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# ? May 24, 2014 01:31 |
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Royal W posted:Good on the pilot for riding it out though. He ejected just before the plane came to a stop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfuw0PXlRn0 Supposedly, according to this website at least (and a video that I saw long ago), there are times where you might want to hit the gas in an emergency: http://tkolb.net/tra_sch/SafeDriving/control.html
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# ? May 24, 2014 01:38 |
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poptart_fairy posted:So, uh, how do they handle pilot reprimands in that situation? Grats son you just cost your country half a billion dollars. Well, if your dad is someone important in the navy, you basically get to fly and crash 2 more and then run for president while inflicting weird white trash folksy brain dead abominations of smarm into the political theater.
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# ? May 24, 2014 01:39 |
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It's everything I ever wanted
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# ? May 24, 2014 02:38 |
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Mr. Gibbycrumbles posted:american_presidents.gif
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# ? May 24, 2014 03:02 |
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I just managed to take a dip in the hot tub - with the company iPhone in my pocket. On one hand, I hope my boss (the owner of the company) doesn't read his email this late since I don't want to ruin his Friday night. On the other hand, I want him to reply back to me so I can stop freaking out about it.
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# ? May 24, 2014 05:04 |
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KillHour posted:I just managed to take a dip in the hot tub - with the company iPhone in my pocket. After I lost a copy of Mega Man Battle Network and several Yu-Gi-Oh! cards to the water (on seperate occasions) as a child, I learned to compulsively multi-check my pockets before going anywhere near deep water.
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# ? May 24, 2014 05:52 |
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Who the hell intentionally gets into water wearing things with pockets? (swimming trunks with pockets don't count for this purpose)
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# ? May 24, 2014 05:54 |
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The Orange Mage posted:Who the hell intentionally gets into water wearing things with pockets? (swimming trunks with pockets don't count for this purpose) My swimming trunks have pockets.
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# ? May 24, 2014 06:03 |
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Blue Footed Booby posted:Yeah, I've read about pilots ejecting at the last possible second because they stuck with the plane to guide it away from a crowd, a house, whatever. Playing chicken with a planet is a level of ballsy I could never, ever be. But no pilot wants to look like these guys who ejected just before the last possible second... http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=122_1308793725
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# ? May 24, 2014 07:07 |
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A bus driver boiling his passengers by attempting to drive through a geyser. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRAqIXZkH7Y
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# ? May 24, 2014 08:35 |
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Palpek posted:A bus driver boiling his passengers by attempting to drive through a geyser. The bus driver is still less of an rear end in a top hat than whoever filmed it edit: with the crumbling soviet infrastructure, and russia's love for dashcams, expect to see more of this stuff. In a lot of cities there, every building is heated by hot water piped throughout the city. Powershift has a new favorite as of 09:15 on May 24, 2014 |
# ? May 24, 2014 09:12 |
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Powershift posted:The bus driver is still less of an rear end in a top hat than whoever filmed it The bus driver ran out of the bus without opening the passenger doors.
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# ? May 24, 2014 09:16 |
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Nipponophile posted:But no pilot wants to look like these guys who ejected just before the last possible second... If they HADN'T ejected, could their extra weight have caused what they were afraid of happening, to happen?
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# ? May 24, 2014 09:37 |
thespaceinvader posted:If they HADN'T ejected, could their extra weight have caused what they were afraid of happening, to happen? That looks like an A-6 Intruder. The Intruder has an empty weight in the neighborhood of 25,000 lbs and a maximum takeoff weight of something like 55,000 lbs. Those two guys probably weigh in at 350ish pounds. The margin didn't look anywhere near that narrow, to me. I am going to say, "no." Edit: There's also the weight of the seats to be considered, but that's offset by the fact that I checked, and the A-6 actually has a takeoff weight of over 60,000 pounds. Centripetal Horse has a new favorite as of 10:08 on May 24, 2014 |
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# ? May 24, 2014 10:06 |
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Evilreaver posted:Ejecting isn't even very safe, and it's EXTREMELY uncomfortable, to the point that you end up several inches shorter and can have a bunch of broken bones. I mean, it beats dying in a horrible explosive fireball, but not by a large amount. Yeah, I think as a pilot you can go through two, maybe three ejections, and then your spine and legs are just so hosed up that your flying career is basically over.
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# ? May 24, 2014 10:09 |
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Speaking of Harrier fuckups:quote:That is a TAV-8B assigned to VMAT-203 in Cherry Point. They experienced hung landing gear (repeat gripe on that jet) and contacted base for troubleshooting. The EP involves cycling some circuit breakers, cycling the gear, and requesting visual inspection. If none of that works (which it didn't), you blow down the gear.
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# ? May 24, 2014 10:24 |
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DNova posted:The bus driver ran out of the bus without opening the passenger doors. Well, then let's call it a wash.
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# ? May 24, 2014 10:41 |
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Powershift posted:Well, then let's call it a wash. They were a bunch of dirty commies, after all.
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# ? May 24, 2014 11:23 |
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Kruller posted:They were a bunch of dirty commies, after all. For most of them, that probably wasn't the worst part of their day. In this video, a guy on a motorcycle with a side car learns that adding a sidecar to a motorcycle doesn't turn it into a real car. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lx66aI5QAU
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# ? May 24, 2014 13:03 |
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Centripetal Horse posted:That looks like an A-6 Intruder. The Intruder has an empty weight in the neighborhood of 25,000 lbs and a maximum takeoff weight [MTOW] of something like 55,000 lbs. Those two guys probably weigh in at 350ish pounds. The margin didn't look anywhere near that narrow, to me. I am going to say, "no." It could have potentially had an effect because it was landing and likely notably lower in weight than it was at MTOW. Also, it's not so much weight that affects it, but the center of gravity change. The further away a weight is from the CG, the more it can affect changes (weight x arm = moment). A sudden loss of (a guess) ~700lbs of the pilots, seats, canopy, etc at the forward side of the plane would shift the CG aft a good bit. Coupled with the reduction in weight, the plane would find it much easier to fly up. No idea what all was working in this incident, though, and whether or not it was still flyable.
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# ? May 24, 2014 13:13 |
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C.M. Kruger posted:Speaking of Harrier fuckups: They had mattresses ready for such an incident?!
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# ? May 24, 2014 13:20 |
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Ok now avatar sized?
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# ? May 24, 2014 13:21 |
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Three-Phase posted:They had mattresses ready for such an incident?! Military installations tend to have very good logistics. And a lot of mattresses.
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# ? May 24, 2014 14:34 |
AzureSkys posted:It could have potentially had an effect because it was landing and likely notably lower in weight than it was at MTOW. Also, it's not so much weight that affects it, but the center of gravity change. The further away a weight is from the CG, the more it can affect changes (weight x arm = moment). A sudden loss of (a guess) ~700lbs of the pilots, seats, canopy, etc at the forward side of the plane would shift the CG aft a good bit. Coupled with the reduction in weight, the plane would find it much easier to fly up. I'm obviously guessing, since I don't know what else was at play, either. If the vehicle was dead empty except for the passengers, their ejection would have had more of an effect. Bailing out still looks premature to me, but I am not a fighter pilot. I'm just someone who loves aircraft.
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# ? May 24, 2014 14:52 |
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Nipponophile posted:But no pilot wants to look like these guys who ejected just before the last possible second... 'I must go now. My planet needs me.'
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# ? May 24, 2014 15:02 |
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C.M. Kruger posted:Speaking of Harrier fuckups: The best part of that is that fodding out the engine like that is a ridiculously more expensive repair than if he'd just gently belly-landed it. The guy who came up with the idea for the mattresses was a fuckwit.
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# ? May 24, 2014 15:51 |
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Phanatic posted:The best part of that is that fodding out the engine like that is a ridiculously more expensive repair than if he'd just gently belly-landed it. The guy who came up with the idea for the mattresses was a fuckwit. Did they not essentially belly land it but at a much slower velocity? Also, the repair may have been expensive but it sounds like they were trying to avoid total airframe loss, which would be much more expensive.
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# ? May 24, 2014 16:19 |
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6675636b20796f75 posted:Did they not essentially belly land it but at a much slower velocity? Also, the repair may have been expensive but it sounds like they were trying to avoid total airframe loss, which would be much more expensive. The Harrier's got an emergency system of pressurized nitrogen to blow the gear down in the event of an emergency where they won't extend on their own, and that's actually the written procedure (NATOPS) for what to do in that situation, but the pilot was ordered not to do it and instead to land his plane on a bunch of metal springs; the MAG CO had apparently seen this procedure used with a CH-53, but that's an enormously and obviously different aircraft. The fact that the downdraft of a vertically-descending Harrier would, you know, blow the mattresses around right by its enormous engine intakes, was entirely foreseeable by anyone with a clue. And the only reason that stack of mattresses didn't catch on fire could be termed "luck." The guy who decided NATOPS was wrong shouldn't be an O-6 anymore, and I don't think he is; this was hashed over in one of the SA aviation threads.
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# ? May 24, 2014 16:34 |
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Bulls win! Bulls win! Bulls win!quote:A prestigious bullfighting event in Spain ended in a very unusual way—with a knockout victory for the bulls. The first bull of the evening at Madrid's Las Ventas stadium badly gored bullfighter David Mora in the leg, tossed him in the air, and pummeled him into the ground, reports the Telegraph. The evening's second bull injured the knee of the next bullfighter and gored the thigh and hip of a third, forcing organizers of the San Isidro bullfighting festival to call off the event for the first time since 1979. I know that saying bullfighting is horrible and barbaric isn't exactly a groundbreaking statement, but I'm seriously happy for the bulls in this one. Also, it's kind of funny that there were NO deaths as a result of a bullfight. I think that's my favourite part of this story because it's like schadenfreude on the audience, too.
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# ? May 24, 2014 16:53 |
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Elendil004 posted:Ok now avatar sized? I think this should work:
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# ? May 24, 2014 17:02 |
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"A man paid hundreds of dollars to go on an "e-date" with a World of Warcraft streamer and then complained about the friend zone and cried at the end of the date." Already skipped to the most relevant part: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r71l-ajiuHA&t=1783s Although the part where they "dance" at 28:00 is also "great".
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# ? May 24, 2014 17:14 |
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Palpek posted:"A man paid hundreds of dollars to go on an "e-date" with a World of Warcraft streamer and then complained about the friend zone and cried at the end of the date." You sure he paid money to go on the date? If so, that'd make it even better. Anyways, I was curious about the paying thing, and so I started googling. Didn't find anything about paying, but I did find this video where the girl watches the guy's stream while he "reviews" the date with another girl who was apparently advising him on what to do during the date. http://www.twitch.tv/alinity/b/395390743 -edit- oh, she only watches it for a few minutes
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# ? May 24, 2014 17:30 |
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Phanatic posted:The Harrier's got an emergency system of pressurized nitrogen to blow the gear down in the event of an emergency where they won't extend on their own, and that's actually the written procedure (NATOPS) for what to do in that situation, but the pilot was ordered not to do it and instead to land his plane on a bunch of metal springs; the MAG CO had apparently seen this procedure used with a CH-53, but that's an enormously and obviously different aircraft. The fact that the downdraft of a vertically-descending Harrier would, you know, blow the mattresses around right by its enormous engine intakes, was entirely foreseeable by anyone with a clue. And the only reason that stack of mattresses didn't catch on fire could be termed "luck." The guy who decided NATOPS was wrong shouldn't be an O-6 anymore, and I don't think he is; this was hashed over in one of the SA aviation threads. But he did he not belly land it Agreed that the mattresses were a dumb idea.
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# ? May 24, 2014 18:09 |
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Palpek posted:"A man paid hundreds of dollars to go on an "e-date" with a World of Warcraft streamer and then complained about the friend zone and cried at the end of the date." The whole thing is relevant. About 10 minutes into that he whips out the lasagna that he actually made for their "date", a few minutes after that he shows her the flowers that he "forgot" to give her and then the speech at about 14:30. This is absolutely awful.
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# ? May 24, 2014 18:23 |
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Palpek posted:"A man paid hundreds of dollars to go on an "e-date" with a World of Warcraft streamer and then complained about the friend zone and cried at the end of the date." I... I can't watch this, it's too awful.
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# ? May 24, 2014 18:33 |
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The "Operation American Spring" Facebook page was hijacked, apparently. https://www.facebook.com/OperationAmericanSpringbackup
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# ? May 24, 2014 18:36 |
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# ? May 24, 2014 18:50 |
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I don't see it?
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# ? May 24, 2014 18:54 |
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Jerry Cotton posted:I don't see it? The Finnish national team drunkenly stumbles onto a IIHF championship finals spot after a disaster of a tournament, beating the Czech Republic. Jaromir Jagr isn't too happy about the loss.
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# ? May 24, 2014 19:28 |