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Nostalgia4Dicks posted:So less conspiracy and more "hey we'll fund your poo poo if you do this" ? Yeah, they let them use what ever money was left over to look for the Titanic. I remembered seeing a documentary on it a few years back, and thought it was kind of wild. Especially because they kept releasing statements about how they couldn't find it. Turned out they knew exactly were it was and it was actually the subs that were giving them a problem. Government wanted to keep it hush because it was the cold war and they weren't sure if the subs had been sunk by the Russians or not.
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oh ok nvm I didn't know they already knew where it was
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Sep 18, 2016 23:25
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James Cameron only made the movie Titanic so the studio would fund his hobby diving And he made Terminator so they would fund his killer robot army
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Sep 18, 2016 23:29
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He made T2 on the condition that they give him and Schwarzenegger a blank cheque for their next project, which was True Lies. So T2 is an awesome film and responsible for another awesome film. Almost makes you want to forgive the other Terminator movies.
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Sep 18, 2016 23:38
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Howard Hughes was also commissioned to go look for a submarine (Soviet I think) under the cover of looking for "manganese nodules" which are a thing but I think they're nearly commercially valueless. A custom ship was built called the Glomar Explorer. I don't think they ever found the sub.
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Sep 18, 2016 23:40
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two forty posted:Howard Hughes was also commissioned to go look for a submarine (Soviet I think) under the cover of looking for "manganese nodules" which are a thing but I think they're nearly commercially valueless. A custom ship was built called the Glomar Explorer. I don't think they ever found the sub. lookit this guy who doesn't know what happens when you rub a manganese nodule on your dick
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girth brooks part 2 posted:Government wanted to keep it hush because it was the cold war and they weren't sure if the subs had been sunk by the Russians or not. You are absolutely wrong, at least in regards to the USS Thresher. We absolutely knew the cause of that submarine's loss, and the loss of that submarine started the US Navy's "Subsafe" program. The USS Thresher sank while conducting drills. They initiated a reactor scram, which was a standard drill action. While performing the recovery start up they initiated the emergency blow system. Due to the construction of the baffles and piping small pieces of ice accumulated in the lines, eventually leading to a blockage that prevented the pressurized air from expelling the ballast from the tanks. This caused the Thresher to lose forward and upward momentum. The Thresher slowly came to a stop, for a brief moment, before sliding backwards and down into the depths. Some time after going below crush depth the hull imploded, killing all crew members on board. As the tender ship was in communication with the Thresher, and it was a commissioning activity, we are sure about what happened. This disaster also introduced what is known as a "Fast Recovery Start-up" procedure, which can bring the reactor back to criticality with a matter of a few minutes, instead of the dozens a standard reactor start up requires. The main purpose of the Dr. Ballard's mission was to locate the hulls and visually verify the integrity of the reactor containment vessels, with the secondary goal of discovering any other important details that may have been overlooked. IncredibleIgloo has a new favorite as of 00:09 on Sep 19, 2016 |
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Sep 19, 2016 00:06
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two forty posted:Howard Hughes was also commissioned to go look for a submarine (Soviet I think) under the cover of looking for "manganese nodules" which are a thing but I think they're nearly commercially valueless. A custom ship was built called the Glomar Explorer. I don't think they ever found the sub. Oh, they found it alright. They salvaged 1/3rd of it but dropped the other 2/3rds they were actually interested in. Most expensive Claw Game ever. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3uzM24MWBY
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IncredibleIgloo posted:You are absolutely wrong, at least in regards to the USS Thresher. We absolutely knew the cause of that submarine's loss, and the loss of that submarine started the US Navy's "Subsafe" program. The USS Thresher sank while conducting drills. They initiated a reactor scram, which was a standard drill action. While performing the recovery start up they initiated the emergency blow system. Due to the construction of the baffles and piping small pieces of ice accumulated in the lines, eventually leading to a blockage that prevented the pressurized air from expelling the ballast from the tanks. This caused the Thresher to lose forward and upward momentum. The Thresher slowly came to a stop, for a brief moment, before sliding backwards and down into the depths. Some time after going below crush depth the hull imploded, killing all crew members on board. As the tender ship was in communication with the Thresher, and it was a commissioning activity, we are sure about what happened. This disaster also introduced what is known as a "Fast Recovery Start-up" procedure, which can bring the reactor back to criticality with a matter of a few minutes, instead of the dozens a standard reactor start up requires. I didn't know that about the Thresher. If I remember right the Scorpion was shadowing a Soviet fleet when it went down. They weren't sure exactly why it had sunk at the time and there was some concern that they'd been discovered and sunk. I think they're still not entirely confident in what happened and it's listed as "bad poo poo, probably an accident"
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MisterOblivious posted:Oh, they found it alright. They salvaged 1/3rd of it but dropped the other 2/3rds they were actually interested in. Most expensive Claw Game ever. According to the official story anyhow.
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North Korea still has our ship the USS Pueblo, which they seized somehow in 1968. Two interesting things: quoting directly from Wikipedia: Bucher wrote the confession since a "confession" by definition needed to be written by the confessor himself. They verified the meaning of what he wrote, but failed to catch the pun when he said "We paean the DPRK [North Korea]. We paean their great leader Kim Il Sung".[20][21] (Bucher pronounced "paean" as "pee on.")[22] Then there's a pretty famous picture of the men of the ship being forced to watch or listen to some North Korean indoctrination bullshit: 
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Sep 19, 2016 02:20
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A few days ago a dead whale washed up on the beach in Oregon. http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2016/09/humpback_whale_beached_on_oreg.html It reminded me of a "thing that actually happened" when the last time a whale was found dead on the beach here. It stunk so bad no one wanted to take care of it, so they loaded it up with a half ton of dynamite and blew up. Hunks of dead, rotten whale meat rained down on the people watching, crushing cars and covering the entire beach with chum curds. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVVW8BferzQ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploding_whale
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Sep 19, 2016 04:27
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You'd think they could try towing that poo poo back out to sea and sinking it there instead.
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Sep 19, 2016 04:37
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Sunswipe posted:Almost makes you want to forgive the other Terminator movies. Lol if you watched anything terminator past t2
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Sep 19, 2016 05:48
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No Fate motherfucker.
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Sep 19, 2016 06:28
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Volcott posted:No Fate motherfucker. Picture Nate Diaz saying this.
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Sep 19, 2016 07:57
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Neurion posted:You'd think they could try towing that poo poo back out to sea and sinking it there instead. thats no fun edit: this is a film someone made https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgRu9BnEof0 Jose has a new favorite as of 10:31 on Sep 19, 2016 |
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Sep 19, 2016 09:33
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Jose posted:thats no fun No, no, no. Not someone. this man made that movie   Aaah yes nuke 
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Sep 19, 2016 11:32
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Rip Torn attacks Norman Taylor with a claw hammer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AzmhorISf4
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Sep 19, 2016 12:19
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Norman Mailer I meant
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Neurion posted:You'd think they could try towing that poo poo back out to sea and sinking it there instead. The problem is that whales are incredibly waterproof. They, of course, need to be to dive to such huge depths. But it also means that, even in death, they tend to stay all sealed up. Having their mass collapse on itself on land certainly doesn't help either. This mean that all the myriad nasty gases and fluids of decomposition build up inside the whale like a balloon made from meat and nightmares. Especially if the pressure becomes too much and they explode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zU0F9GYzhO8 But it also makes them very buoyant and likely to float back to shore. Now, why they don't tow them out and then explode them? Because now you have floaty, stinky bits of various sizes scattered all over the ocean stinking up the place and making the NIMBYs sad. This leaves cutting them up on shore into manageable bits and then towing them out to sink. However, you can do some really cool science on the bodies, but this post is long enough already. Megillah Gorilla has a new favorite as of 12:35 on Sep 19, 2016 |
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Sep 19, 2016 12:33
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I actually saw one of these on the road last week
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Sep 19, 2016 13:03
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there was the time someone deployed chlorine gas at a furry convention
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Sep 19, 2016 13:37
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Northumbria_Police_manhunt#AOL_parody_error In 2010 a deranged man murdered his ex-girlfriend's partner and almost killed her. He then went on to shoot a police officer who was permanently blinded by it and later hanged himself. During the standoff that ensued with the police a week later when they cornered him, former British football star and present day washed up trainwreck Paul Gascoigne publicly defended Raoul Moat as a "nice guy" on the radio, then showed up to the scene of the standoff in his dressing gown, pleading with Moat to stand down in exchange for lager and chicken. If that was weird enough, there was significant media hysteria over the largest manhunt in British history and it led AOL's automated news scraper to publish the following 'news' story by accidentally confusing satire for news: an actual thing AOL reported posted:As officers and dogs move in, citizens from around the isle are anticipating a swift and gruesome conclusion to the national drama. Some are even clamouring for it, calling it the best live entertainment they’ve seen in some time ... Families have been collecting children from schools and nurseries throughout the day so they could watch together, as expectations reached fever pitch that a violent firearms confrontation was imminent. Over 800 schools have closed across the country as a result
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Sep 19, 2016 13:45
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That same police force deployed their armed response unit and a helicopter to shoot a cow that had left its field and was on a major road http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...e-10258039.html quote:A cow has been shot dead by police after it escaped from a field near Newcastle during a three-hour operation involving armed units and a helicopter.
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Sep 19, 2016 13:51
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Jose posted:That same police force deployed their armed response unit and a helicopter to shoot a cow that had left its field and was on a major road lmao they are the brit equivalent of pew pew guy
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Sep 19, 2016 13:52
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they dont get to use those guns often man let them have fun
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Sep 19, 2016 14:12
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surprised this isn't a jeep renegade yeah, thats what theyre calling jeeps now. no question their demographic now
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Sep 19, 2016 14:23
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I thought the cops in the UK didn't carry guns. 
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Sep 19, 2016 14:51
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they don't. they have trained units to respond when guns are necessary. Such as a cow being on a road
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Sep 19, 2016 14:55
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Jose posted:they don't. they have trained units to respond when guns are necessary. Such as a cow being on a road #CowLivesMatter
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End Of Worlds posted:there was the time someone deployed chlorine gas at a furry convention To clarify a bit, it was a bunch of spilled granular chlorine in the stairwell. Pool Chlorine. Never did hear if they figured it was intentional, or if some worker spilled some on the way to the pool and forgot to sweep it up.
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Sep 19, 2016 15:09
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I mean, yeah, if people are going to throw a poo poo fit over toxic "gas" released at a nerd convention, then get all overexcited about the amount of methane being farted out in those halls.
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Sep 19, 2016 15:12
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Webb Gary webb wrote a series of articles about the CIA and crack and then committed suicide by shooting himself in the head twice
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Sep 19, 2016 15:21
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Jose posted:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Webb Bit like how mob witnesses commit suicide by stabbing themselves in the back four times and then throwing themselves off a bridge?
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Sep 19, 2016 15:25
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suicide by zipping themselves up in a duffle bag
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Sep 19, 2016 15:31
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proof of concept posted:for anyone who doesn't get what's up with that photoshop: thank you for posting this. i had never seen this before and found it loving hilarious
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Sep 19, 2016 15:37
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nigga crab pollock posted:suicide by zipping themselves up in a duffle bag Who was the MI5 guy that happened to a couple years back?
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Sep 19, 2016 15:39
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Theophany posted:Who was the MI5 guy that happened to a couple years back? Gareth Williams. Unsolved IIRC, though I think the Met claimed it was a 'bondage accident'. Shouldn't be too hard to google up whatever info is available if you're inclined.
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Theophany posted:Who was the MI5 guy that happened to a couple years back? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Gareth_Williams Wikipedia posted:
He's dead in a duffel bag that's zipped up... it's probably an accident. Edit: beaten while phone posting but I provided a link 
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