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vanity slug
Jul 20, 2010

tie a worker between each carriage with duct tape to couple them

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Grassy Knowles
Apr 4, 2003

"The original Terminator was a gritty fucking AMAZING piece of sci-fi. Gritty fucking rock-hard MURDER!"

Jeoh posted:

tie a worker between each carriage with duct tape to couple them

It's called "coupling" because it only kills a couple of people.

Gumbel2Gumbel
Apr 28, 2010

That design is completely stupid. I think they do the same thing in Houston, where the light rail travels using the traffic lights in the middle of the road and if you're in the right lane turning right you need to check behind you to see if it's barreling through a yellow at 40 mph.

FuturePastNow
May 19, 2014


Memento posted:



Just another day in Russia

It's better with audio

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6r8tNEg10g

And you can see her hitting the horn button for about 10 seconds before. That account has four or five more "tram hits car" videos.

Whooping Crabs
Apr 13, 2010

Sorry for the derail but I fuckin love me some racoons
Playing five finger filet with a robotic arm:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4izQnNE2S2o

IPCRESS
May 27, 2012
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXnkXaRnNrI

A Festivus Miracle
Dec 19, 2012

I have come to discourse on the profound inequities of the American political system.

Today I learned that a drip torch making a pinging sound means the fuel mixture inside has reached the ideal temperature to SPIT FIRE :science:

It actually means that when you pick your torch out of the burn pile you're trying to light up, you need to watch the gently caress out and tell other people to get the gently caress out of dodge.

Nenonen
Oct 22, 2009

Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa

Suggested video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0MuCH43a14

:stonkhat:

Memento
Aug 25, 2009


Bleak Gremlin

Was the operator leaning that far forward deliberately? If so, he got off pretty lightly.

spog
Aug 7, 2004

It's your own bloody fault.

FuturePastNow posted:

It's better with audio

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6r8tNEg10g

And you can see her hitting the horn button for about 10 seconds before. That account has four or five more "tram hits car" videos.

She's so calm and collected, you feel she's done it many times before.

beep-beep car is go
Apr 11, 2005

I can just eyeball this, right?




He probably didn't, but it totally sounded like the guy taking the video went "niiiiiiiice" after it tipped over.

Nenonen
Oct 22, 2009

Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa

beep-beep car is go posted:

He probably didn't, but it totally sounded like the guy taking the video went "niiiiiiiice" after it tipped over.

It sounds like if he swallowed the end of "niiiiice", but in actuality it's "nejjjjjjjj" which is Danish "nooooooo" :eng101:

Rough Lobster
May 27, 2009

Don't be such a squid, bro

feld posted:



i hope this is fake

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehMWzrnM9nk

wyoming
Jun 7, 2010

Like a television
tuned to a dead channel.

GotLag posted:

Dahir Insaat reminds me of the machines I'd draw on graph paper in primary school. Like a recycling centre that vaporises and then condenses aluminium using a nuclear fusion reactor, the helium from which is used to fill party balloons.

Look, we just need Trump to hear about the planet's helium shortage, then we can pitch this, and boom, a national holiday where every kid in America gets nuclear balloons.
:911:

Whooping Crabs posted:

Playing five finger filet with a robotic arm:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4izQnNE2S2o

Need this thing to play that minigame in Full Throttle.

Lime Tonics
Nov 7, 2015

by FactsAreUseless
whoops,

Grand Haven beach reopens after backhoe, bulldozer slide into lake

http://www.mlive.com/news/muskegon/index.ssf/2017/04/grand_haven_beach_reopens_afte.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeb5cRjpxFg

Collateral Damage
Jun 13, 2009

boner confessor posted:

when the russians copied the space shuttle they actually added safety systems to it, because it didn't occur to them just how poorly concieved the space shuttle was
They also built their shuttle as a payload that could be attached to a carrier rocket (Energia) rather than a unique launch system. The Energia could fly without the Buran attached and there were grand plans for developing it into a system of heavy to superheavy reusable carrier rockets using folding wing fly-back boosters, but the fall of the Soviet Union put an end to that.

The liquid-fueled boosters for the Energia live on as the basis for the currently in service Zenit carrier rocket though.

His Divine Shadow
Aug 7, 2000

I'm not a fascist. I'm a priest. Fascists dress up in black and tell people what to do.
This bit here reminded me of this thread
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LS_WcIAPSzU&t=1050s

Darkman Fanpage
Jul 4, 2012

Whooping Crabs posted:

Playing five finger filet with a robotic arm:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4izQnNE2S2o

not as impressive after seeing an android do it in aliens

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

sucks to be right

Darkman Fanpage posted:

not as impressive after seeing an android do it in aliens

But we're now one step closer to developing that android!

/ticks "knife trick" off android development to-do list

Proteus Jones
Feb 28, 2013




Had to keep watching because that show is so hypnotic.

"This is pig, built for The Pink Floyd for a show. Inflated by a vacuum cleaner."

Perestroika
Apr 8, 2010

http://i.imgur.com/TJmaQhb.mp4

Azhais
Feb 5, 2007
Switchblade Switcharoo

Is this a russian version of the mobile home?

champagne posting
Apr 5, 2006

YOU ARE A BRAIN
IN A BUNKER


What is that even supposed to be?

MF_James
May 8, 2008
I CANNOT HANDLE BEING CALLED OUT ON MY DUMBASS OPINIONS ABOUT ANTI-VIRUS AND SECURITY. I REALLY LIKE TO THINK THAT I KNOW THINGS HERE

INSTEAD I AM GOING TO WHINE ABOUT IT IN OTHER THREADS SO MY OPINION CAN FEEL VALIDATED IN AN ECHO CHAMBER I LIKE

I am loving surprised that the thing merely toppled over the side, I figured the truck was going to crumple, shows how loving strong those are.

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold

MF_James posted:

I am loving surprised that the thing merely toppled over the side, I figured the truck was going to crumple, shows how loving strong those are.

i'm loving surprised it didn't crush the dumbass driver after he fell out of the seat

Atticus_1354
Dec 10, 2006

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Raskolnikov38 posted:

i'm loving surprised it didn't crush the dumbass driver after he fell out of the seat

The Buster Keaton school of work safety.

MrYenko
Jun 18, 2012

#2 isn't ALWAYS bad...

flosofl posted:

Had to keep watching because that show is so hypnotic.

"This is pig, built for The Pink Floyd for a show. Inflated by a vacuum cleaner."

Secret Life of Machines is amazing, and you should watch all of them.

spog
Aug 7, 2004

It's your own bloody fault.

MrYenko posted:

Secret Life of Machines is amazing, and you should watch all of them.

'We're going to send a fax on our lathes'

Darkman Fanpage
Jul 4, 2012

Boiled Water posted:

What is that even supposed to be?

a big snowmobile

FuturePastNow
May 19, 2014


Arctic exploration vehicle (probably for oil or something lame as opposed to research) built on a tank or APC chassis

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

Darkman Fanpage posted:

not as impressive after seeing an android do it in aliens

yeah this was really not that impressive. i was expecting it to go like, at least twice as fast. i could probably do it as fast as that robot's going and i have no practice.

call me back when they've done it with a delta bot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv5B63HeF1E

ruddiger
Jun 3, 2004

Raskolnikov38 posted:

i'm loving surprised it didn't crush the dumbass driver after he fell out of the seat

As soon as dude's legs popped out the cab I cringed.

5er
Jun 1, 2000

Qapla' to a true warrior! :patriot:

Sagebrush posted:

yeah this was really not that impressive. i was expecting it to go like, at least twice as fast. i could probably do it as fast as that robot's going and i have no practice.

call me back when they've done it with a delta bot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv5B63HeF1E

If they really wanted to nail down the reference frame, why didn't someone walk behind the thing? I'm not actually questioning the legitimacy, but audio inclusion alone wouldn't settle the argument for me if I were giving a poo poo at all.

IPCRESS
May 27, 2012

Boiled Water posted:

What is that even supposed to be?

An elaborate escape mechanism from the drudgery of day-to-day life in Putin's Russia. Cost two potato. If it weren't for the seat belt, it would have worked too.

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

5er posted:

If they really wanted to nail down the reference frame, why didn't someone walk behind the thing? I'm not actually questioning the legitimacy, but audio inclusion alone wouldn't settle the argument for me if I were giving a poo poo at all.

I dunno about any of that -- it was just the first result for delta bot on youtube. Delta bots are perfectly capable of the depicted speeds, as any other video of one on YouTube will confirm, but I guess some people just really gotta imagine everything is a fake conspiracy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWSf8OC8Qu0&t=53s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQ7OBg1ENeE&t=30s

and my favorite, for the perfect music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9oeOYMRvuQ

Sagebrush fucked around with this message at 05:59 on Apr 27, 2017

Gromit
Aug 15, 2000

I am an oppressed White Male, Asian women wont serve me! Save me Campbell Newman!!!!!!!

That show is awesome. But I always felt this part about the light bulb was the most OSHA. It just seems really unsafe to me, but maybe I'm easily frightened?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0ES9TKAf_4&t=209s

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

as a person who never leaves my house i've done pretty well for myself.

Gromit posted:

That show is awesome. But I always felt this part about the light bulb was the most OSHA. It just seems really unsafe to me, but maybe I'm easily frightened?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0ES9TKAf_4&t=209s

It’s low voltage.

The hot metal could hurt them, but the electricity probably won’t.

Groda
Mar 17, 2005

Hair Elf
It's their eyesight that's at risk.

Megabound
Oct 20, 2012

Sagebrush posted:

I dunno about any of that -- it was just the first result for delta bot on youtube. Delta bots are perfectly capable of the depicted speeds, as any other video of one on YouTube will confirm, but I guess some people just really gotta imagine everything is a fake conspiracy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWSf8OC8Qu0&t=53s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQ7OBg1ENeE&t=30s

and my favorite, for the perfect music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9oeOYMRvuQ

Delta set-ups are popular with 3D Printers too, and they're no less robust than their non-delta counterparts.

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pidan
Nov 6, 2012


Something that's not machines falling over: The Cleveland balloon cloud of 1986!



Someone thought it would be a good idea to release a cloud of millions of balloons over the city of Cleveland. The weather at the time blew them all over the city and then pressed them down to a low height. The balloons interfered with traffic, stopped air traffic completely, lead to the deaths of two people and covered the city in trash.

The news report is worth a watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8oJaPeEP-8

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