Son of Thunderbeast posted:

Not gonna lie, I'd love to see Cumberbatch try to pull off a convincing Butt-head. Really put those acting chops to the test.

Son of Thunderbeast posted:

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Knormal posted:

I'm glad they added the little sprig of mint, so it looks classy.

Yoshi Wins posted:

Are there... voids that are not empty?

http://www.sciforums.com/threads/vacuum-pockets-and-safety-nazis.41446/ posted:

Oh, boy.

Now I have to explain the absolute Greatest Moment in Wacked Out Real Science.


Couple years ago, some people I worked with finally completed a long-delayed
project to build a very large vacuum chamber for testing plasma thrusters and
other advanced spacecraft propulsion systems. Not the biggest in the business,
but maybe top ten nationwide. Big enough to walk around inside, at any rate,
which is the important point.

Important, because in order to go operational it needed the approval of the
local Safety Nazis. You know the type. They have a checklist, nay, a whole
handbook of checklists, one of which involves Confined Spaces. Big enough
to walk around in? Check. Airtight? Check. Can be filled with asphyxiant
gas? Well, the MSDS for "Vacuum" apparently lists it as an "asphyxiant", so
check. It's a Confined Space, and so the Confined Space checklist must be
implemented.

Issue the first: How do they make certain nobody can accidentally walk in while
the chamber is full of that deadly asphyxiant, "vacuum"? No, the fifty *tons*
of force holding the door closed, is not an acceptable answer.

Issue the second: When the chamber is vented back to full atmospheric pressure,
where does the vacuum go? If the chamber were accidentally vented by opening
the door (see above, and note exact Safety Nazi quote, "OK, say if you were
Superman and you opened the door"), where would the vacuum go?

Issue the third: What assurance is there, that when the chamber is vented back
to full atmosphere, there is an adequate percentage of oxygen in the chamber?
Hint: It is a big, big, big mistake here to acknowledge here that the laws of
statistical gas dynamics allow for one chance in 10^10^17 (no typo) that the
chamber will spontaneously refill with a sufficiently oxygen-poor atmosphere
to preclude respiration.

Issue the forth, and so help me God I am not making this up, again an exact
Safety Nazi quote, "How can you be sure there won't be vacuum pockets left
in the chamber, that someone could accidentally stick their head into?"

And, coupled with issue #2, there could be deadly vacuum pockets floating
around the lab! Aieeee!!!! Run for your lives!

It only took three weeks to find someone with the common sense and the real
authority to overrule the Safety Nazis on this one, and the SNs still take
offense if anyone brings it up in their presence.

Vacuum pockets.

Platystemon posted:

There are voids that contain entire galaxies. Multiple galaxies.

We’re living in one.

quote:

The KBC Void (or Local Hole)...

3D Megadoodoo posted:

Gives it a pastoral air.

Kheldarn posted:

Platystemon posted:

Sensors show possible Loss.jpg

biracial bear for uncut posted:

https://i.imgur.com/Tld48Rk.mp4

biracial bear for uncut posted:

https://i.imgur.com/Tld48Rk.mp4

Flint_Paper posted:

Pictured: me, after having precisely one (1) cup of coffee while on SSRIs

Lobok posted:

All the faces are drawn like B^ewe

biracial bear for uncut posted:

https://i.imgur.com/Tld48Rk.mp4

Lobok posted:

The trailer for Stephen King's Dreamcatcher.

biracial bear for uncut posted:

https://i.imgur.com/Tld48Rk.mp4

biracial bear for uncut posted:

https://i.imgur.com/Tld48Rk.mp4

biracial bear for uncut posted:

https://i.imgur.com/Tld48Rk.mp4

Beachcomber posted:

I went to the emergency room for extreme stomach pain. About 3 hours in, I suddenly need to go and the nurse cannot get the portable toilet they want me to use. Finally, I can't take it any more and let them know it's coming and I can't stop it so they whisk me to the bathroom and as the door closes my butt decides to paint the toilet, sink, and 3 of the walls as I'm whipping around to get my butt on the seat.

I honestly didn't think projectile defecation was possible.

Aggro posted:

In case anyone was wondering where this is from, it's apparently this video. The creator made a bunch of shorts that revolve around catastrophic pooping.

biracial bear for uncut posted:

https://i.imgur.com/Tld48Rk.mp4

Dixville posted:

One time i got cryptosporidium parvum and I had explosive diarrhea and vomited at the same time. Not fun. Almost went to the hospital but i eventually managed to keep some meds down and get through it.

Captain Splendid posted:

Blue Footed Booby posted:

I had food poisoning or stomach flu or something in college and I'm really glad I had the foresight to bring my room's trash can into the stall with me because holy poo poo. I got so dehydrated I couldn't produce any more material and had to pay a neighbor to go buy some jello and sports drinks and stuff. It was the first time I truly, viscerally understood what my Oregon Trail families had gone through.

biracial bear for uncut posted:

https://i.imgur.com/Tld48Rk.mp4

Dixville posted:

For more context

Edit i need that loving mug

Captain Splendid posted:

Blue Footed Booby posted:

I had food poisoning or stomach flu or something in college and I'm really glad I had the foresight to bring my room's trash can into the stall with me because holy poo poo. I got so dehydrated I couldn't produce any more material and had to pay a neighbor to go buy some jello and sports drinks and stuff. It was the first time I truly, viscerally understood what my Oregon Trail families had gone through.