Topic: Youtube easter egg
+ !NoGoD1GamE — 13 years ago #26,397
1. Go to youtube
2. Pause any video
3. Click outside the vid panel and type 1980
4. Enjoy your Missle Command
2. Pause any video
3. Click outside the vid panel and type 1980
4. Enjoy your Missle Command
+Anonymous B — 13 years ago, 10 minutes later[T] [B] #311,718
· !NoGoD1GamE (OP) — 13 years ago, 5 minutes later, 15 minutes after the original post[T] [B] #311,720
+The Doctor !7MHPahvoGY — 13 years ago, 2 minutes later, 18 minutes after the original post[T] [B] #311,721
·Anonymous B — 13 years ago, 10 minutes later, 29 minutes after the original post[T] [B] #311,726
@previous (The Doctor !7MHPahvoGY)
Do you actually play it? Not trying to prevoke you, I really really want to know.
Is the joke truly that people can't appreciate less flashy games, or are you purposely giving inaccurate advice?
@311,720 (!NoGoD1GamE)
Stop practicing, Asshole.
Do you actually play it? Not trying to prevoke you, I really really want to know.
Is the joke truly that people can't appreciate less flashy games, or are you purposely giving inaccurate advice?
@311,720 (!NoGoD1GamE)
Stop practicing, Asshole.
(Edited 19 seconds later.)
· !NoGoD1GamE (OP) — 13 years ago, 4 minutes later, 33 minutes after the original post[T] [B] #311,729
+Antikhristos !M6R0eWkIpk — 13 years ago, 2 hours later, 3 hours after the original post[T] [B] #311,749
Disclaimer: This does not give you access to a launch control center or ICBMs. I apologize on OP's behalf to everyone else that was disappointed by this.+Anonymous E — 13 years ago, 1 minute later, 3 hours after the original post[T] [B] #311,751
@previous (Antikhristos !M6R0eWkIpk)
Even with access you still have a couple other things to overcome.
Even with access you still have a couple other things to overcome.
·Antikhristos !M6R0eWkIpk — 13 years ago, 5 minutes later, 3 hours after the original post[T] [B] #311,753
@previous (E)
Ugh. Why do these nazi fucks want to make orchestrating the end of the world into such a hassle?
Ugh. Why do these nazi fucks want to make orchestrating the end of the world into such a hassle?
·Anonymous E — 13 years ago, 2 minutes later, 3 hours after the original post[T] [B] #311,755
@previous (Antikhristos !M6R0eWkIpk)
To preclude the inadvertent selection, monitoring, prearming, enabling...uh I do not know why they do that.
To preclude the inadvertent selection, monitoring, prearming, enabling...uh I do not know why they do that.
·Antikhristos !M6R0eWkIpk — 13 years ago, 5 minutes later, 3 hours after the original post[T] [B] #311,758
@previous (E)
I'll have to send a complaint to someone at the DOD. I guess there's always hope with biological weapons though. Although I'd probably accidentally kill myself in the process. Mix up anthrax for ketamine and do a line or something.
I'll have to send a complaint to someone at the DOD. I guess there's always hope with biological weapons though. Although I'd probably accidentally kill myself in the process. Mix up anthrax for ketamine and do a line or something.
·Anonymous E — 13 years ago, 4 minutes later, 3 hours after the original post[T] [B] #311,759
@previous (Antikhristos !M6R0eWkIpk)
For nukes you will want the Department of Energy but the DOD will point you in the right direction.
For nukes you will want the Department of Energy but the DOD will point you in the right direction.
·Antikhristos !M6R0eWkIpk — 13 years ago, 5 minutes later, 3 hours after the original post[T] [B] #311,762
@previous (E)
Just another hurdle. Supposedly several nukes have been lost at sea by various superpowers. I wonder if they'd still be salvageable? Although launching them may be something of an issue, but really I'd just need to detonate one anyway. Not sure how fast they degrade or if it'd be less effective after being exposed to all that for a few years.
Just another hurdle. Supposedly several nukes have been lost at sea by various superpowers. I wonder if they'd still be salvageable? Although launching them may be something of an issue, but really I'd just need to detonate one anyway. Not sure how fast they degrade or if it'd be less effective after being exposed to all that for a few years.
·Anonymous E — 13 years ago, 8 minutes later, 3 hours after the original post[T] [B] #311,765
·Antikhristos !M6R0eWkIpk — 13 years ago, 19 minutes later, 3 hours after the original post[T] [B] #311,767
·Anonymous E — 13 years ago, 14 minutes later, 4 hours after the original post[T] [B] #311,774
@previous (Antikhristos !M6R0eWkIpk)
They'll just want to ask a few questions, not inconvenience you. But they'll need to see you in their offices and since they don't want to inconvenience you they will send a car over to pick you up.
They'll just want to ask a few questions, not inconvenience you. But they'll need to see you in their offices and since they don't want to inconvenience you they will send a car over to pick you up.
·Antikhristos !M6R0eWkIpk — 13 years ago, 9 minutes later, 4 hours after the original post[T] [B] #311,779
@previous (E)
How thoughtful of them. I must admit I do have this sneaking suspicion they'd give me free housing as well and I'd be conveniently forgotten about for a while.
How thoughtful of them. I must admit I do have this sneaking suspicion they'd give me free housing as well and I'd be conveniently forgotten about for a while.
·Anonymous E — 13 years ago, 4 minutes later, 4 hours after the original post[T] [B] #311,782
@previous (Antikhristos !M6R0eWkIpk)
You would never have to pay taxes again. I wouldn't be so sure about the free housing.
You would never have to pay taxes again. I wouldn't be so sure about the free housing.
·Antikhristos !M6R0eWkIpk — 13 years ago, 1 minute later, 4 hours after the original post[T] [B] #311,784
@previous (E)
True. Idk, I think I'd have a nice little one bedroom with a cot. It'd be very secure.
True. Idk, I think I'd have a nice little one bedroom with a cot. It'd be very secure.
·Anonymous E — 13 years ago, 3 minutes later, 4 hours after the original post[T] [B] #311,787
+FuckAlms !vX8K53rFBI — 13 years ago, 56 seconds later, 4 hours after the original post[T] [B] #311,789
@311,762 (Antikhristos !M6R0eWkIpk)
Forrestal had departed Norfolk in early June 1967. Upon completion of the required inspections for the upcoming WESTPAC Cruise, she then went on to Brazil for a show of force. She then set sail around the horn of Africa, and went on to dock for a short while at Leyte Pier at N.A.S. Cubi Point in the Philippine Islands before sailing to "Yankee Station" in the Gulf of Tonkin on July 25. For four days in the gulf, aircraft of Attack Carrier Air Wing 17 flew about 150 missions against targets in North Vietnam.
By 1967, the ongoing naval bombing campaign from Yankee Station represented by far the most intense and sustained air attack operation in the navy's history, with monthly demand for general purpose bombs ("iron bombs") greatly exceeding new production. The on-hand supply of bombs had dwindled throughout 1966 and become critically low by 1967, particularly the new 1000-lb. Mark 83, which the navy greatly favored for its power-to-size ratio: a carrier-launched A4 Skyhawk, the navy's standard ground attack aircraft of the period, could carry either a single 2000-lb. bomb, or two 1000-lb. bombs, with the ability to strike two separate hardened targets in a single sortie being seen as more desirable in most circumstances. Until 1971, the US Air Force's primary ground attack aircraft in Vietnam was the much heavier land-based F-105 Thunderchief which could carry 2 2,000-lb. M118 bombs and 4 750-lb. M117 bombs (both of which had large stockpiles available) simultaneously on a single sortie, and thus did not need to rely as heavily on the limited supply of 1000-lb. bombs the way the navy did.
In training, the damage control team specializing in on-deck firefighting for Forrestal (Damage Control Team #8, led by Chief Petty Officer Gerald Farrier) had been shown films of navy ordnance tests demonstrating how a 1000-lb bomb could be directly exposed to a jet fuel fire for full 10 minutes and still be extinguished and cooled without an explosive cook off.[4] However, these tests were conducted using the new Mark 83 1000 lb bombs which featured relatively stable Composition H6 explosive filler and thicker, heat-resistant cases compared to their predecessors; H6, which is still used in many types of naval ordnance due to its relative insensitivity to heat, shock and electricity, is also designed to deflagrate instead of detonate when it reaches its ignition point in a fire, either melting the case and producing no explosion at all or at most a subsonic low order detonation at a fraction of its normal power.
The day before the accident (28 July), the Forrestal was resupplied with ordnance from the ammunition ship USS Diamond Head. The load included 16 1000-lb. AN-M65A1 "fat boy" bombs (so nicknamed because of their short, rotund shape), which the Diamond Head had picked up from the Subic Bay Naval Base and were intended for the next day's second bombing sortie. The batch of AN-M65A1 "fat boys" the Forrestal received were surplus from World War II, having spent roughly three decades exposed to the heat and humidity of the Philippine jungles while improperly stored in open-air Quonset huts at a disused ammunition dump on the periphery of Subic Bay Naval Base. Unlike the thick-cased Mark 83 bombs filled with Composition H6, the AN-M65A1 bombs were thin-skinned and filled with Composition B, an older explosive with greater shock and heat sensitivity; Composition B also had the dangerous tendency to become more powerful (up to 50% by weight) and more sensitive if it was old or improperly stored. The Forrestal's ordnance handlers had never even seen an AN-M65A1 before, and to their shock the bombs delivered from the Diamond Head were in terrible condition; coated with "decades of accumulated rust and grime" and still in their original packing crates (now moldy and rotten), some were stamped with production dates as early as 1935. Most worryingly of all, several bombs were seen to be leaking liquid paraffin phlegmatizing agent from their seams, an unmistakably dangerous sign the bomb's explosive filler had degenerated with excessive age and exposure to heat and moisture.
According to A-4 Skyhawk pilot Lieutenant Rocky Pratt, the concern and objection induced in the Forrestal's ordnance handlers was striking, with many afraid to even handle the bombs; one officer wondered out loud if they would even survive the shock of a catapult assisted launch without spontaneously detonating, and others suggested they immediately jettison them into the sea. Since no one wanted to be responsible for scrubbing the next day's missions, the decision was made by the Forrestal's ordnance officers to report the situation up the chain of command to Captain John Beling and inform him the bombs were, in their assessment, an imminent danger to the ship and should not be kept on board.
Faced with this, but still needing 1000-lb. bombs for the next day's missions, Beling demanded the Diamond Head take the AN-M65A1s back in exchange for new Mark 83s, but was told by the Diamond Head that they had none available to give him. The AN-M65A1 bombs had been returned to service specifically because there were not enough Mark 83s to go around. According to one crew-member on the Diamond Head, when they had arrived at Subic Bay to pick up their load of ordnance for the carriers, the base personnel who had prepared the AN-M65A1 bombs for transfer assumed the Diamond Head had been ordered to dump them at sea on the way back to Yankee Station; when notified that the bombs were actually destined for active service in the carrier fleet, the commanding officer of the naval ordnance detachment at Subic Bay was so shocked he initially refused the transfer, believing a paperwork mistake must have been made. At risk of delaying the Diamond Head's departure, he refused to sign the transfer forms until receiving written orders from CINCPAC on the teletype explicitly absolving his detachment of responsibility for their terrible condition.
With orders to conduct strike missions over North Vietnam the next day and no replacement bombs available, Captain Beling reluctantly concluded he had no choice but to accept the AN-M65A1 bombs in their current condition. In one concession to the demands of the ordnance handlers, Beling did agree to store all 16 bombs alone on deck in the "bomb farm" area between the port rail and the carrier's island until they were loaded for the next day's missions; standard procedure would have been to store them in the ship's magazine with the other bombs (where an accidental detonation could easily destroy the entire ship).
At about 10:50 (local time) on 29 July, while preparations for the second strike of the day were being made, an unguided 5.0 in (127.0 mm) Mk-32 "Zuni" rocket, one of four contained in a LAU-10 underwing rocket pod mounted on an F-4B Phantom II, was accidentally fired due to an electrical power surge during the switch from external power to internal power. The surge originated from the fact that high winds had blown free the safety pin, which would have prevented the fail surge, as well as a decision to plug in the "pigtail" system early to increase the number of takeoffs from the carrier (see below).
The rocket flew across the flight deck, striking a wing-mounted external fuel tank on an A-4E Skyhawk awaiting launch, aircraft No. 405, piloted by Lieutenant Commander Fred D. White. The Zuni Rocket's warhead safety mechanism prevented it from detonating, but the impact tore the tank off the wing and ignited the resulting spray of escaping JP-5 fuel, causing an instantaneous conflagration. Within seconds, other external fuel tanks on White's aircraft overheated and ruptured, releasing more jet fuel to feed the flames, which began spreading along the flight deck.
The impact of the Zuni had also dislodged two of the 1000-lb AN-M65 bombs, which fell to the deck and lay in the pool of burning fuel between White and McCain's aircraft. Damage Control Team #8 swung into action immediately, and Chief Gerald Farrier, recognizing the risk and without benefit of protective clothing, immediately smothered the bombs with a PKP fire extinguisher in an effort to knock down the fuel fire long enough to allow the pilots to escape. The pilots, still strapped into their aircraft, were immediately aware that a disaster was unfolding, but only some were able to escape in time. Lieutenant Commander John McCain, pilot of A-4 Skyhawk side No. 416 next to White's was among the first to notice the flames and escaped by scrambling down the nose of his A-4 and jumping off the refueling probe shortly before the explosions began.
Damage Control Team #8 had been assured of a 10 minute window in which to extinguish the fire and prevent the bombs from detonating, but the Composition B bombs proved to be just as unstable as the ordnance crews had initially feared; after only slightly more than 1 minute, despite Chief Farrier's constant efforts to cool the bombs, the casing of one suddenly split open and began to glow cherry red. The chief, recognizing a lethal cook-off was imminent, shouted for his team to withdraw, but the bomb detonated seconds later -- a mere one minute and 36 seconds after the start of the fire.
The detonation destroyed White and McCain's aircraft (along with their remaining fuel and armament), blew a crater in the armored flight deck, and sprayed the deck and crew with bomb fragments and burning fuel. Damage Control Team #8 took the brunt of the initial blast; Chief Farrier and all his men except three were killed instantly, with the survivors being critically injured. Lieutenant Commander White had managed to escape his burning aircraft but was unable to get far enough away in time; he was killed along with the firefighters in the first bomb explosion. In the tightly packed formation on the deck, the two nearest A-4s to White and McCain's (both fully fueled and bomb-laden) were heavily damaged and began to burn, causing the fire to spread and more bombs to quickly cook off.
Lieutenant Commander Herbert A. Hope of VA-46 (and operations officer of CVW-17) was far enough away to survive the first explosion, and managed to escape by jumping out of the cockpit of his Skyhawk and rolling off the flight deck and into the starboard man-overboard net. Making his way down below to the hangar deck, he took command of a firefighting team. "The port quarter of the flight deck where I was", he recalled, "is no longer there." Two other pilots (Lieutenant Dennis M. Barton and Lieutenant Commander Gerry L. Stark) were also killed by explosions during this period, while the rest were able to escape their aircraft and get below.
Nine bomb explosions eventually occurred on the flight deck, eight caused by the AN-M56 Composition B bombs cooking off under the heat of the fuel fires and the ninth occurring as a sympathetic detonation between an AN-M56 and a newer 500 lb M117 H6 bomb that it was lying next to on the deck. The other Composition H6-based bombs performed as designed and either burned on the deck or were jettisoned, but did not detonate under the heat of the fires.
The explosions (several of which were estimated to up to 50% more powerful than a standard 1000 lb bomb due to the unintentionally-enhanced power of the badly degraded Composition B) tore large holes in the armored flight deck, causing flaming jet fuel to drain into the interior of the ship, including the living quarters directly underneath the flight deck, and the below-decks aircraft hangar.
Forrestal had departed Norfolk in early June 1967. Upon completion of the required inspections for the upcoming WESTPAC Cruise, she then went on to Brazil for a show of force. She then set sail around the horn of Africa, and went on to dock for a short while at Leyte Pier at N.A.S. Cubi Point in the Philippine Islands before sailing to "Yankee Station" in the Gulf of Tonkin on July 25. For four days in the gulf, aircraft of Attack Carrier Air Wing 17 flew about 150 missions against targets in North Vietnam.
By 1967, the ongoing naval bombing campaign from Yankee Station represented by far the most intense and sustained air attack operation in the navy's history, with monthly demand for general purpose bombs ("iron bombs") greatly exceeding new production. The on-hand supply of bombs had dwindled throughout 1966 and become critically low by 1967, particularly the new 1000-lb. Mark 83, which the navy greatly favored for its power-to-size ratio: a carrier-launched A4 Skyhawk, the navy's standard ground attack aircraft of the period, could carry either a single 2000-lb. bomb, or two 1000-lb. bombs, with the ability to strike two separate hardened targets in a single sortie being seen as more desirable in most circumstances. Until 1971, the US Air Force's primary ground attack aircraft in Vietnam was the much heavier land-based F-105 Thunderchief which could carry 2 2,000-lb. M118 bombs and 4 750-lb. M117 bombs (both of which had large stockpiles available) simultaneously on a single sortie, and thus did not need to rely as heavily on the limited supply of 1000-lb. bombs the way the navy did.
In training, the damage control team specializing in on-deck firefighting for Forrestal (Damage Control Team #8, led by Chief Petty Officer Gerald Farrier) had been shown films of navy ordnance tests demonstrating how a 1000-lb bomb could be directly exposed to a jet fuel fire for full 10 minutes and still be extinguished and cooled without an explosive cook off.[4] However, these tests were conducted using the new Mark 83 1000 lb bombs which featured relatively stable Composition H6 explosive filler and thicker, heat-resistant cases compared to their predecessors; H6, which is still used in many types of naval ordnance due to its relative insensitivity to heat, shock and electricity, is also designed to deflagrate instead of detonate when it reaches its ignition point in a fire, either melting the case and producing no explosion at all or at most a subsonic low order detonation at a fraction of its normal power.
The day before the accident (28 July), the Forrestal was resupplied with ordnance from the ammunition ship USS Diamond Head. The load included 16 1000-lb. AN-M65A1 "fat boy" bombs (so nicknamed because of their short, rotund shape), which the Diamond Head had picked up from the Subic Bay Naval Base and were intended for the next day's second bombing sortie. The batch of AN-M65A1 "fat boys" the Forrestal received were surplus from World War II, having spent roughly three decades exposed to the heat and humidity of the Philippine jungles while improperly stored in open-air Quonset huts at a disused ammunition dump on the periphery of Subic Bay Naval Base. Unlike the thick-cased Mark 83 bombs filled with Composition H6, the AN-M65A1 bombs were thin-skinned and filled with Composition B, an older explosive with greater shock and heat sensitivity; Composition B also had the dangerous tendency to become more powerful (up to 50% by weight) and more sensitive if it was old or improperly stored. The Forrestal's ordnance handlers had never even seen an AN-M65A1 before, and to their shock the bombs delivered from the Diamond Head were in terrible condition; coated with "decades of accumulated rust and grime" and still in their original packing crates (now moldy and rotten), some were stamped with production dates as early as 1935. Most worryingly of all, several bombs were seen to be leaking liquid paraffin phlegmatizing agent from their seams, an unmistakably dangerous sign the bomb's explosive filler had degenerated with excessive age and exposure to heat and moisture.
According to A-4 Skyhawk pilot Lieutenant Rocky Pratt, the concern and objection induced in the Forrestal's ordnance handlers was striking, with many afraid to even handle the bombs; one officer wondered out loud if they would even survive the shock of a catapult assisted launch without spontaneously detonating, and others suggested they immediately jettison them into the sea. Since no one wanted to be responsible for scrubbing the next day's missions, the decision was made by the Forrestal's ordnance officers to report the situation up the chain of command to Captain John Beling and inform him the bombs were, in their assessment, an imminent danger to the ship and should not be kept on board.
Faced with this, but still needing 1000-lb. bombs for the next day's missions, Beling demanded the Diamond Head take the AN-M65A1s back in exchange for new Mark 83s, but was told by the Diamond Head that they had none available to give him. The AN-M65A1 bombs had been returned to service specifically because there were not enough Mark 83s to go around. According to one crew-member on the Diamond Head, when they had arrived at Subic Bay to pick up their load of ordnance for the carriers, the base personnel who had prepared the AN-M65A1 bombs for transfer assumed the Diamond Head had been ordered to dump them at sea on the way back to Yankee Station; when notified that the bombs were actually destined for active service in the carrier fleet, the commanding officer of the naval ordnance detachment at Subic Bay was so shocked he initially refused the transfer, believing a paperwork mistake must have been made. At risk of delaying the Diamond Head's departure, he refused to sign the transfer forms until receiving written orders from CINCPAC on the teletype explicitly absolving his detachment of responsibility for their terrible condition.
With orders to conduct strike missions over North Vietnam the next day and no replacement bombs available, Captain Beling reluctantly concluded he had no choice but to accept the AN-M65A1 bombs in their current condition. In one concession to the demands of the ordnance handlers, Beling did agree to store all 16 bombs alone on deck in the "bomb farm" area between the port rail and the carrier's island until they were loaded for the next day's missions; standard procedure would have been to store them in the ship's magazine with the other bombs (where an accidental detonation could easily destroy the entire ship).
At about 10:50 (local time) on 29 July, while preparations for the second strike of the day were being made, an unguided 5.0 in (127.0 mm) Mk-32 "Zuni" rocket, one of four contained in a LAU-10 underwing rocket pod mounted on an F-4B Phantom II, was accidentally fired due to an electrical power surge during the switch from external power to internal power. The surge originated from the fact that high winds had blown free the safety pin, which would have prevented the fail surge, as well as a decision to plug in the "pigtail" system early to increase the number of takeoffs from the carrier (see below).
The rocket flew across the flight deck, striking a wing-mounted external fuel tank on an A-4E Skyhawk awaiting launch, aircraft No. 405, piloted by Lieutenant Commander Fred D. White. The Zuni Rocket's warhead safety mechanism prevented it from detonating, but the impact tore the tank off the wing and ignited the resulting spray of escaping JP-5 fuel, causing an instantaneous conflagration. Within seconds, other external fuel tanks on White's aircraft overheated and ruptured, releasing more jet fuel to feed the flames, which began spreading along the flight deck.
The impact of the Zuni had also dislodged two of the 1000-lb AN-M65 bombs, which fell to the deck and lay in the pool of burning fuel between White and McCain's aircraft. Damage Control Team #8 swung into action immediately, and Chief Gerald Farrier, recognizing the risk and without benefit of protective clothing, immediately smothered the bombs with a PKP fire extinguisher in an effort to knock down the fuel fire long enough to allow the pilots to escape. The pilots, still strapped into their aircraft, were immediately aware that a disaster was unfolding, but only some were able to escape in time. Lieutenant Commander John McCain, pilot of A-4 Skyhawk side No. 416 next to White's was among the first to notice the flames and escaped by scrambling down the nose of his A-4 and jumping off the refueling probe shortly before the explosions began.
Damage Control Team #8 had been assured of a 10 minute window in which to extinguish the fire and prevent the bombs from detonating, but the Composition B bombs proved to be just as unstable as the ordnance crews had initially feared; after only slightly more than 1 minute, despite Chief Farrier's constant efforts to cool the bombs, the casing of one suddenly split open and began to glow cherry red. The chief, recognizing a lethal cook-off was imminent, shouted for his team to withdraw, but the bomb detonated seconds later -- a mere one minute and 36 seconds after the start of the fire.
The detonation destroyed White and McCain's aircraft (along with their remaining fuel and armament), blew a crater in the armored flight deck, and sprayed the deck and crew with bomb fragments and burning fuel. Damage Control Team #8 took the brunt of the initial blast; Chief Farrier and all his men except three were killed instantly, with the survivors being critically injured. Lieutenant Commander White had managed to escape his burning aircraft but was unable to get far enough away in time; he was killed along with the firefighters in the first bomb explosion. In the tightly packed formation on the deck, the two nearest A-4s to White and McCain's (both fully fueled and bomb-laden) were heavily damaged and began to burn, causing the fire to spread and more bombs to quickly cook off.
Lieutenant Commander Herbert A. Hope of VA-46 (and operations officer of CVW-17) was far enough away to survive the first explosion, and managed to escape by jumping out of the cockpit of his Skyhawk and rolling off the flight deck and into the starboard man-overboard net. Making his way down below to the hangar deck, he took command of a firefighting team. "The port quarter of the flight deck where I was", he recalled, "is no longer there." Two other pilots (Lieutenant Dennis M. Barton and Lieutenant Commander Gerry L. Stark) were also killed by explosions during this period, while the rest were able to escape their aircraft and get below.
Nine bomb explosions eventually occurred on the flight deck, eight caused by the AN-M56 Composition B bombs cooking off under the heat of the fuel fires and the ninth occurring as a sympathetic detonation between an AN-M56 and a newer 500 lb M117 H6 bomb that it was lying next to on the deck. The other Composition H6-based bombs performed as designed and either burned on the deck or were jettisoned, but did not detonate under the heat of the fires.
The explosions (several of which were estimated to up to 50% more powerful than a standard 1000 lb bomb due to the unintentionally-enhanced power of the badly degraded Composition B) tore large holes in the armored flight deck, causing flaming jet fuel to drain into the interior of the ship, including the living quarters directly underneath the flight deck, and the below-decks aircraft hangar.
(Edited 5 minutes later.)
·Anonymous E — 13 years ago, 7 minutes later, 4 hours after the original post[T] [B] #311,794
@previous (FuckAlms !vX8K53rFBI)
MK 83's are conventional munitions. They have tritonal in them. They have been replaced by MK 82's and MK 84's 500 and 2,000 lb). Bombs are expected to detonate once fully engulfed in flames within 2-5 minutes. Missiles and rockets are expected to go off in 45 seconds to 1 minute. The minimum safe distance in the event of a fire that cannot be extinguished is 4,000 feet.
The explosion on the Navy ship was a result of stray voltage that the F-4's were notorious for having. To this day a stray voltage check is standard for any weapons release system test.
MK 83's are conventional munitions. They have tritonal in them. They have been replaced by MK 82's and MK 84's 500 and 2,000 lb). Bombs are expected to detonate once fully engulfed in flames within 2-5 minutes. Missiles and rockets are expected to go off in 45 seconds to 1 minute. The minimum safe distance in the event of a fire that cannot be extinguished is 4,000 feet.
The explosion on the Navy ship was a result of stray voltage that the F-4's were notorious for having. To this day a stray voltage check is standard for any weapons release system test.
·Antikhristos !M6R0eWkIpk — 13 years ago, 4 minutes later, 4 hours after the original post[T] [B] #311,796
@311,789 (FuckAlms !vX8K53rFBI)
Wow. What are the odds? The safety pin bit sounds like it could've been gross negligence but "high winds" is a convenient excuse.
I don't know if these ancient AN-M65A1s will be ideal for my purposes but I'll look into them. If only they were more portable. :|
I know there are plenty of leftover munitions in Cambodia/Vietnam but exporting them may prove difficult. Maybe if it's approached under the guise of obtaining them for a museum?
Now I'll need to start an apocalypse cult and/or find a few recruits to assist me in my mission.
Wow. What are the odds? The safety pin bit sounds like it could've been gross negligence but "high winds" is a convenient excuse.
I don't know if these ancient AN-M65A1s will be ideal for my purposes but I'll look into them. If only they were more portable. :|
I know there are plenty of leftover munitions in Cambodia/Vietnam but exporting them may prove difficult. Maybe if it's approached under the guise of obtaining them for a museum?
Now I'll need to start an apocalypse cult and/or find a few recruits to assist me in my mission.
·FuckAlms !vX8K53rFBI — 13 years ago, 3 minutes later, 4 hours after the original post[T] [B] #311,798
@311,794 (E)
I just immediately thought of that article when he wondered about detonation and effectiveness in a state of decay.
I just immediately thought of that article when he wondered about detonation and effectiveness in a state of decay.
·Anonymous E — 13 years ago, 2 minutes later, 4 hours after the original post[T] [B] #311,800
@311,796 (Antikhristos !M6R0eWkIpk)
The pin in this case appears to be the electrical safety pin. The reference to the pigtail is talking about the cable through with the rockets receive information from the rocket pod. Think of it like an electric wick that starts the rocket motor. High winds shouldn't have blown the pin out but given the date this occurred it would not be uncommon for unsafe practices.
The pin in this case appears to be the electrical safety pin. The reference to the pigtail is talking about the cable through with the rockets receive information from the rocket pod. Think of it like an electric wick that starts the rocket motor. High winds shouldn't have blown the pin out but given the date this occurred it would not be uncommon for unsafe practices.
·Anonymous E — 13 years ago, 2 minutes later, 4 hours after the original post[T] [B] #311,803
@311,798 (FuckAlms !vX8K53rFBI)
Bombs are very stable and safe. It takes an explosion to make them explode. Rockets and flare are nasty for handling because they are electrically primed and smaller. Smaller size means more complacency and electrically primed munitions are susceptible to static charge as well as a few other things.
Bombs are very stable and safe. It takes an explosion to make them explode. Rockets and flare are nasty for handling because they are electrically primed and smaller. Smaller size means more complacency and electrically primed munitions are susceptible to static charge as well as a few other things.
·Antikhristos !M6R0eWkIpk — 13 years ago, 1 minute later, 4 hours after the original post[T] [B] #311,805
@311,800 (E)
Ah, interesting stuff.
Now I wonder how might a saboteur cause a power surge on one of these ships. Although I'm sure it wouldn't be as simple now as it was in the late 60s.
Ah, interesting stuff.
Now I wonder how might a saboteur cause a power surge on one of these ships. Although I'm sure it wouldn't be as simple now as it was in the late 60s.
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·Anonymous E — 13 years ago, 4 minutes later, 4 hours after the original post[T] [B] #311,807
@previous (Antikhristos !M6R0eWkIpk)
In this case it is aircraft specific. The F-4 had several things that could just kill a man. One of them was stray voltage. These power surges were just electricity that found its way where it shouldn't. In this case it was an armed rocket on the deck of a ship with other loaded aircraft.
In this case it is aircraft specific. The F-4 had several things that could just kill a man. One of them was stray voltage. These power surges were just electricity that found its way where it shouldn't. In this case it was an armed rocket on the deck of a ship with other loaded aircraft.
·Antikhristos !M6R0eWkIpk — 13 years ago, 17 minutes later, 5 hours after the original post[T] [B] #311,815
@previous (E)
Well I suppose I'll have to do a little more homework in that case. In the meantime I need to start an inconspicuous marine salvage company and target sunken aircrafts and naval ships in the search for munitions and the like. Of course this will all be done for the sake of the environment and not for some sort of terrorist conspiracy.
Well I suppose I'll have to do a little more homework in that case. In the meantime I need to start an inconspicuous marine salvage company and target sunken aircrafts and naval ships in the search for munitions and the like. Of course this will all be done for the sake of the environment and not for some sort of terrorist conspiracy.
·Anonymous E — 13 years ago, 2 minutes later, 5 hours after the original post[T] [B] #311,816
@previous (Antikhristos !M6R0eWkIpk)
You will need someone with a wealth of knowledge about this type of stuff. Someone who is level headed and not into drugs. I will be of no help to you, I am sorry.
You will need someone with a wealth of knowledge about this type of stuff. Someone who is level headed and not into drugs. I will be of no help to you, I am sorry.
·FuckAlms !vX8K53rFBI — 13 years ago, 4 minutes later, 5 hours after the original post[T] [B] #311,820
·Antikhristos !M6R0eWkIpk — 13 years ago, 1 minute later, 5 hours after the original post[T] [B] #311,822
·Anonymous E — 13 years ago, 2 minutes later, 5 hours after the original post[T] [B] #311,824
@311,820 (FuckAlms !vX8K53rFBI)
I love you.
@previous (Antikhristos !M6R0eWkIpk)
Drugs save the day again.
I love you.
@previous (Antikhristos !M6R0eWkIpk)
Drugs save the day again.
·FuckAlms !vX8K53rFBI — 13 years ago, 1 minute later, 5 hours after the original post[T] [B] #311,825
·Anonymous E — 13 years ago, 6 minutes later, 5 hours after the original post[T] [B] #311,828
@previous (FuckAlms !vX8K53rFBI)
You should see the world without sobriety. You might decide it is too nice of a place to watch burn.
You should see the world without sobriety. You might decide it is too nice of a place to watch burn.
· !NoGoD1GamE (OP) — 13 years ago, 2 minutes later, 5 hours after the original post[T] [B] #311,829
Who actually played the game?
·Anonymous E — 13 years ago, 1 minute later, 5 hours after the original post[T] [B] #311,830
@previous (!NoGoD1GamE)
I didn't but I have played it before. It is much better than playing the crying game.
I didn't but I have played it before. It is much better than playing the crying game.
· !NoGoD1GamE (OP) — 13 years ago, 2 minutes later, 5 hours after the original post[T] [B] #311,831
· !NoGoD1GamE (OP) — 13 years ago, 1 minute later, 5 hours after the original post[T] [B] #311,832
·Antikhristos !M6R0eWkIpk — 13 years ago, 32 seconds later, 5 hours after the original post[T] [B] #311,833
@311,825 (FuckAlms !vX8K53rFBI)
Could it be... is there still a sliver of hope of my dreams being actualized?
While the sobriety bit is a little disconcerting I think I can look past it.
We'll have to discuss the initial phases of the "plan" ASAP although we should probably have a pow-wow before that to brainstorm. I've another person in mind but she may or may not be into the whole doomsday plot depending on her mood.
Could it be... is there still a sliver of hope of my dreams being actualized?
While the sobriety bit is a little disconcerting I think I can look past it.
We'll have to discuss the initial phases of the "plan" ASAP although we should probably have a pow-wow before that to brainstorm. I've another person in mind but she may or may not be into the whole doomsday plot depending on her mood.
·Anonymous E — 13 years ago, 7 minutes later, 5 hours after the original post[T] [B] #311,836
@311,832 (!NoGoD1GamE)
Nice Easter eggs.
@previous (Antikhristos !M6R0eWkIpk)
You will need to administer a battery of tests. Drug tests. Start with mescaline and work your way up. If the volunteer still wants to stay sober then they cannot be trusted.
Nice Easter eggs.
@previous (Antikhristos !M6R0eWkIpk)
You will need to administer a battery of tests. Drug tests. Start with mescaline and work your way up. If the volunteer still wants to stay sober then they cannot be trusted.
·Antikhristos !M6R0eWkIpk — 13 years ago, 1 hour later, 6 hours after the original post[T] [B] #311,838
@previous (E)There may be a thin line between these tests and brainwashing but all recruits will have to undergo a "re-education" phase regardless.
·Anonymous E — 13 years ago, 2 minutes later, 6 hours after the original post[T] [B] #311,839
@previous (Antikhristos !M6R0eWkIpk)
We could design the test and then test the test by doing the drugs. Then we could just shift gears and just keep testing the drugs by doing them for as long as possible.
We could design the test and then test the test by doing the drugs. Then we could just shift gears and just keep testing the drugs by doing them for as long as possible.
·Antikhristos !M6R0eWkIpk — 13 years ago, 6 minutes later, 6 hours after the original post[T] [B] #311,841
@previous (E)
What better way to test out the brainwashing... er "re-education" program than experiencing it first hand? Manufactured synchronicity and reality manipulation will be par for the course along with an extensive laundry list of psychotropic cocktails we'll need to test for efficacy. Maintaining objectivity will naturally be difficult but that may be an intentional result anyway. I think maintaining a video diary to catalogue our experiences may be the simplest way to keep a record of our work.
What better way to test out the brainwashing... er "re-education" program than experiencing it first hand? Manufactured synchronicity and reality manipulation will be par for the course along with an extensive laundry list of psychotropic cocktails we'll need to test for efficacy. Maintaining objectivity will naturally be difficult but that may be an intentional result anyway. I think maintaining a video diary to catalogue our experiences may be the simplest way to keep a record of our work.
·Anonymous E — 13 years ago, 4 minutes later, 7 hours after the original post[T] [B] #311,844
@previous (Antikhristos !M6R0eWkIpk)
This way we will be in tune with the process and be able to make adjustments ahead of time as well as develop troubleshooting procedures for real time errors that occur so that they can be corrected in a way that does not alter any progress previously attained. I concur that a video diary would be the best way to record the experiences.
This way we will be in tune with the process and be able to make adjustments ahead of time as well as develop troubleshooting procedures for real time errors that occur so that they can be corrected in a way that does not alter any progress previously attained. I concur that a video diary would be the best way to record the experiences.
·Antikhristos !M6R0eWkIpk — 13 years ago, 5 minutes later, 7 hours after the original post[T] [B] #311,847
@previous (E)
I think we may need a neutral third party to monitor the affair but we'd need someone less inclined to manipulate us towards their own ends when we're in an such a susceptible state. We'll also need a steady supply of bimbos and armaments to carry out more technical aspects of our training as agents of change. I think we'll need to find an isolated part of the desert to really get to work. Hopefully we can find a deal on an abandoned missile silo or bunker... or at least find one that's mostly been forgotten about we could squat in.
I think we may need a neutral third party to monitor the affair but we'd need someone less inclined to manipulate us towards their own ends when we're in an such a susceptible state. We'll also need a steady supply of bimbos and armaments to carry out more technical aspects of our training as agents of change. I think we'll need to find an isolated part of the desert to really get to work. Hopefully we can find a deal on an abandoned missile silo or bunker... or at least find one that's mostly been forgotten about we could squat in.
·Anonymous E — 13 years ago, 12 minutes later, 7 hours after the original post[T] [B] #311,849
@previous (Antikhristos !M6R0eWkIpk)
For silos you'll want the border states. Montana, North Dakota, etc. It is a shorter path over the North Pole to shoot the missiles at the Soviets so they were in those places. What you are wanting is the abandoned ones. Wyoming might work. If they are not abandoned then they will be filled people who do not want you there. Stay away from those.
For silos you'll want the border states. Montana, North Dakota, etc. It is a shorter path over the North Pole to shoot the missiles at the Soviets so they were in those places. What you are wanting is the abandoned ones. Wyoming might work. If they are not abandoned then they will be filled people who do not want you there. Stay away from those.
·Anonymous E — 13 years ago, 2 minutes later, 7 hours after the original post[T] [B] #311,850
@311,847 (Antikhristos !M6R0eWkIpk)
The neutral third party has to have a great rack and whatever amount we need for drugs we should triple it. We may also need some legal representation. I know just the guy. He wears a velour track suit and suffers from chronic indigestion.
The neutral third party has to have a great rack and whatever amount we need for drugs we should triple it. We may also need some legal representation. I know just the guy. He wears a velour track suit and suffers from chronic indigestion.
·Antikhristos !M6R0eWkIpk — 13 years ago, 6 minutes later, 7 hours after the original post[T] [B] #311,853
@311,849 (E)
Wyoming is the 10th most extensive, but the least populous and the second least densely populated of the 50 United States.
Sounds promising.
I'll need to find a way to finance this venture before I start looking for real estate to serve as our main compound. Perhaps I could create a demand for LSD. Meth is popular enough but I'd have to constantly keep competitors in check. Maybe if I can co-opt a 1%er MC for distribution and enforcement it'd be viable.
Wyoming is the 10th most extensive, but the least populous and the second least densely populated of the 50 United States.
Sounds promising.
I'll need to find a way to finance this venture before I start looking for real estate to serve as our main compound. Perhaps I could create a demand for LSD. Meth is popular enough but I'd have to constantly keep competitors in check. Maybe if I can co-opt a 1%er MC for distribution and enforcement it'd be viable.
·Anonymous E — 13 years ago, 7 minutes later, 7 hours after the original post[T] [B] #311,856
@previous (Antikhristos !M6R0eWkIpk)
If you want to create a demand for LSD you just have to give people LSD.
If you want to create a demand for LSD you just have to give people LSD.
·Antikhristos !M6R0eWkIpk — 13 years ago, 5 minutes later, 7 hours after the original post[T] [B] #311,858
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