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    Watch until at least 1:06
    If there is no sound in space, how come you can hear the lasers?
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    slow day on the carrier
    Any views I may express here are personal and certainly do not in any way reflect the views of my employer. Tis the rising of the moon..

    Look, I just don't anymore, okay?

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      hey let's see what else we can shoot off this thing...
      Any views I may express here are personal and certainly do not in any way reflect the views of my employer. Tis the rising of the moon..

      Look, I just don't anymore, okay?

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      • #4
        skipping trucks competition?
        Indifference is Bliss

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        • #5
          Tax dollars at work!
          "I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration somehow you're not patriotic. We should stand up and say we are Americans and we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration." - Hillary Clinton, 2003

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          • #6
            Originally posted by PLATO View Post
            Tax dollars at work!
            Indeed. They shouldn't test a new catapult, they should just assume that it works. That would save several thousand tax dollars and only risk several hundreds of millions of them.
            The dogmas of the quiet past, are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty…we will be remembered in spite of ourselves… The fiery trial through which we pass, will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the last generation… We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.
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            • #7
              Originally posted by grumbler View Post
              Indeed. They shouldn't test a new catapult, they should just assume that it works. That would save several thousand tax dollars and only risk several hundreds of millions of them.
              Hmmmm....sounds like I might should have had the audio on?
              "I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration somehow you're not patriotic. We should stand up and say we are Americans and we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration." - Hillary Clinton, 2003

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              • #8
                hey Joe, come over here, slip on that harness..
                Any views I may express here are personal and certainly do not in any way reflect the views of my employer. Tis the rising of the moon..

                Look, I just don't anymore, okay?

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                  Yeah, Joe, it'll be awesome, cmon, think of the hits we'll get on youtube!
                  If there is no sound in space, how come you can hear the lasers?
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                  • #10
                    They sure had a lot of cameras to document it. I would go back and count, but the footage isn't very compelling.
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                    • #11
                      I'm thinking of attaching FIFA to that thing
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                      • #12
                        There were at least three separate runs; in one the truck skipped, another it tumbled, and a third time it just kerplunked.

                        Originally posted by Hauldren Collider View Post
                        Yeah, Joe, it'll be awesome, cmon, think of the hits we'll get on youtube!
                        Hey hold my beer and watch this.
                        Last edited by The Mad Monk; June 20, 2015, 19:37.
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                        • #13
                          It's called a 'dead load'... for testing the catapults that launch aircraft. they do this right in port - it is something to see, hear and feel. stand next to a plane ready to launch from a carrier catapult at full power and you can feel every bone in your body shaking. not sure what those are filled with, maybe just water.

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                          • #14
                            Can they be retrieved and reused?
                            “It is no use trying to 'see through' first principles. If you see through everything, then everything is transparent. But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To 'see through' all things is the same as not to see.”

                            ― C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by pchang View Post
                              Can they be retrieved and reused?
                              Yes. That's one of the points to using them in the harbor - they are easily retrieved.

                              They can be weighed down to different weights to simulate launching different aircraft (waste of taxpayer dollars though that is. :P)
                              The dogmas of the quiet past, are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty…we will be remembered in spite of ourselves… The fiery trial through which we pass, will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the last generation… We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.
                              - A. Lincoln

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