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Memento posted:I honestly thought vimeo videos could be embedded now? Maybe that was something else. https://vimeo.com/273229166
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quote:Volcan de Fuego, or “Volcano of Fire,” Can I just say this is an awful name
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Moto42 posted:So, with the 'straight from the mantle' magma thing, what's the over under on this becoming just the new place that's constantly spewing lava and that whole region is just perma-hosed?
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Jerry Cotton posted:Literally calling the thing "autopilot" is dumb as hell and I'm surprised that alone hasn't opened up the lawsuit floodgates. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93OfrUek-G4 Nebakenezzer posted:Can I just say this is an awful name There's a mountain in Arizona outside of Phoenix called Table Mesa. Rio Grande is also pretty terrible.
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Phanatic posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93OfrUek-G4 Stone Mountain is in Georgia
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Phanatic posted:Rio Grande is also pretty terrible. Why? 
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A Belarusian named Ivan Krasouski crashed into a tree while riding a homemade ultralight aircraft and got impaled by a four loving inch branch. Posting a link from the most appropriate medium for this type of story,  for gore.https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/6441582/man-impaled-tree-branch-homemade-flying-machine-crashed-forest/ quote:WHAT A PLANK Bloke impaled on a huge tree branch when he crashed homemade flying machine in a forest laughs off his gruesome injury quote:The 36-year-old joked he was like the US superhero Groot.
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HardDiskD posted:Why? "What do you call that river?" "Oh, the big one over there? We call that one Big River."
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Next you're gonna tell me that Grand Teton is badly named
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They're just pretty good.
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Phanatic posted:"What do you call that river?" Why not?
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I like the paradise watermark on a video of lava destroying homes
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Subjunctive posted:Why not? I'd call it 'The New Nile, it's Not Just a River in Egypt Anymore.'
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tactlessbastard posted:I like the paradise watermark on a video of lava destroying homes Well it's not destroying the helicopter, is it? I'd say it's a pretty good ad for helicopters.
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Helicopters: Can fly above ground, water and lava.
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Phanatic posted:"What do you call that river?" "Your finger, you fool"
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Okay now I want to know what mods a hovercraft would need to survive a trip across lava.
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cakesmith handyman posted:Okay now I want to know what mods a hovercraft would need to survive a trip across lava. Actual anti-gravity technology. Hovercraft are still in contact with the ground in order to maintain a cushion of air. No flexible skirt is going to survive contact with lava.
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How about an asbestos skirt ?... We're in the OSHA thread afterall
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Phanatic posted:"What do you call that river?" My favorite is the New River, which I once went kayaking down.
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Leviathan Song posted:Actual anti-gravity technology. Hovercraft are still in contact with the ground in order to maintain a cushion of air. No flexible skirt is going to survive contact with lava. There are plenty of refractory materials that can withstand the temperature of molten rock. A skirt made from thousands of interlocking zirconium ceramic tiles, perhaps?
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Memento posted:Also, I've carried a pistol before while in the Army Reserves, and I never dropped the loving thing even when I was jumping out of a plane. Plenty of guys in TFR carry daily with good quality holsters and don't lose their guns. I'm pretty sure there was a spate of police officers and security guards losing their service weapon by leaving it on a shelf or whatever while they were taking a poo poo in a public toilet and forgetting it was there. Yeah, even a passive retention holster like Kydex shouldn’t cause the gun to flip out like that. He’s probably just stuffing it in his waistband.
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Sagebrush posted:There are plenty of refractory materials that can withstand the temperature of molten rock. A skirt made from thousands of interlocking zirconium ceramic tiles, perhaps? Some combination of this with the asbestos fabric might be airtight enough. After that, you would need blowers that can withstand the corrosive atmosphere and ash so probably something with high strength ceramic blades. That's expensive but possible. Finally, engines to run the blowers that would survive in that atmosphere but that's probably the easiest part. You could just carry an oxidizer rather than making it air breathing.
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Megillah Gorilla posted:"Your finger, you fool" Torpenhow Hill
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My vote is for a mithril hovercraft. I think Look to Windward had a chapter about how terrible an idea lava rafting would be. Leviathan Song posted:Some combination of this with the asbestos fabric might be airtight enough. Don't forget to factor in the melting point of your passengers.
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You could probably make a good enough skirt using carbon fiber, something like this https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00S1R9D6Q would do, perhaps a fancier Silicon carbide coated fiber if you want to go really fancy.
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Nothing beats the la brea tar pits for redundancy because it even doubled up on articles
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Kafouille posted:You could probably make a good enough skirt using carbon fiber, something like this https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00S1R9D6Q would do, perhaps a fancier Silicon carbide coated fiber if you want to go really fancy. Some lava is going to exceed the melting point of carbon fiber, most is going to screw with it's structural integrity, I think you'll have to stick with the asbestos.
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So there has been at least one case of someone falling into an active lava flow and then crawling back out. Lava was only 500 degrees, but still.
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Leviathan Song posted:Some lava is going to exceed the melting point of carbon fiber, most is going to screw with it's structural integrity, I think you'll have to stick with the asbestos. If you want to go surf on the really hot flows Silicon Carbide coated CF retains tensile strength to 1500C, that should be good enough for anything you'll get on Earth. Asbestos starts to lose strengh at about 800C or so.
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Just make the bottom of the lava hovercraft the stuff they make black boxes in airplanes out of
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Just lower the melting temperature of basaltic rock.
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-Zydeco- posted:So there has been at least one case of someone falling into an active lava flow and then crawling back out. Lava was only 500 degrees, but still. Somebody didn't practice enough as a kid
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VictorianQueerLit posted:Just make the bottom of the lava hovercraft the stuff they make black boxes in airplanes out of Make the hovercraft out of lava.
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Leviathan Song posted:Some lava is going to exceed the melting point of carbon fiber, most is going to screw with it's structural integrity, I think you'll have to stick with the asbestos.
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duz posted:Make the hovercraft out of lava. If you figured out the heat resistant skirt you could probably power it by blowing water below it and flash boiling it.
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quote:The 36-year-old joked he was like the US superhero Groot. I was thinking Wash from Serenity, but
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Bip Roberts posted:If you figured out the heat resistant skirt you could probably power it by blowing water below it and flash boiling it. ...could you combine it with some sort of Hot Air Balloon tech, and keep yourself hovering 20 feet above the lava with that?
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Bip Roberts posted:If you figured out the heat resistant skirt you could probably power it by blowing water below it and flash boiling it. You're constantly blowing cold air over the skirt - would that keep it cool enough?
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