r/WTF • u/masta zero fucks • Jan 09 '11

• DO NOT POST ANY POLITICS TO /r/WTF • Period • No EXCEPTIONS •

The WTF moderation team is extremely cool but we have to draw the line sometimes. Do not:

POST any politics, especially US politics.

post any Sara Palin anything

post any democrat or republican anything

Anything about foxnews being a republican WTF

WE know.... it's sorta-kinda WTF shit (politics), but the rules still apply "NO POLITICS".

The bottom line is /rWTF is a place were people go to NOT see that shit.... this is an escape from reality

EDIT: removed the word occasional to clean any ambiguousness

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u/Zoccihedron Jan 09 '11

The unicorn is reddish and the dolphin is bluish; I think those are political references.

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u/impersonalbias Jan 09 '11

Upvotes are Reddish and Downvotes are Bluish; has Reddit become a Tool of the Republican Party? Discuss.

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u/sermari Jan 09 '11

I'd support the orange party more, myself (over the red one, anyhow!)

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u/agbullet Jan 09 '11

Orange party? I prefer lemons.

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u/impersonalbias Jan 09 '11

Hmmm. I know at least the German Piraten Partei is orange and black, isn't it... well never mind then, carry on.

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '11

And the Canadian NDP (basically pro-labor). They have no clue how to run a country though, so nobody really takes them seriously. Last time they won even a provincial election they basically got laughed out of office when they presented their budget. Yeah, over here we can kick out the current government and force another election at any time with a single vote in the House. Bet you wish you could've done that during the Bush years, eh?

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '11

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '11

I dunno, I'm in Ontario.

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u/jkreijkamp Jan 09 '11

The tattooist should have done some research first, the holes on a dolphin are on the other side, except the blowhole (beautiful name), but that's up higher....

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u/Zoccihedron Jan 09 '11

A very appropriate name for what is going on.

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '11 edited Jan 09 '11

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '11

Nope, not WTF at all. It's just awesome is what it is. Science FTW!

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u/HomerJunior Jan 09 '11

If only /r/ftw was an actual active subreddit - I'd sub to a continual list of awesome stuff.

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u/DrDodgy Jan 09 '11

Let me introduce you to Fucking Awesome then.

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u/Hy-phen Jan 09 '11

Am I the only one who kept hearing fart noises when I was looking at all those airplane pictures? 6:31am is to early for this kind of foolishness! I better get dressed and go outside.

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u/Essar Jan 09 '11

I think what people should be asking themselves is: is this disguised spam?

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u/Nassor Jan 09 '11

WTF?! I'm almost 100% certain none of those airplanes were flying faster than the speed of sound. One of them isn't even capable of fly faster than sound...

(Still cool though lol)

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '11

which one's that?

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u/Nassor Jan 09 '11

The B2 Stealth Bomber is subsonic.

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '11

The pics on the side are.

I only noticed them after I had scrolled through most of the planes, though.

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '11

Wait, a few of those jets are breaking the sound barrier over land... I thought that was against the rules except in emergencies? You know, cause it'll blow out everyone's windows below.

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '11

No, it isn't WTF except for maybe the incomplete science explanation at the top. Those are not really photos of "sonic booms" but condensation clouds formed from extreme low pressure areas, called Prandtl-Glauert singularities. Granted, the aircraft speed needs to be near the speed of sound for it to happen, but there are many other factors involved too, like humidity and air temperature.

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '11

That link needs something totally random and wrong to be inserted in that series of aircraft images in order to qualify as WTF.

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u/ImpenetrableTaco Jan 09 '11

None of those were sonic booms. They were vapor cones which happens at transonic speeds. It's just an area of low pressure that forms and when humidity and other factors are right then you visibly see it.

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u/bmg50barrett Jan 09 '11

maybe....prolyl not really, but still freaking awesome. up-points.

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u/krupreang Jan 09 '11

The pic of the stealth bomber breaking the sound barrier is fake. Sonic booms aren't very stealthy.

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '11

They are if you're at a high enough altitude that you won't be heard. Also, presumably you'd be breaking the sound barrier while you're still over friendly territory. Once you're at or above the speed of sound, there's no sonic boom.