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Subjunctive
Sep 12, 2006

✨sparkle and shine✨

chitoryu12 posted:

The F-35’s problems are not being particularly good at any role relative to its fantastically expensive price tag. It’s not disintegrating in mid-air.

There have been cases of engine rotor badness during takeoff roll, at least.

Apparently the Pentagon is looking at replacing its part suppliers for the F-35, which indicates some issues beyond mission fit.

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ekuNNN
Nov 27, 2004

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

chitoryu12 posted:

The F-35’s problems are not being particularly good at any role relative to its fantastically expensive price tag. It’s not disintegrating in mid-air.

Uh, Wasn't one of the problems at some point "can't fly in the rain"?

Azhais
Feb 5, 2007
Switchblade Switcharoo

ekuNNN posted:

Uh, Wasn't one of the problems at some point "can't fly in the rain"?

that, along with "can't fly if it's hot out like in a desert or something"

FogHelmut
Dec 18, 2003

which one was actively cutting off oxygen to the pilots? F22?

Pile Of Garbage
May 28, 2007



Both, because they all used the same faulty system: https://news.usni.org/2017/06/28/report-congress-breath-military-aircraft-oxygen-issues

duz
Jul 11, 2005

Come on Ilhan, lets go bag us a shitpost


I liked the "turn off the computer when crossing the international date line or it'll lock up" bug personally

Blast of Confetti
Apr 21, 2008

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

FogHelmut posted:

which one was actively cutting off oxygen to the pilots? F22?

the best bit about this one is that when your oxygen is cut off you start acting like a drunk and think everything is a-okay so unless something starts beeping real loud you're not going to realize how hosed you are without it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcvkjfG4A_M

spog
Aug 7, 2004

It's your own bloody fault.

Blast of Confetti posted:

the best bit about this one is that when your oxygen is cut off you start acting like a drunk and think everything is a-okay so unless something starts beeping real loud you're not going to realize how hosed you are without it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IqWal_EmBg

Real world example of it.

Azhais
Feb 5, 2007
Switchblade Switcharoo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUfF2MTnqAw

Smarter every day did one too

quote:

There are parts of this video that I don't remember making.

Trabant
Nov 26, 2011

All systems nominal.



Bit of oxygen deprivation and everyone becomes a goddamn comedian.

World War Mammories
Aug 25, 2006


duz posted:

I liked the "turn off the computer when crossing the international date line or it'll lock up" bug personally

this is my favorite as well

Blitter
Mar 16, 2011

Intellectual
AI Enthusiast

Gunshow Poophole posted:

Lmao this is so gapejawed starry-eyed naive ahaha

Hey man you're free to think whatever dumb poo poo you'd like but fulfilling criteria like https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20170006507.pdf really isn't a joke, or something you can cut corners on or fake.

Blast of Confetti
Apr 21, 2008

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
it's not usually a workplace incident, but i'll be damned if i don't think of this thread every time ozzy man reviews does a destination hosed video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixJVL0fmM3E

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS

chitoryu12 posted:

The F-35’s problems are not being particularly good at any role relative to its fantastically expensive price tag. It’s not disintegrating in mid-air.

Yeah but the ships Austal built for the Navy are disintegrating in the water.

Say Nothing
Mar 5, 2013

by FactsAreUseless
Truck truck truck truck truck truck truck truck truck truck truck.

Ornamental Dingbat
Feb 26, 2007


We visited some friends on Heimaey a few years ago and they're starting to unearth a fresh batch of houses that were under the meters of tephra fall from the eruption- they didn't use much wood in construction so many of them are still intact with pictures still hanging on the walls and original paint on the outside.

tsa
Feb 3, 2014

Gunshow Poophole posted:

Lmao this is so gapejawed starry-eyed naive ahaha

or perhaps you don't ahve a single loving clue what you are talking about (it's this)

tsa
Feb 3, 2014
I mean it's not very hard to google the actual data and see that their success rate is right in line with everyone else, and not spout off like a total dumbass. Russian rockets, on the other hand...

Tiny Timbs
Sep 6, 2008

tsa posted:

or perhaps you don't ahve a single loving clue what you are talking about (it's this)

He doesn't. The DoD IG audits SpaceX at a pretty deep level and DCMA places personnel in its factory. They do the same for ULA.

http://spacenews.com/military-launch-quality-issues-flagged-by-dod-watchdog/

Tiny Timbs fucked around with this message at 00:25 on May 10, 2018

Relentless
Sep 22, 2007

It's a perfect day for some mayhem!


Say Nothing posted:

Truck truck truck truck truck truck truck truck truck truck truck.



Mushroom mushroom?

Memento
Aug 25, 2009


Bleak Gremlin

SniperWoreConverse posted:

why couldn't you poke a few tiny holes into the part of the chamber that has gas (assuming it's not literally 100% magma), and run some turbines off the high pressure gas that comes out? You might even be able to burn it afterwards to get even more power!

Exactly like slightly cracking the seal on a soda bottle and using that pressure to spin a little generator, except big! Tons of free safe energy!

I think this can work fine, you just need a quick release so everyone can book it with the equipment in case the mountain gets grumpy.

The pressure inside a magma chamber can push liquid rock through kilometer-thick layers of solid rock to get to the surface. And you're introducing a weak point. The gases that are released are dissolved into the magma itself and will come out as soon as the pressure is released. As soon as you hit the chamber with your drill, it's coming up no matter what you have on top of it.

Bad Munki
Nov 4, 2008

We're all mad here.


So you're thinking like a stainless steel valve instead of a plastic one from menards, roger that

Johnny Aztec
Jan 30, 2005

by Hand Knit
Look, I make these things all the time with Obsidian gates in Dwarf Fortress. It'll be fine

ChesterJT
Dec 28, 2003

Mounty Pumper's Flying Circus

Relentless posted:

Mushroom mushroom?

Braaaaaaaaaaaake, Braaaaaaaaaaaaake

Trabant
Nov 26, 2011

All systems nominal.

Say Nothing posted:

Truck truck truck truck truck truck truck truck truck truck truck.



"Buffalo buffalo buffalo" is old hat.

Bacon Taco
Jun 8, 2006

Now with extra narwhal meat!
HAIKOOLIGAN
Dinosaur Gum

BlankIsBeautiful posted:

Yeah, I just noticed that those were zeros, too. I have no idea why I did that. Hey what can I say it was before I had my coffee this morning. To answer your question though, I'm pretty sure it was 8th grade. 1977. Yeah, I'm :corsair:

You may be the only goon older than me (8th grade 1979). I learned to type on a manual typewriter.

Memento
Aug 25, 2009


Bleak Gremlin

Bad Munki posted:

So you're thinking like a stainless steel valve instead of a plastic one from menards, roger that

Yeah, sure. Just make sure that you're live-streaming it, you know, you don't want to rely on your local recording not failing, technology can be so glitchy these days.

I see posts like the one above me and realise that while I may tend toward the older end of goons (Born during the Ford Administration), I'm far from the oldest, and we're an aging bunch in general.

Memento fucked around with this message at 04:56 on May 10, 2018

Deteriorata
Feb 6, 2005

Bacon Taco posted:

You may be the only goon older than me (8th grade 1979). I learned to type on a manual typewriter.

I beat you both. Born in 1959, graduated high school in1977. First Presidential vote for Carter in 1980

MisterOblivious
Mar 17, 2010

by sebmojo

Deteriorata posted:

I beat you both. Born in 1959, graduated high school in1977. First Presidential vote for Carter in 1980

VideoGameVet was born 1956 according to his Wikipedia page. Tokaii is ~75 but he stepped on a permaban landmine back in '14.

Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007

https://twitter.com/mashable/status/994325404973502464

oh noooo

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

sucks to be right

Bacon Taco posted:

You may be the only goon older than me (8th grade 1979). I learned to type on a manual typewriter.

I still type on a manual typewriter. I get my granddaughter to log onto SA, print out the threads she thinks I might like, mail them to me and then I type out my replies and mail them back to her. Sometimes my typewriter runs out of ribbon and I

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS


I read that as “chocolate milk” and was wondering why they would haul it around and not mix and bottle at the same plant.

tactlessbastard
Feb 4, 2001

Godspeed, post
Fun Shoe

I'll be damned, the Hershey Highway

Dirt Road Junglist
Oct 8, 2010

We will be cruel
And through our cruelty
They will know who we are

Say Nothing posted:

Truck truck truck truck truck truck truck truck truck truck truck.



"Came for this
Train for this, gently caress
Made for this, pray they miss, duck
Duck gray duck gets up and running
Rest fall back like a bridge in London
Brand new brakes I never touch em"

Alternately, truck truck goose?

spankmeister
Jun 15, 2008






Say Nothing posted:

Truck truck truck truck truck truck truck truck truck truck truck.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kccONko4xYE

I don't remember if this was posted in this thread before so my apologies if :thejoke:

Splicer
Oct 16, 2006

from hell's heart I cast at thee
🧙🐀🧹🌙🪄🐸

tactlessbastard posted:

I'll be damned, the Hershey Highway
That's not how you make rocky road

SniperWoreConverse
Mar 20, 2010



Gun Saliva

Memento posted:

The pressure inside a magma chamber can push liquid rock through kilometer-thick layers of solid rock to get to the surface. And you're introducing a weak point. The gases that are released are dissolved into the magma itself and will come out as soon as the pressure is released. As soon as you hit the chamber with your drill, it's coming up no matter what you have on top of it.

Dang. I was hoping there'd be enough gas to form a pocket you could tap with like a 1/64" bit, it's probably pretty easy to drill a hole that diameter as deep as you need no problem.

There has to be some kinda way to harness the completely insane power of geology, but it's probably something like "find a less dangerous spot and put in a regular geothermal plant."

Not related but what if someone built a dome over the crater and applied low pressure to help draw off gas or whatever? It would start bubbling and roiling, right? Would this make it more or less likely to erupt in the future? What would it do to the viscosity of the lava?

Humphreys
Jan 26, 2013

We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule


Platystemon posted:

Yeah but the ships Austal built for the Navy are disintegrating in the water.

Because the Navy didn't tick the box 'Sacrificial Anodes'.

https://www.wired.com/2011/06/shipbuilder-blames-navy-as-brand-new-warship-disintegrates/

BlankIsBeautiful
Apr 4, 2008

Feeling a little inadequate?

Bacon Taco posted:

You may be the only goon older than me (8th grade 1979). I learned to type on a manual typewriter.

Yeah, same here. Only the cool kids with straight A's were allowed to type on the 3 IBM Selectrics we had.

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aphid_licker
Jan 7, 2009


Johnny Aztec posted:

Look, I make these things all the time with Obsidian gates in Dwarf Fortress. It'll be fine

Just be sure to put a diagonal in to depressurize

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