OSHA: definitely bent in the straight places

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Jerry Cotton posted:

I remember reading about a lot of accidental ejections during my lifetime. I wonder if, with modern military planes, more have crashed due to the pilot accidentally launching themselves into orbit than due to having been shot down?

One of the handful of incidents with the early JAS-39 Gripen was due to the design of the ejection handle. It's located between the legs of the pilot, and on early models the handle was too short and the pilot's legs would press against it. During a high-G maneuver the pilot's legs got pushed up against the handle and he accidentally ejected from the plane.

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# ¿ May 22, 2024 16:41

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What exactly was the plan here?

# ¿ Jul 12, 2016 09:13

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DOOP posted:

what is this?

The entrance to Rapture.

# ¿ Jul 25, 2016 01:10

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ChesterJT posted:

Help! Not just anybody!

Help! You know I need someone!

# ¿ Jul 25, 2016 11:02

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Amazing. Turn by turn GPS navigators has been around for what, almost ten years now, and people still haven't learned not to take the instructions literally.

# ¿ Jul 29, 2016 16:13

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Is there anything in Japan you can't get out of a vending machine?

# ¿ Jul 31, 2016 13:25

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wjs5 posted:

Trucking thread you say? Have I got something for you.

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3564295&pagenumber=1

The thread hasn't been the same since nutcup stopped posting

# ¿ Aug 5, 2016 18:15

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Buhbuhj posted:

Somehow he got sucked into the bypass and not the intake itself. That dude should have bought a lotto ticket that day.

There was a longer video with an interview with the guy posted earlier. Basically his helmet saved him. He got stuck in the intake duct long enough that his helmet (which got pulled off his head) destroyed the engine and it stopped before it could pull him through the duct.

He walked away with a broken arm, a whole lot of bruises and some seriously brown pants.

# ¿ Aug 15, 2016 11:17

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That can't have ended well

# ¿ Aug 16, 2016 10:29

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Rah! posted:

The skydivers were fine, one plane landed like normal, and the plane that lost a wing deployed a parachute and made it to the ground safely as well.

I had no idea plane parachutes were a thing. I've learned something today!

# ¿ Aug 16, 2016 12:19

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haveblue posted:

Why do those things even have manual brakes? Why aren't they designed like roller coasters where the ride runs itself and the operators enforce spacing?

Or just space them so that even if you're going full tilt you're not likely to catch up with even the slowest of riders.

# ¿ Aug 17, 2016 17:29

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GenericOverusedName posted:

It's like setting things on fire, you can set ~~almost~~ anything on fire if you ~~try hard enough~~ have a strong enough oxidizer

# ¿ Aug 21, 2016 16:59

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Michaeldim posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08LOlZR4UN8

What people always forget is that it's not a lack of oxygen that gives you the "I need air" feeling, it's an excess of carbon dioxide.

So when you just displace the oxygen with another gas you don't get the sensation of suffocating and you think you're fine until you suddenly black out.

# ¿ Aug 23, 2016 10:24

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Mithaldu posted:

http://www.bedfordshire-news.co.uk/...tail/story.html

That site has a banner redirecting you to a virus app if you visit it on mobile, fyi.

Google hurry up and bring extension support to mobile Chrome already so we can have adblock on Android.

# ¿ Aug 24, 2016 14:43

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Obviously jumping into a toilet was still not the biggest mistake of his life.

# ¿ Aug 27, 2016 13:15

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Don't do it while pointing the gun at yourself?

# ¿ Sep 9, 2016 10:45

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I can't really tell from the stamp sized video, but if it's a semiauto pistol he could just remove the magazine and rack the slide and the chambered round will be extracted.

If it's a revolver (unlikely) you can't open the cylinder with the hammer cocked. The safest way is to jam a pen or something between the hammer and frame for safety, then pull the trigger while holding the hammer back with your thumb. Release the trigger, remove the pen and carefully lower the hammer.

# ¿ Sep 9, 2016 11:08

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Guyver posted:

It's a revolver. Here's a video.

Ah right, I didn't think a lot of professionals used revolvers any more.

So then he's just an idiot for pointing it at his leg while trying to decock it. Decocking a revolver is risky and you really shouldn't cock it in the first place unless you intend to fire.

# ¿ Sep 9, 2016 17:23

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Effective-Disorder posted:

I'm the guy who sees the cloud of flour coming and decides to calmly walk the other way.

# ¿ Sep 12, 2016 08:38

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John Denver Hoxha posted:

with all the improvements in armament technology and bombers and artillery, sometimes the most horrifying thing to think about from the world war was the simple ways that you could die without even expecting it.

Like it's grim when you see the (brilliant, simple) wire cutters added on the fronts of jeeps, but then you think of why they put it on... oof, just to be riding along a quite road with your windshield down and then whack
(and the danger is relevant, always have to know any trail you intend to speed down)

The worst thing is that there are shitheads who do this on bike trails nowadays.

# ¿ Sep 15, 2016 09:26

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They ran out of straight pipe so they had to make do with what they had.

# ¿ Sep 18, 2016 00:55

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Hyperlynx posted:

hopefully there isn't a ~~raging underground river~~ burst water main about to burst through and completely gently caress up the road, or something.

Probably is a burst main and there's probably going to be some severe undermining of that road by the time you can see the water push its way up through the surface.

# ¿ Sep 26, 2016 11:39

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Ema Nymton posted:

It's also a fake toilet build of some sort, so he's probably going to re-collect all the mercury. Some in his bloodstream.

I think your muncipality's water company would take a rather dim view of someone actually flushing large amounts of elemental mercury into the sewers.

# ¿ Sep 28, 2016 23:46

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SelenicMartian posted:

And one day the fuel spills out and all over the plane and catches on fire.
And the pilot discovers the ejection seat doesn't work and he has to remove the canopy and crawl out at several hundred knots.
And then the pilot discovers the parachute doesn't open, so he has to fall several thousand meters into the sea.
And then the pilot survives the impact - partly because he had his spleen removed a few years earlier.

https://uss-la-ca135.org/60/1960Judkins-Knott.html

Crusader.txt

Wikipedia posted:

In all, 1,261 Crusaders were built. By the time it was withdrawn from the fleet, 1,106 had been involved in mishaps.

# ¿ Sep 30, 2016 11:19

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I thought parachutes had quick releases specifically for that reason though, or maybe they didn't in the 60/70s?

# ¿ Sep 30, 2016 13:17

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He's surprisingly calm for just having been mauled by a bear. Adrenaline is a hell of a drug.

# ¿ Oct 3, 2016 13:40

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moist turtleneck posted:

I really thought that was bamboo at first

It is. Bamboo scaffolding is still commonly used in asia.

# ¿ Oct 6, 2016 16:26

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Multi-lane roundabouts are fine except when there's that one idiot who doesn't know how to use it and stays in the rightmost lane even when he's going left.

Also roundabouts with traffic lights at the exits, gently caress those.

# ¿ Oct 7, 2016 09:40

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Platystemon posted:

Don't remember if I posted this before or not.

# ¿ Oct 8, 2016 15:24

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Bloody Hedgehog posted:

Is that a full road-worthiness check, or just emissions?

We used to have an emissions check here in British Columbia, but they recently got rid of it because there aren't enough old, polluting cars on the road to make it worthwhile to fund the program.

Can't speak for Germany, but in Sweden we have annual car inspections, including roadworthiness.

Things that will fail you:
* Structural frame rust.
* Non-functioning lights, signals or horn.
* Misaligned headlights.
* Oil leakage.
* Broken parking brake. If you have an automatic transmission, the P position has to lock the wheels as well.
* Damaged or bald tires (less than 1.6mm tread)
* Broken speedo.
* Weak brakes.
* Exhaust sound level and emissions.
* Suspension issues that cause unsafe handling
And in general not conforming to vehicle safety laws.

For most of the things you get a grace period of a few months to fix it and come back, but if you have a seriously dangerous issue the vehicle gets taken off the road immediately.

# ¿ Oct 10, 2016 10:27

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Clayton Bigsby posted:

Emissions I agree with, but have you seen the inspection place actually crack down on sound level? I never see them measure it when I take my cars in, and I am preeeeetty sure my 928 is nowhere near appropriate sound levels with the current exhaust setup. (OTOH, they probably only see that 928 so have nothing to compare to...)

I've never heard anyone get failed on sound level, but I guess if you're driving around with a hole in your muffler they'll notice.

# ¿ Oct 10, 2016 22:42

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Or just have a bird net on the hopper?

Rah! posted:

That's one way to do the ice bucket challenge. :v:

# ¿ Oct 12, 2016 12:04

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moist turtleneck posted:

I know bumpers are more pedestrian friendly now but that's just ridiculous

The latest in pedestrian protection.

# ¿ Oct 14, 2016 00:22

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Almost all pumps here are self serve and have credit card readers. So I can roll up on the bike, not have to remove my helmet, pop my card into the machine, fill up, take my card and be out of there all in 2-3 minutes.

# ¿ Oct 21, 2016 14:09

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Platystemon posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wYyiD_5SGQ

Missed opportunity to name it The Whiplash Machine

# ¿ Oct 24, 2016 12:00

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I find it strange that the ride wouldn't have a system to detect a stuck carriage. It sounds like the occupied carriage wasn't moving very fast and if the conveyor hadn't kept pushing it would just have stopped.

# ¿ Oct 25, 2016 15:34

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Jerry Cotton posted:

Let's face it: people are too stupid to discern how to use a simple cross intersection. That's why traffic circles are safer.

A roundabout also provides a natural obstacle that forces people to slow down, so much lower risk of some idiot gunning it through to beat the red light.

# ¿ Oct 26, 2016 10:27

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Humphreys posted:

I have a few double lane roundabouts on my daily commute. Traffic moves through them much quicker than the set of lights I have to wait at. Although they can be road-rage inducing if the person in front of you don't know how they work and will stop in the outside approach lane cos someone is on the inside lane. If idiots aren't in the way, it's maybe 10 seconds of my trip and a 5 way intersection behind me.

Yeah that's half the point of them. Even if you have to slow down for a roundabout, traffic flows better from all directions because you rarely need to stop. Unlike a light controlled intersection where at least half the flow is forced to stop at any given time.

Platystemon posted:

I don�t care if �traffic circle� is used as a synonym for roundabouts, but actual traffic circles, where there are lights controlling the entrances/exits, are turbo dumb.

Yeah, some times planning offices go full retard and put traffic lights at roundabouts. My favorite piece of "what the gently caress" is this one in my city, which has a traffic light controlled pedestrian crossing at the exit of the roundabout, placed so that even if only one car needs to stop it blocks a whole lane of the roundabout. :downsbravo:

https://goo.gl/maps/pyQhPyR6Kqu

# ¿ Oct 26, 2016 12:36

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Mithaldu posted:

And even if doesn't actually slice you, when it has enough pressure to puncture your skin, it'll shred what's below that WHILE also delivering a lot of poo poo into your body that you don't wanna have there. Don't google injection injuries.

And you don't even need to be in any exotic environment to risk such injuries. If you have a car or truck with a common-rail fuel injected engine you already have a system containing fluids at 1000-1400bar (15-20k psi) pressure.

Make a small hole in that when it's under pressure and it's you who becomes fuel injected.

# ¿ Oct 28, 2016 10:01

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Who's taking the picture?

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