I don't know... the crater resulting from the collapse of the structure was pretty freakin huge... as is the carving into the wall of the crater. The Apache would need to be pretty high to see over the lip of that crater and would have been heard for a pretty good distance too with the sound bouncing around inside that crater. As for scale, check out the first long distance look we get of the whole carving... you can see that Kath and Atsali are pretty small in the frame compared to the carving and the crater itself. Crater... as in possibly volcanic in nature?notStanley wrote:I like how my assumptions of scale are constantly being overturned. Atsali is pretty casual about changing her size to fit the situation. The updates on perceived size of things like the cubbyhole (before the roof caved in) & wall carving & sinkhole & tunnel as more data is revealed. My poor suburban senses are just not used to objects that large. While a movie style long panning shot would give me time to adjust, that would take just too darn long in this one frame a day format.
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You know that light at the end of the tunnel?
Yeah... it's a bullet. Sorry.
Yeah... it's a bullet. Sorry.
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Oh, Lord, those people in grey,Akasha wrote:...
Here come the Men in Black
It's the M.I.B.'s, uhh, here come the M.I.B.'s
Here come the Men in Black
They won't let you remember
Nah nah nah
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I gotta get back at those people in grey,
Here come the people in grey,
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Including, prior to the White Man's takeover, many other Native Americans.kingklash wrote:Helicopters named after the Apache and Comanche, missiles called Tomahawks? Somehow, I think that people might have the impression that Native Americans are aggressive.
The Apache, Comanche, and Souix considered anyone else fair game.
Besides, even the less aggressive tribes are honored with helicopter names as well, take the Kiowa, Osage, Cayuse, and Huey for instance.
The big problem was we took on a tribe that was just a little out of our league, the Washington.
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Wait . . .The Hueys were a tribe? They ride trains without credit cards, or what?sheik wrote:Besides, even the less aggressive tribes are honored with helicopter names as well, take the Kiowa, Osage, Cayuse, and Huey for instance.
Are there Hekawi helicopters, and what do they use them for?
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To a fair extent, the popular names of a number of tribes translate as "those evil bastards over there" in the languages of the tribes immediately to their east...
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"Pennsylvania"--Algonquin for "Gateway to Ohio."Fairportfan wrote:To a fair extent, the popular names of a number of tribes translate as "those evil bastards over there" in the languages of the tribes immediately to their east...
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Huey was the unofficial name for the UH-1, which initially was called the HU-1... HU = Huey... The official name for the UH-1 was the Iroquois... which IS an indian tribe name.Typeminer wrote:Wait . . .The Hueys were a tribe? They ride trains without credit cards, or what?sheik wrote:Besides, even the less aggressive tribes are honored with helicopter names as well, take the Kiowa, Osage, Cayuse, and Huey for instance.
Are there Hekawi helicopters, and what do they use them for?
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Re: Coming This Way 2013-03-18
Probably used to spot balloons.DilyV wrote:Huey was the unofficial name for the UH-1, which initially was called the HU-1... HU = Huey... The official name for the UH-1 was the Iroquois... which IS an indian tribe name.Typeminer wrote:Wait . . .The Hueys were a tribe? They ride trains without credit cards, or what?sheik wrote:Besides, even the less aggressive tribes are honored with helicopter names as well, take the Kiowa, Osage, Cayuse, and Huey for instance.
Are there Hekawi helicopters, and what do they use them for?
If someone really bugs me about what tribes I am, I'll include Hekawi and Poohawk.
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So, I'm full-blood Native American, 1/4 each Choctaw, Arapaho, Kiowa, Comanche, and somehow 1/2 helicopter?sheik wrote:Including, prior to the White Man's takeover, many other Native Americans.kingklash wrote:Helicopters named after the Apache and Comanche, missiles called Tomahawks? Somehow, I think that people might have the impression that Native Americans are aggressive.
The Apache, Comanche, and Souix considered anyone else fair game.
Besides, even the less aggressive tribes are honored with helicopter names as well, take the Kiowa, Osage, Cayuse, and Huey for instance.
The big problem was we took on a tribe that was just a little out of our league, the Washington.
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Yes indeed! The avatar pic is from Wings Over Houston airshow a couple years back. This view is actually the underside, aircraft banking to left.DilyV wrote:Indeed... Army Apaches are a very very dark Olive Drab... when Airborne, at any reasonable distaince, they DO look black especially when back lit...Wyvern wrote:Seen against the daylight sky, most aircraft look black.
I was expecting Atsali to say something unhelpful like, "Uh, it looks like a helicopter." Is she getting less useless?
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There are Hekawi's, but being plauged by notorious GPS problems, you're never quite sure where they are...Typeminer wrote:sheik wrote:Are there Hekawi helicopters, and what do they use them for?
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Thanks, Guy. Never knew that.Typeminer wrote: "Pennsylvania"--Algonquin for "Gateway to Ohio."
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Do hats spin when you put one one on your head?kingklash wrote:So, I'm full-blood Native American, 1/4 each Choctaw, Arapaho, Kiowa, Comanche, and somehow 1/2 helicopter?
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Do you have an unexplained fondness for headgear like this?kingklash wrote:So, I'm full-blood Native American, 1/4 each Choctaw, Arapaho, Kiowa, Comanche, and somehow 1/2 helicopter?
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Right-wing radio talkshow (now retired) host and dedicated pilot Neal Boortz:shadowinthelight wrote:Do hats spin when you put one one on your head?kingklash wrote:So, I'm full-blood Native American, 1/4 each Choctaw, Arapaho, Kiowa, Comanche, and somehow 1/2 helicopter?
If your wings are moving faster than your fuselage, pray you're in a helicopter.
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S-I-O-U-X. Sioux. Pronounced "soo".
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I hope you're 1/2 helicopter! That would be cool!kingklash wrote:So, I'm full-blood Native American, 1/4 each Choctaw, Arapaho, Kiowa, Comanche, and somehow 1/2 helicopter?
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And all the time I was growing up reading comic book westerns, I thought it was pronounced "Squix". Silly me. Never connected that tribe with the Sooo that kept attacking forts in the movies. Buffalo soldiers were some elite group of scouts in the movies, too. Didn't get the answer to that one until I read a Time-Life book in my fiance's library!jwhouk wrote:S-I-O-U-X. Sioux. Pronounced "soo".
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(Which reminds me of a story...)
Seems a writer of Old West Adventure Stories decided to see what a Real Cowboy thought of his latest work. So, he decamped from his city surroundings and went far, far away to the remote location his friend of a friend of his agent found to see a Real Cowboy, and ask him to read his book. And finally, there he was! An old, grizzled veteran in his 50s, with leathery skin and sinew arms, worn gloves and old boots, just finishing up from a day of branding cattle. He plucked up his courage, straightened his tie, introduced himself and asked if he would read his book.
The the Cowboy read the book.
He read about the stampede, the blizzard, the Indian attack on the fort, the gunfight, the other gunfight, and rescuing poor Nell from the runaway train. The time on the lone prairie, the nights under the stars, grub around the campfire, and shady, if entertaining, women, at the saloon. The poker game. The man with a knife. The hanging (which went very, very wrong). The bank robbery. And so on.
The Cowboy handed back the book.
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"They ain't real cowboys."
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Re: Coming This Way 2013-03-18
Oh yeah, I'm saving that one.Jabberwonky wrote:Do you have an unexplained fondness for headgear like this?kingklash wrote:So, I'm full-blood Native American, 1/4 each Choctaw, Arapaho, Kiowa, Comanche, and somehow 1/2 helicopter?
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I once met a Winnebago, a member of the only North American Tribe named after an RV (or so he said).kingklash wrote:So, I'm full-blood Native American, 1/4 each Choctaw, Arapaho, Kiowa, Comanche, and somehow 1/2 helicopter?sheik wrote:Including, prior to the White Man's takeover, many other Native Americans.kingklash wrote:Helicopters named after the Apache and Comanche, missiles called Tomahawks? Somehow, I think that people might have the impression that Native Americans are aggressive.
The Apache, Comanche, and Souix considered anyone else fair game.
Besides, even the less aggressive tribes are honored with helicopter names as well, take the Kiowa, Osage, Cayuse, and Huey for instance.
The big problem was we took on a tribe that was just a little out of our league, the Washington.