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madeintaipei posted:The more I look at that, the more I like it. The tie-downs and step-rails are all where they are supposed to be. The frame is even "bent". Are those FWD? It might actually drive, although you could only go in circles the wrong direction in a subway tunnel. Unfortunately(..?), it's a work by Erwin Wurm so I wouldn't expect it to drive as is. Not that automotive industry shouldn't buy these designs, his works look practical compared to Tesla Truck.  edit:  The German City Of Karlsruhe Just Issued A Parking Ticket To A Bent Car Sculpture By Austrian Artist Erwin Wurm Nenonen fucked around with this message at 22:53 on Nov 26, 2019 |
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This seems to be an illustration from a medieval work safety manual, the importance of proper PPE is pushed with such colourful detail here. Dudes by the ladder: Shield guy: "Hey Jerome, I need to use this ladder for temporary access, will you hold it steady for me?" Jerome the ladder guy: "Oh sure... I'm ready." Leofrick the Impatient: "Sweet, me first!" Shield guy: "Stand fast Leo, you need... aw for fucks sake!"
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Nov 27, 2019 16:43
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Autistic Edgy Guy posted:sucks to be the guy who got hanged before the party started He's just hanging there, observing the situation. They didn't have security cameras back then.
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Phanatic posted:Little parachute problem: Maybe they should tie a bungee cord to the parachutists and cut it off only after the parachute has opened. Nenonen fucked around with this message at 17:30 on Nov 27, 2019 |
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Nov 27, 2019 17:22
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Zarin posted:I really like the two-handed design and the height of the thing; you could really get some force behind it if needed. Also using both hands keeps them out of the line of fire. But then you need a friend to hold the wood in place 
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Nov 28, 2019 09:51
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Zarin posted:It seems like if one were to cut the log correctly in the first place, no holding should be required. For the first split maybe! But the halved log might not stay in balance for a second split.
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Nov 28, 2019 10:06
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Ape Fist posted:Captured yesterday morning on Belfast Dock: Here's the same image without thumbnail tags: 
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Nov 29, 2019 13:24
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Guys, show some respect to the deceased! Not only does bucket count as a type of shoe but he literally kicked the bucket 
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Dec 2, 2019 20:40
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Dark Off posted:[removed video of fatality] sorry about RT link but: https://www.rt.com/news/474205-hyderabad-car-flyover-hits-pedestrian/ quote:A horrific car crash in India’s Hyderabad saw a vehicle fly right off an overpass and smash down onto the road below, killing one pedestrian and injuring several others. The overpass was also opened just in early November. Maybe they should move that bus stop to a safer place.
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Yooper posted:My favorite example of bad UI is the M1A2 Abrams. If you pushed the MASTER OFF button before you pushed the SHUTDOWN button the computer system would poo poo the bed. I know this because as an E-2 Private fresh out of training someone told me "Turn it off!" and not "Shut it down!". So of course I pressed the button that said OFF. Two days later the GD techs were still fixing it. You know how ye olde artillerymen used to spike their guns if they were about to be overrun by enemy? Spiking meant literally driving a nail or bayonet into the touch-hole after which the cannon would only be usable if you drilled a new hole which would take time, so the enemy couldn't turn your guns against you during the battle. Well, it sounds like you figured out how to spike a M1A2!
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LifeSunDeath posted:It's so weird to me that people could get hit by cannons, seems like they're slow as poo poo to setup and aim, but I don't know poo poo about poo poo so whatever. Infantry formations were huge and when a battery hit one they'd go through like the men were bowling pins. The battle of Nieuwpoort in 1600, early and later stages: 
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Whether the target was fixed or not, after the barrage they definitely were not!  As for why people marched in such closed orders - cold steel was still the king of the battlefield and when it came to melee the side with the deepest and tightest formation generally had the upper hand. Artillery might seldom totally obliterate the formation like modern artillery would, but it could make holes into it or scatter the formation to make it more vulnerable to your assaulting cavalry or infantry. Nenonen fucked around with this message at 17:01 on Dec 4, 2019 |
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Cyrano4747 posted:I’ll talk poo poo about UPS all day long. I worked a summer slinging boxes into trucks at a package center. Just one for reasons to become abundantly clear. Jesus, why didn't you send the union after them hello let me guess, unionizing is treated as a capital offence I think this equation misses one element from it. Fire + fuel + air = KABOOM.
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Uthor posted:It grounds against the electrical box, right? Now you just have to figure out how to correct it!
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UraniumAnchor posted:Quick napkin math says after a 7 story free fall (~23 meters) you'd be going about 70kph, which is just this side of 'rough but survivable' with what amounts to a head on collision like that. I gotta say, the plan to use the other car as extra crumble zone was good but execution was poor.
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AutoArgus posted:How do you own a barge like that, tender transport in the backwoods like that, and not know to accelerate the barge towards the shore when taking on new loads? That's like.. literally half the job? Let me tell you about alcoholism
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Sagebrush posted:that's a cube of skin 106cm on a side Or 106 Cassandra O'Briens.
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Memento posted:The volcanology professor from my old university has been on about eight different news reports I've seen in the last 36 hours. On each one he has basically said "I have no idea why people were allowed to go there, I went there 20 years ago and never want to go back and it's literally my job" Meh, volcanologists hate fun!
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Russian Navy's carrier Admiral Kuznetsov is on fire at dock in Murmansk. Reportedly the fire started from welding and spread to diesel fuel in power plant 1. One person is missing and six have been injured. https://twitter.com/bazabazon/status/1205054965699547137 https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1205051668158697472 Kuznetsov has been at the dock for two years now after it returned from a tour in Syria. The previous accident was in October 2018 when Russia's only floating dry dock big enough to handle the ship sank and one of the cranes fell on Kuznetsov's deck. They are currently merging and enlarging two drydocks to finish the repairs by 2022. 
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Is this how they make more arborists
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Update on Kuznetsov: the fire has reportedly been extinguished.quote:Russian daily Kommersant reported on Friday that the fire started when hot metal fell down a shaft and came into contact with a pile of garbage lying on a lower deck, which included a piece of oily cloth.
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Do trucks get stuck together like dogs after they have fuckled?
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poo poo POST MALONE posted:Plays here in the US. Ditto for me in EU. I wonder how well do you get paid for freelance mine clearing. Surely the landlord would feel obligated to pay you something. I also wonder if I would want to live in a home like that even after the bomb crew has gone through the place. Just the thought of some bomb still being hidden in some hole in the wall, slowly rusting away... well, you've got to live somewhere I guess. Nenonen fucked around with this message at 13:21 on Dec 16, 2019 |
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Sagebrush posted:https://i.imgur.com/C4lXkUL.mp4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdwOX3xhZYc
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twistedmentat posted:Which is funny because there's a lot of land out there with nothing to take cover behind, and a lot of that is in the USSR. I guess they assumed war would occure in western Europe and not deserts or steppes. Well!  You dig a hole/doze up a berm, or you just keep moving. Low profile is especially handy in a terrain that offers only slight undulation for cover - even the slightest gully or depression suffices. Still, there are trade offs to everything. Low profile limits elevation of gun, effectively limiting possible unprepared hull down positions from which you can return fire, because your gun just won't go down enough if your tank is behind a slope. In general, there is no perfect tank or other AFV design because you always have to compromise one thing to get another. In the case of T-72, Soviets sacrificed some survivability to get a compact, powerful and affordable three man tank. But you don't design MBTs with just one theater in mind, that wouldn't make sense.One aspect in which European AFV specs tend to differ from American ones (post DD-Sherman) is crossing rivers, because WW2 taught us that we have rivers loving everywhere and the other guy is probably going to blow the bridges up if he thinks we might use them. Some bridges might not even carry a semitruck, so you have to think of other options. Russian tanks and German Leopards have the fording ability. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpRiTRuwLWQ Is it dangerous? Yes, but in the case of WW3 I don't think accidentally drowning in your T-80 or BMP is a fate worse than the others. But don't try this during peace time. The same goes with those WW2 DUKW tourist buses, they're not safe enough for leisure trips. Methylethylaldehyde posted:Yeah, should have been 'any hit that penetrates the crew compartment', since there are a lot of areas that'll just mission kill the tank. Even with a crew compartment penetration it's not a given that anyone dies. Logically someone should die, but tankers are not known for their logic. Nenonen fucked around with this message at 22:46 on Dec 17, 2019 |
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Lovely Joe Stalin posted:In the UK they're called "Cut & Shut". And yeah, they are absolute death traps. WOW. Come and take a look at Mr. Richie Rich here, or should I say Mr. "I-only-drive-cars-that-haven't-been-totalled-more-than-once". We get it, you're so posh that even all of your tires come from the same set. Well I'm sorry if your pretentious little rear end gets a rash from being too close to real fuckling trucks but THIS IS OSHA!          
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French Canadian posted:Im sorry but was this sugar mill video posted already? wow, can't wait to see the Bollywood version of Modern Times! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6n9ESFJTnHs&t=43s
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B33rChiller posted:They didn't even mention squat in that inforgraphic. Check the load lines in the morning, think your draft is less than the expected depth, drive your ship straight into the bottom. Good job everybody. I was going to say that this effect can also be used to get under bridges that your ship otherwise couldn't pass. The linked article explains this in the last paragraph. In the case of Oasis, they had telescoping funnels so that when funnels retracted and the ship at flank speed, they had 60 centimeters of clearance from the Belt bridge.
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PHIZ KALIFA posted:at what point do u evacuate an "Entire loving Country"? Can we somehow fit all Australians to a processing centre in Nauru?
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At first the fire damages on Kuznetsov were reported to be minor and just some cabling that was going to be replaced anyway. No harm done! As a surprise to no one, according to Kommersant that turns out to have been a big fat lie. quote:The damage caused by the fire on the Russian aircraft carrier “Admiral Kuznetsov” is effectively equivalent to the current value of the ship, at 95 billion rubles (around $1.52 billion), writes Kommersant, citing a source in the headquarters of Russia’s Northern Fleet. As an interesting aside, Forbes says the same could have - or more accurately already has - happened to US Navy: Fire That Scorched Russian Carrier Could Happen At U.S. Navy Shipyards, Too quote:It is far easier for American observers to dismiss the Admiral Kuznetsov fire as a Russian “thing”—just another consequence of Russia’s dysfunctional safety culture. But America’s shipyard safety record isn’t something to gloat over. Back in 2012, America lost a far more valuable asset, the multi-billion dollar attack submarine USS Miami (SSN 755), because a shipyard worker, eager to leave work early, set the sub on fire. How the hell do you put out a fire on a nuclear submarine?? Can you fill it with CO2? Anyway I love that USS Miami's motto was "First to fire. Twice to fire." The civilian contractor set two fires... edit: what a stupid question, I already own an accurate simulation of this Nenonen fucked around with this message at 14:33 on Dec 20, 2019 |
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Why would you ram your own line's ship when Oasis is right there next to you?!? edit to add: sheesh, I was wondering why the OP would include #FoxNews in his tweet but then I looked at his Twitter account, the guy's a living MAGA chud stereotype...  Here's a picture from a Finnish radiator factory, September 1941. 👀 
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drat, Carnival Legend likes to brawl.quote:On September 30, 2009, as Carnival Legend was leaving the berth in Cozumel, heavy winds pushed the ship against the side of Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines' Enchantment of the Seas. Carnival Legend sustained damage to her open deck areas, as well as broken glass. Both ships were able to leave for their next scheduled port after being cleared by port authorities. Nenonen fucked around with this message at 21:37 on Dec 20, 2019 |
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If airport reception desks are indestructible then why don't they make airplanes out of airport reception desk material??
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Cartoon Man posted:https://twitter.com/AugensteinWTOP/status/1208440555379802112?s=20 Huh, is it infrastructure week already? also, I'm the lonely wheel set left on the tracks
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Synthbuttrange posted:'Driving' as in herding them, like a cattle drive. https://www.mcall.com/opinion/mc-opi-turkey-drives-march-market-history-20181115-story.html I would rather go to run at Pamplonas.
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Cartoon Man posted:
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glynnenstein posted:It looks like there's tents and poo poo on some of the cars before it all burns. I wonder if people were living - and cooking - among them. Those are tarps protecting the cars from elements, blown off by the elements. e: could be some other cargo loaded on the cars, I see a box shaped object under one of them? Nenonen fucked around with this message at 13:05 on Dec 27, 2019 |
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wesleywillis posted:I was working on doing some refurbishment work on the roof of this old rear end church in France a little while back and dropped my smoke. It was still lit. You better hope they will notre claim then!
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