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Some of the Sheep
May 25, 2005
POSSIBLY IT WOULD BE SIMPLER IF I ASKED FOR A LIST OF THE HARMLESS CREATURES OF THE AFORESAID CONTINENT?

"Would you know my name, if I saw you in heaven?"

"Yeah, it's mindless murdering rear end in a top hat!"

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Rexxed
May 1, 2010

Dis is amazing!
I gotta try dis!

Mustached Demon posted:

I used a Nd:YAG back in college for pump-probe scienceing. Real useful wavelength just by itself.

Yeah those are cool for blasting stuff around your house.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Dpk9qTdr0Q

Icon Of Sin
Dec 26, 2008



gently caress a Blackberry, can it fry an old school Nokia? :colbert:

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012


Hmm. That balcony looks like it's about 12 ft x 4 ft and it's filled to a little below that child's waist, so let's say 18 inches. Take off say 30% because it looks like the plastic sheet in the back doesn't go right into the corner.

That is 48 cubic feet of water, 359 gallons, just under 1.5 tons

sweet geek swag
Mar 29, 2006

Adjust lasers to FUN!





Sagebrush posted:

Hmm. That balcony looks like it's about 12 ft x 4 ft and it's filled to a little below that child's waist, so let's say 18 inches. Take off say 30% because it looks like the plastic sheet in the back doesn't go right into the corner.

That is 48 cubic feet of water, 359 gallons, just under 1.5 tons

That probably took a while to fill. It'll empty a lot quicker though.

Burt Sexual
Jan 26, 2006

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Switchblade Switcharoo
That’s kids a solid 100lbs too.

Vanagoon
Jan 20, 2008


Best Dead Gay Forums
on the whole Internet!

Rexxed posted:

Yeah those are cool for blasting stuff around your house.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Dpk9qTdr0Q

Man PhotonicInduction was a complete madman. It's a shame he's stopped posting. It was fun watching him brown out his neighborhood.

Lain Iwakura
Aug 5, 2004

The body exists only to verify one's own existence.

Taco Defender

Vanagoon posted:

Man PhotonicInduction was a complete madman. It's a shame he's stopped posting. It was fun watching him brown out his neighborhood.

Didn't his spouse divorce him over his shenanigans?

ExecuDork
Feb 25, 2007

We might be fucked, sir.
Fallen Rib

BMan posted:

The goggles, they do nothing!

AV/post goodness.

Because that's a crappy little post, I'd like to bring up Australian work clothes. It's hot in Aus (when it's not snowing, as it did last night here) so naturally lots of people wear shorts. But what if you're a tradie, working hard on the jobsite all day? Safety shorts!
https://www.kmart.com.au/category/m...wE&gclsrc=aw.ds

Also, notice the safety underwear. Good on ya, mate!

Memento
Aug 25, 2009


Bleak Gremlin
Everyone on a building site these days is in fluoro, and that's a good thing. But I remember when I did some general builder's labourer stuff when I was ~19, everyone wore khaki cargo pants or shorts and khaki shirts with their Blundstones. That was more than 20 years ago, so sometime in the intervening years, everything went from drab work clothes to fluoro safety gear. I wonder if it was a gradual shift or if something happened to make it change quickly.

Mr. Apollo
Nov 8, 2000

Sagebrush posted:

Hmm. That balcony looks like it's about 12 ft x 4 ft and it's filled to a little below that child's waist, so let's say 18 inches. Take off say 30% because it looks like the plastic sheet in the back doesn't go right into the corner.

That is 48 cubic feet of water, 359 gallons, just under 1.5 tons
But the balcony is rated for 16 people and there’s only person on it. :downs:

Mr. Apollo
Nov 8, 2000

Lain Iwakura posted:

Didn't his spouse divorce him over his shenanigans?
Yeah, he posted a long video about his divorce. He also said that he has really poor social skills so dating was very difficult for him. He ended up meeting a woman from India in Skype and he married her. He had been working for 3 years to try and bring her over to the UK and I think the government finally allowed her to travel and emigrate to the UK a few months ago.

He also said that he has a plan to extract free energy from the Earth’s magnetic flux.

Lazyhound
Mar 1, 2004

A squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag is fast and bulbous—got me?
responsible earpro use:

https://mobile.twitter.com/janerichsen/status/1160618249270304769

itskage
Aug 26, 2003


Why are there so many? Holy poo poo.

PhazonLink
Jul 17, 2010
*45 seconds*

man this sure is long I bet there's only 15ish oh.

Bad Munki
Nov 4, 2008

We're all mad here.


Y’all acting like this video isn’t one of a hundred he’s made

Luneshot
Mar 10, 2014

Mustached Demon posted:

That 1064nm wavelength is the perfect wavelength to absolutely ruin retinas. There's no overstressing or hyperbole when talking about how dangerous that wavelength is when it comes to eye safety.

lol, literally the first sentence of the wikipedia page for "infrared" links to this paper, and the following statement therein:

Sliney et al. 1976 posted:

"The foveal sensitivity to several near-infrared laser wavelengths was measured. It was found that the eye could respond to radiation at wavelengths at least as far as 1064 nm. A continuous 1064 nm laser source appeared red, but a 1060 nm pulsed laser source appeared green, which suggests the presence of second harmonic generation in the retina."

I mean, I don't doubt what you're saying, but the people doing this study in the 70s clearly didn't give a poo poo

Wifi Toilet
Oct 1, 2004

Toilet Rascal


Mustached Demon
Nov 12, 2016

Luneshot posted:

lol, literally the first sentence of the wikipedia page for "infrared" links to this paper, and the following statement therein:


I mean, I don't doubt what you're saying, but the people doing this study in the 70s clearly didn't give a poo poo

Madness I tell you. Kind of neat your eye can generate harmonics like that.

Looking around, there's a bit of juicy bits about people shooting various animals with Nd:YAGs and ruining their retinas. Solid pictures too if you're into that sort of stuff.

BMan
Oct 31, 2015

KNIIIIIIFE
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ATTAAAACK



severely disappointed at the lack of Knife Eye Attack

Shut up Meg
Jan 8, 2019

You're safe here.

Mr. Apollo posted:

Yeah, he posted a long video about his divorce. He also said that he has really poor social skills so dating was very difficult for him. He ended up meeting a woman from India in Skype and he married her. He had been working for 3 years to try and bring her over to the UK and I think the government finally allowed her to travel and emigrate to the UK a few months ago.

Is he happy now?

I saw his very depressed video where his inability to be with his wife was causing him to seriously contemplate wiring himself up to one of his massive transformers and ending it all.

Pissed Ape Sexist
Apr 19, 2008

ExecuDork posted:

AV/post goodness.

Because that's a crappy little post, I'd like to bring up Australian work clothes. It's hot in Aus (when it's not snowing, as it did last night here) so naturally lots of people wear shorts. But what if you're a tradie, working hard on the jobsite all day? Safety shorts!
https://www.kmart.com.au/category/m...wE&gclsrc=aw.ds

Also, notice the safety underwear. Good on ya, mate!

Holy poo poo, Australia still has K-Mart. Huh.

Lazyhound
Mar 1, 2004

A squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag is fast and bulbous—got me?
.

Lazyhound fucked around with this message at 10:11 on Aug 12, 2019

Jabor
Jul 16, 2010

#1 Loser at SpaceChem

Pissed Ape Sexist posted:

Holy poo poo, Australia still has K-Mart. Huh.

KMarts down under were a partnership with a local megaretailer, that the American chain ended up pulling out of. So the us stores being purchased by Sears (and then subsequently imploding) didn't affect them at all.

Mr. Apollo
Nov 8, 2000

Shut up Meg posted:

Is he happy now?

I saw his very depressed video where his inability to be with his wife was causing him to seriously contemplate wiring himself up to one of his massive transformers and ending it all.
I think so. He posted this picture a few months ago when his new wife arrived in the UK and said he’s thinking about doing videos again.

Shut up Meg
Jan 8, 2019

You're safe here.

Mr. Apollo posted:

I think so. He posted this picture a few months ago when his new wife arrived in the UK and said he’s thinking about doing videos again.



Yay!

Thanks for that closure. I'd been avoiding his channel because every time I went there and saw no updates/activity, I started to assume the worst.

Humphreys
Jan 26, 2013

We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule


Pissed Ape Sexist posted:

Holy poo poo, Australia still has K-Mart. Huh.

Oh yes and it's insanely popular

Dark Off
Aug 14, 2015




https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/12/russia-honours-national-heroes-killed-in-mysterious-nuclear-rocket-blast
so i guess those 5 death scientists managed to avert much bigger disaster?

Memento
Aug 25, 2009


Bleak Gremlin

Humphreys posted:

Oh yes and it's insanely popular

Can't remember if it's them or Target that stopped selling Bonds undies but whichever one it was I stopped going to.

Then I discovered Uniqlo undies and never looked back.

Proteus Jones
Feb 28, 2013



Jabor posted:

So the us stores being purchased by Sears (and then subsequently imploding) didn't affect them at all.

Other way around, but the parent company ended up being called Sears Holding Corporation so that leads to the confusion that Sears was the one doing the purchase.

Humphreys
Jan 26, 2013

We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule


Memento posted:

Can't remember if it's them or Target that stopped selling Bonds undies but whichever one it was I stopped going to.

Then I discovered Uniqlo undies and never looked back.

Not sure but KMart has 'Alpha ♂' branded jocks now and I can't imagine who would actually knowingly buy them.

The Lone Badger
Sep 24, 2007

Humphreys posted:

Not sure but KMart has 'Alpha ♂' branded jocks now and I can't imagine who would actually knowingly buy them.

The early-access craze has gotten out of hand.

Cable Guy
Jul 18, 2005

I don't expect any trouble, but we'll be handing these out later...




Slippery Tilde

Wingnut Ninja posted:

No no, it flies below the atmosphere.

You mean in a different layer of the atmosphere?

No, it's below it. There's nothing down there.

Nothing?

No. Just a few birds. And buildings, and air molecules.

And?

And about five tons of white hot supersonic cruise missile.
Relevant cross post from the Ask/Tell spaceflight thread:

RoastBeef posted:

There seems to be fairly decent circumstantial evidence that it was the Burevestnik/Skyfall:

https://twitter.com/ArmsControlWonk/status/1160224334377414656?s=19

Bonus: NASA slide deck about testing nuclear rockets
:stare:







:supaburn:

Jabor
Jul 16, 2010

#1 Loser at SpaceChem

Humphreys posted:

Not sure but KMart has 'Alpha ♂' branded jocks now and I can't imagine who would actually knowingly buy them.

right next to them are a 7-pack of jocks individually labelled "Monday", "Tuesday", etc.

for when you really need to get across to a shutin teenager that they need to change their underwear daily, or something

Humphreys
Jan 26, 2013

We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule


Jabor posted:

right next to them are a 7-pack of jocks individually labelled "Monday", "Tuesday", etc.

for when you really need to get across to a shutin teenager that they need to change their underwear daily, or something

HAHA My boss has same thing but his socks.

PathAsc
Nov 15, 2011

Hail SS-18 Satan may he cleanse us with nuclear fire

PISS TAPE IS REAL

Mr. Apollo posted:

I think so. He posted this picture a few months ago when his new wife arrived in the UK and said he’s thinking about doing videos again.



Hell yeah, his vids are my favorites

Mechanical Pencil
Feb 19, 2013

by vyelkin

Jabor posted:

right next to them are a 7-pack of jocks individually labelled "Monday", "Tuesday", etc.

for when you really need to get across to a shutin teenager that they need to change their underwear daily, or something

Some of us just like a handy reference

flavor.flv
Apr 18, 2008

I got a letter from the government the other day
opened it, read it
it said they was bitches




Sometimes you tell the day by the bottle that you drink
And when you're alone double-check your boxer stink

ekuNNN
Nov 27, 2004

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

PathAsc posted:

Hell yeah, his vids are my favorites

He sounds so creepy though :ohdear:

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Phanatic
Mar 13, 2007

Please don't forget that I am an extremely racist idiot who also has terrible opinions about the Culture series.
Once again, everybody: if you see thousands of gallons of gasoline leaking from a container, whether that container be a pipeline or an overturned tanker truck, "Hey, free gasoline" is not the correct response.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/10/africa/tanzania-oil-tanker-explosion-intl/index.html

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