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36 minutes ago, bigwave said:
Yes, I am a Jack ass. I don't know my ass from a hole in the ground. He said.
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And this to me, a non military person, tells me their story. What an honor it must feel like to belong to such a group of men and women.
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I'll throw this one in.
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April 12, 1912 — The Titanic sinks after hitting iceberg
Saw the exhibit in Vegas awhile back. Very interesting.
1981
Launch of first space shuttleOn this day in 1981, NASA launched the first space shuttle, Columbia, which was designed to orbit Earth, transport people and cargo to and from orbiting spacecraft, and glide to a runway landing on its return to Earth.-
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Gives a new meaning to "Busting your balls". Ouch, cringe worthy to watch.
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Bought at 1800. Doesn't matter what it goes up to I am not going to sell. Defeats the purpose. If I knew when and what it was going to fall to I might consider a sale.
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So far it's the poster verses everyone else.
I wonder how many rubies does one need to collect in a certain time frame to get a ban hammer?
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I joined April of 12. Maybe it will pop this month.
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Looks like they found it in 2012
Higgs boson: The 'God Particle' explained
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13 minutes ago, umbertino said:
‘What harm could a firework do?’ Family of boy killed by Israeli police want justice
Rami Halhouli was shot in the chest from a watchtower as he held a firework in East Jerusalem
Tue 2 Apr 2024 06.00 CEST
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/02/firework-family-boy-killed-israeli-police-justice-rami-halhouli
Fireworks can look like a stick of lit dynamite from a distance. Poor choices are made and prices are paid.
Don't run around a war torn area with a device that looks dangerous.
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2 hours ago, Shedagal said:
I understand, but should that information be shared publicly?
I think it is seen by the mods and admins on the backside of our registration when we sign up. The I.P. address is also a good place to see where a poster is. I don't know if a VPN can hide a location or if it scramble the location. I for one don't care where a person is as long as they are polite and respectful of other members.
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Iron Eagle
Gen. Charles "Chappy" Sinclair R.I.P.
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27 minutes ago, Shedagal said:
Out of curiosity, how do you know he's not in the USA? His profile does not give his location.
Because she is Texas Granny. She is an All Seeing Admin.
Able to see things we mere members can't.
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Yet Kathy Griffin among others have openly threatened P.O.T.U.S. Trump and they are still walking the planet free people.
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What a joke. He thinks just because a "judge" says it, it is a fact.
Plenty of on the take judges who want Trump's head.
If Jeqqu is out of country that is one more person to put on ignore.
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Everything Jeqqu has accused Trump of doing the Dems have been doing it for years.
The two Kennedy brothers come to mind.
The past 3 out of four presidents have been guilty of numerous crimes and no trial.
Oh wait one was found guilty of lying to Congress about sex with an intern in the Oval office.
Take the plank out of you eye before telling your neighbor about the sliver in his. (Paraphreased of course).
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If God wants to use Trump to sell bibles to get them to His people who are we to stand in his way.
If Tfump has an evil or greedy reason for this then God will judge him later.
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That bridge was just waiting to come down.
Notice there aren't any concrete skirts around the bridge supports. Nothing to stop a ship from contacting the support structure.
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As I said earlier,
The angle of the rifle’s barrel, coupled with shooting from a ridge above the target, accounted for the arc in the bullet’s trajectory, he said
That alone would negate the loss of vision due to the curve of the earth. Kinda like shooting from a roof top down to another roof top.
I live next to a "Long Range Rifleman". (Sniper) 3 tours in Iraq, 5 years on the Sheriff's department Swat team.
I have seen him shoot stuff I can't see without a scope. There is alot that goes into shooting long distance. More that my brain wants to figure. I shoot stuff. I fix stuff. I reload stuff, and I know stuff.
That long distance stuff is the stuff I don't want to know.
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At 4.4 Miles, Wyoming Team Sets New Rifle Shot World Record
https://cowboystatedaily.com/2022/09/20/at-4-4-miles-wyoming-team-sets-new-rifle-shot-world-record/
vFrom the pull of the trigger, roughly 24 seconds elapsed before spotters heard the telltale plunk of a 422-grain copper bullet piercing the thin metal target 4.4 miles away, setting a new world record.
From the pull of the trigger, roughly 24 seconds elapsed before forward spotters heard the telltale plunk of a 422-grain copper bullet piercing the thin metal target.
The shooter was 4.4 miles away, a distance so great, the Earth’s rotation came into play.
It was a new world record for a rifle shot, set by the Jackson-based Nomad Rifleman team led by Schott Austin and Shepard Humphries. The shot was made with a custom-built rifle chambered for the .416 Barrett cartridge.
During a Zoom interview Tuesday with Cowboy State Daily, Humphries declined to identify the team member who made the shot.
It beat the team’s previous Wyoming state record of 3.06 miles. It also broke the previous world record shot of 4 miles set in 2020 by Paul Phillips of Texas.
The Wyoming team “had easier conditions” than Phillips because of the thin air at about 7,000 feet in elevation near Pinedale, where the shot was made Sept.13, Humphries said.
Still, even with the Wyoming air working in their favor, it was nothing short of miraculous for the shot, the 69th attempt that morning, to land inside an 8-inch orange bullseye. The bullseye had been painted in the center of a white, rectangular target measuring 120 inches wide and 92 inches tall.
Two Years In The Making
The team had been working to break the Texan’s 4-mile record since it was set. However, supply chain issues caused by the COVID-19 pandemic slowed the process of getting components to build the custom rifle, Humphries said.
Parts came from all over the world.
“The muzzle brake came from New Zealand,” he said. “The barrel came from South Dakota and then went to Arkansas for structuring.”
Other components came from Canada and elsewhere, and the rifle was assembled by S&S Sporting goods in Driggs, Idaho.
The rifle’s scope zooms from 6 power all they way up to 35 power magnification.
“I’m not sure where it was set during the shot,” Humphries said. “When we’re shooting extreme distances, we don’t zoom all the way up to full power, because that can make things get fuzzy. We back off just a bit.”
Science Of The Shot
Landing a bullet on target at 4.4 miles was “simply phenomenal,” said long-distance shooting enthusiast David Asmuth of Laramie. He’s the president of the Laramie Rifle Range board of directors.
“It’s a one-in-a-million shot. They said it’s not statistically repeatable,” he said. “The amount of precision and time that went into that shot was simply amazing.
“When a bullet is in flight for that long, you have to take into account the rotational speed of the earth. What you’re shooting at isn’t going to be in the same place it was 24 second ago when you pulled the trigger.”
Ashmuth said the longest shots he’s ever made were 2,220 yards with a bullet flight time of about 4-5 seconds.
A massive flight arc had to be calculated to make the 4.4 mile shot work, Humphries said.
The angle of the rifle’s barrel, coupled with shooting from a ridge above the target, accounted for the arc in the bullet’s trajectory, he said.
“That made it more like artillery, where you’re lobbing it in,” Humphries said.
The .416 Barrett cartridge is made by “necking down” a .50 Browning Machine Gun (BMG) round to accommodate the roughly .40-caliber bullet. It’s a relatively short, stout bullet that proved ideal for its purpose, Humphries said.
“Traditionally in extreme long-range shooting, we wanted long, skinny bullets,” he said. “However, we discovered that as a bullet crosses over into subsonic velocity, it flies better if it’s shorter and fatter.”
The .416 Barret bullets were leaving the rifle’s muzzle at a velocity of roughly 3,300 feet per second, Humphries said. They dropped into subsonic velocity at about 1,100 feet per second and were traveling at a downward angle and about 600 feet per second as they reached the target zone.
Regarding it taking 69 shots to hit the mark, with all the variables that had to be taken into account, “we were thrilled it was so few,” Humphries said.
Thanks to the rifle barrel’s structuring, which involved specialized dimples and venting holes, overheating wasn’t a problem.
“The barrel never got any hotter than about 80 degrees,” he said. “That allowed us to take a shot every minute or two or three.”
Sound, Not Sight
Forward spotters were in five bullet-proof bunkers near the target, Humphries said. They had to rely on their ears rather than their eyes to guide the shooter’s adjustments.
“When we were making 2-mile shots previously, we could rely on dust from the bullet impacts to help us walk the shots in to the target,” he said. “With these shots, we discovered we couldn’t see most of the bullet impacts.
“The bullet is coming down so slowly, and at about a 48-degree angle, it was just penetrating into the ground without kicking up dust.”
Instead, spotters had to listen for the bullets thudding into the ground and radio back to the shooter to adjust accordingly, he said.
What’s Next
Records are made to be broken, but Humphries said he isn’t certain whether his team will set the next one.
“You know, we haven’t decided yet,” he said about attempting to go farther than 4.4 miles. “This project was much harder than we anticipated.”
While extreme distance shooting teams keep “some secrets,” he said they also don’t mind sharing much of what they’ve learned, giving others a chance to keep stretching the distances.
“Now, the next people who beat us – whether that’s in a few days or a year or 10 years from now – they have some knowledge from our shot that they can use,” he said.
.Remember, bullets only go flat for so long. After that the distance requires a lot of elevation to lob that shell in.
They may have been shooting from a hill top, negating the sight problem. I have seen long distance shots made with an M1 Garand and that barrel has a nasty rise in it to offset the distance.
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I think at this point the only "justice " that is going to be meted out is going to be from GOD on their
judgement day.
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Something else to think about
CLAIM: A video taken on Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge shows a large explosion that occurred before the structure fell into the water below.
AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. The video circulated online in 2022, identified as showing security footage of an explosion that caused the partial collapse of the Kerch Bridge, which links the Crimean Peninsula with Russia. It was shared at the time on Russian Telegram channels and by major media outlets.
THE FACTS: After a container ship lost power and rammed into the Key Bridge causing it to collapse early Tuesday, social media users shared the old video, falsely representing it as footage from the bridge before it fell into the Patapsco River.
The 15-second clip shows vehicles driving over an arching bridge lit up at night. An enormous fireball then suddenly engulfs the structure.
“Alternate angle on Francis Scott Key bridge shows a large explosion,” reads one tweet that had received approximately 7,500 likes and 3,800 shares as of Tuesday afternoon.
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3 hours ago, bigwave said:
Did what?
What is the context of the photo?
Photoshopped?
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Frozen balls of water have that effect on glass
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NOTHING YOU SEE HERE IS REAL
in Politics, 2nd Amendment (Gun Control)
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It's Arizona. Not too many people need to be told to carry a gun.