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MrGimp

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Dead Whale Explosion
« on: July 14, 2009, 04:03:29 pm »
Lets hand it to humans...theyre pretty dwarfy.

Check this video out...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkZottYDpEE&feature=channel

A dead whale floats up on the beach and stinks up the town, so the local officials do the only reasonable thing; they blow it up.  Blood and blubber rain on the crowd a quarter mile away.  The less beardly ones (females) gasp in horror.  A car gets crushed by a chunk of whale fat.  When the smoke clears the whale carcass is mostly still there.

They end up burrying it....which was probably the most reasonable solution the entire time.  But they knew that.  They just wanted to blow something up, y'know?
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Re: Dead Whale Explosion
« Reply #1 on: July 14, 2009, 04:06:26 pm »
dynomiting whales is a time honored tradition
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Re: Dead Whale Explosion
« Reply #2 on: July 14, 2009, 04:10:37 pm »
Ah, this video I have seen loads of time.  I don't know what that town was think.   ::)  I bet they just wanted an excuse to BLOW UP STUFF.
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Re: Dead Whale Explosion
« Reply #3 on: July 14, 2009, 04:19:09 pm »
I just realized I put this in the wrong general discussion thread. 

Hmmm....how to make this about DF?  Ok, community challenge....someone make a whale explode!

Do whales beach in DF?
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Re: Dead Whale Explosion
« Reply #4 on: July 14, 2009, 07:06:54 pm »
Quote from: MrGimp on July 14, 2009, 04:19:09 pm
I just realized I put this in the wrong general discussion thread. 

Hmmm....how to make this about DF?  Ok, community challenge....someone make a whale explode!

Do whales beach in DF?

If beaching means walking, then yes.
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Re: Dead Whale Explosion
« Reply #5 on: July 14, 2009, 07:25:04 pm »
Not the undead ones, silly.

Seriously, though, do whales drown if stuck out of water?
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Re: Dead Whale Explosion
« Reply #6 on: July 14, 2009, 07:40:20 pm »
Quote from: MrGimp on July 14, 2009, 04:19:09 pm
I just realized I put this in the wrong general discussion thread. 

Hmmm....how to make this about DF?  Ok, community challenge....someone make a whale explode!

Do whales beach in DF?

You can move it if you want.  Thread controls are in the lower left.
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Re: Dead Whale Explosion
« Reply #7 on: July 14, 2009, 08:00:55 pm »
Quote from: Christes on July 14, 2009, 07:25:04 pm
Not the undead ones, silly.

Seriously, though, do whales drown if stuck out of water?

I think they die of thirst or starvation or something.  Probably thirst.
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Re: Dead Whale Explosion
« Reply #8 on: July 14, 2009, 08:18:09 pm »
Quote from: Footkerchief on July 14, 2009, 07:40:20 pm
Quote from: MrGimp on July 14, 2009, 04:19:09 pm
I just realized I put this in the wrong general discussion thread. 

Hmmm....how to make this about DF?  Ok, community challenge....someone make a whale explode!

Do whales beach in DF?

You can move it if you want.  Thread controls are in the lower left.

Whoa I've never seen those there...haha, cool!
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Re: Dead Whale Explosion
« Reply #9 on: July 14, 2009, 09:03:30 pm »
The only thing worse than a big dead whale, is thousands of pieces of dead whale.
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Re: Dead Whale Explosion
« Reply #10 on: July 14, 2009, 10:31:38 pm »
Quote from: Mr Tk on July 14, 2009, 09:03:30 pm
The only thing worse than a big dead whale, is thousands of pieces of dead whale.
Ya pieces that crush cars.
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« Reply #11 on: July 14, 2009, 11:10:54 pm »
My favorite quotes:

"The Oregon State Highway Devision not only had a whale of a problem on it's hands, it had a stinking whale of a problem."

"After careful consideration..."

"Highway department worker George Thorton thinks it's a brilliant idea..."

"We're not sure how much explosives it'll take to disintegrate this [whale]..."

The sheer, unashamed absence of thought here makes me hope everyone involved got fired. These people shouldn't be handling explosives, someone could have been seriously hurt.
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Re: Dead Whale Explosion
« Reply #12 on: July 15, 2009, 12:19:33 am »
 It works: Amazing heroes of engineering.
 It fails: You are all idiots and you should all be fired because you never thought of anything.

 Couldn't they place the explosives in such a way that the chunks would go out to sea and bloster the local fish population?
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« Reply #13 on: July 15, 2009, 12:48:32 am »
That's what they did Duke, the "plan" was to place the explosives on one side of the whale so all the chunks would go flying off into the ocean.

This just wasn't a rational idea, is what I'm saying.
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« Reply #14 on: July 15, 2009, 12:51:58 am »
Quote from: chaoticjosh on July 15, 2009, 12:48:32 am
That's what they did Duke, the "plan" was to place the explosives on one side of the whale so all the chunks would go flying off into the ocean.

This just wasn't a rational idea, is what I'm saying.

Explosives are ALWAYS a rational idea.
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