skepticism

Light color and the overall size of the highlights looks off, and that thing would be way too heavy to be supported by a single point of contact on the rim without warping, let alone being held up by whatever sheet of thin stuff that is between the forks, if it didn't flip the forklift entirely. The weight of the handle sticking oout like that should be pulling it off to the side without any straps/etc to secure it to the frame, for that matter, and the shadow looks iffy too. The frame itself looks plenty beefy, but probably designed for something like transporting a bunch of flat stuff like plywood, drywall, or sheet metal.

I'm not saying it can't be real, but unless there's video evidence or at least a bunch more stills it looks a lot more likely to be a fake, or at most fabbed up from something much lighter than iron. Wood or fiberglass over foam I could believe would physically work, at least, though the lighting and balance questions would remain.

(12-22-2021, 08:49 AM)robkelk Wrote: It was 69 years ago this month that the nuclear plant in Chalk River did not completely melt down, thanks in part to a US Navy lieutenant who would later become President.

Quote:The Queen has launched her own brand of posh tomato ketchup and brown sauce to go on sale at her Sandringham estate in Norfolk.

Quote:Jeff Noakes, a historian of the Second World War at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa, studied the video. He confirmed it shows a rare Ram tank — specifically a Ram 2 from the middle of the production run that lasted from 1941 to 1943.

He said boxy fenders extending over the treads, details in the hull, and the presence of a machine-gun turret show it's a Ram, not the more common U.S. M3 tank.

(04-04-2022, 10:55 AM)robkelk Wrote: Hikers find rare WW II Canadian tank 'rusting peacefully' in English field

Quote:Jeff Noakes, a historian of the Second World War at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa, studied the video. He confirmed it shows a rare Ram tank — specifically a Ram 2 from the middle of the production run that lasted from 1941 to 1943.

He said boxy fenders extending over the treads, details in the hull, and the presence of a machine-gun turret show it's a Ram, not the more common U.S. M3 tank.

Of course, none of the GnP school ships are based on the Canadian forces in WWII, are they?

Quote:The schoolship's name [and] appearance is unknown, however it was purchased as an incomplete vessel from the United Kingdom. One point of note about the schoolship is that [it] has the most natural, green environment aboard compared to other schoolships, with [Norway-themed] Viking Fisheries High School following closely behind.

(04-14-2022, 02:08 PM)robkelk Wrote: Elon Musk offers to buy Twitter

Odd news because it's an odd acquisition for him.

Quote:Well, there's really no way to put this delicately. A Florida driver distracted by receiving intimate services from his passenger lost track of his surroundings and crashed head-on (it only gets worse from here, folks) into a FedEx delivery vehicle in Ft. Lauderdale on Thursday, resulting in "injuries to his private area," WPLG Local 10 reports.

... Neither occupant of the FedEx vehicle was injured; the only package harmed was the one being attentively gift-wrapped by the passenger of the SUV.

Quote:Now THAT would be a really funny commercial! there is his stuff hanging on a plaque, and Jonathan Simmons says, "Yep, we covered that!" LOL