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Meanwhile, at the acetylene cylinder filling station in Jiangsu Province .... https://i.imgur.com/snQ6JF9.gifv Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmxI0MX_aro
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Sigourney Cheevos posted:If you fill all 92.4 ft³ of the cargo area with gas, you only need to get ~4.15 mpg to make it without refueling. The two tons of gas(4442 lbs) might slow you down a bit though. However, if you can get 15mpg at whatever speed you're running, you'd only need ~170 additional gallons, which could be built into a tank the size of a queen bed that would only need to be ~8.2" deep Ed Bolian, current record holder, did it with https://www.google.com/amp/s/jalopnik.com/meet-the-guy-who-drove-across-the-u-s-in-a-record-28-h-1454092837 posted:Let's start with the fuel tanks. There are two of them, both 22 gallons – and that's in addition to the 23-gallon tank Mercedes installed at the factory. The result is a constant, pervasive gas smell when you're standing anywhere in the car's vicinity. But it also means the car can hold 67 gallons of fuel – or, put another way, over 400 pounds of gasoline. Hence the active suspension. Averged high 13's mpg, 98 mph.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Meanwhile, at the acetylene cylinder filling station in Jiangsu Province .... Emailing this around work tomorrow.
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goatsestretchgoals posted:Granted Arizona is basically a hellscape of deserts and olds so maybe this is correct in retirementville, but I'm pretty sure you're not allowed to straight run over a motherfucker because they jaywalked in real states. LIDAR does not care about daylight so this can be called broad daylight. Basically line all Uber execs against the wall. I'm not talking about the fatal collision: Arse Technica posted:For example, in that March 2017 collision in Tempe, the Uber driver reported that he was traveling 38 miles per hour (61 km/h) at the time of the crash—just shy of the 40-mile-per-hour speed limit. TL;DR: Murdercar doesn't understand slowing down in potentially risky situations and just zips along at its technically correct mandated maximum speed. Snowglobe of Doom posted:Meanwhile, at the acetylene cylinder filling station in Jiangsu Province .... Please tell me those huge accumulations of cylinders are the empties, and the full tanks are kept in much smaller batches
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Meanwhile, at the acetylene cylinder filling station in Jiangsu Province .... Stage show for their new metal band looking good.
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The Lone Badger posted:Stage show for their new metal band looking good. James Hetfield nooooo!
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Meanwhile, at the acetylene cylinder filling station in Jiangsu Province ....  says someone decided to smoke next to the filling station.
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The tanks are made out of that flammable aluminum siding.
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Ars continues to do follow ups on the Uber crash. Videos from Tempe residents going through the same stretch at the same time of night show a pretty clearly lit area. It's dark but not nearly as dim as the dashcam video shows.
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Collateral Damage posted:
It's china. Of course someone was smoking. And after the rest of those cylinders explode, EVERYONE there is gonna be smoking
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chitoryu12 posted:Still can't get over the idea of: The thumb is pretty important dumb rear end
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Controlled industrial explosion alert: this is the unfinished TV tower erected in the middle of Yekaterinburg, Russia. This thing is expected to go down tonight at midnight EST (on 3/24 at 7 AM Moscow time). There will be a live stream (currently offline): https://www.youtube.com/c/E1RU_EKB/live https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7azreYtxong Please don't blame me if the live stream thing doesn't work out. I will be just as disappointed as you are.
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dis astranagant posted:It's more often used to correct birth defects. Exactly, got some personal experience with this procedure (my twin boys) and it's worked out quite well for them (1, 2). They don't really cut anything off, more like they move it around. You won't have the same amount of movement or pinch strength but it's an improvement nonetheless.
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Thwomp posted:Ars continues to do follow ups on the Uber crash. Wow, Uber's camera was garbage. Or they deliberately messed with it to make it look darker. In the uber pics you can barely see the building with the lit sign on top, in the other two you can clearly see the building exterior and lit windows and everything.
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Surely you're not suggesting that they tampered with the video!
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Struensee posted:Surely you're not suggesting that they tampered with the video! I would assume they bought a $20 camera and that's why it's poo poo video, probably works fine for daytime driving but is poo poo for night.
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Facebook Aunt posted:Wow, Uber's camera was garbage. Or they deliberately messed with it to make it look darker. In the uber pics you can barely see the building with the lit sign on top, in the other two you can clearly see the building exterior and lit windows and everything. Dashcams generally aren't very good at picking up dim light. Watch basically any nighttime dashcam video and you'll see this. I think it's set so that it's easier for something like a license plate to stand out, rather than any defining features of the surrounding area, but I might be wrong on that part.
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His Divine Shadow posted:Exactly, got some personal experience with this procedure (my twin boys) and it's worked out quite well for them (1, 2). They don't really cut anything off, more like they move it around. You won't have the same amount of movement or pinch strength but it's an improvement nonetheless. They probably have better handwriting than I do, anyways. 
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Speaking of municipal/traffic engineering fuckups, I'm the wonderful, beautiful, well lit pathway across the median that doesn't have any crosswalks. You know, the pathway that leads directly to where the person got hit while jaywalking. 
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hailthefish posted:Speaking of municipal/traffic engineering fuckups, I'm the wonderful, beautiful, well lit pathway across the median that doesn't have any crosswalks. You know, the pathway that leads directly to where the person got hit while jaywalking. yeah i dont know what the hell is up with that median considering it's plastered with "no crossing here, use the crosswalk" signs i can only assume they were gonna put in a ped bridge or something and never got around to it? also lol at the clear desire lines leading east that connect to a pedestrian trail
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Struensee posted:Surely you're not suggesting that they tampered with the video! I think the Arizona governor, uber, and many others would prefer that this accident was entirely the fault of a dead 49 year old homeless woman, rather than the fault of a poorly regulated company acting recklessly. If the Arizona government let killbots onto public roads as part of their "open for business" strategy, that looks bad for a lot of important people. So I think it's possible the police released the misleading lovely video in part because it makes it look like that crash was unavoidable. All the jaywalking hobo's fault, nothing to see here.
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Facebook Aunt posted:I think the Arizona governor, uber, and many others would prefer that this accident was entirely the fault of a dead 49 year old homeless woman, rather than the fault of a poorly regulated company acting recklessly. If the Arizona government let killbots onto public roads as part of their "open for business" strategy, that looks bad for a lot of important people. legally it's straight up her fault because arizona's laws are as regularly anti-pedestrian as they are in many other states. she explicitly had to cross at a crosswalk, not doing so and failing to yield to the vehicle made it her fault in the eyes of arizona state law. the simplest explanation here is that uber had a cheap rear end dash cam maricopa county had the second highest number of pedestrian fatalities in the us in 2016, after los angeles county, which has way more people. it's a dangerous environment to be a pedestrian in and the law is firmly on the side of drivers
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Yeah, a few minutes of noodling around in google maps suggests that 'deliberately hostile to pedestrians' is in fact a design criteria and not some sort of unfortunate happenstance because holy poo poo Tempe looks like the least walkable place imaginable.
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A T-Rex fire broke out today at a theme park: https://i.imgur.com/Ms4z2wY.mp4 Thankfully no one was injured. The last remains of the T-Rex: 
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" GOOD JOB, IDIOT! Now we got a pissed off T-REX that is ON FIRE"
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Nude posted:A T-Rex fire broke out today at a theme park: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pj5_7jnIXm8
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Nude posted:A T-Rex fire broke out today at a theme park: that's metal as gently caress
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"Last image of D. A. Buildingclimber, seconds before plummeting to his death in front of hundreds of spectators"
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Nude posted:A T-Rex fire broke out today at a theme park: That's exactly what the world needs: BURNING T-REX FESTIVAL!
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