₦airaland Forum

B-24 Liberator bombers of the 491st Bomb Group, US Eighth Air Force, en route to a target in Germany, 1944.

This fully-hued picture shows the victory celebrations at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris on July 14, 1919 after the war ended on November 11, 1918.

This picture shows a British ambulance in 1914 with its famous red crosses.

British tank in 1914.

The First World War was the first time air warfare had played a role in combat and this picture of French warplane, Caudron G3, was captured by a photographer in 1914.

Autochrome technology was in its early days throughout the First World War but a small group of photographers were pioneering its usage and there pictures are now being republished in a new book.

Troops are pictured here in blue jackets and helmets watching the sky intently for missiles.

An unidentified US pilot stands up in the cockpit of his plane on the tarmac on Midway Naval Base, Midway Islands, 1942.







https://www.thesun.co.uk/living/3359494/rare-world-war-ii-photos-printed-in-colour-show-the-conflict-the-way-our-ancestors-would-have-seen-it/

http://www.iwm.org.uk/history/22-amazing-colour-photos-of-the-second-world-war

ikp120:
Who measured the crocodile? What I'm seeing there is between 8 and 10ft. Does the guy even know what 16ft looks like? The length of an average bedroom is like 12ft. Just imagine the crocodile in the pics covering that length and more.

You can Google largest crocodiles ever captured or saltwater crocodiles and read about them.


Some officers in the Homicide department, NYPD/LAPD/FBI in the U.S. or other developed countries will see you from a distance, tell your age and your weight.

That's what they do, they've been trained for that.

If they're going to miss, its going to be like 1.

Am saying this because you said who measured it?

If you've been seeing NatGeo Wild or any Wildlife documentaries, you will understand these wild photographers and cameramen.

Lalasticlala, mynd44

Gruesome pictures show how the gazelle was torn to shreds by the massive 16ft crocodile, which had sneaked up on its prey as it crossed a river.






Photographer:



The 51-year-old added: 'To see a half-ton crocodile hunting and eating this gazelle was frightening and the power and brutality was shocking.

'This one was a male, about five metres long and at least 10 years old.

'From the gazelle stepping into the water to being snatched by the crocodile only took about 30 seconds.

'We were about 25 metres away from the crocodile and seeing this, I felt the true power of nature displayed by these pre-historic killing machines.

'The scene was wild and raw from the speed and precision when they attacked to the strength and fury when they slapped the gazelle like a ragdoll.

It was unbelievable.'

Dramatic pictures capture the moment a crocodile launched a ferocious attack on a gazelle, before tearing it in half using its powerful jaws.

The gazelle were trying to cross a river in the Masai Mara National Reserve in Kenya when a 16ft crocodile launched a frenzied attack.

This is the moment a crocodile launched a ferocious attack on a gazelle, before tearing it in half using its powerful jaws.

The 16ft reptile was lying in wait as its thirsty prey ran into a river to drink in the Masai Mara National Reserve, in Kenya.

Snatching the female by its leg, the half-ton beast dragged the gazelle underwater and drowned it before hauling its prey closer to the shore.

But after realising the Thompson's gazelle was too big to eat whole, the predator used its jaws to break the antelope two.





http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4421264/Crocodile-rips-gazelle-HALF-snaring-Kenya.html

[quote author=unclezuma post=55617838][/quote]cc: justwise

Funjosh:
Happy Easter to Explorers



Ichommy



Viking007



Mediapace




Aminat508



Tearoses




Olu4life




Swissheart





Ayolight

Happy Easter bro, many more if IJN, amen.

'Father, forgive them for they know not what they do.'

jagugu88li:
Easy.....jump to the net then make a second jumb to the water......dead.

Jumping on the net will give a severe injury, making it difficult to make another jump due to the injury.

That will scare them from jumping on the net.

$200m Project, 'We would say no, it’s not a lot of money for a life, for all of these lives,' said House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (standing) at a ceremony on Thursday.

It going to hurt if you jump on the net.

Forbidding steel nets meant to deter jumpers with threat of injury.


The Golden Gate Bridge is getting upgraded with a set of hard steel nets meant to deter and prevent jumpers from taking their own lives.

Work on the $200million project began with a Thursday ceremony at the iconic San Francisco landmark, and is projected to take four years.

An estimated 1,500 people have jumped to their deaths from the bridge since it opened in 1937.

In 2016 alone, 36 people died.

'People would ask, "Isn’t that a lot of money for a net?"' House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, who represents Sand Francisco, said at the ceremony, KCBS reported.'And we would say no, it’s not a lot of money for a life, for all of these lives,' she said.



http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/14/us/golden-gate-bridge-net-trnd/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4412396/Golden-Gate-Bridge-steel-suicide-prevention-nets.html

julioralph:
before you run come back here o na on good friday u kon decide to fall hand shebi? see ur profile oo

Na 1 thread cos dat 1 jare.

Make i run go kitchen sharp sharp......

Chahat also suffers from abnormally hard skin that makes taking her blood samples to analyse her condition more difficult.

But the family lack the crucial funds needed to travel further a field to get advanced medical treatment.

She started to put on an excessive amount of weight when she turned four months old, despite being born normal-sized.

Her father, Suraj Kumar, 23, said:

'When Chahat was born, she was completely normal.

Then, slowly we saw that her weight was shooting up.

'Her weight is increasing day by day.

'It's not our fault.

God gave this condition to her.

It's not in our hands.

I feel bad when some people laugh at her for being fat.'


'She doesn't eat like a normal kid.

She keeps eating all the time.

If we don't give her anything to eat, she starts crying.

'She cries to go out but her weight is too much and we are not able to pick her up.

So we only take her to nearby places.

The family doctor, Vasudev Sharma, confirmed that the difficulty with taking blood samples has made a medical diagnosis very difficult.

He said: 'This is the first case I've seen in my life where a child's weight has been shooting up so much four to five months after birth.

'But the blood test couldn't be carried out because the fat on the baby's body was too much, and because of that, the blood test wasn't done properly.

'We have tried it many times.

Her skin is so hard that we can't ever diagnose her condition.

'Dr Sharma has recommended the family visit a specialist at the Civil Hospital in Amritsar, but the family's financial restraints has so far made this impossible.

But Dr Sharma is certain that Chahat's growing size needs to be addressed.

He said: 'Her weight is increasing excessively and it has to be controlled.

She has to eat less.

She eats like a 10-year-old kid.'

And while the family continue to search for answers, Reena dreams of her daughter having a brighter, lighter future.

She said:

'We want Chahat to be able to play like normal kids.

We don't wanther to have difficulties in the future. We want a good future for her.'

A baby girl weighs 2st 10lbs due to her constant cravings for food but is piling on even more pounds as the days go by.

Chahat Kumar, eight months, from Punjab, India, weighs a similar amount to that of a four-year-old.

Her parents blame it on 'God' and her quadruple-sized portions of food, but they deny any responsibility over her diet.

Doctors are confused as to what is causing her insatiable appetite, and are growing increasingly worried about her health.

She now struggles to breathe and even sleep as a result of her excessive weight caused by eating like a '10-year-old', local reports suggest.



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-4407936/Baby-girl-weighs-2st-10lbs-alarms-doctors.html

Laird:
Make people no.go import this radioactive televisions and the cars come Nigeria oooo

Lols.

Congrats.

Impact vaporized bodies, crushed internal organs and suffocated to death.

While anyone who survives is left psychologically scarred for life.



Pictured below:


A simulation if that nuclear device was dropped on Times Square in Newyork.

- Nicknamed the ‘Mother of all Bombs’

- The world’s largest non-nuclear weapon

- Each bomb costs around $16 million (£12.8 million)

- It took $314 million (£251 million) to develop

- It carries 8,164 kilograms of explosives

- Its explosion is equivalent to 11 tons of TNT and the blast radius is a mile wide

- By contrast, the nuclear weapon dropped on Hiroshima had a blast yield of 15 tons of TNT

- First tested by US forces in 2003

- It is designed to destroy heavily reinforced targets or to shatter ground forces and armour across a large area

- 30 feet (9 metres) long and 40 inches (1 metre) wide- Weighs 21,000lbs (9,500kg) – heavier than the Hiroshima nuclear bomb

- Leaves no lasting radiation effect

The Moab or GBU-43/B is the world's largest non-nuclear weapon.

It is designed to destroy heavily reinforced targets or to shatter ground forces and armour across a large area.

Its blast is equivalent to 11 tons of TNT.

By comparison, the nuclear weapon dropped on Hiroshima had a blast yield of 15 tons of TNT.

First tested in 2003, it was developed by by US forces in preparation for the Iraq invasion but was never deployed during the war.

The huge bomb measure 30 feet (9 metres) long and 40 inches (1 metre) wide, and weighs 21,000lbs (9,500kg) – heavier than the Hiroshima nuclear bomb.

While it has a blast radius that stretches a mile in each direction the bomb leaves no lasting radiation effect because it is non-nuclear.

Deploying such a large bomb isn't easy as even the world's largest bombing aircraft can't manage the Moab's size and weight.

The bomb can only be deployed out of the back of large cargo plane using aunique system.

A parachute pulls the bomb out of the plane on a box-like pallet that quickly separates from the explosive.

Grid fins then extend from the body to help control the bomb's descent.

It accelerates rapidly to its terminal velocity and is partially guided to its target via satellite.


HOW IT IS DEPLOYED

- The bomb has ‘grid’ fins that fold into the body during carriage

- It can only be deployed out of the back of large cargo plane due to its size

- The bomb rides on a pallet, a parachute pulls the pallet and bomb out of the plane

- The pallet then separates so that the bomb can fall to its target

- The bomb’s grid fins extend to help control the bomb’s descent

- It accelerates rapidly to its terminal velocity and is partially guided to its target via satellite

- It explodes six feet (1.8 metres) above the ground

- The idea behind this ‘airburst’ mechanism is to spread its destructive range






http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4409964/All-need-know-Mother-Bombs.html

Lalasticlala, Mynd44

vatiqan:
@ Op, is there any hope or preparations on ground, that the inhabitants of these places would someday, go back to the land of their birth?

Sure, when the environments is clear, clean and safe.

They went to check on Fukushima last week.

Pavore9:
[color=#990000]

Who will gather liver to go and claim the money?

They will just abandon the cash like that

.

Nigeria should work on recycling the abandoned planes in the countries.


https://www.nairaland.com/3739835/graveyard-nigerias-dead-airplanes-photos

Lalasticlala, Mynd44 Please

So sad...rip boy.

A Boeing 747-200BM in Nigeria Airways at Leonardo da Vinci-Fiumicino Airport in 1988.


This aircraft was leased from Scandinavian Airlines.