The Large Hadron Collider is now officially "Cool"

Im sure VW runs the same ad in british telly aswell ?

Sorry, but we've reserved that one

New "atmosphere trailer" to Call of Pripyat the second addon to Stalker - Shadow of Chernobyl

So brush up your russian and ukranian language skills. (No, not you Foe )

This lighting engine is absolutely great. Watch the shadows and moody light

Keep a close eye to that door of the rear wall at around 01:00

The "Burer" which was cut out of the original game is back

Yikes! Foe will never want to go back to Ukraine if he played that :P

He's had enough trouble getting through Doom 3... Speaking of, how come the guy's body armor looks very similar to Doom 3's?

I dont know how many times ive winced during playing Doom 3 in the dark with headphones.

Sadly it was just a shooter with only little replay value.

Here is a cool video showing all commercial airliner flights of the world during 24 hours.

Airliner flights around the world within a single day

France surprises me with something awesome. This looks fun

http://www.wimp.com/rollersuit/

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Originally posted by Liddabit:
France surprises me with something awesome. This looks fun

http://www.wimp.com/rollersuit/

He's pretty fast with that suit

Its surely fun but it bet it surely has to be very exhausting aswell.

Not sure about his tv series /movie idea but it would be great for one of these crazy musicals.

Imperial Stormtroopers' 9/11

Oh, dear o dear......where's that guy "Arklight" - he would have loved this....

Wreck of british ww1 submarine discovered


The baltic sea has basically always been one huge minefield during the world wars.

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"WASHINGTON – Two Northwest Airlines pilots have told federal investigators that they were going over schedules using their laptop computers in violation of company policy while their plane overflew their Minneapolis destination by 150 miles, the National Transportation Safety Board said Monday."

Something tells me they don't have to worry about schedules anymore.

Army Crashes helo into ship. 1 dead.

Ive actuly seen the helo and boy is it all jacked up.

Solder killed in crash identified.

Ive seen several helicopter crashes onto ship accidents on youtube.

Landing on a ship is just as difficult as it is dangerous , hence so many accidents happen.

The main causes are usually strong winds and turbulences above the ship.

This one is a really crazy helicopter-ship accident. But with a happy ending !

Well this recent crash was a rappelling exercise, no landing was intended.

That youtube was interesting. You can see the tail rotor is inop, but cant tell if thats from it striking the deck or if it was the cause of the incident.

I am pretty sure it's cause it hit the deck. If you look closely, you'll see a blade messing... But again, that could have happened if the rotor wasn't spinning, right?

I think it broke when the tail hit the ground.

But the spin afterwards was done by the pilot and had nothing to do with the broken tail as the main rotor goes counterclockwise while the helicopter spins clockwise after hitting the deck.


Right ?

Wait.... or is it the other way around ?

Which way would a helicopter spin after loosing the tail rotor ? The same way around as its main rotor or the other way around ? Im a bit confused right now

Does the tail rotor push or pull against the torque ?

The same way, but I'm not sure about push-pull.

To summarize Newtons 3rd law: For every action there is an equal and OPPOSITE reaction. So rotor moves counter-clockwise, and you can see that the helo moves opposite that, or clockwise, after the tail strike. The pilot was very very lucky and I feel for that poor fellow laying down on the deck wondering if he is to be turned into pate.

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Originally posted by Pacific_Ace:
To summarize Newtons 3rd law: For every action there is an equal and OPPOSITE reaction.

I think you're right.

I was absolutely not sure wether the main rotor's torque is forcing the helicopter to spin into the same direction it goes or if its due to air resistance that it would go counterwise.

Just as if you would hold the rotor so that it cant spin and the force coming from the engine would logically drag the helicopter into the other direction now.

Anyway, tail rotors are nonetheless overrated


I remember how James May watched "Where Eagle's dare" on his portable DVD Player during the Top Gear vs. the Germans challenge.


My favourite helicopter video

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Anyway, tail rotors are overrated

It is amazing to me (and gratifying) that Hitler had so many innovative military technologies at his disposal and still managed to lose the war. He could have had the worlds first Air Mobile divisions.