HT: Maggie's Farm
Posted by gerardvanderleun at February 4, 2015 1:41 PMThese missile guidance systems clearly owe a debt to the Retro Encabulator design:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXJKdh1KZ0w
Posted by: K Hill at February 4, 2015 3:11 PMLove the voice, so serious.
Posted by: chuck at February 4, 2015 4:44 PMIt's math, bitches. Suck it up.
Posted by: SteveS at February 4, 2015 7:34 PMSteveS writes:
It's math, bitches. Suck it up.
Well, yes, Steve, but this is a situation where a picture is worth a thousand words -- the producers of that video apparently are so afraid of equations that they veered off into gobbledygook instead.
Hale Adams
Pikesville, People's Still-mostly-Democratic Republic of Maryland
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Regarding the fine prose in the voiceover, I think it illustrates well the need for a more terse notation!
Posted by: Kinch at February 4, 2015 10:36 PMSadly, this actually made sense to me. But then I used to be a missile man.
Folks do realize that this video is a spoof, not an actual DOD production, yes?
Posted by: Donald Sensing at February 5, 2015 6:28 AMWow, I would have sworn that was a Firesign Theatre skit. The resemblance in style, if not voice, was uncanny.
Posted by: D S Craft at February 5, 2015 9:49 AMThem things burn hot.
"It's hotter than Hooker in Heater and hotter than Heater in Hellmouth..."
Posted by: Will at February 6, 2015 6:18 AMEverything you know, is Wrong!
Posted by: Duncan Winn at February 6, 2015 9:41 AMI found this entertaining to say the least. Made perfect sense, even if extremely pedantic. lol
Posted by: Hanzo at February 6, 2015 11:50 AMSorry about the multiple posts, not sure what happened.
Posted by: Hanzo at February 6, 2015 11:52 AMHuh?
Posted by: ambiguousfrog at February 6, 2015 5:52 PMWow.
Posted by: DickStanley at February 8, 2015 6:55 AM
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