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[Matias Saibene]

Very useful!, it's a time zones map of Laurasia.

 

[Codz]

Major League Baseball spring training has started! The Atlanta Braves are playing the Detroit Tigers, and baseball season is almost here!

 

[Kyle]

What are you when you run in front of a truck? Tired.

What are you when you run behind a truck? Exhausted.

I'll show myself out.

 

[Loru]

http://instantrimshot.com/

 

[jedidia]

GAH! It's a touche! Calling a touche a rimshot is like calling a lick a hammer-on!

 

[Linguofreak]

GAH! It's a touche! Calling a touche a rimshot is like calling a lick a hammer-on!

In colloquial American usage, a sting is often called a rimshot.

 

[Pipcard]

Thanks to Wikipedia, TIL that the first astronaut who wasn't from the US or USSR was Czech, and that this happened in 1978: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimír_Remek

 

[mojoey]

That man knows how to follow a Czechlist.

 

[jedidia]

In colloquial American usage, a sting is often called a rimshot.

So a sting is what it would actually be called in english. I thought they would have stuck with the french terminology as with most anything else :lol:
Anyways, colloquial or not, rimshot is just plain wrong. It's like calling a book an essay (and I notice that it is really difficult to come up with precise analogies).

 

[MattBaker]

Thanks to Wikipedia, TIL that the first astronaut who wasn't from the US or USSR was Czech, and that this happened in 1978: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimír_Remek

And the first one from the Non-Aligned Movement? Phạm Tuân
Although that was Vietnam 1980, they picked their side...

 

[Spacethingy]

http://instantrimshot.com/

http://nooooooooooooooo.com/

 

[MaverickSawyer]

Anyone else see the Mythbusters shoot a pingpong ball at Mach 1.4 last night? I have to try this now. Not supersonic, but as fast as I can. That air cannon design they used is brilliant.

 

[Ghostrider]

Anyone else see the Mythbusters shoot a pingpong ball at Mach 1.4 last night?

No but now I want that cannon.

 

[MaverickSawyer]

It's scary cool. Barrel at vacuum, and a 300 PSI tank behind the ball. 30 foot barrel. End result: 1100 mph, enough to cause serious injury if you were to get hit by that pingpong ball. But not fatal.

 

[Urwumpe]

Why not use a sabot....

 

[MaverickSawyer]

That's what I was thinking of doing... Question is, what to load into it? Ping pong balls just don't have enough... oomph.

I was thinking of a large nail, and aiming it at a chunk of 2x4 lumber.

 

[Quick_Nick]

That's what I was thinking of doing... Question is, what to load into it? Ping pong balls just don't have enough... oomph.

I was thinking of a large nail, and aiming it at a chunk of 2x4 lumber.

Careful. The mythbusters have accidentally shot projectiles through several layers of protection on multiple occasions. You might send a nail flying through a couple of bedrooms.

 

[MaverickSawyer]

I'm not going to be doing it at Mach 1.4... 350-450 mph is PLENTY.
Plus, i know of a nice, secluded area where I can do these kinds of experiments without risking an incident like that.

 

[Artlav]

That was so un-mythbusters.
Why did they decide mach 1.4 was enough?
Why not supersize it to mach 3?
Where is the "reproduce the result" stage?

 

[RisingFury]

That's what I was thinking of doing... Question is, what to load into it? Ping pong balls just don't have enough... oomph.

I was thinking of a large nail, and aiming it at a chunk of 2x4 lumber.

Darwin awards nominee?