The Random Image Thread (keeping it PG-13 at the worst)

ukimalefu · Post by **ukimalefu** » Fri Oct 10, 2014 7:45 pm

It's a bean bag chair. I just can't trust that jaw joint.

ukimalefu · Post by **ukimalefu** » Fri Oct 10, 2014 7:53 pm

Post by dv » Fri Oct 10, 2014 7:57 pm

user wrote:
dv wrote: Wouldn't that horse overheat rather quickly?

How else is he supposed to blow flames?

Same way I do. Calling upon the leftover strands of demonic energy left over from my previous possession. :shrug:

DEyncourt · Post by **DEyncourt** » Sat Oct 11, 2014 3:30 am

Shiny public art due to sunlight focusing problem:

It had been up since October 2012, so I guess it was just happenstance that no one stood in the problem spot--which moves with the date of the year--until last spring. Since then the artist has attempted to make alterations to prevent the focusing problem but nothing has been entirely successful so it has been placed in (presumably shaded) storage until a fix can be determined.

ukimalefu · Post by **ukimalefu** » Sat Oct 11, 2014 5:44 am

Read the article, I call blatherskite. I don't believe enough light can reflect on the inside of those half-spheres to cause burning at the focal point.

Donkey Butter · Post by **Donkey Butter** » Sat Oct 11, 2014 8:11 am

that's a bit like the death ray building in London link

maurvir · Post by **maurvir** » Sat Oct 11, 2014 10:25 am

ukimalefu wrote: Read the article, I call blatherskite. I don't believe enough light can reflect on the inside of those half-spheres to cause burning at the focal point.

It probably isn't blatherskite. People underestimate the amount of energy in sunlight all the time. It doesn't really take much lensing to create a "death ray" with it, as evidenced on a much smaller scale by kids burning ants with a pocket magnifier.

Although this installation's concave lensing only reflects light from the inner sphere, there is certainly still enough focused energy to singe a jacket or burn someone's skin.

DEyncourt · Post by **DEyncourt** » Sat Oct 11, 2014 10:36 am

ukimalefu wrote: Read the article, I call blatherskite. I don't believe enough light can reflect on the inside of those half-spheres to cause burning at the focal point.

I guess I should have made it clear that the focusing point moves with the time of day as well as the day of the year. At the time of the picture was one time when there was no such focusing point because the left half as pictured that would have cast the focusing point was entirely in the shade of the right half.

Also it has been in the artist's interest to fix the focusing problem because 25% of his fee for creating the public artwork has been withheld until he can do so. The larger hemispheres are 5 meters tall and the design of the sculpture was to have people walk through it, but since the burning incident last spring it had been surrounded by barrier to stop people from wandering into the focus.

maurvir · Post by **maurvir** » Sat Oct 11, 2014 11:18 am

Post by dv » Sat Oct 11, 2014 11:56 am

That is a big-ass hunk of apparently raw meat.

user · Post by **user** » Sat Oct 11, 2014 12:02 pm

ukimalefu · Post by **ukimalefu** » Sat Oct 11, 2014 12:34 pm

is that a spoiler? I don't remember that?

maurvir · Post by **maurvir** » Sat Oct 11, 2014 12:47 pm

ukimalefu wrote: is that a spoiler? I don't remember that?

Nope, not a spoiler. That happened in Season 2, prior to her character being widowed.

ukimalefu · Post by **ukimalefu** » Sat Oct 11, 2014 1:32 pm

ukimalefu · Post by **ukimalefu** » Sat Oct 11, 2014 1:33 pm

TOS · Post by **TOS** » Sat Oct 11, 2014 9:24 pm

battle of the sexes?

Post by dv » Sat Oct 11, 2014 9:34 pm

TOS wrote: battle of the sexes?

Battle? He probably paid her good money to do that. (Or they both got paid.)

Golden rule, man. He who has the gold, makes the rules.

TOS · Post by **TOS** » Sat Oct 11, 2014 9:36 pm

this one's for warin

user · Post by **user** » Sat Oct 11, 2014 11:43 pm

Must be the director's cut.

ukimalefu · Post by **ukimalefu** » Sun Oct 12, 2014 1:33 pm

juice · Post by **juice** » Sun Oct 12, 2014 3:24 pm

That is an odd couple.

TOS · Post by **TOS** » Sun Oct 12, 2014 4:20 pm

yin and yang, baby

maurvir · Post by **maurvir** » Sun Oct 12, 2014 4:23 pm

maurvir · Post by **maurvir** » Sun Oct 12, 2014 4:35 pm

ukimalefu · Post by **ukimalefu** » Sun Oct 12, 2014 4:41 pm

Not of this planet

TOS · Post by **TOS** » Sun Oct 12, 2014 4:47 pm

radarman wrote:

actually a really great discovery that's helped a lot of people

Geesie · Post by **Geesie** » Sun Oct 12, 2014 5:01 pm

Mustapha Mond · Post by **Mustapha Mond** » Sun Oct 12, 2014 8:49 pm

I keep expecting that to turn into "Take On Me."

macnuke · Post by **macnuke** » Sun Oct 12, 2014 10:53 pm

i was waiting for the purple cabbage jeebus

TOS · Post by **TOS** » Mon Oct 13, 2014 12:29 am

Metacell · Post by **Metacell** » Mon Oct 13, 2014 4:54 am

Just looking at that freaks me out. STOP IT YOU FOOL!

user · Post by **user** » Mon Oct 13, 2014 6:40 am

That's NOT a dolphin.

TOS · Post by **TOS** » Mon Oct 13, 2014 9:11 am

she does it to prove that sharks aren't the scary beasts we make them out to be

ukimalefu · Post by **ukimalefu** » Mon Oct 13, 2014 9:20 am

agedgruel wrote: That is an odd couple.

What about this pairing?

DukeofNuke · Post by **DukeofNuke** » Mon Oct 13, 2014 9:24 am

TOS wrote:
radarman wrote:

actually a really great discovery that's helped a lot of people

Pills are better than human waste enemas, I guess.

DukeofNuke · Post by **DukeofNuke** » Mon Oct 13, 2014 9:25 am

TOS wrote: she does it to prove that sharks aren't the scary beasts we make them out to be

iirc , her name is Ocean, right?

DukeofNuke · Post by **DukeofNuke** » Mon Oct 13, 2014 9:26 am

macnuke wrote: i was waiting for the purple cabbage jeebus

reminded me of a CT scan

Metacell · Post by **Metacell** » Mon Oct 13, 2014 10:35 am

TOS wrote: she does it to prove that sharks aren't the scary beasts we make them out to be

Sure, sure...tigers too...just ask Siegfried and Roy. Also, Steve Irwin, just sayin'....mess with deadly animals enough...people are killed by cats for chrissake!

macaddict4life · Post by **macaddict4life** » Mon Oct 13, 2014 11:29 am

radarman wrote:

The Monterey Bay Aquarium is a very awesome place with a very awesome newsletter.

They have a story about an octopus that escaped its tank and went missing over 6 months. Turns out it broke into a different tank and managed to hide for half a year.

Kirk · Post by **Kirk** » Mon Oct 13, 2014 11:34 am

The Monterey Bay Aquarium is gorgeous.
I had a small octopus in a fish tank for a few years. I kept a smaller tank nearby with his food, small shore crabs. He would occasionally not wait for me to feed him. He'd leave his tank move about a foot in air to get to the crab tank, eat one, and go back to his tank.

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