Relentless posted:

You can shoot that laser once a second for 40+ days straight for the cost of one Mark 48 Torpedo.

Phanatic posted:

This is like saying I can fire a .22 rifle millions of times for the price of a Mk48. So what? The Mk48 is for killing things that a .22 can't do anything about. If you have an enemy ship to kill that laser's not doing the job.

LifeSunDeath posted:

https://i.imgur.com/aEOk5o9.mp4
Boop landing

ToxicFrog posted:

Is it meant to come down that hard?

ToxicFrog posted:

Is it meant to come down that hard?

Baronjutter posted:

Growing up in a fairly urban residential area we had a neighbour with a chainsaw and a country heart. Any time a tree fell anywhere in the neighbourhood there would only be small amounts of sawdust left as evidence before the city crew arrived. He had a wood stove for heating and a massive wood shed in his back yard that always hungered for more. He eventually built up a network of informants all throughout the city who would inform him of any downed trees and he'd rush out and take care of them. The people calling it in liked it because he got rid of them so fast, and he just wanted that sweet wood.

Of course sometimes these trees were only half fallen over and really should have been taken care of professionally, but he was a helicopter logging pilot and had tons of forestry experience on the ground as well.

ToxicFrog posted:

Is it meant to come down that hard?

LifeSunDeath posted:

https://i.imgur.com/aEOk5o9.mp4
Boop landing

Bedtime for a Jump Jet posted:

A USMC TAV-8B Harrier from VMAT-203 suffered a landing gear malfunction when trying to return to MCAS Cherry Point. The Marine aviator realizing his gear failed to extend naturally referred to SOP that dictated activating the backup safety nitrogen bottle to blow the gear down.

Unfortunately for the pilot and plane, when communicating the issue over the radio, a higher ranking officer ordered him not to follow standard operating procedures, and instead had a stack of strapped mattresses placed in the centre of the runway.

Much to the surprise of the Officer that devised the imaginative contingency plan...when the 23,000lb fighter jet blowing down over 20,000 pounds of vectored thrust from its Pegasus engines settled down on its bed, the landing mattresses immediately responded with a critical un-contained failure and exploded in a shower of metal springs, fabric and coils that were quickly ingested through the spinning engine turbine blades.

Although the aircraft was extensively damaged, the pilot was able to climb out of bed without injury.


When ground crews jacked up the Harrier Jump Jet, they we able to blow the gear down with no problems. This is when the story takes an even stranger turn. Once the jet was placed in the hangar, relatively undamaged structurally speaking, an EZ-go golf cart came flying into the hangar and smashed directly into the jet, causing some D-level repair damage. It turns out that the cart operator was huffing keyboard cleaner shortly before making his parts run in the EZ-go. He got dizzy, lost consciousness and the cart, now driverless, turned directly into the hangar at full speed through a gap in the hangar doors and smashed into the parked Jump Jet.

Sagebrush posted:

One neat thing I learned from him is that the harrier is not rated to land horizontally like a normal airplane. If the thrust vector system fails, you just do a slow pass near a friendly ship or air base and eject.

Autistic Edgy Guy posted:

yeah that thing isn't jack poo poo i wouldn't worry about it. lol having to get a permit every time you cut a tree though what a loving racket....

Platystemon posted:

Surely it’s possible to evict the parked cars for half a day.

Splicer posted:

Say up a camera for humour and also rental insurance.

This is not a joke.

Autistic Edgy Guy posted:

yeah that thing isn't jack poo poo i wouldn't worry about it. lol having to get a permit every time you cut a tree though what a loving racket....

Autistic Edgy Guy posted:

if anything permits like those are for environmental purposes or states trying to keep track on urban greens, not safety oriented. but again, my municipality just does that on their own without passing the cost to arborists

Lead out in cuffs posted:

The City also requires an arborist to certify that a tree is a structural danger to a building before they'll allow it to be cut down.

Lead out in cuffs posted:

As for the safety aspect, I'm sure, like my landlord, that you know better than the arborist who actually went and looked at the tree before creating that quote.

deported to Canada posted:

I thought we had already established that little weak pissy trees can't damage no structures.

PHIZ KALIFA posted:

No one was willing to step up and put their car & house on the line to test this hypothesis, so it remains unestablished.

Lead out in cuffs posted:

This might actually be motivation to get a motion-activated security camera of sorts.

AFewBricksShy posted:

xergm posted:

For contrast:
Some Marines thought it would better for their harrier to land on a bunch of mattresses instead of a belly landing. It wasn't.

Piggy Smalls posted:

This surely can’t be a real advertisement right?

Sagebrush posted:

I am pretty sure it's a photoshop from waaaaaay back that has just been passed around so much that people think it must be real.

quote:

We can report the factory that's gone up in flames is listed to Bradbury Industrial Services, which describes itself on its website as a "trusted, EPA licensed provider for safe disposal of hazardous goods".

The EPA suspended the company's licence last month after it found Bradbury was storing more waste than permitted, storage containers were not adequately labelled and were handled outside an adequately bunded area.

On March 21, EPA said Bradbury had not satisfied its concerns, and suspended its licence.

Mr. Apollo posted:

https://i.imgur.com/cmbriyN.mp4

Granite Octopus posted:

Illegal chemical storage warehouse burns down. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-04-05/campbellfield-factory-fire-sends-smoke-over-melbournes-north/10973650

I had errands to do today but now I'm stuck indoors with my cats.

https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/melbourne-express-friday-april-5-2019-20190404-p51aq0.html

ekuNNN posted:

Found a bunch of old Dutch safety posters, here are some useful ones for woodworkers:
"The safety cap was set too high"

Granite Octopus posted:

Illegal chemical storage warehouse burns down. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-04-05/campbellfield-factory-fire-sends-smoke-over-melbournes-north/10973650

I had errands to do today but now I'm stuck indoors with my cats.

https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/melbourne-express-friday-april-5-2019-20190404-p51aq0.html

Necrosaro posted:

The 11foot8 bridge has a new victim. A tractor trailer, no less! The typical clearance for a trailer like that is 13'6" so this driver was a real rear end in a top hat running the light and under that bridge at full speed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvxDhgDjVCA

Necrosaro posted:

The 11foot8 bridge has a new victim. A tractor trailer, no less! The typical clearance for a trailer like that is 13'6" so this driver was a real rear end in a top hat running the light and under that bridge at full speed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvxDhgDjVCA

evil_bunnY posted:

That's 100% arson

Moist von Lipwig posted:

I'm surprised the bridge doesn't have some kind of permanent structural deformation after being hit that many times.

evil_bunnY posted:

That's 100% arson

quote:

Stu, who works as a welder at a business next door, told the ABC he had been told an accident involving a forklift sparked the blaze.

"There was a forklift [which] accidentally pierced a drum which then fell, and obviously a steel drum on concrete, created a spark and with the fumes, one can only assume that it ignited," he said.

quote:

In a statement, the Metropolitan Fire Brigade (MFB) said about 30 people were believed to have escaped the building at 16 Thornycroft Street before firefighters arrived.