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Posted on 11/3/14 at 2:59 pm
Posted on 11/3/14 at 2:59 pm
Posted on 11/3/14 at 3:09 pm to TechDawg2007
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That wood cutter is awesome
yeah you don't want to slip an fall into that fricker !
Posted on 11/3/14 at 3:36 pm to geauxfish24
anymore of those? That it?
Posted on 11/3/14 at 4:24 pm to MSTiger33
How the human face develops in the womb
Laser tattoo removal:
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Posted on 11/3/14 at 4:26 pm to TechDawg2007
I sold Bobcats in my previous job, and that wood splitter attachment was the white whale sale
Posted on 11/3/14 at 4:26 pm to beejon
This was an awesome book as a kid.
Posted on 11/3/14 at 4:28 pm to beejon
What's going on in the first one
Posted on 11/3/14 at 4:28 pm to TheIndulger
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What's going on in the first one
Battleship loading and firing sequence for the 16" gun. The drawing of the little guy in the suit made for frolicking is for scale.
The green thing is the shell, 16" in diameter, weighing about a ton or a ton and a half and filled with high-explosives. The yellow things are 110 lb bags of gunpowder. The gray thing that looks like a big fricking gun is a big fricking gun.
All the doors, elevators, transfers and such are to try to isolate everything so that the only place that goes boom is inside the barrel of the gun. If it does go boom somewhere else, it's designed so that the magazines don't go boom. If the magazines go boom, the bottom of the ship gets ripped out and it's a LOOOONG way to the bottom of the ocean.
This post was edited on 11/3/14 at 4:43 pm
Posted on 11/3/14 at 4:41 pm to TigerstuckinMS
What's the rate of fire?
Posted on 11/3/14 at 4:53 pm to BigEdLSU
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What's the rate of fire?
2 rounds per minute per gun, if I remember right. The guns were arranged in three turrets of three guns each with each gun able to independently be aimed. So, with 9 guns firing in sequence at one target and evenly spaced out, a battleship could put a a shell on a target every three seconds or so.
Posted on 11/3/14 at 4:55 pm to TheIndulger
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Wow, that's cool
Yeah, they were, but for all their badassitude, they could only say "see that thing 25 miles away? frick it and 8 other things."
Modern aircraft carriers basically can say "See that thing 600 miles away? frick everything closer. Twice." even though they don't look as badass as an Iowa class battleship firing all her main guns at once.
Posted on 11/3/14 at 4:57 pm to TigerstuckinMS
When I saw the first pic, I couldn't help but remember the explosion in the #2 turret on the USS Iowa ('89)and loss of life associated with it.
Posted on 11/3/14 at 4:58 pm to KingRanch
They would have used a 1911 but it jammed
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