H.P. Hovercraft posted:

https://twitter.com/GrahamStarr/status/885343770031554560

maskenfreiheit posted:

my next door neighbor in undergrad went out one nigh and poured bacon grease all over a semester's worth of shits the neighbor's unleashed dog laid... next day the dog just runs around eating like, 40 shits. the owner is yelling, trying to chase it, but he's really fat because he doesn't walk his dog he just lets it run around the neighborhood making GBS threads anyways this dog ate a shitload of poo poo and i am not sure how i feel about that like could the dog get sick? it was still alive at the end of the next semester so i assume it didn't hurt it but jeez

The_Franz posted:

one of the guys from shark tank was on celebrity jeopardy

he's pretty dumb and did really bad. before the game even started he misspelled his own nickname on the podium

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

i think we'd sooner elect a bald guy than a short guy

Moist von Lipwig posted:

kevin o'leary needs to literally be murdered

JewKiller 3000 posted:

james madison was 5'4"

JewKiller 3000 posted:

james madison was 5'4"

Luigi Thirty posted:

didn't he run for conservative party whatsit and get slaughtered and publicly shown to be a total idiot repeatedly

Moist von Lipwig posted:

Americans want their president to gently caress and cum in them

Sagebrush posted:

jeah but he was born in like 1750 or something when everyone was real short because they had no food and were all malnourished as children

Sagebrush posted:

jeah but he was born in like 1750 or something when everyone was real short because they had no food and were all malnourished as children

Luigi Thirty posted:

he was upper class af and also America had a reputation in the 1700s as Literally Having All The Food

Americans were stereotyped as greedy slobs who ate tons of food with reckless abandon

fermun posted:

later fuckerberg, none of big stevie's meat for you! go kill and butcher a goat or something

Luigi Thirty posted:

he was upper class af and also America had a reputation in the 1700s as Literally Having All The Food

Americans were stereotyped as greedy slobs who ate tons of food with reckless abandon

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

i think we'd sooner elect a bald guy than a short guy

JewKiller 3000 posted:

james madison was 5'4"

Pinterest Mom posted:

he announced a run like five months after everybody else, barely campaigned, and dropped out about a month before the vote. he says it's because he realised he can't speak French, which I think is something he would have known at the beginning of the campaign.

Sagebrush posted:

there's two different concepts here

first is a pneumatic tube system, or pneumatic railway, which uses pressure differentials in the pipe to move stuff around. that's the 19th-century idea, and the one where they proposed two tubes so the passengers wouldn't suffocate. it's not particularly fast. its reason for existence is that you can theoretically power the whole system with a big compressor/pump at each end, and the lines are just dumb pipes.

the other idea is a vacuum train, where the pipe is kept in a high vacuum and the trains are driven inside with some other method (regular electric motor, linear induction motor, maglev, etc). i think these started to be proposed in the 1950s or something. the advantage to them is that the trains can go way faster because they don't have to deal with drag.

hyperloop is an attempt at building a vacuum train, not a pneumatic railway.

Luigi Thirty posted:

didn't he run for conservative party whatsit and get slaughtered and publicly shown to be a total idiot repeatedly

The_Franz posted:

one of the guys from shark tank was on celebrity jeopardy

he's pretty dumb and did really bad. before the game even started he misspelled his own nickname on the podium

fishmech posted:

The Beach Subway operated via giant fans in the sealable tunnel, where you would push and pull the cars by air suction in the direction of intended travel, without risking extreme vacuum for the passengers. There would have been fan pairs for each station to station segment in the final system instead of the single fan on the demonstration line and station

C.H.O.M.E posted:

i'm picturing a subway where everyone boards and their eardrums rupture before the car starts to slowly accelerate away from the station

C.H.O.M.E posted:

i'm picturing a subway where everyone boards and their eardrums rupture before the car starts to slowly accelerate away from the station

quote:

After we had had our ride, it was only natural of course, that we should wish to explore the source from whence came the pneumatic pressure that had so mysteriously carried us along under Broadway. Accordingly, under the guidance of one of the polite officials of the company, provided with lanterns, we entered the air-passage, or duct, which opens into the waiting-room near the mouth of the tunnel. […] As we went in, we felt a gentle breeze; but after we arrived at the mouth of the great blower, and while we were gazing in wonder at the motions of the gigantic blowing-wings, the engineer put on more steam and increased the speed, so that the blast instantly became a hurricane of frightful power. Hats, bonnets, shawls, handkerchiefs, and every loose thing, were snatched away from our hands and swept into the tunnel; while all of us, unable to stand against the tornado, hastily retreated from the machine to a corner of the air-box, where we were slightly sheltered. At this juncture the speed of the Æolor was reduced, the storm was over, and only a gentle summer’s breeze issued from its enormous throat.

fits my needs posted:

The_Franz posted:

gazing in wonder at the motions of the gigantic blowing-wings

flakeloaf posted:

Some of them fled, although they had been trained to cope with just such an unthinkable eventuality. The deaf-hearing face twitched and quivered. Claw hands beat and twisted and danced on the air; abruptly they descended and the thing that had been his son began to claw at its ears. "Louder than you think, Dad!" it cackled. "Louder than you think! Held my tongue when they gave out the earplugs! Wanted to hear! I heard! I heard! Louder than you think!"

Xaris posted:

lmao what the gently caress

fits my needs posted:

Spatial posted:

- blink exactly once

Spatial posted:

zuck has been rehearsing the routine for days. this poo poo is complicated son

*ZUCK looks down at his notes*

- contract facial muscle group 31, HAPPY
- clasp dried carbohydrate assembly
- raise right appendage 34cm
- sleep 550ms
- raise right appendage to primary mandible level
- insert assembly
- cycle primary mandible at 0.6Hz [continuous]
- retract appendage
- contract facial muscles 29 - 34 for 1600 milliseconds (tough one!!)
- blink exactly once

Xaris posted:

lmao what the gently caress