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I was an enlisted Missile Combat Crew Member for the Titan-II ICBM in Wichita, KS (before they were deactivated). This might be a little OSHA. It's my personal hardhat painted in "turtle" camouflage. It's also a bit scuffed up. Sometimes when we were bored we'd have a contest to see who could skip their hardhat down the long cableway without hitting the sides. We called it Turtle Racing (hence my nice paint job). I have fond memories of the Cold War.
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Thread suddenly pulled up! Any OSHA stuff to share? Launch codes set to "1111" or somesuch?
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# ? Jan 15, 2018 03:35 |
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Serephina posted:Thread suddenly pulled up! The only time it got really exciting was when I was doing a Daily Shift Verification Checklist in the silo. There was an extensive fire suppression system that was pressurized by a large electric motor and pump. I heard the motor try to start from two floors above it. The motor intermittently starting wasn't unusual, that day it made a loud angry groan instead. The bearings had frozen and the motor was angrily trying to do its job. When we got to the correct floor it was shooting two-foot flames out the sides and still trying to turn. We got the breaker flipped off and blasted a couple extinguishers into its vents. It was a long alert shift with all the maintenance activity but we got our picture into an issue of Combat Crew magazine. The irony of the fire water system trying to burn down the silo was not lost on us. Other than that it might have been the most fun and casual job I've ever had. Once we got to the site everyone changed clothes and just hung out for 24 hours. You could get away with a lot (barbeques, lots of TV, turning topside maintenance pits into swimming pools). Safe in the knowledge that NOBODY was going to show up for a surprise visit unless we wanted to let them in. MutantBlue fucked around with this message at 03:54 on Jan 15, 2018 |
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GotLag posted:Just search a bit more. Ugh. 10 minutes in, it repeats completely uncritically the myth that when they set off the Trinity bomb there was a concern that it would ignite the atmosphere and kill all life on earth. "And they did the test anyway." I hope it gets better, because the book was great.
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# ? Jan 15, 2018 04:02 |
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Well this is loving depressing. Two brothers die after inhaling fumes while cleaning tank at central Queensland business quote:Two brothers have died after being overcome by fumes while cleaning inside a tank, in an incident that has left a tight-knit central Queensland community in shock. Molasses tank fumes - cleaning products maybe? Or just oxygen displacement?
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# ? Jan 15, 2018 05:24 |
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Judging from the first picture, the pilot probably commented on the way down how short the runway was, and the copilot went "yeah but it sure is wide."
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# ? Jan 15, 2018 05:38 |
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Sammus posted:Judging from the first picture, the pilot probably commented on the way down how short the runway was, and the copilot went "yeah but it sure is wide." Judging from the first picture, if I had been a passenger on that plane I definitely would have evacuated.
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# ? Jan 15, 2018 05:56 |
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This "car lands in second story of dental office" incident could have been so much worse. https://twitter.com/KHOLMESlive/status/952721202270711809
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# ? Jan 15, 2018 06:05 |
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96 Port Hub posted:Judging from the first picture, if I had been a passenger on that plane I definitely would have evacuated. ... your bowels.
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# ? Jan 15, 2018 06:12 |
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Say Nothing posted:... your bowels.
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# ? Jan 15, 2018 06:16 |
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Say Nothing posted:... your bowels. Yes, because you see, that would be a frightening situation and humans often void their bowels when faced with extreme fear. However, and this part is important, evacuate can also mean leaving the area to remove oneself from danger which, in my opinion, is sort of the crux of the entire joke. Thanks, I'll be here all week.
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# ? Jan 15, 2018 06:16 |
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Looks like they zigged when they should've zagged.
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# ? Jan 15, 2018 06:26 |
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drat it! https://i.imgur.com/ANtD1nl.mp4
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# ? Jan 15, 2018 06:50 |
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MutantBlue posted:I was an enlisted Missile Combat Crew Member for the Titan-II ICBM in Wichita, KS (before they were deactivated). This owns a whole bunch thanks for posting
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# ? Jan 15, 2018 06:58 |
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Jet Jaguar posted:This "car lands in second story of dental office" incident could have been so much worse. Stuck the landing!
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# ? Jan 15, 2018 07:11 |
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Phanatic posted:Ugh. 10 minutes in, it repeats completely uncritically the myth that when they set off the Trinity bomb there was a concern that it would ignite the atmosphere and kill all life on earth. "And they did the test anyway." Sorry, forgot to add a warning about that. I pisses me off, too.
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# ? Jan 15, 2018 07:27 |
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That's... *not* a photoshop?!
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# ? Jan 15, 2018 07:34 |
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ChesterJT posted:
Extracting an impacted Altima is a major procedure, though. They'll probably have to drill and use gas.
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# ? Jan 15, 2018 07:47 |
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Serephina posted:That's... *not* a photoshop?!
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# ? Jan 15, 2018 07:57 |
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Moto42 posted:Oh, They didn't need to survive to shoot back. That just pisses me off. Just take your knocks and die in nuclear hellfire. You lost. Why fire an automatic retaliatory strike when you're dead? You're dead. Don't fuckin matter. I can't properly articulate why it makes me so mad. It just does. OSHA related maybe?: I work in criminal justice and the court house in my county is very old. You go up three flights of steps to get to the district attorney office or just 2 flights for the court clerk. The stairs spiral up with a big Ol' drop in the middle. A lady balanced her baby's carrier on the railing one day and turned to talk to someone, knocking the carrier with baby inside down three stories to the ground. The baby was fine. Just crying a lot. The railings are only waist high so I'm surprised more people haven't fallen over them. I almost fell off of one by accident. My fault entirely. I'm six and half feet tall so the railings come up to about mid thigh for me. I leaned backwards not even considering the height of the railings and probably would've fallen to my death if I hadnt bent forward and caught myself.
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# ? Jan 15, 2018 07:58 |
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Untrustable posted:That just pisses me off. Just take your knocks and die in nuclear hellfire. You lost. Why fire an automatic retaliatory strike when you're dead? You're dead. Don't fuckin matter. I can't properly articulate why it makes me so mad. It just does. Nice try, Communist agent.
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# ? Jan 15, 2018 08:01 |
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Untrustable posted:That just pisses me off. Just take your knocks and die in nuclear hellfire. You lost. Why fire an automatic retaliatory strike when you're dead? You're dead. Don't fuckin matter. I can't properly articulate why it makes me so mad. It just does. Because if second strike capability wasn't a saber constantly rattled the human race wouldn't have made it through the 60s. Both sides were certain that the only thing keeping the other from shooting first was the threat that they could never do enough damage to keep from being taken down with them. But that couldn't be an idle threat because the first side to figure out the bluff dooms us all.
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# ? Jan 15, 2018 08:07 |
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Just heard that the Jakarta stock exchange collapsed. Not figuratively
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# ? Jan 15, 2018 08:11 |
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# ? Jan 15, 2018 08:14 |
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Memento posted:Just heard that the Jakarta stock exchange collapsed. Yeah no kidding
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# ? Jan 15, 2018 08:17 |
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Hello. I love you.
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# ? Jan 15, 2018 08:25 |
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Untrustable posted:That just pisses me off. Just take your knocks and die in nuclear hellfire. You lost. Why fire an automatic retaliatory strike when you're dead? You're dead. Don't fuckin matter. I can't properly articulate why it makes me so mad. It just does. Because it's a deterrent?
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# ? Jan 15, 2018 08:31 |
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Beauty.
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# ? Jan 15, 2018 08:46 |
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Untrustable posted:That just pisses me off. Just take your knocks and die in nuclear hellfire. You lost. Why fire an automatic retaliatory strike when you're dead? You're dead. Don't fuckin matter. I can't properly articulate why it makes me so mad. It just does. Nobody that would willingly use nuclear weapons on another nation deserves to survive to do it again
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# ? Jan 15, 2018 08:49 |
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spankmeister posted:Yeah no kidding That looks kind of like the Hyatt Regency walkway collapse.
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# ? Jan 15, 2018 08:50 |
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Azhais posted:Nobody that would willingly use nuclear weapons on another nation deserves to survive to do it again
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# ? Jan 15, 2018 09:00 |
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# ? Jan 15, 2018 09:01 |
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It's okay to kill millions as long as you have the human decency to do it in reasonably-sized and -separated batches.
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# ? Jan 15, 2018 10:32 |
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What's the Canadian version of a dixie horn?
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# ? Jan 15, 2018 10:59 |
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Collateral Damage posted:What's the Canadian version of a dixie horn? Sipping a Tom Horton's coffee loudly enough for another person in the room to hear it but still fairly quietly
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# ? Jan 15, 2018 11:11 |
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While we're on the subject of nukes, did somebody say "unguided nuclear rocket?" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIR-2_Genie
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# ? Jan 15, 2018 11:35 |
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Collateral Damage posted:What's the Canadian version of a dixie horn? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBHyaAEAbP0
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# ? Jan 15, 2018 11:44 |
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Volcott posted:While we're on the subject of nukes, did somebody say "unguided nuclear rocket?" Still not as dumb as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_Crockett_(nuclear_device)
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# ? Jan 15, 2018 11:49 |
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Someone say nuclear rockets? That's not a nuclear rocket. THIS is a nuclear rocket! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pluto Ram jet takes in air, unshielded reactor heats up air, radioactive thrust goes out the back. [edit] I kinda maybe sort of want to see this in action at least once before I die. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_salt-water_rocket Ak Gara fucked around with this message at 12:03 on Jan 15, 2018 |
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Collateral Damage posted:What's the Canadian version of a dixie horn? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTRrP71zDgg
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