGNEWY Posted December 31, 2011 ED Team Share Posted December 31, 2011 In the video they talk of ships coming from the sun has anyone seen this video of what appears to be a object parked behind Mercury that only shows its self when hit from the energy from the sun http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42o-4dePLZ8 all very interesting stuff :) Forum rules - DCS Crashing? Try this first - Cleanup and Repair - Discord BIGNEWY#8703 - Youtube - Patch Status Windows 11, NVIDIA MSI RTX 3090, Intel® i9-10900K 3.70GHz, 5.30GHz Turbo, Corsair Hydro Series H150i Pro, 64GB DDR @3200, ASUS ROG Strix Z490-F Gaming, HP Reverb G2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EtherealN Posted December 31, 2011 Share Posted December 31, 2011 Repost (Posted by me in the funny things, a day before.) I don't read that section. :P [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Daniel "EtherealN" Agorander | Даниэль "эфирныйн" Агорандер Intel i7 2600K @ 4.4GHz, ASUS Sabertooth P67, 8GB Corsair Vengeance @ 1600MHz, ASUS GTX 560Ti DirectCU II 1GB, Samsung 830series 512GB SSD, Corsair AX850w, two BENQ screens and TM HOTAS Warthog DCS: A-10C Warthog FAQ | DCS: P-51D FAQ | Remember to read the Forum Rules | | | Life of a Game Tester Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EtherealN Posted December 31, 2011 Share Posted December 31, 2011 In the video they talk of ships coming from the sun has anyone seen this video of what appears to be a object parked behind Mercury that only shows its self when hit from the energy from the sun http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42o-4dePLZ8 all very interesting stuff :) Interesting as an exercise in astrophotography, yes. Interesting in any other way - no. As evidence of a spaceship - silly. It's an artefact created by a lightmasking filter applied to allow the flare to be visible at all. What you are seeing next to mercury is... mercury. ;) [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Daniel "EtherealN" Agorander | Даниэль "эфирныйн" Агорандер Intel i7 2600K @ 4.4GHz, ASUS Sabertooth P67, 8GB Corsair Vengeance @ 1600MHz, ASUS GTX 560Ti DirectCU II 1GB, Samsung 830series 512GB SSD, Corsair AX850w, two BENQ screens and TM HOTAS Warthog DCS: A-10C Warthog FAQ | DCS: P-51D FAQ | Remember to read the Forum Rules | | | Life of a Game Tester Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPTIDE Posted December 31, 2011 Share Posted December 31, 2011 I used to be an Alien once, but then I took an arrow in the knee. [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hassata Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 One thing I don't understand, a lot of this stuff is (I gather) based on the fact that 21 Dec in 2012 will see the alignment of the earth, sun, and the black hole at the center of the galaxy. But there was a more perfect alignment of those 3 in 1998 :confused:. [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zakobi Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 (edited) One thing I don't understand, a lot of this stuff is (I gather) based on the fact that 21 Dec in 2012 will see the alignment of the earth, sun, and the black hole at the center of the galaxy. But there was a more perfect alignment of those 3 in 1998 :confused:. QJjQMwEjC1I For some reason i suck atm at make it embedded :angry: **Fixed** Edited January 3, 2012 by 159th_Viper Vid embedded Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Depth Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 The alignment of the sun, earth and the galactic core happens twice a year. What's special about this year is ████████████ [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grimes Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 CGP Grey to save the day. The right man in the wrong place makes all the difference in the world. Current Projects: Grayflag Server, Scripting Wiki Useful Links: Mission Scripting Tools MIST-(GitHub) MIST-(Thread) SLMOD, Wiki wishlist, Mission Editing Wiki!, Mission Building Forum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hassata Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 So true re History Channel. What the hell happened there !? [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cichlidfan Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 So true re History Channel. What the hell happened there !? I don't know but between, aliens, pawn shops and people who live in swamps and catch alligators for a living there does not appear to be much time left for history. ASUS ROG Maximus VIII Hero, i7-6700K, Noctua NH-D14 Cooler, Crucial 32GB DDR4 2133, Samsung 950 Pro NVMe 256GB, Samsung EVO 250GB & 500GB SSD, 2TB Caviar Black, Zotac GTX 1080 AMP! Extreme 8GB, Corsair HX1000i, Phillips BDM4065UC 40" 4k monitor, VX2258 TouchScreen, TIR 5 w/ProClip, TM Warthog, VKB Gladiator Pro, Saitek X56, et. al., MFG Crosswind Pedals #1199, VolairSim Pit, Rift CV1 :thumbup: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hassata Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 Plus every other second it's Nostradamus. [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sobek Posted January 4, 2012 Share Posted January 4, 2012 Plus every other second it's Nostradamus. Because it's not like he ever made erroneous predictions. :) Good, fast, cheap. Choose any two. Come let's eat grandpa! Use punctuation, save lives! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
112th_Rossi Posted January 4, 2012 Share Posted January 4, 2012 Ah cool. My car insurance runs out on that date. No need to renew. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
104th_Cobra Posted January 4, 2012 Share Posted January 4, 2012 (edited) That remembered me to make a credit to buy a cutter and go around the world! At least I don't have to pay... That or disappear in Solomon Islands. Me, smoking a pipe, some years from now. Edited January 4, 2012 by Xpto 104th Cobra [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hassata Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfstriked Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 Mayans were not killed off but integrated into societies. "Its easy,place the pipper on target and bombs away." :pilotfly: i7-8700k/GTX 1080ti/VKB-GladiatorPRO/VKB-T-rudder Pedals/Saitek X55 throttle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pilotasso Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 The survivors were scattered and forcingly assimilated and their legacy dilluted. reminds me of circus tigers. They are still there but no longer representative of the originals. good as extinct. [sigpic]http://forums.eagle.ru/signaturepics/sigpic4448_29.gif[/sigpic] My PC specs below:Case: Corsair 400C PSU: SEASONIC SS-760XP2 760W Platinum CPU: AMD RYZEN 3900X (12C/24T) RAM: 32 GB 4266Mhz (two 2x8 kits) of trident Z RGB @3600Mhz CL 14 CR=1T MOBO: ASUS CROSSHAIR HERO VI AM4 GFX: GTX 1080Ti MSI Gaming X Cooler: NXZT Kraken X62 280mm AIO Storage: Samsung 960 EVO 1TB M.2+6GB WD 6Gb red HOTAS: Thrustmaster Warthog + CH pro pedals Monitor: Gigabyte AORUS AD27QD Freesync HDR400 1440P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPTIDE Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 @XPTO: Seems gravity isn't too kind to those people. I won't envy you, no matter what is in that pipe. [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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