things that might make you go WOW!!!!! thread

[V8Druid]

new toys

Watch the Jetson Personal Air Vehicle take flight, then order your own

Described as a "formula one racing car for the sky," the Jetson One is an electric-powered VTOL sky toy that can hover, bank, and reach speeds of up to 63 mph. The company's latest video will leave you wanting it more than ever.

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$9 billion in pre-orders for super-slow, super-quiet aircraft

Electra's aircraft looks conventional enough, but it generates ludicrous amounts of lift, to take off and land at incredibly slow speeds, using almost no runway. With US$9 billion in pre-orders, it's outselling anything from the eVTOL world.

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[Brendan]

43 万次播放 · 6,003 个心情 | Manchmal muss halt auch ein Fenster mit einer Größe von 75x75cm reichen. Hierbei kamen gleich mehrere der Zusatzoptionen an unserem PK165002tec7 zum Einsatz: 1. Unser Zusatzknickarm der bis zu 25grad nach oben überstreckbar ist

Manchmal muss halt auch ein Fenster mit einer Größe von 75x75cm reichen. Hierbei kamen gleich mehrere der Zusatzoptionen an unserem PK165002tec7 zum Einsatz: 1. Unser Zusatzknickarm der bis zu...

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[V8Druid]

43 万次播放 · 6,003 个心情 | Manchmal muss halt auch ein Fenster mit einer Größe von 75x75cm reichen. Hierbei kamen gleich mehrere der Zusatzoptionen an unserem PK165002tec7 zum Einsatz: 1. Unser Zusatzknickarm der bis zu 25grad nach oben überstreckbar ist

Manchmal muss halt auch ein Fenster mit einer Größe von 75x75cm reichen. Hierbei kamen gleich mehrere der Zusatzoptionen an unserem PK165002tec7 zum Einsatz: 1. Unser Zusatzknickarm der bis zu...

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mental ... who the hell built that plant room without a gantry or some form of lifting installed

 

[Bucket on wheels]

2.9 万次播放 · 372 个心情 | Monster Truck Conquers Gravity on a Steep Ascent | Monster Truck Conquers Gravity on a Steep Ascent | By Machines Satisfying | Facebook

Monster Truck Conquers Gravity on a Steep Ascent

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[pettsy]

234K views · 18K reactions | EPIC!!!!!! . . Thanks for sharing @caveman_on_tour | Combat Learjet

EPIC!!!!!! . . Thanks for sharing @caveman_on_tour.

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[V8Druid]

OMG!!
hope that's a dead one he's holding

 

[Bucket on wheels]

The Manual Machinist | On holiday in Japan for a few weeks and found a lathe to post some pictures of 😁👍 | Facebook

On holiday in Japan for a few weeks and found a lathe to post some pictures of 😁👍 It’s a very big bit of gear to be preserved in a glass box 🤣 This is outside the Yamato Maritime Museum in Kure...

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[JD450A]

How f****ng much to search a single location for BT infastructure!

 

[Lancs Lad]

How f****ng much to search a single location for BT infastructure!

Saw that. What a joke .

In fact I just logged into LSBUD out of interest and ran a search on a site I'll be looking after shortly and it's foc for pretty much every utility apart from openreach and water! Pisstake.

I've used LSBUD for pretty much every site I've had anything to do with. Ruddy handy having a map of leccy and cable/duct sizes etc.

 

[V8Druid]

The Manual Machinist | On holiday in Japan for a few weeks and found a lathe to post some pictures of 😁👍 | Facebook

On holiday in Japan for a few weeks and found a lathe to post some pictures of 😁👍 It’s a very big bit of gear to be preserved in a glass box 🤣 This is outside the Yamato Maritime Museum in Kure...

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pretty similar to that big lathe posted a few months ago ... the war efforts in all countries produced some big machine tools

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[pettsy]

I think BT are on lsbud if you pay the top-up fees (not that I ever have)

 

[Lancs Lad]

I think BT are on lsbud if you pay the top-up fees (not that I ever have)

Correct...but surely BT could save themselves a world of hassle been on the free login?

 

[pettsy]

Correct...but surely BT could save themselves a world of hassle been on the free login?

Oh for sure. Just a money making exercise.

 

[V8Druid]

don't think BT/openreach have any idea where a lot of their stuff is TBH.
had them out here several years ago to tell me where their undergrounds were ....
hit them 30 ft and the other side of the drive to where they told me they were running and about 4" below the surface
was the third cable I found in about 20 odd feet, putting in a land drain .. first two didn't seem to be live/do anything .. no one complained anyway

had to find the joints again in '20 to make sure they weren't an issue when we had a line fault ... had pix of where they were fortunately - engineer was impressed I could go straight to them

 

[Lancs Lad]

don't think BT/openreach have any idea where a lot of their stuff is TBH.
had them out here several years ago to tell me where their undergrounds were ....
hit them 30 ft and the other side of the drive to where they told me they were running and about 4" below the surface
was the third cable I found in about 20 odd feet, putting in a land drain .. first two didn't seem to be live/do anything .. no one complained anyway

had to find the joints again in '20 to make sure they weren't an issue when we had a line fault ... had pix of where they were fortunately - engineer was impressed I could go straight to them

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TBF to think this country for the last 50 years has run on pairs of crappy bits of copper slung on poles or buried an inch below the tarmac is remarkable 🫣

 

[bobthebuilder]

TBF to think this country for the last 50 years has run on pairs of crappy bits of copper slung on poles or buried an inch below the tarmac is remarkable 🫣

we have 2 houses here on starlink ,would never even consider the arseholes at bt again

 

[Lancs Lad]

we have 2 houses here on starlink ,would never even consider the arseholes at bt again

Same,but have noticed it's slowed a bit last few months?

 

[V8Druid]

Starlink isn't very cheap though, is it - as in circa 70 quid a month??

 

[TiltyShaun]

we have 2 houses here on starlink ,would never even consider the arseholes at bt again

Tried it and failed here. Could not cope with wife’s VPN for work and was a pain on banking and found buffering awful for tv.
Fortunately with now have Gigaclear fibre direct to the house.
At 400megs it is slightly better than the 1.5 we used to get from BT.

 

[Lancs Lad]

Starlink isn't very cheap though, is it - as in circa 70 quid a month??

Yup. But BT was £60 for 10mb. I can get 200mb on starlink.