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Undertoad · 07-17-2001, 10:23 AM

I'm getting better at finding things as my resources for images improve. That means more images in the queue are Not Good Enough for the daily image...

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Okay, who watched <i>Stripes</i> again and got ambitious? This got some press when it was annouced; it's the Army's "SmarTruck", featuring bullet-proof glass, a grenade launcher, a "laser gun" (whatever that is), oil slicks and smokescreens.

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Lemur babies.

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Why would someone mount a dish to a motorized platform and point it at the ground? To estimate the amount of water in the soil by measuring microwave radiation. Turns out a very small amount of microwave radiation is given off by all things, and now they think they can measure it from space and use that info for stuff. Okay.

[IMG]pictures/squarewatermelon.jpg[/IMG]

They sometimes say America has too much damn money. Well, the Japanese are encroaching on this honor. But it's so crowded there that somehow it makes sense to develop a watermelon that fits in their fridges - and costs something like $70 IIRC. Weird.

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Here's what the Ford F-150 looks like after it's been intentionally crashed.

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And here's the placenta of a foal.

07-17-2001, 10:23 AM	#1
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	Image backlog again I'm getting better at finding things as my resources for images improve. That means more images in the queue are Not Good Enough for the daily image... [IMG]pictures/stripestruck.jpg[/IMG] Okay, who watched <i>Stripes</i> again and got ambitious? This got some press when it was annouced; it's the Army's "SmarTruck", featuring bullet-proof glass, a grenade launcher, a "laser gun" (whatever that is), oil slicks and smokescreens. [IMG]pictures/lemurbabies.jpg[/IMG] Lemur babies. [IMG]pictures/mwavewatersearch.jpg[/IMG] Why would someone mount a dish to a motorized platform and point it at the ground? To estimate the amount of water in the soil by measuring microwave radiation. Turns out a very small amount of microwave radiation is given off by all things, and now they think they can measure it from space and use that info for stuff. Okay. [IMG]pictures/squarewatermelon.jpg[/IMG] They sometimes say America has too much damn money. Well, the Japanese are encroaching on this honor. But it's so crowded there that somehow it makes sense to develop a watermelon that fits in their fridges - and costs something like $70 IIRC. Weird. [IMG]pictures/f150.jpg[/IMG] Here's what the Ford F-150 looks like after it's been intentionally crashed. [IMG]pictures/foalplacenta.jpg[/IMG] And here's the placenta of a foal.