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not worthless but loving chilling when you fall down a late-night wikihole http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Robinson_(Green_Man)
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please don't post SCP Foundation documents ITT.
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Oct 8, 2012 16:45
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NoneMoreNegative posted:please don't post SCP Foundation documents ITT.
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Oct 8, 2012 21:32
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apparently he was a really nice guy though so that's cool
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quote:Missiles and airplanes have pitot tubes, named after French inventor Henri Pitot. On December 5, 1973, Second Lieutenant James A. Bevacqua reported that all of the pitot tubes on the stabilizing fins of the Nike Hercules Missiles under his HM 69 command were contaminated by specs of white paint. These pencil-size hollow tubes measured air pressure, which in turn indicated altitude, and altitude determined when the missile was detonated. While on the ground, each pitot tube was protected by a cover which was removed every day for inspection. These covers were painted white. The process of removing and replacing these covers wore away the paint, which ended up as specs and small chips inside the pitot tube. Bevacqua’s recommendation that the pitot tube covers no longer be painted was approved by Brigadier General Hirsch, the 52nd ADA Brigade commander. no, that is not taken out of context, that is the beginning and end of the story. just a little anecdote about an extremely boring thing that happened. kind of getting the feeling that 2lt (ret) james a bevacqua wrote it himself
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Oct 9, 2012 01:45
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there was that one plane that crashed cause its tubes were covered up and their instruments couldnt give them proper altitude. it would kind of suck if a nuclear missiles went all nutso and hit the wrong target cause of some paint.
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Oct 9, 2012 02:29
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no doubt but i'm thinking the story of how one 2nd lt discovered an old weird tip that the usaf didn't want him to know! qualifies as pretty worthless
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Oct 9, 2012 02:42
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whoa now is 1973 properly linked in the year's wiki?
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dragonsven get on this
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Oct 9, 2012 02:58
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Shaggar posted:it would kind of suck if a nuclear missiles went all nutso and hit the wrong target cause of some paint. 
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Oct 9, 2012 03:09
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Sagebrush posted:no, that is not taken out of context, that is the beginning and end of the story. just a little anecdote about an extremely boring thing that happened. kind of getting the feeling that 2lt (ret) james a bevacqua wrote it himself yeah except little chips of ice and poo poo inside pitot tubes caused that huge air france crash recently that killed hundreds of people (flight 447, A330)
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in conclusion pitot tubes are still relevant and people are still loving them up and they cause deaths when hosed up so that is pretty much NOT the definition of worthless wikipedia stuff maybe if some airbus scrub paid more attention to pitot tubes those 220+ people would be alive today also if airbus didn't suck massive balls at programming their airplanes and controls oh hmmm one guy is pulling all the way up and the other guy is pulling all the way down. well. that makes sense let's just average it out to exactly where we were going before and not give any feedback on how hosed up that is
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Oct 9, 2012 04:39
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"where we were going before" is "airplane falling out of the sky" no other indications of this because pitot tubes were stuffed full of little ice chips it's not quite therac 25 territory but tbh it's not that far away.
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pitot tubes are a good thing and it is good to not have them ice up or clog but that story is just so mindblowingly pointless here is teh story simplified for easier understanding: "pitot tubes are important parts of aircraft. an air force dude who worked with missiles at a specific base once noticed that the paint on the missiles' pitot tubes was getting rubbed off and clogging them. he reported this to his supervisor. his supervisor agreed that the tubes should no longer be painted. there were no dangerous incidents and nothing out of the ordinary happened at any time in the process." who benefits from knowing that
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Oct 9, 2012 04:45
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anyone interested in the history of hm69 (lol 69(
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Sagebrush posted:pitot tubes are a good thing and it is good to not have them ice up or clog but that story is just so mindblowingly pointless don't paint your loving pitot tubes little pieces of lovely paint will gently caress them up & people will die or nukes will airburst randomly - a good lesson
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Oct 9, 2012 04:52
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well now you've all written more boring poo poo about pitot tubes than wikipedia so congratulations I guess
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Oct 9, 2012 05:03
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we've gone from getting articles deleted to improving them? y'all gonna dig up some more appropriate sources next?
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JawnV6 posted:we've gone from getting articles deleted to improving them? this forum now that the posts have been posted
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Oct 9, 2012 05:13
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battleship was pretty great so im p. excited for asteroids
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Oct 9, 2012 11:04
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yeah, i'm sure if you're liberal with the story you could turn it into "space captain heroically destroys asteroid swarm, saves earth" and it will gross half a billion
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Oct 9, 2012 11:54
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Blackula69 posted:not worthless but loving chilling when you fall down a late-night wikihole which leads to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:American_amputees
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Oct 9, 2012 12:16
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..and doesn't list Christina Applegate.
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Oct 9, 2012 12:18
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please dont post my band name
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Oct 9, 2012 12:19
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JawnV6 posted:dragonsven get on this how did u find him
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Oct 9, 2012 15:42
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just wait until they make a "movie based on the game ghostbusters"
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axolotl farmer posted:..and doesn't list Christina Applegate. what? because of her cancer?
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Resplendent Spiral posted:just wait until they make a "movie based on the game ghostbusters" how long until they make a movie about the lovely ghostbusters with the gorilla?
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Oct 9, 2012 21:26
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Locobono posted:what? because of her cancer? she had the well known surgical procedure of 'breast amputation'
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Sweevo posted:how long until they make a movie about the lovely ghostbusters with the gorilla? idk the gay robot skeleton bad guy is kind of amusing
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Oct 9, 2012 21:54
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Resplendent Spiral posted:idk the gay robot skeleton bad guy is kind of amusing
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Oct 9, 2012 22:15
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nope fraig cerguson isnt good
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axolotl farmer posted:..and doesn't list Christina Applegate.
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sports posted:nope fraig cerguson isnt good Out
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Oct 10, 2012 03:51
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Also computers/phone you are posting on your wrong forumse acct
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Oct 10, 2012 03:51
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bildungsroman
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i put the dungs in bildungsroman and by dungs i mean posts dickens published his novels in the same way... serially...
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Dickens should not be read in 2012
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how is that worthless? pretty common lit term
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