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| By MarkSHoyle (Bolo) on Monday, July 13, 2026 - 08:20 pm: Edit |
Doesn't fit the humor of an AI,
A video going around...
Mechanic in the shop says:
What's on the last two pages of a Ford Manual...
A Bus Schedule....
| By Douglas Lampert (Dlampert) on Monday, July 13, 2026 - 08:44 pm: Edit |
I have told this story before, but I'm not sure it was on this board. Exact numbers may be inaccurate.
I was once in my boss's office, and he asked something like, "Does an atmospheric density at 80 kilometers of 2.2e-6 g/cm3 sound right to you?"
I thought about it, because I normally work in kg/m3 instead of g/cm3, so I needed to multiply by a thousand. "It sounds too high, it's only 1.225e-3 at sea level, and 80 km is pretty thin.
He pulled his big book of the US 1962 standard atmosphere off the shelf, and looked, "Yeah, that's way too high. But that's what the AI gave me. I'll ask if maybe 1.8E-8 is closer."
A minute later, "It looked at a table in kilofeet rather than kilometers."
Our AI is now smart enough to crash a Mars probe by using the wrong altitude units in the atmospheric scale height!
| By Jeff Anderson (Jga) on Tuesday, July 14, 2026 - 01:04 pm: Edit |
New YouTube video of a Russian team demonstrating a new anti-Drone system. It's a 12.7 mm 3-barrel minigun that fires some four THOUSAND rounds per minute that's mounted on a pintle with a gunner manually operating it.
Problem is, the weapon mount was asymmetric with the "Weapon" itself mounted nearly a foot to the left (from the operator's point of view) of the center of the pintle. The recoil sent it spinning. The gunner hung on for dear life as its runaway shooting lifted him off his feet, finally throwing him away from the truck at pretty high speed.
Fortunately it ran out of ammo in fairly short order.
| By MarkSHoyle (Bolo) on Tuesday, July 14, 2026 - 06:10 pm: Edit |
Think I saw that video...
Stated the weapon as being removed from a Hind....
Then the assistant gunner, reached out and grabbed the barrel to stop it from spinning.....
Yes, OUCH....
| By Jeff Anderson (Jga) on Tuesday, July 14, 2026 - 10:29 pm: Edit |
Yes, that was in the video I saw, so it probably is the same one.
The way it was spinning around, I couldn't help but post, "Russian Roulette Wheel"
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