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Papa Emeritus III posted:No matter how many times I see documentaries on this event, I still get chills. I think it's come up in the thread before, but if you can stomach it, look up the Valley Parade fire on Youtube. An entire grandstand went from relatively small fire to inferno quick enough that some people literally burned alive in their seats. I warn you that it is really loving hard to watch.
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I want to kill people with this thing and then they can't find the murder weapon cause it's just water. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5jhRn4mRMQ
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Grem posted:I want to kill people with this thing and then they can't find the murder weapon cause it's just water. I only watched until the nerd couldn't even manage to cut tape with his lovely nerd knife but at least that got a half-chuckle out of me.
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Grem posted:I want to kill people with this thing and then they can't find the murder weapon cause it's just water. You should watch No Country For Old Men
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Jerry Cotton posted:I only watched until the nerd couldn't even manage to cut tape with his lovely nerd knife but at least that got a half-chuckle out of me. 
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Jul 8, 2017 15:22
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goddamnedtwisto posted:I think it's come up in the thread before, but if you can stomach it, look up the Valley Parade fire on Youtube. An entire grandstand went from relatively small fire to inferno quick enough that some people literally burned alive in their seats. I warn you that it is really loving hard to watch. Turns out that awkward "hey look at me I'm on fire" semi-casual stagger that you see in action films and always seems rather 'filmy' is actually horrifyingly accurate. gently caress me. I didn't know anything about that catastrophe until you brought it up, thank Christ they didn't have the stand penned. It would have made Grenfell look like Guy Fawke's Night.
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Jul 8, 2017 15:43
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goddamnedtwisto posted:At least five people pushed past an Underground employee in order to get onto the visibly on-fire escalator in the King's Cross fire. The power of the human mind to completely ignore things that are out of the ordinary is staggering. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King%27s_Cross_fire quote:A few minutes later the fire brigade arrived and several firemen went down to the escalator to assess the fire. They saw a fire about the size of a large cardboard box and planned to fight it with a water jet using men with breathing apparatus.[7] 
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Facebook Aunt posted:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King%27s_Cross_fire A very good one?
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Before TSA chat goes too far away, My wife travelled to Canada. She wanted to take her Surface with her, and needed a charger (she wouldn't be near power for days). Turns out 3S lipos can directly charge a surface, so I made a pack and sent it with her. I followed all the rules, but TSA was not amused (although they did let it through). 
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insta posted:Before TSA chat goes too far away, so... you really hate your wife nerd?
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sneakyfrog posted:so... you really hate your wife nerd? It gave her some good stories?
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insta posted:It gave her some good stories? fair nuff. that just is the bombiest looking battery pack lol
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Jul 8, 2017 17:41
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sneakyfrog posted:fair nuff. Apparently one of the Canadian TSA agents saw it, pulled their radio out, squawked into it, and got all "this is the moment I've been training for" about it. A supervisor got involved. Not once did anybody ever swab the drat thing though.
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sneakyfrog posted:fair nuff. Eh, the line gets pretty blurry when you are talking about LiPos
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Grem posted:I want to kill people with this thing and then they can't find the murder weapon cause it's just water. I remember a Colombo episode where the killer mashed someone's skull in with a big block of ice and then tossed it in the swimming pool.
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Hubis posted:Eh, the line gets pretty blurry when you are talking about LiPos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqcX1AjdxSw&t=107s
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Jul 8, 2017 19:49
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Yes, it's a little  THANKS DAILY MAIL!http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4125240/Idaho-man-loses-teeth-vape-explodes-face.html Oh hey, posting on page 420. Anyway, it really seems like vapes and cellphones are some of the most unstable devices we have in our technology today. Akin to carrying a little block of C4 in your jeans pocket? I guess it's good that the various numbers of hybrid cars aren't self-detonating like these things. Yet.
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Jul 8, 2017 20:04
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BlankIsBeautiful posted:Yes, it's a little Wow, the embodiment of 
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Jul 8, 2017 20:15
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There was this story someone told on a podcast when they had to travel to Japan frequently for business and someone discovered the airsoft business in Japan is huge. They bought a ton of models for cheap and we're bringing them back. They went through security and the employees started to go through then to make sure they all marked as fake guns or some weird rule. The owner was standing to the side and he said the look of all the people standing in line where security was pulling out these fake guns that made to look like real assault rifles and was comical and horrifying when they saw security putting them back into the bag after nodding. As another story somewhat related: in the miniature war gaming market people started reporting models that can cost upwards to 60 dollars without painting showing up after travel ruined because security needed to look inside them. Some simply snapped in half. What some people who professionally paint models (which is harder than one would think) or people trying to protect their investment started doing is get a hard case built for handguns, put a BB guns inside the case along with whatever they don't want to be hosed with and declare the bag as having a firearm. These go though a different process where opening the bag is more careful and not as done as frequently since a lost gun is something the tsa does not want to see.
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The new exhibit at the national building museum in Washington D.C. is pretty thread worthy. https://www.washingtonian.com/2017/07/07/the-national-building-museums-hot-new-installation-wasnt-finished-for-opening-day-heres-why/ At one point they talk about having ladders strapped to scissor lifts to reach high enough.
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Jul 8, 2017 20:20
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Thumposaurus posted:The new exhibit at the national building museum in Washington D.C. is pretty thread worthy. They're using sonotubes? What motherfucker had the bright idea to stack toilet paper tubes on steroids 50 feet high Additionally, lol what's a boom lift?
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Nerses IV posted:They're using sonotubes? What motherfucker had the bright idea to stack toilet paper tubes on steroids 50 feet high Another name for a Cherry Picker. 
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Thomamelas posted:Another name for a Cherry Picker. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5-6F42y3Hk
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Thomamelas posted:Another name for a Cherry Picker. Looks awfully unstable to me, I recommend a picture of one in a more stable configuration  The cool thing about boom lifts is if you ever see a picture of one laying down like that, they already took away the dead guy(s)
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Nah. The dead guys were catapulted well out of frame.
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Platystemon posted:Nah. The dead guys were catapulted well out of frame. Hey, there's a pretty decent chance they had their fall harnesses on and were instead high-5'd by God.
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BlankIsBeautiful posted:Yes, it's a little It's only going to get worse. Everyone loves dense energy storage, but imagine a battery 20 or 40 years from now failing.
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Nerses IV posted:Hey, there's a pretty decent chance they had their fall harnesses on and were instead high-5'd by God. The lift flipped over backwards and the harnesses were of no help. http://www.vertikal.net/en/news/story/23079/
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Ak Gara posted:It's only going to get worse. My hot take: batteries won’t be substantially more energy‐dense than they are now.
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Platystemon posted:My hot take: batteries won’t be substantially more energy‐dense than they are now. Yeah, they're about at the physical limit of what you can pack into a chemically based system. Higher energy density will require a new/different technology. Like maybe using a liquid which could be combined with a component of the air to produce useful energy.
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JB50 posted:The lift flipped over backwards and the harnesses were of no help. One of the many fun things about boom lifts is they're not designed to handle the forces involved in arresting a fall, so if you tumble out while tied off there's a pretty decent chance the thing will tip and kill your rear end anyway. Levers are a bitch.
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BlankIsBeautiful posted:Yes, it's a little First thing I thought of, also a bit : http://i.imgur.com/ZrUGmib.jpg
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Deteriorata posted:Like maybe using a liquid which could be combined with a component of the air to produce useful energy. It'll never work. That sounds horribly dangerous and no one would ever stand for it. What if the liquid was somehow induced to release all its energy at once? Maybe a nuclear isomer battery storing gamma radiation instead?
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GotLag posted:By far the worst part is when the cameraman moves past a window and you can hear the screams from those trapped inside. For me, the worst was when he'd call into the back door. "Is anyone in there?!" and you get this awful silence. I could swear that I'd heard the walls being beaten on too by people attempting to get out.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:I think it's come up in the thread before, but if you can stomach it, look up the Valley Parade fire on Youtube. An entire grandstand went from relatively small fire to inferno quick enough that some people literally burned alive in their seats. I warn you that it is really loving hard to watch. Sure. I mean, I was a crime scene technician for years. How bad could it b--.....  The guy. Walking. On fire.
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Papa Emeritus III posted:Sure. I mean, I was a crime scene technician for years. How bad could it b--..... I can't imagine why he kept burning even after several people tried to stifle the flames with their jackets and he was rolling on the ground. That kind of behavior is poo poo you'll see from folks drenched in accelerant or fuel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEl8PEsH4xQ
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Duzzy Funlop posted:I can't imagine why he kept burning even after several people tried to stifle the flames with their jackets and he was rolling on the ground. That kind of behavior is poo poo you'll see from folks drenched in accelerant or fuel. Admittedly, I've seen a handful of strange things when it comes to fire. Most notably, the behavior that occurs on a person when they're severely burned. The victim on fire is clearly in a state of shock, which explains why he's just shuffling along. As for WHY it remained on fire, I can't even begin to speculate that one. Perhaps it's material related? I know polyester burns and melts in a very distinctive manner.
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Grem posted:I want to kill people with this thing and then they can't find the murder weapon cause it's just water. Zombie Go Boom mostly wrecks their heads with weapons, but occasionally they have some OSHA of their own. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLtKrIWSxOU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAsBn2SsMAw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Np-m6ZDGkS8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsyW35Tor3k
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