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Karia
Mar 27, 2013

Self-portrait, Snake on a Plane
Oil painting, c. 1482-1484
Leonardo DaVinci (1452-1591)

mobby_6kl posted:

That looks a gazillion times safer than the last batch of log splitting machines that were posted here

Yeah, but it also looks like something that Junji Ito woulda featured prominently in Uzumaki, so I'm gonna say "nope" regardless.

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Uthor
Jul 9, 2006

Gummy Bear Heaven ... It's where I go when the world is too mean.

Platystemon posted:



Jacob’s Ladder

Less dangerous than this ladder on a church.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/immovable-ladder-church-holy-sepulchre

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

Serephina posted:

Yes, I'm thinking about it and while it won't catch you unawares and is basically a big spike on the ground you have to fall onto, if you do it will cheerfully pull its way through you. Still safer than a lot of other homemade things though.

I don't think flesh holds threads very well. It would likely impale you and then keep spinning.

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS

Cojawfee posted:

I don't think flesh holds threads very well. It would likely impale you and then keep spinning.

I would not want to find out what happens if it gets a good hit on the sternum.

Serephina
Nov 8, 2005

恐竜戦隊
ジュウレンジャー
Ya'll acting like having a drill bit whirl around in you as you flop about making it worse isn't any big deal. Also I can just see myself falling sternum-first on it, just to give it something grippy to pull into.

Excuse me as I go cower in me bed, the world is a dangerous place.

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

Serephina posted:

Ya'll acting like having a drill bit whirl around in you as you flop about making it worse isn't any big deal. Also I can just see myself falling sternum-first on it, just to give it something grippy to pull into.

Excuse me as I go cower in me bed, the world is a dangerous place.

We are all the knight from Monty Python

Free Cheese
Sep 16, 2005
Come on, it's free
Buglord
Sir robin went to split some logs,
But fell and got ground in the cogs

Rosemont
Nov 4, 2009

ekuNNN posted:

This guy has a really good series of videos about Dutch infrastructure that touches alot on designing cities around pedestrians and cyclists
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMed1qceJ_Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OfBpQgLXUc

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

Thanks for these. As someone whose only mode of transportation is a bike, I'm extremely covetous of the Netherlands' bike lanes.

Clayton Bigsby
Apr 17, 2005

Platystemon posted:



Jacob’s Ladder

Is that Edinburgh? When I visited someone shared a story of there being a traffic cone stuck at the very top of that spire one morning and no one could ever quite figure out how someone got it up there.

Cat Hatter
Oct 24, 2006

Hatters gonna hat.

SerthVarnee posted:

That poo poo there is hurting my head. Im guessing this is the officially correct use of handsigns in the USA?

Cause it sure as poo poo isn't correct in Denmark. (Yes I did have to go look it up, thanks for making me doubt what i've known for the last 30 years)

In Denmark you:
Extend your left hand to the left when indicating a left turn.
Extend your right hand to the right when indicating a right turn.
Raise your left hand when indicating a stop.
Thats it.

Goddamn I'd be stressed out trying to work out what the gently caress you guys are trying to if I ever went to the US and tried to get anywhere on a bike or in a car.

It's not that hard, you just point your hand to where you want to go to the best of your ability using your left hand*.
Left turn: point straight out to the left
Stop: point to the ground beneath you because you intend to go "here"
Right turn: point up to hook-shot over to the other side of the car.

*Its left arm only because the rules were designed for people driving cars and people can't even remember one set of rules much less two. God forbid you make a signal that means different things in different systems.

CarForumPoster
Jun 26, 2013

⚡POWER⚡

Platystemon posted:

CarForumsPoster, you almost [...]

Imma let you finish but my boy Elon had one of the safest rockets of all time

Pacra
Aug 5, 2004

Arguably OSHA

https://twitter.com/clairecdowns/status/1336918024117342209

Cat Hatter
Oct 24, 2006

Hatters gonna hat.

Now that they're doing this, if a flasher goes on the ride does the photoshopper just put a pair of masks on their chest instead of deleting the photo?

Uthor
Jul 9, 2006

Gummy Bear Heaven ... It's where I go when the world is too mean.

There's a metaphor in photoshopping masks onto chuds instead of kicking them out.

Ornamental Dingbat
Feb 26, 2007

https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1337781846738948098?s=20

Dilettante.
Feb 18, 2011

Platystemon posted:



Jacob’s Ladder

This reminds me of Fred Dibnah, a Northern English icon who is MOST definitely OSHA material.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vl8b6RcDChc&t=23s Climbing a huge rear end industrial revolutiuon chimney with ladders tied together with rope.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cp28MRAuMBU&t=5152s Felling a chimney by replacing the base with wooden supports and burning it.

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS

They should use it as proof of breaking the terms of admission and endangering other guests and throw them out of the park.

Hell, recoup the cost of enforcement by including a liquidated damages provision in the agreement. They have the legal resources to back that up.

Captain Hygiene
Sep 17, 2007

You mess with the crabbo...



https://i.imgur.com/0p1EqVx.mp4
Posting on behalf of Cartoon Man, cut down before his time by senseless mod violence :rip:

Jet Jaguar
Feb 12, 2006

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



Captain Hygiene posted:

https://i.imgur.com/0p1EqVx.mp4
Posting on behalf of Cartoon Man, cut down before his time by senseless mod violence :rip:

For some reason this reminds me of that one gif of the motorcycle chasing after that guy Mike. Maybe it's how the car just keeps accelerating as it rolls downhill and heads for the trees.

ledge
Jun 10, 2003

Captain Hygiene posted:

https://i.imgur.com/0p1EqVx.mp4
Posting on behalf of Cartoon Man, cut down before his time by senseless mod violence :rip:

Every single time.

Captain Hygiene
Sep 17, 2007

You mess with the crabbo...



It has some quality dramatic reveals and comedic escalation, better than most movies.

jetz0r
May 10, 2003

Tomorrow, our nation will sit on the throne of the world. This is not a figment of the imagination, but a fact. Tomorrow we will lead the world, Allah willing.



Captain Hygiene posted:

https://i.imgur.com/0p1EqVx.mp4
Posting on behalf of Cartoon Man, cut down before his time by senseless mod violence :rip:

A good exploration of the genre. Standard opening, a new twist that threatens established conventions, than a safe return to the expected and comforting ending.

CitizenKain
May 27, 2001

That was Gary Cooper, asshole.

Nap Ghost

Clayton Bigsby posted:

Is that Edinburgh? When I visited someone shared a story of there being a traffic cone stuck at the very top of that spire one morning and no one could ever quite figure out how someone got it up there.

I spent a few days in Edinburgh, and traffic cones being on top of things they don't belong on appears to be a sport there.

Memento
Aug 25, 2009


Bleak Gremlin
https://i.imgur.com/SkFfpp9.mp4

That's a pretty serious commitment there. The speed they're going, and the amount of time they've needed to be doing that speed to do that much damage.

ekuNNN
Nov 27, 2004

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ql75j6bKxW1s1ddrj.mp4

https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ql4v39qsEM1w5pr9j.mp4

ekuNNN fucked around with this message at 08:57 on Dec 13, 2020

Ziv Zulander
Mar 24, 2017

ZZ for short



Poor freckles, thought of ramming a wall and lived

Humphreys
Jan 26, 2013

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


Today I learnt theres a big community on home made submarines
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c?HankPronk

And one for sale!

http://www.psubs.org/forsale/ragan/

Kanine
Aug 5, 2014

by Nyc_Tattoo

Humphreys posted:

Today I learnt theres a big community on home made submarines
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c?HankPronk

And one for sale!

http://www.psubs.org/forsale/ragan/

wasnt there that guy a bit back that murdered a woman inside a homemade submarine

goddamnedtwisto
Dec 31, 2004

If you ask me about the mole people in the London Underground, I WILL be forced to kill you
Fun Shoe

McCracAttack posted:

But this poo poo is bananas:


It always baffled me too until the first time I saw someone use it. Once you actually see it in action it's obviously a hand signal saying "Overtake me because I am turning left" to any traffic behind you, contrasted with the "I am slowing down or stopping" signal which looks like you're trying to disperse a fart (palm down, straight arm waved from horizontal to as far down as you can and back), which is a signal saying "Don't overtake/stay behind me". Remember of course this is for a country that drives on the left.

It certainly makes a lot more sense when you remember indicators/hand signals are *supposed* to be telling other people what you're doing so they can safely continue on their way, not a magic device allowing you to drive in the direction you want.

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS

Racehorses break their legs just running, but this one powerslides into masonry and gets up. :psyduck:

I know that the forces on a running horse are major and that this one isn’t necessarily O.K. in the long term, but I’m still impressed.

Kanine posted:

wasnt there that guy a bit back that murdered a woman inside a homemade submarine

Peter Madsen

Buttchocks
Oct 21, 2020

No, I like my hat, thanks.

It just really wanted to be a Forester.

ded
Oct 27, 2005

Kooler than Jesus

Kanine posted:

wasnt there that guy a bit back that murdered a woman inside a homemade submarine

yes. and he escaped from prison for a few minutes.

Elviscat
Jan 1, 2008

Well don't you know I'm caught in a trap?


This is just the recommended method for injecting sledgehammers into your wall.

Platystemon posted:

Racehorses break their legs just running, but this one powerslides into masonry and gets up. :psyduck:

I know that the forces on a running horse are major and that this one isn’t necessarily O.K. in the long term, but I’m still impressed.


Peter Madsen

It's one odd those weird physics things, people survive multiple gunshots, horrific falls from height etc, then some poor bicyclist gets startled by a car horn, whacks their head on a curb (with a helmet) and dies. It all boils down to exactly where forces are exerted in the flesh, bones and organs.

E: that Madsen thing is one of the wildest loving things I've ever read. I hope that motherfucker comes clean about what the gently caress his hosed up brain was thinking one of these days.

Elviscat fucked around with this message at 10:48 on Dec 13, 2020

dog nougat
Apr 8, 2009
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUWOOFII144

Holy gently caress this thing looks dangerous as hell.

LifeSunDeath
Jan 4, 2007

still gay rights and smoke weed every day

Sanctum posted:

Agreed on both counts. I think SpaceX is cool and good and hope they succeed. Elon Musk is terrible and I hope he fails. He's failed his weird underage marriage so that's all v. good.

Speaking of rockets, I love this hour long episode about a tour of a modern rocket factory. My favorite part was how the CEO explained why they were manufacturing rocket hulls using orthogrids instead of the older isogrids. He explains why they prefer orthogrids because they are lighter, stronger, and much, much easier to machine. Some wizards in the 60's punched in a question for a computer without stopping to think about how assembly performs logic. The primitive series of BJT transistors gave them the answer known as the isogrid rocket hull. Decades of rocket scientists never bothered to math why this was supposedly the mathematically ideal rocket hull design. The isogrid was not an ideal rocket hull design.



Here's an isogrid by the way. Triangles, laughable.


Orthogrid. Literally just squares, that's it.

Wake me up when it's tesseract grids and a hyperdiamond husk on my totally automated relativistic starship with a dying AI.

DiHK
Feb 4, 2013

by Azathoth

Buttchocks posted:

It just really wanted to be a Forester.

That's a toyota not a subaru.

mobby_6kl
Aug 9, 2009

by Fluffdaddy

DiHK posted:

That's a toyota not a subaru.
Maybe a Sequoia?

Aramoro
Jun 1, 2012




Clayton Bigsby posted:

Is that Edinburgh? When I visited someone shared a story of there being a traffic cone stuck at the very top of that spire one morning and no one could ever quite figure out how someone got it up there.

So theres never been a traffic cone on top. Of St Giles, its 145 ft tall with no access. People do put cones on all the statues though, and there are many of them.

CRUSTY MINGE
Mar 30, 2011

Peggy Hill
Foot Connoisseur

DiHK posted:

That's a toyota not a subaru.

Toyota and Subaru have a production partnership. That Toyota was just jealous of the lower center of gravity that Subarus have and needed some quality time in the woods to get over it.

That Toyota is just going through its' time of grieving, like Hillary post-'16 election.

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chitoryu12
Apr 24, 2014

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