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(...) It's been a while since I've ever done anything like this, but as a 12 year-old I remember wrecking my Deep Freeze Defender on several occasions. I used to launch it across the room in an arc, leaving it to drop at least 4-5 feet on a medium (...) (24 years ago, 7-Jul-00, to lugnet.build)
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To All, (...) I (...) 4-5 (...) Well I have had numerous experiences involving dropping everything, from buildings to ships to trains to boats to vehicles. You name it, I dropped it. I used to have my entire LEGO collection upstairs in our attic, (...) (24 years ago, 7-Jul-00, to lugnet.build)
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(...) I have finally determined the UH-60 L crash site will be a carpeted wide walkway at my job. It's got that thin industrial carpet and directly underneath is concrete. Hard yet with a not-so-abrasive-to-piece thin carpet layer. The area is wide (...) (24 years ago, 12-Jul-00, to lugnet.build, lugnet.general)
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(...) One might say you have an APPETITE FOR DESTRUCTION! I can already hear the opening riffs for "Welcome to the Jungle". Commence firing up Winamp... :-, Cheers, - jsproat (24 years ago, 13-Jul-00, to lugnet.build, lugnet.general)
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(...) I'm sorry, Jeremy, but I have to commet here. Guns and Roses. really (sigh) I see this as more of a Rammstein Du Hast sort of thing. It starts out slow, but gets nice and crunchy for the impact. Marc, I think music here is important. What (...) (24 years ago, 21-Jul-00, to lugnet.build, lugnet.general)
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(...) ^^^^^^ No pun intended eh? Has Shiri been taking your letters too? ;-) (...) Rammstein seems too...I dunno, techno...for a crash. G'n'R is probably too bluesy, though, too... How about Vagner? Or perhaps even Elfman? (...) What we need is a (...) (24 years ago, 21-Jul-00, to lugnet.build, lugnet.general)
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(...) The Dead Milkmen? Are they still around? Geez, I haven't heard of them in about a decade or so. They're probably playing on a revival tour with the Violent Femmes and Guadalcanal Diary, eh? Steve (24 years ago, 21-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Last I saw of them was a tape they put out a few years back. (1) It was, sadly, quite PG. Not a single unutterable word. Quite a change from the NC-17 of _Big Lizard_, the R of _Beelzebubba_, or even the PG-13 of _Bucky Fellini_. And while the (...) (24 years ago, 21-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Marc, I do hope that you're planning to catch this on video, not just stills? It would be particularly cool if you had access to a high-speed movie camera that can capture upwards of 60 frames/sec... Have fun! -- John J. Ladasky Jr., Ph.D. (...) (23 years ago, 22-Jun-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.general)
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(...) If we're talking Milkmen, shouldn't that be Guadalcanal Dairy? Steve (23 years ago, 24-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Oh yes. Sony vx2000 with high speed shutter. I'll post the results on my website. Should be interesting to see where the SEAL team and pilot's get ejected to.... (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jun-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.general)
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