Coxswain Balls posted:

You can't post that without linking their user manual.

http://www.thetacsac.com/userguide

quite stretched out posted:

it would have been equal parts stunning and terrifying to be on the ground within visual range of skylab coming down

Asehujiko posted:

What came first, the sign or the uxo?

The Lone Badger posted:

OTOH I am 100% behind shoving rich people into rockets and shooting them into space.

oohhboy posted:

IPCRESS posted:

Did the cannon shoot the guy's butt off (between the cannon barrel and the foot)? Also, good of him to get naked before the big event.

Vanagoon posted:

They couldn't rebuild it if someone were to come along and melt it into slag with some thermite.

`Nemesis posted:

Traxis posted:

I saw this and thought of this thread

LifeSunDeath posted:

drat, never seen one, would rock that thing and click it obsessively.

ekuNNN posted:

GotLag posted:

I used to work for a gas company, and while I didn't field the Dial Before You Dig calls, I sat across from the person who did, and if what I heard is any indication they're hard as gently caress to find, unless you're operating a backhoe and not looking for pipes.

evobatman posted:

my hometown of Honningsvåg

Memento posted:

A friend of mine is a property manager. He has a block of 8 apartments in a nice neighbourhood where the roof partially lifted off in the big storms we had here in late 2016. It lifted up in a big gust of wind, then slammed back down, causing structural damage to the building as well as messing up a lot of the plaster and paint inside. They got an engineer to get into the roof from the inside and check out the roof ties, which were obviously hosed in one way or another.

Turns out the roof ties didn't exist. The roof was re-done in the early 2000s, and no ties were installed. So how did the roof stop from blowing away from any gust of wind?

Bricks. Large bluestone bricks, holding it down.



Hundreds of bluestone bricks.



Big pile on the corner in case it lifts up!



Better make sure the aerial doesn't blow over! How are we going to do that? I know, bricks!



What loving gets me is that some contractor in the last ten years or so must have been up there to install a satellite dish and just went "Oh yeah, bricks. That's not normal. I'll file those under N for Not My Problem".

edit: you used to be able to make the lines of bricks out on Google Maps but I guess they've just updated the imagery for that area.

Say Nothing posted:

Azhais posted:

I like that the Wikipedia page calls out that they made 1900 pounds of the stuff in the 60s/70s to see if it'd make good rocket fuel (it didn't) and couldn't dispose of it until 2000 because someone had to invent a way to do it safely

Wikipedia posted:

The propellant mix that would produce the greatest specific impulse for a rocket motor is sometimes given as oxygen difluoride and pentaborane^{[citation needed]}.

plainswalker75 posted:

So, is there just a couple of honeybuckets up there? I don't see any pipes or anything.

Tafferling posted:

They're printing traditional decorations on cloth rolls, mainly tableware.

While the rest of Italy was frolicking with duchies, kingdoms, republics and poo poo, we were the backwater of the backwater of the Papal States.
The only available colour was a redtastic mixture of ores and rust, which isn't really great at staying put on stuff UNLESS being printed with the force of five tons of stacked stones.

I still have my Grandma's napkins and bleach only makes the rust brighter.

Link for the new page
https://youtu.be/Gtg-GzbYy10

Synthbuttrange posted:

Free historic landmark on the remains on your home!

Gorilla Salad posted:

This was linked in another thread - pouring out molten metal when some spills on damp ground.

Memento posted:

I've seen artisanal mining operations like that on three continents. That one is pretty high-tech, normally they use a bucket chain to do that.

Synthbuttrange posted:

Is the ride still up?

Can they make them ride it?

Dirt Road Junglist posted:

Well, the tag on the robe is what got me. I had my glasses off and was trying to figure out which side of my robe was which by holding it within a few inches of my face and turning it back and forth.

Carbon dioxide posted:

Wrong. If the balloons contain pure hydrogen they'd give a small pop and large fire whoosh, like you see in the video.

However, if the balloons contain knallgas, a 2:1 by volume mixture of hydrogen and oxygen, THAT'S when you get the loud bang.

ekuNNN posted:

SelenicMartian posted:

That time USAF lost a few H-bombs at Palomares they sent another bomber onto the same flight path, which released dummy bombs at the same spot and the same speed, to see where the bombs might have fallen.
They lost the dummies too.

Mark Twain posted:

But he could not find it. Now he went back to his treasure-house and carefully placed himself just as he had been standing when he tossed the marble away; then he took another marble from his pocket and tossed it in the same way, saying:

"Brother, go find your brother!"

He watched where it stopped, and went there and looked. But it must have fallen short or gone too far; so he tried twice more. The last repetition was successful. The two marbles lay within a foot of each other.

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

BlankIsBeautiful posted:

A friend and myself were cutting up a huge, fallen, Beech tree with a massive 2 cylinder chainsaw that had handlebars on the tip side for the second guy. I think the bar length was 72 inches or something. Anyway, I was the guy on the handlebars, and as we cut down through the trunk, I began to get spattered with what I thought was chain oil, so I yelled to the guy running the engine side to cool it on the oil trigger. When we cut through the section, the tree was hollow, and inside there was a huge bee hive. I mean, combs of honey nearly 5 feet long. What I thought was chain oil was actually honey. It was cold that day, so the bees would fly out away from the hive for about 5 feet and then just drop. Yep, I did take a couple of the combs home with me, and yep, it was great honey -- as long as you could get past the bee parts in it.

Trabant posted:

Well, it is the USGS, after all.

Anyway:

https://vtt.tumblr.com/tumblr_p5y87nxmJW1w23bqg.mp4

Platystemon posted:

“The Creator, if he exists, has an inordinate fondness for beetles.”

Beetles comprise a quarter of animal species.

There are more species if beetle than there are of plants.

Facebook Aunt posted:

Science!

Renegret posted:

I realized one day that my biggest fear in life isn't death, but rather dying from something incredibly stupid.

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

Edit: apparently a LOT of people do it, it's supposed to bring good luck or make your wish come true but there's a bunch of other idiotic reasons as well
http://thenewswheel.com/why-do-people-hold-their-breath-when-driving-through-tunnels/

quote:

people hold their breath when passing graveyards

Sagebrush posted:

i do not understand why we've settled on "frantic screaming" as the necessary youtube personality voice but it sure is a thing

Humphreys posted:

Huh, never noticed the detail in their pace notes before!

Megillah Gorilla posted:

"Your finger, you fool"

veiled boner fuel posted:

No.