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Ola posted:It's good community service to mention this quite often, since it is a very common misconception: Even though mushrooms are quite weird and nukes are quite weird, there is nothing particularly nuclear about mushroom-shaped smoke columns. It's simply a physical phenomenon of convection. I've created one with a cup of gasoline on a bonfire. It even did a good looking nuke test thing where the mushroom hat stopped ascending but started drifting sideways, trailing the stem as a gradually thinning umbilical cord. Popping open the lid of a boiling pan can produce the same effect, as can smoke signals. TIL about Rayleigh–Taylor instability   which seems to occur everywhere, including some very big boom-booms indeed  
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Aug 9, 2019 16:55
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aphid_licker posted:Can confirm the sac measuring pic coming up as a result, fuckin 
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Aug 9, 2019 18:02
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Groda posted:I GISed "rams neck tape" and got the highest possible resolution picture of a man measuring a sheep scrotum. I mean, 448x331 isn't that high of a resolution? 
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Aug 9, 2019 18:11
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Syd Midnight posted:TIL about Rayleigh–Taylor instability Kip Thorne has an anecdote on how he found out what the big secret of the Teller-Ulam hydrogen bomb design was. He was talking about some aspects of black hole formation with a Russian scientist at a conference, and speculated about radiation pressure also causing this kind of effect. This was denied by the Russian, but on further questioning he got very embarrassed and just said that "it had been proven" not to happen. (IIRC, it's in Black Holes and Time Warps.)
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Zopotantor posted:Kip Thorne has an anecdote on how he found out what the big secret of the Teller-Ulam hydrogen bomb design was. He was talking about some aspects of black hole formation with a Russian scientist at a conference, and speculated about radiation pressure also causing this kind of effect. This was denied by the Russian, but on further questioning he got very embarrassed and just said that "it had been proven" not to happen. Guess I found my weekend reading 
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My parents described a propane train car derailment explosion as, "looking like a mushroom cloud," when they saw it. We were about a mile away from ground zero. I slept thru the whole thing and only woke up when the temperature of the house dropped, because it was -40 that day, the power was out due to the train derailment and explosion, the blast wave popped open a poorly latched door between the house and the garage, and our house slowly leaked heat until we realized what was going on. About that time, they were evacuating people in the neighborhood, so we went to my uncle's place on the edge of town and waited for the all-clear.
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I grew up about 100 miles north of Mount Saint Helens and that made a pretty nice mushroom cloud during an eruption. Not the big one though, a couple months later when it wasn’t overcast. The Cold War was still going so that made it extra spooky.
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Aug 10, 2019 05:31
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Groda posted:I GISed "rams neck tape" and got the highest possible resolution picture of a man measuring a sheep scrotum. It's a specific brand of marine tape, thick, black, and several inches wide. Sometimes they have to heat it up when it's cold to get it to adhere properly. Hence the torches. I wonder what other nautical terms give... unexpected GIS results? Try "tommed down" next.
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Aug 10, 2019 05:46
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:Seacock I get this after being at sea in rough weather for a few days. Even though you're back on dry land, it feels like it's swinging back and forth.
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Groda posted:I GISed "rams neck tape" and got the highest possible resolution picture of a man measuring a sheep scrotum. Dunno what the gently caress you've been looking at recently because that's not coming up at all over here.
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“Marine head” had a ton of potential, but it wasn’t meant to be  Any misspelling of “sextant” is probably a solid bet. I’m sure there’s something regarding pirates and booty, too
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Icon Of Sin posted:“Marine head” had a ton of potential, but it wasn’t meant to be 
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BrandorKP posted:It's a specific brand of marine tape, thick, black, and several inches wide. Sometimes they have to heat it up when it's cold to get it to adhere properly. Hence the torches. Not nautical, but I had a teacher who was telling us about waterborne diseases, including googling giardiasis by its popular name. With safesearch off.
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azflyboy posted:For the last few years, there's been a push to find an alternative to lead for Avgas, but since the ~20% of small airplanes that use the largest quantities of fuel absolutely require something that works identically to lead, it's a slow process. Technically it’s mostly a solved problem. 100UL, UL102, etc are all still fighting it out. The big issues are twofold. A: The way the FAA certifies engines, and it’s near-total unwillingness to approve anything that would require any existing engines be recertified or STCed to continue operation after a switchover. They want a 100% seamless replacement, with specific gravity, energy per mass, energy per volume, and a bunch of other variables essentially the same, which probably isn’t possible. B: The volumes of avgas consumed globally are comparatively very low, meaning that the market push to develop production capacity for unleaded avgas is nonexistent without a legal mandate to do so. See A. azflyboy posted:
Mmmmmmm grape juice.
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ArcMage posted:An air-cooled reactor would probably have enough activity to light up a region like this, and would also have failure modes with suitable consequences. Yup: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/12/russia-indicates-rocket-engine-exploded-in-test-of-mini-nuclear-reactor Also, the quotes sound like something out of cold war James Bond. quote:David Cullen, the director of the Nuclear Information Service in the UK, said on Monday that the view among independent experts was that the explosion appeared to have been caused by the failure of an experimental nuclear-powered cruise missile known in Russia as the 9M730 Burevestnik and by Nato as the SSC-X-9 Skyfall.
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Icon Of Sin posted:“Marine head” had a ton of potential, but it wasn’t meant to be I saw the captain's dinghy
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Aug 13, 2019 14:50
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We had gaylords on one of my cruise ships
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Seamen on the poop deck.
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:We had gaylords on one of my cruise ships I thought they had Gaylords on all of them. I walked into the galley once and told a Maître D’ I was there to check the Gaylord, he was super offended.
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FrozenVent posted:I thought they had Gaylords on all of them. I know why he was offended but my sense of humor is equal parts surreal, nihilistic, and unbelievably loving childish so I always have to suppress a giggle it's a personality flaw
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Syd Midnight posted:I saw the captain's dinghy If you ask a ship captain why there’s a ship’s wheel in his pants, he’ll respond with “No idea, BUT ITS DRIVIN’ ME NUTS!”
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Aug 13, 2019 21:15
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A "sounding" is when one uses a tape to measure the level of fluid in a tank with a weighted tape. You're ullage if you GIS that one.
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Had a seaman drop a sounding rod on a hatch bay once and it banged a hole straight through the deck plate and down the hold. This is more of an OSHA thread story though, cause we just stuck some duct tape over the hole and sailed.
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On older ships they'll eventually wear through the striker plate under the bottom of the tube and then possibly through the tank.
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FrozenVent posted:Had a seaman drop a sounding rod on a hatch bay once and it banged a hole straight through the deck plate and down the hold. (Consults between this post and an open dictionary, muttering to himself) Ok, so the 'hatch bay' is the anus and the 'hold' is the rectum, so....
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The Lone Badger posted:(Consults between this post and an open dictionary, muttering to himself) You've got it wrong; sounding rods go into the urethra
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Okay what's the nonnaughty meaning of gaylord? Merriam Webster has nothing and gaylord + nautical on Google also gives nothing.
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aphid_licker posted:Okay what's the nonnaughty meaning of gaylord? Merriam Webster has nothing and gaylord + nautical on Google also gives nothing. Gaylord makes kitchen exhaust hoods.
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Lots of gaylords:quote:Businesses
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aphid_licker posted:Okay what's the nonnaughty meaning of gaylord? Merriam Webster has nothing and gaylord + nautical on Google also gives nothing. Platystemon posted:Gaylord makes kitchen exhaust hoods. And their fire extinction system, which are I assume full of fun chemicals.
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FrozenVent posted:And their fire extinction system, which are I assume full of fun chemicals. I would assume so, given its purpose.
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VictualSquid posted:Lots of gaylords: EDIT: Maybe "Gaylord's" it's been forever.
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aphid_licker posted:Okay what's the nonnaughty meaning of gaylord? Merriam Webster has nothing and gaylord + nautical on Google also gives nothing. Also a large pallet-sized cardboard box used for shipping bulk goods or smaller containers.
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Base Emitter posted:Also a large pallet-sized cardboard box used for shipping bulk goods or smaller containers. That's the definition that I've heard. 
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FrozenVent posted:And their fire extinction system, which are I assume full of fun chemicals. a fire extinction system sounds metal as hell
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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:That's the definition that I've heard. Those are the gaylords we had at Staples
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New Derek Lowe. Choice quote:quote:You’re not going be able to cram more nitro groups onto a tetrazole system that small, darn it all, that’s all there is and there ain’t no more. It’s fair to ask whether this hexanitro beast can even exist. As you read the paper the answer turns out to be “Just barely”.
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