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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #46590 on: March 30, 2014, 10:46:30 am »

I bought some had soap yesterday, and when I used it, I felt an odd burning sensation on my hands. Not a "ohmygodmyfleshismelting" burning, but more of a "oh hey, my hands are radiating heat" kind of thing. It wasn't necessarily unpleasant, though. Either something is wrong, or I may have suddenly discovered that the secret to fire magic is shea butter hand soap.

Might be an allergic reaction. Keep in mind, when you feel hot or cold INSIDE (so, not when you put your hand in a stove), 90% of the time what you're feeling is actually blood flow in the area.
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« Reply #46591 on: March 30, 2014, 11:09:39 am »

Usually they're no-man torpedoes, since they go boom when reaching their target.
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I believe they also had manned V1s.
One manned V1, flown by a volunteer ace pilot to work out some of the glitches. Pretty sure they had a bail-out system.
I think, IIRC, other caveats.
There were late-war plans to provide a pilot to serve as terminal guidance. It never took off because Germany has never had the cultural motif of honorable suicide that Japan has.
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« Reply #46592 on: March 30, 2014, 11:11:39 am »

Usually they're no-man torpedoes, since they go boom when reaching their target.
Wikipedia is thine confidant.
I believe they also had manned V1s.
One manned V1, flown by a volunteer ace pilot to work out some of the glitches. Pretty sure they had a bail-out system.
I think, IIRC, other caveats.
There were late-war plans to provide a pilot to serve as terminal guidance. It never took off because Germany has never had the cultural motif of honorable suicide that Japan has.
I agree with that, but I've played several games of B-17 Flying Fortress: The Mighty 8th, that don't. Seriously, I've lost more planes to enemy fighters crashing into them then the fighter's guns and flak combined.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #46593 on: March 30, 2014, 11:12:39 am »

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« Reply #46594 on: March 30, 2014, 11:21:35 am »

Usually they're no-man torpedoes, since they go boom when reaching their target.
Wikipedia is thine confidant.
I believe they also had manned V1s.
One manned V1, flown by a volunteer ace pilot to work out some of the glitches. Pretty sure they had a bail-out system.
I think, IIRC, other caveats.
There were late-war plans to provide a pilot to serve as terminal guidance. It never took off because Germany has never had the cultural motif of honorable suicide that Japan has.
I agree with that, but I've played several games of B-17 Flying Fortress: The Mighty 8th, that don't. Seriously, I've lost more planes to enemy fighters crashing into them then the fighter's guns and flak combined.
That was also a late-war tactic by the Luftwaffe (although in the case of the game, it was most likely poor AI or something). Large numbers of pilots were pulled from experimental programs such as the Me-163 rocket fighter and given the task of finding a survivable method of crashing a fighter into an attacking bomber. The Reich's more sturdy fighters could pull off such a maneuver almost intact under ideal conditions, but such conditions were very rare, and the tactic didn't last long.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #46595 on: March 30, 2014, 12:38:58 pm »

I was going to mention that. I think I remember seeing something about that on the History channel or something. They tried to shear the tail off the bomber with the wings of the fighter, and then have the pilot parachute down.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #46596 on: March 30, 2014, 12:46:39 pm »

I was going to mention that. I think I remember seeing something about that on the History channel or something. They tried to shear the tail off the bomber with the wings of the fighter, and then have the pilot parachute down.
Are you sure they didn't do that to attract the wrath of aliens onto their enemies?
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #46597 on: March 30, 2014, 01:03:06 pm »

I was going to mention that. I think I remember seeing something about that on the History channel or something. They tried to shear the tail off the bomber with the wings of the fighter, and then have the pilot parachute down.
Hah. Soviet fighters were doing that since the very first days of WW2.

The I-16 strikes the He-111 in the tail with its -steel propeller- and the severed part sails off in a cloud of bits!
The He-111 has been struck down.

And even before that.
Captain Nesterov strikes the Albatross in the centerplane with his Nieuport-IV, crushing it!
The Nieuport-IV has lodged firmly in the wound!
The Albatross collides with an obstacle!
Captain Nesterov collides with an obstacle!

The Albatross has been struck down.
Captain Nesterov has been struck down.


That was WW1, and Nesterov was the guy who invented aerobatics, period. Then he thought he'd invent aerial ramming, but didn't quite make it.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #46599 on: March 30, 2014, 01:27:39 pm »

Relevant.

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« Reply #46600 on: March 30, 2014, 01:30:14 pm »

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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #46602 on: March 30, 2014, 02:05:26 pm »

Magnemite doesn't have levitate.
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« Reply #46603 on: March 30, 2014, 02:43:35 pm »

Magnemite doesn't have levitate.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #46604 on: March 30, 2014, 04:16:06 pm »

German porn star dropped by Neo-Nazi party for having sex with black male
She should have told her politics friends it was actually bestiality porn.
It could have gotten her out of trouble with them. Maybe.
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