Even though it’s right in the post, I missed what the implication was supposed to be about calculating the number. You’re supposed to get 666, but they are really bad at math and think 6 * 11 is 666.
Damnit really? I have taken pics of every 666 I see in the wild (mainly different odometers over the years) and it would suck if science really undoes all that hard work
The numbers were code for emperor Nero. If you assign every letter in the alphabet a number based on the alphabetical order and add up the values for the name, you get 666. But only if you use the Greek name NERON CAESAR, in Latin, he would be NERO CAESAR, and the missing N gives you only 616. So some scribes in the western part of the empire would calculate in their head and write down 616. So we got two versions of the number going around in manuscripts from the time.
Have you any other pictures, spore print, size info, etc. I'm thinking you've got the right mushroom, but the wrong name. It's in the Boletaceae family, agreed. Could be Suillellus luridus, methinks. And you'll want to rule out Imperator torosus.
If I had to guess at a glance, the pipe-looking things are to guard the rotor against striking the ground. If you mean the things hanging off them, I’d guess that they’re inflatated bladders to spread out the time of impact when landing.
EDIT: Rotor guy is apparently flying a de Lackner HZ-1 Aerocycle, and yeah, that’s apparently what they’re for:
The aircraft’s landing gear consisted of airbags at the end of each arm of the frame along with a large rubber float in the middle, providing amphibious capability,[5] although this arrangement was later replaced by a pair of conventional helicopter-type skids.[8]
According the the article linked it didn’t even pass the testing phase, because surprise-surprise guys kept crashing. That was the 50’s in peacetime, and the whole thing probably started because helicopters were the hype of the era and there was a lot of funding.
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