>> ^dannym3141:

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I believe the visible payload outline was added with the engineer update (July?), though it may be dependent on video settings as well.

Could be you've got some sort of adblocker mechanism that's preventing you from seeing the ad that precedes your actual video? I get a Halo Reach ad and a "your video will begin in 30" message, and then the vid loads promptly when done.

(Sidebar comment: I've stopped watching Break posts because of the ad payload.)

>> ^shadownc:

You would think on such a momentous occasion that they would wait for a sunny day so they could actually...you know...see the thing fly.


Its the middle of winter, not many sunny days. The actual project they're working on is quite smart. They deal with light weight payloads, allowing smaller projects to get space time cheaply where they'd normally need to piggy back n a larger more expensive project.

>> ^redyellowblue:

Take away the 2nd and 3rd nuke and I'm gona guess the death toll was near nothing over all those years, because they were tests... in a desert.. or remote area.
If each of those nukes were aimed at a populated city containing stuff people care about and infrastructure. It would be "yabba dabba doo time"


Actually, after those pommy fuckers blew their filthy payloads over the desert of South Australia, they visited the nearby Aboriginal communities to see what effect the radiation had on them. It was a similar situation in the Pacific

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^Something about monkeys typing Shakespeare.

The visual cliches make me think that film is developing its own meta-language. Each visual cliche can be shown for a very short-time in a film because we know it's message - and don't need the full payload.

Yeah, I've seen some clips of it on youtube.

CBC's The Fifth Estate also did a piece on Bull. It would be perfect for the sift (if anyone can find it - I've been trying unsuccessfully). It's about 50 minutes long.>> ^HugeJerk:

There was a docudrama about Gerald Bull with Frank Langela playing the man that I highly recommend watching. His ideas were amazing, but it was only the Iraqi's who were willing to invest in his ideas... but they likely wanted it for something other than putting payloads into orbit.

There was a docudrama about Gerald Bull with Frank Langela playing the man that I highly recommend watching. His ideas were amazing, but it was only the Iraqi's who were willing to invest in his ideas... but they likely wanted it for something other than putting payloads into orbit.

I'm kinda with Enzo on this one. For what need is this a better solution than existing vehicles? If it's just a toy, it seems unlikely that we'll ever see the price actually come down.

I wasn't able to play the sound, so maybe they mentioned this, but I'm curious about the payload...does it have enough capacity for any cargo beyond an adult male?

>> ^entr0py:
For anyone who's interested here's the followup to the story.
http://www.kirotv.com/news/22522109/detail.html
I'd like to think that if I were a security guard in that situation I would say to myself "fuck all of the training, I don't care if I lose my job or get sued, I need to help this person". But then again I don't know what it's like to have it drilled into my head that your job is to observe and report violent crimes but never personally intervene.
And the fact that the attacker was backed up by a small gang of males in their teens and 20s gives me some sympathy for the security guards. She might not have been a threat to a an unarmed security guard, but her accomplices were.
Another fact from that article; two police officers had minutes before REFUSED the frightened girl's request to be escorted to the nearby bus tunnel (the one she was attacked in). They did however kick her and the gang that was harassing her out of Macy's and leave it at that. To me that's the real scandal.


There is a strategy for that; Use the most painful force you have at hand on the main assailant as a deterrent to the rest of the group. Have your partners hang back; ready to use their most painful physical force on the next person that comes to the main assailants aid. It is my experience that most mobs are easily deterred when you cause the leader to writhe in pain screaming "My Eyes! They burn!" In case you didn't know pepper spray has an area of effect, as well as a one target non lethal payload, and in closed spaces can incapacitate a whole room full of people.

Not sure why you guys were so way off on the height with the emergency fire extinguisher guy standing in the field off to the left at the start...


With the moon's gravity being 1/6th the earth's, the payload that even this particular unit could carry is interesting.

interesting
but unapplicable title i think
a conventional explosive would probably be useless here.. it would just turn the rock to mush and would leave the possibility of making the problem worse
while a nuclear detonation will force the rock to compress around the detonation bubble
also, getting a comparable conventional payload to that location would be highly impractical

i'm not any expert on oil/gas issues though
the iraqis set the oilfields on fire as they retreated so there might be some good documentaries about that
werner herzog did a beautiful documentary about the oil fires of kuwait in 1992; Lessons of Darkness

>> ^silvercord:
Phrase of the video: "It couldn't fire its payload beyond the range of the resulting nuclear fallout."
Shoot and run like hell.

It really makes an understanding of geometry and kinematics an important issue

Sweet! Now we can instantly stop an out of control truck carrying an explosive payload that is directly in front of one of these nifty, and I'm sure expensive, stopping poles!

PS: Wouldn't a huge wall that pops up be more ideal/safe for the surrounding area?

Also, whoever would be in the cab of that truck would most definitely die on impact...if they were going that fast.

I'm with you there man! I'm sure someone will put the 500 million aside out of the stimulus package to have that done. It's chump change.

Oh wait, those shuttles are considered barely flight worthy as is and will not fly after next year, and those new ships due in 2015, if they come in time, do not have the awesome payload to bring stuff back in from what I understand. I think the shuttle have returned a few nasty radioactive satellites in the past with that cool cargo bay.

Better that it does some more awesome science and go down in flames I suppose than be brought back to earth so my wife can molester it with her acidic fingers like with the stele of Hammurabi.

The idea is that this project would make access to space with heavy payloads much cheaper and more productive. With this you could launch giant solar farms or asteroid mining stations that might actually be profitable because the launch costs weren't too high. Or what about a giant space hotel so tourism can take off. Like I said previous about the ISS, it's a huge project that takes up tons of money and launches, but could have been lifted in one go and be much bigger.