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The [GIF] Thread is home to all, but will always be (NSF56K)

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  • BedlamBedlam Registered User regular

  • klemmingklemming Registered User regular
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    bowen wrote: »
    turbines do do that though

    they don't explode, if the materials used could just rip themselves apart it would be wildly dangerous

    the gif jedoc posted happened as a result of a collision

    Anything will rip itself apart under enough strain:

    They'd have to spin way faster than anyone ever expected, but that's why they limit their speeds in the first place.

    Nobody remembers the singer. The song remains.
  • JedocJedoc In the scuppers with the staggers and jagsRegistered User regular
    True! But the turbine I posted did indeed explode due to a blade smashing into the tower because the unexpected speed caused crazy oscillations.

    It's certainly possible for rotating structures to tear themselves apart due to centrifugal forces alone (don't @ me, centripetal nerds) but the RPMs involved are way, way higher than you'd see in an asymmetric system like a wind turbine before blade deformation did the job for you.

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  • Crippl3Crippl3 oh noRegistered User regular
    klemming wrote: »

    No joke tho, when the water goes up over the top of the leg and into the leg socket that shit always feels weird.

  • Metzger MeisterMetzger Meister It Gets Worse before it gets any better.Registered User regular
    Bedlam wrote: »

    i just can't be afraid of pooh bear. he's round and he's fuzzy!

  • AlphaRomeroAlphaRomero Registered User regular
    Bedlam wrote: »

    Now I, Pooh, am Master of the Universe.

  • PinfeldorfPinfeldorf Yeah ZestRegistered User regular
    edited August 2019
    Man, Xi Jinping as Ghost Rider is slightly horrifying.

    Pinfeldorf on
  • BedlamBedlam Registered User regular
    Bedlam wrote: »

    i just can't be afraid of pooh bear. he's round and he's fuzzy!
    But oh bother!

    He is out of honey...

    ...and coming for your soul!

  • klemmingklemming Registered User regular

    Nobody remembers the singer. The song remains.
  • PsykomaPsykoma Registered User regular
    How could you end that so soon

  • HeadCreepsHeadCreeps NOW IS THE TIME FOR DRINKING! Registered User regular
    Man it's almost like every facet of life is horrifying when scrutinized even a little bit.

    And that's why we're sticking to oil

    Good ol' fashioned oil never hurt anyone!

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  • DaimarDaimar A Million Feet Tall of Awesome Registered User regular
    Bedlam wrote: »

    Poohbone

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  • #pipe#pipe Cocky Stride, Musky odours Pope of Chili TownRegistered User regular
    edited August 2019

    Sound on

    #pipe on
  • Donovan PuppyfuckerDonovan Puppyfucker A dagger in the dark is worth a thousand swords in the morningRegistered User regular

  • BedlamBedlam Registered User regular

    Emopaca

  • klemmingklemming Registered User regular

    Hax.

    Nobody remembers the singer. The song remains.
  • PinfeldorfPinfeldorf Yeah ZestRegistered User regular
    That dude has slammed his forearm into his nuts way more times in the weeks leading up to that video than I have in my whole life.

  • bowenbowen How you doin'? Registered User regular
    edited August 2019
    klemming wrote: »
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    bowen wrote: »
    turbines do do that though

    they don't explode, if the materials used could just rip themselves apart it would be wildly dangerous

    the gif jedoc posted happened as a result of a collision

    Anything will rip itself apart under enough strain:
    https://i.imgur.com/TbdN6CF .gifv
    They'd have to spin way faster than anyone ever expected, but that's why they limit their speeds in the first place.

    That other gif wasn't really an "explosion" anyways.

    If the gearbox and gears are still engaged to the generator they will absolutely catch fire, and generally in hurricane force winds this results in what's happening in that fan due to oscillation, and also, they will be on fire when this happens. Thus, "exploding" (but not actually an chemical explosion, no).

    bowen on
    not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
  • bowenbowen How you doin'? Registered User regular
    Here's a fun image:

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    not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
  • WhittledownWhittledown Registered User regular
    bowen wrote: »
    Here's a fun image:

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    Did that windmill cast Fireball at the other windmill?

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  • JedocJedoc In the scuppers with the staggers and jagsRegistered User regular
    It was super effective!

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  • klemmingklemming Registered User regular
    The two kinds of dog:

    (except obviously there is only one kind of dog; good.)

    Nobody remembers the singer. The song remains.
  • SkeithSkeith Registered User regular
    Sound on.

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  • BedlamBedlam Registered User regular

  • XaquinXaquin Right behind you!Registered User regular
    punk teenager Most Cool Escher

  • cB557cB557 voOOP Registered User regular
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  • TheStigTheStig Registered User regular
    God I hate it when women ogle me while I'm just trying to do my job cleaning windows in my underwear with a cat stuffed in them.

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  • klemmingklemming Registered User regular

    Nobody remembers the singer. The song remains.
  • GvzbgulGvzbgul Registered User regular

  • klemmingklemming Registered User regular

    I have no idea why any of this happened.

    Nobody remembers the singer. The song remains.
  • BedlamBedlam Registered User regular
    poor lil smof :(

  • UnbrokenEvaUnbrokenEva HIGH ON THE WIRE BUT I WON'T TRIP ITRegistered User regular
    edited August 2019
    klemming wrote: »

    I have no idea why any of this happened.

    because Australians

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMsv1x55FB0

    UnbrokenEva on
  • chromdomchromdom Who? Where?Registered User regular
    The only thing I can say to that is: ozzie ozzie ozzie. :bro:

  • SyngyneSyngyne Registered User regular
    Fearghaill wrote: »
    klemming wrote: »

    I have no idea why any of this happened.

    because Australians

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMsv1x55FB0

    I've watched a lot of their videos, and still can't figure out what that tower was originally for.

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  • JedocJedoc In the scuppers with the staggers and jagsRegistered User regular
    In my neck of the woods, it was for training firefighters to run up stairs.

    Based on video context, I suspect it was for reproducing Galileo's Leaning Tower Of Pisa experiment for a children's museum audience. You know, the bit where he dropped two balls of different weights and they both hit the ground at the same time, proving that gravity beat God or whatever.

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  • WiseManTobesWiseManTobes Registered User regular
    Ya it does seem to be built just for dropping stuff and the increasing width is just to prevent any chance of an upper floor dropping something on a floor below

    Steam! Battlenet:Wisemantobes#1508
  • AthenorAthenor Battle Hardened Optimist The Skies of HiigaraRegistered User regular
    It's called the Leaning tower of Gingin.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_Discovery_Centre

    I don't think it is on the article, but I believe there are facilities up top that let you fill water balloons.

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  • SkeithSkeith Registered User regular


    Per the description, this raft of pumice is some 60 square miles and 6-12" thick. The sound of this stuff being moved by wave motion is something else.

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  • klemmingklemming Registered User regular
    The live action Kirby movie's coming on pretty well:

    Nobody remembers the singer. The song remains.
  • SimpsoniaSimpsonia Registered User regular
    edited August 2019
    Edit: derp

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