You expect me to believe he never screamed once in Hercules Goes Bananas?

EndAll might have discarded his sift, but I knew there was another one:
*dupeof=http://videosift.com/video/You-fool-Do-you-have-any-idea-how-much-those-flares-cost-us

Didn't find it until I went through the list of videos in both wings and military, since it wasn't tagged Hercules nor C-130.

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@Shepppard

Firstly, ya got me. I totally didn't click your links.


Secondly, I present a rebuttal:

Whether the Hercules is military owned or not was not my suggestion. And whether a peaceful civilization or not, a form of organized defense is necessary should a time come it is required.

However, the US has misused, nay, abused their power for centuries and I was only poking fun at people who jump the gun to libel the current government. So distinguishing between who might own the vehicle is not really relevant to my attempt at humor.
>> ^Shepppard:

@<a rel="nofollow" href="http://videosift.com/member/freernuts" title="member since April 25th, 2009" class="profilelink">freernuts
"The Lockheed C-130 Hercules is a four-engine turboprop military transport aircraft"
"The Lockheed AC-130 gunship is a heavily-armed ground-attack aircraft"
Next time try actually clicking the links I posted, and reading the first line

@freernuts

"The Lockheed C-130 Hercules is a four-engine turboprop military transport aircraft"

"The Lockheed AC-130 gunship is a heavily-armed ground-attack aircraft"

Next time try actually clicking the links I posted, and reading the first line

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

The smoke looks like the Grim Reaper.


Totally! And "Angel" pattern? More like Angel of Death. [insert anti-war, anti-Republican, hooray anarchy rant]

>> ^Shepppard:

For the record: There's a difference between a C-130, and an AC-130.
A C-130 "Hercules" is just a regular troop/supply transport, whereas an AC-130 "Spooky" is flying gunship.
There doesn't seem to be any visible guns, so I'm going to wager a guess that this is just a C-130


It's a cargo ship...

For the record: There's a difference between a C-130, and an AC-130.

A C-130 "Hercules" is just a regular troop/supply transport, whereas an AC-130 "Spooky" is flying gunship.

There doesn't seem to be any visible guns, so I'm going to wager a guess that this is just a C-130

(http://www.warplane.co.uk/Wales.htm):
Machynlleth Loop

The most appropriate place to start with is the Machynlleth Loop which is usually referred to by aircrews as ‘The Loop’ although the USAF crews refer to it as ‘The Roundabout’. It is literally a roundabout of flowed valleys running counter-clockwise following the A470 north eastwards from Machynlleth in the south to Dinas Mawddwy then heading north west to join the A487 at the Cross Foxes Inn. From here it follows the A487 southwards through Corris to end back at Machynlleth. Ordnance Survey Explorer Map OL23 is recommended for anyone planning a visit.

It is arguably the busiest part of the UK low fly system and although the cold war days of up to 80 plus movements in a day are long gone it is still sometimes possible to see 30 plus aircraft in one day. The usual daily total is usually between 10 and 20 aircraft mainly made up of Hawks with the odd Tornado, Harrier or Hercules thrown in. It is certainly the place to go to practice your panning technique.

It takes about 3 minutes for a jet aircraft to do a circuit of the Loop and multiple passes by aircraft is not an uncommon sight, especially by Hawks. So whenever you see an aircraft it is worth checking to see if it looks like doing a circuit as you may be lucky enough to see it again in 3 minutes.

You have been awarded 1 Power Point for fixing the embed code for Dead Pool video Hughes H-4 Hercules "Spruce Goose" Maiden Flight. Thank you for helping maintain VideoSift's reliability.

It was easier in the past when there were fewer members. I began with a charter so's I could maintain more in the queue-This does not work anymore and it has everything to do with my reputation here of calling bullshit bullshit, with reckless disregard for keeping people's damaged, emotionally-dependent, psyches comfortable and undisturbed.

BF's correct, popularity contests akin to a middle-school pep-rally prevail. If there was a brownnoser's hall of fame here some of the top users with regard to status/votes cast would get a big gold star from the teachers/enablers.
For example: NetRuiner caters to the news-addicted liberal, whose only hope for significant change is on another channel that does not rhyme with "box" (the rude awakening comes much farther down the road, when all news is found to be no news at all, it all having been formulated and programmed for mass-hypnosis)

Or gwiz665, who feels compelled to comment or offer his two-cents on any and all subjects, erudite Ren-man that he fancies himself to be....His claim to fame? He has no life and put in ungodly hours to excel.

Now arvana on the other hand, has an eye for the ultra-unmundane-He speaks little, and finds some incredible stuff-His rise to fame here was nothing short of Hercules' quest for fleece and he did it without Jason, kissing-asses, etc. Perhaps we should all find a Tantric high-priestess and disappear to the far-north.

My advice? Talk more shit than you take, up the volume on your posts, and sift stoned.

This is from Arnold's first movie, Hercules in New York (1970). The movie is terribly good. Be sure to watch the bear fight sequence.

Even the old folks never knew
Why they call it like they do
I was wondering since the age of two
Down on copperline
Copper head, copper beech
Copper kettles sitting side by each
Copper coil, cup o'georgia peach
Down on copperline
Half a mile down to morgan creek
Leaning heavy on the end of the week
Hercules and a hog-nosed snake
Down on copperline
We were down on copperline

One summer night on the copperline
Slip away past supper time
Wood smoke and moonshine
Down on copperline
One time I saw my daddy dance
Watched him moving like a man in a trance
He brought it back from the war in france
Down onto copperline
Branch water and tomato wine
Creosote and turpentine
Sour mash and new moon shine
Down on copperline
Down on copperline

First kiss ever I took
Like a page from a romance book
The sky opened and the earth shook
Down on copperline
Down on copperline
Took a fall from a windy height
I only knew how to hold on tight
And pray for love enough to last all night
Down on copperline
Day breaks and the boys wakes up
And the dog barks and the birds sings
And the sap rises and the angels sigh, yeah

I tried to go back, as if I could
All spec house and plywood
Tore up and tore up good
Down on copperline
It doesn't come as a surprise to me
It doesn't touch my memory
Man I'm lifting up and rising free
Down on over copperline
Half a mile down to morgan creek
I'm only living for the end of the week
Hercules and a hog-nosed snake
Down on copperline, yeah
Take me down on copperline
Oh, down on copperline
Take me down on copperline

As per the tags, it seems Liam Hoekstra has a genetic mutation affecting production of myostatin, a protein that is known in some animals to limit muscle growth. Before Liam, it was unclear whether myostatin performs the same function in humans, but his development seems to strongly indicate it does. As the condition is very rare, it's not known whether there will be any downsides to the mutation in the long run. Presumably there's a reason evolution hasn't selected more strongly for this mutation, but it could just be that in harsher conditions, a high metabolism and high muscle mass may not be ideal as someone with such a body will require more nourishment than a less-muscular person. Also the ability to put on fat is quite important for anyone without a guaranteed, steady source of energy. In a wealthy society, however, famine is not very common, so this kid may do just fine.

The idea has been thrown in the air, by the way, that the myth of Hercules might have stemmed from someone with this mutation. Completely unverifiable, of course, but a fun thought anyway.


Edit: Apparently this kid's condition is a little different, I was thinking of a German child whose body wasn't producing myostatin, leading to increased muscle growth. This is related as well, but apparently Liam's body does produce myostatin, it just isn't affecting him in the usual way. Apparently there could be several myostatin-related methods to increase muscle growth.

>> ^Jesus_Freak:
Wow. I'm accused of making lazy arguments, when some of the best you guys can throw at me is that we have 100% odds of living on the planet we live on under the conditions that currently exist. That's not lazy?
"Well, we're here, so how we got here is irrelevant."

Let's be clear about this. No scientist has ever or would ever say that "how" we got here is irrelevant. Why do you think so many people are fighting to make sure natural selection and the theory of evolution are taught in schools?

No, what's irrelevant is the "odds" against life developing. As with an earlier example that you seem to have ignored (big surprise), imagine you roll a die a thousand times and write down the numbers you get in order. Now show that list to someone and say "What are the odds against rolling those numbers in that exact order?" The odds against it would be enormous! But that doesn't mean God made those numbers happen, it happened because the die was rolled and there was a record. It doesn't matter what the odds against doing it again are, because it already happened. It took an estimated 13.7 billion years for life to develop to this point. A whole lot of crazy shit can happen in that amount of time, with an estimated 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars and who knows how many planets and moons around each star?

So what are the odds against you having rolled that sequence of numbers on the die? Zero. It happened. There are no odds against it. The odds against it happening again may be huge, but it happened once and there's no wagering against that. So the odds against life developing on Earth? Zero. It happened. Pick something else to base your silly arguments on.


"I do take exception to how off-handedly dismiss the Bible, though. The Bible has been validated through historical accuracy of events depicted, is a unique document in all of human history, and is validated through the fulfillment of prophecy over time."

There are massive and glaring historical inaccuracies, or at the very least, completely uncorroborated by contemporary historians. There is no evidence of Herod's Massacre of the Innocents, no evidence that a "city" named Nazareth existed at that time, no evidence that there was a tradition of letting a prisoner go free (when the crowd supposedly chose Barabbas instead of Jesus), no record of a disruption in the temple during passover (when Jesus drove out the money changers), no record of a prophet who had thousands of people going to listen to him.

There were a number of good writers in those times, many of whom wrote on the events of the times. Nobody mentioned a person resembling Jesus at all until many decades after his supposed death.


"The lazy argument probably on the tip of your tongue is that the Bible has been altered a bazillion times to make it look like it got the story right. You've got quite a steep slope to climb to make that argument. The Bible includes 40 authors, 3 languages, 3 continents, and a authorship span of 1500 years. Studies have verified that the transcripts have held up without material alteration according to the earliest known records."

You are off your rocker. All you have to do is look at a few passages from a few different translations to know that is complete bunk. Consider for instance the most famous of the ten commandments: Thou shalt not kill - King James Version. That is also translated as "You shall not murder." (New International Version) Consider the difference between killing someone and murdering someone. Killing can be self defense, or what a soldier does in war. So making a new translation that uses the word "murder" instead will allow priests the justification to let people go become soldiers, or perhaps use the death penalty ("It's not murder, it's justice.") Huge difference in just that one translation, and you think that doesn't happen all over the bible? You know nothing. And religion depends on you remaining ignorant and pliant. Why do you think it took so long to translate the bible into English? Because before that happened, the priests had complete and utter control over the interpretation. Now they have to twist the words around and create convoluted justifications for weird stories there. It's not as easy, and fewer people are buying their bullshit every day.


"I'm still not impressed with the answers."

You won't be impressed with anything that anyone has to tell you about the truth behind religion until you stop holding on to the idea that blind faith is a good thing. Faith in something without any evidence is never considered a good thing by anybody, with the sole exception of religion.

If you want to be impressed, start looking for real evidence that what you believe about God is true. And when you find that there is none, anywhere, except for the dubious scribblings of some unknown authors many centuries ago, maybe then you'll be impressed. But I suspect your head is just too far under the sand for that to happen.


"If you want to get into a theological debate on whether my Bible is rubbish...I ask a similar question. Why would Jesus' disciples subject themselves to being cultural outcasts and ultimately suffer fates of excile and execution if they didn't truly believe in the message? Wouldn't at least one of them, seeing their reflection in the executioner's sword, yell out "Just kidding!" unless they passionately knew theirs was the most important message of all time?"

You don't know the bible at all do you? "And Peter remembered the word of Jesus, which said unto him, Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. And he went out, and wept bitterly." Who knows how many others abandoned their belief after supposedly being in the presence of the Christ himself, and we are all asked to devote our lives to him without even having met the guy? Again I call bullshit. If God wants me to believe in him, he can come tell me why himself.

But the messages I'm getting lately are quite the opposite. Just a few years ago I discovered there is no evidence outside of the bible that the person we call Jesus even existed.

"The Bible depicts Herod, the Ruler of Jewish Palestine under Rome as sending out men to search and kill the infant Jesus, yet nothing in history supports such a story. Pontius Pilate supposedly performed as judge in the trial and execution of Jesus, yet no Roman record mentions such a trial. The gospels portray a multitude of believers throughout the land spreading tales of a teacher, prophet, and healer, yet nobody in Jesus' life time or several decades after, ever records such a human figure. The lack of a historical Jesus in the known historical record speaks for itself."

- Jim Walker, nobeliefs.com

The Jews were very good record keepers, and these glaring omissions are very telling.

On the other hand, there are many, many legendary mythological figures, from Mithras to Hercules, that have a very similar story to Jesus. I see absolutely no reason why Jesus isn't just one more myth that will eventually fade into time and be taught along side Greek and Roman mythology.

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