So THAT's what happened to the tigers after Sigfried and Roy ended their show.....

That's exactly why I don't buy organic anything.

:lol2:

Looks like a giant lightning bird about to grab lunch...Zurich, or, near there, I think.

Lightning bird ... followed soon by .... THUNDERRRRRRBIRD!

Is it being chased by the Thundercats?

Thunderbird Puppets attack!

Am I Neil Diamond, or what?! :lol2:

Cucumber has left the building...and the planet

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The top pic could have won the Cellar's Photography Contest # 12 as the best entry in the "Bound-aerie" category

Bound-aerie...groan.:dead:

Friends share.
Best friends share boogers.

Not so much WTF as just a cool pic that I couldn't find a more proper thread for...SR-71 'Blackbirds' on the assembly line.

freaking awesome pic!! that's got to be like... 29% of the world's know reserves of titanium, right there. wow!!

I got it from Bendbox.com.

Very cool.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_SR-71_Blackbird

I didn't realize they built 32 of them. I figured it was even fewer.

Want.

I went to a museum in Kansas that was built around one. They can't be privately owned, but the museum has an agreement with the Air Force where if the plane ever has to be returned, the Air Force pays for the reconstruction.

That is an awesome collection! It seems a little sciencie for Kansas though... I kid, I kid!

It really is an amazing museum.

You're gonna burn for that.

Some will hope. :)

I have my doubts about a museum that doesn't list the SR-71 on its "Top Ten Artifacts".:right:

My favorite nugget about the Blackbird is the fact that when someone somewhere breaks a Blackbird speed record, we break one out of mothballs, and go just fast enough to get the record back. Kinda like Milton Berle and his giant schlong. Someone once asked him just how big it was, and Berle said "I don't know kid, I just pull out enough to win."

We are not allowed to misuse alien technology. :tinfoil:

They also have a lunar lander and rover which are not in the top ten list.

I want an SR71!

I almost touched a Blackbird, here. Famously, the plane the X-Men flew.

Blackbird flying in the dead of night
On these delta wings it learned to fly
Take your life
You were not expecting this moment of demise

I don't remember if I touched it or not, but there's an early blackbird at the Boeing Museum of Flight in Seattle. You could get pretty close, if not touching distance.

You can touch the one in Kansas.

Here are where the blackbirds are (I looked 'cause I figured there was one at the National Museum of the US Air Force at Wright-Patterson AFB.)

http://www.sr-71.org/blackbird/locations.php

I just dug out my crappy cellphone pics of the SR-71. It's hard finding a good vantage point from which to take a picture of a huge jet inside a building. The shuttle is just a mockup, but I think it may have some real tile.

Which is more bad-ass looking, the Blackbird or the Stealth Bomber?

Noticeably absent are the ones stored in the time tunnel in Area 51.

The Pratt & Whitney J58-P4 engines used in the Blackbird were the only American engines designed to operate continuously on afterburner, and became more efficient as speed increased. Each J58 engine could produce 32,500 lbf (145 kN) of static thrust.

The faster you go, the faster you can go. yikes!

The time tunnel blackbirds are the same planes from the future.

Blackbirds are by far more badass looking.

One of inchlings friends had a grandpa who was a spook. Apparently, back in the day, the grandpa flew around in a blackbird. His daughter, who is about my age recalled finding a trunk filled with costumes when she was little. She assumed her dad was an actor and that's why he needed all those different costumes.

This is beyond WTF for me. WTF would Jesus Say?

omg 10 seconds in and I want to punch that guy right in his stupid face! :speechls:

Thanks, SN. The *only* reward was seeing this at the end.

The (very limited) info for the first pic says it is the new Dreamliner undergoing stress testing. The second pic is Iron Maiden's bar tab. I don't know where the bar is or what unit of currency that is.

I wonder about the currency too. shift the decimals over two places and you have a fairly reasonable tab.

Norway. $3275.00 According to a google search of "slippery nipple bar tab".

I don't get it. What's he mean by "Don't eat them?"

Norwegian, I'd say. "Ansatt" meaning "employee" according to a web search.
6 Norwegian Kroner approx. equals 1$

ETA: oops, Jinx got in before me there

If one does the math:
The price of kilkenny pint is 66,00
The price of Trippel Sec speedrac is 61,00

From google the average price of Trippel sec Speedrac is 6.99 US.

Braaaaaaiiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!!!!!!!!

Don't be a zombie.

Not so much 'What The Fuck?' as fucking WANT!

Where would you park it?

Under your stretch Hummer.

Sinus infection...

Looks kinda like Opus.

Or Woodstock.

I think a friend of mine nose him.