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Just a question for people who'd know the answer. Since you can go blind by watching a total solar eclipse, wouldn't watching the same thing with the moon at ISS distance still cause blindness?
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umalt posted:Just a question for people who'd know the answer. Since you can go blind by watching a total solar eclipse, wouldn't watching the same thing with the moon at ISS distance still cause blindness? The thing that's bad for your eyes in a solar eclipse is you're staring at the sun, not that you're staring at the moon. The moon might have significant enough albedo at ISS distance to cause eye damage when full but I doubt it. Bip Roberts has a new favorite as of 09:00 on Feb 22, 2015 |
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umalt posted:Just a question for people who'd know the answer. Since you can go blind by watching a total solar eclipse, wouldn't watching the same thing with the moon at ISS distance still cause blindness?  One's a hunk of rock, the other's a loving star for pete's sake.
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Feb 22, 2015 10:17
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umalt posted:Just a question for people who'd know the answer. Since you can go blind by watching a total solar eclipse, wouldn't watching the same thing with the moon at ISS distance still cause blindness? A total solar eclipse can blind you because a hazardous amount of light will still reach you if you stare at the thing, which you probably will, because it's a total solar eclipse. No light gets through in the close-orbit case.
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Feb 22, 2015 13:38
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Captain Lavender posted:This is literally the scariest thing I've ever seen. They're forgetting the planet-wide tidal wave that comes with the moon's orbit. which slows it down in millions of years leading to a collision with the earth.
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Feb 22, 2015 14:11
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Thanks, I'm a dumbass.
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Feb 23, 2015 07:52
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Captain Lavender posted:This is literally the scariest thing I've ever seen. I like the nice hole we punch in the ring system.
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Feb 23, 2015 12:02
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Maggie Fletcher posted:
Well.............what if the moon was a disco ball?? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8I25H3bnNw
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Rondette posted:Well.............what if the moon was a disco ball?? We'd wanna boogie oogie oogie till we just can't boogie no more? Seriously, that was terrifying creeping over the horizon. Then it just got silly.
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Feb 25, 2015 10:40
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I like how everything gets loving shredded and then the Beetle just kinda bounces away. Godspeed, tiny hippie car.
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Feb 25, 2015 13:11
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I think I drove something like this in Saints Row the Third.
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Feb 25, 2015 19:10
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M.Ciaster posted:I like how everything gets loving shredded and then the Beetle just kinda bounces away. Godspeed, tiny hippie car. Well, Beetles are like, eternal. They just won't die off.
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Hra Mormo posted:Well, Beetles are like, eternal. They just won't die off. Maj. Abraham Falconer: I understand you've been sleeping with the Volkswagen Cpl. Clearboy: Yes sir, Is there a regulation against it sir? Maj. Abraham Falconer: Yes Cpl. Clearboy: Sodomy? Maj. Abraham Falconer: That's animals, there's a regulation against using enemy equipment. Creates confusion. Cpl. Clearboy: Sir, she's a beautiful car, sir Maj. Abraham Falconer: You must love the Volkswagen very much Corporal Clearboy Cpl. Clearboy: 36 Horses. No water, sir. Hides her engine in the rear, air cooled, no water, sir! Maj. Abraham Falconer: Is the world suffering a water shortage Corporal Clearboy? Cpl. Clearboy: Not now sir, but suppose this war just goes on and on and on and destroys everything in the world. Well, since the Volkswagen can get along without water, she's bound to survive when other creatures die off. Someday the world is going to be populated with nothing but Volkswagens!
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Feb 25, 2015 20:56
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I want to see ambulances and fire trucks with these, just for the entertainment of watching assholes get wrecked when they refuse to move out of the way 
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Feb 26, 2015 16:15
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This must be one of the most satisfying things to do. "What should I do today? I know, I'm going to bodycheck 20 cars."
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Feb 26, 2015 19:03
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That guy is pretty badass-looking indeed. Unrelated:    How cold is it in New England? It's so cold you can see nearly-frozen waves in Nantucket.
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Android Bicyclist posted:That guy is pretty badass-looking indeed. This guy gets bonus points for the spoon at the back of his gun. Badass and practical. Mephiston has a new favorite as of 09:13 on Feb 27, 2015 |
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Feb 27, 2015 09:10
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I guess he kept that animal around because its pelt was so bad.
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Android Bicyclist posted:Unrelated: I saw something similar in RI as a kid and it is amazing.
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JEEVES420 posted:I saw something similar in RI as a kid and it is amazing. Is it like a slow motion wave? I've never lived north of central California.
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Feb 28, 2015 05:38
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Nah it's just frozen water on the surface and regular waves.
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Feb 28, 2015 06:57
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It feels like there should be a full set of pictures of this guy. Does anyone have any more?
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It's not a picture but the story of an Inuit displaced by the Canadian government who having no other tools available is the most loving metal thing I've ever heard. quote:The Inuit didn’t fear the cold; they took advantage of it. During the 1950s the Canadian government forced the Inuit into settlements. A family from Arctic Bay told me this fantastic story of their grandfather who refused to go. The family, fearful for his life, took away all of his tools and all of his implements, thinking that would force him into the settlement. But instead, he just slipped out of an igloo on a cold Arctic night, pulled down his caribou and sealskin trousers, and defecated into his hand. As the feces began to freeze, he shaped it into the form of an implement. And when the blade started to take shape, he put a spray of saliva along the leading edge to sharpen it. That’s when what they call the “poo poo knife” took form. He used it to butcher a dog. Skinned the dog with it. Improvised a sled with the dog’s rib cage, and then, using the skin, he harnessed up an adjacent living dog. He put the poo poo knife in his belt and disappeared into the night. http://boingboing.net/2008/09/26/wade-davis-an-inuit.html
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Haruharuharuko posted:It's not a picture but the story of an Inuit displaced by the Canadian government who having no other tools available is the most loving metal thing I've ever heard. "My grandad is more badass than your grandad." "Why?" "He took a poo poo in his hand and used it to kill a dog."
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Sounds a lot like STDH. I mean... A poo poo knife sounds cool in a, 'gently caress you, I can make a knife with literally nothing else but my own body' sort of way... But I'd think it'd be a lot more practical to make one from some ice or a rock. Surely there was lots of ice and rocks to use. Though I will save this poo poo knife trick in the back of my mind if I'm ever a prisoner somewhere very cold, with no other tools, and need to kill a guard to escape.
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Dude had access to ice and rocks like Bouvenstein said. There's no way that's a real story.
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Mar 3, 2015 17:53
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Maybe he just had a senior moment.
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Making stone tools is not quite that straight forward. i)You need the right kind of stone, something that will fracture in the right way (ideally conchoidally). ii)it is really not something you can do sneakily, repeatedly hitting a rock with another one or even a wood or bone softhammer is not quiet.
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He put the poo poo knife in his belt and disappeared into the night. And then came to the settlement later anyhow to tell us this story about how much he was against going to the settlement.
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ReidRansom posted:He put the poo poo knife in his belt and disappeared into the night. The authorities tried to do a toolmark analysis on the remaining bones of the dog, but things just didn't smell right, so they did DNA analysis on the poo poo and saliva scrapings.
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This mad scientist/inventor even had the right haircut:
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EmptyVessel posted:Making stone tools is not quite that straight forward. This is tangentially related to stone tools, but someone recently told me about ancient people making stone axes, and placing them around tree branches. Over many years, the wood would grow and securely grab the axe in place, and then your children or grandchildren would have access to better axes Does anyone know anything about this?
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blunt for century posted:This is tangentially related to stone tools, but someone recently told me about ancient people making stone axes, and placing them around tree branches. Over many years, the wood would grow and securely grab the axe in place, and then your children or grandchildren would have access to better axes Like this? I vaguely remember an old hippy I knew talking about it. Theres reference to it here too.
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DesperateDan posted:Like this? I vaguely remember an old hippy I knew talking about it. That must be what I was talking about.  I just heard about it in person, and didn't have any reference for the idea, except that trees get bigger over time. I assumed that it would be the type of axe that would have a hole in the head for the handle, and they would push a branch through that hole, but this idea makes a lot more sense, and it would be easier to arrange as well.
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That sounds like bullshit tbh. I work with stone tools, specifically stone axes and adzes, and I've never heard of a properly documented example of that practice. It's actually a lovely way to do it anyway, why bother when wood is usually readily available? It could well be true, of course, it might just be out of my period. Edit: the sources above are relating to the "ancient art" of doing this. But waiting 6-8 years for a marginally better axe, when you're making them in a matter of hours and keep having to remove them from their handle to sharpen them up? Pointless! It is tough to make stone tools quietly but it's not impossible at all. Soft hammers (antler and wood specifically) make a dull thud with a light ring when the stone flakes off. After a few of those you can pressure flake a good sharp edge, totally silently. I used to knapp flint in the garden when I couldn't sleep, you get good at closing down at least some of the noise. A wrap around the body of the stone will do well. lenoon has a new favorite as of 23:50 on Mar 3, 2015 |
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Crosspostin' this bad-arse weasel that's making the rounds
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World's biggest Harley.
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