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Productive day at the optical fibre mines - test bore found a seam close to the surface.
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looks like he struck coil
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Mar 30, 2018 07:59
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Former DILF posted:looks like he struck coil Black gold, <Texas>BASE-T Platystemon fucked around with this message at 09:57 on Mar 30, 2018 |
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Mar 30, 2018 09:54
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Jet Jaguar posted:So what does one even DO with this? (Other than back away slowly and try not to inhale the fumes...)
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Mar 30, 2018 10:32
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ExecuDork posted:This is really interesting. Also, it raised a question for me (probably a stupid question): What would happen if a tornado hit a high-rise? Like, a decent F2 or F3 makes direct contact with a 25-story apartment or office block. The 1970 Lubbock F5 directly hit the Great Plains Life building. It twisted the structure so bad that the elevators jammed. They had to remove the top four stories, but they managed to repair the rest of the structure enough to keep using the building to this day.
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Mar 30, 2018 11:02
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rndmnmbr posted:The 1970 Lubbock F5 directly hit the Great Plains Life building. It twisted the structure so bad that the elevators jammed. They had to remove the top four stories, but they managed to repair the rest of the structure enough to keep using the building to this day. There was the infamous 2000 Fort Worth tornado, where an F3 tore through downtown and damaged a lot of the skyscrapers. A lot of damage but ultimately the structures stood and things got rebuilt shockingly quickly.
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Mar 30, 2018 13:03
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I guarantee you that the foreman used the excuse "well we were told it was buried deeper!".
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Mar 30, 2018 14:28
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Former DILF posted:looks like he struck coil There's singlemode in them there hills.
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Mar 30, 2018 14:49
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Nerses IV posted:I once worked with a guy doing auger cast piles and he said he took out the cable supplying internet to most of the carribbean when he was in Miami He probably hosed up something but the stories are usually like fish stories and become myths after awhile. My father worked with heavy equipment and one of his friends would always tell the story about how he accidentally cut an early fiber optic line in the 1980s. When I was first told the story the angry company representative that ran out to the digsite said they were losing a million dollars a day. Eventually it evolved into that he took down their worldwide operations and they were losing a million dollars a minute. It's the same guy that wasn't paying attention and got the rear arm of his backhoe hit by a slow moving train. The story evolved into him basically jumping away from an explosion as a bullet train obliterated his machine.
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Mar 30, 2018 14:52
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NBN_Deployment.jpg VictorianQueerLit posted:He probably hosed up something but the stories are usually like fish stories and become myths after awhile. This is one of those stories that seem completely bullshit but COULD be real. The case of my uncles plumbing company and George (and to clarify, seen by me as a kid): My uncle had a booming business and bought a bunch of new Utes complete with custom tool trays and racks. Loaded his 5 best staff with those dedicated vehicles. George though, was special. Like Rainman special. But also stupid. Matt had all the Utes in a row set up for a newspaper article in front of a big new project. George was sent to get the meat pies for lunch. Got hungry on the way back, proceeded to try to eat his pie driving, it spilt and burned his crotch and he grinded every new work vehicle instead of pulling in. Ruined them all. This was the dude that also caught us playing with knives and sliced his hand open doing a 'this is how you do it' thing. I have memory problems but something something hammers + Ramset charges
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Mar 30, 2018 15:35
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Crosspost from AI- road debris are no joke: Just popped up on my fb feed:   Car ahead of them kicked up a chunk of steel that went through their (empty) passenger side.
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Mar 30, 2018 15:55
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Ornamental Dingbat posted:Crosspost from AI- road debris are no joke: That steel don't want no scrub
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Mar 30, 2018 15:58
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Ornamental Dingbat posted:Crosspost from AI- road debris are no joke: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfkts0u-m6w
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Mar 30, 2018 16:59
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Mierenneuker posted:Mine should play I would definitely be interested in a smoke alarm that played The Cranberrries. Hell yeah.
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Mar 30, 2018 17:05
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OMG I have the perfect use for this. (also I thought it was Owe Boll first time I saw then felt bad when it was Jimmy)
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Mar 30, 2018 17:20
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Ornamental Dingbat posted:Crosspost from AI- road debris are no joke: oh, this reminds me of a fun one from a while back I was preflighting a plane before going flying, and on the walkaround I noticed a weird extra piece of metal stuck on the landing gear leg. I'd never seen it before, so I poked at it a bit and found that it was just sort of friction-fit in place around the leg. It easily popped off and I turned it over in my hands a few times -- it was about four inches square, made of 1/4" welded steel plate, and weighed about two pounds. Looked like this:  What was it, I wondered? I took it inside to the flight school, where they said "oh, that's a jackpad! They were working on the plane the other day and I guess they forgot to take it off."   The other day?Yes, according to the logbook, the plane had been flown twice since the maintenance was completed before I got to it, with neither pilot noticing the jackpad stuck (friction-fit!) on the underside of the gear leg.  I don't know exactly what would be the results of dropping a two-pound chunk of angled steel plate off of an airplane at 4000 feet, but I can't imagine they'd be pretty
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Mar 30, 2018 18:00
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HEY NONG MAN posted:I would definitely be interested in a smoke alarm that played The Cranberrries. Hell yeah. Make sure it's the correct cover version, though https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QnVVZZyzaI
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Mar 30, 2018 18:17
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Nice of him to take a picture of the brick he shat.
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Mar 30, 2018 20:10
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Make sure it's the correct cover version, though The comments are beautiful. poo poo is crazy.
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Mar 30, 2018 20:52
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Goldmining in South America, apparently: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1682017435386329/permalink/2082533922001343/
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Mar 30, 2018 21:01
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Arrhythmia posted:Nice of him to take a picture of the brick he shat. She just confirmed it's one of these: 
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Mar 30, 2018 22:26
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I don’t get why it needs such a large chunk of metal attached to it. In Australia they just stick the reflectors onto the road with a little pad of tar that they heat up. They end up coming off over time but it takes a few years for that to occur.
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Mar 30, 2018 22:38
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How is the Governor's cousin's foundry going to stay in business if you just glue poo poo to the road without a big hunk of metal on it?
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Mar 30, 2018 22:43
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Dr. Garbanzo posted:I don’t get why it needs such a large chunk of metal attached to it. In Australia they just stick the reflectors onto the road with a little pad of tar that they heat up. They end up coming off over time but it takes a few years for that to occur. In America we either forever ignore our roads after we install them and would therefore never replace them or we spend 2-3 years doing the most minor maintenance. It's easier to just over engineer them from the start so they last the two centuries until we come back to fix the road.
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Mar 30, 2018 22:44
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Dr. Garbanzo posted:I don’t get why it needs such a large chunk of metal attached to it. In Australia they just stick the reflectors onto the road with a little pad of tar that they heat up. They end up coming off over time but it takes a few years for that to occur. In lots of America we get this stuff called "snow" and if you just stick the reflectors on the road surface, rather than in a recessed mounting, they will all come off the next time a plow truck comes along.
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Mar 30, 2018 22:45
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Dr. Garbanzo posted:I don’t get why it needs such a large chunk of metal attached to it. In Australia they just stick the reflectors onto the road with a little pad of tar that they heat up. They end up coming off over time but it takes a few years for that to occur. Likewise so far as I've seen in the US as well (though I've never walked down the middle of something interstate-sized). Are those huge chunks of steel normal some places? 
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Mar 30, 2018 22:47
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Phanatic posted:In lots of America we get this stuff called "snow" and if you just stick the reflectors on the road surface, rather than in a recessed mounting, they will all come off the next time a plow truck comes along. Or water gets underneath and freezes and it pops off anyway.
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Mar 30, 2018 22:48
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Phanatic posted:In lots of America we get this stuff called "snow" and if you just stick the reflectors on the road surface, rather than in a recessed mounting, they will all come off the next time a plow truck comes along. I’m aware of snow buts it’s infrequent enough that things just shut down for the day when it happens. Surely there’s a better way of recessing it than a big chunk of metal.
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Mar 30, 2018 22:48
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poo poo is crazy
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Mar 30, 2018 22:49
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Dr. Garbanzo posted:I don’t get why it needs such a large chunk of metal attached to it. In Australia they just stick the reflectors onto the road with a little pad of tar that they heat up. They end up coming off over time but it takes a few years for that to occur. I don't know where that incident occurred but there is snow and snowplowing in much of North America. They trialed a few thing around where I live (Canada) but they seemed to always get scraped up or popped out, and I haven't seen any in years.
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Mar 30, 2018 22:49
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https://twitter.com/bbcarchive/status/979765201338736640?s=21
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Mar 30, 2018 23:13
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Yeah that big old hunk of steel just seems more liable to catch a snow plow blade and peel up, I don't know if I've ever seen those. Around here I think they've gone to grinding out recesses that the reflectors sit in.
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Mar 30, 2018 23:14
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Yeah decades old British Civil defense readiness comes up in conversation all the time
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Mar 30, 2018 23:15
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Arrath posted:Yeah that big old hunk of steel just seems more liable to catch a snow plow blade and peel up, I don't know if I've ever seen those. The whole thing is anchored in the asphalt, only the area with the reflector is exposed. Of course if you have a crumbling infrastructure, the asphalt starts to fall away and erode.
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Mar 30, 2018 23:26
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Gunshow Poophole posted:Yeah decades old British Civil defense readiness comes up in conversation all the time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PG16ebNtce4
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Mar 30, 2018 23:27
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We get snow in Vancouver and we definitely don't have recessed reflectors. I don't know if they get popped off a lot though. Maybe they just don't plow the lines.
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Mar 30, 2018 23:36
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hm I wonder if there’s an American film like this one anywhere
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Mar 30, 2018 23:38
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Mar 31, 2018 00:43
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Noice
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ekuNNN posted:Goldmining in South America, apparently: I've seen artisanal mining operations like that on three continents. That one is pretty high-tech, normally they use a bucket chain to do that.
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