From: John Francis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 2007/02/09 Fri AM 02:39:04 GMT
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Subject: Re: combat photography
On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 09:21:42PM -0500, John Sessoms wrote:
This one (for the ford Ka) runs it pretty close for bad taste
In a message dated 2/7/2007 9:11:47 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,
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Try the Polo then...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1aVSXvcV3M
William Robb
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That has got to be one of the worst commercials, ever.
Like in really, really, really bad taste.
Marnie aka
On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 11:32:14AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 2/7/2007 9:11:47 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,
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Try the Polo then...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1aVSXvcV3M
William Robb
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That has got to be one of the worst
On 2/8/07, John Francis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 11:32:14AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 2/7/2007 9:11:47 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Try the Polo then...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1aVSXvcV3M
William Robb
This one (for the ford Ka) runs it pretty close for bad taste:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTCf2Z50ohU
Thanks, John. I needed that. First time I laughed out loud all day.
I'd seen that before, but I'd forgotten how funny it was... and I
*like* cats... :)
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This one (for the ford Ka) runs it pretty close for bad taste:
That one exceeds it by far in bad taste.
The Polo commercial had the advantage of a slight, if twisted, humor.
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On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 09:21:42PM -0500, John Sessoms wrote:
This one (for the ford Ka) runs it pretty close for bad taste:
That one exceeds it by far in bad taste.
The Polo commercial had the advantage of a slight, if twisted, humor.
A sense of humour is a very personal thing. I found
From:
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On a related matter -
One of my brothers was stationed on the battleship Iowa for several
years. The Iowa had 3 turrets of 16 guns. The projectile fired
weights approximately the same as a VW bug. Around 2000# IIRC.
VW bug gets better gas mileage though.
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VW bug gets better gas mileage though.
Yeah but it doesn't have quite the same impact.
Kenneth Waller
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From: John Sessoms [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: combat photography
From:
Kenneth Waller
On a related matter -
One of my brothers was stationed
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From: Kenneth Waller
Subject: Re: combat photography
VW bug gets better gas mileage though.
Yeah but it doesn't have quite the same impact.
Try the Polo then...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1aVSXvcV3M
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From: K.Takeshita [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 2007/02/06 Tue AM 12:52:31 GMT
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Subject: Re: combat photography
On 2/05/07 7:32 PM, P. J. Alling, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You'd have thought 16 would have been big enough...
K.Takeshita wrote
The AK-47 (7.62x39 Russian) round is a low-power round. It will make
anybody unhappy, but it doesn't penetrate well against anything tougher
than human. It's more of a beefed up SMG round than a real rifle round,
as it ist replacement (5.45mm in the AK-74 and siblings).
If that had been
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From: mike wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Re: combat photography
Digital Image Studio wrote:
On 04/02/07, mike wilson [EMAIL
I would have thought an 18 naval gun would be longer than 7'!
;-)
Kenneth Waller
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From: P. J. Alling [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Re: combat photography
You'd have thought 16 would
On 2/06/07 12:52 PM, Kenneth Waller, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would have thought an 18 naval gun would be longer than 7'!
;-)
That would be an amazing looking gun, wouldn't it? :-).
Even more amazing is PDML's ability to elongate a BB gun pellet into a 7'
long 1.6 ton cannon ball in a
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Subject: Re: combat photography
You'd have thought 16 would have been big enough...
K.Takeshita wrote:
On 2/05/07 6:03 PM, K.Takeshita, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is getting silly, but didn't I give you a salvo of 18 inch naval
guns?
That should do, period
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I think that's the length of the shell...
Kenneth Waller wrote:
I would have thought an 18 naval gun would be longer than 7'!
;-)
Kenneth Waller
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Well, if you want to really get into that range, take a look at this beast:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Babylon
It was supposed to be a 1 meter gun (about 39 inches)!!
rg
On 2/5/07, K.Takeshita [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is getting silly, but didn't I give you a salvo of 18 inch
Gonz wrote:
Well, if you want to really get into that range, take a look at this beast:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Babylon
It was supposed to be a 1 meter gun (about 39 inches)!!
rg
Not quite so big as the Saddam gun, but this one actually saw service
(of a sort) during WWII:
On 2/06/07 4:14 PM, Stephen Moore, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Not quite so big as the Saddam gun, but this one actually saw service
(of a sort) during WWII:
http://www.aopt91.dsl.pipex.com/railgun/Content/Railwayguns/German/Dora%20inde
x.htm
Seriously large projectiles...
I am now
Still pikers, the Germans were actually building this thing in WWII.
(RAF bomber command killed the London Gun) but a smaller version was
used to shoot at the channel ports after D-Day.
V-3 London Gun
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-3_cannon
Lots of information at the bottom of this page,
The V-3 gun was somewhat smaller than the Bull guns like Project
Babylon. The Bull guns were designed as an alternate method of orbiting
small satellites and were intended to be much larger and longer ranged
(750km or LEO for the smaller 'Baby Babylon' gun)than the comparatively
small and
Nah. Try:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GAU-8
rg
On 2/4/07, P. J. Alling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Still wimpy, Russian, (WWII), 50 caliber antitank rifle round.
K.Takeshita wrote:
On 2/03/07 5:38 PM, mike wilson, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 04/02/07, mike wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This is getting silly, but didn't I give you a salvo of 18 inch naval guns?
That should do, period :-).
Ken
On 2/05/07 5:52 PM, Gonz, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Nah. Try:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GAU-8
rg
On 2/4/07, P. J. Alling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Still wimpy, Russian,
On 2/05/07 6:03 PM, K.Takeshita, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is getting silly, but didn't I give you a salvo of 18 inch naval guns?
That should do, period :-).
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On 2/05/07 6:03 PM, K.Takeshita, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is getting silly, but didn't I give you a salvo of 18 inch naval guns?
That should do, period :-).
Just to satisfy the curiosity of some, and for the heck of it, this is a pic
of 18 inch cannon whose length is over 7 feet, reaching
Hey, the Nikon not only won't stop that but you'll cut the photographer,
(and what ever is standing behind him/her), in half...
Gonz wrote:
Nah. Try:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GAU-8
rg
On 2/4/07, P. J. Alling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Still wimpy, Russian, (WWII), 50 caliber
You'd have thought 16 would have been big enough...
K.Takeshita wrote:
On 2/05/07 6:03 PM, K.Takeshita, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is getting silly, but didn't I give you a salvo of 18 inch naval guns?
That should do, period :-).
Just to satisfy the curiosity of some, and for
On 2/05/07 7:32 PM, P. J. Alling, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You'd have thought 16 would have been big enough...
K.Takeshita wrote:
On 2/05/07 6:03 PM, K.Takeshita, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is getting silly, but didn't I give you a salvo of 18 inch naval guns?
That should do,
Interesting. The show was about USMC combat photographer.
A friend's wife just went through the Combat photog school(Army), they
were using Canon stuff there.
But the US Navy and Marines has long used Nikon stuff (in fact they kept
the Nikon F3 in short run production for several years
From:
mike wilson
Oh, wimpy ideas!
Let's go big bang!
7.62 NATO armour piercing incendiary round. Nikon will take it (no?)
If NATO ever makes one. Armour piercing _and_ incendiary?
NATO doesn't make one, but the U.S. Army does; not in 7.62 though - it's
in .50cal for the M2 or Barrett.
This isn't as cool as that cannon or Ken's 18 incher , ;-), but it's pretty
neat none the less:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_Storm
http://www.metalstorm.com/
Cheers,
Dave
At 07:52 AM 6/02/2007, Gonz wrote:
Nah. Try:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GAU-8
rg
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Now this would have been cool, if they'd ever built one...
*http://tinyurl.com/yrcaka*
David Savage wrote:
This isn't as cool as that cannon or Ken's 18 incher , ;-), but it's pretty
neat none the less:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_Storm
http://www.metalstorm.com/
Cheers,
Dave
Still wimpy, Russian, (WWII), 50 caliber antitank rifle round.
K.Takeshita wrote:
On 2/03/07 5:38 PM, mike wilson, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 04/02/07, mike wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
More likely a .22
Or baton round.
A BB from a modified air rifle perhaps?
It could have been nearly spent. From what I know the AK47 is very good
at penetration at medium and close range.
Bob W wrote:
More likely a .22
Or baton round.
A BB from a modified air rifle perhaps? ;-)
Sucker arrow from a toy crossbow?
Oh, wimpy
I just watched a show on the history channel about current combat
photography. I found it interesting that the U.S. armed forces combat
photographers use Nikon equipment.
Bill
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The last 2 ANZAC day parades I shot, the official Australian Navy
photographer was shooting with Nikon gear also.
Cheers,
Dave
On 2/4/07, Bill Owens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I just watched a show on the history channel about current combat
photography. I found it interesting that the U.S
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From: Bill Owens
Subject: combat photography
I just watched a show on the history channel about current combat
photography. I found it interesting that the U.S. armed forces combat
photographers use Nikon equipment.
I recall reading somewhere that the F5
On 2/4/07, William Robb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: Bill Owens
I just watched a show on the history channel about current combat
photography. I found it interesting that the U.S. armed forces combat
photographers use Nikon equipment.
I recall reading somewhere that the F5 would stop
Bill Owens wrote:
I just watched a show on the history channel about current combat
photography. I found it interesting that the U.S. armed forces combat
photographers use Nikon equipment.
Bill
A friend's wife just went through the Combat photog school(Army), they
were using Canon
I can't say for sure, but the shoulder straps appeared to be D1.
Bill
I just watched a show on the history channel about current combat
photography. I found it interesting that the U.S. armed forces combat
photographers use Nikon equipment.
Bill
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Interesting. The show was about USMC combat photographer.
A friend's wife just went through the Combat photog school(Army), they
were using Canon stuff there.
But the US Navy and Marines has long used Nikon stuff (in fact they kept
the Nikon F3 in short run production for several years
I just watched a show on the history channel about current combat
photography. I found it interesting that the U.S. armed
forces combat
photographers use Nikon equipment.
I recall reading somewhere that the F5 would stop a bullet.
Might have been hype.
I don't think it would
On 04/02/07, David Savage [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The last 2 ANZAC day parades I shot, the official Australian Navy
photographer was shooting with Nikon gear also.
The offical Air force images from the recent Sydney Air show were shot
on Nikon (D70s) and Canon (EOS-1D Mark II N), following is
William Robb wrote:
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From: Bill Owens
Subject: combat photography
I just watched a show on the history channel about current combat
photography. I found it interesting that the U.S. armed forces combat
photographers use Nikon equipment.
I recall
On 04/02/07, mike wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
More likely a .22
Or baton round.
A BB from a modified air rifle perhaps? ;-)
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Digital Image Studio wrote:
On 04/02/07, mike wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
More likely a .22
Or baton round.
A BB from a modified air rifle perhaps? ;-)
Sucker arrow from a toy crossbow?
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On 2/03/07 5:38 PM, mike wilson, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 04/02/07, mike wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
More likely a .22
Or baton round.
A BB from a modified air rifle perhaps? ;-)
Sucker arrow from a toy crossbow?
Oh, wimpy ideas!
Let's go big bang!
7.62 NATO armour
K.Takeshita wrote:
On 2/03/07 5:38 PM, mike wilson, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 04/02/07, mike wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
More likely a .22
Or baton round.
A BB from a modified air rifle perhaps? ;-)
Sucker arrow from a toy crossbow?
Oh, wimpy ideas!
Let's go big bang!
And that's the best use for Nikon gear I've ever heard suggested!
I recall reading somewhere that the F5 would stop a bullet.
Might have been hype.
William Robb
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More likely a .22
Or baton round.
A BB from a modified air rifle perhaps? ;-)
Sucker arrow from a toy crossbow?
Oh, wimpy ideas!
Let's go big bang!
7.62 NATO armour piercing incendiary round. Nikon will
take it (no?)
If NATO ever makes one. Armour piercing
On 2/03/07 6:30 PM, mike wilson, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 2/03/07 5:38 PM, mike wilson, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 04/02/07, mike wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
More likely a .22
Or baton round.
A BB from a modified air rifle perhaps? ;-)
Sucker arrow from a toy crossbow?
Oh,
Kenneth Waller
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Digital Image Studio wrote:
On 04/02/07, mike wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
More likely
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