R.I.P. THREAD

[arugula2]

Daft Punk (the entity, not the constituent members).

[felltoearth]

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[felltoearth]

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[Keep It Real]

They'll be back

[aufbahrung]

Olivier Dassault French version of Elon Musk dies in Helicopter Plunge

https://www.forbes.com/profile/olivier- ... 1546a72412

[aban57]

Olivier Dassault French version of Elon Musk dies in Helicopter Plunge

https://www.forbes.com/profile/olivier- ... 1546a72412

French version of Elon Musk ? LOL

[Ironclad]

Piers Morgan first casualty of the royal internal war 2021. Bye bye numbnuts

[Agi Hammerthief]

Lou Ottens

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-56355444

[The_Piper]

That's Kill em all! RIP though. I never knew the cassette only had one inventor. There were reels and I think playtapes before that.

[Hermit]

That's Kill em all! RIP though. I never knew the cassette only had one inventor. There were reels and I think playtapes before that.

And they were preceded by wax cylinders.



My first recording device was this tape to tape monster. It weighed a bit more than 10 kilograms.

[The_Piper]

Cool. So many ways people got their exercise in the old days. I have a couple reel to reels to sell but they're not portable. Surprisingly they're not worth a fortune. I think wax cylinders preceded vinyl records. Those are valuable. It's funny how the BBC article says that cassettes took off right away when 8 track superceded them on the market for a while. I think cassettes are superior to 8-track because they're more reliable, 2 sided instead of 4 track, easy to rewind and repair. Though a musician friend pointed out 8-tracks have better sound quality (if they work right) because the tape is wider. I don't know if that's true or not. The tape is wider but the recording is on 4 tracks.

[Calilasseia]

Murray Walker, the legendary Formula 1 commentator, has died at the grand old age of 97. BBC Sport covers this here.

[Hermit]

Murray Walker's inaccuracies and mangling of the language were a constant source of amusement to me, especially when his co-commentator was the 1976 F1 world champion, James Hunt.

Walker, excitedly: And that, that is Patrick Tambay! You can visibly see Tambay closing the gap to Nigel Mansell at this moment of the present time! At this rate he will gain a place ahead of him before the end of the race, if things don't go wrong for him, but anything can happen in Formula One racing, and it usually does!

Hunt, calmly: That is René Arnoux lapping Elio de Angelis.

[Ironclad]

https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/entertainm ... s-56412867

Kotto, star of Live and Let Die, Alien and much more, has passed.

[Ironclad]

Dbl

[Ironclad]

Fuck, NO

Sabine Schmitz: Former racing driver and Top Gear presenter dies aged 51 https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/motorsport/56420308

[Ironclad]

Dbl

[Calilasseia]

Fuck, NO

Sabine Schmitz: Former racing driver and Top Gear presenter dies aged 51 https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/motorsport/56420308

Bugger. That one seriously ruined today for me.

Sabine Schmitz was not only a consummate driver, she also had a lively sense of humour. Who could forget the transit van round the Nurburgring episode of Top Gear?

[Calilasseia]

Meanwhile, if you need a demonstration of how consummate a racing driver she was, watch this video ... watch her annihilate the rest of the field and make it look effortless ...



Those in the know used to joke that she knew the Nurburgring better than her own anatomy, and it probably wasn't that much of a joke ...

[Hermit]

Not that her anatomy wouldn't have been worth knowing. Schnittig.



Schmitz proved that she was a competent race car driver when she won the 24 Hour Nürburgring race in 1996. To prove it was no fluke she did it again in 1997.

And, yeah, lapping the north loop in 10:08 with a basically stock standard Ford Transit van was a bit of a lark. I guess having done ~14 thousand laps around that circuit before then helped. Schmitz would have known the birth and evolution of every bump, depression and crack as well as when and where a bunny was likely to cross the track.