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VanSandman posted:The military is gay as hell.
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Jul 17, 2018 20:29
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Son of Thunderbeast posted:can confirm
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Jul 17, 2018 20:38
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n0tqu1tesane posted:Yeah, but that's hardly equipment that's standard. spog posted:They are also usually connected to switched power, too. As far as the radar detector goes, that depends on the vehicle. Presumably most are plugged in to the "cigarette lighter" socket which is a coin flip as to whether it's switched or not. I definitely need to move my hardwire kit over from my other car. Sagebrush posted:It's written in kind of a dumb way but here it is wolrah fucked around with this message at 20:51 on Jul 17, 2018 |
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Jul 17, 2018 20:49
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wolrah posted:My radar detector and bluetooth OBD dongle have combined to drain the batteries of a few of my cars to the point of not starting if I go a couple of days without using them, especially in the winter. I drive a lot (~28,000 miles/year) but since I work from home I can go a few days without needing to go anywhere. If I had this problem I would get a low‐voltage disconnect switch. It’s a relay in series with the battery. The control’s circuit monitors the battery’s voltage and if it drops below a certain threshold the relay opens and disconnects everything to prevent it from dropping any further. When you want to drive, you flip a switch to connect the battery, crank it, and drive away.
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dis astranagant posted:We also developed a nuclear torpedo because we were convinced that the Soviets had 10s of thousands of subs in the water at all times in all places. that you need to do around 60 knots to outrun the blast radius when subs at the time did 30 knots at best
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Jul 17, 2018 21:07
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dis astranagant posted:We also developed a nuclear torpedo because we were convinced that the Soviets had 10s of thousands of subs in the water at all times in all places. It makes sense given how hard it is to find a submarine. Just nuke the area. It would also gently caress up a surface fleet pretty good. Soviets developed their own, but as strategic rather than tactical weapons: the intent was to launch a man made tsunami on enemy coastal facilities. Rocketry made the concept obsolete, but lately Russians have tooled with the idea as a counter to US antiballistic missiles.
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Jul 17, 2018 21:51
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Jul 17, 2018 22:06
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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cakesmith handyman posted:It'd do more for keeping a 12v battery trickle charged than charge it from flat yes, but I don't think sensible people are suggesting trying to charge a tesla from a sunroof panel.
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Jul 17, 2018 22:09
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Blindeye posted:This was also the 50s before we invented SAMs/Air-to-Air missiles with guidance. Nike rockets were...you guessed it, nuclear-tipped, unguided weapons meant to aim at masses of bombers. Not quite. The Nike systems (Ajax, Hercules and Zeus) were command guided. Instead of the guidance system (intertial, radar homing, whatever) being on board the missile, they were radio guided from ground stations, so they actually could be steered, and were not free flight like, say the Zuni air-to-air missiles used during WWII. Now, of course, in the case of command guidance, if somebody forgot to change the batteries in the ground transmitter... 
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Jul 17, 2018 22:17
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BlankIsBeautiful posted:Not quite. The Nike systems (Ajax, Hercules and Zeus) were command guided. Instead of the guidance system (intertial, radar homing, whatever) being on board the missile, they were radio guided from ground stations, so they actually could be steered, and were not free flight like, say the Zuni air-to-air missiles used during WWII. Now, of course, in the case of command guidance, if somebody forgot to change the batteries in the ground transmitter... I mean, it was very crude and unreliable, hence the decision to switch out conventional warheads for nukes. But hey, my story about the dudes was corroborated!
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Jul 17, 2018 22:33
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Passed this on the interstate today trucking along at 80mph.
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Jul 17, 2018 22:52
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Looks like someone forgot to mention a shed full of bullshit when the guy from the moving company came by to build the quote, and the packers got stuck with it on moving day when the client said “oh yeah this stuff too”
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Jul 17, 2018 23:06
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I accidentally responded to the air2air nuke chat from here, in the military history thread. And they answered with something more OSHA appropriate then the last few pages here: https://www.airspacemag.com/military-aviation/nuke-the-pilot-2769219/ quote:I flew a Republic F-84F into seven nuclear explosions to measure the effects of the heat and the shock wave on aircraft.
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Jul 17, 2018 23:10
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My grandfather is in that picture...he died of super cancer. Grem fucked around with this message at 23:16 on Jul 17, 2018 |
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Jul 17, 2018 23:14
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tonberrytoby posted:I accidentally responded to the air2air nuke chat from here, in the military history thread. And they answered with something more OSHA appropriate then the last few pages here: Pro Read right here. A Mad Man posted:Whether the overexposure contributed to the life-threatening melanoma I developed seven months later, I’ll never know. Hmm who can possibly say?
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Jul 17, 2018 23:25
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Jul 17, 2018 23:48
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnCU20Cu0fs
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Jul 17, 2018 23:58
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:Hmm who can possibly say? quote:. Although we had been briefed that the maximum exposure we could safely receive was 100 milli-roentgens in six months, I had pointed out to the flight surgeon that I had been exposed to 100 on each of my first two flights. Whether the overexposure contributed to the life-threatening melanoma I developed seven months later, I’ll never know. 200 milliroentgens is a pretty small amount of exposure. For the kind of radiation he was exposed to that's about 200 millirem, or 2 millisieverts. 4 mSv is about a year's worth of background exposure for most people. The occupational one-year dose limit for radiation workers is 50 mSv, and the lowest dose actually linked to any increase in cancer risk is about double that. I doubt that had anything to do with his getting melanoma in such a short time.
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Jul 18, 2018 00:02
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Phanatic posted:200 milliroentgens is a pretty small amount of exposure. For the kind of radiation he was exposed to that's about 200 millirem, or 2 millisieverts. 4 mSv is about a year's worth of background exposure for most people. The occupational one-year dose limit for radiation workers is 50 mSv, and the lowest dose actually linked to any increase in cancer risk is about double that. The other thing you gotta factor is that pilots in general get way more radiation (I believe it's about 10 millirem per hour flying at 30,000 feet, plus the sunburn on your face is also no joke.
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Jul 18, 2018 00:16
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Blindeye posted:The other thing you gotta factor is that pilots in general get way more radiation (I believe it's about 10 millirem per hour flying at 30,000 feet, plus the sunburn on your face is also no joke. It's much lower than that. https://www.faa.gov/data_research/research/med_humanfacs/oamtechreports/2000s/media/0316.pdf A long, high-altitude NY-Tokyo route has you in the air for 13 hours and at altitudes over 40,000'. Additional dose is .0754 mSv, or .0058 mSv/hour, or .58 mrem/hour.
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Jul 18, 2018 00:29
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Phanatic posted:200 milliroentgens is a pretty small amount of exposure. For the kind of radiation he was exposed to that's about 200 millirem, or 2 millisieverts. 4 mSv is about a year's worth of background exposure for most people. The occupational one-year dose limit for radiation workers is 50 mSv, and the lowest dose actually linked to any increase in cancer risk is about double that. Do you think the unquantified additional exposure he states ("I wasn't allowed to see the radiation film badges as they were classified") or perhaps this: Are You loving Kidding Me posted:My next two missions were H-bomb tests over Bikini Atoll. On the second, the bomb exceeded its predicted yield by a significant amount, breaking my airplane’s right wing spar in two places. On the plus side, this provided the test engineers with the maximum possible data and negated the need for more testing. Could maybe point to a guy that regularly flew over nuclear blasts just perhaps having a strong causal link with a cancer linked to exposure to high levels of UV and or other types of radiation? I mean I suppose it could have been melanoma on his rear end and be irrelevant...
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Jul 18, 2018 00:43
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This is pretty OSHA with nukes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_Damascus_Titan_missile_explosion . A member of a crew working on a Titan missile dropped the socket off of his wrench. It fell down the silo and put a hole in the first stage. This caused rocket fuel to start to leak. It gets worse from there. But it doesn't end with a nuclear boom. They managed to recover the warhead about a 100 ft from the silo.
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Jul 18, 2018 00:45
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It’s the main story told in Command and Control (everyone should read this)
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Jul 18, 2018 00:49
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Confirmed its a great book for all sorts of reasons.
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:Do you think the unquantified additional exposure he states ("I wasn't allowed to see the radiation film badges as they were classified") or perhaps this: Sure, anything's possible. quote:Could maybe point to a guy that regularly flew over nuclear blasts just perhaps having a strong causal link with a cancer linked to exposure to high levels of UV and or other types of radiation? I mean I suppose it could have been melanoma on his rear end and be irrelevant... Radiation and tumorgenesis really don't work that way. Sunlight causes melanoma precisely because the UVB radiation isn't very penetrating; it his your skin, penetrates a short way, and dumps its energy into that small skin depth. X-rays are far more energetic and go right through, so there's not this concentrated dose right to your skin. It's much more of a whole-body dose, and there's no particular reason it'd cause melanomas vs other sorts of cancers. There's no particular increase in risk for melanoma among a-bomb survivors, for instance: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24754560 TTerrible posted:It's the main story told in Command and Control (everyone should read this) Second.
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I can't believe people are talking about the F-89 Scorpion without bringing up the only time it ever saw combat: the Battle of Palmdale. A rogue target drone flew off toward the town, so they scrambled two F-89s to shoot it down with their Mighty Mouse anti-air rocket pods. They fired 208 rockets. Every single one missed the drone and it crashed into some power lines along an unpaved desert road. The rockets...didn't. quote:The first set of rockets started brush fires 7 miles (11 km) northeast from Castaic which burned 150 acres (61 ha) above the old Ridge Route near Bouquet Canyon.[2]
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chitoryu12 posted:I can't believe people are talking about the F-89 Scorpion without bringing up the only time it ever saw combat: the Battle of Palmdale. Makes that cop blazing away through his windshield as he drives at high speed through residential areas in Vegas look like the soul of restraint.
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Jul 18, 2018 01:13
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:Could maybe point to a guy that regularly flew over nuclear blasts just perhaps having a strong causal link with a cancer linked to exposure to high levels of UV and or other types of radiation? I mean I suppose it could have been melanoma on his rear end and be irrelevant... really more quoting your quote but I think he just said he flew Castle Bravo 
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chitoryu12 posted:I can't believe people are talking about the F-89 Scorpion without bringing up the only time it ever saw combat: the Battle of Palmdale. One of Col. Jack Broughton's two books (I don't remember which one) talks about testing the genie and the mighty mouse and all the efforts they went to to make them even slightly useful (they failed)
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chitoryu12 posted:I can't believe people are talking about the F-89 Scorpion without bringing up the only time it ever saw combat: the Battle of Palmdale. That's a great story and I really wish the Wikipedia entry had the usual Belligerents/Strength/Result/etc sections.
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Jul 18, 2018 02:23
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Platystemon posted:You can run red diesel in your tractor on public roads to transfer from one field to another, but only for 1500 m. In North Dakota you can run off-road it in a tractor as long as it's for transportation between fields but it's more like 25 miles or so to my memory. We never had to move a tractor more than 21 but that was only for repairs at the tractor dealer. For fields it would usually be about 2 miles away but that's a pretty small distance on the prairie. 10 miles or so would be pretty normal for others that had more land.
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every so often i wonder why i have phanatic on ignore and then he goes and posts something like "the cancer that killed that air force test pilot was probably unrelated to his job of flying into atomic bomb fallout clouds" and i go oh right.
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From the "There were no good decisions leading up to this" files. https://giant.gfycat.com/LividTameArgentineruddyduck.mp4
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Jul 18, 2018 04:34
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That video always makes me laugh. There are so many similar videos too, most of them done with no water nearby or anything.
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Jul 18, 2018 04:51
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Spatial posted:That video always makes me laugh. Almost like they're staged....
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Jul 18, 2018 04:58
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pretending to be a retard.gif, except your entire head is on fire
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Spatial posted:That video always makes me laugh. The classic: 
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