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biracial bear for uncut posted:I don't have any images from the same angle as the cloud, but I do have this: http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/the-sr-71-blackbirds-most-spectacular-flyover-was-also-1719654907 quote:Finally, Walter looked at me and said, ‘One hundred fifty-six knots. What did you see?’ Trying to find my voice, I stammered, ‘One hundred fifty-two.’ We sat in silence for a moment. Then Walt said, ‘Don’t ever do that to me again!’ And I never did.
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I will never get tired of SR-71 stories
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Dick Trauma posted:http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/the-sr-71-blackbirds-most-spectacular-flyover-was-also-1719654907 35 miles a minute is such a loving obscene speed. 
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Dick Trauma posted:Looking at his gallery he does landscaping work and likes to rescue spiders when they fell trees. What about spiders that don't fell trees?
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Dick Trauma posted:http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/the-sr-71-blackbirds-most-spectacular-flyover-was-also-1719654907 This is one of those things that I wish had been caught on video. drat.
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Jerry Cotton posted:What about spiders that don't fell trees? If there's anywhere on Earth where spiders can bring a tree down it's Australia. 
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Jerry Cotton posted:What about spiders that don't fell trees? They get selected against.
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Good thing that was a cow moose instead of a bull moose, as the latter are aggressive as gently caress & dumb as hell.
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sneakyfrog posted:I will never get tired of SR-71 stories I love them too, but I take them with a grain of salt. Not that the Blackbird wasn't a badass aircraft, but I get the feeling that the pilots are prone to exaggeration.
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1000 Brown M and Ms posted:I love them too, but I take them with a grain of salt. Not that the Blackbird wasn't a badass aircraft, but I get the feeling that the pilots are prone to exaggeration. The numbers change every time Brian Shul tells the story of he and Walter putting a cocky ~*Naval Aviator *~ who called LA Center to win a dick-waving contest of requests for groundspeed checks in his place, but I think at that point, one is allowed a bit of exaggeration. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7EhdaPo5W8 Do the exact numbers really matter when you're the highest fastest motherfucker short of orbit, or when you take the same bird to its opposite limits and firewall the throttles out of a near-stall on a too-low pass, surviving purely on thrust and a prayer to Our Lady of Blessed Acceleration? Edit: swapped the video for a shittier one, but the new one has the punchline "Your equipment's better than ours." Chillbro Baggins has a new favorite as of 14:21 on May 12, 2017 |
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Awesome, thanks, man.
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cnut posted:Anybody know where this is? Pretty badass! I'm just going to go off the cuff with what I learned from the history channel before they became the hitler channel and then the dumb idiot channel but; It's a fortification (probably NA, civil war era or maybe even revolutionary era) and the pointy bits are an attempt to use geometry to deflect cannon shots. Pretty futile in the end but it works in theory. All the history nerds dogpile me now with theh specifics (please)
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syscall girl posted:I'm just going to go off the cuff with what I learned from the history channel before they became the hitler channel and then the dumb idiot channel but; it was a where question as opposed to what friend
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sneakyfrog posted:it was a where question as opposed to what friend Yeah I clicked on the link above my post and yeah. HOWEVER, that kind of architecture is really cool and interesting. Whether it's bad-rear end or not is debatable because the bomb-making fellas kind of outdid the fortification guys.
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syscall girl posted:Whether it's bad-rear end or not is debatable because the bomb-making fellas kind of outdid the fortification guys. There's a certain asymmetry in that particular competition.
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ultrafilter posted:There's a certain asymmetry in that particular competition. Reading about the endgame of the fortifications in Colorado or wherever that you see in War Games or Stargate and the Russian nuke targets (which may or may not have ended up where they wanted but different debate v0v) you'd want to be on Air Force One rather than trying to hide under some dirt.
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syscall girl posted:I'm just going to go off the cuff with what I learned from the history channel before they became the hitler channel and then the dumb idiot channel but; I thought it was less about deflecting incoming fire and more about the radial points allowing the fort to fire anywhere in the area surrounding the fort.
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Dienes posted:I thought it was less about deflecting incoming fire and more about the radial points allowing the fort to fire anywhere in the area surrounding the fort. I started reading the link to the actual structure in that picture and it looked like it was that and having non-perpendicular walls that would deflect vertically as well as the layout catching a few just from the sharp edges. Either way the geometry didn't change the fact that cannons could take a part a building designed to be secure from archers and rams and maybe a trebuchet that would catch fire after siege day 3 somehow. And when you get a series of ICBMs hitting one spot on the globe over and over again well
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I'm not sure why you guys are sperging out about a Citadel tile from Civ 5.
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And what's the big deal with the Eiffel tower? It's just a building that looks like a wonder in civ V?
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Jabor posted:And what's the big deal with the Eiffel tower? It's just a building that looks like a wonder in civ V? And loving france completed it like two turns before I did.
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syscall girl posted:It's a fortification (probably NA, civil war era or maybe even revolutionary era) and the pointy bits are an attempt to use geometry to deflect cannon shots. Pretty futile in the end but it works in theory. Just out of curiosity, whatever made you think it was from North America? I don't see anything particularly American about it.
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Jerry Cotton posted:Just out of curiosity, whatever made you think it was from North America? I don't see anything particularly American about it. In the civil war or the revolution they had pointy fortresses. One of the more interesting facts about the forts was that the sleeping spaces seemed short to modern tourists. People were afraid to sleep lying down in one of those old forts because being horizontal was anathema, somehow. Aaaaand I can kind of identify with that supposition but it's funny that our historical misconceptions extend to "people were hella short back then" "something something display armor something" ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJMtGhqPCW0
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syscall girl posted:In the civil war or the revolution they had pointy fortresses. Yeah but everyone everywhere in the West had had pointy fortresses by then.
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Even if that thing was just a gated community it would be badass. I'd love to live in there.
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syscall girl posted:Aaaaand I can kind of identify with that supposition but it's funny that our historical misconceptions extend to "people were hella short back then" "something something display armor something" ... There's a set of armor in the Met for the biggest knight I've ever seen. The dude must have been 6'5 or something and built like a wrestler.
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syscall girl posted:I started reading the link to the actual structure in that picture and it looked like it was that and having non-perpendicular walls that would deflect vertically as well as the layout catching a few just from the sharp edges. Are you ok? You're not being very coherent and really over estimating just how good cannons were in the 17th Century.
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chitoryu12 posted:There's a set of armor in the Met for the biggest knight I've ever seen. The dude must have been 6'5 or something and built like a wrestler. Naw, he's just a kid. His brother's way shorter though.
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As far as I know, Star Fortresses were in fact so good at turning every siege into a multi-year affair that their introduction in the 15th century significantly changed the nature of European warfare. It was only the development of rifled (artillery) barrels and explosive shells at the end of the 18th century that changed the equation again. Judging their effectiveness by the American Civil War, at which point they had already been obsolete for nearly a hundred years, seems pretty strange.
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Fort McHenry in Baltimore has a star shape. I'm not sure if there is any difference in ports that are designed to withstand sea vs land attacks.
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Starforts.com for all your starfort needs.
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NLJP posted:Star forts: when mathemagicians rules the battlefield It's funny because they didn't They got owned by a European Jew physicist Eventually, I mean not immediately or directly It wasn't what he intended but eh
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