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Giant Bomb XXI | Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth

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Death Metalist

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Paging Dan.

Volotaire said:
Talking of Brad. This video always makes me smile.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Hq3n52FY3U&nohtml5=False
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robotrock

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Ooo, very excited for that 100ft Robot Golf quick look. Bet it's Beast.

EDIT: WHAT HAPPENED TO THE GIANT BOMB PERSONA 4 TWITTER AVATARS

edit 2: Looks like no more cartoon avatars in general. Must be some new corporate push to make all the giantbomb members personalities for youtube
 
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Salty Catfish

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robotrock said:
EDIT: WHAT HAPPENED TO THE GIANT BOMB PERSONA 4 TWITTER AVATARS
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It looks like there might have been some kinda company directive re: twitter as along with that, everyone now has their proper job titles in their Twitter bio plus their real names (no more "it was me, austin").
 
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Keyser Soze

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Can someone give me a short rundown of Jason Whitlock? I feel like I do not live in the right country or follow the correct hobbies to know about him.
 
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FStop7

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I'm watching the B.E.A.S.T. video, listening to them comment on how casual Scott Manley is while doing his thing. It reminded me of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P740L91Mf8E

It's a shuttle launch from 1985. The Challenger's computer shuts the center engine down at 3:20. The crew had to do an ATO - Abort To Orbit. They could still reach a stable (but lower) orbit provided they didn't lose another engine. And it nearly happened, which probably would have meant the loss of the crew and the shuttle. There were various types of aborts but they can only happen within certain time windows. And within that window losing more than one engine was considered fatal, IIRC. The only reason the other two engines kept running is because someone very quick thinking in Mission Control remotely commanded them to keep running and ignore any shutdown commands from the Shuttle. It was a bad sensor that caused the shutdown of the center engine and apparently the other two would eventually have been shut down as well.

You can't see any of this happen but you can hear the Mission Control audio loop and what's mind blowing is how absolutely calm everyone is. It's like they're just following routine procedure even though they're in an especially dangerous situation and everything is happening so fast and information is just flying at them.
 
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Salty Catfish

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Keyser Soze said:
Can someone give me a short rundown of Jason Whitlock? I feel like I do not live in the right country or follow the correct hobbies to know about him.
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Just a dumb, inflammatory sportswriter who was given his own website on a platter (an African-American-targeted ESPN spinoff) and ended up nearly killing it before it began until he was booted out of the project.
 
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Keyser Soze

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Salty Catfish said:
Just a dumb, inflammatory sportswriter who was given his own website on a platter (an African-American-targeted ESPN spinoff) and ended up nearly killing it before it began until he was booted out of the project.
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Thanks. I feel like I get who he is with that one phrase.

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The article BUNTING1243 posted feels like it throws me into the middle of why he is an idiot without explaining how he got to that point. I am guessing he was the kind of person that was disliked by many before that news was reported?
 
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FStop7 said:
I'm watching the B.E.A.S.T. video, listening to them comment on how casual Scott Manley is while doing his thing. It reminded me of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P740L91Mf8E

It's a shuttle launch from 1985. The Challenger's computer shuts the center engine down at 3:20. The crew had to do an ATO - Abort To Orbit. They could still reach a stable (but lower) orbit provided they didn't lose another engine. And it nearly happened, which probably would have meant the loss of the crew and the shuttle. There were various types of aborts but they can only happen within certain time windows. And within that window losing more than one engine was considered fatal, IIRC. The only reason the other two engines kept running is because someone very quick thinking in Mission Control remotely commanded them to keep running and ignore any shutdown commands from the Shuttle. It was a bad sensor that caused the shutdown of the center engine and apparently the other two would eventually have been shut down as well.

You can't see any of this happen but you can hear the Mission Control audio loop and what's mind blowing is how absolutely calm everyone is. It's like they're just following routine procedure even though they're in an especially dangerous situation and everything is happening so fast and information is just flying at them.
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Oh yeah, i read about this a few months back. Truly terrifying stuff. The dude on Mission Control is a goddamn genius.

The book is called Apollo and it has a bunch of interviews and insights into the ground staff at the time all through the program. amazing book.
 
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Piston Hyundai

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Salty Catfish said:
It looks like there might have been some kinda company directive re: twitter as along with that, everyone now has their proper job titles in their Twitter bio plus their real names (no more "it was me, austin").
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"Be yourself, but don't be yourself."

Ultimately it's a super tiny thing, but it's still kind of a lame move.
 
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daydream

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Salty Catfish said:
It looks like there might have been some kinda company directive re: twitter as along with that, everyone now has their proper job titles in their Twitter bio plus their real names (no more "it was me, austin").
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jeff still has his 'it would be insane to stop now' line, at least

gonna miss alex' bios, though
 
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BUNTING1243

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robotrock said:
Ooo, very excited for that 100ft Robot Golf quick look. Bet it's Beast.

EDIT: WHAT HAPPENED TO THE GIANT BOMB PERSONA 4 TWITTER AVATARS

edit 2: Looks like no more cartoon avatars in general. Must be some new corporate push to make all the giantbomb members personalities for youtube
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alex has his all in undercase because he's a rebel

danny, the Gamespot staff member i know, still has a cartoon avatar. must be a GB specific thing.
 
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Salty Catfish

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Piston Hyundai said:
"Be yourself, but don't be yourself."

Ultimately it's a super tiny thing, but it's still kind of a lame move.
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Yeah, I felt kinda silly for noticing/pointing it out -- but it's pretty clear that something happened since everyone changed at once, which is a bit of a bummer.

Except El Jefe. He just doesn't give a fuck.
 
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BearPawB

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Will Smith's Foo thing is way cooler than i thought it sounded.

I don't know if I really get the whole business plan...but it's cool
 
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Twin Tails

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"Siri followed my dad."

Lets go back to base.
Load into helicopter
Gets out
Walks around in circle
Lets do a mission
Call helicopter
 
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