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HubertManne, in US Navy Blimp after being downed during a nuclear test, 1957
@HubertManne@kbin.social avatar

can someone give context. this seems like bs.

Catoblepas,

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NTS_-_Plumbob_-_Stokes_test_with_Goodyear_ZSG-3_blimp.jpg It was an unmanned blimp flown near a test site to see what would happen, basically.

Linkerbaan,
@Linkerbaan@lemmy.world avatar

Who approves the budget for these crazy ideas instead of just testing them on a small scale?

“Hey what would happen if we nuked a high speed train? Only one way to find out!”

Hobbes, in Belgian refugees leaving Brussels with a dog pulling a cart, WW1, 1914

Anyone know what breed of dog that is?

KnightontheSun, in US Navy Blimp after being downed during a nuclear test, 1957

It looks like it could be an album cover from Led Zeppelin.

datelmd5sum, in US Navy Blimp after being downed during a nuclear test, 1957

Who could’ve known blimps weren’t nuke-proof? They seem so rigid.

Drusas, in Belgian refugees leaving Brussels with a dog pulling a cart, WW1, 1914

That poor dog is so not built for that task.

PugJesus, in 1969 demonstrative photos of a NASA study on cats to help develop techniques for astronauts to re-orient in zero-G
@PugJesus@kbin.social avatar

"I work at NASA!"

"Oh, man, that's so cool! What do you do?"

[sweats, thinking of all the hours spent dropping cats and taking photos of them in mid-air] "B-biostudies..."

tryitout, in 1969 demonstrative photos of a NASA study on cats to help develop techniques for astronauts to re-orient in zero-G

Why aren’t there space suits with tails?

Fake4000, in Early color photographer Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii and two Cossacks posing for a picture, 1916

These photos are amazing. They remind me of this photo. It’s probably the first one I’ve seen and still enjoy.

2img.net/h/…/Earlyemir1911.jpg

bort, in Early color photographer Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii and two Cossacks posing for a picture, 1916

looks fotoshopped

CCF_100, in Early color photographer Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii and two Cossacks posing for a picture, 1916

Mind-blowing 🤯

Anticorp, in Early color photographer Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii and two Cossacks posing for a picture, 1916

I’m pretty sure the middle guy is a time traveling bro, and the guy on the right is Walter White.

ivanafterall, in Early color photo of a nomad in Uzbekistan, taken between 1905-1915
@ivanafterall@kbin.social avatar

I could get into that life.

blahsay, in Early color photo of a nomad in Uzbekistan, taken between 1905-1915

See many trees? No wood means no roof. Four walls but no roof is really common in that area even these days. 🤯

PugJesus,
@PugJesus@kbin.social avatar

Looks like a thatched roof to me.

blahsay,

Me too. Still needs supports

Akasazh,
@Akasazh@feddit.nl avatar

‘there is no te in this picture, therefore there aren’t any trees in Uzbekistan’

Said him who died of thirst because the rivier was outside his field of vision.

dream_weasel, in Early color photo of a nomad in Uzbekistan, taken between 1905-1915

I wonder how he’s doing today.

GBU_28,

He’s a vtuber now

Dhrystone, in Two Imperial German sound locators for detecting airplanes, WW1, 1917
@Dhrystone@infosec.pub avatar

M-I-C… K-E-Y…

soot_guy,

M-O-U-S-E

mcesh,

M-A-U-S

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