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Thesoro posted:the 60ft diameter boring machine
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May 25, 2014 01:39
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FMguru posted:the construction crew gave it the nickname "fishmech" oh man
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May 25, 2014 01:44
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pseudorandom name posted:wait, I thought the pipe that broke the tunneling machine was from a test bore to make sure that the tunneling machine could operate in that area King 5 posted:The steel pipe is a casing installed by state Department of Transportation in 2002. It was installed after the 2001 Nisqually earthquake to study groundwater movement in the area.
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May 25, 2014 01:44
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pseudorandom name posted:wait, I thought the pipe that broke the tunneling machine was from a test bore to make sure that the tunneling machine could operate in that area  please be trueedit:gently caress
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May 25, 2014 01:44
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quote:State officials revealed Friday that the mystery object blocking tunnel machine Bertha is a long steel pipe, left buried in 2002 by one of the Highway 99 project’s own research crews. quote:The culprit is an 8-inch diameter, 119-foot-long well casing, used to measure groundwater for the Alaskan Way Viaduct replacement project, officials said.
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May 25, 2014 01:45
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FMguru posted:the construction crew gave it the nickname "fishmech"
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May 25, 2014 01:48
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maybe the answer is somewhere in the middle
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May 25, 2014 01:48
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Thesoro posted:maybe the answer is somewhere in the middle
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May 25, 2014 01:49
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those articles aren't contradictory, there's no middle
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May 25, 2014 01:53
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pseudorandom name posted:those articles aren't contradictory, there's no middle EDIT: also for non-seattlers this tunnel will have no downtown exits and a large toll, making it utterly useless and predicted to have less than 1/3 the traffic than the viaduct it replaces
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May 25, 2014 01:59
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FMguru posted:the construction crew gave it the nickname "fishmech"
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May 25, 2014 02:31
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Greyhawk posted:i read a book once where gunslinger-librarians ruled the world after an emp war left the world without electricity or computers man i thought i was the only one who read the greatwinter trilogy australian skiffy 4 lyfe all two authors of it
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May 25, 2014 02:34
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A little late but:Citizen Tayne posted:There's a strong correlation between thinking you're a genius and having dumb poo poo happen to you
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May 25, 2014 02:35
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FMguru posted:the construction crew gave it the nickname "fishmech"
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May 25, 2014 02:35
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Bound to happen: a bitcoin casino! http://chancecoin.com/
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May 25, 2014 03:03
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Careful Drums posted:Bound to happen: a bitcoin casino!  
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May 25, 2014 03:26
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FMguru posted:the construction crew gave it the nickname "fishmech"
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May 25, 2014 04:12
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FMguru posted:the construction crew gave it the nickname "fishmech"
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May 25, 2014 04:28
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ive never been so proud in my entire life
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May 25, 2014 04:30
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FMguru posted:the construction crew gave it the nickname "fishmech"
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May 25, 2014 04:30
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Thesoro posted:don't do this, we tried it in seattle and some surveyor missed a six inch pipe so now the machine's broken and stuck for 18+ months maybe also just karma when the viaduct straight up loving collapses because they never repaired the drat thing. e: at least the new light rail plans look alright seattle chat Hilbert Spaceship fucked around with this message at 05:45 on May 25, 2014 |
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May 25, 2014 05:41
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yeah they don't like her now so she's kicking the hornets' nest as hard as she can except the hornets don't have stingers they just annoy people asking them abt bitcoin
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May 25, 2014 05:47
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Install Windows posted:theres totally nothing implausible about a virus on a usb drive preventing electricity from working, jeez did anyone say "johnny mnemonicoin" yet
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May 25, 2014 05:48
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Install Windows posted:sovereign geo metro holy poo poo modddsssssss
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May 25, 2014 05:51
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Disabled Hitler posted:maybe also just karma when the viaduct straight up loving collapses because they never repaired the drat thing. the UW/cap hill light rail project is months ahead of schedule and way under budget so at least we got that
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May 25, 2014 05:57
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quote:Ronald sets up a bitcoin wallet. They send money to him instantly and he finds someone to take his bitcoin in exchange for Uganda shillings. This is the beauty of a financial system not dependent on third-party intermediaries….
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May 25, 2014 06:00
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Thesoro posted:burying fishmech 
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May 25, 2014 06:01
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when they tore the west side elevated highway down below 59th street, they totally should have built a tunneled version of it under the surface level replacement, which would have allowed both express traffic down the west side of manhattan and allowed the surface boulevard to be narrower and thus easier to cross.
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May 25, 2014 06:04
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bitcoin: be your own third party
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May 25, 2014 06:09
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Thesoro posted:i'm 100% in favor of just tearing the fucker down, burying bertha/fishmech and forgetting it ever existed, and just using the money on busses/lightrail/pretending to think about maybe doing a subway this, except for wa state politics, which can go gently caress itself forever
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May 25, 2014 06:14
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this thread gets the best titles
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May 25, 2014 06:24
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Boxturret posted:this thread gets the best titles
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May 25, 2014 06:34
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killhamster posted:yeah they don't like her now so she's kicking the hornets' nest as hard as she can Evander Smart posted:This is hardly the fault of Bitcoin. That’s like blaming a car company for selling a car, but no local businesses change it’s oil, or the person doesn’t live near a gas station. inverse nominative determinism CoolCab fucked around with this message at 07:25 on May 25, 2014 |
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May 25, 2014 07:17
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im really sorry to the 4th grade posting level crew for that post pre-edit
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May 25, 2014 07:20
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just feel like I should point out that there were search engines in 1994
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May 25, 2014 07:39
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Dren posted:just feel like I should point out that there were search engines in 1994 did you ever post the replies to the wiki bot?
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May 25, 2014 08:02
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im posting cause why not
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May 25, 2014 08:11
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Mentos Dan posted:did you ever post the replies to the wiki bot? there were only like three before it got banned and they were all posted
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CoolCab posted:The Internet didn’t have search engines 20 years ago. Yes it did. And more importantly it has them now, so this is most ironic thing I can think of to be ignorant about.
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