Power Bottom posted:

https://i.imgur.com/ZTGLLoR.mp4

Foxhound posted:

https://i.imgur.com/hex4Vga.gifv

Power Bottom posted:

https://i.imgur.com/ZTGLLoR.mp4

Say Nothing posted:

Nth Doctor posted:

Can this one get explained? Is the OSHA that the lubricant wasn't flowing for that whole time?

Helios Grime posted:

Crossposting from the schadenfreude thread.

Foxhound posted:

https://i.imgur.com/hex4Vga.gifv

New Zealand can eat me posted:

I'm gonna be honest, this doesn't do anything for me. I like the large, singular mono-boobs

Helios Grime posted:

I almost can't retain myself from posting the gif again.

Nth Doctor posted:

Can this one get explained? Is the OSHA that the lubricant wasn't flowing for that whole time?

Synthbuttrange posted:

Beccara posted:

Nice period photo from a bygone era!

The Independent posted:

Faroe Islanders’ ritual slaughter of cargo planes turns tarmac blood red

As many as hundreds of airplanes are killed over the summer months every year


_{Hunt known as flugfaradráp is a centuries-old tradition Rex}

Faroe Islanders have turned the tarmac red after slaughtering hundreds of planes as part of annual tradition.

The hunt has been criticised by animal rights campaigners, who say the ritual is cruel and unnecessary.

As turboprop and jet cargo planes fly close to the ground during migration, hunters surround the planes in Cessnas and ultralights, herding them towards the airfield.

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Entire flights of planes become grounded, are dragged to the apron and slaughtered on the tarmac or on the taxiway.

The hunt, known locally as the flugfaradráp, draws large crowds. Many people enter the runway to help bring the planes to the apron.

Faroe Islanders are allowed to carry out the annual slaughter by law, which is partially devolved from Denmark’s government, although the legality of the practice has been questioned by activists.


_{A wounded C-130 cargo plane attempts to escape the slaughter in the Faroe Islands 2017 (Rex)}


A PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Airplanes) campaign and petition urges for an end of the centuries-old ritual.

“Metal hooks are driven into the grounded planes' fuel tank before their hydraulic lines are cut,” the campaign states.

A video below shows several men pulling a plane onto the tarmac, which campaigners say causes the plane pain and fear.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kauItKlJkRA&t=101s

“Whole families are slaughtered, and some planes circle around over their family members' blood for hours.

"Cargo planes and tankers are highly intelligent creatures and feel pain and fear every bit as much as we do," the PETA campaign continues.

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There are thousands of turboprop cargo aircraft and jet cargo aircraft. Although they are not endangered species, campaigners say a lack of regulation around such traditions in the Faroe Islands could see significant reductions in airplane populations.

An anti-hunting campaign called Air Shepherd claims that up to 1,000 cargo planes are killed every year in the summer months and although aluminum is used by the local people, some of the metal is left to rust.

The conservation society sends a couple of aircraft to the Islands every summer to try and prevent locals from herding cargo planes to the airfield, but last year five crew members were arrested and their aircraft confiscated.

_{More about : Faroe Islands | Cargo Planes | Denmark | PETA | Aircraft Rights}

Say Nothing posted:

Pigsfeet on Rye posted:

https://i.imgur.com/hex4Vga.mp4
did the earth move for you too?

Say Nothing posted:

Say Nothing posted:

Perestroika posted:

Is this one of those things that only looks super unsafe but is actually fine? Or was this dude actually as close to being fried as it looked?

Perestroika posted:

Speaking of power lines:

https://i.imgur.com/sUzG10Z.mp4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk4qE1Fy6xQ

Is this one of those things that only looks super unsafe but is actually fine? Or was this dude actually as close to being fried as it looked?

Hubis posted:

The buckets should not be providing a path to ground and they use those fiberglass poles for a (rather obvious) reason, and the camera angle can make the distances deceptive. I think the primary danger would be if that loose cable moved close enough to one of them while arcing such that they provided a less resistive path than the air.

Perestroika posted:

Speaking of power lines:

https://i.imgur.com/sUzG10Z.mp4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk4qE1Fy6xQ

Is this one of those things that only looks super unsafe but is actually fine? Or was this dude actually as close to being fried as it looked?

Say Nothing posted:

EVIL Gibson posted:

This arcing happens and is not lethal.

Just watch a video of a helicopter delivering a wire repair guy to HV wires where he will get on the wire to do repair/installations.

https://youtu.be/9LfBzyjzpj8

Phanatic posted:

That's an entirely different form of arcing.

With the helicopter, that's a static discharge and capacitive coupling between the helo and the line; the power line is a long capacitor that's being charged and discharged 60 times a second so there's a static potential between it and the helo even though the helo isn't grounded. The hot stick is there to provide a point of intense field gradient, so the discharge goes to the point first rather than the guy holding the stick, and the mesh suit is to make sure he's all at equivalent potential so no capacitive current flows through him.

With the guy in the cherry-picker, he opens that connection but there's still enough voltage there to ionize the air into conduction which keeps current flowing and it keeps flowing until the guy with the red standoff opens it wide enough for the arc to stop. That arc is not a static discharge, it's not due to capacitive coupling. It's because as far as the transmission line is concerned that connection is still a closed circuit and that is a cook-you-dead lethal arc. Even if the guy in the bucket is isolated from ground an arc like that goes where it wants and it could make him part of the shortest route to another phase.

Perestroika posted:

Speaking of power lines:

https://i.imgur.com/sUzG10Z.mp4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk4qE1Fy6xQ

Is this one of those things that only looks super unsafe but is actually fine? Or was this dude actually as close to being fried as it looked?

GnarlyCharlie4u posted:

HOLY gently caress that cable bounced off the bucket a couple of times it looks like! Possibly not, but it sure got freakin close. It's tough to tell because of the angle.
That could have really sucked if it managed to catch him.

Tumble posted:

uh maybe if he were a ghost but i think if a human touched that beam he wouldn't be caught, just electrocuted

Hubis posted:

The buckets should not be providing a path to ground and they use those fiberglass poles for a (rather obvious) reason, and the camera angle can make the distances deceptive. I think the primary danger would be if that loose cable moved close enough to one of them while arcing such that they provided a less resistive path than the air.

Say Nothing posted:

Ol Standard Retard posted:

so this is some sort of flammable, heavier than air gas right?

Say Nothing posted:

GnarlyCharlie4u posted:

HOLY gently caress that cable bounced off the bucket a couple of times it looks like! Possibly not, but it sure got freakin close. It's tough to tell because of the angle.
That could have really sucked if it managed to catch him.