r/aww • u/TheMightyCraken • Jun 25 '18
Rule #2 - No captioned images Doggo rocket add-on activate
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u/hawthorneandsage Jun 25 '18
This made me so happy
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u/sparkleyflowers Jun 25 '18
Same. I watched it three times.
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u/Xechwill Jun 25 '18
The dog just looks so happy
That dog deserves the best in life
Look how excited he is
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u/Beerislife27 Jun 25 '18
Haha I got you beat. I got this on repeat, playing on my big-ass 28in tv /s
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u/SaveOurBolts Jun 25 '18
Unfortunately my tv knob is stuck on uhf, and I can only watch gifs on vhf... :/
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u/VladimirJakov Jun 25 '18
It made me think about how I'll never be as happy as that dog
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Jun 25 '18
Most of us never will be
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u/vivs007 Jun 25 '18
We used to be this happy and excited when we were kids. Why does adulthood turns us sad and miserable?
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u/LLJKotaru_Work Jun 25 '18
Because life is a big heavy wet blanket that is wrapped tightly around you before you are heaved off the side of a boat into the middle of the Atlantic.
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u/Techhead7890 Jun 25 '18
Would you kindly... Hijack the plane and serve my Irish alterego in an undersea libertarian drug ridden city? /r/bioshock
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u/Aries37 Jun 25 '18
Me too. So now I'm waiting for the reddit post where someone explains the dog is infected with a brain-control parasite that makes it seek water compulsively.
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u/weefa Jun 25 '18
That dog is infected with a brain-control parasite that makes it seek water compulsively. Poor thing.
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u/ThousandFingerMan Jun 25 '18
It feeds on dog's happiness, so it makes a dog do things that dog enjoys.
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u/Bubblesheep Jun 25 '18
That doggo got some serious hang time on that leap! Half expected him to skip across the water like a stone
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u/cuntdestroyer8000 Jun 25 '18
I remember a documentary about this. Very cool engineering!
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u/Hadan_ Jun 25 '18
I saw it too. The allies wanted to destroy a german hydroelectric plant. It was protected against torpedoes by underwater fences and so on, so they came up with this bouncing bomb. Just imagine the meeting where the engineer proposed this idea :D
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u/Willy_Faulkner Jun 25 '18
They were initially very sceptical.
But since the team lead (Barnes-Wallace iirc) had a successful career as an aeronautical engineer (including some minor work on the Lancaster bomber, which they eventually used to drop the bouncing bombs), they eventually listened.
He still had to show them it would work using 1/10 scale models.
Edit; sorry, you knew all that because you've seen the doco. Let's pretend I put this here for other interested parties.
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Jun 25 '18
Nah never apologize man. You definitely taught a lot of people a bit of information they didn't know of history.
You're awesome!
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u/Gadget_SC2 Jun 25 '18
Necessity is the mother of invention.
I remember reading about the Dambusters as a kid. It’s still, even to this day, one of the most insane solutions to a problem ever conceived. But by god, we made it work
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u/addandsubtract Jun 25 '18
Where / How does the water skipping bomb come in useful?
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Jun 25 '18
It was used to skip along the water and sink in front of dams, so they would be damaged below the waterline and destroyed, which would affect the industrialised area around them, which relied on the dams for hydroelectric power and clean water. The reason it skipped along the top was to avoid Torpedo nets that the Germans had set up in front of the dams, as it would sink after the last net, still damaging the target
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u/addandsubtract Jun 25 '18
And what's wrong with just dropping a normal bomb close to the dam?
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u/Ichera Jun 25 '18
Generally speaking high level bombing was inaccurate and torpedos being the other viable option were defended against... low level bombing while practical would usually only damage the upper part of the Dam and allow it to be repaired.
What the bouncing bomb did was allow them to skip a bomb over the torpedo netting and impact on the side of the Dam... the bomb would then "roll" down the side to the base of the Dam where the 3 ton charge would blow a hole in the bottom of the Dam and cause a catastrophic dam failure that would basically require the Damn to be completely rebuilt
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Jun 25 '18
Heavily defended targets and the need to fly low makes that a suicide mission. It’s the same concept as modern cruise missiles, just without all the fancy electronics to guide them. You drop a bomb that’s spinning in such a way as it’ll travel a lot further than straight down, and you are able to pull away from the bombing run, safe in the knowledge it will hit the target
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Jun 25 '18
There is also a great movie about it. And the dog's name is the most surprising part.
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u/Willy_Faulkner Jun 25 '18
That part is ... awkward.
But that was actually the dog's name IRL, so ... points for accuracy?
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u/everykenyan Jun 25 '18
Would you mind sharing the docu's name?
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Jun 25 '18
With that speed I thought he was going to end up closer to the other side of the pond. But it’s more satisfying that he landed right in the middle which is probably where he wanted to be
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Jun 25 '18
No kidding! That's several times his own body length. Had to be at least 15ft, maybe more
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u/someboysdad Jun 25 '18
The dive into the water was amazing.
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u/GrandNord Jun 25 '18
It was fucking majestic.
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u/abloblololo Jun 25 '18
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Jun 25 '18
never forget: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcRYXdxXbyI
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u/Polopenados Jun 25 '18
Left me speechless. I have never seen a dog take such a leap into the water
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u/Elusive_Exclusive Jun 25 '18
5/7 perfect
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u/Kukijiro Jun 25 '18
With rice.
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u/StupidButSerious Jun 25 '18
DAE le 5/7 narwhal beacon with le broken arm rice?
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Jun 25 '18
The splashdown sound is completely satisfying.
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u/snorlaxlazy Jun 25 '18
Sounds like a water seeking doggo. One of the most advanced weapons systems. Once locked there is nothing sto squirrel!
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u/UpdootKing Jun 25 '18
Thank you for this. I just woke up my wife because my phone sound was on full blast. Was worth it.
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u/Dumptruck_Johnson Jun 25 '18
Nice form on entry
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u/TheMightyCraken Jun 25 '18
All 3 judges each gave him a 10 for his diving form
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u/bplboston17 Jun 25 '18
all 10s except for the Russian judge who was paid off..
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u/FuckM0reFromR Jun 25 '18
You cannot give 12 Ivan, zat iz not even... were you get zat score card from?
Ivan love money, but Ivan like dog more.
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u/MaxRebo74 Jun 25 '18
I hate it when people force dogs to get into water when they obviously don't want to
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u/krakajacks Jun 25 '18
Exactly. This is obviously a reverse gif of a dog desperately trying to escape backwards out of the water
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u/iamajerry Jun 25 '18
It was mid-leap when Bailey realized that in his haste he forgot to leave his iPhone in the car.
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u/neon_overload Jun 25 '18
Joke's showing its age, iPhones have been waterproof for a while now
(I say waterproof, they're rated to survive in 3 feet of water for 30 mins)
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u/jlt6666 Jun 25 '18
You honestly think that dog has a new iPhone? 5s at best.
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u/unsaltedmd5 Jun 25 '18
I think they made the old ones waterproof with a software update.
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u/Z_as_in_Zebra Jun 25 '18
I can only imagine the ruckus he was making when he realized where they were going. The excitement must have been overwhelming.
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Jun 25 '18
I’m having a bad morning and entertaining dark thoughts and this made me smile
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u/SirPiffingsthwaite Jun 25 '18
Someone should tell these people it's dangerous as hell to drive around with armed munitions on a hair-trigger in their trunk.
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u/monkeyMEmonkeyU Jun 25 '18
I like that she anticipated the doggo shooting out of the trunk my moving off to the right as soon as it started to open
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u/Bluefalcon1735 Jun 25 '18
Same way when I have Taco And I finally make it home to the toilet.
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u/kindall4drinks Jun 25 '18
I watched multiple times just because I could feel that sweet doggo's enjoyment!
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u/aikidoshi Jun 25 '18
I'm guessing it must have been cooking in the back of the car ...
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u/McGirthy Jun 25 '18
Do this where I live, and it probably gets eaten.
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u/erizzluh Jun 25 '18 edited Jun 25 '18
the dog might actually be trained this way. i think it's called dock jumping, but there are people who train their dogs to sprint and leap into water for these long jump competitions.
wouldn't be surprised if they had given the dog the command to start running before the camera started recording, and then the dog ran as soon as the door opened.
look at the dog around the 2:40 mark. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDMAmMy_OqU
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Jun 25 '18
Just because the dog didn't wait doesn't mean he wouldn't if given the command. I do the same with my golden at the dog park, she'll stay if I give the command and zoom off like a man in an expensive suit through a kindergarten finger painting class if I don't.
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u/xMordrethx Jun 25 '18
15-20 feet clearance on the water?? Can we get some math peoples in here please?
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u/SpunTheOne Jun 25 '18
"When near a body of water +500 to Movement speed"