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Speed bump beats Hawking.

Hahaha ok I get it now

I think I’m missing some context here.... but they can.. I’ve seen it myself... for loose definitions of fly. It’s very Kerbalesque.

Thanks Joe, I meant to address this. With the utmost respect, why did you decide to re-invent the wheel? I assume you looked at existing engines, and decided it didn't fit your needs.

We’ll, due to the number of one liners and forced gags... I had to force it into a deep hibernation, and I fell asleep less than an hour in. The sequels make you appreciate the prequels for the cinematic masterpieces they are, relatively speaking.

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My favorite were the chicken powered nuclear land mines.

Hmm I have frostpunk on epic from when they gave it away for free. I’ll have to look that one up. Ok ok Bad moderator, going off topic. Back on topic you!

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If you haven’t tried Oxygen Not Included, you should.

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Ah yes, the Davy Crockett. The nuclear weapon that was fired from a recoilless rifle, with a max range of 2 miles. Which meant it shot far enough that it wasn’t usually dangerous to the crew firing it. Yet however it was found to be too inaccurate to be considered reliable enough to hit a target even with a nuclear weapon as ammo.

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Geez, you guys really seemed to like that story. I have a few more if you'd like. My 3 favorite patients of all time, and a funny story. I've had quite a number of patients over the years (I estimated somewhere around 15k), and not every one of them stuck in my mind, but these stand out more than others. -- Elderly man, I noticed on the wall of his room a number of military memorabilia, in particular 101st/502nd patches, and a black bar. I asked if those were his, and he replied he had jumped into Normandy. As Band of Brothers had recently come out, I had to ask if he knew those guys. Yes, he was in Fox Company, and was friends with a number of those guys. He also said it was the best depiction of the war he'd seen on screen. Really friendly about me asking those questions, nice guy overall. -- Once got passed, on the road, I was doing ~30mph, by a guy on a suped up electric wheelchair. As he blew through the red light in front of us at the next block, causing quite a commotion, he started to wobble. Soon, a wheel came flying off, sending both him and the chair tumbling down the road. As he was commando crawling to the curb, as his legs obviously didn't work, we pulled up behind blocking the lane. Got out, walked over to him, he yells out "Dang it! I told my brother that wheel was loose!". He refused our help, but we made sure he was safe in the chair on the sidewalk, and he insisted he was fine, his brother (who was supposedly coming behind on a bicycle) would catch up to him. -- Did a lot of contract work for the VA, so we'd often go on long trips in the region to transfer patients to the main VA facility in Cleveland. One trip to the far outskirts of Pittsburgh, Picked up a patient by that went by the name Little John. John was a quadriplegic from a car accident IIRC, but had done 3,4 tours in Vietnam, mainly as a sharp shooter / sniper with Marine Recon. He said his last tour, they dressed him up as a Soviet officer and inserted him by submarine into Hanoi City, where he stumbled around acting drunk, doing recon. Even being wheelchair bound, with limited arm movements, he said he still gets out to the range every year to qualify on the 1,000 yd range. When I met him, he made his living being a motivational speaker. He was 6'7" tall, hence Little John, and was one of the nicest people I have ever met in my life. -- And my all time favorite. Called to a Doctor's office on the seventh floor of a professional building with a patient with Bradycardia (slow heart beat) to be taken to the ER. We get off the elevator, notice a little (she was tiny) old lady sitting in the waiting room, calmly reading a magazine. I walk up to the receptionist, and the Doctor standing right beside, and they indicate the lady is our patient. Doc says she needs checked out because her heart rate was about 36 (normal is 60-100). At that moment I notice my partner is, not quite fighting with, by trying to hold back this 5 foot nothing elderly lady from scaling up the side of our cot. We quickly lower the cot to a more suitable height for her to climb onto. "Oh it goes down, how nice, that is much easier, thank you!" I ask her how she's feeling, is she short of breath or anything. "Oh no, I'm fine now, but I did start to get a little tired by the fifth floor." "Did you take the stairs up all seven flights?" "Why yes, I always take the stairs. It's better for you." "So what brought you to the Doctor today?" "Well, I started to get a little after my swim this morning" "Oh, you swam today?" "Yes, I try to swim a mile every day. Keeps me young." "Ma'am, how old are you?" "I'm a 105 years old." Ok then. Stunned silence from us. I look back over at the doc, he's standing there chuckling, he's obviously dealt with her before. "So you came here after swimming?" "Oh no, I went over to the old folks home where my son lives, I volunteer there in the mornings. Although, I think it's funny I'm the oldest one there!" We are now laughing along with her. Take her vitals real quick, Yup, the HR is really low, her pressure is a bit low, but not seriously, and she's in no distress, so we're not too worried. Get her out to the truck, start doing our thing, yadda yadda, on the way to the ER. Keep talking to the lady, absolutely charming. I call the ER to tell them we're coming, and oh look, yet again this particular ER, which I won't name but it's the largest employer in the state and named after the city it's in, is closed, no room. So I have to pick another hospital to go to instead, and I ask if she has a preference. "Well, since I live in ----, could we just go there?" "Sure, not a problem" Off we go. Halfway to the diversion ER, she suddenly looks concerned and asks "Wait, do they have cable at this hospital?" "Cable? Why do you ask?" "I need Comedy Central, I absolutely cannot miss my Daily Show and Colbert Report." And that's when I lost it laughing.

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Which country? I would think you could bike across Lichtenstein quicker than getting on an airplane (Do they have more than one airport?). Kidding aside, I believe the real limitation to rail gun tech, which this basically is, is how fast and accurately the magnets are switched on and off. This limits your max speed. You probably won’t be able to accelerate at 1g continuously. There’d come a point where they couldn’t keep up. Others here know more of the specifics of this than I. But who wants to accelerate at 1g on a train? That’s uncomfortable. Why not accelerate at .25g or some such until you hit cruising speed? We’re not losing the force of gravity, so the force vectors are going to get a little wonky for the average passenger. But... what if you had two trains, and the first one to leave the station did your 2g run, and the second one did the .25g run. That way you could have two services for a variety of passenger needs. Those who want the faster train would know what they’re getting Into, while those who want a more comfortable ride can do so. Your intuition is sound though, where you figure a constant acceleration train would be much faster than flying. If you had a hole in the ground that went straight through the Earth’s core to the antipodal other side, and you jumped in, you’d accelerate halfway there, and decelerate the other half, and literally step out on the other side, 48 (?) minutes later. Of course, ignoring the absurdity of it. Your train would make a New York to LA, Perth to Sydney, etc, run much faster than any other means. Ignoring costs, deployment, infrastructure needs, and other such trivialities, I think it’s theoretically possible, but not realistic.

We only painted silhouettes when we got a save, not a kill. I was reminded of this every time I time brought in my grim reaper stencil.

Thankfully it was free.

@Pthigrivi @MechBFP @JoeSchmuckatelli Here ya go, from a post I made up-forum earlier. This happened almost two decades ago, but it fits here best. Working as a medic, we’re driving home one night. Dark, heavily wooded, high speed two lane road. In that weird transition area between the suburbs and rural areas. Doing about 60-65 mph. Suddenly, out of the darkness comes this huge bird flying right in front of us. I see the dark wings and the white head. Whole thing is slightly oddly shaped. No time to react, I only see it for maybe half a second. *WHUMP* Ahhhhh man.... we just hit an eagle. That sucks. And it was a solid thump. We felt it. It cleared the cab of the truck, but the box behind sticks up quite high. We hit it good. Get back to base, pull into the bay. One is the dispatchers is sitting there, having a smoke break. We get out, he looks over at us and says “Why is there a large bass on the roof of your truck?” Sure enough, wedged under the light bar is a large fish, quite dead. Seeing as we have to wash the truck anyways at the end of every shift, and comical as it would be giving the next crew a roof mounted billy bass screaming along with the sirens, we knock it off the truck with a stick. Aside from the obvious trauma caused by being hit by a barn on wheels at 65mph, there are clearly talon marks in the fish. So the eagle, being laden down by his over sized dinner, had to release it in flight to escape being hit himself. We like to hope he managed to get away cleanly. And that, my friends, is how I managed to hit a fish with an ambulance.

You probably have a better chance of winning the lottery and getting struck by lighting at the same time while simultaneously getting bit by a shark on dry land. I hit a fish with the roof of an ambulance once. Does that count? /off topic. Edit: Explained I’m just happy they’re still working on it.

Please stop posting misleading information. It only leads to confusion. Nate Just made a post just over two hours ago, and you made comments in another thread that addressed that announcement. Stop posting misinformation.

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Thanks for the update Nate!