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I got to see so many examples of goddamn wacky British engineering on this trip. I'll never say no to a ferry, and a CHAIN ferry, while loud as shit, is a pretty cool solution to ensure fast-landing in a narrow gap with big currents. CLANK CLANK CLANK - Sandbanks Chain Ferry - Dorset, UK
Two Titans Antonov An-124 and a mothballed MD-11 at KBFI in Seattle
Goddamn what a cool day. What a wonderful noise. Ukrainian Antonov An-124 departing KBFI - Seattle for Leipzig.
🇺🇦 Ukrainian giant visiting Seattle tonight! I really hope I can catch this thing taking off. 🇺🇦
I started travelling internationally to see Cold War wastelands, abandoned cities, and the sites of nuclear disasters - how did I turn into the type of dork that giggles gleefully and gets all fuzzy about visiting grocery stores in foreign countries? Does the arc of my life end at "konbini pics?"
The weird mirrored timing of @wtyppod.bsky.social episodes and my own travels continues. Please rate this waste-to-power/heating steam plant I stayed a whole extra day in Krakow to see. I think it looks straight out of SimCity 4; we'd never use an aesthetic that goes this hard.
Patriotism has never been about pretending our nation is without flaws. Patriotism is every act of righteous dissent. Loving your country means fighting for the best version of it. Happy 250th from Seattle!
The USS Iowa (BB-61) was the lead ship of the Iowa-class battleships. Built for speed as well as firepower, she could reach nearly 33 knots, making her one of the fastest battleships ever built.
While as a society we are moving toward greater inclusion and equality for all people, the tide of history only advances when people make themselves fully visible.
On this date in 1946, Harold Dahl claimed a man in a dark suit warned him not to discuss his Maury Island UFO incident from the previous day, creating the foundations of the Men in Black mythos.
The Storis is a medium icebreaker docked at the Coast Guard Station nearer the stadiums.
So cool to see the business end of a heavy icebreaker when it is out of the water! - USCGC Polar Star in Seattle
It could be that the entire purpose of your life is only to serve as a warning to others.
Cuck Fuckerburgs's yacht in Seattle, with cruise ship for scale.
Russia hit the Pechersk Lavra monastery last night. Built in 1051, the Eastern Orthodox monastery is a UNESCO world heritage site. Firefighters put out the blaze this morning and discovered the remains of a shahed drone engine on the roof.
Safeguard also controlled 4 Remote Sprint Launch sites. Designed to intercept ICBMs coming over the North Pole, the Sprint was a 2nd-to-last line of defense to protect North Dakota's Minuteman missile fields. Sprint carrier a 1-kt neutron warhead and accelerated to Mach 10 in about 5 seconds.
I'm a pretty lucky guy to get to see weird things I never thought I'd get to see with amazing people I never could have imagined I'd get to meet.
The Tiger I was the best tank of World War 2 and other jokes you can tell yourself
80 years ago today, physicist Louis Slotin triggered a deadly radiation burst by hand while experimenting with a plutonium sphere at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. The core was part of two fatal criticality accidents and was eventually dubbed the "Demon Core."
Straight out of SimCity, one of the coolest buildings I've ever seen. The Waste Thermal Treatment Plant ZTPO is the largest waste-to-energy in Poland, handling 220,000 tons of waste annually, producing 65k MWh of electricity and 280k MWh of district heating. Waste ash is used to build roads.
Snaking through banded hills of green and gold is the village of Sułoszowa. The 1st historical mention dates to 1315. In the 14th century, King Casimir III built a castle called Pieskowa Skała on the edge of the village, along with fortifications to protect a trade route from Kraków to Silesia.
Fortunately, I have friends willing to accompany me on exotic and extravagant "do-overs" where we can poke around and take our time to enjoy the weirdness. Alvernia Studios is a tv/film studio 18km west of Krakow.