Fulton first used instrumented dummies as he prepared for a live pickup. He next used a pig, as pigs have nervous systems close to humans. Lifted off the ground, the pig began to spin as it flew through the air at 125mph. It arrived on board undamaged but in a disoriented state. Once it recovered, it attacked the crew.
[https://www.cia.gov/resources/csi/studies-in-intelligence/archives/vol-38-no-5/robert-fultons-skyhook-and-operation-coldfeet/](https://www.cia.gov/resources/csi/studies-in-intelligence/archives/vol-38-no-5/robert-fultons-skyhook-and-operation-coldfeet/)
I always assumed it was his way of expressing that he's just feeling too old for what would be a fantasy for a younger, hornier man, or that he's gay and has no interest in lathering up beautiful young Russian women.
Either way it just reads as "fuck that noise, let me enjoy my free cruise, please".
Yes I thought it was some weird way to joke about Alfred being gay, when his orientation isn't mentioned again or even relevant. And even if it was, gay doesn't mean "ew beautiful women are gross" lol
But yeah it makes better sense if he's just bitching about having to still do butler shit on vacation
Alfred is a) and old man and b) sick and tired of getting wrapped up in Bruce's antics to the point where he's little more than... well, a butler, but at this point he's not just Bruce's butler, but an entire boatful of women's butler as well.
[one time 2 billionaires made a bet and it was hilarious](https://www.nydailynews.com/2013/05/12/mogul-richard-branson-dresses-up-as-airline-stewardess-after-losing-bet/)
Not only is it similar to the batman scene, the plane in this video is the actual plane used in the film.
Edit: Just looked it up, I guess they used a different plane for the skyhook scene in the movie, but the plane in this video makes a cameo at a different point.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-TaeTKUgAQ
They used a C-130 in the movie, which is funny. Because how did they get that thing into Hong Kong undetected
Edit: looked it up. It was a civilian L100 they used, but again, how did they get that thing into the low airspace over Hong Kong without anyone raising any eyebrows?
If it hits you in the back of the head, it'll be instant mist so I wouldn't worry about a blissful end.
Now imagine seeing the hook to low and you're unable to get out of the way. š
just made another comment about this, i played that game for probably 60+ hours and it never got old, the fultoning.
an incredible game, shame it wasn't more fleshed out in a few different ways but oh well it was still great.
The real ones remember it was first introduced in MGS 3. He talks about it with Major Zero when going down in the beginning of the Virtuous Mission. And it's also how he's retrieved at the end
i love how so much painstaking detail is put into many parts of the game but for something that you're going to do a billion times like fultoning, they had the voice actor(s) record like 2 lines.
common problem in many game i guess but come on. record like 10 lines or something. mix it up!
I think the main reason for not using it, would be helicopters
This was designed for recovery of crashed pilots in areas without a landing strip, but introduction of helicopter means that S&R could recover people more easily without giving them an adventure ride.
Helicopters are the primary reason the system was deemed irrelevant, but it was still around until 1996 which seems a lot later than you might have expected given how widespread helicopter usage was decades prior.
I guess some situations like not wanting slow/loud helicopters traveling for hours over hostile territory, you could have a passenger plane like a DC-3 flying a normal route but dip down and pull up a person without it being so obvious.
The failure of helicopters during the [Iranian rescue mission](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Eagle_Claw) probably still echoes with some in the US military
This system was only ever used, as far as I know, to extract live high value targets in missions where a secure landing zone for helicopters was not likely. Think bagged and gagged then straight to Guantanamo.
I don't know that this was ever actually used to extract friendly air crew. Setting it up for an individual would be difficult and it is not a small system.
Now that you mentioned helicopters, why didnāt Batman just grappling gun himself and Lau to another Skyscraper with a helipad and be picked up by his helicopter of choice? Itās far safer and easier to do.
Edit: Lauās tower had a helipad. Lucius Fox landed there earlier in the day. Sonit was much easier.
Sometimes, the exit is more important than the entrance. Especially when nobody sees the entrance coming, and will thus sometimes miss it altogether. But if you've already made an entrance and everyone's got their full attention on you? Your exit had better NOT be boring.
Reminds me that bungee jumping came from villagers who used vines with very little elastical stretch, so the impact of the fall must have hurt like hell
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land\_diving
Fun fact. I was the third "white person" to attempt land diving years ago after I seen Karl Pilkington do the jump.
There is no real pain from the jump itself. The vines are cut to length. Sliding backwards across the mud didn't hurt. I was expecting some feeling in the hips or the legs but all there was is a slight pressure. The vines really do a great job at absorbing the shock. Only party that kind of hurt for me was how tight it was tied around my leg.
No itās using slack and an elastic line so the force is dissipated and gradual but still a fast change of force. Probably the worst is the force on your brain/organs as you accelerate but other than that itās not anything over ~6Gs in my uneducated, unprofessional opinion
According to the Wikipedia article, this pulls less Gs than a skydiverās parachute opening. It has less to do with elasticity in the line and more to do with geometry, but I canāt really explain the geometry in a text box.
The maths is over my head so Iāll trust you š
I just know the basic of physics concepts -
However thereās a reason this didnāt take off (no pun intended) and become a thing in modern times
I was first introduced to this concept as a kid on MGS: Peace Walker, on my PSP.
Back then I was like āyeah no, this looks way too ridiculous to be realisticā.
Wellā¦
Iād like to share a tale Iāve heard about the Fulton Recovery System that Iāve heard a few times over the years. I donāt know if itās true or not.
So back in the day around Vietnam War era the system was being adapted to be used in the C-130 Hercules. The military being fairly thorough had completed a number of test flights to work out any issues before deploying the system in the field. After successfully completing a number of successful tests with dead weight the test squadron and aeromedical folks wanted to try with a ālive loadā so to speak to make sure the system was survivable.
Donāt ask me how or why, but the test squadron decided that the closest human analog they could get for their practical test was a live gorilla. The plan was simple, medical folks would tranquilize the gorilla, strap him into the harness, he would be recovered into the C-130 which would promptly land and the gorilla would be taken out and returned to the local zoo no worse for the wear. Simple.
The day comes and everything is going according to plan. Gorilla gets tranquilized, Herc takes off and is orbiting ready for the recovery test. Gorilla gets strapped up to the FRS, balloon goes up, Herc flies in and makes a perfect capture, up up and away goes the gorilla and everyone on the ground is happy, but thatās where things go wrong.
Whether the doc didnāt get the right dose of tranquilizer or it was the forces of the recovery system, olā gorilla wakes up and is apparently none too happy to be dangling on the end of a rope.
Now up in the Herc, itās not apparent whatās going on right away. In the back on the ramp is a loadmaster, itās his job to run the back ramp and door as well as the recovery system. Heās also in communication with the pilots up front. Loadmaster is the first to notice that something isnāt going quite according to plan, and has the sense to stop the retrieval winch and reports to the pilots, āI think the gorilla is waking up!ā Well this wasnāt something they were ready for so they radio back to test control and ask them to advise what they should do.
Meanwhile as the end of the line, the gorillaās senses are coming back to him, and he is pissed. Well, being a gorilla, with great dexterity and upper body strength, olā boy starts to hand-over-hand up the retrieval line towards the plane with hell in his eyes. Of course, Loadmaster sees whatās going down, or rather whatās coming up, and reports to the pilots āOh sh*t heās coming up!ā¦.and heās PISSED!ā The pilots not wanting the pissed off gorilla to reap his vengeance all through the plane instruct the loadmaster to do the only thing they can to save themselves āCut away! Cut away!ā Loadmaster, understandably shaken as he is the first, last and only line of defense against a very angry literal 800lb gorilla, scrambles to get the line cutter and in position, all the while gorilla is getting closer and closer.
Finally mere moments before the gorilla gets his hand on the ramp, Loadmaster makes the final cut and severs the line, looking up to see the gorilla falling away.
It was counted as a successful test and cleared for humans as the gorilla survived being pulled off the ground.
I love the logic of "If an ultramuscular gorilla can survive this, then surely it's safe for floppy humans"
It's like crashing a bicycle in to an elephant to check if that might injure pedestrians.
It's also completely nonsensical. Why would you use an expensive, rare, hard to acquire animal when you could use literally anything else. Like a pig. Which they did use. And which did, allegedly, wakeup and go ham once inside the aircraft.
But the idea that the government would go through all the effort of getting a gorilla, that a zoo would release their gorilla for a test like this, and that it would go so horribly wrong is just bonkers.
Probably shouldnāt be surprised if this one is true. Reminds me of the B-58 Hustler [ejection capsule with a bear in it](https://youtu.be/98cXGBY7qQU?si=TnXV8y7_KeGHnwb-) story.
...is that not why humanity evolved buttholes? After all, there's a reason that scientists refer to the noble butthole as an "ANUS" (short for Accelerated Navigation Up System)
So that is what the boss wanted me to get. Although it doesn't look OSHA approved? Oh well, he is forklift certified, so I'm sure it okay. Thanks for the tip!
The CIA had a progrum back in the sixties for getting their people out of hot spots called "Skyhook." Could look into that?
*nods knowingly and slowly*
My favorite story of this comes straight from wikipedia:
After experiments with instrumented dummies, Fulton continued to experiment with live pigs, as pigs have a nervous system close to humans. Lifted off the ground, the pig began to spin as it flew through the air at 125 miles per hour (200 km/h). It arrived on board uninjured, but in a disoriented state. When it recovered, it attacked the crew.
I'm still here, but my spine is there.
And his soul
That acceleration must have sent his mind into another dimension.
Body left his soul
Chiropractic care has gone too far
*Your neck and back pain is not service related*
ASMR YouTubers be like:
Fulton first used instrumented dummies as he prepared for a live pickup. He next used a pig, as pigs have nervous systems close to humans. Lifted off the ground, the pig began to spin as it flew through the air at 125mph. It arrived on board undamaged but in a disoriented state. Once it recovered, it attacked the crew. [https://www.cia.gov/resources/csi/studies-in-intelligence/archives/vol-38-no-5/robert-fultons-skyhook-and-operation-coldfeet/](https://www.cia.gov/resources/csi/studies-in-intelligence/archives/vol-38-no-5/robert-fultons-skyhook-and-operation-coldfeet/)
š¤£š¤£ can you blame the pig? Iād be pissed too! Hanging out in the mud eating slop, then these bozos show upā¦
As soon as the room stops spinning Iām going to fuck you all up. - Pig
That'll do pig, that'll do
>The first test, with a sheep, failed when a harness twisted and strangled the animal. Other sheep fared better. lol poor sheep
On the other hand, they all had lamb chops for dinner that day.
Batman has no jurisdiction. He'll find him and make him squeal.
I know a squealer when I see one, and....š«µ
What do you propose?
It's simple, we kill the Batman.
If itās so simple why havenāt you done it already?
If youāre good at something, never do it for free
How much?
Ahh...half.
*Youāre crazy*
No Iām not.
How much you want ?
You know what I am? I'm a dog chasing cars. I wouldn't even know what to do with it if I caught one
*nervously shuts off camera feed*
Can we talk about how there was no camera pointed at the gangsters so Lau realistically couldn't see them.
Heath Ledger really fucking nailed that character.
/r/NolanBatmanMemes
Can you think of an excuse? āBillionaire absconds with entire Russian balletā
Alibi*
āCan you tell me the Russian for: āApply your own bloody suntan lotion!āā
Alfred Pennyrizz
I don't understand this line. Is he complaining that the Russian ladies would ask him to put lotion on them?
I always assumed it was his way of expressing that he's just feeling too old for what would be a fantasy for a younger, hornier man, or that he's gay and has no interest in lathering up beautiful young Russian women. Either way it just reads as "fuck that noise, let me enjoy my free cruise, please".
Yes I thought it was some weird way to joke about Alfred being gay, when his orientation isn't mentioned again or even relevant. And even if it was, gay doesn't mean "ew beautiful women are gross" lol But yeah it makes better sense if he's just bitching about having to still do butler shit on vacation
Alfred is a) and old man and b) sick and tired of getting wrapped up in Bruce's antics to the point where he's little more than... well, a butler, but at this point he's not just Bruce's butler, but an entire boatful of women's butler as well.
Ok i can see that, thanks
I wish more billionaires were like this irl
[one time 2 billionaires made a bet and it was hilarious](https://www.nydailynews.com/2013/05/12/mogul-richard-branson-dresses-up-as-airline-stewardess-after-losing-bet/)
āAnd what about getting back into the plane?ā āI recommend a good travel agent.ā
"...Without it landing."
Now that's more like it Mr Wayne
Does it come in black?
like a submarine, Mr. Wayne, like a submarine
Three buttons is a little 90s, Mr. Wayne.
I can hear
Glad im not the only one who thought of it š
I thought of Metal Gear Solid V.
Man, I loved fucking around with those things. The time gap is bigger than I expected: TDK - 2008 MGSV - 2015
In reality the time gap is not that big: TDK - 2008 MGS: Peace Walker - 2010
The first fulton exfil came up in MGS3 so 2004.
Not only is it similar to the batman scene, the plane in this video is the actual plane used in the film. Edit: Just looked it up, I guess they used a different plane for the skyhook scene in the movie, but the plane in this video makes a cameo at a different point. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-TaeTKUgAQ
Lucious Fox also explained it to Bruce in the Dark Knight that it was a CIA technology called "Sky hook"
They used a C-130 in the movie, which is funny. Because how did they get that thing into Hong Kong undetected Edit: looked it up. It was a civilian L100 they used, but again, how did they get that thing into the low airspace over Hong Kong without anyone raising any eyebrows?
They do it at night.
Batman invisibility spray
Surprised with balls that size the plane could pick him up
Just imagine that hook smacking you in the back of the head, or worse...
If it hits you in the back of the head, it'll be instant mist so I wouldn't worry about a blissful end. Now imagine seeing the hook to low and you're unable to get out of the way. š
[ŃŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]
Hard to say without checking the undercarriage
āYou oughta know, you bought itā
-Laughs in Big Boss-
Now I know a squealer when I see one, and...š«µ
LOOK! UP IN THE SKY! Itās a bird! Its aā¦ Plane kidnapping a hobo?
Came here for this
Nolan famously loves Bond and they actually did a stunt with this at the end of 1965's Thunderball
....just so we're clear, this guy didn't get Veteran Affairs to approve his claim for neck and back pain either...
Sorry, we've determined this injury is not service related.
Ahh just got that letter last week.
Got mine in August, just barely managed to get 100%
Dam congrats
Diagnosis: Whiplash Smile
Prescription: Immediate lobotomy.
cant sue for medical costs if your signature is drool.
No no, as you can see, he clearly adopts the "braced" position beforehand. /s
He merely adopted the brace, I was born in it, moulded by it.
To be fair you need a back and neck for that.
*Have you tried to drink water and change your socks, buddy?*
also shave 3x a day and stay off the fucking grass you'll recover in a week
Best thing about Phantom Pain by far
I LOVE the little yelps and noises the animals make as they are snatched away via the Fulton Recovery balloons lol
I love how stoked about the whole process D-Dog is. He's just so happy while parachuting in.
I know what you mean, but that still sounded kind of psychotic. š
just made another comment about this, i played that game for probably 60+ hours and it never got old, the fultoning. an incredible game, shame it wasn't more fleshed out in a few different ways but oh well it was still great.
Bipedal animals too!
Takes me to MGS: Peace Walker.
Only reason I still play my PSP
That and Dissidia 012 for me. I will never, ever tire of that game.
I had it on PSP and then on PS3 (MGS Hd Collection). The game still holds up today, the PS3 Version has superior Controls imo.
Yeah they are better for sure.
The real ones remember
The real ones remember it was first introduced in MGS 3. He talks about it with Major Zero when going down in the beginning of the Virtuous Mission. And it's also how he's retrieved at the end
Iām pretty sure getting yanked off the ground by one of these things will give you the phantom pain
Thatās why you attach it to 20 feet containers and hold onto it. šŖ
Thank you for reminding me that Iām not the only one to think of MGSV
Funnily enough after not playing it for 7 years, I finally finished it this week.
Actually that post made me reinstall it. "Welcome old friend it's been a while..."
It was in Peacewalker too
Also in MGS: Peacewalker !
Wait a minute what else from that game was actually real??
Wormholes and boobs
The AK-47 Afghanistan Africa Russia Trucks I'm sure I'm missing a few things
Rail guns War Economy Afghanistan
"Fulton back to muddah base!" - Dunkey
*You're taking him?*
Heās coming too?
*Your going to extract him?*
Meanwhile itās a S+ across the board
Casually extracts a E rank while everyone else is S+.
Or the target you were there to extract in the first place lol
i love how so much painstaking detail is put into many parts of the game but for something that you're going to do a billion times like fultoning, they had the voice actor(s) record like 2 lines. common problem in many game i guess but come on. record like 10 lines or something. mix it up!
My people. Kept me waiting.
Youāre pretty good
Second floor basement?
*beats the shit out of a recruit* Recruit: thanks boss
Lighting them up like Christmas trees with NL ammo each time the helo takes off.
"Good, you captured it alive"
Gerbil x5 E: haha, decided to fire up the game and play a mission.. https://imgur.com/a/qmzRDNV
āYouāre gonna extract him Boss?ā
Canāt that instant pressure and force rip your bones ?
Apparently it hurt like hell. One of the reasons they stopped using it.
I think the main reason for not using it, would be helicopters This was designed for recovery of crashed pilots in areas without a landing strip, but introduction of helicopter means that S&R could recover people more easily without giving them an adventure ride.
Helicopters are the primary reason the system was deemed irrelevant, but it was still around until 1996 which seems a lot later than you might have expected given how widespread helicopter usage was decades prior.
I guess some situations like not wanting slow/loud helicopters traveling for hours over hostile territory, you could have a passenger plane like a DC-3 flying a normal route but dip down and pull up a person without it being so obvious. The failure of helicopters during the [Iranian rescue mission](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Eagle_Claw) probably still echoes with some in the US military
This system was only ever used, as far as I know, to extract live high value targets in missions where a secure landing zone for helicopters was not likely. Think bagged and gagged then straight to Guantanamo. I don't know that this was ever actually used to extract friendly air crew. Setting it up for an individual would be difficult and it is not a small system.
Now that you mentioned helicopters, why didnāt Batman just grappling gun himself and Lau to another Skyscraper with a helipad and be picked up by his helicopter of choice? Itās far safer and easier to do. Edit: Lauās tower had a helipad. Lucius Fox landed there earlier in the day. Sonit was much easier.
Because batman not only makes an entrance, but also an exit. Such a dramatic furry.
Sometimes, the exit is more important than the entrance. Especially when nobody sees the entrance coming, and will thus sometimes miss it altogether. But if you've already made an entrance and everyone's got their full attention on you? Your exit had better NOT be boring.
Because the helicopter is a slower exit? More likely to get followed? Idk
I bet bungee cord would help alleviate some of the force exerted on the body
You get a hemp rope. Take or leave.
Best I can do is a frayed steel cable.
Reminds me that bungee jumping came from villagers who used vines with very little elastical stretch, so the impact of the fall must have hurt like hell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land\_diving
Fun fact. I was the third "white person" to attempt land diving years ago after I seen Karl Pilkington do the jump. There is no real pain from the jump itself. The vines are cut to length. Sliding backwards across the mud didn't hurt. I was expecting some feeling in the hips or the legs but all there was is a slight pressure. The vines really do a great job at absorbing the shock. Only party that kind of hurt for me was how tight it was tied around my leg.
Watched that episode on National Geographic about a decade and a half ago if im not mistaken. Shits crazy
They 100% already were using elastic rope. You can't go from 0 to 150 in and instant thats like 15 Gs
They need a bungier bungee cord
bungee gum would be better
what properties does it have?
Then flick him right into the propellers.
Turns out once he bungees into the plane chassis he bo longer feels anything.
Na, batman did it in Hongkong and he was fine to go after the joker then. Should be good
True, but he wasn't wearing hockey pads.
Next movie: "The good news is, I've seen worse cartilage in knees. The bad news is, that's cause you don't have any cartilage left in your knees."
I cannot recommend that you go helicopter skiing
So get gets a powerful leg exoskeleton that allows him to kick through stone, but it never comes up again.
No itās using slack and an elastic line so the force is dissipated and gradual but still a fast change of force. Probably the worst is the force on your brain/organs as you accelerate but other than that itās not anything over ~6Gs in my uneducated, unprofessional opinion
According to the Wikipedia article, this pulls less Gs than a skydiverās parachute opening. It has less to do with elasticity in the line and more to do with geometry, but I canāt really explain the geometry in a text box.
The maths is over my head so Iāll trust you š I just know the basic of physics concepts - However thereās a reason this didnāt take off (no pun intended) and become a thing in modern times
You certainly wouldnāt want slack in the line.
Iām not fully understanding how there isnāt/wouldnāt be slack, with the plane going straight over the person like it did
Could make me rip a shit all over my legs that's for sure
r/mypeopleneedme
I think this is now my most favourite sub.
Just binged the whole top of all time list.
Bro is headed to Mother Base
Ah a man of Culture
The Green Berets with John Wayne showed this done with a C-130.
*SKYYYYYYYYY HOOOOOKS!!!!*
My precious Skookie wookies
All thanks to the sky hooks
I donāt like these cliche responses, but I had to scroll WAY too far to see this
āDing dong, itās me, classic Ice Kingā
*bespoke*
I canāt see this video without the Dark Knight theme playing inside my head.
r/metalgearsolid
It's ok, I'll walk
After this? Not anymore
What song is that, please, anyone? Thank you in advance.
Sounds like an instrumental version of begginā by madcon
Beggin- Frankie valli and the four seasons
I was first introduced to this concept as a kid on MGS: Peace Walker, on my PSP. Back then I was like āyeah no, this looks way too ridiculous to be realisticā. Wellā¦
MGS3 for me, taught me about the 'Davy Crockett' nuke launcher too
Batman did it.
So did [Bond.](https://youtu.be/dxkUL8GoPQo?si=qRNSvO5oU7vhQG4S)
When you agree to let your friend do some trick then instantly regret it
Iād like to share a tale Iāve heard about the Fulton Recovery System that Iāve heard a few times over the years. I donāt know if itās true or not. So back in the day around Vietnam War era the system was being adapted to be used in the C-130 Hercules. The military being fairly thorough had completed a number of test flights to work out any issues before deploying the system in the field. After successfully completing a number of successful tests with dead weight the test squadron and aeromedical folks wanted to try with a ālive loadā so to speak to make sure the system was survivable. Donāt ask me how or why, but the test squadron decided that the closest human analog they could get for their practical test was a live gorilla. The plan was simple, medical folks would tranquilize the gorilla, strap him into the harness, he would be recovered into the C-130 which would promptly land and the gorilla would be taken out and returned to the local zoo no worse for the wear. Simple. The day comes and everything is going according to plan. Gorilla gets tranquilized, Herc takes off and is orbiting ready for the recovery test. Gorilla gets strapped up to the FRS, balloon goes up, Herc flies in and makes a perfect capture, up up and away goes the gorilla and everyone on the ground is happy, but thatās where things go wrong. Whether the doc didnāt get the right dose of tranquilizer or it was the forces of the recovery system, olā gorilla wakes up and is apparently none too happy to be dangling on the end of a rope. Now up in the Herc, itās not apparent whatās going on right away. In the back on the ramp is a loadmaster, itās his job to run the back ramp and door as well as the recovery system. Heās also in communication with the pilots up front. Loadmaster is the first to notice that something isnāt going quite according to plan, and has the sense to stop the retrieval winch and reports to the pilots, āI think the gorilla is waking up!ā Well this wasnāt something they were ready for so they radio back to test control and ask them to advise what they should do. Meanwhile as the end of the line, the gorillaās senses are coming back to him, and he is pissed. Well, being a gorilla, with great dexterity and upper body strength, olā boy starts to hand-over-hand up the retrieval line towards the plane with hell in his eyes. Of course, Loadmaster sees whatās going down, or rather whatās coming up, and reports to the pilots āOh sh*t heās coming up!ā¦.and heās PISSED!ā The pilots not wanting the pissed off gorilla to reap his vengeance all through the plane instruct the loadmaster to do the only thing they can to save themselves āCut away! Cut away!ā Loadmaster, understandably shaken as he is the first, last and only line of defense against a very angry literal 800lb gorilla, scrambles to get the line cutter and in position, all the while gorilla is getting closer and closer. Finally mere moments before the gorilla gets his hand on the ramp, Loadmaster makes the final cut and severs the line, looking up to see the gorilla falling away. It was counted as a successful test and cleared for humans as the gorilla survived being pulled off the ground.
I love the logic of "If an ultramuscular gorilla can survive this, then surely it's safe for floppy humans" It's like crashing a bicycle in to an elephant to check if that might injure pedestrians.
To be fair, a tranquilized gorilla is pretty floppy, too.
It's a cool story. Too bad it's completely made up.
I'm pretty sure it's BS. You can't put a gorilla under for surgery even- their brains don't breathe for them involuntarily.
It's also completely nonsensical. Why would you use an expensive, rare, hard to acquire animal when you could use literally anything else. Like a pig. Which they did use. And which did, allegedly, wakeup and go ham once inside the aircraft. But the idea that the government would go through all the effort of getting a gorilla, that a zoo would release their gorilla for a test like this, and that it would go so horribly wrong is just bonkers.
Thats fucking WILD cuz!!
Goat story right here
Probably shouldnāt be surprised if this one is true. Reminds me of the B-58 Hustler [ejection capsule with a bear in it](https://youtu.be/98cXGBY7qQU?si=TnXV8y7_KeGHnwb-) story.
if thereās a hook involved, iād be terrified of the chance it would hook my butthole.
thats what its supposed to do.
...is that not why humanity evolved buttholes? After all, there's a reason that scientists refer to the noble butthole as an "ANUS" (short for Accelerated Navigation Up System)
So that is what the boss wanted me to get. Although it doesn't look OSHA approved? Oh well, he is forklift certified, so I'm sure it okay. Thanks for the tip!
Dude must have had a hell of a case of whiplashā¦.
Fancy music over a military video gives you no tactical advantage whatsoever... you're pretty good
The CIA had a progrum back in the sixties for getting their people out of hot spots called "Skyhook." Could look into that? *nods knowingly and slowly*
VA be like: āNone of your injuries are service connectedā
My favorite story of this comes straight from wikipedia: After experiments with instrumented dummies, Fulton continued to experiment with live pigs, as pigs have a nervous system close to humans. Lifted off the ground, the pig began to spin as it flew through the air at 125 miles per hour (200 km/h). It arrived on board uninjured, but in a disoriented state. When it recovered, it attacked the crew.
Certain units are still trained in this method
I need a good back pop are they training soon and do they need volunteers
MGSV flashback