Thread: Interesting, Odd or Funny Pics.

Originally Posted by lebanon

The first ever untethered free flight using the Manned Maneuvering Unit in 1984. He is traveling at 17,500 mph, and the ground beneath him is moving at 5 mps. He is over a football field's length away from the shuttle at 320 ft. This is Bruce Mcandless, and this is what courage looks like.

Sorry if I'm being a spoil sport - the photo is still amazing - but I like how they say:

"He is traveling at 17,500 mph, and the ground beneath him is moving at 5 mps."

But clearly he's travelling at walking speed relative to where he came from (the shuttle). Otherwise it's the same as saying your Land Rover is travelling at 17,500mph.....(relative to the astronaut).

LR should start quoting top speed of the Defender in "relative kms/h". The number would be far more exciting!

Originally Posted by BMKal

You only put that there because of the disturbing story in the bottom left hand corner, I'd only just read that

Originally Posted by Disco Muppet

You only put that there because of the disturbing story in the bottom left hand corner, I'd only just read that

is it this

A Welsh man has been banned from going out on weekends after he was caught simulating sex with a parked four-wheel-drive.

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CCTV cameras caught Daniel Craig Cooper, a 24-year-old from Springfields in Holywell, during his naked rampage through Holywell town centre during a night out on August 18, The Leader reports.
The father-of-three was first seen urinating before heading down High Street with his pants around his ankles and his shirt pulled over his head.
Prosecutor John Wylde said Cooper then entered a kebab shop, where he stimulated a sex act against the counter before laying on the ground and continuing.
Cooper then went onto the street where he encountered the Land Rover Discovery. He was arrested by police a short time later.
Flintshire Magistrates Court heard Cooper had not been out drinking for some time before the night and had left home with just $22 in his pocket.
The defence counsel said Cooper was a responsible family man and had been "totally ashamed" by the incident.
He pleaded guilty to a charge of indecent exposure and placed on a community order which prevents him from going out between 7pm and 7am on Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights for the next three months.
He was also ordered to pay $144 in court costs.
Source: The Leader

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^ gotta be the trucks fault! hehehe