You missed a weak point: Pilots are susceptible to damage from having a shovel firmly whacked in their faces.
“Would you care to share my toasted cheese sandwich?”
SPANG
I’m enjoying a succulent Chinese meal, Z.
There’s a grate on the intakes.
They can claim they built them for radar reasons, but we know it was to keep shovels out.
Please get your act together this proposal is silly.
We move to hand spades then?
Grid is 1.5cm spacing.
Hmm. Small measuring spoons?
Advanced tactics: forgo dirt, just dump in a bin of carefully-oriented 1/4 teaspoon measures.
Use powdered milk, it gets everywhere and sticks to everything. Very hydrophilic, rust city USA
And if you have extra, makes for a delicious drink on the way home.
Powdered whole milk in hot tea is magic! Maximum tea, minimizes dilution. I’m assuming, of course, that you are in a Challenger.
Seems like a perfect job for some long metal sticks. Time to bring back the javelin!
Will that fit an MRE spoon?
Pitchforks it is, then.
You need a missile strike first on the grate, then you can throw the shovel
How ya gonna do that? It’s stelf
Eyeball it
I suppose that’s why he’s using dirt instead of the entire shovel.
I mean, technically ANYTHING shoveled into the air intakes ruins the engines. ;)
what about air
If you can shovel air, it’s probably too thick. ;)
Source: sci-fi short story, “A Pailful of Air”.
I did not expect to see that referenced today. It seems like pretty obscure old sci-fi to me, but I guess I found it once somehow.
I should do napkin calculations on how many blankets they’d actually need to get an airtight-ish space at breathable pressure.
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Honestly just an airlock shouldn’t have been too hard, seeing as leaking atmosphere was no issue. Seal it up, crack a little valve on the side you’re going towards. Every blanket scheme I can think of is just a shittier version of that.
Just as a sealant for structural gaps I imagine blankets would be impermeable with a bit of coal tar added, but maybe I can do some math for unimproved blankets.
The story actually specifies 30 blankets, on a double-check. There’s science now known to be bad elsewhere, but it’s all excusable considering when the story was written. Ditto for the weird gender dynamics.
Oh man I haven’t thought about that story in ages!
There was a fantastic radio adaptation of it in the 1950s, can’t remember which show.
Nah, just really really cold.
Depends on how much of it
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I assume this guide is for engaging the F-117 in midair hand-to-hand combat after you’ve leapt aboard. But in that case, where are you supposed to get dirt? Bring it with you, like some kind of peasant?? Just use your sword like a normal ninja.
The shovel is clearly OP it will be nerfed in the next patch.
- Forge shovel into AK-47
- Shoot F-117
Jeeesus, that’s gold right there!
Into the intake? But that hole’s no bigger than a womp rat!
Can’t believe they didn’t mention dinging the air speed sensors, smh my head.
Everything checks out. Pretty standard stuff, really. Shovel to air defense has been around since at least the '80s, and that’s just the ones the government wants you to know about.
I’d love to see you use a shovel to fling dirt 40,000 ft.
Gimme a ~$112 million budget and I’ll at least get it a few feet closer. No promises, though.
I can certainly promise I’ll use that budget to the fullest.
Hole with nuke on the bottom, spade blocking the hole entrance
Spend the rest on booze and bbq
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This post reminded me of the saga of tanya the evil. Her and the company of soldiers used their trench shovels to smash heads in quite a few times.
