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Grundulum posted:(1) What happened to a South African man in the original location? Humphreys posted:It's a great race but wow there sure are a lot of deaths in Dakar history: 
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SelenicMartian posted:No, it's just that Dakar used to finish in Africa. This year's race is set entirely in Peru. In a helicopter crash
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SelenicMartian posted:No, it's just that Dakar used to finish in Africa. This year's race is set entirely in Peru Pft, should have made it a challenge and renamed it "Paris to Lima".
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Potrzebie posted:Pft, should have made it a challenge and renamed it "Paris to Lima". With all the different vehicle types they might as well add Trains and Planes too. 
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Jan 13, 2019 10:50
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 The race was switched from the old route over terrorism concerns, though, so Paris probably wouldn't make a good starting point.
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SelenicMartian posted:https://www.motorsport.com/dakar/news/kamaz-karginov-disqualified-spectator-incident/4322778/ That's a bullshit penalty, there is no way anyone in that vehicle could have felt that tire going over a dudes leg and have any clue they had hit him.
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Nooooooope. Nope nope nope. Super cool piece of tech. Not enough money in the world to get me to operate it.
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Jan 13, 2019 20:38
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Somehow, this reminds me of when a caterpillar chomps down on leaves. https://i.imgur.com/ov5t5mB.mp4
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Load bearing cellophane.
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Jan 13, 2019 20:57
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Nenonen posted:Load bearing cellophane. I think that's just tape!
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Jan 13, 2019 21:08
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what do you think tape is?
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Jan 13, 2019 21:32
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cellophane is more of a british word for tape than in america. here it mostly refers to plastic wrap
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Jan 13, 2019 21:37
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Watermelon Daiquiri posted:what do you think tape is? in this case, optimistic
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Raskolnikov38 posted:cellophane is more of a british word for tape than in america. here it mostly refers to plastic wrap kinda ironic scotch tape seems to be more of an american term.  and all it is is a more strengthed/thicker cellophane with weak adhesive, after all. Hell it might even be the same polymers
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Raskolnikov38 posted:cellophane is more of a british word for tape than in america. here it mostly refers to plastic wrap Uhhh are you sure
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Watermelon Daiquiri posted:kinda ironic scotch tape seems to be more of an american term. quote:The use of the term Scotch in the name was a pejorative meaning "stingy" in the 1920s and 1930s. The brand name Scotch came about around 1925 while Richard Drew was testing his first masking tape to determine how much adhesive he needed to add. The bodyshop painter became frustrated with the sample masking tape and exclaimed, "Take this tape back to those Scotch bosses of yours and tell them to put more adhesive on it!"[4][5] The name was soon applied to the entire line of 3M tapes. hah, neat.
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thats probably why scrooge mcduck is scottish
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Raskolnikov38 posted:cellophane is more of a british word for tape than in america. here it mostly refers to plastic wrap You're thinking of the genericised brand name sellotape, perhaps?
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Oh, I get. it. Because the Scottish are cheapskates.
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Jan 13, 2019 23:09
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“Jew Tape™” would not be as acceptable today.
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GotLag posted:You're thinking of the genericised brand name sellotape, perhaps? say what you will, but j.k. rowling is a name genius. 'Spellotape' indeed.
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The Dark One posted:My dad likes to tell a story of mechanical engineering students in the 70s getting their hands on some lab's laser and painting a dot on the ground in front of people as they walked around campus. IIRC they figured out to make it about a foot wide so lessen the chance of blinding people. University students and the 70s? There's no way in hell they gave a moment's thought for anyone's safety.
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Grundulum posted:(2) The crew can protest the disqualification, but only after the race is finished. What’s the point of the protest, then? Probably would get your participation fee back or something. Also, justice!
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Relentless posted:Nooooooope. Nope nope nope. Why not? I don't see why that couldn't be operated remotely or even by an automaton
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https://i.imgur.com/raR7oMt.gifv "How was work today sweetie?" "Oh, you know, the usual. Blasted off the end of an aircraft carrier and then shot into the air on an experimental rocket to test out the first insanely dangerous iterations of ejection seats." I assume and hope they were crash test dummies, but you never know
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Memento posted:https://i.imgur.com/raR7oMt.gifv read some thread on here long ago talking about people who went through ejection and it tends to instantly crush your spine. It really is an only do if certain death is the other option option.
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Memento posted:https://i.imgur.com/raR7oMt.gifv How tall do you have to be to go on this ride? I wanna try
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LifeSunDeath posted:read some thread on here long ago talking about people who went through ejection and it tends to instantly crush your spine. It really is an only do if certain death is the other option option. Compacts rather than crushes, I vaguely remember combat pilots allowed 3 ejections before being medically retired? Reign Of Pain posted:How tall do you have to be to go on this ride? I wanna try Doesn't matter but max 3 goes before you're too short 
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cakesmith handyman posted:Compacts rather than crushes, I vaguely remember combat pilots allowed 3 ejections before being medically retired? Just make the planes smaller? Honestly thought in the navy/air force, shorter pilots have more going for them.
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Has Lowtax secretly worked as a government experimental pilot?
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I thought the 3 ejection thing was not so much because it would kill you as by that point you've blown up hundreds of millions of dollars of military hardware and whether that's incompetence or just bad luck you need to stop doing it.
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haveblue posted:I thought the 3 ejection thing was not so much because it would kill you as by that point you've blown up hundreds of millions of dollars of military hardware and whether that's incompetence or just bad luck you need to stop doing it. John McCain
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