It looks like the elavators dont have a roof, so there is no shear point or scissoring action . How bad would you have to fuck up to cut your head off with this? Has anybody decapitated themselves in the 101 years its been running?

It looked like wind to me. If you look closely, just before he gets within about 400 or so yards from the first line of people you can see the backside of the plane getting pushed downward. It seems to keep getting pushed down for a bit after it starts (like two-three seconds). I imagine he freaked out a bit at first being so close to the runway (I assume, as he was so low and going relatively slow), but increased throttle a bit and evened things out...

But, man, that fence was getting pretty damned close and we have no idea where the runway was (if there was one on the other-side, but since it was labelled as "approach" I'm assuming there was one on the other-side).

But anyway, I'd say it was skill and a good recovery from a very nasty wind shear at a VERY horrible time.

Wind shear maybe.
Pilot error probably.
Pilot giving the people what they want most likely.

Well it ain't that the shredder's fault, eh? What, should your comment to the world suggest a challenge of sorts, or are ya a bit pissy today?? Guarantee ya that the Dual-Shear® M160 will fly right past the slate challenge....Ya seen what it can do with engine blocks??

If you provide evidence that's compelling and can be verified there is no reason why a serious academic shouldn't take it seriously. There are a lot of echochamber and lazy academic bullshit that bounces around. I'm not going to deny that I hate it and see it constantly.

But I cite again when Noam Chomsky makes an argument against something like that, he provides a mountain of fucking evidence. This video doesn't do that sir, it's a debate that should've been had after the material say a book or study or essay had been presented and a challenge had been thrown down. We've skipped a bunch of fucking steps here, we're basically sitting in a garage with some beers arguing whether or not Beiber should be legally sent back to Canada.

So far no one has been able to point me towards someone who's done serious academic work on this subject. Heck no one is even claiming like Donald Trump that they've already done the work on it.

To your point about Christopher Columbus, when I was in High School I found this out when I was given "A People's History of the United States." The reason why it was compelling to me was the shear volume of material on the subject as well as it's references. In contrast my history book had one paragraph on Christopher Columbus's finding of the nation, it was preposterous.

*isdupe and wind-shear

*promote the shear awesome grindyness of the STUMP ANNIHILATOR!

@kulpims - Yes, the physics of it suggest that even shooting fairly heavy depleted uranium shells at very high velocities at a fairly high rate of fire can't really put much of a dent in the momentum of a *very* heavy plane moving at a pretty high velocity.

Still, the pilot at the time told me in person (and some research I've done since then also suggests it may be true) that angling the gun off of perfectly straight alignment was deemed necessary due to shear forces that would require fairly dramatic pilot correction when firing the weapon.

Definitely nothing like dramatically slowing the airspeed of the plane, but I still found it impressive that the recoil of the gun became a design challenge even in such a large aircraft.

You are incorrect. Not believing is a belief. You believe there is no GOD and you can not prove it 100% Its is the same on my side I can not Prove it 100%.

Its like the RUSH song Freewill "If you chose not to decide you still made a choice"

The evidence is overwhelming that there is a GOD. Living objects are so complex it is impossible to conceive that all this on earth is by happenstance.

If you don't believe in GOD than you are an evolutionist by default.

How do you explain the complexity DNA?
There are over 3 Billion base pairs in DNA in humans. Through evolution?
Evolutionists say man has been on earth for about 200,000 years.


The earth is 4.5 Billion years old.
How many evolution cycles to get to 3.17 billion base pairs of DNA in the right order to make a human?



What about Quantum Mechanics?
Its shear existence is dismissive of evolution.


That is just 2 examples, there are many others with out being a bible thumper.

How about you don't put words in my mouth? I never said "They get what they ask for". I said "If you don't like it, STOP DOING IT". Same with BR, only with a little less tact.

Seriously, did you read my post? It's effectively 4 or 5 paragraphs saying A) We don't know what goes on prior to filming, and B) If you don't like what you're doing, find the strength to walk away.

I won't go into a full breakdown of my original post, because I feel that if anybody actually took the time to read it, they'd see that i'm definitely not advocating rape (I'd like to point out a quote from my original post: "Maybe we will get rape sites, and if that happens then I fear for the sake of civilized society" you know, saying that I'm hoping that never becomes a reality because of the shear horror that would bring.)

In short, get off whatever soap box you think you're on, because your comment was effectively "Fuck BR->fuck the chick in this vid her views are unrealistic and silly->Fuck BR and Sheppard."

What an absolute dick. We are now entering special times in which these idiots can do this type of commercial political blundering. Since he is the all powerful and magical "job creator" and more a BILLIONAIRE he is allowed absolute leeway by the party he is fighting for, The Republican Party, and right after the debate this is the very first ad I saw--the first time I've seen it too.

Ignorance truly is bliss... How great it would be to have Mitt's money let alone THIS guy's money, to literally make an AD to shape an election! Who thought this was a good idea again... What a tragic and stupid mistake that little decision was; if it isn't reversed who the hell knows how far the rabbit hole WILL go one day. Probably like rule # 34 on the Internet...

I thought this was an ad that truly needed to be seen by people, not to agree with it, though I'm sure some will, but to show the shear ineptitude and soul-sucking nature of it's power.

Might as well *promote and let the masses see it.

Yeah, call me a nerd but i was actually wanting to hear a hypothesis...

But now i think about it it's probably a 'how long is a length of string' argument. The tower has to be as long as it's cumulative weight based on gravity at different lengths from sea level. It's weight depends on the materials used and the structures at different points (base, flexible joints, etc)

Every different design for a space elevator probably has a different length and weight?

However i would be interested in how the forces / torque shape up on such a structure.
e.g. G at both ends, stresses at mid point pulling in both directions, flex, wind shear, torque, harmonics. Is it better at the equator than anywhere else?

As for the LEGO™ Playset don't bother looking for it, it got the required votes, but I'm afraid LEGO™ has a stick up their ass about it. Its just zombies for hells sakes! Let people have their fun, I'd get my kids that, assuming they think zombies are cool.

I'm sure they have police Playsets that of course are really age inappropriate considering the amount of shear violence in the movies and television police roles portray... Do we really want are kids to become police? They seemingly shoot more often than soldiers in war movies--I'm not kidding, pick a fairly violent cop drama and compare a semi-average war drama (nothing over the top for both or you'll end up with things like Dirty Harry vs. Rambo). But LEGO is happy to portray them non-stop... (yes, I know this is all a tongue-in-cheek response, but I really would like one to stick in the corner of the room, it's awesome, just look at it!).

I still love my LEGO™s, especially now that they can get so damned complex.

If you were wondering what the definition of "shear force" was...