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SavageMessiah posted:Haha I feel like I should know what this is in reference to, but I do not. Sounds amazing A dude started a fire on a submarine because he didn't feel like working anymore that afternoon. This went about as well as you'd think.
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Saudi Arabia can gently caress right off. The sooner the world moves on from oil dependency and these regressive thugs no longer have the clout they wield the better. It won't happen anytime soon but I can dream. The Saudi pissbaby action is just signalling to other countries - hey, don't question our lovely ways. They don't have anything to lose in doing it to Canada because we're not too heavily in trade etc (armored vehicles notwithstanding).
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Rule #1 of submarines: keep water out of the people tube. Causes some ... problems when it comes to firefighting. Boats/ships in general, really, but on a surface vessel you can hop over the rail when you pump in more water than you can pump out. Kinda surprised submarines don't have Halon systems like server rooms -- evacuate compartment, close door, press big red button, fire goes away, purge compartment with compressed air, Robert's your mother's brother. Or maybe they do and I just haven't seen mention of it.
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Bad Angus! Bad!
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Phanatic posted:Imagine that the heir to a hereditary monarchy would be an authoritarian. Interestingly, the Saudi monarchy has not really been hereditary in the sense we're used to. They have traditionally passed the throne to the oldest surviving brother of the monarch, and only to sons once all the brothers are dead. If you think "But that's a ludicrous system that would create an enormous number of perverse incentives!", you wouldn't be wrong.
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Agnatic Seniority isn't that unusual a form of succession, historically speaking.
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priznat posted:Saudi Arabia can gently caress right off. The sooner the world moves on from oil dependency and these regressive thugs no longer have the clout they wield the better. It won't happen anytime soon but I can dream. Ahahah, "We did it once, we'll do it again!" Fuckin' Saudis.
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bewbies posted:A dude started a fire on a submarine because he didn't feel like working anymore that afternoon. This went about as well as you'd think. Here's the specific story, if that helps. quote:The civilian painter and sand blaster told authorities that he needed to go home because he was suffering from an anxiety attack and had no more vacation or sick leave. He said he never envisioned such extensive damage when he used a lighter to set fire to a plastic bag of rags that he left on a bunk in a state room.
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Avynte posted:Ahahah, "We did it once, we'll do it again!" I wonder how the CN tower would do vs a plane, it is mostly concrete. That is a *lot* of energy though, wouldn't want to find out.
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priznat posted:I wonder how the CN tower would do vs a plane, it is mostly concrete. That is a *lot* of energy though, wouldn't want to find out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4wDqSnBJ-k
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priznat posted:Saudi Arabia can gently caress right off. The sooner the world moves on from oil dependency and these regressive thugs no longer have the clout they wield the better. It won't happen anytime soon but I can dream. While I'm sure the rationale was to ro shambo Canada so that all the other nations get the message, but it sounds like this crown prince is...not somebody who can handle disagreement, and the whole thing is just a tantrum darthbob88 posted:Here's the specific story, if that helps. And after he set the fire that damaged the sub, he set...a second fire a few weeks later because he wanted to go home  It reminds me (and this guy might've been in the USN) who was stealing copper cable out of his submarine to feed his drug habit
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Nebakenezzer posted:While I'm sure the rationale was to ro shambo Canada so that all the other nations get the message, but it sounds like this crown prince is...not somebody who can handle disagreement, and the whole thing is just a tantrum How the hell do you steal cables from a submarine without someone noticing? Was this a spare hidden in the back of a locker or something? Platystemon fucked around with this message at 04:03 on Aug 10, 2018 |
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priznat posted:I wonder how the CN tower would do vs a plane, it is mostly concrete. That is a *lot* of energy though, wouldn't want to find out. I'm picturing the plane exploding and wrecking the elevators and stairs...and then all that flaming jet fuel douses the skydome 
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Nebakenezzer posted:I'm picturing the plane exploding and wrecking the elevators and stairs...and then all that flaming jet fuel douses the skydome Half of the Blue Jays burn to death and their odds in the world series go up
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Blue Jays management unprepared to cope with the unexpected crisis of people suddenly caring about the Blue Jays..
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priznat posted:I wonder how the CN tower would do vs a plane, it is mostly concrete. That is a *lot* of energy though, wouldn't want to find out. If the plane hits it between engines (wing or people tube) it'd be like the guy in a bar smashing a beer can on his forehead. Hurts a little, but he can shake it off. If the bad guys/lost pilots manage to put an engine through the concrete... to extend the analogy, one time in the early '70s, Pappy Baggins accepted that bet, and watched the guy give himself a concussion with a steel can. The guy paid up when he regained consciousness. F=MV, Newton will gently caress your poo poo up. A turbofan core moving at .8 Mach will tear through reinforced concrete like [insert metaphor here] Didn't the investigators find one or two engine cores on rooftops a couple blocks forward of the impact points on 9/12/2001? Chillbro Baggins fucked around with this message at 04:56 on Aug 10, 2018 |
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FrozenVent posted:Blue Jays management unprepared to cope with the unexpected crisis of people suddenly caring about the Blue Jays.. As a person who regularly watches baseball via osmosis, this is correct.
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Pro tip on crushing a beer can on your head: make sure to squeeze laterally as it impacts to crumple the structural integrity. If you don't do that the sides hold and you are basically hitting yourself with a hammer.
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pthighs posted:Pro tip on crushing a beer can on your head: make sure to squeeze laterally as it impacts to crumple the structural integrity. If you don't do that the sides hold and you are basically hitting yourself with a hammer. Yeah, that's the trick. I weigh ten stone and can stand on an empty beer can, but any poke to the side makes it collapse. The old steel beer cans in the Dad anecdote were more like the cans you get veggies in nowadays. The guy that made/lost the bet tried to do the aluminum-can trick with a steel can, was drinking a brand that hadn't switched to the modern material.
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Surprise Giraffe posted:Maybe it's actually normal for militaries or at least Euro militaries but something they're too embarrassed to publicize usually but I feel like there's been a bunch of fuckups from EU forces in the past year odd. Like there was a german ship that shot itself or something, an Italian(?) one that burst into flames while under construction, that Spanish sub that apparently can't dock anywhere as it's too long. All of that's pretty recent right? I'm sure there's more I mean y'all just crashed two destroyers in the past year. It's not really an EU-specific thing.
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Old, but I'd not seen this previously. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8Kv4rqR6RQ
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Man people are losing their minds over space force when it would basically be 90% bureaucratic changes. Sorry folks, space has been militarized the whole time.
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Alaan posted:Man people are losing their minds over space force when it would basically be 90% bureaucratic changes. Sorry folks, space has been militarized the whole time. BUT! Cool new logos! Only $30 for a hat!
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The real argument within the military and congress will be whether it’s a command or actual no-poo poo service.
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I saw an article about the USAF dropping bombs on California and got way more excited than I should have. https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a22674251/air-force-bomb-forest-fires/
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Imagine policing brass in a low gravity environment lmao Use a pool net
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Waroduce posted:Imagine policing brass in a low gravity environment lmao Steel case. Big magnet.
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MrYenko posted:Old, but I'd not seen this previously. God that punchline is just *chef kiss* e: 
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Waroduce posted:Imagine policing brass in a low gravity environment lmao Space is the galaxy's trash can, you just leave it there.
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Phanatic posted:I saw an article about the USAF dropping bombs on California and got way more excited than I should have. "Benitez’s firefighting bomb proposal is a bold one and bound to take some flak." 
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BIG HEADLINE posted:"Benitez’s firefighting bomb proposal is a bold one and bound to take some flak." But USAF has bombed* California before uncontested. *yes I know it was rockets
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Enourmo posted:God that punchline is just *chef kiss* : discourse:
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Got some contrast for you: David Pugliese with a very sensible take on the Saudi Hissy fit (IE they are still selling us oil and want to buy their LAVs because they'd be dickpunching themselves otherwise) "Canada is the World's Worst Oppressor of Women" Other hot takes the Saudis have include:
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Lukewarm takes, if they want to go nuclear they’d talk about the genocide of the First Nations. I’m guessing they’ll get there in a few days though
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Sweden has signed up to buy a battalion of Patriot and 300 interceptors.
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Nebakenezzer posted:Got some contrast for you: I'd guess anyone homeless in Saudi Arabia would die from exposure after a few days.
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hobbesmaster posted:Lukewarm takes, if they want to go nuclear they’d talk about the genocide of the First Nations. The women comment made me think they were going to bring up "women were not legally people" until 1929, but that would be a sorta...weird thing for Saudi Arabia to bring up
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shame on an IGA posted:: discourse: I forgot there was an actual smiley for that, ngl
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Phanatic posted:I saw an article about the USAF dropping bombs on California and got way more excited than I should have. quote:Regardless if a new munition were developed for this mission, and the fact that using munitions to fight fires may be extremely effective in certain situations, the concept is simply not scalable or useful in most scenarios. A single B-1 bomber carrying 84 500-pound bombs could tailor its effects to cover an area with shockwaves, but the munitions cost alone would range from $250,000 (unguided) to $2 million (guided) per mission. Perhaps there is another option.
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gently caress those saudi dipshits, hollering their bullshit. No one believes anything they say anyway.
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