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Re: Favourite pictures v2.0

PostPosted: Thu Aug 09, 2018 2:30 am
by Spica75
Té Rowan wrote:Rei gets to keep her manga for herself today.

rei_revenge.jpg


:mrgreen:

Such a perfect pic i had to save it.


Bondage and discipline. I always suspected it of those two.


:lol:

Re: Favourite pictures v2.0

PostPosted: Sun Sep 02, 2018 2:32 pm
by Té Rowan
Spotted this bundle of cute somewhere on Teh Interwebz.

SM chibi-lady-queen-serenity.jpg


And in case some reader is still utterly clueless about the AC/DC T-shirt on previous page, the two faces are those of Nikola Tesla and Thomas Alva Edison. Tesla was a proponent of AC (Alternating Current) for transmitting electricity, while Edison wanted to use DC (Direct Currrent). Tesla won, because AC was largely cheaper to deal with.

Re: Favourite pictures v2.0

PostPosted: Sun Sep 02, 2018 5:07 pm
by Ellen Kuhfeld
Cute and sweet, but not saccharine. :wink:

Re: Favourite pictures v2.0

PostPosted: Mon Sep 03, 2018 5:23 am
by Té Rowan
Too much of too many artificial sweeteners already out there, for fanen! But, yeah, this pic won’t set off a Nagamon event.

(Nagamon = Nagato the kanmusu when confronted by an excess of cute.)

Re: Favourite pictures v2.0

PostPosted: Mon Sep 03, 2018 4:49 pm
by Spica75
Té Rowan wrote:Spotted this bundle of cute somewhere on Teh Interwebz.

SM chibi-lady-queen-serenity.jpg


And in case some reader is still utterly clueless about the AC/DC T-shirt on previous page, the two faces are those of Nikola Tesla and Thomas Alva Edison. Tesla was a proponent of AC (Alternating Current) for transmitting electricity, while Edison wanted to use DC (Direct Currrent). Tesla won, because AC was largely cheaper to deal with.


DC is often much preferred "on location", where you're actually using it, buuut, to get it there over a distribution net, DC in many ways sucks.

And a very nice pic BTW.

Re: Favourite pictures v2.0

PostPosted: Mon Sep 03, 2018 7:01 pm
by Té Rowan
Incidentally, the Japanese use high-voltage DC to bridge the 50/60 Hz divide.

Re: Favourite pictures v2.0

PostPosted: Tue Sep 04, 2018 7:55 pm
by Spica75
Té Rowan wrote:Incidentally, the Japanese use high-voltage DC to bridge the 50/60 Hz divide.


It's also used in some major underwater lines to minimize the number of cables needed to be laid down and remain functional and for safety.

Re: Favourite pictures v2.0

PostPosted: Tue Sep 04, 2018 8:21 pm
by Ellen Kuhfeld
The main problem with high-voltage DC - at least at the time Tesla and Edison were battling it out - is that transformers didn't exist for DC. So you could send it efficiently (high voltage) but then it was hard to get it down to low voltage for family use. And while I know a lot about 18th and 19th century electricity, my knowledge starts going downhill past about 1960.

Re: Favourite pictures v2.0

PostPosted: Wed Sep 05, 2018 5:55 pm
by Té Rowan
I’m not so hot re knowledge on HVDC either, but the Wiki-articles look OK to me.

Anyway, here is something I snagged off FB a while ago:

Firebird.jpg

Re: Favourite pictures v2.0

PostPosted: Thu Sep 06, 2018 8:24 am
by Té Rowan
This is about as sailormoonish as I recall Minato Monthly even being.

Minato_2002.png


Front page image from December 2002 — and, yes, it definitely looks like a nine-foot-wide, giant pink heart on top of that tree.

Re: Favourite pictures v2.0

PostPosted: Thu Sep 06, 2018 11:55 am
by Spica75
Ellen Kuhfeld wrote:The main problem with high-voltage DC - at least at the time Tesla and Edison were battling it out - is that transformers didn't exist for DC. So you could send it efficiently (high voltage) but then it was hard to get it down to low voltage for family use. And while I know a lot about 18th and 19th century electricity, my knowledge starts going downhill past about 1960.


Yeah, i found out that it was a whole little science all by itself when i got dragged into a discussion about it on some forum 5-10 years ago.

A whole host of little good's and bad's and even a bunch of exceptions to the general rules about how you could set up powergrids and distribution networks.

Re: Favourite pictures v2.0

PostPosted: Thu Sep 06, 2018 2:33 pm
by Té Rowan

Re: Favourite pictures v2.0

PostPosted: Thu Sep 06, 2018 5:15 pm
by Spica75


:lol: :lol: :lol:

Scepters DID develop from mace's after all.

Re: Favourite pictures v2.0

PostPosted: Fri Sep 07, 2018 1:45 am
by Neko-
Mamoru getting the bad part of the deal there... Reminds me of this picture:

http://www.angelfire.com/anime5/fanficl ... Take_2.jpg

For those curious - that's from Black Dragon's Guardian (a Ranma fic): http://www.angelfire.com/anime5/fanficlair/library.html

On that same page you'll also find Millennium, which is a Guardian /Sailor Moon crossover

Re: Favourite pictures v2.0

PostPosted: Sun Sep 09, 2018 10:52 am
by Té Rowan