>>8000958
Dont know why but this makes me feel cozy
Like im just going for a drive at night

Didn't have gauges. Here's a bump with comfy vibe tho

I guess this isn't exactly the right aesthetic.

>>8009365

Based and retro-pilled.

>>8010594

I too drive on two wheels. Zh2 here.

>>8004667
Sigh... America's dead dreams.

I wish I could go back in time to tell all those space program engineers that their life's work will just end up in museums and in less than 50 years, the species will completely give up on spaceflight. Money and race will become more important than anything else and will drown out every other pursuit.

>>8012002
It took us about 8,000 years to go to space. 50 years isn't even a drop in the bucket.

>>8012002
>in less than 50 years, the species will completely give up on spaceflight
But that's not true even right now.

>>8012021
You aren't thinking about this right. Through industrialization we consumed the one time use energy ladder from wood to nuclear. That won't have a chance to reform before the planet becomes uninhabitable.

Put another way, if you put 18th century human on a planet with today's oil situation, they never would make the leap from coal to oil. The oil would be impossible for their technology to access. In their day oil would shoot out of the ground if you dug a shallow well, in our day you need to be able to build and operate fracking or deep sea oil rigs. It costs nearly a barrel of oil in energy to get a barrel out of the ground.

So this brief window we have had for the past 100 years or so. That is the only chance life gets.

>>8012070
Space is still happening, doomer.

>>8012070
All the more reason why we need zero point vacuum energy systems put into mainstream global production and usage right now.

Thing is, the technology, and knowledge of how to make that work, is already out there, it's all just been locked away from public access for the last 100 years or so by the lobbyists for the various existing energy production companies (coal, oil, gas, solar, nuclear, etc.) and their political allies, all because there's no way to meter individual energy usage in a zero point vacuum energy system in the same way that you get a gas or electricity bill today, thus the energy companies and governments can't make any money from it, while at the same time such systems would immediately reduce the energy consumption costs for the production and transportation of just about everything from food to clothes to cars to spaceships down to just about zero.

>>8012470
You fundamentally misunderstand vacuum energy. Yes, vacuum has a certain amount of energy, but because that is the same everywhere it is useless.
Imagine you have a set of lakes that are connected to each other via canals that can be closed off. If the water levels differ in the different lakes you can install water wheels or something that will extract energy from the flow of water between the lakes. But if the water level is the same everywhere there's no way to extract any energy, regardless how high the water level is.
That is the conundrum we have with this vacuum energy. If you want to extract it you need a place with less energy than the vacuum, but there is no such place inside our universe.

>>8012476
Also if you do manage to extract energy from the vacuum that means the vacuum was metastable and you will cause a chain reaction as the vacuum collapses to the lower energy state in the entire universe. Basically a second big bang

OC.

OC 2.

OC 3.

There's a WP i've been looking for so long I think it's completely lost
It's a really high definition photo of the cockpit of a F-117A
If someone has it or has something similar to that, please share it

>>8016834
Is this a gauge cluster from a VW?

>>8017607
yes
mk4
presumably an R32
maybe a gti

>>8003206
Lovely Crown Vicky

>>8012476
>>8012070
Better post than what you see on /sci/.
It's depressing and it's exactly like that. If a global cataclysm wipes modern civilization out, we will never see things like cars, skyscrapers, computers, airplanes etc. again.

>>8012445
>>8012470
Read John Horgan's "The End of Science".

>>8019221
You're looking at a time where more countries are launching space programs than any other point in history and complaining that space is over already.

>>8012470
>the technology, and knowledge of how to make that work, is already out there
source?
or is it completely baseless speculation and jumping to conclusions?
genuinely interested
any examples or proof at all i would greatly love to read, even if just for entertainment purposes

>>8010918
Nice.
CB300R here, matt blue with chromed rims.
Will soon level up.

>>8016834
>>8017607
>>8018463
Specifically, this one right here.

>>8009365
I owned this car many years ago. I still miss it.

>>8012002
we need to pool our resources to stop the mexicans from crossing our border and tekkin our jerbs

>>8012002
>sigh
Fuck off faggot.

I am an idiot and selected the wrong photo

This isn't brilliant in terms of ratio, but I took it recently and thought it might fit, and I liked how it turned out, all things considered.

>>8033376
Welp, it just flipped the image 90 degrees.
Anyone want to suggest a fix? I'm guessing it's due to the size of the pic itself, but resizing it through nomacs will probably be even more shit.
Awesome.

>>8033468
There would never be a better time in Subaru's design than the late 90s-mid 2000s. Even the clusters scream clean.

>>8027398
god i love steam gauges so much

>>8000962
Bro what freaking car is that? the gauge cluster is so sexy

>>8023458
larp

>>8000962
>>8049808
most probably a R-something Mercedes, from 250sl to 450sl, or a w123/w126 chassis. I had one for 5 years, my god, what a cluster.
It was a w123 300d td om617 engine. It's a common sight in all of the 1979-1993 Mercedes Benz

>>8051264
> 46.5 mph
> 6750 rpm

Fucking move up a gear already

OC

>>8005997
based 00s ford
my fiesta is a fantastic shitbox

>>8067464
BASED SAAB owner

Ironically I just came to /wg/ to find a wallpaper for my diesel monitor's gauge cluster. Probably a chubby American 2d girl to suit the truck.

>>8049871
>>8049808
It's a BMW E12 5 series

>>8002034
>the crudely pasted in low-res legs
Gets me every fuckin time I see this

>>8004663
This one uses em too.

>>8072973
The space picture is using that exact screenshot as the source for the legs and arm.

>>8072996
Well yeah. I didn't say it didn't. Just that they're the same.
What doesn't make sense, is the dude painted over part of the arm and the right leg, but left the ultra low res thigh on the left.
Or you know, how the dude just used some shitty photoshop as his source reference.

>6608x4064
https://files.catbox.moe/nk0jbz.jpg

OP here, i ended up buying a Camaro lel

from the concorde cockpit

>>8020396
Based Aero X enjoyer

>>8000958
/r/ing a high-res 16:9 pic of the chevrolet DigiDash, picrel, anybody have anything?

straight up porn

>>8079469
Black and yellow dials are just pure class.

>>8010594
open that image stand back from the monitor and squint your eyes.
It looks like a black rabbit

>>8011991
That's a photo of me. I am the one on the right

>>8083522
>italian
>malfunction
pottery
still very beautiful cluster

more non car analog stuff?

>>8079877
thats cool as hell if its true and lame as hell if false

>>8012470
Zero point vacuum energy is a meme currently, you can't harness energy out of a quantum vacuum for practical application because the energy coefficient is both minuscule and also distributed over a vast interstellar distance. That the energy exists at all through the process of entropy is interesting on its own but it would take a K2 civilization at a minimum to even consider collecting it on a galactic scale.

Here's a shitty pic of me almost blowing up the engine in my old Corolla