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Yeah, the AUP doesn't permit me to say what I mouthed when I saw those sink hole pics... needless to say it's probably the scariest thing I've seen in quite a while...
The amazing and cool photo thread
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I know this is quite old but I think we should really nominate this for one of the funniest posts of 2010Now that's a babe!
Dude, you're 14, you really should be looking at that awesome sunset instead
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That doesn't even look like a wave, it looks like a Jello Mold, but that is simply horrible, I hope Padre Island doesn't get any of that.
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Padre Island gets enough Tar Balls year round, at least the $10 beach sticker helps to clean up the beach.
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Surfs up!
No need to wax your board anymore I guess.
No need to wax your board anymore I guess.
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That wave is a very good combination of nasty and cool.
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That wave is a half mile from my house.
Yeah, I live on the Gulf Coast and I can tell you, it's amazing to see but will hurt this area for decades to come.
I'll be dead and gone before the Coast even thinks about getting back to normal and if it does, most will have gone through one or two generations which at that time, won't be in the area anymore.
It's a sad state of affairs for our area and this will have far more reaching effects than just the Gulf.
Pray that the Keys and eastern Florida don't get hit with this once the oil gets in the current loop that passes along the Eastern shores.
Yeah, I live on the Gulf Coast and I can tell you, it's amazing to see but will hurt this area for decades to come.
I'll be dead and gone before the Coast even thinks about getting back to normal and if it does, most will have gone through one or two generations which at that time, won't be in the area anymore.
It's a sad state of affairs for our area and this will have far more reaching effects than just the Gulf.
Pray that the Keys and eastern Florida don't get hit with this once the oil gets in the current loop that passes along the Eastern shores.
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^ Sooo awesome!
all I had was this, taken from a de-Havilland Dragon Rapide.
all I had was this, taken from a de-Havilland Dragon Rapide.
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How A Gun Works
A gun is a simple yet complex device of gears and levers that cause a round of ammunition to detonate with in a chamber, thus propelling, with heated gas, a solid metal projectile down a rifled barrel.
A tension spring pulls back on a part that looks like a nail called a 'firing pin' and once released by a user operated lever called a 'trigger' it will hit the back center area of a round of ammunition, striking a round component called a 'primer' or 'percussion cap.' This ammunition component or primer, filled with a soft, burning explosive material, when detonated, will shoot a stream of flames into a tight opening at the back of a shell casing called a 'flash hole.' The flash hole forms the flame into a tight stream of focused flame similar in fashion when you insert your thumb into the opening of a garden hose, which causes the stream or water to shoot far in a focused beam. The flame travels through the internals of the shell casing igniting the gun powder contained therein. The gun powder burns and super-heats the air causing an immense amount of pressure to build up.
This pressure causes the round of ammunition shell casing to expand. The expansion is contained by the internals of a 'chamber' in the firearm. The rearward expansion of the round is controlled by parts of the shell casing coming in contact with other areas of the chamber, preventing the round from traveling in unsafe directions.
With nowhere to go, the super-heated gasses push and propel a solid metal projectile (bullet) which is then forced into an area between the chamber and rifled barrel called a 'forcing cone.' The forcing cone aligns the bullet to travel safely and accurately down the barrel or a firearm and out of the barrel crown on its way to its target.
While the bullet is traveling down the barrel, the hot shell casing cools down and shrinks allowing it to be extracted with ease as not to cause any extraction jams. This is why soft, yet strong, metals are chosen to be used as shell casings for rounds of ammunition. However, when not in a strong metal chamber, the shell casing is usually not strong enough to contain the expanding gasses and can rupture causing a catastrophic failure.
Now knowing all of this, a young US Army personnel used a .50BMG round of ammunition... as a hammer. He used the back or 'primer' side of the round of ammunition to strike... a nail, which is shaped like a firing pin. What happened?
Have you ever seen a frozen chicken after it was blown up with a M80? Meat all over the place and the pink flesh in a mangled mess? Well, imagine that flesh being not pink, but bright red. Also, imagine that tiny bit of chicken wing hanging off the side was the top part of a human thumb. That's the 'amazing picture' I can't show you here that's now traveling around the internet after some US Army soldier used a 50BMG round as a hammer. I'm sure a Google search will help you find it.
That is all.
A gun is a simple yet complex device of gears and levers that cause a round of ammunition to detonate with in a chamber, thus propelling, with heated gas, a solid metal projectile down a rifled barrel.
A tension spring pulls back on a part that looks like a nail called a 'firing pin' and once released by a user operated lever called a 'trigger' it will hit the back center area of a round of ammunition, striking a round component called a 'primer' or 'percussion cap.' This ammunition component or primer, filled with a soft, burning explosive material, when detonated, will shoot a stream of flames into a tight opening at the back of a shell casing called a 'flash hole.' The flash hole forms the flame into a tight stream of focused flame similar in fashion when you insert your thumb into the opening of a garden hose, which causes the stream or water to shoot far in a focused beam. The flame travels through the internals of the shell casing igniting the gun powder contained therein. The gun powder burns and super-heats the air causing an immense amount of pressure to build up.
This pressure causes the round of ammunition shell casing to expand. The expansion is contained by the internals of a 'chamber' in the firearm. The rearward expansion of the round is controlled by parts of the shell casing coming in contact with other areas of the chamber, preventing the round from traveling in unsafe directions.
With nowhere to go, the super-heated gasses push and propel a solid metal projectile (bullet) which is then forced into an area between the chamber and rifled barrel called a 'forcing cone.' The forcing cone aligns the bullet to travel safely and accurately down the barrel or a firearm and out of the barrel crown on its way to its target.
While the bullet is traveling down the barrel, the hot shell casing cools down and shrinks allowing it to be extracted with ease as not to cause any extraction jams. This is why soft, yet strong, metals are chosen to be used as shell casings for rounds of ammunition. However, when not in a strong metal chamber, the shell casing is usually not strong enough to contain the expanding gasses and can rupture causing a catastrophic failure.
Now knowing all of this, a young US Army personnel used a .50BMG round of ammunition... as a hammer. He used the back or 'primer' side of the round of ammunition to strike... a nail, which is shaped like a firing pin. What happened?
Have you ever seen a frozen chicken after it was blown up with a M80? Meat all over the place and the pink flesh in a mangled mess? Well, imagine that flesh being not pink, but bright red. Also, imagine that tiny bit of chicken wing hanging off the side was the top part of a human thumb. That's the 'amazing picture' I can't show you here that's now traveling around the internet after some US Army soldier used a 50BMG round as a hammer. I'm sure a Google search will help you find it.
That is all.
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lol just googled it, yikes!
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I have no idea of what to google, so I'm at a loss here.
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The 14th through the 18th word from the end of Solid's post should do it.
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Yes, it did. Looks kinda like cantonese BBQ. Kinda sucks when the most complex mechanical structure in biology is reduced to looking like the towel I use to wipe down the inside of my car, except blood-hoisin red and with some metacarpals sticking out.
Also, Neal, be careful about posting pictures from the bull run.
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