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Eyewitness video from Reno Air Race disaster
09/17/11, 23:05
Bah, it was Voodoo that almost crashed due to a trim tab coming off, not Tsunami. |
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Eyewitness video from Reno Air Race disaster
09/17/11, 22:52
My Dad was there. He has gone every year since 1964, and I've gone almost every year of my life. I had to work yesterday, or else I would have been there. I spent a good hour panicked, trying to get a hold of him after the crash. I haven't talked to him about it other than make sure he was okay.
Jimmy was a hell of a pilot, and the Galloping Ghost was a fucking amazing airplane. It wasn't really a P-51, let's be frank. It was as much a P-51 as a NASCAR is your common road car. Please don't go "WHY WAS AN 80 YEAR OLD RACING A 60 YEAR OLD PLANE!?!?!?!". Jimmy was 74 and in great shape, and he had those old man marble hands, the kind that made mine feel like deflated balloons, and gave me the impression that he could kick my ass without breaking a sweat. I feel awful for those hurt and the loved ones of those killed.
Right now, it's starting to look like a mechanical failure. The same failure that almost took out Tsunami back in the day.
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Bees turned house into hive
09/17/11, 20:23
Honey drippin' from the Ceiling? Are we sure this house wasn't infested by Usher? |
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Removing and Replacing my prosthetic eye
09/17/11, 02:34
I am okay with this.
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Minecraft - 'Elemental' Custom Map Review
09/16/11, 22:27
That's it, I'm remaking Fitzcaraldo in Minecraft. |
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Can't read my Jim Carrey face.
09/16/11, 19:28
*fap* |
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A clip from Ninja: Silent Assassin
09/15/11, 14:27
It's weird, after that guy got his weapons knocked from his hands, they just disappeared. The same exact thing happens to my tools and any loose nuts when I'm working on my car. It's maddening. |
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THE BEST GAMERS - Deus Ex : Human Revolution Review
09/15/11, 14:18
These are the only reviews I can trust. |
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Old man shows us a gopher
09/14/11, 13:07
God this is a wonderful movie. |
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Raw Video: Burning Car Lifted Off Trapped Man
09/14/11, 01:19
People: Makin' It Happen. |
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Your mom dancing on youtube
09/13/11, 22:44
It would be scary, but it would be worth it. I'm sure you'd learn a thing or two, and maybe even need physical therapy afterwords. |
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Fist of the Zombie Holocaust Survivor II
09/13/11, 01:43
Ken Fighto! |
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I Was A Deluded 9/11 Truther
09/12/11, 18:00
Haha, thanks!
Actually, both of my Dads, Step and Blood are both ex-Aerojet rocket engineers. Weirdly enough, both are friends and work at the same small start up in Sacramento. Both of are incredible dudes, who both display a level of maturity I simply will never be able to match.
My mom apparently has a type. |
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Far Too Much Current !!
09/12/11, 12:59
This is definitely a sex thing. |
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I Was A Deluded 9/11 Truther
09/12/11, 12:50
DancingShadow,
Well, no.
The WTC did not have the luxury of having a contiguous surface around the outside perimeter, nor anywhere inside. Instead, it was made up of a million tiny little pieces that all relied on one another to stay rigid. Billions of little soda cans.
If the the WTC was as strong and light, to scale, as 4 soda cans stacked on one another, the plane simply would have bounced off.
Your analogy doesn't work. |
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I Was A Deluded 9/11 Truther
09/12/11, 04:26
oops. meant as a reply. |
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I Was A Deluded 9/11 Truther
09/12/11, 04:25
You know, let me just share an anecdote with you if I can. I'm sure you'll respond in the most petulant little way, but whatever; here it goes -
My father is a rocket engineer. Once when I was very young, I asked him how thick the skin of a Titan was, as he was a lead on both the Titan II and Titan IV programs. He told me they were about as thick as a Coke can, to scale. I couldn't believe this, that something so powerful and loud could be so thin, as it seemed weak, impossible.
He had me stand on an empty soda can, and balance the best I could. After a moment or two, he leaned down and flicked the can, and immediately afterwords, the can collapsed into a neat little pile - with me on top of it.
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I Was A Deluded 9/11 Truther
09/12/11, 04:13
Oh.
That's how you talk to someone who has studied things like this almost their entire adult life?
Nevermind then. You're not interested in details. No amount of technical data will change your mind. You've made your mind up. Just like...
Well, I guess the people who also flew some planes into those buildings. No amount of reason or data or discourse could change their minds either.
I guess, congrats on carrying the flag? |
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I Was A Deluded 9/11 Truther
09/11/11, 23:14
DancingShadow, I am a Mechanical Engineer in my last year at UCB. I deal specifically in in the tensile and compressive strengths of new(ish) alloys and composites these days, but I've just about tested to the failing point of every commercially available alloy out there under just about every condition we could recreate.
Did a jet fuel fire do that alone? No.
Did a plane do that alone? No.
Did a large coincidence of many, many factors all stemming from the crash and resulting fire do that? Absolutely, especially when you think about how the place was built.
There is no mystery as to why or how the towers fell. I watched a truck fire make a section of the freeway fall down near my house in Oakland. It wasn't even that hot compared to the fire in the WTC. My point being, steel doesn't need to melt to fail. The two are far apart from one another.
I am clearly a fucking moron., though.
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Burning Man 2011: Charon - Large-Scale Zoetrope
09/11/11, 22:04
Bahaha |
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