Picture of the day

[diopter]

Safety wire, A.K.A. lockwire, is a better way to stabilize the mount.

 

[grelmar]

How is that offensive? I was merely pointing out the irony given the present circumstances in Ukraine; where her talents would be most beneficial. The Ukrainians have been employing female snipers to good effect.

Meh, I was probably grumpy after work and looking to pick a fight.

But back to pictures...

Hero to some, villain to others, and a gentleman in his own mind:

 

[I Dont Care About You]

I guess that depends on which tome you read.

Some say they crossed the land/ice bridge between Asia and North America.

Who really knows?

A couple of Ice Ages could create all sorts of scenarios, most with believable information.

Small problem with this notion. Humans and our direct ancestors only came into existence after the last ice age. We did not exist prior to or during the peak of the last ice age.

UBC DNA research project.... common DNA from South America all the way throught the US to Canada....

All this says is that a group of Homo sapiens crossed into N America and then spread throughout N and S America. The idea Homo sapiens evolved in S America would mean that our species evolved in two different places ... which we did not.

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

We've talked enough, and I know this'll just kick off another lengthy stream of back-and-forth, but I can't help myself:

#FactFriday - The #Army deployed a team of four observers from the Canadian Army Advanced Warfare Centre to China. The Chinese PLA accepted a reciprocal invitation from the CA to observe winter survival training in Petawawa. #StrongSecureEngaged #StrongProudReady

Somehow I'm reminded of these classics:

"Gee, it's been great working with you. Hope to see you again sometime..."

 

[*lawrence]

Small problem with this notion. Humans and our direct ancestors only came into existence after the last ice age. We did not exist prior to or during the peak of the last ice age.





All this says is that a group of Homo sapiens crossed into N America and then spread throughout N and S America. The idea Homo sapiens evolved in S America would mean that our species evolved in two different places ... which we did not.

The study says that FN in NA came from SA. It does not intimate that they sprung from the earth in SA.

 

[HuskyDude]

Those that are too lazy to post pics in the "Pic of the day" thread...
Must think 'texting' is just pics of words and count.


See you tomorrow...

 

[Ironers]

Yeah, too much talking and not enough pics:

 

[bearhunter]

Those that are too lazy to post pics in the "Pic of the day" thread...
Must think 'texting' is just pics of words and count.


See you tomorrow...

That's because we learned how to read back in the day.

 

[HuskyDude]

That's because we learned how to read back in the day.

As in the bold title of the thread...??

Not sure, but I think the tractor was made by Edsel Ford.

 

[john@]

THF95209

Henry Ford and Edsel Ford with Fordson Tractor, 1921

 

[CV32]

 

[steamy teabag]

Inside a bomber stream is the stuff of nightmares.

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

Fancy a factory-fresh Mitchell?

 

[HuskyDude]

Should almost be posted in "Things kids today won't recognize"
They would have no idea what the "War Effort" was.

 

[*lawrence]

Should almost be posted in "Things kids today won't recognize"
They would have no idea what the "War Effort" was.

Woah....

 

[Grizzly Adams]

Should almost be posted in "Things kids today won't recognize"
They would have no idea what the "War Effort" was.

And not likely to happen again.

Grizz

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

War's aren't fought like that anymore, and we're likely better for it. No need to drop thousands of tons of bombs on a city whem you can actually do the ol' "pickle barrel" shot they talked about back in WW2. No need to shift thousands of men on ships transatlantic over a period of eight days when you can fly them in eight hours. No need for conscription, yet anyway.

We can be all nostalgic about war in general and WW2 in particualr, but both were horrible and to be frank, I'm damned glad I haven't seen their like in my lifetime. If we play our cards right, we won't for a while yet.

 

[HuskyDude]

Here ya go Dan and other who are interested.

It's a bit dry as far as exciting movies...but still...
It even has a very brief showing of a Beaufighter using Night Radar.


(click)

Secret Flight 1946
Wartime tale of a group of British scientists efforts to develop the first radar system.
They did it just in time for it to be used in the Battle of Britain against the might of the Nazi Luftwaffe.
Without it the little island could well have been overrun.

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

Hot damn! Thanks, HD. I'll look that up.

I love me some British films. They're so damned quiet. Like reading a book.

 

[bigplinker]

Small problem with this notion. Humans and our direct ancestors only came into existence after the last ice age. We did not exist prior to or during the peak of the last ice age.





All this says is that a group of Homo sapiens crossed into N America and then spread throughout N and S America. The idea Homo sapiens evolved in S America would mean that our species evolved in two different places ... which we did not.

I can tell you, as a student of both anthropology and archaeology, that you're talking in an awful lot of absolutes about a period of time (anything before say 5500 years ago) that we're lucky to find literal, specific, grains of sand in the deserts that remain of the interglacial bread baskets, to come up with those theories you're so confident about.

History, like science, evolves. Only ignorant people think it's written in stone, and that the translation is done by a precision instrument.

The fact that it wasn't written down at all, that's the only absolute.

Genetically, our species, homo sapiens, has existed for hundreds of thousands of years, and co existed with at least one other species of hominids BEFORE the beginning of the last ice age.
And that's just what the bones tell us.

The world's a big place, but nowhere near as vast as the eons that human beings have been walking around, motivated to move in order to survive.