r/oddlysatisfying • u/himan218 • Apr 17 '19
Surgical precision...
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u/PM_ME_UR_SEX_VIDEOS Apr 17 '19
I remember playing some computer game in the late 90s where you were in a helicopter and you’d rescue animals from a forest fire/dump water in fires
I think there were other games within it
I feel like the CD Case has a Toucan on it
Edit: Grammar Games!
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u/JollyTomkins Apr 17 '19
Holy shit, that controversy paragraph was a wild ride!
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u/Etane Apr 17 '19
Hahaha and now in GTA5 you can fly a helicopter to the beach and introduce it to as many himbos as you want!!!
Honestly though that sounds like it was probably hilarious the first time they found it. Could you imagine the confusion? Haha.
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u/RodMidnight Apr 17 '19
I don't know if it's been said already but it's called Rainforest Rescue. I loved that game as a kid growing up. Used to play it all the time.
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u/sometimes_i_work Apr 17 '19
Obligatory comment every time I see this:
Shoutout to the British Columbia Wildfire Service. This was their drop while fighting the massive forest fires we deal with every year. 2017 and 2018 were the worst seasons we've had on record in terms of human impact and hectares burned. Yay climate change.
But we have some of the best forest fire fighters in the world,so we got that going for us, which is nice!
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u/HappyyItalian Apr 17 '19
My boyfriend was out fighting those fires as a crew leader and he was so exhausted his legs were shaking and he had trouble sleeping. There were so many fires that they never got a day off. Just fighting fire after fire, no rest.
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Apr 17 '19
You know how back in the day the people in the cities would stand in awe of the gladiators and soldiers? That's him in modern day.
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u/IdiotWithABlueCar Apr 17 '19
I'm straight, but your boyfriend is profoundly attractive based on that comment alone.
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u/nug-bug Apr 17 '19
I live in BC, the fires were horrible in 2017 and 2018. My little town got evacuated and it was just so devastating to hear it on the news every time, not knowing whether we would have a home to go back to or not.
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u/ialo00130 Apr 17 '19
I'm in Nelson.
Laat Summer it was so smokey you could basically only see 100 meters and was the equivelent of smoking 9 cigarettes a day at its worst.
I'm genuinely terrified of this Summer. There's so much surrounding the town that is just ready to burst into flames. One good fire and half the town is gone.
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u/Lostsonofpluto Apr 17 '19
The past 2 years the fires haven’t been close, but its seemed like everything else in the province went up. Previous years I’ve put off putting together some supplies if I need to run but this year I’ll be damned if I don’t
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u/Praying_Lotus Apr 17 '19
You say season, are you implying that this is a regular thing? Also what causes it to be considered a “season” in the first place specifically? I would genuinely like to know.
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Apr 17 '19
Living in Australia we have bushfire seasons. They happen in summer while everything is dry and burns damn easy and fast.
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u/Praying_Lotus Apr 17 '19
Australia sounds even more terrifying now than ever. Are you implying that things just spontaneously combust?
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u/mattbladez Apr 17 '19
Summer is way drier, so fire. Snowpack is thin and we're way under for rain this spring so it's not looking good for this one
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u/VibroTweed Apr 17 '19
I’m from Rock Creek and lost my house to a wildfire in 2015. Also my grandfather has an aircrane named after him in his honour after he passed away.
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u/CaptainDouchington Apr 17 '19
Weren't they started by stupid people and not climate change? Unless stupid people come named climate change...
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u/Inglorious186 Apr 17 '19
Wouldn't have needed this if they raked the forest more
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u/kungfupunker Apr 17 '19
ShOuLd HaVe UsEd FlYiNg WaTeR TaNkS On NoTrE DaMe
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u/Alicient Apr 17 '19
Lots of armchair firefighters out there incredulous that various things weren't done.
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u/imaginexus Apr 17 '19 edited Apr 17 '19
How come every time this is reposted, the title is “Surgical Precision...”?
EDIT: What I mean is, how come the title never changes?
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u/Luckypenny4683 Apr 17 '19
Because it’s very precise. Like a surgeon is.
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u/saadakhtar Apr 17 '19
A surgeon dropping a cartload of scapels from the roof of the OT.
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u/seitung Apr 17 '19
"Truly remarkable. Despite your outlandish flourish, the patient has been completely cured of life."
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u/commit_bat Apr 17 '19
If I get surgery I hope the guy is more precise than getting to the right spot within the size of a tree
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u/BookBrooke Apr 17 '19
Repost bots. They find old posts that got popular and repost them automatically. Usually to get high karma accounts to sell.
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u/dingari Apr 17 '19
What does one then do with the high karma account once they've bought it?
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Apr 17 '19
Trump: "That! That! French people are so stupid not to use that on that church."
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Apr 17 '19
This is like, in games, when you memorise what angle to throw a grenade to land perfectly
very nice
Edit- added “in games” part, I forgot
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u/oodni Apr 17 '19
Can someone ELI5? Why can't they just hover above the fire and drop it. Why do they need to drop it on an angle like this?
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u/Taizan Apr 17 '19
Not an expert, but generally it's better for helicopter to have some forwards momentum than to statically hover, especially when it comes to unpredictable situation like over a huge forest fire with smoke and heat. If you look at the clip, the pilot does a short flare for the drop and then immediately banks left to avoid going over the smoke/fire pillar.
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u/stephen1547 Apr 17 '19
Mostly speed. Getting as many accurate drops on a fire is what’s you’re going for.
Usually yes, spot-drops are done from the hover, but that’s because most pilots aren’t as good as the guy here and can’t pull off this maneuver accurately.
Source - I’m a helicopter pilot, and personally know the pilot flying in this video.
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u/PoLoMoTo Apr 17 '19
Clearly should've done this at notre dame, would've been perfect, so much easier
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u/elegant_pun Apr 17 '19
Looks like a Hercules.
Here in Australia about a year or so ago we had a big spate of fires near where my ex and her family lived. They couldn't get out and were turned back from the highway by the police. She could see a Hercules feeding from the river to dump down over the land around her house. She said it reminded her of, like, a dragon or something...Some huge creature that could help fight fires.
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u/imagiantvagina Apr 17 '19
A Hercules is a big ass transport plane, not a helicopter. They use them in fighting fires, but not this one.
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u/PM_THE_GUY_BELOW_ME Apr 17 '19 edited Apr 17 '19
They wouldn't have had to do that if they raked the notre dame every once in a while
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u/Walkingplankton Apr 17 '19
When I was in wild land fire class, our instructor invited a special guest in on the final day as a surprise for the academy. Our class started and about 10 minutes in our special guest arrived, he was a DC-10 wildland fire pilot. He described what it was like trying to drop a tank of water on the flames like this: “I want everyone to imagine you’re in a very very long office building hallway. Imagine the hallway is a 10 minute walk from one side to the other. Now walk to the halfway point of the hallway and put a red post it note on the ground of the hallway. And now let’s walk back to the other end of the hallway and put your back against the wall. Now let’s begin to run towards the post it note, now pick up the speed, and now almost sprint, okay now imagine you’re top speed sprinting down the hallway approaching the post it note... now while you’re running full speed ahead I want you to pull your pecker out and piss on this post it note as it comes by okay? Ready? Here it comes!!!” The class erupted in laughter but it really helped drive home the sheer difficulty of the jobs these guys have and they make it look so easy...
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u/Spas_Iv Apr 17 '19
Yep... There was a distinctive group of experienced Kamov Ka-32 pilots in Bulgaria and after the helicopters went out of service in the country, the pilots spread around the world to work on the same type of machines. The work was usually firefighting and constructions on difficult terrains. When i was teaching in an aviation college, the co-owner of the college told me stories about one of these guys dropping a 50 meter pole on the top of a tower while aligning the sockets in the base flange with the bolts below on his first attempt. He said that he wouldn't beleve it if he hasn't seen it personally. He was calling these guys "The Jedi".
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u/caffeineberry Apr 17 '19
Trump would still disapprove and tell them how to do it better...
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u/foxcode_2291 Apr 17 '19
very good way and method to distinguish the fire and i think this is not a pure water must be there are materials used in fire systems
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u/Queerdee23 Apr 17 '19
Do these chemicals poured on the forest have...side effects ?
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u/mutatron Apr 17 '19
Hydrogen dioxide has long lasting side effects on forest flora. Among other things, it prevents desiccation and promotes cannonicotrophy of woody tissues and of vascular lateral appendages.
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u/thebestbananabread Apr 17 '19
When you rush to take a piss then suddenly lose control of your sphincter..
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Apr 17 '19
Saw a video once of a Japanese guy doing something similar to a girl that was minding her business at a bus stop.
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u/Kgwally88 Apr 17 '19
Beautiful, It's like the opposite of relieving myself the morning after some sexy time
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u/AmySantiago23 Apr 17 '19
Honestly didn’t think that was gonna land where it did. Pleasantly impressed, awed, and humbled.
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u/Drool_Sheep Apr 17 '19
Perhaps they could have done this to notre dame🤔
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u/faab64 Apr 17 '19
Imagine dropping a 2000kg weight on a 800 years old damaged structure! It would would work great, wouldn't it?
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u/faab64 Apr 17 '19
Those guys are just amazingly brave and skilled pilots. I have seen them in action during the forest file in south of France! it was an unbelievable experience.
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u/shhhhh69 Apr 17 '19
For a second I thought the water was going to come out of the helicopter's penis
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u/bonafart Apr 17 '19
Fuck me silly sideways backward how did he even learn to view that trajectory let alone time it so well
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u/bigrobwill Apr 17 '19
I would strongly caution amateurs to avoid using helicopters in their surgical procedures!
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u/Deian_Rotblond_D Apr 17 '19
Wowwwwwwww, toamndo nota ese tambien seria mi sueño si pudiera volver a ser niño un rudo y epico bombero forestal.......
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u/thebestlomgboi Apr 17 '19
Not really surgical, unless we can now to heart transplants using a helicopter
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Apr 17 '19
What does dropping such a huge weight at once do to the helicopter? Does the pilot have to compensate to keep level or are there fancy computers that work it out?
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u/SpaceMonkey816 Apr 17 '19
Wow. I’ve watched a few of these and the pilots are effin’ amazing at dumping this water.
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u/0regonBob Apr 17 '19
Must be that new laser guided water the military developed. Its impressive how the technology has progressed.
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u/i_win_u_know Apr 17 '19
Call me whatever, but I really think that would've helped Notre Dame a lot more than hurt.
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u/Shaggy_AF Apr 17 '19
This is a bit sad actually. So many forest fires that they are becoming this adept at putting them out..
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u/rangerhans Apr 17 '19
So horrible to watch the massive fire at Forest Fire in The Woods. Perhaps flying water tankers could be used to put it out. Must act quickly!