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The Taylor-made CVPL Chat Thread!

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  • #4682
    Victor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,717 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    otnomart wrote: »
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    Major Lovechild wrote: »
    oh-nonot-this-crap-again.jpg
    No, it's pee. I think they us a vacuum cleaner thing for the poo.


  • #4683
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 94,925 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    New Home wrote: »
    Vertical Take-Off Of A Boeing 787 Dreamliner (I hope nobody's air sick...)

    p45w08m724.gif
    Nowhere near vertical. Just the effect of a long lens.





    I was told this story by an air traffic controller from his time at a joint military/civilian airport. An F-4 (USAAF fighter jet) pilot requested clearance to take off, but due to the amount of civilian traffic the ATC told him he'd have to hold. After a repeated impatient request by the F-4 to take-off the ATC suggested that if the pilot could reach 14,000ft within half the runway length he could take off; otherwise he would have to hold. To the ATC's surprise the F-4 pilot acknowledged the tower and began to roll. At the halfway mark the F-4 went vertically up until he reached 14,000ft, then levelled off. The ATC had no option than to hand the pilot over to departures and wish him a nice day, since he'd met the conditions laid down. The ATC said it was the darndest thing he ever saw.

    'the F4, proof that with enough thrust, even a brick can fly'


  • #4684
    Capt'n Midnight
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    Beric Dondarrion wrote: »
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    Time heals all wounds.








    Time wounds all heals.


  • #4685
    Victor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,717 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    joujoujou wrote: »
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    This is not a fight between pedestrians and bikes. This is a fight between empty cars and people.


  • #4686
    Victor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,717 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    Mr.Wemmick wrote: »
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    One can **never** be too fabulous.


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  • #4687
    blackbox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,069 ✭✭✭blackbox


    Victor wrote: »
    This is not a fight between pedestrians and bikes. This is a fight between empty cars and people.

    It's a fight between the pedestrians and the lamp posts!


  • #4688
    joujoujou
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,243 ✭✭✭✭joujoujou
    Unregistered Users


    New Home wrote: »
    rzvjt316b0.jpg

    If this dog had turned aggressive, he'd be completely justified. Humans are despicable.

    One of these moments I think human race deserves extinction.


  • #4689
    RobertFoster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,387 ✭✭✭RobertFoster


    New Home wrote: »
    Bus doing donuts
    CIE version from 1965 (~3:30 mark)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLUqAUu9y2Y


  • #4690
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,161 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    CGI in 1985

    You forgot 1982.
    MV5BZjY2MDQyN2UtZWJmZC00YmJhLWEzMTEtN2U0Nzc2MDdhMzZhXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyOTg3NzA4ODI@._V1_FMjpg


  • #4691
    Capt'n Midnight
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    New Home wrote: »
    You forgot 1982.
    https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BZjY2MDQyN2UtZWJmZC00YmJhLWEzMTEtN2U0Nzc2MDdhMzZhXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyOTg3NzA4ODI@._V1_FMjpg
    No CGI in that pic :P


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  • #4692
    New Home
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    Are you saying they faked that, too? :eek:


  • #4693
    IrishZeus
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    Wasn’t the moon landing in 1969?!


  • #4694
    New Home
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    That's what they want you to believe. :pac:


  • #4695
    Capt'n Midnight
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    New Home wrote: »
    That's what they want you to believe. :pac:

    Did you know, some people still think the moon is real :rolleyes:


  • #4696
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,161 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    But it is, it's made of cheese. Wallace and Gromit confirmed it (but it was waaaay later than the '60s).


  • #4697
    KAGY
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,102 ✭✭✭KAGY


    vh4sd wrote: »
    straight line

    Or just Guatemala and cuba, (or florida and mexico, I'm only eyeballing it) if you head the other way


  • #4698
    Capt'n Midnight
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    vh4sd wrote: »
    fyzzrCz.jpg



    http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=SYD-DUB
    Or you could go the short way via Outer Mongolia.


  • #4699
    wally79
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,947 ✭✭✭wally79


    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=SYD-DUB
    Or you could go the short way via Outer Mongolia.

    So disappointed to see Captain Midnight posting in the no chat thread and quoting a picture

    "You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain." - Harvey Dent


  • #4700
    josip
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,760 ✭✭✭✭josip


    Is that Tom Hanks?


    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=117428008&postcount=1326


  • #4701
    aaronjennings
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,516 ✭✭✭aaronjennings


    KAGY wrote: »
    Or just Guatemala and cuba, (or florida and mexico, I'm only eyeballing it) if you head the other way

    If you go north through the Arctic, you can reach New Zealand in a straight line, with north-east Russia the only country you'd have to pass through

    https://earth.google.com/earth/d/1_J4WRcT_uQR95GhLpudv26yZ5hJvxzxK?usp=sharing


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  • #4702
    fritzelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,121 ✭✭✭✭fritzelly


    Why not just go straight thru the earth - using gravity you'd be there prompto


  • #4703
    KAGY
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,102 ✭✭✭KAGY


    fritzelly wrote: »
    Why not just go straight thru the earth - using gravity you'd be there prompto

    You know, that actually is the only straight line. The rest are all on the surface of a sphere


  • #4704
    Capt'n Midnight
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    fritzelly wrote: »
    Why not just go straight thru the earth - using gravity you'd be there prompto
    Don't watch the remake of Total Recall if you know anything about physics.

    There's people fighting outside a vehicle is travelling at over Earth's escape velocity in a place where the pressure would turn gases to solids also it's kinda hot.

    And it's not a straight drop either.
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  • #4705
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    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    Don't watch the remake of Total Recall if you know anything about physics.

    There's people fighting outside a vehicle is travelling at over Earth's escape velocity in a place where the pressure would turn gases to solids also it's kinda hot.

    Spoiler Alert!!! Next you'll be telling us he totally recalled what had happened in the past.


  • #4706
    Capt'n Midnight
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    aaronjennings wrote: »
    If you go north through the Arctic, you can reach New Zealand in a straight line, with north-east Russia the only country you'd have to pass through

    https://earth.google.com/earth/d/1_J4WRcT_uQR95GhLpudv26yZ5hJvxzxK?usp=sharing

    http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=AKL-RKV-DUB more like Alaska ?


  • #4707
    GrumpyMe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,195 ✭✭✭GrumpyMe


    fritzelly wrote: »
    Why not just go straight thru the earth - using gravity you'd be there prompto
    Using gravity you'd only be half way there pronto. The other half you'd be working against gravity!
    (Since the whole idea is completely bonkers - this post is totally tongue in cheek).;)


  • #4708
    fritzelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,121 ✭✭✭✭fritzelly


    GrumpyMe wrote: »
    Using gravity you'd only be half way there pronto. The other half you'd be working against gravity!
    (Since the whole idea is completely bonkers - this post is totally tongue in cheek).;)

    Actually your downward velocity would take you the other half of the way almost, unless you were travelling in a vacuum then you could keep going back and forth forever


  • #4709
    Capt'n Midnight
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    fritzelly wrote: »
    Actually your downward velocity would take you the other half of the way almost, unless you were travelling in a vacuum then you could keep going back and forth forever
    It would have to be a vacuum as otherwise even gases would be solid under the pressure at the core. Then there'd be the problem of how to maintain a vacuum there.

    Or you could look at the maths https://blog.wolframalpha.com/2012/08/13/the-science-of-total-recall/


  • #4710
    Wilberto
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 8,582 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wilberto


    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    It would have to be a vacuum as otherwise even gases would be solid under the pressure at the core. Then there'd be the problem of how to maintain a vacuum there.

    Or you could look at the maths https://blog.wolframalpha.com/2012/08/13/the-science-of-total-recall/


    That's the easy part! Just bring a Dyson.


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  • #4711
    Capt'n Midnight
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    Wilberto wrote: »
    That's the easy part! Just bring a Dyson.
    But they suck ...


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