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A.o.D. posted:It's another one of those "the real secret was the industrial process" things. Yeah, CR2 has Dorchester which is the upgraded Chobham and for us is still a big deal.
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:Someone in the gbs weed thread just turned 30 the other day. In my day you had to actually *poo poo* to shitpost! And every post had a two-slur minimum, by cracky! And they hadda be GOOD ones! It was the style at the time! 
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my kinda ape posted:Yeah the gravel road speed limit here is 50mph which is totally fine, except sometimes the county will dump a poo poo ton of fresh gravel on a spot and then 35mph+ becomes straight up perilous. When it's packed down and properly graded you can pretty safely go 60 or 70 in most passenger vehicles. 80mph and you start feeling like you're on the edge of stability IMO. I usually stick to 50ish. Thats why we invented Rallying
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Omni Air spotted. https://twitter.com/liz_friden/status/1614791456379572226?s=46&t=aEk6ITA0KueW6nkB-lzIsw
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mlmp08 posted:Omni Air spotted. (curls into a ball remembering so many extremely boring CAT-B and EML flights on World Airways, and American Trans Air in the early 90s) Omni Air evidently started in 1993 so I never had the "pleasure" of flying the barely adequate skies with them.
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My most recent Omni Air experience was that while there’s zero entertainment, everyone knows that and brings their own. And they feed you an absurd number of times and amount until you’re just refusing entire meals.
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mlmp08 posted:My most recent Omni Air experience was that while there’s zero entertainment, everyone knows that and brings their own. So it's grandma's house: The Airline.
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If they keep feeding you how do you find some calm to sleep through the flight?
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M_Gargantua posted:If they keep feeding you how do you find some calm to sleep through the flight? With the Ambien you snag from the battalion PA, duh?
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are we training ukrainians in Oklahoma to insure they don't try to stay
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:Someone in the gbs weed thread just turned 30 the other day. There are a few 20 year old goons. Pretty sure there aren't any younger than that though. I wonder who the oldest active goon is. There was a guy in his 70s who used to post his adventures in crafting larger and larger bespoke big game cartridges and rifles for them in TFR, complete with 640x480 pictures, but I think he posts anymore.
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M_Gargantua posted:Thats why we I don’t think you’re actually allowed an open beer in gravel roads here though…
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:Someone in the gbs weed thread just turned 30 the other day. Imagine goons buying SA accounts for their kids 
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Wibla posted:Imagine goons buying SA accounts for their kids Already happened at least once.
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Midjack posted:Already happened at least once. I mean I don't want to throw around the term "bad parent" but...
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could be worse...could be a bad uncle...or great-cousin...Not that I would know...
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"you spent tenbuxx on something awful?!" "no dad it was fortnite skins" "oh thank God"
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What's the secret thing about tank armor? It generally seems to be sandwiches of steel / rubber / air, even absent supercomputers for modelling you should be able to send five guys into a field somewhere for a year and have them brute force make test arrays to be shot at and you'd expect them to come up with *something*. Is it just how you get the last 5% performance improvement that's super secret?
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aphid_licker posted:What's the secret thing about tank armor? It generally seems to be sandwiches of steel / rubber / air, even absent supercomputers for modelling you should be able to send five guys into a field somewhere for a year and have them brute force make test arrays to be shot at and you'd expect them to come up with *something*. Is it just how you get the last 5% performance improvement that's super secret? It's a composite armor, so there's a lot of research and engineering that goes into the materials and then the actual industrial process to produce it.
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aphid_licker posted:What's the secret thing about tank armor? It generally seems to be sandwiches of steel / rubber / air, even absent supercomputers for modelling you should be able to send five guys into a field somewhere for a year and have them brute force make test arrays to be shot at and you'd expect them to come up with *something*. Is it just how you get the last 5% performance improvement that's super secret? Metallurgy.
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aphid_licker posted:What's the secret thing about tank armor? It generally seems to be sandwiches of steel / rubber / air, even absent supercomputers for modelling you should be able to send five guys into a field somewhere for a year and have them brute force make test arrays to be shot at and you'd expect them to come up with *something*. Is it just how you get the last 5% performance improvement that's super secret? It's the same deal as all advanced military tech, the fact that the basic principles are things any modern university will have known about for the last 60 years is a very different thing to actually being able to do it, or being able to do it well. Nukes are the high profile example, but high performance jet engines are another one where the ability to actually build one is extremely limited worldwide. Also when we are talking about cooking up a special blend of high density materials then my limited understanding is that it isn't so much about the last 5% of performance so much as you either do it exactly right and produce a pristine product of magical strength, or you gently caress it up and have something that's basically pottery.
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Jimmy Smuts posted:You know what's fun? Working on a car that uses both Imperial and Metric. I always had to keep two sets of sockets on hand when working on my '80s Firebird. Is this the case with most US military vehicles? I'd imagine HMMWVs are like this since they seem to use a good amount of GM parts. My mom had an old Triumph that was a mix of Imperial, Metric, and Whitworth. Huge pain in the rear end to work on. Kazinsal posted:There are a few 20 year old goons. Pretty sure there aren't any younger than that though. There was a guy (Tokaii I think?) who was a cop in Chicago during the riots in 1968. He had some good stories.
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Itchy_Grundle posted:My mom had an old Triumph that was a mix of Imperial, Metric, and Whitworth. Huge pain in the rear end to work on. If i remember right he also infiltrated a kkk group back then, was interesting but i think he turned out  or similar.This was years ago and i don't have archives. 
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Just Another Lurker posted:i think he turned out Yikes. I wasn't aware of that.
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:Someone in the gbs weed thread just turned 30 the other day. HEY! I resemble(d) that remark! I only flew Omni twice (once there and back), and while I don't remember the food I do remember the flight attendants were cool as gently caress. It would never fly (no pun intended) with a normal airline, sadly. Godholio fucked around with this message at 14:21 on Jan 16, 2023 |
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Itchy_Grundle posted:There was a guy (Tokaii I think?) who was a cop in Chicago during the riots in 1968. He had some good stories. Just Another Lurker posted:If i remember right he also infiltrated a kkk group back then, was interesting but i think he turned out SAclopedia: https://forums.somethingawful.com/dictionary.php?act=3&topicid=2418 quote:Forums poster Tokaii is the oldest living goon, having been born on July 29, 1942. Tokaii is widely respected for being way more hip than our parents/grandparents. Apart from this, he may be best known for his goldmined thread on being a Chicago cop in the late 1960's: quote:There was a drama bomb in the ArchAge game thread about a member who was a known pedophile, whom the goon guild leaders did not kick out.
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Godholio posted:HEY! I resemble(d) that remark! Most of us did at one point. My 20 year forumsiversary is this July. I took a break and bought a new acct in '11, though.
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:Most of us did at one point. My 20 year forumsiversary is this July. I took a break and bought a new acct in '11, though. Holy poo poo I just checked and I've been on here for 20 years as of next month. Yes, I have grey in my beard,
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aphid_licker posted:What's the secret thing about tank armor? It generally seems to be sandwiches of steel / rubber / air, even absent supercomputers for modelling you should be able to send five guys into a field somewhere for a year and have them brute force make test arrays to be shot at and you'd expect them to come up with *something*. Is it just how you get the last 5% performance improvement that's super secret? What the other said but all specific attributes of almost anything that can defeat or mitigate a military thing just get classified on general principle. The specific manufacturing processes and materials and sizing and angle and etc… would all tell an opponent exactly what size penetrator to use at what distance(s) to overcome it making the armor less useful and reducing its value. Do the Russians have a pretty good idea of Chobam style armors performance? Of course, but they may not have exact data for that package on that tank and that lack of knowledge drives up their R&D costs and impacts their training and preparation. It’s all a big mind game.
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Xakura posted:... the correct info... Appreciate the information regarding this.  ---------------------------------------- Itchy_Grundle posted:Holy poo poo I just checked and I've been on here for 20 years as of next month. Pre-emptive anniversary salutations!  We're all grey down here.
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God ArchAge and BobFromMarketing just keeps on giving all these years later.
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Itchy_Grundle posted:Holy poo poo I just checked and I've been on here for 20 years as of next month. It’s been a wild ride.
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Itchy_Grundle posted:Holy poo poo I just checked and I've been on here for 20 years as of next month. My account turns 15 this year. If I still had my fb account, it’d be 19 this year 
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Just Another Lurker posted:If i remember right he also infiltrated a kkk group back then, was interesting but i think he turned out Oh yeah his stories of being a cop in the 60s were fascinating, like how many cops with seniority were expected to nap in their cars during shifts. Or when he was infiltrating anti-civil rights groups that went to civil rights marches he noted he was probably the only goon who had thrown a rock towards (intentionally missing)MLK Jr. to maintain his cover.
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Diving into SAclopedia is such an interesting reminder of how things have changed around here. Especially any topic that's mostly got comments on it from the 00's
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If you think about it, the $10 I spent on my account in 2009 is worth $13.93 in today’s money, so those kids are getting a bargain.
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FrozenVent posted:If you think about it, the $10 I spent on my account in 2009 is worth $13.93 in today’s money, so those kids are getting a bargain. That $10 investment directly saved my sanity and possibly my life, so it's a pretty decent ROI when you think about it
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Taerkar posted:Diving into SAclopedia is such an interesting reminder of how things have changed around here. Especially any topic that's mostly got comments on it from the 00's I understand and appreciate classics like Groverhaus but never figured out p-p-PowerBook, I get what happened but trying to read the thread from the start it didn’t click why it was legendary. Guess you had to be reading as it happened. Comrade Blyatlov posted:That $10 investment directly saved my sanity and possibly my life, so it's a pretty decent ROI when you think about it That’s good, I don’t have anything as drastic but it has helped me find many good books and podcasts.
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Hyrax Attack! posted:I understand and appreciate classics like Groverhaus but never figured out p-p-PowerBook, I get what happened but trying to read the thread from the start it didn’t click why it was legendary. Guess you had to be reading as it happened. It was amazing to read as it was happening. Probably a series of deadlinked photos now that brings it down. Groverhaus wasn't as great at the time, then someone found the sesame street grover gif. And someone made this: 
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