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Flakey posted:Also that's HD footage from fuckin' Mars. Yeah them watching this "live" is minutes in the past. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PpfrcoI_fs
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Megillah Gorilla posted:A clear night sky is a beautiful thing. If you can make your way to the southern hemisphere, the sights are even better. The northern MN night sky is great. I'm from up near Orr MN and on a clear night with a new moon in MN you can see fine just by starlight. In the winter, you get Northern Lights which is nice. No light pollution up north. There's one streetlight that's 7 miles away at Gheen Corner. No one uses yard lights to speak of so it's pure dark outside and silent. It's interesting when I go back home. I'm so used to the Twin Cities that It's humbling to see the real night sky.
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It’s a very primal experience. The UP is the same. Northern lights, deafening silence and enough start light that you don’t need a flashlight. It’s beautiful.
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If you ever get a chance to go canoeing/backpacking up in the Boundary Waters in Minnesota/Canada, highly recommend it. No big cities for ~100 miles, and no motors for ~20-30
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tribbledirigible posted:Was anybody else disappointed we didn't get to see a Wile E. Coyote-style puff of dust from the impact of the heat shield? yaaaaa hoo hoo hooey
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:It’s a very primal experience. The UP is the same. Northern lights, deafening silence and enough start light that you don’t need a flashlight. It’s beautiful. The Kabetogama Peninsula. is my favorite. Federal land and no-one goes there except for a couple rangers. It's a lot of paddling and hiking. You do need to check in at the ranger station like normal but it's just not a place people go. They do have a pit toilet on the trail by Cruiser lake which is nice. The negative is that, if you get hurt, you're getting yourself out. Watch the cairns on the trail. If you miss one, you might be lost for days so bring a topo and compass with you. Last time I was there, a cairn had went missing and it was on the slick rock so I had to use my topo to find and re-mark the trail. If you're not used to the north woods, you could run into trouble. The nice thing is that, if you head north, you'll hit Rainey Lake and someone will see you. It's not bad. No more than 12 miles if you're going north anywhere on the peninsula. Don't go west or east. Go north if you're lost. West, you'll die. East, no-one will find you and then you'll die. North is safe. Don't get wet. Nights are cold up north.
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I wish there was somewhere I could take my wife with MS, but that's kind of a contradiction in terms. (Stolen) Content: spookygonk posted:Bolaji Badejo was a mere 7ft 2 inches tall. Is there a reason we know Kevin Peter Hall's name, and not this guy's? Is it just because the first sounds american? TbH, I didn't know Kevin Peter Hall was black, and assumed race was the reason. I don't care that it's anime, Gurren Lagann is basically badass piled on top of badass until you're fighting a galaxy using a spaceship that's actually the moon with the help of a centuries old severed head. And then it really gets crazy. End page 10.
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Foxfire_ posted:If you ever get a chance to go canoeing/backpacking up in the Boundary Waters in Minnesota/Canada, highly recommend it. No big cities for ~100 miles, and no motors for ~20-30 I’ve don’t this 3 times for two week stretches and it rules. Hearing wolves and poo poo was awesome.
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Do tanks have suspension in a similar sense to cars? I imagine this is probably pretty painful for the crew, either way.
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Mister Speaker posted:Do tanks have suspension in a similar sense to cars? I imagine this is probably pretty painful for the crew, either way. https://youtu.be/Qd3zy5ReYu0 May not handle that big a drop without a jolt, but still going to have a bit of cushion
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Mister Speaker posted:Do tanks have suspension in a similar sense to cars? I imagine this is probably pretty painful for the crew, either way. They definitely have suspensions, but on modern tanks they are generally torsion-bar type. And yes, if the crew was not expecting that it would be very easy for them to get banged up.
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Bit of fun where i live this evening, controlled detonation of a ~2m long german bomb. I live over a mile away and my house shook/could hear it over some pretty loud metal coming out of my speakers. https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=744376119536208
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Phanatic posted:They definitely have suspensions, but on modern tanks they are generally torsion-bar type. And yes, if the crew was not expecting that it would be very easy for them to get banged up. My dad used to work with an Israeli guy who had no teeth, he lost them when he was in the army, as a loader in a tank.
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Was that bad suspension or did he forget to get his face out of the way of the gun  ?
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OwlFancier posted:Was that bad suspension or did he forget to get his face out of the way of the gun Bad suspension I guess, he said you just got rattled around.
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Roblo posted:Bit of fun where i live this evening, controlled detonation of a ~2m long german bomb. This is also fascinating and terrifying that we're still finding dangerous UXO from both world wars all over Europe. I'm curious how they mitigate damage to the surroundings though, if at all. Aside from evacuating a certain radius around the thing, how do they deal with broken windows, foundation repair or worse? Are these just parts of the cost of finding a big bomb you can't defuse?
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Mister Speaker posted:This is also fascinating and terrifying that we're still finding dangerous UXO from both world wars all over Europe. I'm curious how they mitigate damage to the surroundings though, if at all. Aside from evacuating a certain radius around the thing, how do they deal with broken windows, foundation repair or worse? Are these just parts of the cost of finding a big bomb you can't defuse? They built a big sand filled wall around it before they blew it up. Will likely see more photos tomorrow, hopefully. Apparently a lot of the problems in Germany are worse because the British bombs had a higher failure rate and haven't lasted so well. Oops. When I lived in Plymouth they found bombs pretty regularly. That place was loving flattened.
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London especially is like 50% UXO by weight though I guess maybe the amount of digging they do there might have cleared quite a bit of it by now. I'm a lot further north so while they blew up the train station during the war we don't get that much of it up here that I know of.
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This one is a little closer. Gives you an idea of the size of it. https://imgur.com/gallery/Xje3AUD
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Beachcomber posted:Is there a reason we know Kevin Peter Hall's name, and not this guy's? Who's "we"?
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Gargamel Gibson posted:Who's "we"? Way more people could tell you the name of the guy in the Predator suit than the guy in the Alien suit. It's not really debatable. 
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Beachcomber posted:Way more people could tell you the name of the guy in the Predator suit than the guy in the Alien suit. It's not really debatable. maybe people already know the Alien guy so well they don’t even need to Google for him!
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Beachcomber posted:Way more people could tell you the name of the guy in the Predator suit than the guy in the Alien suit. Eh, that's debatab Beachcomber posted:It's not really debatable. Oh. Well I guess it isn't
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Subjunctive posted:maybe people already know the Alien guy so well they don’t even need to Google for him! 
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Roblo posted:This one is a little closer. Gives you an idea of the size of it. https://imgur.com/gallery/Xje3AUD I appreciate the poster named princessbuttchug apologizing for their language
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Beachcomber posted:Way more people could tell you the name of the guy in the Predator suit than the guy in the Alien suit. It's not really debatable. The whole thing about Van Damme being first person cast to play the Predator is probably a big part of that. It's a pretty popular bit of trivia.
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Strayer, please. They said they weren't going to debate this.
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Beachcomber posted:Way more people could tell you the name of the guy in the Predator suit than the guy in the Alien suit. It's not really debatable. So more people Google the predator guy because his name is more white but don't Google the alien guy because his name sounds foreign. But how do they know that before they Google who those people are? if you had asked I would have said a greyhound played the alien 
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Kevin Peter Hall has 19 acting credits to his name. Bolaji Bedejo has only 1. That's probably the reason he is relatively more well known.
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Carnotaurus posted:Kevin Peter Hall has 19 acting credits to his name. Bolaji Bedejo has only 1. That's probably the reason he is relatively more well known. so just multiply bolaji's by 19 and  he's off the scale!
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Mister Speaker posted:This is also fascinating and terrifying that we're still finding dangerous UXO from both world wars all over Europe. I'm curious how they mitigate damage to the surroundings though, if at all. Aside from evacuating a certain radius around the thing, how do they deal with broken windows, foundation repair or worse? Are these just parts of the cost of finding a big bomb you can't defuse? In Germany the state pays for some of it. Generally, if you can't defuse you surround the site with water-filled tanks and balls of straw. Then you evacuate in a large radius and detonate. The shock wave can be directed upward with sand barriers so it doesn't have too much of an impact. Germany is absolutely full of unexploded bombs, often with delayed fuzes or nasty chemical fuzes. Here's one from October, you can run the site through deepl (google translate is typically hot garbage) https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/schleswig-holstein/Sprengung-von-Bombe-in-Kiel-verursacht-kaum-Schaeden,bombensprengung144.html And one from the same day: https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/nied...,bombe3588.html Here's another recent one, this time a tallboy: https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/mecklenburg-vorpommern/Swinemuende-Tallboy-Weltkriegsbombe-entschaerft,bombe3618.html Here's a video of the defusal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iSRkvAupT8 Note: That's not a full explosion, it's a controlled burn of the explosive.
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That's what they were going for, but what happened was the explosive detonated. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-54522203 quote:"The deflagration process turned into detonation. The object can be considered neutralised, it will not pose any more threat to the Szczecin-Swinoujscie shipping channel," said Lt Cmdr Grzegorz Lewandowski, spokesman for the Polish Navy's 8th Coastal Defence Flotilla.
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Anyone who hasn't seen Danger UXB! should. Follows the life of a Lieutenant in England during WW2 in charge of a UXO crew. Its all up on daily motion for free. https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6s1ejp -Zydeco- has a new favorite as of 18:28 on Feb 28, 2021 |
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Carnotaurus posted:Kevin Peter Hall has 19 acting credits to his name. Bolaji Bedejo has only 1. That's probably the reason he is relatively more well known. It's not just that, but yes. Kevin Peter Hall was an actor and would have had a lot more credits had he not died untimely. Badejo, on the other hand, was the son of the director of the Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation who was over in London studying art; he came from money, he took the part just because it would be an interesting and fun thing to do. He never acted again because he never had to or wanted to.
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Jedit posted:He never acted again because he got blown out of the god drat airlock!
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Milo and POTUS posted:Ridley scott built a spaceship to film on location Jacques Tati built a whole suburb.
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The Bloop posted:Thinking about the entire highway built for matrix 2 I'd never heard this before, but they should've just shot the whole movie on that highway
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