The Ace in the Hole

Undertoad • Jan 19, 2004 1:36 pm
via Winds of Change.

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wolf • Jan 19, 2004 1:45 pm
hmmm. coffee maker, bottle of Formula 409, empty toilet paper roll ... shit, slang, why didn't you tell me you were having Saddam over?
Griff • Jan 19, 2004 2:10 pm
So what'd the Kurds dope him up with when they dropped him in his hidey hole?
quzah • Jan 19, 2004 6:04 pm
First picture, Saddam's words: "But you were my friends. I ate your bread. I fired your weapons. We were pals..."

Quzah.
elSicomoro • Jan 19, 2004 7:27 pm
Originally posted by wolf
hmmm. coffee maker, bottle of Formula 409, empty toilet paper roll ... shit, slang, why didn't you tell me you were having Saddam over?


Are you sure that's not slang in that photo after a rough night?
xoxoxoBruce • Jan 19, 2004 8:30 pm
There's proof that money can't buy happiness.
elSicomoro • Jan 19, 2004 8:50 pm
What kind of look do you think that soldier has on his face?
Beestie • Jan 19, 2004 10:51 pm
First picture, Saddam's words: "But you were my friends. I ate your bread. I fired your weapons. We were pals..."


Same could be said of Lee Harvey Oswald.
wolf • Jan 20, 2004 1:23 am
Originally posted by sycamore
Are you sure that's not slang in that photo after a rough night?


Yah. Too much head hair. He gets nervous and runs for the all night barber when it gets beyond 1/4 inch.
plthijinx • Jan 21, 2004 6:33 pm
Originally posted by wolf

Yah. Too much head hair. He gets nervous and runs for the all night barber when it gets beyond 1/4 inch.



well i guess that narrows it down to NBN :thumb:
Nothing But Net • Jan 21, 2004 10:53 pm
Originally posted by plthijinx
well i guess that narrows it down to NBN :thumb:

Alright, shithead, that does it. I'm calling in an airstrike.
Elspode • Jan 21, 2004 11:08 pm
Originally posted by Griff
So what'd the Kurds dope him up with when they dropped him in his hidey hole?


409, apparently.

Is that the tag end of a really long wire-tie handcuff sticking up in the pose in front of the coffee bar?
plthijinx • Jan 22, 2004 1:21 pm
Originally posted by Nothing But Net

Alright, shithead, that does it. I'm calling in an airstrike.


is this the airstrike to which your refering?
wolf • Jan 23, 2004 2:06 am
I would like to fly on that airline please ...

Beats the heck out of a bag of stale peanuts and a set of plastic pilots wings, don't it?
plthijinx • Jan 23, 2004 7:15 am
actually, a good friend of mine is a first officer on an MD-11 and has been hauling troops around the U.S. lately. another bud is a flight engineer on a DC-10 and just got back from kuwait last weekend from taking troops to/from germany.
Undertoad • Jan 23, 2004 9:06 am
Just curious pj, what really happens if a round is shot through a window or something?
BrianR • Jan 24, 2004 12:03 pm
According to MythBusters, nothing much. The window gets a hole, the cabin pressure drops somewhat, unless you put your hand over the hole. Ditto results if you blast a hole in the fuselage. But if you set off a hunk of explosive, that changes things a bit.

Brian
xoxoxoBruce • Jan 24, 2004 1:19 pm
The fuselage is a stressed member of the pressurized tube. It could handle a bullet hole in the skin, but a larger hole, that was jagged, would cause cracks to run every which way.
A few years ago a 737, island hopping in Hawaii, lost the upper half of the cabin for about 15 or 20 feet behind the cockpit and a stewardess was sucked out. The pilot managed to land with no further injuries (damn good flying), although the passengers were pretty well buffeted and I suspect, sitting in poop.
The subsequent investigation blamed the cause on a SCRATCH in one of the skin panels, that had cracked. When the crack gave way to the pressure inside the cabin, it ripped open and started a chain reaction with ajoining panels in all directions, until it reached the seams where the plane was assembled. The seams are doubly reinforced because when the sections are made, They have a stringer (horz.) or rib (vertical) along the edge for manufacturing and handling.
In other words.....Yeah, what BrianR said.
:D
BrianR • Jan 24, 2004 4:13 pm
to further knowledge, the air pressure inside a passenger jet flying at 30,000 feet (cruising altitude) is approximately 8 psi.

Blowouts are all but impossible, but it IS possible to lose a portion of the plane in what must appear to be a "blowout" and what is actually the slipstream (about 600 mph) getting inside and tearing off a chunk of important parts.

So yeah, what Bruce said. ;)

Brian
elSicomoro • Jan 24, 2004 10:13 pm
Originally posted by BrianR
According to MythBusters, nothing much.


And you can't cause an explosion at a gas station with a cell phone.