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- Ebony - 03-16-2011
blackaeronaut Wrote:I think it'll do a good enough job on flesh because it's been show to put holes through aluminum and char wood.At two inches. See observation number 1 above.
Ebony the Black Dragon
http://ebony14.livejournal.com
"Good night, and may the Good Lord take a Viking to you."
LAY-ZERS! - SkyeFire - 03-16-2011
Gee, I finally get some use out of that SFCONSIM membership.
Laser range is actually dependent on the diameter of the final focusing optics -- basically, the bigger the lens out front, the further it can shoot. The optics laws involved are rather beyond me, but as I understand it, lasers aren't straight -- they have dispersal. In order to burn a target, you have to be able to put the focus point of your laser emitter right on the target (which means variable-focus lenses), and there's a hard limit to how far out a lens of a given diameter can focus a beam. That's also why you can't read license plates from spy sattelites -- we know the absolute upper limit on the diameter of primary optics that either the USA or (f)USSR has ever orbited (limited by the cargo fairing diameter of ELVs and the cargo bay of the STS), and they simply aren't big enough (barring some very unlikely breakthroughs in synthetic-aperture optics, at any rate).
Lasers for antipersonnel use are also a problem in that people make bad targets for lasers ("bags of dirty water," natch). The beam cross-sectional intensity required is enough that the beam creates self-defeating turbulence in the air it travels through, so the only workable approach is to pack very large amounts of wattage into a very brief pulse. And to get the same punch as a bullet, you need to deliver enough energy to a small enough spot to cause localised explosions of the targetted flesh -- otherwise you're just causing (very nasty, granted) surface burns. Bullets are actually more efficient, in terms of expended energy, especially since they carry their energy into the target.
- Ankhani - 03-17-2011
YEAH TOAST!
http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/avU5o ... 1&hl=en_US
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The Master said: "It is all in vain! I have never yet seen a man who can perceive his own faults and bring the charge home against himself."
>Analects: Book V, Chaper XXVI
- Dartz - 03-18-2011
Japan explains the problem as Fukushima to children, the only way it knows how.
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- Bob Schroeck - 03-18-2011
...the hell? Is that real?
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
- Dartz - 03-18-2011
I honestly don't know, but I still nearly had a nuclear accident watching it.
http://laughingsquid.com/...lear-crisis-to-children/
http://www.huffingtonpost...is-cartoon_n_837190.html
Created by Kazuhiko Hachiya, It seems to have aired on national television.
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- Epsilon - 03-20-2011
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- Logan Darklighter - 03-20-2011
- Foxboy - 03-20-2011
mmmm.... Pi
What Pi Sounds Like from physicisttv on Vimeo.
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''
-- James Nicoll
- Epsilon - 03-20-2011
Foxboy Wrote:mmmm.... PiSurprisingly enjoyable.
What Pi Sounds Like from physicisttv on Vimeo.
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- Bob Schroeck - 03-21-2011
Indeed. I gotta see if my favorite FLV-to-MP3 site supports Vimeo...
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
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- Baseload - 03-21-2011
Because I love Dr Who and these just hit the net...
The two back-to-back shorts for the 2011 Comic Relief: Space and Time
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51JtuEa_OPc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkmiefoRcfU
- Baseload - 03-21-2011
O.o
Holy sweet beezus!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yE7waNi5dc0
- Logan Darklighter - 03-21-2011
Baseload Wrote:Because I love Dr Who and these just hit the net...THAT!!!!
The two back-to-back shorts for the 2011 Comic Relief: Space and Time
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51JtuEa_OPc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkmiefoRcfU
That was uproariously funny!
And all because of a short skirt! ROAWR!!! ^_^
- Matrix Dragon - 03-21-2011
Apparently, people are complaining that this years Comic Relief Doctor Who was incredibly sexist, with jokes about women not being able to drive, and Rory spending the whole time lusting over Amy. Some people, geez... One woman doesn't equal an entire gender, and come on, Rory had two versions of his incredibly hot wife in front of him. What was the poor man meant to do? :lol
- Bob Schroeck - 03-21-2011
Quote:O.oYeah, that was a surprise. The one in the middle, btw... she's enjoying the hell out of herself, while the others look scared stiff. I bet in 10 or 20 years she's a star somewhere.
Holy sweet beezus!
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
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- Dartz - 03-21-2011
And now for something completely different.
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- robkelk - 03-25-2011
http://www.bookofjoe.com/2011/03/disgra ... -the-.html]If you're leaving your post as German Defense Minister, you get a brass band at your send-off.
(And now I can't embed a video, so have a link instead.)
http://www.cbc.ca/video/news/audioplaye ... 1856352799]Same thing, audio only
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"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
- Foxboy - 03-25-2011
It's the "new" embed codes from YouTube, they refuse to work with Yuku's board software or somesuch
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''
-- James Nicoll
- Ankhani - 03-25-2011
You can still embed the videos in a post, but you have to first switch to the HTML editor with the little "HTML" button at the far left. Once you copy in the code, you can hit the button again to return to WYSIWYG mode (or just code what you like) and post.
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>Analects: Book V, Chaper XXVI
- Kat Sinclaire - 03-26-2011
I've always had a bit of an obsession for 'non-musical musicals' like these:
- Bob Schroeck - 03-26-2011
Huh. I'm pretty sure I've recc'ed this before, but if you like that kind of "found music", then you would probably like the works of Pogo (aka Fagottron), which he makes by sampling music and dialogue from films:
http://www.youtube.com/user/Fagottron
A couple favorites of mine:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fv80DLlUwNQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Za-V_lhwGg
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
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- Kat Sinclaire - 03-26-2011
Oh, yes! Pogo's always been a favorite.
I'd submit Steve Porter as another good one:
- Black Aeronaut - 03-26-2011
Oh dear sweet God help me, this is hilarious.
Based off this video...
- Logan Darklighter - 03-26-2011
They're all impressive - but I think #2 might get under-appreciated - take note of the skill and steady hand involved in making what is essentially a passenger jet do something that normally you only see aerobatic planes do, and make it look easy!
Good thing the flight line gate was open on the #4 clip or that could've gotten MESSY! ^.^
And #3? Holy GOD. There's a man with Balls of Steel! O.o