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Guy Has Seizure While Skydiving
charliem says...At least in Australia, all chutes are required by law to have this. It deploys your backup chute.
Chute is a wierd word...
chute chute chute.
....chute.
Isn't there a little barometric device that automatically deploys your chute if you reach a certain altitude? Might not be standard issue. Losing consciousness, for all sort of reasons, can't be all that uncommon while skydiving.
As for why, I dunno. Some epileptics have seizures very, very rarely (like once every few years), and the medication works pretty well. I have epileptic friends who legally drive. You do need a doctor to say it's cool, though.
Of course, he may not even have epilepsy. Might be seizing for some other reason (like skydiving adrenaline awesomeness/mortal terror overload).
Anchorwoman Not Sure If Sphincter Is Word She Is Looking For
charliem says......well....shes not wrong...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esophagus#Sphincters
So you want to go fishing like a boss?
charliem says...New? It looks like a mid 90's patrol...though its hard to tell with the potato quality camera.
Why Do Aussie Trucks Have Bullbars?
charliem says...Bullbars are common not just on these b-double type trucks, but also on our offroaders. Most 4x4 cars have bullbars too.
Had no idea what Bullbars were, but what really through me was that i didn't know there were camels in Australia.
Steel, concrete, and glass swaying like blades of grass...
charliem says...Incredible the stresses must be on the foundation....how in hell are they still standing?
Why Do Aussie Trucks Have Bullbars?
charliem says...Ive been up the stuart highway before (main highway running from south - north, centre of the country), and you are literally 5+ hours away from ANYTHING (and anything is usually a TINY tiny road house, major towns are 14 hours apart).
If you damage your vehicle out there, youll be spending the night minimum.
Greece's Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis on BBC's Newsnigh
charliem says...Im not sure what to think of this guy....in the incredibly simple conversation happening here, he seems to make sense.....so why is the entire rest of europe against him?
Fox News anchors try Vegemite for the first time live on-air
charliem says...FUCK thats a lot of vegemite!!!
Aussie here - never in my life have I ever used that much, thats like....waaaayyyyy too much.
It aint nutella people!
Russian Drifting
charliem says...Winter tyres people....they make a fucking HUGE difference!!!
How long would you have stood in front of this knife thrower
charliem jokingly says...Apart from having his finger sliced open, bleeding so much that the knife thrower non-chalantly wipes his blood off the stage near the post-'trick' interview...that though? tis but a scratch!
Watch it. The guy doesn't actually get injured at all, it's just very, very close.
Stripping the paint off a car with a 1000 watt laser
charliem says...Ive no doubt
I wonder if there's an overlap between the wavelength that heats the paint and the wavelength that heats the metal.
Stripping the paint off a car with a 1000 watt laser
charliem says...Lasers have a pretty amazing attribute where you can use a wavelength that is only absorbed by certain materials, leaving all other materials entirely untouched by the photons (as they have a very high reflectivity or transmission index for the wavelength).
No idea whats going on with this system, but its possible they are using a colour that is optimised for maximal paint absorption (heats up the paint the most), whilst at the same time maximal metal reflection (doesnt transfer any energy into the metal).
Source: telecom engineer (I work with lasers...)
I was thinking the same thing. No physical force, but I can imagine it's very easy to build up heat with this thing.
Cop Accidentally Shoots Self Inside Elevator
charliem says...And what if this was a cooked round through no fault of the gun or the operator?
Most modern handguns are extremely difficult to fire accidentally. I have no idea what sort of gun it is, but he is definitely absent-mindedly fumbling around with it like an idiot before it goes off. He needs another safety course and also a new gun with better safeties.
edit:
I dunno the backup syntax offhand, but I think it's this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LS53OYmHktY
It's also one of many, and I dunno who is ripping off who.
Stripping the paint off a car with a 1000 watt laser
charliem says...a 1kw diode.......I work in telecoms around 300mW is the most ive seen, and thats extremly dangerous for your eyes.
This thing?
Uhh....nope....nope nope nope nope nope.
As to the fumes, it looks as though the front of this thing has a vacuum nozzle, you can see the dust particulate being sucked into it as he ablates the paint in some parts of the vid.
Stuck In An Elevator With A Crazy Person
charliem says...Join in, power ballard that shit.
I would have lost it when he started with the Metallica...