I know this is old news, but I just stumbled across it and it make be chuckle. Just some random shit, like everything in this thread:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnWBbqOBBSM&feature=related

Holy crap! Is that really Billy Gibbons on the right?

I'm pretty sure that's not Billy. Frank Beard and Dusty Hill were in a band together before they met him. I thought it had a different name than ZZ Top, but I'm not sure.

It must have had a different name, as Billy founded ZZ Top.

56 yrs of tornados...

What's up with West Virginia?

Also, very cool. Well, not to anyone who has been affected, but from a purely scientific perspective...nice data representation.

That is AWESOME, blessingx! I am definitely using that next year in my class. Thanks

Dusty, the Appalachians are pretty dominant in that area. Not that tornadoes are stopped dead in their tracks by mountains (because many have tracked into the southern Appalachians), the area around WV disrupts the ingredients necessary for tornado formation.

Edited June 1, 201214 yr by roadtonowhere08

god decided WV had enough troubles without tornados.

That is AWESOME, blessingx! I am definitely using that next year in my class. Thanks

Dusty, the Appalachians are pretty dominant in that area. Not that tornadoes are stopped dead in their tracks by mountains (because many have tracked into the southern Appalachians), the area around WV disrupts the ingredients necessary for tornado formation.

That and tornados are repelled by banjo music.

Edited June 1, 201214 yr by Augsburger

Edited June 1, 201214 yr by roadtonowhere08

In that region, tornados tend to follow the Blue Ridge Mountains and Shenandoah River, which as we all know, have only marginal (mostly folklore) associations with West Virginia and would seem to more appropriately describe western Virginia.

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Edited June 1, 201214 yr by blessingx

Since we were talking about cool VW's the other week, I see a bug with semaphore turn signals. Easily one of the most badass things ever invented.

Check it out here:

^^^

New Stax amp? Want.

LOLz, looks like a CT scan or MRI device. Never saw one with the cover removed.

LOLz, looks like a CT scan or MRI device. Never saw one with the cover removed.

Probably a CT scan since there's a sign for "CT PROCEDURE" on the wall to the left.

^Good catch, didn't pay attention to that sign

A cat scanner. The whole inside section rotates about 2 rps.

MRI are just giant superconducting magnet. Nothing inside but a coil

of wire and lots of liquid helium.

There is a reason these things are over $2M

Upper left with the big high voltage lead is the xray tube.

Lower right with the 5 fans is the detector module.

upper right with the warning sign is the xray power supply,

typically 60kv at about 500ma.

Edited June 2, 201214 yr by kevin gilmore

Video of what Kevin is describing: