Solice Kirsk posted:

The gently caress? How the hell fast was he going?

calvus posted:

Is that real? Why don't more people do that?

Lime Tonics posted:

"Hes alive, broke his back in 2 spots, broke both legs, and shattered his face, but hes great. Walking and talking. Dudes a champ!!! This video was from last year. I didn't post it until I knew he was ok."

Check your zipline speeds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaX_XktU34Y

YF19pilot posted:

He was questioning the use of two different metals for the electrodes, and I believe the reason for this is to create that oxidization effect you see in the two glasses of water. Basically, using the dissimilar metals on those poles, in any kind of un-pure water would cause rapid oxidization of the iron/steel based rod, which is why he mentioned distilled water. So, to make a glass appear clear, you either have to somehow disable one set of electrodes or use purified water. Though I could be wrong, it's been ages since I took materials class and why metals rust.

dis astranagant posted:

You can barely see it but there's some thin netting as the only thing remotely resembling a safety feature.

`Nemesis posted:

http://i.imgur.com/hxYptlW.gifv

Blistex posted:

You want nuclear waste to be touched by absolutely nobody for the rest of all time? Bury it 50 feet underground where there are no natural resources at all. I'm talking about in the middle of the most useless, burned out, patch of worthless desert in the US. Now who the hell is going to bother to exert the effort to dig 50 feet down in an area where they know they are going to get nothing useful and it's uncomfortable to work in? Nobody. The only way someone will find it is if they are walking around with some sort of device that detects radiation, and when they find it they will say, "oh, there are trace amounts of radiation that are 400 times background levels. . . better move along".

Putting some sort of a marker near nuclear waste is the absolutely worst thing you could ever do, as you are literally marking the location and creating interest in the site.

zedprime posted:

Yeah, sure, you just happened to slip onto that dowel.

ranbo das posted:

Googled mosquito hawk and I have no idea why you'd let those things live

Randyslawterhouse posted:

Christ

What if he hadn't had a knife? Do you reckon you could kill a sleeping bear with your bare hands?!

BlankIsBeautiful posted:

SynthOrange posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kVhurg5b9U

VectorSigma posted:

haha it's even got the little old lady slowly shuffling for her life

Powered Descent posted:

Translation please? I don't speak Army.

Bistromatic posted:

Generally everything related to military rocketry is bad news for your health, even if it's not a missile being fired at your wedding. For the Titan II specifically, both the fuel (hydrazine) and the oxidizer (N2O4) are toxic as well as corrosive.

chitoryu12 posted:

How expensive is mercury? Because 250 lbs sounds pretty drat costly.

Darkman Fanpage posted:

could have been worse. the chinese once bombed one of their own villages after a rocket failed in 1996. officially it killed 6 but since it's the chinese government and they lie about everything the death toll was probably much higher.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelsat_708

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOtSwQkybVw

warning for loud chinese yelling when poo poo goes down.

the chinese also have a habit of dropping rocket parts over their own territory and sickening villagers foolish enough to get too close to the debris. rocket fuel is not something you want to breath.

qkkl posted:

Nah, modern ICBMs use solid propellants, which are pretty safe. They stopped using the hypergolic ones cause they eroded the tanks when stored for too long. I still find it pretty funny that the Space Shuttle had no launch escape system. Spend billions of dollars on your next-gen manned space vehicle, but make it so the crew is guaranteed to die if the bomb they are riding on happens to blow up.

KoRMaK posted:

please please please cite a source on this - I want to be able to share it

quote:

When a mock attack at the guard gate at Area 51 occurred, in 1982, test flights of the F‑117 - which only ever happened at night - were already in full swing. For some weeks, a debate raged as to how an act of idiocy by a small group of Wackenhut Security guards nearly outed a billion-dollar aircraft as well as two top secret military test facilities that had remained secret for thirty years.

CannonFodder posted:

Also there's the issue of funding. Anything more than 2 guys in a pickup truck will need allocation of taxpayer funds and we are never ever allowed to increase taxes unless you are from communist poo poo hole like California.

VectorSigma posted:

why don't they look?

chitoryu12 posted:

I'm kind of intrigued as to what the OD symptoms are.

Olothreutes posted:

Their sanity is the limiting factor on deployment length as it is.

Gumbel2Gumbel posted:

So I started working at a new place. I cannot get everyone to stop climbing up the wooden rungs on the carpet sample wall that's like 25 feet high over a hardwood floor. So they're grabbing onto a wooden rung that has a carpet sample draped over it and putting their feet onto a rung with a carpet sample draped over it. Also I'm not worried about repercussions because they do this poo poo IN FRONT OF CUSTOMERS.

This happens multiple times a day. Does anyone have any applicable laws or maybe a link to some facts about fall injuries? Because I know if someone falls down and hurts themselves the company's going to go "welp, we had ladders there, you're screwed."

Sentient Data posted:

What the gently caress, root canals on teeth that they know will be temporary?

coupbrick posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hedLTEbhjJ0

Mozi posted:

Why do I get the sense that they don't really have any idea of what to do?

The Glumslinger posted:

I mean Jerry Brown has been working for several years to get a major reworking of the dam and levee system, but he has had to fight farming interests tooth and nail because it means that they wont be able to waste as much water on crops not suited for the region

FMguru posted:

Not tonight it isn't...

Ramadu posted:

SO heres the funniest thing about the Governator. He's a republican because when he came to america in the 70s one of the first things he saw on TV was a speech by Nixon. That's why he's a republican, though he's pretty much a RINO at this point like so many others.

Bloody Hedgehog posted:

I mean, yeah, the problem with americas crumbling infrastructure isn't for lack if it being inspected. All of it gets inspected to hell and back, it just that once the reports are turned in, the beancounters go "Sorry, no money.", and poo poo is left to rot.

We joke in this thread about "it ain't worth fixing until somebody dies", but that is literally americas policy these days on infrastructure spending. "Oh, it could go bad in the future? gently caress it, it's the present, not my problem or my money."