Rectus posted:

They put the mast and cable lengths in there though. Even looking at the video, there is no way for them to reach and pull the cable by hand without clipping the rotors unless they hover/land the helicopter right next to the mast.

sandoz posted:

There was never supposed to be one, why is this hard to grasp?

Gorilla Salad posted:

I would, 100% seriously, leave my home and move to the snow if someone offered me a job shooting cannons at mountains.

sandoz posted:

There was never supposed to be one, why is this hard to grasp?

Mak0rz posted:

There's a stretch of Trans-Canada Highway going through the Rockies that's lined with pillboxes containing howitzers cannons.

I think they're all named after Shakespeare characters.

Mak0rz posted:

There's a stretch of Trans-Canada Highway going through the Rockies that's lined with pillboxes containing howitzers cannons.

I think they're all named after Shakespeare characters.

D1Sergo posted:

Good camera people in war zones, disaster situations, and reality TV are professionals on a level that I aspire to.

chitoryu12 posted:

Exactly how tight is their security?

Mak0rz posted:

There's a stretch of Trans-Canada Highway going through the Rockies that's lined with pillboxes containing howitzers cannons.

I think they're all named after Shakespeare characters.

SmokaDustbowl posted:

probably not very because where the gently caress are you going to get artillery shells?

chitoryu12 posted:

Exactly how tight is their security?

Platystemon posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZLfboCceGA

Platystemon posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZLfboCceGA

Doc Hawkins posted:

e: There's some great OSHA stories from those old films. A handful of people died filming the avalanche scene in Lost Horizon, achieved using the amazing practical effect of triggering a real loving avalanche, jesus christ.

Platystemon posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6Ma0SVjMHA

Gorilla Salad posted:

I would, 100% seriously, leave my home and move to the snow if someone offered me a job shooting cannons at mountains.

quote:

PLEASANT GROVE — Scott and Lori Connors' family room looks like it was bombed. There are random holes in the walls, gashes in the fabric of the couch and chair. There's broken glass everywhere and a sheet of plywood where the window used to be.

Outside, a shed is in tatters, and there's a boulder-size crater in the lawn. Upstairs, there are pieces of shrapnel imbedded in the bathroom wall.

A large mirror has what looks like bullet holes in the glass.

It looks like it was bombed — because it was.

A 105mm howitzer shell fired near Sundance in Provo Canyon overshot its mark and landed with a bang in the Conners' back yard. The boom was heard over several blocks.

Debris from the 3 p.m. explosion Wednesday also damaged a car across the street from the Connors' home and two other houses in the vicinity of 1600 East and 500 South on the Pleasant Grove bench.

It was a miracle no one was killed or injured, said Scott Connors.

The Connors' 3-year-old son was lying on the family room floor watching television when the mortar exploded.

If he had raised his head or if he'd been standing, he would have been in the path of several bits of deadly flying shrapnel.

As it was, he was covered in broken glass and badly frightened, say his parents.

"He's telling everybody, 'Our house exploded!' " said Lori Connors.

Lori Connors chokes up when she thinks about it.

"Every time I walk downstairs, I think, "What if?' " she said.

"We figure it was a minor miracle. No. It wasn't minor," said Scott Connors.

Utah Department of Transportation officials, who have taken responsibility for the errant mortar, say the event is a rarity, even though they set off 560 rounds of explosive material every year in an attempt to control avalanche danger in the Provo, American Fork, Big and Little Cottonwood canyons.

"Of the tens of thousands of blasts done in Utah, there are extremely few incidents like this," said Liam Fitzgerald, supervisor for the Avalanche Safety Program in UDOT's Region 2.

"This one was recorded as a dud because the crew did not see or hear an explosion," Fitzgerald said.

Fitzgerald said the cannon was fired from a fixed launch site on the north side of Provo Canyon — a spot above Sundance — that's been used many times before.

"Most of our firing is done when we cannot see the target," he said. "That's when we have avalanches, when it's storming."

The blast was at least 3 miles off course. Avalanche-control operations are being temporarily suspended in Provo Canyon until officials can determine how the accident happened.

UDOT blames the misfire on too much gunpowder.

UDOT spokesman Geoff DuPaix said the shells come pre-packaged in bundles, so it isn't clear who is responsible for using the larger charge.

Carlos Braceras, UDOT deputy director, said UDOT takes responsibility for the accident and wants to make certain it doesn't happen again. Exact damage estimates are still coming in, but it could reach $100,000.

"We obviously have a little bit of work to do here," he said.

FuturePastNow posted:

I've never gotten to use it, and probably never will, but I keep an old tripod in the trunk of my car. So if I ever witness some disaster, I can set up the camera and run.

darkwasthenight posted:

Robert Landsburg, killed during the eruption of Mt St Helens in 1980. Knowing he couldn't outrun the eruption he took photos of the pyroclastic cloud approaching his position, then rewound the film, placed it inside his camera bag, and carefully lay down on top of it in the hope that his body would preserve some of the footage.

Say Nothing posted:

Doc Hawkins posted:

There's a shot of the train in High Noon, when it's on its final approach to the station, which is taken from the tracks in front of it. I remember seeing a documentary about the film claiming that something went wrong when they were filming that, and the train just ran over and destroyed the camera, but they were able to recover the film.

There were two people standing with the camera, and they all got away, but it was the one who was not actually filming who started to say, "I think it's not stopping," and the one who was that kept saying "it's fine, this is a great shot."

e: There's some great OSHA stories from those old films. A handful of people died filming the avalanche scene in Lost Horizon, achieved using the amazing practical effect of triggering a real loving avalanche, jesus christ.

quote:

Another issue was that of casting the part of the High Lama. After a screen test of 56 year-old retired stage actor A.E. Hanson, Capra decided that he was just right for the part. He made a call to the actor's home, and the housekeeper who answered the phone was told to relay the message to Hanson that the part was his. Not long after, the housekeeper called back telling Capra that when Hanson heard the news, he had a heart attack and died. Subsequently, Capra offered the part to 58 year-old Henry B. Walthall. He died before shooting began. Finally, to play it safer age-wise, Capra cast Sam Jaffe who was just 45.[7]

Phanatic posted:

Terrorism is about motivation, not action. If it's not done to terrorize it's not terrorism.

Admiral Bosch posted:

so this is way off topic but since you're posting in this thread fairly regularly hopefully you'll see this; in some other thread a really long time ago you wrote up a really great explanation about why FTL travel and communication under any theoretical circumstance is impossible because it breaks causality. do you run a website or anything that you post that sort of poo poo on? i've wanted to find it for some time to show people who think the alcubierre drive is super great

tactlessbastard posted:

Wow, in one article they manage to call it a mortar, a cannon, and a howitzer.

VectorSigma posted:

and a bomb

Say Nothing posted:

Baronjutter posted:

What's going on here? Resurfacing the rails or something?

quote:

During the Apr battle the need for a second MG was felt, as angry little men climbed on the top of the tks and beat on the hatches with fists and rifle butts. One answer was to charge through a mud house, but this was NOT thought to be the real answer, as it increased the shortage of houses already made obvious by zealous gunners. It was thought further that it was better to stop people getting on in the first place. Therefore .30 BROWNINGS were obtained, rumour has it at high cost (in gin), and mounted on the comds cupola. This has a dual advantage in that it solved the problem of the angry little men, and also prevented crew comds from being garrotted by signallers, with their customary homicidal tendencies towards tk men. The fury of the R. Sigs knew NO bounds as their now harmless tight wire traps were time and again swept serenely aside by the advancing tanks. Personally I cherished NO animosity towards the Sigs and contented myself with merely immobilising 3/4 of Seouls tram car service by laying claim, vi et armis, to some 200 yds of overhead wire, which I took with me for some four blocks. Fortunately for me someone preceding me had touched the same wire and blown the fuze, or I might have got summary justice. It was hanging low anyway.

Baronjutter posted:

What's going on here? Resurfacing the rails or something?

C.M. Kruger posted:

During the Apr battle the need for a second MG was felt, as angry little men climbed on the top of the tks and beat on the hatches with fists and rifle butts. One answer was to charge through a mud house, but this was NOT thought to be the real answer, as it increased the shortage of houses already made obvious by zealous gunners. It was thought further that it was better to stop people getting on in the first place. Therefore .30 BROWNINGS were obtained, rumour has it at high cost (in gin), and mounted on the comds cupola. This has a dual advantage in that it solved the problem of the angry little men, and also prevented crew comds from being garrotted by signallers, with their customary homicidal tendencies towards tk men. The fury of the R. Sigs knew NO bounds as their now harmless tight wire traps were time and again swept serenely aside by the advancing tanks. Personally I cherished NO animosity towards the Sigs and contented myself with merely immobilising 3/4 of Seouls tram car service by laying claim, vi et armis, to some 200 yds of overhead wire, which I took with me for some four blocks. Fortunately for me someone preceding me had touched the same wire and blown the fuze, or I might have got summary justice. It was hanging low anyway.

Decrepus posted:

FuturePastNow posted:

http://i.imgur.com/r0kRitI.gifv

FuturePastNow posted:

http://i.imgur.com/r0kRitI.gifv