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Former Popemobile Going Up For Auction
Zothecula writes with an amusing article in Gizmag. From the article: "The greater share of the value of any significant collector car is in the provenance — who sat in the seat before you, and experienced the same vehicle, can make a massive difference to the price the car commands. What then of a car that was built for and used by Pope Paul VI? It was subsequently the centre of numerous other ticker tape parades with dozens of dignitaries, most notably the first astronauts to orbit the moon (Apollo 8's Frank Borman, James Lovell and William Anders), the first astronauts to set foot on the moon (Apollo 11's Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, plus Command Module Pilot Michael Collins) plus Apollo 13's Lovell, Mattingly and Haise and Apollo 15's Scott, Worden and Irwin, President Lyndon LBJ Johnson and VP Hubert Humphrey."
This thing must seat 10 or 12. Altar boys aren't that big.
Trolling is a art,
and this is relevant to the /. community how?
For sale now, no reserve.
Gently reply
Does it run on prayers? How many miles does it get per Hail Mary?
I mean, maybe some other people care, but this is /.
Everybody's talkin' at me...I can't hear a word they're sayin'...just drivin' around in Jon Voight's car...
Poopmobile!
It's a highly customize automobile which means there's a lot of cool stuff that went into making it. Taking apart would be a dream of any gear-head nerd.
Or did you think that "nerd = computer stuff"?
"Lack of speed can be overcome. In the worst case by patience." --Znork
I would prefer the one with the aquarium.
Yo dawg, have a popemobile.
and this is relevant to the /. community how?
The 20 ft. stetch limo conversion was completed in ten days.
In time for the Pope's vist to the UN, a Mass at Yankee Statium and a vist to the Vatican Pavilion at the New York World's Fair (where Michelangelo's "Pieta" was on display.)
This early Popemobile is quite interesting as an example of the intersection between technology and celebrity --- and surprisingly, in the wake of the Kennedy assasination, it doesn't appear to have had any significant armoring.
The stretched wheelbase is a massive 160" with an overall length of nearly 21 feet. Exterior step plates and handrails for security, additional interior seating for aides and prelates, a special seat for the Pontiff that can be raised and lowered, supplemental interior lighting, public address system, auxiliary power from a bank of seven batteries were only a few of the many detail changes.
Nothing says "faith in god"
like bullet-proof glass.
is illiterate not atheist, since there is no bigotry involved in the statements.
Nothing says "faith in god" like bullet-proof glass.
Look at the photographs. The Pope has no protection.
Following the attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II in 1981, the popemobile was fitted with bulletproof glass on four sides. However, it was sometimes driven with open windows.
Popemobile
Slashdot is all about IT these days. Or so a certain crowd has come to believe.
And the IT people don't even realize they don't 'own' computers or hardware in any way. But they think anything posted here has to be about their crappy job 'programming' web pages and putting more toner in the fucking LJ4 over in accounting.
They're never ones to keep something old that was no longer relevant.
For many people, the prayer for help is less for intervention than for teaching.
Part of the purpose is for the person praying to at least think far enough to figure out what kind of help is really necessary, and the usual result is help figuring out what to do.
Atheists can argue that meditation should be sufficient without having to brown-nose some non-existent supreme being, but that kind of misses the point.
Sometimes there are other things that happen, too, usually people (friends, strangers, even enemies) who provide just enough help, once the person praying has started solving the problem on his or her own. Atheists can argue that such people would likely help anyway, but that's also kind of missing the point.
It has been noted above, but faith is supposed to be something that gets people to think about their problems and see what they can do for themselves first.
To the extent that atheism also helps people try to solve their own problems, atheism has value in God's universe.
This is /. I'm sure that there are far more people who are impressed with the fact that Apollo astronauts (including Apollo 11) rode in this car, than the fact that a religious leader did.
Why on earth did the pope angle get first billing here?
Touch everywhere, even when inappropriate.
How do you get a nun laid? Dress her up as a choir boy.
The soiled little boys underwear was from the previous owner!