*nsfw

(I am horrified that I understood the lyrics..)
http://www.monzy.com/intro/killdashnine_lyrics.html

You're like CLR and I'm like CLRS.
You're running csh and my shell is bash,
You're the tertiary storage; I'm the L1 cache.
I'm a web crawling spider; you an Internet mosquito;
You thought the 7-layer model referred to a burrito.
You're a dialup connection; I'm a gigabit LAN.
I last a mythical man-month; you a one-minute man.
It's like I'm running Thunderbird and you're still stuck with Pine,

Thanks! I actually written it some time ago, just waiting to plug in the 100th post link. (I may have been off by one, but close enough!)

In reply to your comment:
“Great stuff, Firefly!

Sc

In reply to your comment:
“Hey! I wrote one too:

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I sifted, weak and weary,
Over many vids and volumes of Google/YouTube lore -
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
“Tis some visitor”, I muttered, tapping at my chamber door:
Only this and nothing more.
Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flight and flutter,
In there stepped a stately Raven
of the saintly days of yore.
Adept in gouls and freaks
is she, and even other birds you see,
Achieved her hundredth post to up the score.
“Well done,” I said, while still perusing, of other vids I may be choosing,
What more from you shall we be looking for?
You brought lovely girls
we guys seek, and Wiggum’s dream a la Twin Peaks, Further good stuff to the ‘Sift, we do implore.
Action flicks from balls o’ flexin, and a ceiling dance (is most impressin’!) , a good start to continue on your chore…
Another hundred--plus half of that, to get the shine’d diamond stat
Whatever shall ye do, to raise your score?
Quoth the Raven: “Sift some more”

Congrats Raven! ””

Great stuff, Firefly!

Sc

In reply to your comment:
“Hey! I wrote one too:

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I sifted, weak and weary,
Over many vids and volumes of Google/YouTube lore -
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
“Tis some visitor”, I muttered, tapping at my chamber door:
Only this and nothing more.
Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flight and flutter,
In there stepped a stately Raven
of the saintly days of yore.
Adept in gouls and freaks
is she, and even other birds you see,
Achieved her hundredth post to up the score.
“Well done,” I said, while still perusing, of other vids I may be choosing,
What more from you shall we be looking for?
You brought lovely girls
we guys seek, and Wiggum’s dream a la Twin Peaks, Further good stuff to the ‘Sift, we do implore.
Action flicks from balls o’ flexin, and a ceiling dance (is most impressin’!) , a good start to continue on your chore…
Another hundred--plus half of that, to get the shine’d diamond stat
Whatever shall ye do, to raise your score?
Quoth the Raven: “Sift some more”

Congrats Raven! ”

Hey! I wrote one too:

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I sifted, weak and weary,
Over many vids and volumes of Google/YouTube lore -
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
“Tis some visitor”, I muttered, tapping at my chamber door:
Only this and nothing more.
Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flight and flutter,
In there stepped a stately Raven
of the saintly days of yore.
Adept in gouls and freaks
is she, and even other birds you see,
Achieved her hundredth post to up the score.
“Well done,” I said, while still perusing, of other vids I may be choosing,
What more from you shall we be looking for?
You brought lovely girls
we guys seek, and Wiggum’s dream a la Twin Peaks, Further good stuff to the ‘Sift, we do implore.
Action flicks from balls o’ flexin, and a ceiling dance (is most impressin’!) , a good start to continue on your chore…
Another hundred--plus half of that, to get the shine’d diamond stat
Whatever shall ye do, to raise your score?
Quoth the Raven: “Sift some more”

Congrats Raven!

The Snowbirds are above and beyond the best flight team I have ever seen. The Thunderbirds and Blue Angles have nothing on these guys.

Hey, that's a clip from Thunderbirds!!!
UWSA(under water surface-to-air missile) with a jet superimposed over the thing....

Last September a Thunderbird F-16C crashed just after takeoff during an airshow performance in Idaho. The pilot managed to eject 0.8 seconds before impact and walked away with only minor injuries.

As one might expect at an airshow, there were many cameras trained on Thunderbird #6 when the accident occured. Even so, this photo showing the $21 million jet just before impact is quite remarkable.

Even more remarkable is this video clip from an onboard camera showing the split-S maneuver and subsequent ejection from inside the cockpit. It’s a 4.1 megabyte mpeg, but if you can swing the bandwidth I highly recommend watching it.

As a side note, the accident investigation report was issued this week. It concluded that the accident was caused by pilot error. The pilot misinterpreted the altitude required to complete the “Split S” maneuver. He made his calculation based on an incorrect mean-sea-level (MSL) altitude of the airfield. The pilot incorrectly climbed to 1,670 feet above ground level (AGL) instead of 2,500 feet before initiating the pull down to the Split S maneuver.

It was a simple mistake. Unfortunately the stakes are very high when you’re performing low-level aerobatics.

Update - Feb 25, 2004: This entry has been receiving a lot of hits, so I thought I’d upload another video of the crash (1.3 meg, WMV format)–this time as seen from the ground. It’s every bit as dramatic as the cockpit video.

Update - Sept 21, 2004: If you liked this entry, there are a few more video clips you might be interested in.


Posted by Ron at 3:46 am

Source: http://www.rapp.org/archives/2004/01/thunderbird_crash/

Is it just me, or does the footage look like a sub-par special FX model?

I kept expecting to see Thunderbird 1 fly out of that thing.

oh yes dag, very much so. referred to as a 'blackout', the g's pool the blood into your legs. in order to counter this effect, you must flex the HELL out of your legs, and you're supposed to tense every muscle you can in your lower body. usually grunting (as if constipated) helps as well.
usually pilots wear flight suits that automatically inflate in certain areas, to repel the bloodflow into the legs.
the Blue Angels, Thunderbirds, and the like do not use G-suits, because the air bladders inside them would repeatedly deflate and inflate. That would interfere with the control stick between a pilot's legs.

conversly, pulling negative G's has the possibility of causing a 'redout' which is due to the blood rushing INTO the brain and the eyes, thus causing the pilot to see red.