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CRUSTY MINGE posted:Dude, Colorado. I would return if I could. But alas, I am cursed to live out the rest of my life in this forsaken swampland.
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:Dude, Colorado. Counterpoint: your car could get totaled by golfballs falling from the sky.
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:Dude, Colorado. The first semester I was in CO, from Jan to May, it averaged 70° each day. We'd get snow early, it'd be gone by lunch. CO is awesome. I don't mind heat- dry or humid. I can't deal with being cold.
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LingcodKilla posted:San Diego. Worth noting Hornet is across the bay in Alameda.
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LingcodKilla posted:San Diego. Right, I WAS in san Diego when I toured a CV. I saw the submarine in SF but it looked sketchy and didn't go inside and I went to that "Musee mechanice" place beside the sub instead
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Fister Roboto posted:Counterpoint: your car could get totaled by golfballs falling from the sky. It hailed on my way home yesterday. Dime size, but goddamnit, why the day after I get a car I like. No damage though.
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Having spent a ton of time sailing around the Pacific, gently caress tropical islands and gently caress the soul crushing humidity anywhere near the equator. That's the kind of poo poo that makes you question life decisions. Like when you get up at 3 am and can't make it 10 feet out of your door before you need a change of shirts because you sweat through yours already. Give me the dry heat that kills everyone any day of the week. At least then I will die without feeling like I am slowly drowning because there is so much water in the air.
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LingcodKilla posted:San Diego. I don’t get cargo ships as museum ships. “Here’s an empty box, this is where the cargo goes. Here’s another empty box. This is where the crew lived, this is the bridge, this is the engine room. Here’s another empty box. At one point there might have been sacks in there! Isn’t this wonderful?”
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Acebuckeye13 posted:Worth noting Hornet is across the bay in Alameda. is that where they keep the nuclear wessels?
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FrozenVent posted:I don’t get cargo ships as museum ships. “Here’s an empty box, this is where the cargo goes. Here’s another empty box. This is where the crew lived, this is the bridge, this is the engine room. Here’s another empty box. At one point there might have been sacks in there! Isn’t this wonderful?” Presumably you put exhibits in the cargo hold?
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FrozenVent posted:I don’t get cargo ships as museum ships. “Here’s an empty box, this is where the cargo goes. Here’s another empty box. This is where the crew lived, this is the bridge, this is the engine room. Here’s another empty box. At one point there might have been sacks in there! Isn’t this wonderful?” It's a Liberty Ship that was at D-Day,* so it's got a good amount of history to it. *It is also the only ship that was at D-Day that's still afloat.
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Nostalgia4Ass posted:Having spent a ton of time sailing around the Pacific, gently caress tropical islands and gently caress the soul crushing humidity anywhere near the equator. That's the kind of poo poo that makes you question life decisions. Like when you get up at 3 am and can't make it 10 feet out of your door before you need a change of shirts because you sweat through yours already. Honestly, I'm looking forward to going to Singapore for work in August because it'll be slightly cooler and less humid than Maryland.
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The sub is the USS Pampanito, very cool sub. The ship is the SS Jeremiah O'Brien, she's the museum ship for the Liberty Ships. Her engine room is cool, they shot part of Titanic in there.
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FrozenVent posted:I don’t get cargo ships as museum ships. “Here’s an empty box, this is where the cargo goes. Here’s another empty box. This is where the crew lived, this is the bridge, this is the engine room. Here’s another empty box. At one point there might have been sacks in there! Isn’t this wonderful?” The ship is not only afloat, it still runs. They take it for cruises on the bay, or up the river to Sacramento sometimes.
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Madurai posted:The ship is not only afloat, it still runs. They take it for cruises on the bay, or up the river to Sacramento sometimes. Not only that, they drove the loving thing to Normandy for the 50th anniversary of D-Day. With no mechanical breakdowns. It's a pretty remarkable boat that one.
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Acebuckeye13 posted:It's a Liberty Ship that was at D-Day,* so it's got a good amount of history to it. Wrong. USS Texas was also at D-Day and is still afloat.
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I'm posting here, because you guys would be the only guys who get it. I expected it, but I'm still disgusted that Gallagher got off.
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Saint Celestine posted:Wrong. USS Texas was also at D-Day and is still afloat. Yeah but the sooner everything and everyone from, in, around, or named after texas dies in nuclear cleansing fire the better. I was really hoping harvey would finish off the texas
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I'll reserve my rage for tomorrow when he's almost surely Donnie's guest of honor at the fash carnival
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bulletsponge13 posted:I'm posting here, because you guys would be the only guys who get it. Speaking of Gallagher (apparently the government's case was actually really, really bad and even the star witnesses were full of poo poo): https://twitter.com/RiegerReport/status/1146496160837840897?s=19 Edit: here's a thread on the Gallagher thing from the Task and Purpose Editor in Chief. Basically, everyone involved is so hosed that the case didn't clear the reasonable doubt standard - especially with the prosecutors trying to snoop on the defense AND the government's witnesses sucking really bad. Trump should've shut up, but that's evergreen. https://twitter.com/PaulSzoldra/status/1146178621117063168?s=19 facialimpediment fucked around with this message at 20:41 on Jul 3, 2019 |
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Before you laugh too hard at the test dummy trying to launch mortar shells off its head, we had a guy in my hometown go to the ER doing exactly that last year. Less than an hour later somebody else from the same building, who had personally witnessed that incident, loaded one upside down and tried to fire it holding the tube against his sternum, earning an instagib. Laugh at them.
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shame on an IGA posted:I'll reserve my rage for tomorrow when he's almost surely Donnie's guest of honor at the fash carnival He’s already tweeting your welcome.
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shame on an IGA posted:Before you laugh too hard at the test dummy trying to launch mortar shells off its head, we had a guy in my hometown go to the ER doing exactly that last year. Lmao I loving remember that. Legendary
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Funny how easily people forget that fireworks are just funny explosives. I imagine that one of the shells that you can buy from one of the bigger stores is more powerful than a hand grenade.
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Acebuckeye13 posted:It's a Liberty Ship that was at D-Day,* so it's got a good amount of history to it. Liberty’s are an amazing ship class. Most-produced (over 2700 hulls, more than any other ship class in history), fairly large (~440ft), and often became reefs after the war because their expected useful life was only 5 years. There are 2 sitting off of the coast of NC that were reefed in the 70’s, the Theodore Parker and Alexander Ramsey. They’d be phenomenal wrecks to dive if they sat in a place that had commonly had good visibility, but such is not their fate  There was a Liberty named the S.S. Stephen Hopkins that got into a scrap with a nazi raider, and actually managed to sink it with their one 4” gun on the bow. Dudes got shot off of the gun, and a new gun crew rose to re-man the weapon while the gun tried to cover the rest of the crew’s escape. They landed a lucky shot that penetrated the deck of the nazi raider and landed in the engine room, disabling the ship completely and forcing a scuttle. For their efforts, 6 members of the Stephen Hopkins crew were posthumously awarded Merchant Marine Distinguished Service Crosses. A navy officer aboard the ship also picked up a Navy Service Cross. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Stephen_Hopkins The survivors drifted for a month before washing ashore in Brazil. The engagement was on the return from the first run for the Stephen Hopkins.
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I AM PROUD OF MY JOB AND MY VEHICLE/TANK I AM GLAD TO SHARE MY EXPERIENCE WITH THE AMERICAN PEOPLE I WILL SMILE AND HAVE FUN
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Stay. In. Your. Lane.
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That checklist screams to me "you should go to DC and gently caress with the poor schmucks that are still in because they can't do poo poo."
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Does that count being proud of the tank’s breakdowns?
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I hope a tank just rips the gently caress outta the roads, my 24 tonne machine does it to roads a bit when its this loving hot and it has rubber treads
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Aren't tank treads designed to have really low surface pressure so they won't wreck roads? I mean, if the road can handle the weight in the first place, but the pressure is less than is allowed by trucks, right? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_pressure#Examples Wikipedia has a tank's ground pressure as only twice that of a standing human and half that of a passenger car so surely they wouldn't destroy the roads?
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good dogge.
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hobbesmaster posted:Aren't tank treads designed to have really low surface pressure so they won't wreck roads? Nah, the lower surface pressure is for when going over loose terrain so you don't sink. It'll rip the hell out of roads, especially in turns.
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I had a weird dream that I assigned to a Humvee team as a gunner for the parade. In my dream, I threw the Hate Mango a "Have you seen Kyle?" hand motion. I take meds to block dreams, so it's not all the details made it through, but I heard my old squad leader yell through the hatch, "Did you Nazi Salute the President?" "Of course"
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the ground pressure is "low" but when you turn the edges of the tread will just rip into the asphalt and make huge gouges, especially if you cant make a wide enough turn to move the inside track when turning
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Road asphalt is actually pretty soft, in the grand scheme of things. It's not designed for 60 ton tracked vehicles, it's designed for cars and trucks, and even then they screw it up after a relatively short time.
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A Bad Poster posted:Road asphalt is actually pretty soft, in the grand scheme of things. It's not designed for 60 ton tracked vehicles, it's designed for cars and trucks, and even then they screw it up after a relatively short time. Roads are barely designed for trucks as is. As a rule of thumb, weight relative to road damage is like a 4th power relationship. A 10 ton truck will cause about 600 times the road wear of a 2 ton car. This is based on axle weight and treads will distribute that some, but not nearly enough to mitigate the sheet weight of the things. With enough planning you could probably pave parade routes to handle the load, but lol at that level of forethought coming out of this administration. facialimpediment posted:Edit: here's a thread on the Gallagher thing from the Task and Purpose Editor in Chief. Basically, everyone involved is so hosed that the case didn't clear the reasonable doubt standard - especially with the prosecutors trying to snoop on the defense AND the government's witnesses sucking really bad. Trump should've shut up, but that's evergreen. I don't understand how the prosecutors hosed up this badly. If it really was as simple as "offer to testify in exchange for immunity, then take credit for the crime" there's no way anyone with a friend would ever get convicted of anything. Surely there are procedures in place to prevent this extremely predictable scenario - if nothing else, how is this not a slam dunk murder case against the guy who testified to killing the kid? AreWeDrunkYet fucked around with this message at 22:01 on Jul 3, 2019 |
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