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More  BRIAN BLESSED commentating a snooker game - one of my favorite videoshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YP11L9jRW94
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Ozz81 posted:More A real human being, and a real hero
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJ4-v9ujbJo god I love that guy
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Parkingtigers posted:BRIAN BLESSED just released an autobiography, and there's an audiobook version with the legend himself reading it. See also Lionel Fanthorpe, who is an ordained minister, qualified instructor of both bodybuilding and judo, Fortean scholar and explorer, biker and author of over 250 fiction and non-fiction books. Most of his SF is considered to be quite poor, but that's hardly surprising as he was knocking out an average of a book a month for fifteen years. During one three-year period in the 1950s he wrote 89 novels, which is equivalent to double the rate of the NaNoWriMo goal sustained throughout.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWXBU4JLoC4 well, blyat  some war porn too, the Russians aren't loving around in Syria https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv3iHs8_2GY Slugnoid has a new favorite as of 03:29 on Nov 3, 2015 |
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How did the Guiness people verify this? Also - it will be an interesting record to beat. I find this pretty badass: http://www.techinsider.io/germany-is-turning-on-its-monster-stellarator-2015-10
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canis minor posted:
Thats amazing and I never knew about it. Thanks for posting it!
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canis minor posted:How did the Guiness people verify this? Also - it will be an interesting record to beat. IIRC they later got an Apache to hover over where he shot from and measure the distance with it's laser rangefinder (the Army that is, I don't think Guiness have Apache gunships.)
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GuardianOfAsgaard posted:IIRC they later got an Apache to hover over where he shot from and measure the distance with it's laser rangefinder (the Army that is, I don't think Guiness have Apache gunships.) Guiness could afford a fleet of them though.
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That's insane. What kind of scope does that guy use? How can you even see a target from almost 3km away?
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beedeebee posted:That's insane. What kind of scope does that guy use? How can you even see a target from almost 3km away? It was a Schmidt & Bender MILITARY MKII 5-25×56 scope, which at maximum magnification (25x) would look like this:  He also would have had a spotter (with an even more powerful optic) working with him to dial in his shots, gradually adjusting each time until he could make the kill shots. GuardianOfAsgaard has a new favorite as of 19:58 on Nov 3, 2015 |
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Ok, 81 clicks elevation.....  Windage, your mother. What is the velocity of that round; at the muzzle and when it struck the target?
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VendaGoat posted:Ok, 81 clicks elevation..... Need a TFR guy up in this joint for the real info, but your basic deer rifle is somewhere around 2200 ft/sec more or less muzzle velocity. Do a math for 1.5 miles and 3 seconds and you get average velocity. edit: "They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist..." edit 2: about 2800 ft/sec according to the article Kafouille posted:There is a pretty decent article about what it took to make that shot here : http://www.millettsights.com/resources/shooting-tips/making-a-2700-yard-shot/ dee eight has a new favorite as of 10:19 on Nov 4, 2015 |
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There is a pretty decent article about what it took to make that shot here : http://www.millettsights.com/resources/shooting-tips/making-a-2700-yard-shot/ And that first clickbait is wrong, the round would take around 5.7 seconds to get that far, they appear to have just used the muzzle velocity to calculate the time.
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thespaceinvader posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpUrXJNcS_8 I think we can go ahead and change his name to Fullthor.
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Your Gay Uncle posted:I think we can go ahead and change his name to Fullthor. I'm pretty sure you can only handle half.
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VendaGoat posted:Ok, 81 clicks elevation..... I saw an interview with the guy who had the previous record, a Canadian (though he used American ammo  ). He said he maxed out the dials for elevation and windage, and there still weren't enough mil dots in either direction. He was basically placing the big open space in one corner over the target. First shot missed, but the guys on the receiving end had no idea what was happening or what to take cover behind, so there was plenty of time for the followup shot, which hit.Imagine being on the receiving end, so far away you can't hear the bang, let alone spot the sniper. Now consider being on the wrong end of one of these:   Iowa class battleship. That second image has been posted before, and will be posted again. I couldn't not post it. Click for bigger. Those 16 inch guns fire a variety of shells ranging from 1,900 to 2,700 lbs to a range of 42,345 yards. Aiming is done with the assistance of a mechanical computer that accounts for powder charge, wind, ship's speed, target's speed, humidity, and other factors. Some of the training videos are on youtube. Give it a watch. It's real neat, and gives you a great idea of how the machine works, not just how to work it. Blue Footed Booby has a new favorite as of 00:51 on Nov 5, 2015 |
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Blue Footed Booby posted:Those 16 inch guns fire a variety of shells ranging from 1,900 to 2,700 lbs to a range of 42,345 yards. Aiming is done with the assistance of a mechanical computer that accounts for powder charge, wind, ship's speed, target's speed, humidity, and other factors. Some of the training videos are on youtube. Give it a watch. It's real neat, and gives you a great idea of how the machine works, not just how to work it. I've shot long distances..... Humans give the computers the variables, the computer does the math faster than what we can put it into it. The output kills the enemy. Some engineer had to design the system and the formula to give to the computer to compute. We are very good at killing ourselves. It's still amazing and I thank you for the video.
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Did the Iowas in the 80s still use the mechanical fire computers they were built with? Surely not. Also that conversion is one ugly bitch, totally ruined her lines with the chopper pad.
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Blue Footed Booby posted:I saw an interview with the guy who had the previous record, a Canadian (though he used American ammo seems pretty irresponsible to show people how to fire those guns imo. What if some nutjob uses one to shoot up a school?
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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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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? We must outfit schools with 16 inch guns to protect themselves.
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Stick some Aegis in the parking lot during morning drop off.
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GuardianOfAsgaard posted:It was a Schmidt & Bender MILITARY MKII 5-25×56 scope, which at maximum magnification (25x) would look like this: Would the targets not here the report at all or would they just hear it and not be able to tell where it is coming from? Pharnakes posted:Did the Iowas in the 80s still use the mechanical fire computers they were built with? Surely not. I vaguely remember this from the mil history thread but I'm pretty sure they still did. I think the reasoning was that the real advantage of converting to digital wouldn't be the accuracy but that it would be more easily integrated into the ships other systems or some such poo poo and that the costs involved wouldn't be worth it. Frostwerks has a new favorite as of 02:01 on Nov 5, 2015 |
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Frostwerks posted:Would the targets not here the report at all or would they just hear it and not be able to tell where it is coming from? The bullet is supersonic. It gets there before the bang. Edit: I either misread or caught you mid edit. v  vquote:I vaguely remember this from the mil history thread but I'm pretty sure they still did. I think the reasoning was that the real advantage of converting to digital wouldn't be the accuracy but that it would be more easily integrated into the ships other systems or some such poo poo and that the costs involved wouldn't be worth it. Google suggests yes, they did at least one upgrade. In particular, the AA guns couldn't handle the speed of modern jets.
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To return to the subject of BRIAN BLESSED, he also appeared on the heavy metal band Manowar's remake of their classic album, to recite this spoken track, and it's just as gloriously hammy as one might expect: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rg_9EHT4Ce4 The whole thing isn't available on Youtube, sadly. EDIT: quote:He has been awarded the honorary title of "Official Shoutsperson" by the University of York's Douglas Adams Society.[18] In 2011, the student union voted to christen a new study area the "Brian Blessed Centre for Quiet Study". 
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Fargin Icehole posted:We must outfit schools with 16 inch guns to protect themselves. Sir, there is a school shooter just over the horizon. (Alternatively: I took your suggestion and sent dick pics to all the local schools)
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Blue Footed Booby posted:The bullet is supersonic. It gets there before the bang. Oh, I thought you meant the 16 inchers. As for CWIS poo poo I'm surprised they didn't just upgun it with bunches of phalanxes, oerlikons, sea sparrows, etc.
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I remember hearing some absurd statistic like 70%+ of the world's population lives within reach of US Navy guns. The real stat there is that most of the world's population is concentrated to within a couple dozen miles of the ocean, but it's scarier to say it the first way.
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canyoneer posted:I remember hearing some absurd statistic like 70%+ of the world's population lives within reach of US Navy guns. Was it just guns? And are we including the range of aircraft? What about rivers? Want to drive up the rhine and shell the uppity swiss in their mountain fortress or go to amazonas and teach the people of manaus not to gently caress with the greatest navy a runaway military budget can buy.
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Grey Fox posted:Russians(?) stopping a man from lighting himself on fire: And in the process lighting that poor pine tree on fire. I guess it's better than that poor sap but still.
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Frostwerks posted:Was it just guns? And are we including the range of aircraft? What about rivers? Want to drive up the rhine and shell the uppity swiss in their mountain fortress or go to amazonas and teach the people of manaus not to gently caress with the greatest navy a runaway military budget can buy. It gets even more complicated if we include sub-based nukes.
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Frostwerks posted:Oh, I thought you meant the 16 inchers. As for CWIS poo poo I'm surprised they didn't just upgun it with bunches of phalanxes, oerlikons, sea sparrows, etc. That was just the only specific example I could remember. There were shortcomings with the big guns too. I can only do so much research while phoneposting on the toilet.
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Thump! posted:And in the process lighting that poor pine tree on fire.
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Pook Good Mook posted:It gets even more complicated if we include sub-based nukes. True. Honestly, I personally didn't because I don't know if any place on land could even go untouched.
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