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    Researchers Accidentally Demolish Building With Cannon-Like Gun

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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    12/24/09

    In reply to Researchers Accidentally Demolish Building With Cannon-Like Gun
    Dear Korea, Iran, and anyone else who might be looking to piss us off:

    We have a gun that, when it fails, blows up buildings and when it works, helps us make better nukes. In our language, we call that a "win-win".

    For the record, we isolated the cause of the incident. Two of the eggheads scored themselves some peyote on their lunchbreak and, while stoned out of their minds, turned Civil War technology into a giant fucking bomb. Yes - our scientists are just that good. They can blow shit up even when they're high.

    We have a new guy in charge and he knows that when science isn't studying evolution, it's coming up with new ways to kill large numbers of people. We decided that can live with evolution if it means that in ten years, we'll have a cannon that can fire an ultrasonic field across large distances, wiping out everything in the blast's path. Oh - and that one - we call it "Project Krakatoa".

    By all means, laugh at our little accident. At the end of the day, your people are starving and we're still the leaders in the field of blowing shit up.

    xoxo

    The United States of America

    PS - Seriously. Don't fuck with us. We have bombs that we need to use before the expiration date.
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    Jrsy Devil's Advocate® promoted this comment OMG! Ponies! was starred OMG! Ponies! was unstarred
    Image of madara madara
    12/24/09

    In reply to Researchers Accidentally Demolish Building With Cannon-Like Gun
    Now I have a cannon. Ho Ho Ho.
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    lostarchitect promoted this comment madara was starred madara was unstarred
    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    12/24/09

    In reply to Researchers Accidentally Demolish Building With Cannon-Like Gun
    This is my BOOMSTICK!!
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    12/24/09

    In reply to Researchers Accidentally Demolish Building With Cannon-Like Gun
    These guys make guns like the Soviets make rockets..
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    Image of Nick Nick
    12/24/09

    In reply to Researchers Accidentally Demolish Building With Cannon-Like Gun
    Lab Coat Number 1: "hey, bill."
    Lab Coat Number 2: "what?"
    Lab Coat Number 1: "pull my finger."
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    Image of Gilliam Gilliam
    12/24/09

    @Nick: al queda better watch out for this one. then again, they have probably already looked into weapons of ass destruction and decided against it, dynamite belts are cheaper than importing Mexican burrito ingredients and eliminate the vapor trail that could give away their super secret hidden basses :P
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    Purple Dave promoted this comment Gilliam was starred Gilliam was unstarred
    Image of Purple Dave Purple Dave
    12/24/09

    @Gilliam:
    Their super secret hidden basses? Would that be string basses, electric basses, large-mouth basses, or small-mouth basses?
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    Image of Sticks Calhoun Sticks Calhoun
    12/24/09

    @Purple Dave: None of the above. Billy Basses.
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    Image of Demonbird Demonbird
    12/24/09

    In reply to Researchers Accidentally Demolish Building With Cannon-Like Gun
    "What happened?"
    "Our new gun, it obliterated the test chamber."
    "The test chamber designed to easily withstand this crap?"
    "Bingo."
    "We are so getting promoted."
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    Image of njdevil njdevil
    12/24/09

    @Demonbird: Or those guys who built the test chamber are so getting fired.
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    Demonbird promoted this comment njdevil was starred njdevil was unstarred
    Image of Demonbird Demonbird
    12/24/09

    @njdevil:
    True. Very true.
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    Image of asten77 asten77
    12/23/09

    In reply to Researchers Accidentally Demolish Building With Cannon-Like Gun
    What concerns me most is that by the sound of it, an explosion causing $750,000 in damages wouldn't necessarily trigger an investigation.
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    lostarchitect promoted this comment asten77 was starred asten77 was unstarred
    Image of lostarchitect lostarchitect
    12/24/09

    @asten77: Pocket change, Jeeves, pocket change!
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    Image of Ozzie's Secret Code Name: MisterWho Ozzie's Secret Code Name: MisterWho
    12/23/09

    In reply to Researchers Accidentally Demolish Building With Cannon-Like Gun
    Update #2: Authorities have been able to narrow the list of possible causes down to either a bean burrito or a chimichanga.
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    spannu promoted this comment Ozzie's Secret Code Name: MisterWho was starred Ozzie's Secret Code Name: MisterWho was unstarred
    Image of Kirkaiya Kirkaiya
    12/24/09

    @Ozzie's Secret Code Name: MisterWho: Maybe some bread fell on it?
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    Image of kingcrim84 kingcrim84
    12/23/09

    In reply to Researchers Accidentally Demolish Building With Cannon-Like Gun
    "Let's look at the positive side of this though. The gun was a mess, but they discovered a heck of a bomb here, no?"

    How is a heck of a bomb positive? I'd really like to know when a bomb has caused something positive.
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    bagellord promoted this comment kingcrim84 was starred kingcrim84 was unstarred
    Image of bagellord bagellord
    12/24/09

    @kingcrim84: Dropping the atomic bombs saved millions of lives, American and Japanese, and ended WWII.
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    Image of kingcrim84 kingcrim84
    12/24/09

    @bagellord: I feel that civilian casualties are not a positive outcome.
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    Image of superhalo superhalo
    12/23/09

    In reply to Researchers Accidentally Demolish Building With Cannon-Like Gun
    Wired has confirmed that no building was demolished.
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    OCEntertainment promoted this comment superhalo was starred superhalo was unstarred
    Image of OCEntertainment OCEntertainment
    12/23/09

    @superhalo: Well. That would be why there were no pics.

    Dangit. Way to spoil the fun for everyone!!! Stupid logic, facts, and researched reporting.
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    Image of Golf_Nut Golf_Nut
    12/23/09

    In reply to Researchers Accidentally Demolish Building With Cannon-Like Gun
    Clearly time travelers looking to destroy the LHC got the wrong location.
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    Image of Sora57 Sora57
    12/23/09

    In reply to Researchers Accidentally Demolish Building With Cannon-Like Gun
    Whenever I read stories like this I think of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid when they robbed their first train and blew up the safe as well as all the money inside.

    Sundance: use enough dynamite, there, Butch?

    That and the exploding whale.
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    Image of B3ND3R B3ND3R
    12/23/09

    In reply to Researchers Accidentally Demolish Building With Cannon-Like Gun
    weapons researchers + booze @ Christmas party = blow'd stuff up
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    Image of InsidiousTuna InsidiousTuna
    12/23/09

    In reply to Researchers Accidentally Demolish Building With Cannon-Like Gun
    Gizmeudian slip: substituting "Canon" for "cannon".
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    Image of Rosa Golijan Rosa Golijan
    12/23/09

    @InsidiousTuna: At least you know I'm not a Nikon girl.

    Fixed the typo. Thanks.
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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    12/23/09

    @InsidiousTuna:

    well maybe she was ACTUALLY trying to say that they had destroyed a building using a gun which resembled, in its absurdity, christian canon law.
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    Image of Hachiken Hachiken
    12/23/09

    @nutbastard: That was good...
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    Image of InsidiousTuna InsidiousTuna
    12/23/09

    @nutbastard: Highly plausible.
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    Image of Zanzan42 Zanzan42
    12/23/09

    In reply to Researchers Accidentally Demolish Building With Cannon-Like Gun
    Probably a good idea that the LHC isn't at Los Alamos.
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    Image of Hachiken Hachiken
    12/23/09

    @Zanzan42: Hell yes. They'd use it to blow the smithereens out of FermiLab.
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    Image of Curves Curves
    12/23/09

    In reply to Researchers Accidentally Demolish Building With Cannon-Like Gun
    I understand not knowing why they have the gun, but not knowing why they tested it is silly; Because they CAN.
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    Image of OCEntertainment OCEntertainment
    12/23/09

    @Curves: Having a massively powerful implement of destruction and not using it at least once is..is....well, it's against the rules or something! And if it's not, it bloody well should be.

    Of course, it should also be a rule that anyone testing a crazy weapon should have a cellphone/crappy camcorder with a direct link to YouTube. Where's our video, dangit?!

    #picsoritdidnthappen
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    Image of zenpoet zenpoet
    12/23/09

    @Curves: I can only hope that not only did they test it, but that they put a watermelon in front of it, just to see what would happen.
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    Image of Hachiken Hachiken
    12/23/09

    @zenpoet: Agreed. If it's good enough for Buckaroo Banzai, it's damn well good enough for Los Alamos.
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    Image of dingus dingus
    12/24/09

    @Hachiken: I'll tell you later.
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    Image of Hachiken Hachiken
    12/24/09

    @dingus: Right. I suspect Buckaroo has the Higgs boson. He's gonna use it on Hanoi Xan.
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    Image of Noobs-R-Us Noobs-R-Us
    12/18/09

    In reply to Finally, Digital Camera RAW Compatibility Update 2.7 for Mac
    No Panasonic. That's why I use Lightroom!
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    Image of ecarls002 ecarls002
    12/18/09

    @Noobs-R-Us: [support.apple.com]

    Plenty of Panasonic support. This is an update.

    Every initial comment in this thread is bashing first, asking questions later. The hate for AppleAnything clouds normal thought, eh?
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    Noobs-R-Us promoted this comment ecarls002 was starred ecarls002 was unstarred
    Image of Noobs-R-Us Noobs-R-Us
    12/19/09

    @ecarls002: I'm not the only one complaining about how Apple is aways the last to update their RAW compatibility. You can wait years before the Apple people get around to it. Hell, the Sigma folks will be dead before Apple gets around to implementing Sigma Raw. So, Mr. Genius, would you care to comment about that???

    That, my friend, is why I have a star . Star people know more about things than you think even though we sometimes are curt with our posts.

    [forums.dpreview.com]
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    Edited by Noobs-R-Us at 12/19/09 10:45 PM Noobs-R-Us was starred Noobs-R-Us was unstarred
    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    12/18/09

    In reply to Finally, Digital Camera RAW Compatibility Update 2.7 for Mac
    Sort of puts another dent in the whole Macs-for-media thing. The fact that compatibility wasn't there in the first place is sad.
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    Image of LuckyPenny LuckyPenny
    12/18/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: Clearly not having RAW compatibility for those 6 cameras, versus the hundred or so it already had - without needing to download drivers proves your point. This is also especially confirmed with the no support for RAW in Windows 7 out-of-the-box.

    Silly macs with their updating continual support.
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    Kaiser-Machead promoted this comment Edited by LuckyPenny at 12/18/09 12:36 PM LuckyPenny was starred LuckyPenny was unstarred
    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    12/18/09

    @LuckyPenny: @Eulatos: OK OK Uncle. I didn't realize the bit about licensing fees for the formats.
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    Image of bornonbord bornonbord
    12/18/09

    In reply to Finally, Digital Camera RAW Compatibility Update 2.7 for Mac
    Well paint me silly: Was the entire Mac platform completely unable to deal with RAW from these cameras until now, or just Mac OS? In other words, were you able to work via CS4 but not OSX?
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    Edited by bornonbord at 12/18/09 12:25 PM bornonbord was starred bornonbord was unstarred
    Image of agahnim agahnim
    12/18/09

    @bornonbord: Just the OS and whatever applications that use the OS's RAW libraries (like Aperture)... It's nice when it works, but there's always Lightroom when it doesn't.
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    Image of bornonbord bornonbord
    12/18/09

    @agahnim: Cheers bro
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    Image of Margatron Margatron
    12/17/09

    In reply to Video: Surfing Huge Waves at Jaws In Canon 5d Mark II Slow Motion
    Am I the only one that's seeing all the pixel dirt on this video? I mean, I know it's compressed for the net but there is a ton of "digital dust" all over this footage.

    If it was a dead pixel on the sensor, it'd be in the same place consistently throughout the footage. If it was clipping out whites/darks it'd be in those areas, not across the whole image. I've seen this happen before with P2 footage. Just like a graphics card can overheat and not render properly, the camera gets overheated and can't capture those pixels so they show up as white, red, green, or blue pixels scattered all over the frame.
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    Edited by Margatron at 12/17/09 7:28 PM Margatron was starred Margatron was unstarred
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