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[Snautzer01]

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He is a bit high.

 

[Bretoal2]

He is a bit high.

Pic is not in real proportion. The Eiffel tower seems crushed....

 

[MiTasol]

and he will need to pull up fast or he will be wearing the Trocadéro (or vice versa)

 

[syscom3]

TBMs on the deck of USS Belleau Wood (CVL-24) as the rear of the ship burns after a kamikaze strike, 30 October 1944

 

[Lucky13]

 

[Vic Balshaw]

I like the way the undercart is propped up on a pile of bricks.

 

[Gnomey]

Nice shots!

 

[GTX]

 

[Zippythehog]

"Lucky for me 'dis thing had air-brakes!"

 

[yosimitesam]

The more things change the more they stay the same? We need one of these "brain weighing" gizmos today! Preferably with bluetooth and wifi.
Credit: Retro America - Flickr

 

[MiTasol]

As I commented in the What annoyed you thread a few days back this sort science is about as accurate as much of the current climate science and automatically assumes that a bigger brain means greater intelligence.
Other scientists of the day, the phrenologists, were using the shape of the head and the lumps and bumps on the skull to predict behaviour.
There always has been and probably always will be quack science.

 

[manta22]

The more things change the more they stay the same? We need one of these "brain weighing" gizmos today! Preferably with bluetooth and wifi.
Credit: Retro America - Flickr

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How is "brain weight" determined except by autopsy?

 

[GTX]

this sort science is about as accurate as much of the current climate science

I have to strongly disagree

How reliable are climate models?

<p>While there are uncertainties with climate models, they successfully reproduce the past and have made predictions that have been subsequently confirmed by observations.</p>

skepticalscience.com

Exxon scientists predicted global warming with ‘shocking skill and accuracy,’ Harvard researchers say

In the study, scientists showed how the multinational energy giant worked to cloud the issue.

news.harvard.edu

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Lets not get into a climate debate here gentlemen.

 

[yosimitesam]

How is "brain weight" determined except by autopsy?

Measuring skull size (of several symetrical points on the skull) and then multiplying by "weight factor" that was probably determined from hundreds (or thousands?) of autopsy measurements before and after brain removal. By the 1930's this sort of data would be extant and widely available. Brain mass could be determined based on a known strong correlation between certain skull measurements and the actual weight of the brain after removal. Similar measurements for other parts of the bodies and the resultant data are how coroners and forensic anthropologists can examine a skull or pelvis and state whether "female" or "male". Some of these anthropological "measurement ranges" can be strongly suggestive of ethnicity or geographical origin. Of course, the stuff in the image I posted is borderline "hokum".

Here's a link:
Anthropomentry

 

[at6]

Lets not get into a climate debate here gentlemen.

I think that the climate here could get a little heated. Thank you for moderating.

 

[Lucky13]

How dare you (in my best Grera Thunberg voice)!?

 

[Snautzer01]

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I wonder if both of those steering wheels were hooked up ?
Some driver's ed car had two steering wheels, late 50's early 60's.
I think they quit using them because they had several problems when the student was stronger than the teacher.

 

[syscom3]

Ground crew of the 387th Bomb Group load 500lb bombs into a B-26 on D-Day, 6 June 1944