funny pic thread

[Kephart P.E.]

Love the Deep Field stuff. BTW all things proved by use of the Scientific Theory.

Something that is strangely (to me) under unnecessary attack lately.

 

[Dexman PE PMP]

There's no way I would survive this unless I'm playing with beer. Or apple juice...

 

[Capt Worley PE]

^Two patrol boats and no submarine?

Fail.

 

[Dexman PE PMP]

^Two patrol boats and no submarine?

Fail.

I actually caught that too.

 

[roadwreck]

Is that for reals?

The full size photo is pretty cool

http://upload.wikime...h_rez_edit1.jpg

Does Hubble have a 3MP Wal-Mart special camera? Look at the graininess. What a disappointment.

lol, you are going to seriously complain about the resolution of a photo that was taken in 2003 (what was the resolution of the Wal-Mart special camera then?) from an object floating in space of objects that are 13 BILLION light years away?

Seems a little harsh, no? Maybe they just had the ISO turned up a little to high for that shot.

 

[Dexman PE PMP]

The image did say that the camera was "held open" for 4 months to collect as much light as possible. ANY movement of the camera what-so-ever with the shutter open longer than a fraction of a millesecond would result in significant blurriness, especially at something billions of lightyears away.

 

[Master slacker]

Maybe they just forgot to use the "Night" option. Damn those NASA people.

 

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[goodal]

not to get too engineery in this section, but how in the world do you begin to get that thing upright? Would htey weld it tight, pump it dry and hope it flips upright or what?

 

[snickerd3]

one method i heard them talking about was inflating huge heavy duty ballons to basically push the water out but there aren't many big wide open places to make such a idea possible...more narrow halls and things.

 

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[Capt Worley PE]

not to get too engineery in this section, but how in the world do you begin to get that thing upright? Would htey weld it tight, pump it dry and hope it flips upright or I am a Gigantic *********

I don't think they will. The hole is pretty big, there's LOTS of water damage, and I would imagine the hull is pretty tweaked from lying on its side for so long. They'll probably scrap it in place if it doesn't slip off the ledge first.

 

[Freon]

There are a couple ways to right/raise a vessel like this. A common one is to fill the compartments where the hull is breached with foam (like the spray "Great Stuff" you buy a Home Depot) them start pumping her out. They just need a couple millions cans....

 

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