What are the chances of a sinkhole that big (and the subsequent uplift) keeping the gantry perfectly upright and NOT dumping the LV over on its side at any point in the process?Hey, if we're rolling up sleeves, I can point out, as a professional geologist, how that could happen. The simplest way is to drop it in a basin, which isn't so strange in the land of sinkholes. Then you'd need some uplift, which the artist seems to have actually anticipated, given the surprisingly well drawn tilted sedimentary layers. The only thing that really requires strong suspension of disbelief is that the shuttle is somehow more resistant to weathering and erosion than the rock layers.
A wizard did it. No one said this was a science fiction drawing. It could be urban fantasy. Dimensional rift opens up and merges the shuttle with a small mountain.
That's not the gantry. That's the crawler for moving the assembled vehicle *to* the gantry.What are the chances of a sinkhole that big (and the subsequent uplift) keeping the gantry perfectly upright and NOT dumping the LV over on its side at any point in the process?
Yes, but really that thing only has two places they park it, and clearly it's not at the Assembly building. Unless we're meant to believe it broke down halfway between the launch pad and the VAB and there wasn't time to fix it? It's believable the support structure would also fall apart after weathering.That's not the gantry. That's the crawler for moving the assembled vehicle *to* the gantry.
I would like to say that my belief-suspending dampers were automatically triggered upon viewing the picture, so I was saved from falling too far into Dwightitude.That picture, while pretty, drives me up the wall.
Not nearly as evocative that way.The only thing the artist would have had to have done differently to not flip my SOD circuitbreakers would be to have put it on its side/in a heap instead of standing up.
That house was later found completely abandoned, the occupant's location still unknown.
I feel this could have been handled better.
If any of your coworkers are gay, you may not get the reaction you're expecting. Less "....holy sh*!" And more "Ew! Someone peed on this and left it on my desk!"Oh man, for april fool's, I'm going to leave positive pregnancy tests on men's desks.
"@stienman, your wife left you a message again."If any of your coworkers are gay, you may not get the reaction you're expecting. Less "....holy sh*!" And more "Ew! Someone peed on this and left it on my desk!"
Workers at a Colombia clinic said a woman inserted a potato into her vagina as a means of contraception and the spud grew roots inside of her.
So I guess that means she was pretty fertile...Ok this is not a picture, but a news story. I don't want it to have its own thread. I think this is the most appropriate place for it.
Doctors Remove Potato From Woman's Vagina
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It's how she keeps the home fries burning.She should really get her tubers tied.[DOUBLEPOST=1412297752,1412297718][/DOUBLEPOST]That's one way to put starch in your shorts.
I think someone suggested she sow her wild oats, but she misunderstood and she sowed a potato instead.......
....WHAT? I just....WHAT?
The weirdest part was that it was a banana when it went in.