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haveblue posted:Ejecting twice also means that you've trashed two multimillion-dollar aircraft so putting you in a third one may be a bad idea even if you're completely healthy. Lightly scratched, please.
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Raygereio posted:It wouldn't surprise me if that poor intern's ears are still ringing from how much my boss yelled at him. That's why hearing protection is important...
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C.M. Kruger posted:Only a couple weeks after the new WTC tower's opening, two workers had to be rescued after their window-washing lift broke. Pro-tip: Don't wait for firemen to smash a window to get to safety: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U46-D1m6e_Q
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The best part of that whole thing: quote:One of the other pilots on the mission is reported to have radioed Foust during his descent under his parachute that "you'd better get back in it!"
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:.... how did you think ejector seats worked? A big Looney Tunes style spring?
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Speaking of ejection mishaps... http://www.gallagher.com/ejection_seat/ e. amusingly it's a spring that holds the ejection seat in the aircraft on this model. Dr. Despair fucked around with this message at 17:47 on Nov 13, 2014 |
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Red_October_7000 posted:The 2-3" height thing, at least to me, sounds like how much your spine is compressed during ejection, you don't automatically get shorter, though I wouldn't be surprised at all if someone who ejected once did suffer a back injury that left him unable to stand straight or similar, resulting in a loss of effective height. Yeah, 2=3" sounds excessive, but I wouldn't be surprised if they were temporarily shorter after ejecting. Even a regular person, just walking around during the day,gets a little shorter. When you wake up in the morning, you're 1/4-1/2 an inch taller than you will be when you go back to bed, on average. So it would make sense that the extreme force of the ejection seat can compress your vertebral disks even more. But 2-3"? Sounds too much...maybe just, like, 1 inch.
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DrBouvenstein posted:Yeah, 2=3" sounds excessive, but I wouldn't be surprised if they were temporarily shorter after ejecting. Vertebral compression and expansion is a thing. People who spend a significant amount of time in space usually (temporarily) gain an inch or so of height as a result that goes away a few weeks after they return to Earth.
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Raygereio posted:An intern at lab I worked some years ago was checking out a couple of old computers he found a cupboard to see if they still worked. He did the exact same thing, while in a lab where several rather important experiments were running. Smoke doesn't set off fire sprinklers. You have to have a significant amount of heat to have the glass vial that's plugging the sprinkler burst. Or for older ones the metal clip holding the plug in place to melt. Then there it case of giving it a good whack...
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Kesper North posted:Vertebral compression and expansion is a thing. People who spend a significant amount of time in space usually (temporarily) gain an inch or so of height as a result that goes away a few weeks after they return to Earth. That's...exactly what I just said?  Well, not the space part, but the part about compression and expansion. I'm just doubting that it's as extreme as 2 or 3 inches.
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"Hotplugging," eh? I worked for a lovely cable contracting company as a service tech; had a service call for someone whose On Demand wasn't working. Signal strength read good so I put in a new box. Nope. Tried another one, same thing. Next step is to check the connections. Sure enough, at the apartment buildings street-level, unlocked box, the customer's cable was spliced with another apartment's. snapped that poo poo; problem fixed. Later on my way home I get a call saying that now it's not fixed and I have to go back. Yep the cable splicer was at it again! This time I got shocked while disconnecting it. Fucker. I wasn't about to confront anyone in this loving 'hood, so I clipped his real short and rolled. Cable's all addressable now so stealing it is moot if you don't have an activated box. Fun job it was; didn't pay poo poo.
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......is that a car part or a loving cluster bomb? Also pro-tip: do not GIS 'cluster bomb'. 
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Sirotan posted:......is that a car part or a loving cluster bomb? Looks like a mortar round to me. That's a hell of a shot (Also unless it's a dummy round whoever took that picture is a braver man than me) Speaking of OSHA:  Protective face cover is great when you're looking for things designed to blow the poo poo out of a tank. Naturally Selected fucked around with this message at 21:41 on Nov 13, 2014 |
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A lot of mines iirc are designed to maim/amputate instead of killing outright to cause a casulty of course and also ocupy resources with a bleeding leggless man. tldr; their eyes will be safe from blood splatter.
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Naturally Selected posted:Speaking of OSHA: Shaped charges are weird.
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Mr. Wookums posted:A lot of mines iirc are designed to maim/amputate instead of killing outright to cause a casulty of course and also ocupy resources with a bleeding leggless man. Anti-personnel mines generally only have enough explosives to mangle a foot (blowing off a leg at the high end). Anti-tank mines will completely annihilate a person, but those generally require hundreds of pounds of force to detonate. Notice that I said "generally". Quite a few mines have anti-tampering devices like tilt sensors that detonate them if they're hosed with. Ironically, what was intended to keep enemy forces from simply picking up minefields and tossing them out of the way has now ensured that innocent people are killed trying to clear the area after the war is over.
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Mr. Wookums posted:A lot of mines iirc are designed to maim/amputate instead of killing outright to cause a casulty of course and also ocupy resources with a bleeding leggless man. This is stupid. Protip - designing weapons to not kill people is a great way to lose.
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raverrn posted:This is stupid. Protip - designing weapons to not kill people is a great way to lose. This is patently untrue in modern industrial warfare which tends to be a war of attrition. Both a severely wounded and a dead man are removed from combat effectiveness, but the wounded man continues consuming the enemy's resources, possibly for life. The dead man just gets buried.
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raverrn posted:This is stupid. Protip - designing weapons to not kill people is a great way to lose. People who get their foot or entire leg amputated aren't going to be part of the fighting force any more, and it takes more resources to save and care for a crippled soldier than to pack up and send home a corpse. Also, in most cases it's not "designed not to kill", as that's merely a side effect. The mines don't kill easily because they're very small, and they're very small because: 1. They're easier to hide. 2. They're cheaper to make. 3. It's easier to transport and seed large numbers of them.
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I would also think having your buddy come back with a leg missing is more demoralizing than if they come back with just the leg
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It really depends on the mine honestly. Sometimes we use the killy ones and sometimes we use the woundey ones. M18 Claymores will turn you into a fine paste fit for a cracker, whereas M16 Bouncing Betties will either blow your knees apart or decapitate you, depending on the humidity.
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There are lots of projects going on with e.g. sniffing rats that are too light to set off the mines and simple robotic devices that can find mines and set them off with, well, a long stick. So why are these folks searching manually?
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Carbon dioxide posted:There are lots of projects going on with e.g. sniffing rats that are too light to set off the mines and simple robotic devices that can find mines and set them off with, well, a long stick. Probably because that kind of poo poo usually exists just to show off and is rarely disseminated. Either because they sound great in the lab then fail in the field, or because they're just too expensive and people are cheaper. I remember a few years back there was that Army recruitment commercial showing off that fancy robot they developed for roadside bomb disposal. I asked a dude who was in EOD (explosive ordinance disposal) about it, and his words were "I've never seen that loving robot outside the commercial even once."
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They also have these cool spikes that fit on the fronts of tanks nowadays that basically rip up the ground in front of them as they drive, setting off AP mines and just flipping the AT ones out of the way. Still not as cool as the big flipping chain wheel on the front of the old Shermans in WW2. Those fuckers were  as gently caress.Edit: Here it is! 
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Carbon dioxide posted:There are lots of projects going on with e.g. sniffing rats that are too light to set off the mines and simple robotic devices that can find mines and set them off with, well, a long stick. I like mine detecting plants. http://www.gizmag.com/go/2568/ Also these things are cool, but I guess you have to stop after every detonation to inspect the machine and replace broken chains. Churchill Toad Mine clearing flail post WW2: http://youtu.be/wf6CsvAffHo
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Uthor posted:I like mine detecting plants. You’ve got to love the New York Times’ photo illustration: 
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Platystemon posted:You’ve got to love the New York Times’ photo illustration: Amazing.
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That image was supposed to be top secret. We have a leak.
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Uthor posted:I like mine detecting plants. I would have thought the flail would spin the other way so that debris wouldn't be directly launched into the tank.
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Chomp8645 posted:We have a leek. Well there's your problem: you can't just use any plant, the researches specifically engineered a strain of thale cress.
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Carbon dioxide posted:There are lots of projects going on with e.g. sniffing rats that are too light to set off the mines and simple robotic devices that can find mines and set them off with, well, a long stick. because of things like this: KernelSlanders posted:
serious norman posted:those are all green. fail technique IMO.
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Improbable Lobster posted:I would have thought the flail would spin the other way so that debris wouldn't be directly launched into the tank. Would have thought that having the flail run this way and the exploding mine being another foot or two away from the tank would be of more help than avoiding the debris. Bits of flying mine and rock are probably less important than the initial blast force, what with the front being covered in the thickest armour and all. Pretty sure AT mines designed with shaped charges to fire directly upwards and concentrate the force into the weak underside armour anyway.
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Toiletron 9000 posted:Then there it case of giving it a good whack... After having worked for many years in a warehouse with sprinklers that ran through the racks, this is so very true. Bad Forklift drivers are a sprinkler heads worst enemy. And the subsequent flooding is sure good at ruining everything else.
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Police chase. I think the guy survived this.
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Say Nothing posted:Police chase. Wasn't that the one where the dude fell asleep at the wheel? And died?
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Uthor posted:Wasn't that the one where the dude fell asleep at the wheel? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...dge-100mph.html Fell asleep, yes. Dead, no.
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