Topicless thread

[Smokey]

true, but that's kinda the reason i don't wanna be a pilot... planes tend to crash....

[CaptBrenden]

heres an idea, try being on topic in threads that apply

and aircraft crash yes, but being a good pilot usually prevents that, or depending on the aircraft makes it survivable.

[IanDanKilmaster]

I'm MIA for a day and I miss all the moe...

Ooooo BAH WAAAAAH...

Also military tech discussion?  Esoteric much?

[CaptBrenden]

well it started with me mentioning Im going to flight school...

related:


that is the robinson r22, the aircraft I will be training in.

video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFlVKRRLLSM&feature=related

damn its a fun little bird, agile too

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holy shite, i dont think that family will ever fly again ... ._.

also: lol
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8urRCuU_-s&feature=related

dun try to fly if you dont know how to fly.

[IanDanKilmaster]

Myah, I was just being silly since it wasn't really a topic I knew enough about to comment on, but I am happy for you.

dun try to fly if you dont know how to fly.

Precisely why you'll not see me as a pilot, no matter how much my father tries to talk up the Air Force -__-.  Being that far up would just scare the shit outta me...

[CaptBrenden]

also, related to the osprey:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wquQXfAOOw4&NR=1

Yeah, dun wanna fly in that.

[Smokey]

Well, i always thought that the flying part isn't that hard (in a plane), the takeoff should be learned easily enough, but the landing is the real art...

And flying in a helicopter requires really, REALLY sensitive and subtle skills...

Meh, not as tough as hovering in a Harrier... (good plane by the British...)

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and outch...

[CaptBrenden]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MN_mA9gL09M&feature=related also, proof that the bullet proof glass used in Iraq works :p

Harriers are pretty bad ass, but they dont exactly have a super awesome service record for what was spent on developing it. I dont think the osprey will ever even pay off half what has been spent on it already

[Smokey]

Bullet proof glass works...period, be it in a car, building, mythbusters, anywhere...

and yes the british have built better things, like the Westland Lynx ZB500, and the Challenger 2, wich is a pretty kick-ass tank (btw does america use any rifled barrle tanks anymore or is it all fin stabilized shells nowadays?)

Added after 9 hours 6 minutes:

GAAAAAAAAARRRRRRHHHHH!!!!!!!!

Vista now oficially sucks ass!!!
It won't run DiabloII, wich i could live with, hardly...

But now it won't even INSTALL the fukken retail 1.0 version of Warzone2100!!!!

F*** you Vista, F*** you M$, You-....
*storms out shouting and cursing*

[NejinOniwa]

That's what I've been trying to tell you, smokey.
All the time.

-w-

[CaptBrenden]

if those are the standards in which it sucks, I hardly think that linux would be better :p

[NejinOniwa]

On the contrary. Vista claims to be able but isn't - Linux says nothing, and is able to game about half the time anyway. ^^

[CaptBrenden]

thats just stupid Linux may be able to game half the time, but Vista will allow you to play a game more then half the time.   In this case Vista wins, failure to live up to claims be dammned. You have to be pretty stupid to hold what something claims to do against it, if what it does do still is better then the next guys

[NejinOniwa]

Yesh, but its cake is still a lie. Also DRM. Also RAM hog, et cetera et cetera, but we don't need to go over all this here again, do we ;


TOPICLESS - CHEEEEENJI!!!

Cold season means winter activities, and aside from Vasaloppet (essentially 90km of skiing, if you don't know that already) I'm bundled up for some stuff like lots of damn ice skating, and so on. First was today and my knees hurt like hell. Seconds come tomorrow, with an even longer shift, so I'm lucky I don't have any school after that -w-;
So then, /osc/, what kind of activities get you busy in the wintersports category?

[VonDaab]

Snowflake counting.