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Mucus is shear thinning, so the pressure gradient from a shockwave is probably making things substantially more fluid
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aphid_licker posted:And your skull is a paper wasps nest filled with snot for most intents and purposes Wow, rude.
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Rust Martialis posted:A friend from the reserves got to fire Carl Gs and said "it sucks the snot right out of your nose" and I've never understood the physics of that. You've never shot at a bench next to someone shooting Elk Fucker 9000 rounds with a muzzle brake?
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It's the venturi suction effect, your noseholes are acting as a carburator jet and your sinuses are the fuel bowl.
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CainFortea posted:You've never shot at a bench next to someone shooting Elk Fucker 9000 rounds with a muzzle brake? I have, and it mainly felt like someone had opted to replace the clapper in a massive church bell with my skull.
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CS and recoilless rifles clear sinuses so well.
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:CS and recoilless rifles clear sinuses so well. Hang on, I'm getting an idea. Anybody have contact info for the Shark Tank people?
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:CS and recoilless rifles clear sinuses so well. So does ammonia. Either the little medical snap caps, or the bottled poo poo for an extra wakey-wakey before a big lift.
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Mzuri posted:I've fired a lot of live 120mm mortar rounds at max load (? the most powder rings for biggest range), and my sinuses were cleared very well every time. Can't tell you the physics of it though. Overpressure from big guns is a bitch. If you fire too many high charge missions out of a 155 in one day or are in the area of echo you can have skin sloughing off by the end of the day. You will also have tinnitus and a headache that never goes away. aphid_licker posted:And your skull is a paper wasps nest filled with snot for most intents and purposes that would explain the constant buzzing...
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Steezo posted:Overpressure from big guns is a bitch. If you fire too many high charge missions out of a 155 in one day or are in the area of echo you can have skin sloughing off by the end of the day. You will also have tinnitus and a headache that never goes away. and the desire for random acts of violence near picnics. ...what?
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shame on an IGA posted:Or be well connected, like, really well connected. Lafayette comissioning in as a Major General at 19 has to still be some sort of record He also had six years of experience by then, and seems to have known what was what. He showed up to his first battle with no command, but gained control of a disorderly retreat after being shot, and probably saved a lot of lives in the process. As soon as he recovered they gave him a command and he routed a superior force of jagers. Later on, his army is the one that blocked Cornwallis' retreat from Yorktown and pinned him while waiting for reinforcements. Godholio fucked around with this message at 14:26 on Dec 31, 2022 |
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Godholio posted:He also had six years of experience by then, and seems to have known what was what. He showed up to his first battle with no command, but gained control of a disorderly retreat after being shot, and probably saved a lot of lives in the process. As soon as he recovered they gave him a command and he routed a superior force of jagers. Later on, his army is the one that blocked Cornwallis' retreat from Yorktown and pinned him while waiting for reinforcements. That and he helped spearhead the diplomatic effort that gave the Americans the military and naval assistance they needed to decisively end the war. The dude earned every single one of those cities named after him.
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Steezo posted:Overpressure from big guns is a bitch. If you fire too many high charge missions out of a 155 in one day or are in the area of echo you can have skin sloughing off by the end of the day. You will also have tinnitus and a headache that never goes away. Ive never heard the skin sloughing off or the eternal headache part and ive fired too many rounds in a day on more than one occaission
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My Spirit Otter posted:Ive never heard the skin sloughing off or the eternal headache part and ive fired too many rounds in a day on more than one occaission You've probably never heard it because you stood too close to the guns.
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PookBear posted:I wonder if part of the consideration of the USMC switching to more rocket arty was health reasons. 
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PookBear posted:I wonder if part of the consideration of the USMC switching to more rocket arty was health reasons. The rounds look more like crayons
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:You've probably never heard it because you stood too close to the guns. Guns of Icarus
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Herstory Begins Now posted:i mean how bad can rocket exhaust be Elemental mercury, if you’re 
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Alan Smithee posted:that scene where a crane drops bombs on tanks is going to become a feasible Ukrainian tactic If you want to test the effect of a bomb on a vehicle, why would you give it a risk of missing by dropping it out of an aircraft?
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Icon Of Sin posted:Elemental mercury, if you’re if i can't pronounce the name of a chemical it can't hurt me
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Icon Of Sin posted:Elemental mercury, if you’re mercury elemental 
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Herstory Begins Now posted:if i can't pronounce the name of a chemical it can't hurt me Literally liquid mercury was looked at for missiles at one point. Not "mercury hexa-unpronouncable-ide", plain mercury. They knew you could get a boost of engine thrust by squirting unreacted liquid out the back of the thing, the more mass the better. And being a metal, mercury is pretty dense. So yes, at one point the calculations were done for what performance improvement you'd get if your SAM pisses out actual liquid mercury as it flies. Ignition! was a fun read 
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Monatomic mercury gas   https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Wetterhahn
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Herstory Begins Now posted:i mean how bad can rocket exhaust be Well there were those nazis that got dissolved by their rocket planes fuel
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:Well there were those nazis that got dissolved by their rocket planes fuel I fail to see a downside here
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Fearless posted:I fail to see a downside here We rediscovered a lost ark that can do that way more efficiently
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:Well there were those nazis that got dissolved by their rocket planes fuel "We're gonna need another Heinrich!"
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I never knew how much I wanted MATO (HgATO?) bottles strapped to airplanes.
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Godholio posted:I never knew how much I wanted MATO (HgATO?) bottles strapped to airplanes. But they already have wings, just not on the wheels 
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https://twitter.com/AlexKokcharov/status/1609544368615997440
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If that's accurate, that lends credence to the claim that Russia has in fact been making the kind of over the top human wave attacks seen in WWI. Normally you'd need much larger formations (on the order of 1-2 million per side) to reach those kinds of casualty figures in a more mobile conflict.
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Rust Martialis posted:Monatomic mercury gas I stand corrected!
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My Spirit Otter posted:Ive never heard the skin sloughing off or the eternal headache part and ive fired too many rounds in a day on more than one occaission That parts more the "area of echo" part. Do not stand in front of a howitzer as it fires. PookBear posted:I wonder if part of the consideration of the USMC switching to more rocket arty was health reasons. Range and the amount of personnel required to operate, mostly.
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I specifically don't find it that hard to believe that the kia/wia numbers are incredibly high in this war. I wouldn't claim to have any number in mind, but the scale and scope of this war has been incredibly destructive relative to any other war fought in the last couple of decades. The 'human wave' stuff I think is a failure of translation/communication, albeit it seems to be talking more about the Ukrainian perception of fighting Russians in Bakhmut than, like, Korean war style human wave attacks as the words evoke to Americans. The most over the top claims about human wave attacks are all the product of English language pro-Ukraine messaging. Notably the evidence for massive human wave attacks is conveniently missing. In contrast, Ukrainians themselves in Bakhmut have said that they're facing basically endless small probing attacks, mostly at night, sometimes multiple times a day. Standard thing seems to be a smallish unit crawling as close as they possibly can get and fighting for a while before each side gets artillery involved. That seems to readily get described as 'waves of attacks,' which indeed seems to be a decent way of describing it, but it's in no way the 'lines of russians shambling across fields like zombies' as one particularly absurd pro-Ukraine post described it a couple of days ago. Notably there's abundant evidence of small Russian probing attacks, which are used to either contest or occasionally take smaller positions or simply to find currently occupied Ukrainian positions to shell. There's abundant evidence of them both succeeding and failing. As an aside, if I was a Russian in a command post, I'd consider every single artillery shell fired at a handful of mobiks at the front to be one fewer shell available to kill me. Basically Ukrainians fighters feel like they're fighting waves of Russians, which is a not inaccurate description of the tempo of the fighting. The messaging machine gets ahold of this and next thing you know shambling hordes of Russians are re-enacting pickett's charge or something out of the Korean war. Ironically the 'frontal attacks' part is accurate insofar as Russia has been attacking directly into Bakhmut itself (vs simply attempting to encircle it) with the same relentless small probing attacks, so now the word 'frontal' is thrown into the messaging mix. While 'frontal' is not inaccurate, again there's no evidence of, like, actual human waves (at least as far as I've seen anywhere and if it existed, I am 99.9% sure Ukraine would be releasing it for morale reasons). There does however exist tons of evidence of 5-15 Russians at a time launching small attacks on foot
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