Awesome stuff you see on the internet
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@tim Reminds me of the Tree of Tenere on the Trans-Saharan road. A tree so isolated that it is shown on large scale maps. It's not there anymore, a drunk French truck driver ran into it and knocked it down.
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@taniwharugby said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
Wow
Can't figure this out ... relativity physics tells me that as soon as they enter the plane they lose a 150km /hr head wind and should shoot forwards and down at such a velocity they are seriously injured
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@majorrage said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
@taniwharugby said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
Wow
Can't figure this out ... relativity physics tells me that as soon as they enter the plane they lose a 150km /hr head wind and should shoot forwards and down at such a velocity they are seriously injured
Doesn't this fall under the same principal as when you board a moving ramp at 100KPH (Like KITT in Knight Rider) you won't be doing 100KPH relative to the ramp, only to the road.
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Mythbusters did it
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@majorrage said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
Can't figure this out ... relativity physics tells me that as soon as they enter the plane they lose a 150km /hr head wind and should shoot forwards and down at such a velocity they are seriously injured
Que? They're doing slightly more than the speed of the plane - the difference is negligible. Once they're inside against the floor they're no longer falling. Their velocity is the plane's.
For what you're suggesting they'd have to double the plane's speed once inside. What provided that impetus?
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Think @MajorRage is referring to the loss of the headwind - so the loss of the aerodynamic drag. I actually don't think there would be that much in one of those suits and the relative velocity is basically zero between the Porter and the blokes . A little removal of air resistance isn't going to shoot them forward too much.
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@snowy said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
Think @MajorRage is referring to the loss of the headwind - so the loss of the aerodynamic drag. I actually don't think there would be that much in one of those suits and the relative velocity is basically zero between the Porter and the blokes . A little removal of air resistance isn't going to shoot them forward too much.
The drag is considerable: Think sitting on a bike at that speed. But as soon as they're inside they collapse and become part of the furniture. You need air resistance for the suit to work - there is none when you're moving at the same speed.
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@antipodean There is definitely air resistance - but not like a bike (not really any induced drag on a bike for example) and of course there is none when they are inside as the relative airflow is zero. The point was that they aren't going to shoot forward when 150km head wind is removed. They will accelerate relative to the Porter when inside the door but not dramatically.
We may well be making the same point. Anyway, after 30 years of studying aerodynamics, relative velocity, etc , I can see why it works and was just trying to work out what @MajorRage didn't get.
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I posted this in the interesting reads thread. But I reckon it sounds pretty awesome. Will make a great book and miniseries
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Awesome in a different way
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@snowy said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
@antipodean There is definitely air resistance - but not like a bike (not really any induced drag on a bike for example) and of course there is none when they are inside as the relative airflow is zero. The point was that they aren't going to shoot forward when 150km head wind is removed. They will accelerate relative to the Porter when inside the door but not dramatically.
We may well be making the same point. Anyway, after 30 years of studying aerodynamics, relative velocity, etc , I can see why it works and was just trying to work out what @MajorRage didn't get.
Thanks @snowy ... have figured it out now.
Basically the second they get inside they plane, they immediately lose the air resistance, which means they lose the drag and hence the lift. But, and I think this is Newtons first law, because they have no other force pushing them, they won't accelerate either.
Took a bit to get my head around, but follow it now.
Thanks for your response! I had you in mind when I was posting it!
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@stockcar86 said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
Awesome in a different way
ÂŁ500 compensation? For having your nutsack shredded and one cobbler bitten out? Seems fair.
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@taniwharugby Got to admire Comet's tenacity to retake the lead!
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@booboo yep, Comet looked gone for all money but didnt give up, there is a lesson there kids!
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Why they don't put Christmas lights on palm trees
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@crucial Any of those calculations are the slightest bit out...
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@catogrande said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
@crucial Any of those calculations are the slightest bit out...
It was the first one that freaked me out. He missed that wharf by fuck all.
When I first saw the clip I thought it was about those freaks that just stand or hang on the edge of high things, so when he dropped i thought I was about to see a splat!
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@crucial I found myself maneuvering for him each time.
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I thought the one jumping into that narrow jut looked the closest...crazy fecker.
@Crucial have you been to the Piroa Falls on the northern side of the Brynderwyns?
Is a spot there which I've seen people jump from the waterfall which is crazy, I did the higher but slightly less crazy jump here
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You don't want this to happen...
https://petapixel.com/2017/12/12/famous-chinese-rooftopper-falls-death-62-story-building/
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@bovidae wow, I'd read about that but not seen the clip!
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@taniwharugby said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
I thought the one jumping into that narrow jut looked the closest...crazy fecker.
@Crucial have you been to the Piroa Falls on the northern side of the Brynderwyns?
Is a spot there which I've seen people jump from the waterfall which is crazy, I did the higher but slightly less crazy jump here
Haven't been there but the scenery is impressive.
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@crucial yea nah fuck all of that
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@bovidae fuuuuuck. I hate to think what goes through his mind after he knows he's fucked
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@bovidae said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
You don't want this to happen...
https://petapixel.com/2017/12/12/famous-chinese-rooftopper-falls-death-62-story-building/
Probably just me but I would have had somebody else there as a bit of a safe guard. Oh and a harness, and rope. Oh and not be there.
Darwin award stuff really.
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@catogrande said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
@crucial Any of those calculations are the slightest bit out...
They do seem awfully close.
@bovidae said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
You don't want this to happen...
https://petapixel.com/2017/12/12/famous-chinese-rooftopper-falls-death-62-story-building/
Should have stopped at one pull-up. Hell of a price to pay to try and lift yourself out of poverty.
@mariner4life said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
@bovidae fuuuuuck. I hate to think what goes through his mind after he knows he's fucked
I'm guessing the anguished cry on the video gives it away.
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@antipodean the clip almost looks staged, wonder if there was another ledge to the right as it looks like he tried to jump across...but yeah after that 3rd pull up (why?? surely just hanging and getting back up was sufficient) and he couldn't get any purchase with his shoes, you would start panicking, after which you are basically fooked...just mental!
I guess what makes these thrillseekers famous is the fact they do it all without any safety gear.
If you want the ultimate, you gotta be willing to pay the ultimate price. It's not tragic to die doing what you love
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@taniwharugby said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
I guess what makes these thrillseekers famous is the fact they do it all without any safety gear.
Yes, (and idiots).
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@taniwharugby yeah he definitely pushed off the side of the building and looked to be looking for something.
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It wasn't the dastardly Rooskies... and it weren't the evil North Koreans...
HOW A DORM ROOM MINECRAFT SCAM BROUGHT DOWN THE INTERNET
THE MOST DRAMATIC cybersecurity story of 2016 came to a quiet conclusion Friday in an Anchorage courtroom, as three young American computer savants pleaded guilty to masterminding an unprecedented botnetâpowered by unsecured internet-of-things devices like security cameras and wireless routersâthat unleashed sweeping attacks on key internet services around the globe last fall. What drove them wasnât anarchist politics or shadowy ties to a nation-state. It was Minecraft.
It was a hard story to miss last year: In France last September, the telecom provider OVH was hit by a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack a hundred times larger than most of its kind. Then, on a Friday afternoon in October 2016, the internet slowed or stopped for nearly the entire eastern United States, as the tech company Dyn, a key part of the internetâs backbone, came under a crippling assault.
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Originally, prosecutors say, the defendants hadnât intended to bring down the internetâthey had been trying to gain an advantage in the computer game Minecraft.
âThey didnât realize the power they were unleashing,â says FBI supervisory special agent Bill Walton. "This was the Manhattan Project."
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https://www.wired.com/story/mirai-botnet-minecraft-scam-brought-down-the-internet/
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This is so accurate
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Not sure it qualifies for awesome but couldn't think of somewhere better to post it.
Guy gets knocked of his bike by a driver.
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@catogrande said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
Not sure it qualifies for awesome but couldn't think of somewhere better to post it.
Guy gets knocked of his bike by a driver.
It appears to be missing the text in bold
Ashley Wallace-Merrett pleaded guilty to dangerous driving after the incident, filmed on a dashcam.
The Judge exonerated him on the basis that he was only doing what most drivers would love to do to a fuckwit on a bike that was acting like a fuckwit on a bike.
