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Madurai posted:Datapoint: the Philippine Navy lost a hydrofoil patrol boat when it struck a basking shark. I have to imagine the wreck looked like a stunt from the A-Team but, you know, on water.
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Madurai posted:Datapoint: the Philippine Navy lost a hydrofoil patrol boat when it struck a basking shark. Poor shark 
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Aug 31, 2023 07:30
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The Philippine navy became real hacks after that incident
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Aug 31, 2023 07:38
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let he who has not sunk a hydrofoil on a basking shark cast the first stone
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Aug 31, 2023 08:28
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At least they didn’t jump the shark
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https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1697153525019467967quote:Girkin strikes back! Announces presidential candidacy! A moderately funny read for anyone who is an afficionado of Girkin's depressive rants.
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Aug 31, 2023 09:10
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putin will make an attempt on his life which will make all his hair fall out leading to a dilemma does he let everyone laugh at him or does he kill him for looking like him
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Aug 31, 2023 09:33
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Alan Smithee posted:putin will make an attempt on his life which will make all his hair fall out leading to a dilemma Russian leaders have followed a pattern unto antiquity that each successive leader had or does not have hair. Putin is balding, so the replacement will have a thick head of hair.
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goatsestretchgoals posted:Gonna laugh if they somehow managed to make a sick rear end ramp for the next explosive boat. 
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Aug 31, 2023 15:04
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Theres rather graphic video of 2 Ukranians doing an ambush, then another, then another. All filmed clearly from a drone overhead. The 2 Ukranians are in a small fox hole with some concealment and 2 Russians setup around 10 yards infront of them into another scrape/hole with their backs exposed. They had no idea the Ukranians were there and are shot. Then 2 more Russians come along and see the 2 dead Russians, and are also shot. Then 3 more Russians come along and see the 4 dead Russians, and are also shot. Really shows the benefit of concealment.
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Aug 31, 2023 15:26
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this seems like one of those word problems that make the news because a parent complained about their kid's math homework
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Baconroll posted:Really shows the benefit of concealment.
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Aug 31, 2023 15:52
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Baconroll posted:Theres rather graphic video of 2 Ukranians doing an ambush, then another, then another. All filmed clearly from a drone overhead. this reads like one of those real life examples you get told in workplace safety courses "x person was driving their truck, they hit a big pothole and it broke containment, the driver didn't think to put on any PPE before checking and passed out while checking. Their partner went to check on them and passed out, they both died" complacency (and severe lack of situational awareness) kills
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Aug 31, 2023 16:15
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... I half-expect this to be attempted by Ukranians with some cobbled together parts and use it to successfully sink a guided missile frigate.
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GD_American posted:this seems like one of those word problems that make the news because a parent complained about their kid's math homework Johnny has a fighting position and two dead Russian troops. Five more troops are coming, how many dead Russians will Johnny have?
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Aug 31, 2023 16:35
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It's the oldest trick in the book to play on poorly trained, poorly lead, and overall disorganized troops. Shoot one or two guys from a well concealed position, let more enemies try recovering the injured/dead, shoot them, wait for more people to filter in; rinse and repeat as needed I know video games aren't real life, but play any "realistic" combat game and you can have the pleasure of watching this phenomenon yourself. An entire team will sometimes take up positions on top of the corpses of their teammates in an attempt to kill whatever had killed their teammates, without realizing that they're now becoming ducks in a shooting gallery
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Aug 31, 2023 16:40
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This is art. I love a good pixel drawing.
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https://www.kyivpost.com/post/21123quote:There Are Still Buses From Kyiv to Moscow – and Ukrainians Are Still Using Them Do you think the SBU saboteurs just take a loving bus across the border, blow poo poo up, and then head back the next day.
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PurpleXVI posted:https://www.kyivpost.com/post/21123 glory to Arstotzka
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Baconroll posted:Theres rather graphic video of 2 Ukranians doing an ambush, then another, then another. All filmed clearly from a drone overhead. The Navy used to (and still might) send out a Safety Gram every week of what got hosed in the Fleet, unofficial title. My favorite was always the Pile of Bodies at the Bottom of the Ladder. Someone would go down into a confined space that wasn't properly shown to be Gas Free and then pass out and well, before you knew it there was a pile of unconscious squids.
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PurpleXVI posted:https://www.kyivpost.com/post/21123 I'm glad they're using public transit.
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Baconroll posted:Theres rather graphic video of 2 Ukranians doing an ambush, then another, then another. All filmed clearly from a drone overhead. In other news, Ukrainian partisans were able to remove all the good guns from a Russian Armory by putting a bucket over the shop keeper's head first.
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Flyinglemur posted:The Navy used to (and still might) send out a Safety Gram every week of what got hosed in the Fleet, unofficial title. My favorite was always the Pile of Bodies at the Bottom of the Ladder. Someone would go down into a confined space that wasn't properly shown to be Gas Free and then pass out and well, before you knew it there was a pile of unconscious squids.  how is that still happening?And how is that a favorite? Fuuuck.
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Flyinglemur posted:The Navy used to (and still might) send out a Safety Gram every week of what got hosed in the Fleet, unofficial title. My favorite was always the Pile of Bodies at the Bottom of the Ladder. Someone would go down into a confined space that wasn't properly shown to be Gas Free and then pass out and well, before you knew it there was a pile of unconscious squids. Were any of them funny fuckups that just caused property damage or were they just horrible actual accidents that got people mangled/killed?
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Lol the Atma threads were pure gold, the Bob one was my favorite (some may require archives): Adventures of satan: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3581840 Hey, it's bob: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3591722 Endtimes: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3608584 M370: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3625112 Bendyman: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3646677 IS: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3664216 1848: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3735669 Corona: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3918458
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Hyrax Attack! posted:Lol the Atma threads were pure gold, the Bob one was my favorite (some may require archives): Jesus I haven't thought of these in a long time. I remember Atma saying they required a lot of prepared art with some educated guesses to be able to keep the thread going.. which also meant wasted effort because poo poo tended to go crazy.
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https://twitter.com/anno1540/status/1697240473025249451 If you recall the mass cardboard drone attack recently, here's footage of one being tested.
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Action-Bastard posted:https://twitter.com/anno1540/status/1697240473025249451 Gotte dang that's insane. This war is crazy, and there's a certain poetic justice in Ukraine developing a long range attack drone out of cardboard that's just as if not more effective than the pseudo-slave labour produced Shaheds that Russia is now making.
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Mederlock posted:Gotte dang that's insane. This war is crazy, and there's a certain poetic justice in Ukraine developing a long range attack drone out of cardboard that's just as if not more effective than the pseudo-slave labour produced Shaheds that Russia is now making. Iirc the drones originally came from an Australian company.
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Speaking of Ukrainian long range attack stuff, not sure if it's been mentioned here yet, but they made a version of their domestic Neptune(the one that sunk the Moskva) for land-attack purposes, which has a range of about 360km and has been used in some of the recent deep strikes we've been reading about.
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Mederlock posted:Gotte dang that's insane. This war is crazy, and there's a certain poetic justice in Ukraine developing a long range attack drone out of cardboard that's just as if not more effective than the pseudo-slave labour produced Shaheds that Russia is now making. The Russians imported technology from Iran and spent many Rubles setting up factories The Ukrainians used recycled Amazon packages
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PurpleXVI posted:Were any of them funny fuckups that just caused property damage or were they just horrible actual accidents that got people mangled/killed? It was actually written in humorous tones as long as no one died. Rarely where the bodies at the bottom of letter fatalities. Mostly just losing consciousness because of the gas. But it just happened so many times. So the actual fatalities were treated with respect and the message that whatever happened absolutely shouldn't happen, but the other safety violations were just people who made ridiculously dumb decisions most of the time.
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There's a well-known incident where a few people died trying to clean out a bilge, mainly because the first person to go in forgot that there's no air circulation in a bilge and it is basically all CO2 and other fun things, holy poo poo and they passed out within seconds of entering the confined space. One person tried to go in, but used the wrong kind of breathing apparatus and ran out of O2 before they could get the first person out. I think 3 or 4 people died/became brain dead before a proper rescue crew was assembled, it's hosed up
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Aces High posted:There's a well-known incident where a few people died trying to clean out a bilge, mainly because the first person to go in forgot that there's no air circulation in a bilge and it is basically all CO2 and other fun things, holy poo poo and they passed out within seconds of entering the confined space. One person tried to go in, but used the wrong kind of breathing apparatus and ran out of O2 before they could get the first person out. Don't google "potato cellar deaths".
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anchor chain lockers where all the oxygen has been converted into rust are a frequent killer on ships too
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Every year people die from asphyxiation in manure tanks and from trying to save people asphyxiating in manure gases.
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Dammit, spankmeister beat me to the manure tank. It's usually several people dying one after another too. Grain silos also kill a surprising number of people.
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Antigravitas posted:Grain silos also kill a surprising number of people. The scariest part of Quiet Place
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I didn't know about the chain locker thing, that's interesting. Makes a lot of sense but never gave it any thought
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