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LifeSunDeath
Jan 4, 2007

still gay rights and smoke weed every day

Cartoon Man posted:

I’m guessing the accelerator got stuck.

Yeah people keep claiming poo poo like that...right after they royally hosed up somehow.

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Scald
May 5, 2008
Probation
Can't post for 26 years!

LifeSunDeath posted:

Yeah people keep claiming poo poo like that...right after they royally hosed up somehow.

The wheels are still spinning after it's solidly embedded in the wall it hit, so, I'd believe it.

Azhais
Feb 5, 2007
Switchblade Switcharoo
Perhaps it was his giveafuckerator that got stuck

EPICAC
Mar 23, 2001

mrmcd posted:

My masshole co-workers have dubbed this the "train sturrowing"

“Storrowing” for the low clearance bridges in Storrow Dr. Typically most common when college kids are moving in, while driving rented trucks. :wrongcity:

https://twitter.com/toucherandrich/status/1168135351283650560?s=21

EPICAC fucked around with this message at 23:54 on Sep 8, 2020

Cartoon Man
Jan 31, 2004


https://i.imgur.com/QzLythO.gifv

Cojawfee
May 31, 2006
I think the US is dumb for not using Celsius

vortmax posted:

They're dropping the first stage on their own (minority groups) people so nobody cares. They could launch from the coast and drop stages in the ocean like every other space program does* and they've even built a launch complex out there, but because of "secrecy" they still launch from inland sites.

*except SpaceX most of the time

They launch from a coast

Memento
Aug 25, 2009


Bleak Gremlin

Cartoon Man posted:

I’m guessing the accelerator got stuck.

yeah by the person burying their foot into it while screaming "WHY ISN'T THIS THING STOPPING I'M PRESSING THE BRAKE PEDAL AS HARD AS I CAN?!?!?!"

LifeSunDeath
Jan 4, 2007

still gay rights and smoke weed every day

it just keeps getting better and better

priznat
Jul 7, 2009

Let's get drunk and kiss each other all night.
Ninja, escape!

SyNack Sassimov
May 4, 2006

Let the robot win.
            --Captain James T. Vader



That's what you loving get, Mike! And other Mike!

hannibal
Jul 27, 2001

[img-planes]

LifeSunDeath posted:

Can't find a youtube link but the vid is impressive, orange cloud of smoke as it lands in populated area:



https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1332690/China-rocket-crash-video-Long-March-4B-booster-rocket-crash-school

Looks like red fuming nitric acid. I say this as an expert*

*I've read Ignition! and looked on Google Image Search

xtal
Jan 9, 2011

by Fluffdaddy

Listen to this while you watch it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhLejQ00sus

Jet Jaguar
Feb 12, 2006

Don't touch my bags if you please, Mr Customs Man.



It's the rickety scaffolding they set up that I love the most. Well, maybe the very 70s soundtrack. An actual cutover from one switch to the next at the phone company, 1984:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saRir95iIWk

vortmax
Sep 24, 2008

In meteorology, vorticity often refers to a measurement of the spin of horizontally flowing air about a vertical axis.

hannibal posted:

Looks like red fuming nitric acid. I say this as an expert*

*I've read Ignition! and looked on Google Image Search

From the spaceflight thread:

TasogareNoKagi posted:

Nitrogen Dioxide, actually. There's an equilibrium exchange back and forth between N2O4 and NO2; at atmospheric pressures and temperatures it's biased towards NO2. N2O4 is actually colorless, as this neat photo from the wiki page shows:



From left to right: equilibrium state at -196 °C, 0 °C, 23 °C, 35 °C, and 50 °C

Sex Skeleton
Aug 16, 2018

For when lonely nights turn bonely

priznat posted:

The cyclist guy reaction or lack of one is my favourite. That’s one lucky dude.

He just puts his hands on his hips and waits for the driver to come out. Like "welp there goes the rest of my day I guess."

LifeSunDeath
Jan 4, 2007

still gay rights and smoke weed every day

vortmax posted:

From the spaceflight thread:

why are these ampules so oddly crimped?
additionally, your mom's....

CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK
Sep 11, 2001



https://i.imgur.com/MRS2WkQ.mp4

Bum the Sad
Aug 25, 2002

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Hell Gem

LifeSunDeath posted:

why are these ampules so oddly crimped?
additionally, your mom's....


The crimp is so you can snap the head off to pour it out. Some drugs come the same way.

LifeSunDeath
Jan 4, 2007

still gay rights and smoke weed every day

Bum the Sad posted:

The crimp is so you can snap the head off to pour it out. Some drugs come the same way.

no I meant these:

why are they alternatively crimped but not sealed?

Cartoon Man
Jan 31, 2004


https://i.imgur.com/1FA1Lgs.mp4

Memento
Aug 25, 2009


Bleak Gremlin

Bum the Sad posted:

The crimp is so you can snap the head off to pour it out. Some drugs come the same way.

Yeah but it's a weird shape, it looks hand made.

Syrian Lannister
Aug 25, 2007

Oh, did I kill him too?
I've been a very busy little man.


Sugartime Jones

That will buff out

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS

LifeSunDeath posted:

no I meant these:

why are they alternatively crimped but not sealed?

Chemists bad at working glass.

priznat
Jul 7, 2009

Let's get drunk and kiss each other all night.

Sex Skeleton posted:

He just puts his hands on his hips and waits for the driver to come out. Like "welp there goes the rest of my day I guess."

Lol yeah he’s just torn between being super pissed off and super relieved he’s not dead imo.

The Lone Badger
Sep 24, 2007

Bum the Sad posted:

The crimp is so you can snap the head off to pour it out. Some drugs come the same way.

Which makes me really nervous. I half expect them to explode like Prince Rupert's Drops.

Son of Thunderbeast
Sep 21, 2002

The Lone Badger posted:

Which makes me really nervous. I half expect them to explode like Prince Rupert's Drops.

Imagine sounding with one of those and then it explodes like a prince rupert's drop

e; that would be bad lab safety imo

Bad Munki
Nov 4, 2008

We're all mad here.


Son of Thunderbeast posted:

e; that would be bad lab safety imo

Assume you're wearing closed-toed birkenstocks, it's all good in the fume hood

evilbastard
Mar 6, 2003

Hair Elf

Jet Jaguar posted:

It's the rickety scaffolding they set up that I love the most. Well, maybe the very 70s soundtrack. An actual cutover from one switch to the next at the phone company, 1984:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saRir95iIWk

As someone who works in exchanges, this is the second best video on the internet for when you are standing around at 2am staring at all the 100 pair bundles that is increasingly scheduled for decommissioning under the NBN.


The all time #1 video is, of course :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WzNXgFRMz8&t=61s

Mustached Demon
Nov 12, 2016

Platystemon posted:

Chemists bad at working glass.

That's my assumption too.

chitoryu12
Apr 24, 2014

https://twitter.com/r2dtoots/status/1303433728572698625?s=21

Cartoon Man
Jan 31, 2004


LifeSunDeath
Jan 4, 2007

still gay rights and smoke weed every day

Not sure why linemen are always so gross, but they are. I think all that radiation fucks them up.

CzarChasm
Mar 14, 2009

I don't like it when you're watching me eat.

Memento posted:

yeah by the person burying their foot into it while screaming "WHY ISN'T THIS THING STOPPING I'M PRESSING THE BRAKE PEDAL AS HARD AS I CAN?!?!?!"

I've actually done this myself in a way. I was stopped trying to make a left hand turn, foot on the brake. I was rear ended by a guy not paying attention, my foot slipped off the brake and I slammed it down on what I was sure in my mind was the brake. Nope. I hit the gas, cut across two lanes of traffic and arrived more or less safely in the parking lot I was trying to get to, all the while wondering why my brakes failed.

ncumbered_by_idgits
Sep 20, 2008

LifeSunDeath posted:

Not sure why linemen are always so gross, but they are. I think all that radiation fucks them up.

I think working daily on something that a) could kill you instantly in horrific and terrible ways, and b) is completely mystifying to most people probably does something to the ego to the point where you don’t operate like most people.

mrmcd
Feb 22, 2003

Pictured: The only good cop (a fictional one).

ncumbered_by_idgits posted:

I think working daily on something that a) could kill you instantly in horrific and terrible ways, and b) is completely mystifying to most people probably does something to the ego to the point where you don’t operate like most people.

It probably just self selects for a lot of people who are otherwise unemployable at jobs that don't involve climbing up rickety rear end wooden poles and loving around with very high voltage equipment of questionable maintenance standards.

starkebn
May 18, 2004

"Oooh, got a little too serious. You okay there, little buddy?"
https://i.imgur.com/eL2Cx3l.mp4

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


Pillbug

Jet Jaguar posted:

It's the rickety scaffolding they set up that I love the most. Well, maybe the very 70s soundtrack. An actual cutover from one switch to the next at the phone company, 1984:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saRir95iIWk

"Rollback plan? We don't have no god damned rollback plan"

CommieGIR fucked around with this message at 14:59 on Sep 9, 2020

SpaceCadetBob
Dec 27, 2012

mrmcd posted:

It probably just self selects for a lot of people who are otherwise unemployable at jobs that don't involve climbing up rickety rear end wooden poles and loving around with very high voltage equipment of questionable maintenance standards.

lol could you try being more insulting?

Kith
Sep 17, 2009

You never learn anything
by doing it right.


https://i.imgur.com/rYF4NEE.mp4

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LifeSunDeath
Jan 4, 2007

still gay rights and smoke weed every day
https://i.imgur.com/6kj9CVc.mp4

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