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I saw it on full-size IMAX 3D and
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toplitzin posted:Safer than a potato to the head.
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# ? Oct 14, 2020 20:58 |
Luneshot posted:In case you'd like a visualization of the number of satellites in orbit, try Stuff In Space. To be fair though, there shouldn't be many counter (retrograde) rotating objects in space. There's a reason that almost everything is launched with the spin of the earth. BitBasher fucked around with this message at 21:19 on Oct 14, 2020 |
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# ? Oct 14, 2020 21:16 |
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Holy poo poo, I hope that's not gasoline.
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# ? Oct 14, 2020 21:18 |
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Chocobo posted:Holy poo poo, I hope that's not gasoline. Dude just wants a super sized tiki torch, don't hate.
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# ? Oct 14, 2020 21:20 |
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Those are rifling marks in the copper driving bands near the base of the shell, which means this shell was fired. Which likely means the fuze is armed. ... I'd choose a better place to sit. Further away. Much further away.
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# ? Oct 14, 2020 21:40 |
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Based on the state of his uniform, I doubt he gives much of a poo poo about anything.
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# ? Oct 14, 2020 22:01 |
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Collateral Damage posted:
Gotta generate those likes and subscribes.
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# ? Oct 14, 2020 22:02 |
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Collateral Damage posted:
"This is my safety, cap'n."
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# ? Oct 14, 2020 22:05 |
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Collateral Damage posted:
How the hell would a shell that's been fired look that pristine otherwise?
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# ? Oct 14, 2020 22:10 |
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SpaceCadetBob posted:Gotta generate those likes and subscribes. Yeah! drat those World War II influencers
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# ? Oct 14, 2020 22:14 |
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It's a shitload of steel so it can survive the forces of being fired in the first place, idk it might work? It's a battleship shell and I mean we can probably rule out someone rowing it to the shore on a dinghy and dumping it there as a photo prop.
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# ? Oct 14, 2020 22:17 |
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Eschatos posted:How the hell would a shell that's been fired look that pristine otherwise? You’d also think it would have disturbed the dirt a little more
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gently caress SNEEP posted:Yeah! drat those World War II influencers Get your milhistory right dude, that’s clearly a vietnam war product shill.
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# ? Oct 14, 2020 22:19 |
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Eschatos posted:How the hell would a shell that's been fired look that pristine otherwise? It's made out of the indestructible black box stuff That's why the explosion couldn't get out
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BitBasher posted:To be fair though, there shouldn't be many counter (retrograde) rotating objects in space. There's a reason that almost everything is launched with the spin of the earth. Sun-synchronous orbits are slightly retrograde polar orbits, and are quite popular because you pass over the same place at the same time every day. https://twitter.com/LeoLabs_Space/status/1316410784075972609 Luckily for us, this particular collision is between two satellites going almost the complete opposite direction. Clearly, they'll just hit each other, their momentum will cancel out, and all the debris will fall straight down!
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# ? Oct 14, 2020 22:48 |
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https://i.imgur.com/KgyZxLk.mp4
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Collateral Damage posted:
coldpudding fucked around with this message at 02:07 on Oct 15, 2020 |
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coldpudding posted:large shells come with the driving bands pre rifled to reduce wear on the gun, big heavy rear end shells like that would quickly strip out the barrel if you used plain driving bands and had it cut in the grooves as you fired it. Not in any info I can find. The driving band was copper or something and those are very much rifling marks from the barrel. Also makes little sense as the whole point of the band is to help seal the combustion section to propel the round better. CommieGIR fucked around with this message at 01:15 on Oct 15, 2020 |
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Dirk the Average posted:the footing being pipes that could easily roll...
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# ? Oct 15, 2020 01:16 |
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CommieGIR posted:
never mind it must have been something specific to the local fort guns I helped make wooden shells for. edit; makes you wonder how in the blue hell that shell wound up laying totally intact on the surface like that, like it must have skipped of the ground or water or something. coldpudding fucked around with this message at 02:00 on Oct 15, 2020 |
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coldpudding posted:large shells come with the driving bands pre rifled to reduce wear on the gun, big heavy rear end shells like that would quickly strip out the barrel if you used plain driving bands and had it cut in the grooves as you fired it. From the Military History thread: Jobbo_Fett posted:According to my manual on American Explosive Ordnance, on AP rounds
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# ? Oct 15, 2020 01:30 |
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Tubgoat posted:While not substantially better, those pipes are more 'X's like the one he's putting up, they're bound together in the middle so stacked side by side are not super likely to roll, though the possibility of them slipping unnerves me almost as bad as everything else in this vid.
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# ? Oct 15, 2020 01:36 |
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coldpudding posted:large shells come with the driving bands pre rifled to reduce wear on the gun, big heavy rear end shells like that would quickly strip out the barrel if you used plain driving bands and had it cut in the grooves as you fired it. Sorry, man, you're wrong. That's either a 16" or 18" naval shell. Not shown: the hypothetical industrial machine shop between these guys in the magazine lifting these smooth bois with extremely soft copper/nickel rings To the breach via this process E: quite beaten due to phone image posting > Pissed Ape Sexist fucked around with this message at 01:51 on Oct 15, 2020 |
# ? Oct 15, 2020 01:48 |
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https://i.imgur.com/zzgCHF2.gifv
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# ? Oct 15, 2020 01:58 |
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My friends and I used to have bottle rocket fights using snorkels as handguns. We were smart enough to tuck the motor exhaust inside the pipe, though...
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# ? Oct 15, 2020 01:59 |
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Pissed Ape Sexist posted:To the breach via this process Unless you're the British at Jutland, in which case, go ahead and leave those doors all open, keep some spare charges near the turret, preferably out of their casings so they leak a bit of gunpowder and cordite in a little cartoony trail down to the magazines, and store about 50% more shells and propellant than your magazines are really designed for.
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# ? Oct 15, 2020 02:06 |
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Just ram some more bags of powder in there to make Reagan’s dick hard. What’s the worst that could happen?
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# ? Oct 15, 2020 02:10 |
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Platystemon posted:Just ram some more bags of powder in there to make Reagan’s dick hard. What’s the worst that could happen? That Korean War-era propellant could have problems...
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Boner Land? I told the GPS to route for Dixville!
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Cthulu Carl posted:Unless you're the British at Jutland, in which case, go ahead and leave those doors all open, keep some spare charges near the turret, preferably out of their casings so they leak a bit of gunpowder and cordite in a little cartoony trail down to the magazines, and store about 50% more shells and propellant than your magazines are really designed for. Those poor dumbbastards. I toured the USS Massachusetts in Fall River, MA a few months back and the entire gun system was fascinating in terms of safety-forward thinking (which makes sense for an entirely analog, manual, and complex system operated by teenagers that don't want to be there). Airproof lockout doors to progressively isolate munitions between decks that the vertical powder and shell elevators traversed, no extra room for anything but exactly what needed to go in the specific single-serving cradle for whatever you were passing along, etc. I was fascinated by all the little forethought stuff most of all-- throughout the whole powder charge deck, there were big REMOVE AND CHECK ALL WATCHES/TOBACCO/BUTTONED UNIFORM ARTICLES/JEWELRY signs at every door, and every railing and corner that could possibly be bumped was rounded over and covered with soft polished brass overlays so nothing could possibly make a spark. I thought that was a cool touch.
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# ? Oct 15, 2020 02:38 |
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Eschatos posted:How the hell would a shell that's been fired look that pristine otherwise? Didn’t even scratch the paint!
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# ? Oct 15, 2020 02:46 |
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Why are they artificially inseminating bulls anyway?
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# ? Oct 15, 2020 02:49 |
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Pissed Ape Sexist posted:lifting these smooth bois with extremely soft copper/nickel rings poo poo the wear on the shell is really apparent next to the unfired rounds too. nice photos all
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# ? Oct 15, 2020 02:52 |
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https://twitter.com/russbites/status/1316547894716047360
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Collateral Damage posted:
I found this: https://worldwar2database.com/gallery/wwii1033 quote:Using an unexploded 16 inch (406 millimeter) HC Mark 13 1,900 pound (862 kg) battleship naval shell for a resting place, Private First Class Raymond L. Hubert (October 17, 1924 - May 17, 1988) of Detroit, Michigan, attached to the 2nd Marine Division, 8th Marine Regiment, shakes sand from his boondockers. 8th Marines succeeded in reaching the sea in the vicinity of Tanapag Harbor at 1300 Hours on July 4. The regiment went into reserve the next day. A Browning Automatic Rifleman ("BAR Man"), Hubert was washing his feet in the surf when Staff Sergeant Andrew B. Knight (November 8, 1916 - March 25, 1959) of Washington, District of Columbia, asked Marines to pose for photos. Knight was a former Washington Post photographer. Hubert was putting his shoes on when the photo was taken; Knight asked him to "do something" so he sat on the dud shell. Hubert sat on the shell knowing full well it was armed and could explode any time. A buddy handed Hubert his M1 Garand rifle for the photo. This photo was circulated nationally during late July - early August 1944, appearing in the Washington Post, Bakersfield Californian and other newspapers. Hubert was a tool and die maker for the auto industry after the war. Knight, whose first wife was popular Big Band singer Evelyn Knight, returned to photography at the Washington Post and died of an esophageal hemorrhage at age 42 and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery. This photo later was the basis for a mural at Camp Pendleton.
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Flamboné
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The Bloop posted:It's made out of the indestructible black box stuff Hopefully they didn't miss the underside or else a highly directional blast could launch it vertically to a height of over 1000 feet.
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