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simplefish posted:Clancy was good at describing the science stuff. Like 10 pages on wave/particle duality in Timeline I really like the chapter on genetics in Jurassic Park, myself.
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http://www.auctionsamerica.com/events/feature-lots.cfm?SaleCode=LC14&ID=r0023&Order=runorder&feature=&collection=&grouping=&category= Making this thing road legal would be great.
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FrozenVent posted:I really like the chapter on genetics in Jurassic Park, myself. Hey I edited that for full disclosure of my brain fart so quickly that it doesn't even have a timestamp. No need to rub it in.
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Heliosicle posted:http://www.auctionsamerica.com/events/feature-lots.cfm?SaleCode=LC14&ID=r0023&Order=runorder&feature=&collection=&grouping=&category= Holy poo poo I want that thing. quote:Estimate: $ 50,000 - $ 75,000  Ok maybe not.
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MrYenko posted:That auction has a lot of cool poo poo. I'm down. I like this French Armored car. Do you suppose the center four wheels are steel? Also: the British totally built their own version of the King Tiger to fight Soviet heavy tanks.
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It's entirely possible to rent an APC for stag/hen dos in the UK. They have to have rubberised tracks to be on public roads iirc but are otherwise road legal. Also many places will let you drive warmachines over terrain courses (with decomissioned guns of course) UK Cold War Tank Driving goon meet? simplefish fucked around with this message at 17:43 on May 19, 2014 |
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May 19, 2014 17:35
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Romania's revolution through the eyes of three generations.
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May 19, 2014 17:57
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spankmeister posted:I've never heard of armour needing to be demilled in Europe. Could be that it was done to comply with international disarmament treaties rather than to prepare for sale on the civilian market.
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May 19, 2014 18:30
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Yeah isn't the little field collection the private museum from the west coast? I posted a ton of pictures from my trip there and they let me climb on and in anything I could get in as long as I didn't cry about spider bites.
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May 19, 2014 19:25
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Has anyone here seen an atmospheric nuclear test ? As the last American one was 1962 you'd probably be pushing 70 as an 18 year old serviceman. It probably makes me a bad person, but seeing a nuclear detonation is on my bucket list.
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May 19, 2014 19:31
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Yeah that mk4 has a nasty history attached to it. I probably told the story of it in the armed armor thread. It was a capture from one of the early wars with Israel. They took it out with an rpg to engine and slagged the engine. They towed it to depot and it sat for a long time because it wasn't needed for parts. His agent found it and bought it from the Israelis and had it shipped over. When they cracked open they found the crew still in it. Small bits and pieces no whole bones but tags and IF were found and returned to there families.
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May 19, 2014 19:35
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simplefish posted:Clancy was good at describing the science stuff. Like 10 pages on wave/particle duality in Timeline That was definitely Crichton, and his science was generally pretty good, even if a lot of it was highly speculative (Congo and Prey in particular).
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Baconroll posted:Has anyone here seen an atmospheric nuclear test ? As the last American one was 1962 you'd probably be pushing 70 as an 18 year old serviceman. Under the right circumstances it's on everyones
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Baconroll posted:Has anyone here seen an atmospheric nuclear test ? As the last American one was 1962 you'd probably be pushing 70 as an 18 year old serviceman. Maybe China will adopt Orion Drive for their space program.
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FrozenVent posted:It's also, in the ensemble of Clancy's work, pretty much the only time a weapon system doesn't perform flawlessly. In the book, yeah. It was meant to be a much larger bang, but it fizzled. In the movie it was supposed to be a more tactical yield since the bomb it was made from only had a yield of something like 10-15kt. I do like the scene right before the blast where you actually see the moment of detonation for a split second on the television showing the game before the flash and blast wave hit the hospital. I'm not going to spoiler it simply because it was kind of a crappy movie. Phanatic posted:If you can distinguish between three events that take about 70 nanoseconds to run to completion in that video, you have way better eyes than I do. It's probably the way the light from the blast hit the camera lens. BIG HEADLINE fucked around with this message at 22:19 on May 19, 2014 |
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May 19, 2014 22:15
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BIG HEADLINE posted:It's probably the way the light from the blast hit the camera lens.
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evil_bunnY posted:You can't slow light motherfucker. Sure you can it just requires a gently caress load of lab equipment and more  than I can wrap my head around.
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May 19, 2014 22:56
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What the hell is this latest avatar from, Cyrano?
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May 19, 2014 23:47
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Psion posted:What the hell is this latest avatar from, Cyrano? I have been informed that the images are from the latest, CGI, iteration of Ninja Turtles. As to how or why I got it, I am completely mystified.
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May 20, 2014 00:34
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It's part of a guerrilla marketing campaign, milsurp collectors are an important demographic for animated children's movies.
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evil_bunnY posted:You can't slow light motherfucker. What do you think refraction is?
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Eh, I like it fast. Otherwise the following video wouldn't be as impressive. I think it got linked the last time TFR talked about light. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_9vd4HWlVA&t=81s
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I heard another story from the Littlefield collection. Arrangements were made to buy a Russian APC. Said APC arrives by ship and is picked up, Customs signs off on it. Since it wasn't a tank and had no obvious weapons, Customs did not look inside. It was pulled from inventory with a full war load including several anti-tank missiles. Discreet phone calls were made to contacts in the Army and the offending munitions quietly went away. It was commonplace for tanks to arrive and not be demilled - no cuts in the cannon breech. They had their own guy who would come to the delivery with his own welding gear, and make the cuts for Customs inspection. If they let the Government do it, they always did a sloppy, ugly job. I was bummed when i heard about the auction, i have seen many photos but I never got to visit.
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Baconroll posted:Has anyone here seen an atmospheric nuclear test ? As the last American one was 1962 you'd probably be pushing 70 as an 18 year old serviceman. If you were a French servicemen you could have seen theirs as the last above ground ones were in the mid 70s if I remember right. The PRC did their last one in 1980.
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Speaking of nuclear tests, it begs the question of whether or not North Korea will pop their next firecracker outside of a cave just for the propaganda value. Of course, if one particle of fallout falls on China or Russia there'd be hell to pay, which only leaves a groundburst using a barge at the edge of their territorial waters to minimize fallout. To say nothing of the possibility of them getting another fizzle. And this is the closest one gets to seeing a US nuclear test these days: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGf4-ZOjyVY Fair warning before you click, you might want to turn your speaker/headphone volume down first. BIG HEADLINE fucked around with this message at 05:45 on May 20, 2014 |
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May 20, 2014 05:43
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Party Plane Jones posted:If you were a French servicemen you could have seen theirs as the last above ground ones were in the mid 70s if I remember right. The PRC did their last one in 1980. Defect to North Korea and you might just see one. 
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One of my dad's uncles was one of the lucky dogs who got to jump out of a trench in the early 50's and see a mushroom cloud. He didn't get cancer until much later in life. I guess his story was that they were supposed to jump out and do some kind of maneuver, like run towards it with bayonets affixed or something. They just kinda stood there dumbstruck looking at it while a couple of officers screamed at them.
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Forgive me but I find it incredulous that anyone would ever, ever use nuclear weapons in live fire maneuvers.
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My favorite one is the Chinese gasmask horsemen. Link
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Mortabis posted:Forgive me but I find it incredulous that anyone would ever, ever use nuclear weapons in live fire maneuvers. Come on man go watch Trinity and Beyond or something.
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Mortabis posted:Forgive me but I find it incredulous that anyone would ever, ever use nuclear weapons in live fire maneuvers. There's well documented cases, both in the states and the USSR... Possibly in India too, I can't recall.
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Mortabis posted:Forgive me but I find it incredulous that anyone would ever, ever use nuclear weapons in live fire maneuvers. It doubled as medical experiments.
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May 20, 2014 12:30
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I just re-read Red Storm Rising. Jesus that Icelandic love-plot was weird.
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DrAlexanderTobacco posted:I just re-read Red Storm Rising. Jesus that Icelandic love-plot was weird. The love story bit was kind of odd but I did sorta like the man on the ground perspective of the guys just hiding and living in the countryside for the war.
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DrAlexanderTobacco posted:I just re-read Red Storm Rising. Jesus that Icelandic love-plot was weird. It was also kinda necessary since there's no other character story in the whole book.
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Mortabis posted:It was also kinda necessary since there's no other character story in the whole book. If you read the book and skip every Iceland chapters after they meet the girl except the one where they get rescued, it makes absolutely no difference to the story.
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spankmeister posted:Defect to North Korea and you might just see one. I wouldn't put it past the North Koreans to execute dissidents in nuclear testing if they could.
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Mortabis posted:It was also kinda necessary since there's no other character story in the whole book. Maybe, but the way Clancy handled it was poor. Maybe the reader could understand the horrors of war (rape etc.) a little better if Clancy didn't immediately segue into how great the girl's breasts were.
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Vidgis was the subject of my 12-year old fantasies for a long, long time.
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I'm not saying it was well-executed, but the book is filled with characters with which you have no investment whatsoever pretty much with the exception of Iceland, and maybe Alekseyev and his aide. Edwards and his party are pretty much the only sizable group of named characters in one place. e: though even then Rogers and Garcia had barely any role, it was mostly just Edwards, Nichols, the marine sergeant (name is escaping me), and Vigdis. Dark Helmut posted:Vidgis was the subject of my 12-year old fantasies for a long, long time. Hahahaha I think Clancy had a thing for pregnant chicks, incidentally Mortabis fucked around with this message at 14:27 on May 20, 2014 |
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