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RabbitWizard posted:I saw a documentation once about how old films taught how to react to a nuclear bomb. The slogan was "If you see the flash: duck and cover!". Under your table at school or next to a curbstone. So yeah, there sure was a time when no one knew how to react (not that you could in a useful way). If you survive the initial blast you can trudge around for a day or two and properly dispose of your less fortunate civilians. 
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sulphix posted:My high-school's library was rebuilt during the 70s in this style. Does not match any of the other school buildings around it and is known for being one of the ugliest structures in the town. I went to a junior college that was entirely brutalist, it was like that Seinfeld ep where Kramer wanted to make his apt. into levels but all concrete and on a much bigger scale. The best thing about that style is imagining nature retaking it after the collapse of society, which if you look for it you can find a lot of structures that already look like this. I'm phone posting or I'd offer examples.
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Oct 2, 2014 05:27
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Istari posted:My high school had a new building put in that was brutalist, and 1 storey taller than any other buildings in the school (most were single storey, only a couple were 2-storey). To make it look less harsh, they painted it purple and lime green. It was hideous. Cobra Commander will have words with you for breaking the purple wall. e: and a picture 
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Oct 2, 2014 06:54
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mind the walrus posted:I meant in the sense of like having one of the biggest upper limits for weight possible. My frame may be compact but it can only hold so much muscle, y'know? It's an ugly truth that when you're smaller, no matter how swole you are, you'll get wrecked by a bigger dude with a greater reach in the vast majority of cases no matter how well trained you are. We all love David vs. Goliath but the reality is that we love it because most of the time Goliath wins by a sizable margin. Shorter lifters have a huge advantage. At least starting out. If you're on the lanky side getting in to lifting is something of a mess.
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Oct 12, 2014 06:55
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mind the walrus posted:It's like y'all are wholly incapable of actually processing what I wrote. I know short guys have an advantage and I'm actually impressed to see how much that Ed Coan could lift, but that's not what I'm talking about-- I'm talking about the real upper limits of what's possible. Guys like Ed Coan may be great but they're also the exception due to the raw physics of taller-yet-still-reasonably-compact guys being able to put on more muscle fiber if both of them train equally well. Oh. Sorry I misunderstood. I have a complex.
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Tracula posted:Yeah, this. And Russia has had some even crazier tank prototype tanks than that picture, hence the question. After the resurgence of the orthodox church and homophobia they're mostly strapping heebie-gbs to the front of their tanks.
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Nov 3, 2014 00:07
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Dear Prudence posted:
That's what I thought. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmzsTOMMYFg He totally did though.
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Nov 17, 2014 10:47
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Buttonhead posted:Looks like she was killed by Goldfinger's younger, poorer brother, Concretefinger. Haha. That or Carbonitefinger.
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Nov 25, 2014 05:55
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IslamoNazi posted:This flip is amazing. If it was in a movie it would ruin the immersion for being too impossible. I know Kung Fu *cue Juno Reactor*
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El Cid posted:Which episode of South Park is this from? The one where Terrence and Phillip get locked up in GitMo and the Canadian Air Force makes a show of force with their one plane (made out of an old Quonset hut) and gets blamed when a responding wing of Raptors gets blown out of the sky by a heavy mist. e: it's probably telling that there is Canadian mist in this post because I want it to be later than it is
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Mar 6, 2015 23:11
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blunt for century posted:Or between a sculptor and an architect. The architect has to worry about everything staying load-bearing, or else people will accidentally die Best of both worlds here.  Also this one. 
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Memento posted:There's a really simply explanation for this that doesn't involve bullets colliding in mid-air. The bullet that has been penetrated has never been fired - there's no marks along the length of it that they get from being crammed through a barrel that's not quite big enough at very high pressure. So it would have probably been in someone's pocket in a clip, and saved their life when it got in the way. Still bad-rear end. I can see that. The one doing the penetrating was briefly heated in the barrel and has all kinds of carbon baked onto it that prevented it from oxidizing so badly? Perhaps? I am not a bullet scientist.
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May 3, 2015 01:04
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Nordick posted:Wait, seriously? gently caress, here I've lived my whole life thinking they're actual literal super heroes. Everything I believe in is a lie! It's a proper name.
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May 11, 2015 02:53
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Calaveron posted:Seanbaby put it best: Seanbaby was a treasure of the web 1.0 Also, iirc the guy Uwe Boll didn't have the balls to gently caress with. Beat up Lowtax and then loving duck out when a funny man who actually knows how to fight challenges you. Talentless German coward.
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May 12, 2015 05:58
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Frostwerks posted:Don't sign your posts. What size is your party hat?
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May 12, 2015 06:23
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:A snake catches a baby rabbit, momma rabbit comes flying outta nowhere and goes all Bruce Lee on its rear end There is no conclusion. Does the rabbit kill the snake? Does the baby rabbit die? I hope the rabbit kicked its guts out but poo poo
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Jun 22, 2015 09:40
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mind the walrus posted:The Chive manages to smell like a gym sock in a Buffalo Wild Wings through visuals alone, an impressive feat The best thing is the local late night advertising for unofficial Chive chapters.  I don't honestly know how or why this is possible.
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Jun 30, 2015 06:04
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VendaGoat posted:Dude! The air and space museum put in new things? I'm kind of concerned about the juxtaposition of that rad sled and a dirty communist fuel tank or whatever that is.
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Nov 2, 2015 02:39
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ajheretic666 posted:Looks to be the display commemorating the Apollo/Soyuz Test Project, which itself was pretty badass. US/Soviet co-operation in space while the Cold War was still going on. Okay, yeah that qualifies as badass. My bad.
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Nov 2, 2015 03:16
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Ozz81 posted:More A real human being, and a real hero
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Nov 3, 2015 02:08
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Minarch posted:seems pretty irresponsible to show people how to fire those guns imo. What if some nutjob uses one to shoot up a school? Given the mentality of an average school shooter they'd ram too many bags of propellant in and blow themselves into a fine pink mist.
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Nov 5, 2015 01:18
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Whoa Wanna see a cat go in one of those.
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dpack_1 posted:Serious question / thought i just had. Steel is plenty flexible. Skyscrapers sway in the wind for example.
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Not to speak ill of the dead but does anyone have a coherent picture of how Yelchin died? That press release was hard to parse. Vehicular exhaustion?
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chitoryu12 posted:His brick mailbox, actually. That's terrible, his agent should have just said as much though. Sounded like he'd done something awful.
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Kaskadan posted:There is not enough love for this. Let me get a pen and that napkin. We can do the math on this.
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Jun 24, 2016 04:21
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VanSandman posted:I see why people used to worship volcanoes as god when I see pictures like this. Remember that time a kid fell in and the next day it stopped? Because that flaming murder hole is back on and I have an idea.
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SneakyFrog posted:Commander Piper Orange is the New Bark
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mind the walrus posted:Aw he's gonna die in his 30s-40s isn't he? I hope he's drinking at young Andre levels at least. That might slow down the growth or at least make it fun. quote:"He has ADHD and intermediate explosive disorder. When he gets mad, he's mad," said his mum. preview edit: do not give this lad alcohol unless he is surrounded by beefy roid head wrasslers he can use as toys
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Memento posted:There really is a long and storied tradition of claiming things are Australian when they have any tenuous link to us at all. But we'll flip flop on it in a heartbeat - Russell Crowe is 100% Australian when he's winning Oscars, but when he's throwing phones at hotel staff, nahh, he's a Kiwi. You still get Mel, birthplace be damned
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This is super funny if you've ever had a MMA dude demonstrate a full nelson on you but didn't know to tap out because you weren't into that poo poo.
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cnut posted:Anybody know where this is? Pretty badass! I'm just going to go off the cuff with what I learned from the history channel before they became the hitler channel and then the dumb idiot channel but; It's a fortification (probably NA, civil war era or maybe even revolutionary era) and the pointy bits are an attempt to use geometry to deflect cannon shots. Pretty futile in the end but it works in theory. All the history nerds dogpile me now with theh specifics (please)
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sneakyfrog posted:it was a where question as opposed to what friend Yeah I clicked on the link above my post and yeah. HOWEVER, that kind of architecture is really cool and interesting. Whether it's bad-rear end or not is debatable because the bomb-making fellas kind of outdid the fortification guys.
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ultrafilter posted:There's a certain asymmetry in that particular competition. Reading about the endgame of the fortifications in Colorado or wherever that you see in War Games or Stargate and the Russian nuke targets (which may or may not have ended up where they wanted but different debate v0v) you'd want to be on Air Force One rather than trying to hide under some dirt.
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Dienes posted:I thought it was less about deflecting incoming fire and more about the radial points allowing the fort to fire anywhere in the area surrounding the fort. I started reading the link to the actual structure in that picture and it looked like it was that and having non-perpendicular walls that would deflect vertically as well as the layout catching a few just from the sharp edges. Either way the geometry didn't change the fact that cannons could take a part a building designed to be secure from archers and rams and maybe a trebuchet that would catch fire after siege day 3 somehow. And when you get a series of ICBMs hitting one spot on the globe over and over again well
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Jerry Cotton posted:Just out of curiosity, whatever made you think it was from North America? I don't see anything particularly American about it. In the civil war or the revolution they had pointy fortresses. One of the more interesting facts about the forts was that the sleeping spaces seemed short to modern tourists. People were afraid to sleep lying down in one of those old forts because being horizontal was anathema, somehow. Aaaaand I can kind of identify with that supposition but it's funny that our historical misconceptions extend to "people were hella short back then" "something something display armor something" ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJMtGhqPCW0
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NLJP posted:Star forts: when mathemagicians rules the battlefield It's funny because they didn't They got owned by a European Jew physicist Eventually, I mean not immediately or directly It wasn't what he intended but eh
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sneakyfrog posted:
totes there is a better pet though https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dw9AwaJaVGU syscall girl has a new favorite as of 23:19 on May 19, 2017 |
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good boy.