Things you always wanted to know the answer to [Vol. 2]
Discussion
RosscoPCole said:
When President Obama travels to a foreign country then uses the Marine One helicopter or his presidential car how does this hardware get to the country he is visiting?
How many people travel with him? How much equipment, personnel, security, etc is needed and how many days/weeks before the President do they arrive?
It looks like it is a huge undertaking.
I'd guess they just ship in the nearest, most appropriate vehicle and rename it 'noddy' one depending on type. Pretty sure they wouldn't ship one car around the world.How many people travel with him? How much equipment, personnel, security, etc is needed and how many days/weeks before the President do they arrive?
It looks like it is a huge undertaking.
ChemicalChaos said:
When you see, for example, a car insurance advert or a warranty advert, often all the cars as completely debadged. How do they do it - do they retrofit badgeless grilles to the cars used, or they they employ some very sophisticated CGI to mask over and blend in the blank grille?
Excuse the link, but I remember this from a few years a go and I enjoyed reading it:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1390180/Pr...
If it's worth over a million, I doubt they have concerns flying it about.
LordGrover said:
RosscoPCole said:
When President Obama travels to a foreign country then uses the Marine One helicopter or his presidential car how does this hardware get to the country he is visiting?
How many people travel with him? How much equipment, personnel, security, etc is needed and how many days/weeks before the President do they arrive?
It looks like it is a huge undertaking.
I'd guess they just ship in the nearest, most appropriate vehicle and rename it 'noddy' one depending on type. Pretty sure they wouldn't ship one car around the world.How many people travel with him? How much equipment, personnel, security, etc is needed and how many days/weeks before the President do they arrive?
It looks like it is a huge undertaking.
his special armoured 'Cadillac' (it's not really a Cadillac) nicknamed 'The Beast' is flown in with a C17 globemaster, along with the support Chevrolet Suburban, and a whole pile of other support cars
the special helicopters are part of a flight of at least 5, they are also flown/shipped around the place for him. There's a whole squadron just for the president, hundreds of people - but any US Marine helo he's on is designated 'Marine One'
MissChief said:
How important do you have to be so, should the situation arise where you are murdered, it becomes an assassination rather than just a murder/killing?
I think it's more to do with the motive of the killing. Killing someone because of the power or influence they wield is an assassination, killing the same person because you want their wallet isn't. Mind you, John Lennon is a borderline case.Hugo a Gogo said:
LordGrover said:
RosscoPCole said:
When President Obama travels to a foreign country then uses the Marine One helicopter or his presidential car how does this hardware get to the country he is visiting?
How many people travel with him? How much equipment, personnel, security, etc is needed and how many days/weeks before the President do they arrive?
It looks like it is a huge undertaking.
I'd guess they just ship in the nearest, most appropriate vehicle and rename it 'noddy' one depending on type. Pretty sure they wouldn't ship one car around the world.How many people travel with him? How much equipment, personnel, security, etc is needed and how many days/weeks before the President do they arrive?
It looks like it is a huge undertaking.
his special armoured 'Cadillac' (it's not really a Cadillac) nicknamed 'The Beast' is flown in with a C17 globemaster, along with the support Chevrolet Suburban, and a whole pile of other support cars
the special helicopters are part of a flight of at least 5, they are also flown/shipped around the place for him. There's a whole squadron just for the president, hundreds of people - but any US Marine helo he's on is designated 'Marine One'
When visiting Bangor, Maine in 198? we were up a fire tower talking to the 'officer of the watch', who informed us we had just missed the delivery of the VP (Bush snr) motorcade via Galaxy C5a flying level with the tower on final approach to the local airport.
robbieduncan said:
Silent1 said:
Not usually blanks in foreign countries and if they're fired on anything but perfectly vertical they will continue on a ballistic arc and potentially injure someone where they come down.
Plenty if incidents listed here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebratory_gunfire#N...Reminds me of the Harry Enfield sketch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnTtb1OFumc
kowalski655 said:
Possible,but not pretty
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/survival...
Lawks. So, with a bit of theatrical licence, just about.http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/survival...
They did experiments on dogs and apes? Yuck.
Still, as it's our job to colonise the Universe, there are bound to be some casualties.
kowalski655 said:
Yep. To infinity and beyond
I think there was another film that had a guy jump between space ships, possibly Event Horizon,and Starlord and Gamora survived in Guardians of the Galaxy in space. So it must be true
I was about to say I'm sure something like that happened, then I realised I was thinking about whatever film you mention!I think there was another film that had a guy jump between space ships, possibly Event Horizon,and Starlord and Gamora survived in Guardians of the Galaxy in space. So it must be true
Blib said:
K.
Edited by Encantada on Saturday 6th September 09:59
Silent1 said:
rubbish dumps mainly, they're a nightmare when ploughing as well as it's not uncommon to have a hundred or more flying around the tractor.
+1There is also the fact that changes in fishing methods mean food is scarcer on the coast, and birds suited to nesting in cliffs are also suited to nesting in high buildings.
There are suggestions that many species of Seagulls are splitting into coastal and urban breeds with little intermixing.
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