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mostlygray posted:My father in law was in the Air Force in photographic intelligence during the Vietnam war in the '60's. We went to the SAC museum together a few years ago. He had a crazy story about every plane. Too many to mention. He mostly did reviews of SR-71 photography. We watched the movie "Flight of the Intruder" together and he recognized the map that is shown in the ready room and agreed that "Yes, we bombed those places obsessively, but there was nothing there. Also, that bridge got bombed on every run and they'd have it rebuilt in a day." He had the same frustration as the pilots. Him on intelligence, them on getting their asses shot off. It was a political deal at the time. Sorry to necro this post but mostlygray doesn't accept PMs so; My dad did a similar job to the one your father in law did, DOD, fly over photography interpretation during the Vietnam war. He sat at the desk where the mission parameters were combined with the results of the mission. We should compare notes at some point! If your father in law is still alive ask him if knew a guy named Gordon. g [edit] to add a mildly bad rear end story; Dad was reading early satellite imagery as well but he worked at the Asia desk of DOD or something. He told a story about how the Chinese army was invading Tibet back in the early 50's, the problem was distance, logistics dictated that you had to haul your fuel with you since there was no modern infrastructure on the high plateau. They worked out that it would take something like 8 trucks loaded with fuel to get one military vehicle fully loaded with fuel at the border. That was interpreted as making it impossible for China to conduct military operations at that distance. What the pentagon didn't know was that the Chinese were fully aware of where our satellites were, when they passed over and what they could see; once you know it's up there it's just math right? What the Chinese didn't know was that the satellites could look backwards and not only straight down. The Chinese government was building a pipeline to move fuel to Tibet but they only worked on it under the cover of clouds. They had a bunch of workers in a movable village next to a road and they hid pipe next to the road. As soon as the clouds rolled in they buried pipe for as long as they had cover. What my dad claims to have done is to have caught them at it by looking back under the cloud cover at a fairly high angle and seeing the workers pulling the pipe out from under cover. I guess that the satellites were taking pictures constantly at all possible angles because of the restrictions that mostlygray mentioned. So dad communicated this and was told that it didn't matter because even if they did build a pipeline it could only pump one thing, say oil OR gas. So dad had to go to the pentagon and give a bunch of generals a briefing on how pipe works, for instance that you can run a pig down it and put fuel oil in front and something else behind. Apparently they didn't know that you could use a single pipe to move multiple fluids. Generals apparently love it when they're wrong and are corrected by some due who wasn't in uniform! Anyway, dad was pretty cool in my book! [/edit] ChlamydiaJones has a new favorite as of 19:01 on Mar 20, 2019 |
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And he was an Afghan refugee!
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I'd watch more golf if they added cool tricks & poo poo like this to regular games
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BOOTY-ADE posted:I'd watch more golf if they added cool tricks & poo poo like this to regular games I want to see the other takes before he got this one
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Xarbala posted:I want to see the other takes before he got this one Why?
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JoelJoel posted:Why? I also browse the schad thread so
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Okay, I'll be the one to ask it: Why is there a credit card machine at a mosque? Android Apocalypse has a new favorite as of 00:28 on Mar 21, 2019 |
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Android Apocalypse posted:Okay, I'll be the one to ask it: Does your mosque not have one? 
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Android Apocalypse posted:Okay, I'll be the one to ask it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbhCPt6PZIU
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This dude loving rules holy poo poo quote:Instead, he picked up the first thing he could find, a credit card machine, and ran outside screaming "Come here!" Not sure how this dude managed to move that quick with his massive cast iron balls
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christ what a loving coward i know that's been said before, but jesus, real big man when he's wasting unarmed people but even the slightest bit of resistance and he goes running off
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https://twitter.com/mariners/status/1107654108930965504?s=21 Ichiro is 45 and still has a drat cannon
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Bobby Digital posted:https://twitter.com/mariners/status/1107654108930965504?s=21 I never particularly liked baseball but I've become amazed at some of the crazy athletic feats of outfielders lately. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=romtgKHeVhQ
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Android Apocalypse posted:Okay, I'll be the one to ask it: I have a limited experience of mosques but all the mosques I've been to provide food which you pay for if you can afford to.
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Wasabi the J posted:I never particularly liked baseball but I've become amazed at some of the crazy athletic feats of outfielders lately. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eB9wi_zvMdM That man was one of those generational anomalies. His career was cut short because his hobby (playing professional football) put him in a position where he was able to rip his own hip out of it's socket while running, which is impossible for 99.9% of the rest of humanity to do. If you haven't seen the 30 for 30 "you don't know Bo", I'd highly recommend it. AFewBricksShy has a new favorite as of 12:18 on Mar 21, 2019 |
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AFewBricksShy posted:That man was one of those generational anomalies. His career was cut short because his hobby (playing professional football) put him in a position where he was able to rip his own hip out of it's socket while running, which is impossible for 99.9% of the rest of humanity to do. It sucks that we'll never get another multi-sport athlete like Bo Jackson, Deion Sanders, or Dave Winfield (my hands down favorite professional athlete, drafted by three different professional sports) ever again.
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Kids these days just don't know about Bo. He was incredible and it's a shame his career was cut short before his legacy could be better established.
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Bo Jackson is basically "What would a real life superhero be like?"
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Minnie Minosa played (like actually played) professional baseball for like 30 years. Started off in the negro leagues and picked up a single in a pro game in like 1978 or something. That dude was loving amazing as well. I'm sure there's pro athletes just as talented today, but I just don't think we'll ever get to see a 50 year old step up to the plate and take some cuts in this day and age.
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I remember one time he took the opening kickoff in a game and just ran all over the field, back and forth, missed tackle after missed tackle, until the entire quarter ran out and then he took the ball into the end zone for the touchdown.
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Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:I remember one time he took the opening kickoff in a game and just ran all over the field, back and forth, missed tackle after missed tackle, until the entire quarter ran out and then he took the ball into the end zone for the touchdown. i remember that. my mom unplugged my nintendo right after that td and i was like "mooooooooom!"
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Solice Kirsk posted:It sucks that we'll never get another multi-sport athlete like Bo Jackson, Deion Sanders, or Dave Winfield (my hands down favorite professional athlete, drafted by three different professional sports) ever again. Australian Ellyse Perry played for both the Australian women's national cricket team and the Australian women's national soccer team at age 16 back in 2007 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellyse_Perry
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Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:I remember one time he took the opening kickoff in a game and just ran all over the field, back and forth, missed tackle after missed tackle, until the entire quarter ran out and then he took the ball into the end zone for the touchdown. In non-Tecmo shenanigans, there are a couple of times that I can remember offhand that he ran so fast he just plain ran out of room. Playing football, he ended up running into the tunnel because he knew he'd hurt something if he tried to stop too soon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Td4h2BCc1t0 In baseball, he ran out a pop fly and just walked on a wall 6' in the air like it was the most normal thing in the world. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lk3l_L-VJ3w Not to mention he'd routinely snap baseball bats over his knee or head like they were twigs. He was amazing.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Australian Ellyse Perry played for both the Australian women's national cricket team and the Australian women's national soccer team at age 16 back in 2007 Well there ya go! That's pretty awesome. I thought for sure management or the team's insurance companies would forbid multisport play.
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Solice Kirsk posted:Well there ya go! That's pretty awesome. I thought for sure management or the team's insurance companies would forbid multisport play. Yeah management eventually forced her to choose, I think the soccer guys gave her an ultimatum and she ended up dropping soccer
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Nothing ruins sports more than professional sports.
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drat Sports! They ruined Sports!
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I was a little elementary school aged kid at that time and even I knew Bo was awesome.
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ChlamydiaJones posted:Sorry to necro this post but mostlygray doesn't accept PMs so; Sorry, I literally don't know how PMs work. I should probably figure that out. Yes, my FIL is still alive and I'll ask him next time I see him. The story about the satellites is awesome! I didn't realize that they could look back. I thought they could only look down.
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Solice Kirsk posted:Minnie Minosa played (like actually played) professional baseball for like 30 years. Started off in the negro leagues and picked up a single in a pro game in like 1978 or something. That dude was loving amazing as well. I'm sure there's pro athletes just as talented today, but I just don't think we'll ever get to see a 50 year old step up to the plate and take some cuts in this day and age. https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/46839490 Kazu Miura is 52 and still playing professional soccer in Japan. His professional career started in 1986, he “retired” from international play in 2000.
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mostlygray posted:Sorry, I literally don't know how PMs work. I should probably figure that out. You need plat for pm's, if you buy it then it will work.
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https://i.imgur.com/nBgkWGc.mp4 That's pretty impressive
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I always thought that the best part of Bo Jackson was that once he had his career-ending injury he just shrugged and got on with his life. Didn't get depressed and develop an addiction, didn't try to reclaim lost glory days, didn't go crazy or try to cling to fame. He just went "welp, guess I'm not a top athlete anymore." From what I read he didn't spend his sports money stupidly like a lot of athletes do and now spends a lot of his time fishing. He just finished his degree and found other stuff to do.
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Memento posted:https://i.imgur.com/nBgkWGc.mp4 
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Memento posted:https://i.imgur.com/nBgkWGc.mp4 What impressed me the most is how well timed they were with the traffic lights.
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Here's cinematographer David Eggby shooting a scene for the original '79 Mad Max, sitting on the back of a bike without a helmet (it got in the way of the camera) going at crazy speeds down winding Australian backroads.  When they started filming they didn't have any location permits and they didn't want to communicate via walkie talkies because the police might be able to listen in and find them so they'd just close down a remote country road and fuckin' go for it. Eventually the local police caught wind of the film shoot and actually helped out by closing down roads for them. Edit: here's some more skatin' cameraman footage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XW478MLuQhc Here's a quick shot breakdown from The Bourne Ultimatum. The camerman not only has to do the same jump as the stuntman but has to time it perfectly, all while carrying a camera in front of his face and keeping the stuntman in frame and in focus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIGIlXnUZT0 Edit 2: of course, wildlife documentary cinematographers are in a category all of their own, and wartime photographers are also in their own badass category. Snowglobe of Doom has a new favorite as of 05:55 on Mar 24, 2019 |
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Solice Kirsk posted:I like the additional CGI cabs. The pedestrians walking past also seem to be in different positions, it might just have been an alternate take
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Edit 2: of course, wildlife documentary cinematographers are in a category all of their own, and wartime photographers are also in their own badass category. Director John Ford was wounded during the Battle of Midway because (IIRC) he set up a camera near a hanger he (correctly) figured would get bombed and got hit by shrapnel.
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