Coming across a large animal that you previously had no sense of scale for can be...intimidating.
Or maybe it was the fact that we got buzzed by a 16' Tiger shark the size of our Catamaran a 1/4 mile off shore in Florida that was intimidating. I'd snorkeled around reef sharks before, obviously been to aquariums. But to see something that large, up close, in person was a sense of dread I have not experienced since.
The very notion of swimming with an animal as large as the whale shark or blue whale terrifies me even though I know they only consume the tiniest of prey.
This is compounded by my deep and primal fear of the open ocean.
I went swimming with whale sharks a couple of years back! Couple of takeaways:
Holy shit they are so big, just absolutely massive
Because they are so big they don't GAF about anything in the ocean so they just completely ignored everyone snorkeling around them
They look like they are moving slowly but they actually move at a pretty decent clip. The captain would steer the boat about 20 meters in front of the shark, the divemaster would have us jump in and start swimming "as fast as you possibly can" and the shark would easily overtake you. Each encounter probably lasted about 1 minute.
I still haven't developed the film from my underwater camera because who gets film developed anymore? I should probably go do that.
Also on that trip I had the best ceviche and guacamole of my life, then floated around in the shallows of a lagoon and drank some cheap Mexican lager before checking out a coral reef. Pretty much one of the coolest days of my life.
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Admittedly 100 pounds of white phosphorous will produce a prodigious amount of smoke, it'll burn your children alive and make a lot of smoke
white phoshorus ignites on contact with air
so, if you fire white phosphorus rounds into a firing range which is mostly soggy marshland, and the shells or bits of them get submerged, then it'll stay unignited in that water for 40 years
until a conscript out on unexploded ordnance clearing picks it up, puts it in the backpack of the guy next to them, where it quietly dries until it is dry then it catches fire. Inside the backpack where you've got all the stuff you've picked up.
I learned this at the briefing before we went traipsing through the firing range picking up unexploded ordnance. A hand went up, does that happen a lot? Backpacks on fire, I mean?
eh, not that often, the explosives officer went. Around three or four each time. If we found bits of shells that looked like it might have been that greenish-white colour of that smoke round - 40 years ago - and had some gunk on it, but not like, regular marsh gunk but like, other gunk, don't pick that up. But yes, he added, they mostly just look like all the other scrap.
so if you notice smoke coming out of the backpack next to you, do let him know sooner rather than alter.
(the norwegian army has no firing ranges that aren't essentially just a hilly marsh. This is why we stopped using these rounds. Still find them and bits of them, though.)
His instructions for dealing with mortar rounds was to jiggle it a bit, to see if it wasn't just a loose tail of one you've found. If it wasn't, but looked like a whole round buried in the soft soil, our instructions were to immediately stop jiggling it and walk very swifly away.
Remarkably chill about explosive in general, that guy.
these things look cool when they're detonated, though
EDIT: the norwegian term for unexploded ordnance is blindgjenger, blind-walker. Apropos nothing.
What kind of terrifies me, is that after billions of years of evolution, the Blue Whale is the biggest animal ever. I thought maybe there'd be an ancient underwater creature that surpassed it, back in the Jurrasic, when animals were often a whole lot bigger but nope. It's here, and living among us.
What allowed blue whales to grow so large is that mammal anatomy is well-suited for the evolution of this kind of filter-feeding and rather recent patterns in the distribution of ocean nutrients
In 2000/2001 I was working for a Coke bottler. We got word that there was a pretty cool show similar to this in development, where some people would be on a nation (US)-wide game of hide and seek. The cast would go from city to city, hiding not just from hunters, but also the general public. They'd have to complete tasks (like getting a Coke, hence our involvement), and the longer they lasted, the bigger the reward to the public for finding them.
Then 9/11 happened and they thought that hyping up everyone's paranoia wouldn't be that enjoyable, so it got scuttled. Still thought it sounded like a fun game, and now I guess I know where they got the idea.
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Some of the giant mosasaur species were thought to hit 60 feet, no thank you.
France and Germany had their versions of a weird show back in the 80s where contestants would tell a helicopter where to land so they could solve riddles
Meanwhile the US version of this show was called Bait Car and the premise was a car would be left unlocked and with the keys in it in a low income neighborhood in a major city. The car was rigged with hidden cameras and microphones, and they'd wait for someone to steal the car, and then arrest them a few blocks away for grand theft, auto.
Few people seemed interested in exploring the ramifications of setting up people to commit a "crime" explicitly for the purpose of arresting them for a felony offense and broadcasting it on tv for all to see.
I almost posted what amounts to an ad for artisanal suicide belts on a Syrian craigslistesque site before deciding that this forum might not need that on it but know that these ads exist and boy that's fucked up
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In 2000/2001 I was working for a Coke bottler. We got word that there was a pretty cool show similar to this in development, where some people would be on a nation (US)-wide game of hide and seek. The cast would go from city to city, hiding not just from hunters, but also the general public. They'd have to complete tasks (like getting a Coke, hence our involvement), and the longer they lasted, the bigger the reward to the public for finding them.
Then 9/11 happened and they thought that hyping up everyone's paranoia wouldn't be that enjoyable, so it got scuttled. Still thought it sounded like a fun game, and now I guess I know where they got the idea.
That was Wanted, right? We had a version here in Sweden that ran in '97-'99.
In 2000/2001 I was working for a Coke bottler. We got word that there was a pretty cool show similar to this in development, where some people would be on a nation (US)-wide game of hide and seek. The cast would go from city to city, hiding not just from hunters, but also the general public. They'd have to complete tasks (like getting a Coke, hence our involvement), and the longer they lasted, the bigger the reward to the public for finding them.
Then 9/11 happened and they thought that hyping up everyone's paranoia wouldn't be that enjoyable, so it got scuttled. Still thought it sounded like a fun game, and now I guess I know where they got the idea.
This is actually what the story Running Man, from Stephen King is. The movie with Arnold bore exactly zero resemblance to the story. It is a really good story with a very sad ending.
In 2000/2001 I was working for a Coke bottler. We got word that there was a pretty cool show similar to this in development, where some people would be on a nation (US)-wide game of hide and seek. The cast would go from city to city, hiding not just from hunters, but also the general public. They'd have to complete tasks (like getting a Coke, hence our involvement), and the longer they lasted, the bigger the reward to the public for finding them.
Then 9/11 happened and they thought that hyping up everyone's paranoia wouldn't be that enjoyable, so it got scuttled. Still thought it sounded like a fun game, and now I guess I know where they got the idea.
This is actually what the story Running Man, from Stephen King is. The movie with Arnold bore exactly zero resemblance to the story. It is a really good story with a very sad ending.
So what you're saying is that it is a Steven King story.
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Have to admit that is pretty cool but one thing is confusing me. According to that person's website the area he put it in will not be habitable for the next 3 to 30k years. I looked all over the internet but I could not find anything saying that even the plant itself would be radioactive that long. Am I missing something somewhere?
How Tokyo’s Massive Lost & Found Works3:48 https://youtu.be/2xlUDUtftGw The bad news—you lost your wallet in Tokyo. The good news—chances are good you will get it back, along with all the cash tucked inside. In Japan, residents are diligent about making sure what’s lost is found and returned to its rightful owner. This is how the city’s stunningly efficient Lost & Found system works.
Coming across a large animal that you previously had no sense of scale for can be...intimidating.
Or maybe it was the fact that we got buzzed by a 16' Tiger shark the size of our Catamaran a 1/4 mile off shore in Florida that was intimidating. I'd snorkeled around reef sharks before, obviously been to aquariums. But to see something that large, up close, in person was a sense of dread I have not experienced since.
The very notion of swimming with an animal as large as the whale shark or blue whale terrifies me even though I know they only consume the tiniest of prey.
This is compounded by my deep and primal fear of the open ocean.
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Out in the deep Pacific several times the water was clear enough to see the transition to where light fades out about 40m down
There was a group of sharks once just going in and out of the dark part eating a school of fish. It was both a primal fear and a thing of awe
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I went swimming with whale sharks a couple of years back! Couple of takeaways:
Also on that trip I had the best ceviche and guacamole of my life, then floated around in the shallows of a lagoon and drank some cheap Mexican lager before checking out a coral reef. Pretty much one of the coolest days of my life.
My gaelic name translates as 'nervous meatball'
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white phoshorus ignites on contact with air
so, if you fire white phosphorus rounds into a firing range which is mostly soggy marshland, and the shells or bits of them get submerged, then it'll stay unignited in that water for 40 years
until a conscript out on unexploded ordnance clearing picks it up, puts it in the backpack of the guy next to them, where it quietly dries until it is dry then it catches fire. Inside the backpack where you've got all the stuff you've picked up.
I learned this at the briefing before we went traipsing through the firing range picking up unexploded ordnance. A hand went up, does that happen a lot? Backpacks on fire, I mean?
eh, not that often, the explosives officer went. Around three or four each time. If we found bits of shells that looked like it might have been that greenish-white colour of that smoke round - 40 years ago - and had some gunk on it, but not like, regular marsh gunk but like, other gunk, don't pick that up. But yes, he added, they mostly just look like all the other scrap.
so if you notice smoke coming out of the backpack next to you, do let him know sooner rather than alter.
(the norwegian army has no firing ranges that aren't essentially just a hilly marsh. This is why we stopped using these rounds. Still find them and bits of them, though.)
His instructions for dealing with mortar rounds was to jiggle it a bit, to see if it wasn't just a loose tail of one you've found. If it wasn't, but looked like a whole round buried in the soft soil, our instructions were to immediately stop jiggling it and walk very swifly away.
Remarkably chill about explosive in general, that guy.
these things look cool when they're detonated, though
EDIT: the norwegian term for unexploded ordnance is blindgjenger, blind-walker. Apropos nothing.
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What allowed blue whales to grow so large is that mammal anatomy is well-suited for the evolution of this kind of filter-feeding and rather recent patterns in the distribution of ocean nutrients
In 2000/2001 I was working for a Coke bottler. We got word that there was a pretty cool show similar to this in development, where some people would be on a nation (US)-wide game of hide and seek. The cast would go from city to city, hiding not just from hunters, but also the general public. They'd have to complete tasks (like getting a Coke, hence our involvement), and the longer they lasted, the bigger the reward to the public for finding them.
Then 9/11 happened and they thought that hyping up everyone's paranoia wouldn't be that enjoyable, so it got scuttled. Still thought it sounded like a fun game, and now I guess I know where they got the idea.
Meanwhile the US version of this show was called Bait Car and the premise was a car would be left unlocked and with the keys in it in a low income neighborhood in a major city. The car was rigged with hidden cameras and microphones, and they'd wait for someone to steal the car, and then arrest them a few blocks away for grand theft, auto.
Few people seemed interested in exploring the ramifications of setting up people to commit a "crime" explicitly for the purpose of arresting them for a felony offense and broadcasting it on tv for all to see.
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That was Wanted, right? We had a version here in Sweden that ran in '97-'99.
I think it would have been a really fun and engaging game, in another world, in another time.
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This was my thought too, and had me wondering "isn't that just a belt?"
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Which thread is the witch thread
This is actually what the story Running Man, from Stephen King is. The movie with Arnold bore exactly zero resemblance to the story. It is a really good story with a very sad ending.
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So what you're saying is that it is a Steven King story.
Have to admit that is pretty cool but one thing is confusing me. According to that person's website the area he put it in will not be habitable for the next 3 to 30k years. I looked all over the internet but I could not find anything saying that even the plant itself would be radioactive that long. Am I missing something somewhere?
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The bad news—you lost your wallet in Tokyo. The good news—chances are good you will get it back, along with all the cash tucked inside. In Japan, residents are diligent about making sure what’s lost is found and returned to its rightful owner. This is how the city’s stunningly efficient Lost & Found system works.
This will be here until I receive an apology or Weedlordvegeta get any consequences for being a bully
I checked out Scots wikipedia and this seems to be true, it's almost all written by one guy
Wow
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Out in the deep Pacific several times the water was clear enough to see the transition to where light fades out about 40m down
There was a group of sharks once just going in and out of the dark part eating a school of fish. It was both a primal fear and a thing of awe
Who the fuck is Scot?