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SmokaDustbowl posted:hbag can you ride a bike at least i like riding my bike
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bicycles are cool
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Aug 4, 2021 20:57
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your lungs are real good flotation devices and too many people learning to swim get nervous and take tiny little quick breaths where their lungs are mostly empty all the time. training yourself not to do that is a fundamental baby step to being confident in the water
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Aug 4, 2021 20:59
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A Wheezy Steampunk posted:i like riding my bike
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Aug 4, 2021 20:59
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Pile Of Garbage posted:thanks for the reply Sagebrush, interesting stuff! one point i forgot to mention is specifically why you need dgps for landings. you might know that a regular military gps receiver can usually get within a foot of the target location and surely that's enough to land a plane? yes, it is...but that is horizontal resolution. gps altitude values are always kind of sketchy because of how the satellites are arranged. you get the most precision in the vertical dimension when the satellites you're watching are directly above you, but under most circumstances it's far more likely that you're receiving from ones scattered around the horizon. propagation of error in the trigonometry means that elevation figures are likely off by tens of feet and that's real bad if your plane thinks the runway is ten feet below the ground. so the main value of this dgps thing is you can plunk it beside the runway and have it send a much more precise value for the field elevation, allowing the plane to touch down nicely instead of stalling twenty feet above and dropping in or pancaking into the dirt.
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Aug 4, 2021 21:01
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I ought to get a bike, they're neat and I haven't ridden one since I was a kid
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Aug 4, 2021 21:03
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please stop the bike chat summoning circle
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Aug 4, 2021 21:06
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people who can't ride a bike are always super weird
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Aug 4, 2021 21:08
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Kazinsal posted:I ought to get a bike, they're neat and I haven't ridden one since I was a kid it's fun, i ride on a lot of rural roads and i pass picturesque fields with hay bales, sometimes i see cows, horses, sheep, or chickens
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Aug 4, 2021 21:10
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cjs: updating everyone's AD fields in groups of five because that's about how many I can get through before AD Users and Computers crashes doing it all via CSV would be faster, but I can "bill" this time back to the company and look insanely productive this way lol
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Aug 4, 2021 21:24
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Sagebrush posted:one point i forgot to mention is specifically why you need dgps for landings. you might know that a regular military gps receiver can usually get within a foot of the target location and surely that's enough to land a plane? yes, it is...but that is horizontal resolution. gps altitude values are always kind of sketchy because of how the satellites are arranged. you get the most precision in the vertical dimension when the satellites you're watching are directly above you, but under most circumstances it's far more likely that you're receiving from ones scattered around the horizon. propagation of error in the trigonometry means that elevation figures are likely off by tens of feet and that's real bad if your plane thinks the runway is ten feet below the ground. cheers thanks for the extra info. im not really sure what the effective use for it in the military is tbh beyond doing fancy precise VTOL landings at established air bases. it appears to have been developed as a portable system so i guess they reckon it could be used at temporary FOB airfields or something. but ofc if that's the case then the system would need to be sufficiently hardened and redundant because it's gonna be target number one for an anti-airfield operation. hell if it was close enough to a runway the debris from cratering munitions would probably break it. so if it can't be protected and defended then no one is going to want to rely on it in standard operations. now if it were a civilian aviation thing where you could just set it up at some random air strip and immediately enhance it that would be cool as heck
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Aug 4, 2021 21:30
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there's no real point in hardening what is essentially an antenna next to the runway. if you've got munitions exploding on your airfield you're already hosed. anything that took out the ILS would probably cause enough damage to the field itself to warrant a divert.
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Aug 4, 2021 21:38
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yeah good point. in that respect the system would probably aide with recovery and help getting a MOS up faster
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Aug 4, 2021 21:40
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cls: holy poo poo, it's only wednesday
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Aug 4, 2021 21:44
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graph posted:this is such a good video this is oddly charming
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Aug 4, 2021 22:31
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im an excellent swimmer
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Cat Face Joe posted:im an excellent swimmer same I go can go in the water and not die
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Aug 4, 2021 22:40
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SmokaDustbowl posted:same I go can go in the water and not die nice
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Aug 4, 2021 22:41
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rotor posted:this is oddly charming this is excellent yes
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hbag posted:i cant swim https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2VvcOHi2E8
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Aug 4, 2021 22:48
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A Wheezy Steampunk posted:i like riding my bike
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xt0V0_1MS0Q
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Aug 4, 2021 22:54
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I was coming back from the store the other day and some methhead on a bike ran into me from behind. I didn't go down or anything but the dude almost did and I yelled a bunch of swears at him
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Aug 4, 2021 23:00
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hbag posted:i live in northwest england dont you loving dare ever compare me to a londoner again that’s where my father in law is from do you know him?
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Aug 4, 2021 23:01
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SmokaDustbowl posted:I was coming back from the store the other day and some methhead on a bike ran into me from behind. I didn't go down or anything but the dude almost did and I yelled a bunch of swears at him When I worked morning shift at the 24hr grocery store we had a guy that rode in on his bike and we nicknamed him "NyQuil Guy" because at 7am without fail he would park his bike on the side of the building, stride in past the registers and over to the pharmacy where he grabbed a small NyQuil bottle and purchased back at the registers. While walking out of the store, he would crack it open and slug the entire bottle back and then pitch it and the receipt in the trash before putting his crusty yellow Sony earphones back on and riding off into the sunrise.
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Aug 4, 2021 23:04
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Video Nasty posted:When I worked morning shift at the 24hr grocery store we had a guy that rode in on his bike and we nicknamed him "NyQuil Guy" because at 7am without fail he would park his bike on the side of the building, stride in past the registers and over to the pharmacy where he grabbed a small NyQuil bottle and purchased back at the registers. I'm built like a tolkien dwarf so the guy ran into me then went off into the grass and I yelled at him a whole fuckin bunch and I was gonna get up in his face but he had a chain with a lock on it and it was too early to get my head split open
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Aug 4, 2021 23:11
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President Beep posted:that’s where my father in law is from do you know him?
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Aug 4, 2021 23:12
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SmokaDustbowl posted:I was coming back from the store the other day and some methhead on a bike ran into me from behind. I didn't go down or anything but the dude almost did and I yelled a bunch of swears at him I usually hear a lot of swear words when I almost go down, too
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Aug 4, 2021 23:16
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i went on a bike ride this afternoon. come with me to new york, we have bike paths  plane paths  cow paths  plant paths 
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Aug 4, 2021 23:18
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A Wheezy Steampunk posted:i went on a bike ride this afternoon. come with me to new york, we have What the hell does this really mean? Multiple Roberts Plant approaching?
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Aug 4, 2021 23:19
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if you ride on the sidewalk please ring your bell and say "coming in on your left\right"
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Aug 4, 2021 23:20
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also don't do meth and ride into me
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Aug 4, 2021 23:21
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Video Nasty posted:What the hell does this really mean? Multiple Roberts Plant approaching? it's some kind of industrial plant 
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Aug 4, 2021 23:23
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lol that's a missile plant
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Aug 4, 2021 23:23
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmIhDCBEkGU
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Aug 4, 2021 23:26
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SmokaDustbowl posted:lol that's a missile plant borgwarner makes automobile transmissions.
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Aug 4, 2021 23:32
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seems like it'd be a lot healthier if they didnt have all those smoking places just save that stuff for home, not the workplace imo
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Aug 4, 2021 23:33
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Sagebrush posted:borgwarner makes automobile transmissions. yeah... sure... "automobile transmissions"
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Aug 4, 2021 23:49
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SmokaDustbowl posted:lol that's a missile plant missile plants have more empty space around them
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*jacking up my truck equipped with a borg-warner transmission* "gently caress! someone put a goddamned patriot missile warhead in here. not again"
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