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BBC documentary Human Planet has a cool segment on the insane helicopter cattle ranchers in Australia
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ncumbered_by_idgits posted:I like how people run away in a path parallel to the ship's travel. Like just turn right dude. I assumed that it was a long and narrow pier...
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axolotl farmer posted:*honk* *hoooooonk* Holy poo poo , the person falling off the gangplank of the smaller boat.
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ncumbered_by_idgits posted:I like how people run away in a path parallel to the ship's travel. Like just turn right dude. I guess that scene in Prometheus wasn't so unrealistic after all.
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Aramoro posted:Holy poo poo , the person falling off the gangplank of the smaller boat. https://www.cruiselawnews.com/2019/06/articles/pollution/nograndinavi-msc-opera-smashes-into-dock-and-the-river-countess-in-venice/ Seems MSC boats made a habit of striking dock last year... https://www.maritime-executive.com/article/new-msc-cruise-ship-strikes-dock-in-palermo ... or each other https://www.cruiselawnews.com/2019/02/articles/collisions/msc-orchestra-msc-poesia-collide-buenos-aires/ Cable Guy fucked around with this message at 14:08 on Jan 10, 2020 |
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ncumbered_by_idgits posted:I like how people run away in a path parallel to the ship's travel. Like just turn right dude. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjbUnn32_zU
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Aramoro posted:Holy poo poo , the person falling off the gangplank of the smaller boat. If you mean the guy hanging on the pier and the person pulling him up as the ship moves close and at the last second gets him up then yeah that's like out of some action movie. Only missing tom cruise running.
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His Divine Shadow posted:If you mean the guy hanging on the pier and the person pulling him up as the ship moves close and at the last second gets him up then yeah that's like out of some action movie. Only missing tom cruise running. yeah i was DEFINITELY watching that whole plank situation, thinking "the water is the worst place to be if you're running from a boat."
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luxury handset posted:imagine being a fish getting pulled into a firefighting bomber hmm. . . . the experience might feel a bit like those of the fish in both of these gifs:  
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KoRMaK posted:i dont really ever want to be in the military but god drat when I see air fire fighting or bush pilots doing poo poo like that do i wish i had the experience the military woulda given me for free to be good enough to do that poo poo Go to your nearest small airport and sign up to fly light planes. I've tattooed a few pilots who fly private-jet sized planes that just took flight courses until they were capable.
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UnkleBoB posted:Reminded me that the answer was given in an ancient Straight Dope article. Holy poo poo! Thank you! This has been a thing that’s quietly bugging me for years. I actually got on the air on Car Talk and asked the Magliozzis about it (around 1991). I think that they thought I was high or something; my call never aired. At one summer job at a boiler plant, there was a secretary who drove a ‘78 Nova that had this problem. I thought the frames were all racked, or something.
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KoRMaK posted:i dont really ever want to be in the military but god drat when I see air fire fighting or bush pilots doing poo poo like that do i wish i had the experience the military woulda given me for free to be good enough to do that poo poo https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3821398
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-Zydeco- posted:In which some Russians make an AMG rim using a steelie and some square stock. I started screaming and cant stop. that things going to just collapse and kill someone
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Hence why he says such a wheel should only be used as a decoration on a wall or something.
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UCS Hellmaker posted:I started screaming and cant stop. that things going to just collapse and kill someone Hell, my back is screaming that they did all of that work on the floor, instead of a workbench.
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scopes posted:Hell, my back is screaming that they did all of that work on the floor, instead of a workbench. But you would have thrown your back out lifting the wheel up onto a bench! 
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KoRMaK posted:i dont really ever want to be in the military but god drat when I see air fire fighting or bush pilots doing poo poo like that do i wish i had the experience the military woulda given me for free to be good enough to do that poo poo Crop dusting. Air attack companies pull heavily from ex-military and the aerial application industry.
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MrYenko posted:Crop dusting. Air attack companies pull heavily from ex-military and the aerial application industry. Still good to remember it's like the most dangerous flying one can do (short of test pilot stuff). Make sure you're affairs are in order before diving in I'd recommend.
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My uncle flies waterbombers in Canada and his path, fwiw, was: join the RCAF -> basic pilot training -> rose to captain as a navigator on the CP-140 -> got sick of the military and applied for a discharge -> live on our couch for six months while building up hours to be a commercial pilot -> bush pilot in central america and northern canada for many years -> hired by the OMNR to fly the CL-415. It doesn't seem like a particularly quick and easy career change
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Proteus Jones posted:That is some huge brass balls level of flying. 
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Putting out a request for any great dramatic articles on OSHA disasters. I know I've read a few in this thread's history on the El Faro sinking, the Challenger disaster and the hurricane hunters plane in... Hugo? I believe. I love those articles.
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DandyLion posted:Still good to remember it's like the most dangerous flying one can do (short of test pilot stuff). Make sure you're affairs are in order before diving in I'd recommend. About once a year I see a cropduster doing something so batshit insane looking that I make a point to look for smoke and/or the plane coming back up for another pass.
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Omnikin posted:Putting out a request for any great dramatic articles on OSHA disasters. I know I've read a few in this thread's history on the El Faro sinking, the Challenger disaster and the hurricane hunters plane in... Hugo? I believe. https://www.wired.com/2008/02/ff-seacowboys/
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Azathoth posted:About once a year I see a cropduster doing something so batshit insane looking that I make a point to look for smoke and/or the plane coming back up for another pass. My family was heading down to somehwere, might have been the beach or something. On the way, we saw a crop duster fly under the power lines on the side of the highway to get to a field.
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Azathoth posted:About once a year I see a cropduster doing something so batshit insane looking that I make a point to look for smoke and/or the plane coming back up for another pass. I loved that show as a kid.
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CannonFodder posted:I loved that show as a kid. It was the first thing I looked up on Disney+ and was shocked that there was only one season. I remember watching it for years and never realized when I saw reruns, I guess.
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Cthulu Carl posted:It was the first thing I looked up on Disney+ and was shocked that there was only one season. I remember watching it for years and never realized when I saw reruns, I guess. One season of 65 episodes.
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Cojawfee posted:One season of 65 episodes. All those weekday afternoon cartoons from the 80's and 90's are like that. If they had multiple seasons, the other seasons would end up with random lenghs between 10 and 65
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This is why you wear the correct PPE when riding a motorbike: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUK16hxemKA He lived: quote:The 35-year-old suffered life-changing injuries after the driver, who was travelling 70mph, hit him on a country road.
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Some good OSHA content here from Popular Mechanics: https://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/a30460577/homemade-gas-station/ "Building a Homemade Gas Station Is a Terrible Idea" Looks like they were dispensing it with a garden hose.
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tangy yet delightful posted:I wonder if SimCopter has been ported to work on Windows 10... Good news: http://www.simcopter.net/
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Sagebrush posted:I hope that subaru guy goes to prison He was sentenced today to 16 months in jail for causing serious injury through dangerous driving - the video was only released today after the trial
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JingleBells posted:This is why you wear the correct PPE when riding a motorbike: Nothing about this isn't terrifying but that second car that took the turn completely fine very nearly hit the motorcyclist because of how much he launched. And just remember that a lot of people (in the US anyway) fight to prevent helmet laws from passing.
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Jan 10, 2020 21:15
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This has updates not even 45 days ago which just trips me out
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My dad had a very similar accident in the seventies, on a 750cc Honda hit by a drunk driver in a 1966 Pontiac Bonneville. Luckily, the speeds were quite a bit lower, but he still got to learn to walk a second time.
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grillster posted:This has updates not even 45 days ago which just trips me out And yet I still can’t play SimTower on modern hardware. 
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MrYenko posted:And yet I still can’t play SimTower on modern hardware. Have you tried Yoot Tower? It seemed to be mostly the same.
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JingleBells posted:This is why you wear the correct PPE when riding a motorbike: 
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