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I guess he was ditching it, but my first though was that he was showing off and got wind shear'd. My cousin used to fly Chinooks for the Australian Army, and he was barrelling along a beach in Western Australia circa 1998, at about 100 knots, around fifty meters up. His CO in the other seat said "how about a dust-up, get down near the deck and we'll give those guys behind us a show!". Well he did that, kicked up a bunch of sand and dust and then when he went past a bit of a cliff on the shore side, hit some wind shear and briefly bounced off the deck. All of the little porthole windows along the sides instantly popped out. They landed and went back and picked up the ones they could find, and then taped up the window holes and nursed it back to base. He was written up for it, of course - a commendation for skilled flying in the face of dangerous conditions and managing to put it down safely after some "unforeseeable turbulence conditions" that affected their level, sensible flight.
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Memento posted:He was written up for it, of course - a commendation for skilled flying in the face of dangerous conditions and managing to put it down safely after some "unforeseeable turbulence conditions" that affected their level, sensible flight. I used to get written up for the stupidest petty poo poo but that one was probably justified.
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Humphreys posted:I used to get written up for the stupidest petty poo poo but that one was probably justified. No you misunderstand; his CO spun it into a commendation because admitting it was his (the CO's) fault for encouraging the pilot to do dumb poo poo wouldn't have looked good.
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Memento posted:No you misunderstand; his CO spun it into a commendation because admitting it was his (the CO's) fault for encouraging the pilot to do dumb poo poo wouldn't have looked good. Ah missed that critical bit.
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In one way that's understandable: having pilots that are comfortable doing all sorts of non-regulation, difficult maneuvers could be useful in certain situations. More so in an air force than civilian flying, at least.
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Ah, another case of "what did they think would happen?"
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Fall into the back of the truck with the other garbage they dropped in there.
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https://i.imgur.com/PrY61Wn.mp4 The skill to do this by hand and not gently caress it up is pretty amazing.
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Cartoon Man posted:https://i.imgur.com/PrY61Wn.mp4 I'd say he's doing it by foot
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Minority Report focused on the interaction between predictive technology and criminal justice, but the precog effect on workplace/traffic safety and signage would be huge.
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ekuNNN posted:https://twitter.com/Tweetermeyer/status/1383778011766398983 more than once I've weaved into the lane a little with a tesla just to check if they're auto driving or not.
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LifeSunDeath posted:more than once I've weaved into the lane a little with a tesla just to check if they're auto driving or not. Why the gently caress would you do this?
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gently caress You And Diebold posted:Why the gently caress would you do this? Some people just have a death wish.
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They actually have extinguishing containers for this specific purpose, that's how big a problem battery fires are. A special crane/container truck is no cheap solution, but there is no cheap way of putting out a Tesla.    
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ekuNNN posted:https://twitter.com/Tweetermeyer/status/1383778011766398983 I wonder if this model Tesla was the one without door handles on the inside, forcing the men to sit and get roasted. bobmarleysghost fucked around with this message at 16:57 on Apr 18, 2021 |
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Cartoon Man posted:https://i.imgur.com/PrY61Wn.mp4 Now I want grilled cheese for lunch.
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:How useless is a truckload of sand in a battery fire? That's actually the appropriate way to put out a metal fire, but then you have the problem of a bunch of ready to re-ignite lithium under a ton of sand that you have to clean up.
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bobmarleysghost posted:I wonder if this model Tesla was the one without door handles on the inside, forcing the men to sit and get roasted.
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We'll have to make electric car emergency disposal facilities, like runaway truck ramps except it's a 20 foot deep pit with a pile of sand next to it and a bulldozer
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haveblue posted:We'll have to make electric car emergency disposal facilities, like runaway truck ramps except it's a 20 foot deep pit with a pile of sand next to it and a bulldozer Or a catapult to launch them into the ocean. They'll continue to burn at the bottom of the ocean until all of the lithium is exhausted, but at least it's done killing things on land.
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Don't worry. There's always Elon cultists in the comments to spring to Tesla's defence.quote:Sounds like someone hopped out and the blame was placed on the car
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bobmarleysghost posted:I wonder if this model Tesla was the one without door handles on the inside, forcing the men to sit and get roasted. Looking this up and ran into:   even in an article about how they killed someone, they call it an "innovation"
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See, I'd be thinking, truck in sand in one of those car sized dumpsters, dump the sand on the car, set the dumpster in front of it, cable it and winch/bulldoze the entire mess into the dumpster, shovel remaining sand into dumpster full of car. Then you can just park the dumpster somewhere for six months to forever. Start a landfill over the top of the roasted teslas, followed by a series of subdivisions. Then in 10k years when our descendents are out dicking around reinventing things, they'll have a lithium mine to discover and strip.
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:See, I'd be thinking, truck in sand in one of those car sized dumpsters, dump the sand on the car, set the dumpster in front of it, cable it and winch/bulldoze the entire mess into the dumpster, shovel remaining sand into dumpster full of car. Then you can just park the dumpster somewhere for six months to forever. Start a landfill over the top of the roasted teslas, followed by a series of subdivisions. Then in 10k years when our descendents are out dicking around reinventing things, they'll have a lithium mine to discover and strip. 
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Well it's not like there isn't an abundance of shipping containers we can cut in half and sand that's not appropriate for concrete.
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:See, I'd be thinking, truck in sand in one of those car sized dumpsters, dump the sand on the car, set the dumpster in front of it, cable it and winch/bulldoze the entire mess into the dumpster, shovel remaining sand into dumpster full of car. Then you can just park the dumpster somewhere for six months to forever. Start a landfill over the top of the roasted teslas, followed by a series of subdivisions. Then in 10k years when our descendents are out dicking around reinventing things, they'll have a lithium mine to discover and strip. What is here was dangerous and repulsive to us. This message is a warning about danger.
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:See, I'd be thinking, truck in sand in one of those car sized dumpsters, dump the sand on the car, set the dumpster in front of it, cable it and winch/bulldoze the entire mess into the dumpster, shovel remaining sand into dumpster full of car. Then you can just park the dumpster somewhere for six months to forever. Start a landfill over the top of the roasted teslas, followed by a series of subdivisions. Then in 10k years when our descendents are out dicking around reinventing things, they'll
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I wonder if there's any gambling site with prop bets on how long til the first car fire in the tunnel.
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Unless you’re going to pay for a bulldozer operator to live every 1/4 mile of highway, we should think about having them be self driving bulldozers. Maybe make them electric to limit emissions
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You just fill the tunnel with sand and pay Boring Company to make a new tunnel next to it, bing bang bong
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Mr. Nice! posted:Or a catapult to launch them into the ocean. They'll continue to burn at the bottom of the ocean until all of the lithium is exhausted, but at least it's done killing things on land. just imagine the thrill of throwing a car battery that big into the ocean, those dicks at Autozone don't even know yet
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