Cool Pictures 14: no , it wasn't me who painted Mona Lisa

"I'm ready for my closeup!"

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The American Dream when new
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And before Restoration
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After Restoration
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And why was it built in the first place?
 
Broken_Erika said:
The American Dream when new
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And before Restoration
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After Restoration
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Valka D'Ur said:
How does something like that get around corners?
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Theoretically, you could steer something like this with a soft-sided 'accordion' after the second set of axles, like you see on light-rail cars. There are some extra-long city buses that use those, and they drive surface streets okay. In the "before restoration" pic, it almost looks like there are in fact two pieces, separated just after the second set of axles; but in the restored pic, it looks like it's been assembled into one continuous piece (if there's an accordion in there, it's incredibly well-camouflaged).

This thing looks even longer than those buses, though, so you might need steering at the back in addition, like old fire-trucks used to have. If you did add a tiller-wheel, you might not need to mount it in an elevated position like you used to have to - for the visibility - with modern cameras and sensing tech. Heck, if this thing is fully computerized, you might not even need a tiller-wheel, maybe it could just turn the rear wheels to match the steering from the front automatically (I suppose it could work like a version of the automatic parallel-parking that some cars have had for a while now). I also wonder if the steering wheel at the front turns all three forward axles simultaneously. I assume it would have to? Likewise, I suppose all five rear axles would have to turn together, if it used any kind of 'tiller' steering.

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For anyone who's never seen an old fire truck and is wondering what I'm talking about, "tiller" steering just means steering a vehicle from the back. Old ladder trucks were so long, they had to put a second steering wheel at the end, controlling the rear axle. When the driver turned the truck, the 'tiller' would turn his steering wheel in the opposite direction, so the back end of the truck would swing out on the turn. And the cab for the tiller was mounted up high, so the guy in back could see where the truck was going. Back before power-steering was standard, I imagine those guys got a real workout. The tiller cab on this E-ONE V-Max 2018 Super Tiller has air conditioning. :lol: (This truck is a little over 51'/15.5m long. I can't tell how long that silly car with the helicopter is.)

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EgonSpengler said:
Theoretically, you could steer something like this with a soft-sided 'accordion' after the second set of axles, like you see on light-rail cars. There are some extra-long city buses that use those, and they drive surface streets okay. In the "before restoration" pic, it almost looks like there are in fact two pieces, separated just after the second set of axles; but in the restored pic, it looks like it's been assembled into one continuous piece (if there's an accordion in there, it's incredibly well-camouflaged).
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It sepoerates in half
The person who made it is the guy who made these
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Ohrberg
https://www.messynessychic.com/2022/01/25/the-weird-and-wonderful-wheels-of-jay-ohrberg/
 
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Arakhor said:
Is that Ursa Minor there as well? I love the colour of that cake.
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Ursa Minor is also there, but not in the right place. There's no way the pointer stars on that cake point to Polaris.

Therefore it wouldn't be useful for navigation but since you're going to eat it anyway, hopefully it's not cloudy and you can use the real stars! :p

That icing looks so delicious... I speculate a fruity licorice flavor, or at least that's what it would be if I were making it.


I was browsing the grocery department of the local Walmart website, and apparently peanut butter-flavored ice cream is a thing.
 
Before and after pictures of the magnitude-7.6 earthquake hit Japan on 1 January showing how the land has raised so much that the coastline has shifted offshore by up to 250 metres. Four locations, two images each so multi levels spoilers seem in order.

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Spoiler 2 :
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Spoiler 3 :
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Spoiler 4 :
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In all the years I spent in the Okanagan on vacations in both summer and winter, I never saw anything like this. The strangest it got was red Suns and Moons, but that was due to a heat wave (back in the '60s and '70s we didn't worry so much about fire, just heat).

My family would have made up some silly joke about Ogopogo to explain this.
 
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