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Platystemon posted:The way it just hangs there for a moment. just a fraction of a second to get that perfect fuel/air mixture before the lid blasts on outta there edit - sewer drama! watch though the end, it returns!. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BkFp5CL4q0 Tumble fucked around with this message at 02:26 on Apr 12, 2017 |
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Tuxedo Ted posted:I hope that manhole cover didn't hit anyone when it came back down. At least nobody we know or care about
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Tuxedo Ted posted:I hope that manhole cover didn't hit anyone when it came back down. That reminds me, anyone remember that manhole cover over a shaft with a nuke at the bottom story? Even though they say it didn't, I like to believe that manhole cover reached orbit.
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Ak Gara posted:That reminds me, anyone remember that manhole cover over a shaft with a nuke at the bottom story? Even though they say it didn't, I like to believe that manhole cover reached orbit. quote:Operation Plumbbob
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Ak Gara posted:That reminds me, anyone remember that manhole cover over a shaft with a nuke at the bottom story? Even though they say it didn't, I like to believe that manhole cover reached orbit. That was the Pascal‐B test of 27 August 1957. e:f;b but check those post times.
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Platystemon posted:e:f;b but check those post times. What...how?
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Ak Gara posted:That reminds me, anyone remember that manhole cover over a shaft with a nuke at the bottom story? Even though they say it didn't, I like to believe that manhole cover reached orbit. Just "straight up" doesn't get you into earth orbit without a circularization burn. Enough up and you get to skip earth orbit and go straight to a solar orbit, but that's probably also enough energy to turn iron into iron vapor, so.
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Sam Hall posted:Just "straight up" doesn't get you into earth orbit without a circularization burn. Enough up and you get to skip earth orbit and go straight to a solar orbit, but that's probably also enough energy to turn iron into iron vapor, so. Look at Kerbal Space Program expert over here.
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qkkl posted:How do they test that something is dangerous to the eyes? Did some poor chimp get acid dripped into its eyeballs? Easy, everything that isn't meant to go in your eyes is dangerous to eyes. The more reactive it is, the worse it's going to be. No one needs to squirt a rat in a face with a fracking fluid that melts plastics to figure that out that it's not going to be a Visine replacement. Animals testing gets done if something needs to be tested to be safe for eyes, severity of damage/irritation, or to learn about treatments.
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jetz0r posted:Easy, everything that isn't meant to go in your eyes is dangerous to eyes. The more reactive it is, the worse it's going to be. No one needs to squirt a rat in a face with a fracking fluid that melts plastics to figure that out that it's not going to be a Visine replacement. They use rabbits primarily for eye safety tests, anyway. And yes, some of the them did in the past get blinded with nasty chemicals just to prove they actually did. Millions of animals have been sacrificed for medical and human safety experiments through the years, providing unique and valuable data we could not have obtained any other way. "Just how dangerous is it?" is a question that needs to be answered, and we use laboratory animals to get those answers. Thousands of them for most tests so as to get statistically meaningful results. No point in making it sound better than it is. It's a grisly business, but necessary to advance human health. You're right about fracking fluid, though, and other formulated products like that. They generally won't test the finished product if they have a good idea of what the components are and what each will do individually. They can model pretty accurately the combined effect. They do try to minimize the number of animals needed.
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I like where the Fast and Furious franchise is headed
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If you reverse-GIS this, it turns out to be from the Haditha Massacre. 
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Tuxedo Ted posted:I hope that manhole cover didn't hit anyone when it came back down. the cover died on its way to its home planet
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Sam Hall posted:Just "straight up" doesn't get you into earth orbit without a circularization burn. Enough up and you get to skip earth orbit and go straight to a solar orbit, but that's probably also enough energy to turn iron into iron vapor, so. In some alternate universe, the manhole cover leaves atmosphere, then turns back, in the meanwhile earth has rotated enough that the cover splashes on Kremlin killing Khruschev and igniting WW3.
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That manhole is actually the records on the Voyager probe.
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at 66 km/s that thing was nothing more than a warm breeze by the time it hit the tropopause
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Tug life
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Synthbuttrange posted:Sewer gas does poo poo. Passerby - "Man, no one can get this guy to take his coat off!" Manhole - "... hold my beer."
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Synthbuttrange posted:Sewer gas does poo poo. Tuxedo Ted posted:I hope that manhole cover didn't hit anyone when it came back down. The whole shebang https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sgj-GSGyQqE Cover hits a nearby building.
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Lurking Haro posted:Tug life
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Tumble posted:edit - sewer drama! watch though the end, it returns!. The number of people that just say "gently caress it I'm drivin' through" amaze me. My bet is that's the end of a storm sewer interceptor line that's probably dumping into an estuary somewhere nearby that's getting a bitchin' series of storm surges.
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BlankIsBeautiful posted:The number of people that just say "gently caress it I'm drivin' through" amaze me. My bet is that's the end of a storm sewer interceptor line that's probably dumping into an estuary somewhere nearby that's getting a bitchin' series of storm surges. I don't think the car at 0:15 ever makes it through 
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BlankIsBeautiful posted:The number of people that just say "gently caress it I'm drivin' through" amaze me. My bet is that's the end of a storm sewer interceptor line that's probably dumping into an estuary somewhere nearby that's getting a bitchin' series of storm surges. Every time we get flooded there's plenty of news coverage of school run mothers and travelling salespeople who think that they know how to ford or drive through water, not realising that their SUV isn't a magical boat car or that their poverty spec BMW has an airbox less than a foot off the ground.
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Theophany posted:Every time we get flooded there's plenty of news coverage of school run mothers and travelling salespeople who think that they know how to ford or drive through water, not realising that their SUV isn't a magical boat car or that their poverty spec BMW has an airbox less than a foot off the ground. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtlsIwhZHLo
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That guy looked like he was on day release from some form of institute.
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VectorSigma posted:at 66 km/s that thing was nothing more than a warm breeze by the time it hit the tropopause it was probably going too fast to totally burn up http://www.businessinsider.com/fast...ure-happened-17 the scientist that designed those tests is fairly confident it made it to space!
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I am pretty sure that Business Insider is a joke paper, like The Onion. Here's my favourite comedy piece of theirs: http://www.businessinsider.com/how-ebony-horton-paid-off-220000-worth-of-student-loans-in-3-years-2017-3
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This is still my favourite "Idiot tries to drive through flooded underpass" video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDLgVi4PJck Edit: drat, this one is great too but I think the first one just edges it out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnT7thvsPM4 Here's the proper way to do it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3h3_IZWhX0g Snowglobe of Doom fucked around with this message at 16:45 on Apr 12, 2017 |
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Prime username/post combo.
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That poor little windshield wiper. He's trying his hardest, but doesn't stand a chance 
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Greatest Living Man posted:I don't think the car at 0:15 ever makes it through So you didn't watch to 0:40 then?
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Here's the proper way to do it: Keeping your windshield wipers going is the key to success, folks.
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Tumble posted:it was probably going too fast to totally burn up So, if it made it to space, about where in the solar system would it be right now?
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Johnny Aztec posted:So, if it made it to space, about where in the solar system would it be right now? Well best case it's traveled ~124 billion miles since October 7th 1957 (last date of those tests) but the solar system has a radius of 144 billion miles (orbit of Neptune) so somewhere near the orbit of Neptune.
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did some quickie calcs, and the drag force (at 10,000 ft altitude) experienced by a spherical object approximating the size of that cap would approach 4 billion newtons. i could see one ton of steel resisting the heat long enough to clear the atmosphere, but not the mechanical stress. change that sphere into a tumbling manhole cover and all bets are off.
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where's the video where a local news guy is talking about how a parking garage got flooded in heavy rain and he says "local residents were not happy about the flooding" and it just cuts to a guy next to his ruined car screaming "F**************CK! F*************CK!" like five times lol
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Deteriorata posted:Keeping your windshield wipers going is the key to success, folks. Yes, it is.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoFNVp739xo
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