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Byzantine posted:The space shuttle had that too. Well, technically it was a jettison for the rockets/fuel tank, then the orbiter would glide away. But the incident happened too fast for that. But that was only available after Solid Rocket Boosters burned out, about two minutes into the flight. If a separation was attempted while the SRB/ET stack was thrusting forward at several Gs, the orbiter would have "hung up" on the aft attachment points and started flipping backwards end-over-end, which is all kinds of bad news, especially at Mach 2. But even if Challenger had (somehow) separated and stayed intact, there was nowhere to go. They would have been way out over the ocean, almost certainly without the energy to glide back to KSC, and a water landing was not considered survivable. Later on the engineers hacked in a way for the crew to bail out from a controlled glide and parachute down individually, but that capability didn't exist yet.
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Wasn't there an 'abort' procedure that would have destroyed the early rockets, killing the crew, that was to be used if there was a danger of it crashing in a populated area? And the guy on the ground who was tasked to press the button was never allowed to meet the astronauts, in case it affected his decision?
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spog posted:Wasn't there an 'abort' procedure that would have destroyed the early rockets, killing the crew, that was to be used if there was a danger of it crashing in a populated area? There are indeed such self-destruct systems, and for good reason, that the launch controllers can use to "terminate the flight". If a launching Shuttle had ever gone veering out of control toward Cocoa Beach, the Range Safety Officer was the one with the responsibility to hit the button that would blow them out of the sky. But I think it was more of a customary thing than an absolute rule that said the RSO and the astronauts shouldn't really hang out together... But we're getting a little off-topic for the thread -- for everyone interested, there's a very active spaceflight megathread for all this stuff: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3580990
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Allow me to wrestle the thread back on topic. Friendship is
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Is there a "The Does This Graph Make Sense Graph"?
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How can you be said to have a relationship that's healthy but not enjoyable? If you're not enjoying it, it's not healthy by virtue of that.
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Heath posted:How can you be said to have a relationship that's healthy but not enjoyable? If you're not enjoying it, it's not healthy by virtue of that. Over in the schadenfreude thread we found a youtube channel of a bunch of teenage boys who really really love to hang out and film themselves smashing their nuts with bowling balls and planks of wood. They've posted dozens and dozens of videos over the span of several years.
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spog posted:Wasn't there an 'abort' procedure that would have destroyed the early rockets, killing the crew, that was to be used if there was a danger of it crashing in a populated area? All space launch systems have this, I think it may be mandatory. Almost every time a rocket explodes very shortly after launch, it's the self-destruct system: they destroy the rocket before it can fly out of control in an unpredictable way spog posted:And the guy on the ground who was tasked to press the button That's the Range Safety Officer
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Heath posted:How can you be said to have a relationship that's healthy but not enjoyable? If you're not enjoying it, it's not healthy by virtue of that. Conversely, how can you have s friendship that's healthy but not enjoyable? If anything, I guess it could be called s professional relationship, say between coworkers, but the graph specifically claims to describe friends.
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Allow me to wrestle the thread back on topic. 
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I hate you.
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Heath posted:How can you be said to have a relationship that's healthy but not enjoyable? If you're not enjoying it, it's not healthy by virtue of that. The "sample distribution" is the biggest farce because as people point out you'd expect most stuff to fall on a line of y=x except for some of the more unique cases like above.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Over in the schadenfreude thread we found a youtube channel of a bunch of teenage boys who really really love to hang out and film themselves smashing their nuts with bowling balls and planks of wood. They've posted dozens and dozens of videos over the span of several years. But they are teenagers! poo poo, bodily harm is one of life's few pleasures for them! Also could I get a link to that post, tia!
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I wonder what Asif, Salman and Mudasir would have to say about this.
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I'm too lazy, but there are at least two loss edits in this baby.
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Where does a one night stand fall on that? Friendship, romantic love or infatuation?
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Empty Love Romantic Love Companionate Love Fatuous Love There, done.
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Paladinus posted:I'm too lazy, but there are at least two loss edits in this baby. If there's a baby in your loss edits you're doing it wrong
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RandomFerret posted:If there's a baby in your loss edits you're doing it wrong 
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Rename thread to the loss.xls thread.
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 I don't have a problem with the message of this graph, but the idea of including a country with no data in a bar graph is hilarious.
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trapped mouse posted:
I guess it being about G8 Countries would make it weird if they left one out? I suppose they could have an asterix note?
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trapped mouse posted:
So according to this graph there is literally no murder at all in Japan?
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Tracula posted:So according to this graph there is literally no murder at all in Japan? They haven't been able to convict anyone of it with Phoenix Wright on the case.
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Tracula posted:So according to this graph there is literally no murder at all in Japan? It's a lovely graph that means gun related homicide. Japan has Hanzo Steel, no need for guns.
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Jul 5, 2016 16:28
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Japanese people murder each other with improvised objects, like a statue that's also an alarm clock.
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kazil posted:It's a lovely graph that means gun related homicide. Oh my bad. I failed to tilt my head to a 90-degree angle to read the side of that. loving hate when graphs do that.
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Oxyclean posted:I guess it being about G8 Countries would make it weird if they left one out? I suppose they could have an asterix note? Russia shouldn't even be included in G8 anyway
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They should include all homicides. Idiots will say 'well yeah, there's no difference between rates, they just use alarm clocks instead of guns'.
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I guess they were trying to make a point similar to this Onion article.
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Ignite Memories posted:Japanese people murder each other with improvised objects, like a statue that's also an alarm clock. Nah, Japanese people just murder themselves. Japan's suicide rate is higher than the US's suicide rate and homicide rate combined.
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Phanatic posted:Nah, Japanese people just murder themselves. Japan's suicide rate is higher than the US's suicide rate and homicide rate combined. True enough, but doesn't Japan also have a problem with police classifying unsolved murders as suicides?
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Plus, doesn't it have extremely restrictive gun control where it's almost impossible for someone who isn't in the military to own one?
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Regalingualius posted:Plus, doesn't it have extremely restrictive gun control where it's almost impossible for someone who isn't in the military to own one? What, you mean there's some relation between gun control and low rates of gun-related violence?
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Regalingualius posted:Plus, doesn't it have extremely restrictive gun control where it's almost impossible for someone who isn't in the military to own one? That's 100% the point of the graph, though...
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Guns don't kill people, Americans kill people!!!! * Also possibly Russians, we just don't know
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Guns don't kill people, Americans kill people!!!! "We haven't heard back from anyone we sent to collect data"
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Whiz Palace posted:I guess they were trying to make a point similar to this Onion article. Scroll down, they've got the same story repeated a half dozen times with different locations and people. Excellent gimmick.
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