I can't find it, but the one that always causes me to chuckle is the picture of Batman kicking somebody in the back of the head for eating icecream.
hux":7bf2safq said:Isn't the Atlantic sea level in Panama something like six feet higher than the Pacific sea level? (Or vice versa; I forget which way round it is.)Frennzy":7bf2safq said:NotContinuum":7bf2safq said:Pokrface":7bf2safq said:And who could forget this classic:
stupid webster idea
I don't get it.
It was webster's genius plan for green energy production. Dig a canal across a peninsula and let the water flow downhill, and put a generator in it's path.
Sea-level escaped him.
3. Is sea level of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans the same?
If so why are locks required in Panama?
Sea level is about 20 cm higher on the Pacific side than the Atlantic due to the water being less dense on average on the Pacific side and due to the prevailing weather and ocean conditions. Such sea level differences are common across many short sections of land dividing ocean basins.
The 20 cm difference business is determined by geodetic levelling from one side to the other. A datum called Panama Canal Datum is used. When you use spirit levelling you follow a 'level' surface (to our perceptions, see 1) which will be parallel to the geoid (which is geometrically a 'lumpy' surface). The geoid is the surface of constant gravitational potential (plus a 'centrifugal potential' term) which on average coincides with the sea surface i.e. a 'level' surface in everyday language. The 20 cm difference at Panama is not unique. There are similar 'jumps' elsewhere e.g. Skagerrak, Indonesian straits.
If the canal was open sea and not locks (i.e. if somehow a deep open cutting had been made rather than the canal system over the mountains) then there WOULD be a current flowing from Pacific to Atlantic. An analogy (although not a perfect one because there are many other factors) is that you could compare Panama to the Drake Passage off the south tip of Chile which has a west-east flow (but mostly wind-driven of course, but Pacific-Atlantic density must play some role).
Locks are needed in the Panama Canal because the canal climbs over the hills and makes use of mountain lakes. Therefore, locks would be needed even if sea level was the same on the two sides. (So, for example, there are also locks on canals here in England which is much less mountainous than Panama).
Note also that the tides have opposite phase on the 2 sides of Panama, so, if there was a sea level canal, there would be major tidal currents through it.
brodie":1efzqyjf said:Wait. Are you honestly trying to retcon the whole thing as an intentional joke?[url=http://meincmagazine.com/civis/viewtopic.php?p=21014388#p21014388:1efzqyjf said:webster[/url]":1efzqyjf]I also made another one like that almost exactly a year later. After that I kept forgetting (wanted to start a tradition), I'll give you guys a hint - the picture doesn't look like it does as a fluke.![]()
brodie":z8xdu2cs said:Hey, better heterosexual rape than homosexual rape.[url=http://meincmagazine.com/civis/viewtopic.php?p=21043187#p21043187:z8xdu2cs said:The Shadow[/url]":z8xdu2cs]What, they weren't already blinking in shock from the bit in act 1 where he tries to get the enraged mob to rape his two virgin daughters?
Real stand-up guy, that Lot.
Say what you will about Lot, but at least he had his priorities straight.
Dogmeat":2ijqcttl said:RDeVoe":2ijqcttl said:brodie":2ijqcttl said:Hey, better heterosexual rape than homosexual rape.[url=http://meincmagazine.com/civis/viewtopic.php?p=21043187#p21043187:2ijqcttl said:The Shadow[/url]":2ijqcttl]What, they weren't already blinking in shock from the bit in act 1 where he tries to get the enraged mob to rape his two virgin daughters?
Real stand-up guy, that Lot.
Say what you will about Lot, but at least he had his priorities straight.
To be fair, he also offered up himself.
I still have my doubts the angels wouldn't have been into it. Dudes are always pretty homoerotic looking. They might have ken genitals but I'm sure they could participate somehow.

Neil Degrasse Tyson
Gulielmus":nmbbhony said:
hux":s159f7kg said:For me, it's the simple absurdity in a person carrying a human-sized shark down the street in the middle of what is ostensibly a war zone, combined with the fact that, to our ignorant eyes, that image perfectly represents what expect Mogadishu to be like.fitten":s159f7kg said:I'm not sure why that image is 'funny' at all... it's not like fishermen don't carry their catch home... or people don't buy a fish at the market and take it home. People *do* eat sharks, you know... and use their skin for leather and stuff![]()
It's not OMG-my-aching-sides funny, it's minor-giggle-WTF funny.
pauli":1pg5nm33 said:thing about being in front of cameras... you end up in all sorts of entertaining pictures. especially when you play it up.
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Ge0ph":3ji28sgs said:btmlltt":3ji28sgs said:^^^
huh?![]()
The internet is like a drug.
Frennzy":d20ps843 said:XxOmegaxX":d20ps843 said:GByteKnight":d20ps843 said:
Not LOL but WTF?
Why not? Maybe he spilled something on it.
Cricket":2oye2hql said:hux":2oye2hql said:Cricket: You're obsessed with the idea of it being a shell. Stop it!![]()
It's a 105mm cannon, it fires a shell. Since the launcher crew was down range it sure as hell was not a canister round and I doubt an advertising agency hired by a beer company managed to get their hands on a SABOT round.
How about this then: blank round -> blast effect -> skeet made out of something that bursts into pretty flames when hit by sufficiently hot gases coming out of a big gun? (Note how the final skeet is a different color than the test-fired skeet. That might be significant.)
Too far away to be affected by the gases released by the cannon. There's an appreciable shockwave out in front of the tank even with a blank but the skeet would have just shattered without the cute little sparks and puffs of flame.
topham":hrwtnmnd said:NotContinuum":hrwtnmnd said:smartalco":hrwtnmnd said:I have no idea what you're talking about. Do I have to like hockey and/or be canadian?
Luongo is the Vancouver Canucks hockey goalie. He sucked royally during this last series against the Bruins and lost them the cup.
I read an article that compared him to LeBron James.
They didn't lose because of their goalie, they lost because they couldn't score worth shit.
But it's still funny.
ProphetM":112p4r5o said:RDeVoe":112p4r5o said:I remember watching a day time soap I think it was Springer where this girl was on for the 5th time testing guys to see if they were the father of her child.
Jerry Springer is not a daytime soap. Everyone is sleeping with everyone else in both programs, but in a soap opera it's fictional...
Punk Walrus":3ipp1vn0 said:jean_bapt21":3ipp1vn0 said:It just gets better each time I read it.
I feel a little bad, because I wanted to make it really sarcastic and funny, but didn't want to insult the OP, so I just made it literal with a few giggles here and there. Spoiling the joke makes me kind of a dick, but I actually didn't know what part confused him. Was it that he got the joke, but didn't know what that had to do with Jurassic Park, or didn't get the joke about sleeping pills, or got confused why they were eating food, etc? I, myself, have been confused by some jokes only to realize "oh, well, see the actors, when the got older, held up a convenience store, so you kind of had to know that to get the joke." There a meme with "Inception" like this which has become a self-referencing meme which could REALLY confuse an outsider. For instance:
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Now, most people know Monty Python's Holy Grail swallow joke, and many know that's a scene from "Inception," but may be confused about why that comic should be funny. And... it's kind of those "you had to be there" moments.
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/subcultures/inception
Kayla":8f1bxrkg said:Qwerty doesn't wanna snuggle with you ANYWAY.
Ok, he totally does. He will snuggle anyone with a heartbeat.
Operative Alex":2zu3wx00 said:Nilt":2zu3wx00 said:You know, having dealt with guys so stupid we referred to them as rocks while serving, I can't even say this is unbelievable. I have dealt with guys who'd literally have bought that line. No, none of them were in SOCOMM units.
Man, I'm willing to believe that grunts will believe a lot, but I doubt any of them would buy this. Now, on the other hand, I have no problem believing that a lot of the 17-18 year olds who married their first girlfriend from high school and suddenly found out she cheated on them would lie like crazy and say they believe her because they have NO IDEA how to handle themselves without their wife. That, or the clever ones might lie because they realize they can get divorced after they get out, and there's no sense having to move back into the barracks in the meanwhile.
stigmata":cra4ojh7 said:hux":cra4ojh7 said:Is that train one actually real? Because if so, Queensland, WTF?![]()
For those of you unfamiliar with Australia...![]()
JimboPalmer":3iboca0z said:Email existed and was starting to be standardized over the internet.LTParis":3iboca0z said:Well it would be hard to check email in 1974. The poll is invalid.![]()
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc561
But since everybody was kung-fu fighting, you did not notice it was available. It was not as fast as lightning.
lyric911":3s175amd said:OMG put the dog down it's a killer...
needle":239xuvga said:What, that is a goddamned bargain.Hellburner":239xuvga said:It weighs almost 6 kilograms, reaches 25 cm in diameter and needs to be ordered at least 2 days in advance. As you can imagine, such a delicacy isn’t cheap. You and your friends will have to fork out ¥15,000 for one of these babies, but you’re guaranteed to walk out of the place belly full.
brodie":19fi888c said:Are you serious? You honestly think pics of genitalia are kosher in the Lounge (or really, anywhere on Ars)?Solomonoff's Secret":19fi888c said:Wow, y'all are a bunch of ninnies. A picture of a picture of a human body part, oh my!
It's not about personal offense, or being a "ninny." It's about the fact that people browse Ars from work, and most employers would probably frown on their employees looking at genitalia.
You can't really be this daft, can you?
Durf":29bpeem4 said:Not so much "LOL" as "punch my monitor," in retrospect, but still. Fox News, natch.
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(You can read it here.)
Crackhead Johny":txgs5es3 said:I had no idea that a penis could catastrophically fail.pauli":txgs5es3 said: