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This guy was going down the highway this morning and got off at the same exit I did. No straps at all that I could see.
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jamal posted:The other jon bois videos are pretty great too You can't trust a camera on a weather balloon because the lens of the camera is curved and will make flat surfaces seem curved at a distance. Or so I've heard.
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Nov 22, 2017 15:27
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Gorilla Salad posted:Would have been so loving good in the latest Mad Max movie. Didn't they use one of those in the gigantic battle scene in Tango & Cash?
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Memento posted:Not as bad as you'd think - they have a diesel engine on board that runs a generator, that feeds electric motors in each hub. So the engine runs at the optimal revs for efficiency. I've mentioned before that my father works on these for a living. They dont even burn diesel in their mine anymore. They burn refined hog fat. Smell's terrible and ruins all of seals in one of those trucks in about 3 months. Dad said it costs about $10,000 to replace them, but the mine save $500,000 a quarter on fuel costs.
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mobby_6kl posted:https://i.imgur.com/e3OmK0R.mp4 And that rear end in a top hat pushing past everyone on a narrow, slippery trail.
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The bits that get me are when that rear end in a top hat follows people really closely on the segments pointing straight out from the cliff, where one slip would make him stumble into them and push them off.
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wow people from a place called knife crime island are under-educated who would have guessed
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Not just using them, selling them too! Pretty sure there was something similar made in the USA, but I can't remember enough details to find it.
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Nov 22, 2017 16:24
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ExecuDork posted:Is this the only train-hits-truck video in which the train loses? The train certainly didn't look like a full-on cargo-loaded train, nor was it moving at an appreciable speed. Even a full-sized 797 at full wouldn't take a 50-car train, the math just doesn't add up. Keep in mind that the first few cars are going to be crushed like soda cans between the truck and the rest of the train, as well. I'd be interested to know if there's any scientific validity to any of the processes. Has there been a scientific study on dowsing? mobby_6kl posted:https://i.imgur.com/e3OmK0R.mp4 Passing on the outside is about as safety conscious as that can get. Also the boots are a good deal better than the shoes some of them are wearing. Camera operator was at least prepared.
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Mistle posted:I'd be interested to know if there's any scientific validity to any of the processes. Has there been a scientific study on dowsing? The big trick with Dowsing is that you dig deep enough you nearly always hit water and 'validate' the reading.
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Mistle posted:I'd be interested to know if there's any scientific validity to any of the processes. Has there been a scientific study on dowsing? Absolutely none, dowsing is pure woo. I suppose if you were walking through an electromagnetic field strong enough to perturb a metal rod in your hand you could use that to find the source, but that's probably not an environment humans should be anywhere near.
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GotLag posted:Not just using them, selling them too! A number of police and rescue forces fell for a bullshit "heartbeat detector" that could supposedly locate people trapped in buildings or under rubble by picking up the electromagnetic signal of their heart beating. http://skepdic.com/essays/dowsingfordollars.html http://skepdic.com/dkl.html A number of others were duped by bullshit bomb detectors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sniffex https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADE_651 People in general are credulous ninnies. Darkhold posted:The big trick with Dowsing is that you dig deep enough you nearly always hit water and 'validate' the reading. Also, people with sufficient training and experience might be able to locate water by observation of surface features. With that plus the ideomotor effect, presto, you find water with a dowsing rod. But you'd have been able to find it without a dowsing rod. Phanatic fucked around with this message at 16:52 on Nov 22, 2017 |
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mobby_6kl posted:https://i.imgur.com/e3OmK0R.mp4 Cirith Ungol is beautiful in spring
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GotLag posted:Not just using them, selling them too! http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-36540816  quote:McCormick is thought to have made £50m from sales of the fake devices - his trial heard of one invoice showing sales of £38m over three years in Iraq alone. Phanatic posted:
Sell them to a govt for $5,000 each. Govt official gets $3,000 in cash, he still makes $1,900 in profit per unit. Everyone's a winner! quote:On Oct. 25, 2009, terrorists carrying two tons of explosives got right past the magic bomb sniffer and detonated their cargo, killing 155 people. Two months later, it happened again, with 127 people killed. Well, almost everyone.
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Phanatic posted:A number of police and rescue forces fell for a bullshit "heartbeat detector" that could supposedly locate people trapped in buildings or under rubble by picking up the electromagnetic signal of their heart beating. Haven't certain police departments consulted with psychics as well in, like, missing persons cases? This type of stuff is always ridiculous, and would be funny if it weren't tragic and often expensive.
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SpacePig posted:Haven't certain police departments consulted with psychics as well in, like, missing persons cases? Yes. Also, most of the "forensics" people routinely get convicted based on (Blood spatter analysis, bite mark analysis, fiber analysis, arson analysis, bullet matching, and to a larger degree than you probably think, fingerprint analysis) is total bullshit pseudoscience and should never be allowed within a mile of a courtroom. But it is, because that's that's the way we've always done it.
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jamal posted:The other jon bois videos are pretty great too Out of morbid curiosity, I once clicked on a youtube link titled something like "FLAT EARTH PROVEN FROM AIRPLANE!!". A man takes a plane ride and films a spirit level that he has placed on the tray table. The bubble remains centered for the entire flight (aircraft motion notwithstanding), which to him indicates that the earth must be flat, because if it were curved then the angle to the ground would gradually increase as the plane travels forwards and the bubble level would reflect that. These people aren't really operating from the same reality as the rest of us.
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Hank Hill should not shingle! 
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Sagebrush posted:Out of morbid curiosity, I once clicked on a youtube link titled something like "FLAT EARTH PROVEN FROM AIRPLANE!!". A man takes a plane ride and films a spirit level that he has placed on the tray table. The bubble remains centered for the entire flight (aircraft motion notwithstanding), which to him indicates that the earth must be flat, because if it were curved then the angle to the ground would gradually increase as the plane travels forwards and the bubble level would reflect that. Here's a video that proves that the sun 'setting' at the end of every day isn't proof of a round earth, it's proof that the earth is flat! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJ7K6r6zZLs ExaminE the facts, DOn;t believe NASA's lies!! 
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Phanatic posted:Also, people with sufficient training and experience might be able to locate water by observation of surface features. With that plus the ideomotor effect, presto, you find water with a dowsing rod. But you'd have been able to find it without a dowsing rod. But even in the case of past experience in well digging it really is just a case of you'll be right eventually, the sort of geology that spits out actionable info on water/petroleum well viability are probability based and are the sort of results that say there's an N% chance that any hole you dig every however many feet will probably maybe have a reservoir you care about.
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zedprime posted:Dowsing rods are fidget spinners for old people
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Phanatic posted:People in general are credulous ninnies. Then, at the end of the class, he said something about the Second Law of Thermodynamics and how that disproved Evolution.  He was a hardcore, young-Earth Creationist, so I got some eye rolls when I visited him halfway through my first year at university and told him about the first year Biology courses I was taking.
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Never knew spirit levels were the full name.
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SpacePig posted:Haven't certain police departments consulted with psychics as well in, like, missing persons cases? This type of stuff is always ridiculous, and would be funny if it weren't tragic and often expensive. I heard that psychics who know where the body is are known as a "prime suspect".
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Maybe the ones who give bad info actually did it but also foresaw that (because they are psychic) so pretended to not know O_O
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I find this both soothing and alarming. That's an odd sensation.
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mllaneza posted:I find this both soothing and alarming. That's an odd sensation. It is just a sign that the sloth based neurotoxin is working.
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Phanatic posted:A number of police and rescue forces fell for a bullshit "heartbeat detector" that could supposedly locate people trapped in buildings or under rubble by picking up the electromagnetic signal of their heart beating. Yeah, Sniffex is the American one I was thinking of. Did anybody end up going to prison over it? At least Britain jailed the fucker behind the ADE 651.
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GotLag posted:I remember Tom Clancy falling for this and making it a major part of the book Rainbow Six. Was gonna say the Tom Clancy thing as well. When trying to find some nerd picking it to shreds on their blog or in an article, I instead found that MIT researchers have pretty much built the drat thing in 2014.
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GotLag posted:I remember Tom Clancy falling for this and making it a major part of the book Rainbow Six. Did he fall for it or just use it in the book and proceeding game because it was and is cool sounding? Honestly wondering if you have an article about him talking about it.
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Sagebrush posted:Out of morbid curiosity, I once clicked on a youtube link titled something like "FLAT EARTH PROVEN FROM AIRPLANE!!". A man takes a plane ride and films a spirit level that he has placed on the tray table. The bubble remains centered for the entire flight (aircraft motion notwithstanding), which to him indicates that the earth must be flat, because if it were curved then the angle to the ground would gradually increase as the plane travels forwards and the bubble level would reflect that. wrap it up, sphere cucks 
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I can't find anything detailed because it's from so long ago, but there's an LA Times article that mentions it: http://articles.latimes.com/1998/sep/24/local/me-26013 Page 2: quote:Clancy, who has a reputation for great technical accuracy in his works, uses a souped-up version of LifeGuard in his newest novel, "Rainbow Six." In the denouement, a special anti-terrorist team uses the device to pinpoint the location of bad guys in dense forest. "We're smart enough not to be dealing with something that is a fraud," says man who falls for and assists in propagating fraud.
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The best part of the rainbow six videogame was that you could give your entire team a deadly plague.
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Wall Balls posted:wrap it up, sphere cucks Reminds me of an apparently earnest argument that global warming is impossible because conservation of energy would require some kind of outside source of energy. Checkmate, climate alarmists!
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GotLag posted:Reminds me of an apparently earnest argument that global warming is impossible because conservation of energy would require some kind of outside source of energy. Checkmate, climate alarmists! I just... I think it's the willful ignorance that grinds my gears the most. I get not having the education or realizing the information is out there. But being presented with undeniable facts and turning away from them... I don't get it.
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May I point you all to the pseudoscience thread? It could use some love at the moment.
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