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Captain Hygiene posted:Oh poo poo, the tourists are on their way right now, we've gotta go for total obliteration! No, don't worry about the shoes, I said we're going total! "Man killed by flying horseshoe from exploding horse corpse."
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CommieGIR posted:"Man killed by flying horseshoe from exploding horse corpse." It's a boy!
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CommieGIR posted:https://twitter.com/Tuckthetech/status/1552053680492498949?s=20&t=UIbH8vOlygiPtgq8X7WMyw I've recently started watching Yellowstone, and this seems entirely plausible for something that would happen in the show
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Jul 28, 2022 15:48
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Nenonen posted:It absolutely amazes me that they thought it would be a good idea to have those two blokes standing on the platform! It's the nice guest couch tho
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CommieGIR posted:https://twitter.com/Tuckthetech/status/1552053680492498949?s=20&t=UIbH8vOlygiPtgq8X7WMyw Didn't people do exactly this to a beached whale and it uhhhhhhhh not go well at all? EDIT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6CLumsir34 Fajita Queen fucked around with this message at 16:05 on Jul 28, 2022 |
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Jul 28, 2022 16:00
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Yes, the Oregon Highway Division definitely did not read that plan
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Jul 28, 2022 16:07
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Should have used more explosives. Or cleared the area of bystanders, but I think more explosives is the key to success here. Blow it up so hard that the pieces land in a different prescint.
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Jul 28, 2022 16:07
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I've stood in the vicinity of a large chunk of decomposing whale blubber* and the stench is horrific. * not a goon meet
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TotalLossBrain posted:I've stood in the vicinity of a large chunk of decomposing whale blubber* and the stench is horrific. You should take better care of personal hygiene.
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Bee(r) belly CommieGIR posted:https://twitter.com/Tuckthetech/status/1552053680492498949?s=20&t=UIbH8vOlygiPtgq8X7WMyw Just don't try it on whales again
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Jul 28, 2022 16:26
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Placement may have been an issue with the whale, but they used a shitload of dynamite for the size. If you estimate an average horse to be 1000lbs, they recommend 55lbs to obliterate it. The whale was estimated to be 16,000 pounds, so a direct scale up would be like 900lbs of dynamite.quote:George Thornton, the engineer in charge of the operation, told an interviewer that he was not sure how much dynamite would be needed, saying that he had been chosen to remove the whale because his supervisor had gone hunting. A charge of one-half short ton (450 kg) of dynamite was selected.[6][7] A military veteran with explosives training who happened to be in the area warned that the planned twenty cases of dynamite was far too much, and that 20 sticks (8.4 lb or 3.8 kg[8]) would have sufficed, but his advice went unheeded.[3] Pretty close to the actual amount used. Maybe they neglected to cover the entire surface of the animal with sticks to ensure total obliteration. Maybe whales are hardier than horses. Maybe chunks are just a part of it and they should have waited the necessary several days for traces of existence to disappear. Blowing animals to smithereens is a land of contrast.
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Jul 28, 2022 16:50
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Jul 28, 2022 17:09
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Clearly this should have been the next goal of Project Plowshare, no need to worry about whale chunks if you atomize it!
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Jul 28, 2022 17:12
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The square cube law as a guideline says the whale has way way more inside meat than a horse? Also while dumb topologists say a whale and horse are the same 7 hole cups, they not not exactly the same.
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By popular demand posted:Clearly this should have been the next goal of Project Plowshare, no need to worry about whale chunks if you atomize it! 
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in the first few frames you can see the next panel is already broken, so could this be some intentional arty effect?
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Ror posted:Placement may have been an issue with the whale, but they used a shitload of dynamite for the size. If you estimate an average horse to be 1000lbs, they recommend 55lbs to obliterate it. The whale was estimated to be 16,000 pounds, so a direct scale up would be like 900lbs of dynamite. Judging by this related video I found while trying to find the original news footage, it's also possible there was a lot of rotting gas buildup which made it extra-splodey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6SO4vmrqRQ&t=185s (go to 3:05 if the timestamp doesn't work)
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spiny posted:in the first few frames you can see the next panel is already broken, so could this be some intentional arty effect? Or that guy is just having a REALLY bad day.
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UraniumAnchor posted:Judging by this related video I found while trying to find the original news footage, it's also possible there was a lot of rotting gas buildup which made it extra-splodey: Corpse-gas from a bloated marine mammal is one of the worst things I’ve ever smelled. Its not quite as bad as dead/bloated/popped sea turtle, but let’s be real: that’s a class all it’s own 🤢
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Jul 28, 2022 18:30
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Popped sea turtle sounds like an expensive dish that you can only order in a secret back room of an exclusive restaurant.
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spiny posted:in the first few frames you can see the next panel is already broken, so could this be some intentional arty effect? pretty sure it's a faake though more importantly those stairs look like they'd suck to use. no handrail.
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We were going to necropsy it to try and determine cause of death a day or so after it washed up, then things kept coming up that kept us from taking care of it. Some people put up a cross in front of it at one point, then all the corpse-bloat vented…and then vented again a few days before I got the pleasure of finally burying it. I think it was on the beach for like 2 weeks or so?
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The Shortest Path posted:Didn't people do exactly this to a beached whale and it uhhhhhhhh not go well at all? I have family that has worked trail crew for the Forrest Service, and this is a thing that happens. The horse explosion, not the whale. So far. First time my cousin was on a crew with it, a pack horse had died up a trail, so they went up to remove it. Their crew was a little fast and loose on the amount they used, but they definitely turned that horse into bits. At least they hope so, as there was a horse, then an explosion, and no horse. Either that or they launched it somewhere into the woods.
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Icon Of Sin posted:Corpse-gas from a bloated marine mammal is one of the worst things I’ve ever smelled. Its not quite as bad as dead/bloated/popped sea turtle, but let’s be real: that’s a class all it’s own I used to work at a natural history museum and we'd do public dissections of various animals. We got a beached white-beaked dolphin in once, and I had to keep a close eye on the visiting public because people kept fainting at the smell. All adults, the kids didn't seem to mind (other than making a face as they hit the wall of dead dolphin when they entered the auditorium).
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CitizenKain posted:I have family that has worked trail crew for the Forrest Service, and this is a thing that happens. The horse explosion, not the whale. So far. Is it called the Forrest Service because when you detonate a horse corpse you never know what you're gonna get?
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Jul 28, 2022 18:52
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CitizenKain posted:I have family that has worked trail crew for the Forrest Service, and this is a thing that happens. The horse explosion, not the whale. So far. This always seems weird to me. Just drag the drat corpse into the woods or leave it where it lies for the bears and mountain cats and coyotes. There's a lot of wild horses where I live and the corpses tend to sit until they've been picked over and dried out, or at least until a backhoe can get to it.
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:This always seems weird to me. Just drag the drat corpse into the woods or leave it where it lies for the bears and mountain cats and coyotes.
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Plus it's not like large animal corpses have frame-mounted tow and hoist points. If you can't bring in a piece of equipment capable of scooping up the whole thing in one go, you don't have a lot of options. The only thing better than trying to dispose of a 1200-pound horse corpse is trying to dispose of 1200 pounds of spilled decay byproducts
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Yeah. That's a fair point. Just seems like such a drat waste. They could make gallons of glue from those dead horses, or air drop them in the back country. Nope. Dynamite. I don't know that aerosolizing a horse is going to prevent predators from nosing around anyhow. Seems like you'd just be spreading the smell over a larger area. E: dead horse with no hook points. Just make your own. Punch a hole through and loop around the spine, drag it off into the woods with an ATV.
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:Yeah. That's a fair point. Just seems like such a drat waste. They could make gallons of glue from those dead horses, or air drop them in the back country. But it would be over with in a hurry. An intact corpse would take months to decay. Splattering it into a million pieces gets it over with in a week.
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Not gonna lie. If given the chance I'd probably shoot a dead horse packed full of tannerite. Still seems like a big waste, but this is america.
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:E: dead horse with no hook points. Just make your own. Punch a hole through and loop around the spine, drag it off into the woods with an ATV. Buddy, punching holes in a weeks old carcass out in the woods is the LAST thing you'd want to do.
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:Not gonna lie. If given the chance I'd probably shoot a dead horse packed full of tannerite. Let us know what the gender is!
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Deteriorata posted:But it would be over with in a hurry. An intact corpse would take months to decay. Splattering it into a million pieces gets it over with in a week. right, really you're just speeding up the decomposition process to the final stages
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:Not gonna lie. If given the chance I'd probably shoot a dead horse packed full of tannerite. *Gets killed by the 200mph fasthhoof chucked at them by the 'splosion 
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:
Sure they’ll sniff around, but if they don’t find anything worth eating it’s all for nothing and hopefully they don’t start associating big booms with free food. There’s a video out there somewhere from a (likely horrified) visitor watching me tow a washed up/dead (the bloat ‘n’ float special) sea turtle up to the dunes to bury it. There’s no way I’m moving an animal that probably weighs over 300lbs on my own to start with (let alone out of the tidal zone and up the beach), which I remember them being a little sympathetic to when I talked to them…but they were still recording me all the while  I rigged some drat knot that I can’t recall that did the trick perfectly, on a largely round animal. I get that this would be wayyyyy harder to pull off in the woods, but having a leg/hoof/something to tie off to sounds like a better deal than what I usually have to deal with.
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haveblue posted:Let us know what the gender is! Imagine getting nailed by an airborne horse dick half a mile from the detonation site. Is that good luck? Like a bird making GBS threads on you? E: Love it. Where's Tim Gunn?
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