haveblue posted:

There's a different gif floating around this thread of a similar event where an enormous wave of water and wood fragments comes flying at the camera, hth

Rad-daddio posted:

Yep. It was Fisher who designed the pressurized ink pen at their own cost of about 200,000 USD(not googling it). The resulting pen cost NASA about as much as a normal pen.

I actually have one of the older Fisher space pens(Black Grid Shuttle Pattern) . It has the original pressurized ink cartridge in it. It also sounds like your're cycling a bolt action rifle when you click the button on top and the side. loving solid as a rock.

haveblue posted:

There's a different gif floating around this thread of a similar event where an enormous wave of water and wood fragments comes flying at the camera, hth

Rad-daddio posted:

Yep. It was Fisher who designed the pressurized ink pen at their own cost of about 200,000 USD(not googling it). The resulting pen cost NASA about as much as a normal pen.

I actually have one of the older Fisher space pens(Black Grid Shuttle Pattern) . It has the original pressurized ink cartridge in it. It also sounds like your're cycling a bolt action rifle when you click the button on top and the side. loving solid as a rock.

Rad-daddio posted:

Yep. It was Fisher who designed the pressurized ink pen at their own cost of about 200,000 USD(not googling it). The resulting pen cost NASA about as much as a normal pen.

I actually have one of the older Fisher space pens(Black Grid Shuttle Pattern) . It has the original pressurized ink cartridge in it. It also sounds like your're cycling a bolt action rifle when you click the button on top and the side. loving solid as a rock.

LifeSunDeath posted:

drat, never seen one, would rock that thing and click it obsessively.

wdarkk posted:

This one?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGaMUmsNQD4&t=165s

Former DILF posted:

i can't wait for this meme to break into the mainstream as soon as commercial spaceflight does

today a man was detained after trying to use a pencil on a Virgin Galactic flight

Helios Grime posted:

Why not be detained today?



I tried to find the most gaudy bolt action pen on google.

Edit:
Found a version

Raskolnikov38 posted:

who's the sports fisher at #8. his blooper videos were hilarious

oohhboy posted:

I would like to take my pen on planes.

Platystemon posted:

Fun fact: pens are exceptions to the TSA’s liquid rule.

Former DILF posted:

well only because they cant contain more than the allowed amount of liquid

Jabor posted:

the point was probably that you don't need to pull them out separately in a clear plastic bag the way you do for the other liquids you're bringing

ekuNNN posted:

Cuazl posted:

Fun fact: When that company was eventually forced to admit to murdering all their workers, the ex-workers started suing. Their defence was so obviously and completely hosed that their lawyers advised an unconventional tactic - stall for as long as possible. The longer it took for the courts to find them guilty, the more workers would die of lung disease and the less compensation they'd have to pay to the remaining survivors.

This worked, and saved them millions of dollars. The first successful compensation case paid out in 1988, 22 years after the mine closed. The company's still going, with profits of ~$100m p/a. One of those lawyers is now deputy leader of the governing Liberal Party, tipped as a plausible future prime minister. Deaths from asbestos exposure at that mine are estimated between 2000 and 4000+ so far - no official statistics are kept and many of the dead were foreign workers (who died overseas) or aboriginals, who weren't counted as citizens at the time (and barely considered people, which hasn't changed much). Deaths from asbestos mining in Australia are estimated at well over 12,000, with at least twice that number yet to be diagnosed. The area around the mine is still heavily contaminated.

Incidentally, the dangers of asbestos exposure were legally recognised in 1906, thirty years before that mine opened. The fair dinkum aussie battler advocating sterilisation in that clip? That's the late Lang Hancock, who made his fortune in mining - and his first mine was the asbestos mine at Wittenoom. He lived to be 82, and his daughter's the richest person in the country.

Welcome to Australia!

ekuNNN posted:

NoneMoreNegative posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHlPFfWZj5k&t=355s

chitoryu12 posted:

Is the method of putting newly constructed/refurbished ships in the water really just tipping it in and hoping for the best?

wdarkk posted:

This one?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGaMUmsNQD4&t=165s

LifeSunDeath posted:

drat, never seen one, would rock that thing and click it obsessively.

Power Bottom posted:

So are the rear wheels of the trailer remote-controlled?

Johnny Aztec posted:

Jesus, I'm drooling like Homer here. I loving love well built things.

Rad-daddio posted:

You could get this one for about 4-7 USD. I think I got it from Amazon for 4 and change. Also very well built. I mean, it's got a machine knurled finger grip. Feels good, and you could easily get through a car window with it. I keep it in my center console for shopping lists. I think the EDC guys like to sperg out about them too.


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Cuazl posted:

Fun fact: When that company was eventually forced to admit to murdering all their workers, the ex-workers started suing. Their defence was so obviously and completely hosed that their lawyers advised an unconventional tactic - stall for as long as possible. The longer it took for the courts to find them guilty, the more workers would die of lung disease and the less compensation they'd have to pay to the remaining survivors.

This worked, and saved them millions of dollars. The first successful compensation case paid out in 1988, 22 years after the mine closed. The company's still going, with profits of ~$100m p/a. One of those lawyers is now deputy leader of the governing Liberal Party, tipped as a plausible future prime minister. Deaths from asbestos exposure at that mine are estimated between 2000 and 4000+ so far - no official statistics are kept and many of the dead were foreign workers (who died overseas) or aboriginals, who weren't counted as citizens at the time (and barely considered people, which hasn't changed much). Deaths from asbestos mining in Australia are estimated at well over 12,000, with at least twice that number yet to be diagnosed. The area around the mine is still heavily contaminated.

Incidentally, the dangers of asbestos exposure were legally recognised in 1906, thirty years before that mine opened. The fair dinkum aussie battler advocating sterilisation in that clip? That's the late Lang Hancock, who made his fortune in mining - and his first mine was the asbestos mine at Wittenoom. He lived to be 82, and his daughter's the richest person in the country.

Welcome to Australia!

C.M. Kruger posted:

A tragedy in three acts and about one month:

FogHelmut posted:

TMZ has video of him doing aggressive dives and flying low.

Note: they also have video of boaters pulling up to the crash, so don't watch that part if you don't want to see it.

http://www.tmz.com/2017/11/08/roy-halladay-plane-crash-video-witnesses-showboating/

Rad-daddio posted:

You could get this one for about 4-7 USD. I think I got it from Amazon for 4 and change. Also very well built. I mean, it's got a machine knurled finger grip. Feels good, and you could easily get through a car window with it. I keep it in my center console for shopping lists. I think the EDC guys like to sperg out about them too.


Zebra F-701