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11-04-2013, 03:42 PM
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Re: Planes Struck By Birds
I dream longingly for the day this occurs. I imagine that my laughter will be heard further away than the screams of the dying passengers.  |
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11-04-2013, 04:14 PM
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 My Rank: LANCE CORPORAL Poster Rank:2103 Join Date: May 2012 Posts: 229 Mentioned: 0 Post(s) Quoted: 66 Post(s)
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Funny Joke I heard once... Enjoy! Results of damage testing It seems the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has a unique device for testing the strength of windshields on airplanes. The device is a gun that launches a dead chicken at a plane's windshield at approximately the speed the plane flies. The theory is that if the windshield doesn't crack from the carcass impact, it'll survive a real collision with a bird during flight. It seems the British were very interested in this and wanted to test a windshield on a brand new, speedy locomotive they're developing. They borrowed the FAA's chicken launcher, loaded the chicken and fired. The ballistic chicken shattered the windshield, went through the engineer's chair, broke an instrument panel and embedded itself in the back wall of the engine cab. The British were stunned and asked the FAA to recheck the test to see if everything was done correctly. The FAA reviewed the test thoroughly and had one recommendation: "Use a thawed chicken."  |
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11-04-2013, 04:17 PM
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It is less that there is any special sanctity inherent in the animal kingdom and more that humans are arrogant, filthy, greedy, grasping vermin. We have the free will and ingenuity to be extremely effective stewards of this planet, but instead we just take what we want and lay everything else to waste around us. Trundling ever onward like giant, oversized infants with no real mind for universal or global consequences so long as our immediate needs and wants are met in the fastest way possible. The 'animal kingdom' is just another cog in the wheel of life on this beautiful planet. They kill one another for food or dominance or whatever reason and I am neither sad nor angry. But watching countless living creatures die solely for our human greed and convenience? And then listening with disgust as arrogant, self-serving humans try to justify their actions with some prideful rhetoric about being masters of the earth and top of the food chain and shit? No thank you. It is just that sort of misplaced hubris that inspires such gales of laughter in me when I watch countless videos and see endless photos of us shooting each other to pieces or smashing ourselves to bits while driving drunk. Or slicing one another up like provolone while fighting over some ragged crack-whore's disease-riddled snatch. I mourn and rage for the plight of the animal kingdom because I hate my own kind. We have such wonderful potential to make this planet a veritable paradise of balance and harmony but we will never fulfill it. And all for want of foresight and a race-wide imperative to serve our own needs as quickly and sloppily as possible. |
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11-04-2013, 08:30 PM
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You could start by trying to remove the nail that's been driven through his wrist and into his forehead. Just kidding; he does sort of have a point. It's a very melodramatic point, but I see where he's coming from nonetheless. |
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11-04-2013, 09:13 PM
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This struck my mind when I saw this: Horror of residents in plush London suburb as stowaway who had been clinging to a plane plunges to his death in the middle of street Police say man, believed to be in 30s, could have fallen thousands of feet Found on car parked on road in affluent London suburb of Mortlake Street is around 10 miles away from Heathrow Airport and on flight path Aviation expert believes he froze to death; it appears body fell out of the landing gear Man thought to be from North Africa and suffered multiple injuries Residents described 'monstrous bang' and body parts flying 20ft away Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz2jjWV5xpx |
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11-04-2013, 10:19 PM
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 ★ Legacy Member ★ Poster Rank:368 I need a nap =| Join Date: Aug 2012 Posts: 3,203
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That's just his style of humor. The underlying sentiment is probably genuine, but I doubt he'd get that worked up over it in person.
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