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I got to see Iwo Jima in person. It's kinda creepy feeling on a boat off the island and when you get on the island the whole time you have goosebumps (we got to go on the island to hold a memorial for my dad's uncle and place a plaque on the top of Mount Suribachi)
 
I have a weird feeling about stuff like that. If you went there without any knowledge of what went down, then it would be just a regular old beach.
 
If you read "Flags of Our Fathers" or "Letters from Iwo Jima" the description of the island in those books is perfect:

Iwo Jima, the island that served as the root for USMC pride and essentially a turning point in the Pacific. You think you would see a massive beach-head like in Normandy at Omaha beach or a place like St. Petersburg. But you don't. It's little more than a piece of rock covered in black sand with a "mountain" that is little more than a craggy hill."

Many of the bunkers and old machine gun pillboxes still stand to this day as do the old artillery and entrenched guns. The place is creepy.
 
Yeah, yeah, if there are bunkers and such, but let's say the bloodiest battle ever fought on a field, that turns into a forest and you don't know the history while going tra-la-la all over it. That's more what I meant, not to take away from your personal experience.
 
Oh I know. I did drum corps for a summer (blahblah band geek whatever) and we were in Pennsylvani and saw Gettysburg. Place is little more than an overly large track of land with some grass and trees. It's really weird.
 
Good thread

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yeah man, so inspiring. it's what got me and my buddy into highlining. we've been doing it in parks about 30 feet up since the summer and we're gradually getting all the necessary equipment to do it between buildings
 
under africa state law he was not aloud to touch anyone/anything he sees there only to take pictures or else he could gain a disease from something. and also h killed himself after taking this because he wasnt allowed to help her, he would have gone to jail. next time do some more research before u call dead people fags.
 
i know this is a dubpost but your responses are fucking ridiculous, im not trying to be a dick and im not hating on you, but have some respect, he didnt watch her die there is nothing he could have done she was in such a state that she would have died anyways. and under africa law he would have gone to prison for an insane amount of time if he laid a finger on her. its sad that they treat the people there like a zoo, but its true. the vulture flew away. no one knows if it came back or not, and the man killed himself because he chose to not try and save her instead of trying to save her, in which he would have failed because she was almost dead, and there are no developed hospitals, where even trained proffesionals would have saved her anywhere around, then he would have been imprisoned. and this picture was certainly not taken for entertainment, it was taken to open the eyes of people who did not realize the situation that was going on, like you.
 
Any ideas on what I could make with a microwave and George Foreman Grill? I have no stove and desperately want something home-made tasting.
 
This is more of a personal one but this is the ship my dad was a Captain on for almost 20 years.

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Just as reference here are some of it's specs:

-Built in 1978

-285 meters in length or a little over 3 football fields

Now for a story, my dad would be standing in the pilot house (if you look all the way at the back there is that very smalle portion at the top with the windows is the pilot house) and he would be essentially driving the ship through a Typhoon and he said he could see the ship bend because of the force of the ocean.
 
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Something about the Space Shuttle always amazes me. Its a craft that humans have built. That goes into space. Orbits our planet. And we made it. Dirty, hairless apes that go crazy over Wal-mart ketchup and celebrity news. We can do amazing things when we actually try.

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This puts it into even more perspective I think. This is an image taken of the sun. Look closely to see what got in the shot as it was docking with the ISS.

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Check out the leftmost viewpanel.

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From the very big to the very small. Particle collisions producing streaks and spirals, which in turn indicate new types of particles.

I love quotes, heres one to end on.

“It is the most poetic thing I know about the universe. The amazing thing is that every atom in your body came from a star that exploded, and the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics, you are all star dust. You couldn’t be here if stars hadn’t exploded, because the elements the carbon, nitrogen, the oxygen, the iron; all the things that matter for evolution weren’t created at the begining of time, they were created at the nuclear furnaces of stars and the only way they could get into your body if the stars were kind enough to explode."

Lawrence Krauss
 
^^^^^^^ the other day i was talking to a friend about this. we drove by an aiprort and i was like "dude, planes fly. we fucking took several hundred tons of steel and rubber and plastic, and we put together in a way that makes it fly, and it comes the fuck back down too. human beings looked physics in the face and said "fuck you. we do not give a fuck about your shit."

the whole space thing too. space is far away as FUCK. but we went there. and then we came the fuck back. like crazy fucking magic trick shit. everything on this planet was made so we stay here. on the dirt. and then we built boats and spaceships and other insane shit and broke all the fucking rules.

fuck yeah.
 
buran was entirely more badass than the spaceshuttle, but was completely ruined by the fall of the soviet union. It was designed to be better than the space shuttle in every way. Safer, faster to reuse, could carry more, and on top of that, they designed the damn thing to be capable of traveling to the moon. Soviets had some serious space ambitions...
 
...yes?

the russians don't quite have the extensive plans the soviets have. Instead they've just about near perfected the art of flying into earth orbit frequently and without issue.
 
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