boner confessor posted:

iirc everything that uses circulating air for cooling would get shredded by jagged volcanic ash. so, every HVAC (including all grocery stores) and vehicle in operation, destroyed beyond repair

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Airways_Flight_9

also, all your waterways plugged with ash. rivers? ashed. lakes? ashed. drinking water? hope you've got a well, lakes and reservoirs temporarily hosed

Johnny Aztec posted:

How bad would 3-10 Millimeters of volcanic ash gently caress up everything?

I know volcanic ash isn’t like wood or charcoal ash and is way way more destructive , but I need sort of a reference point

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According to Alan Robock, who has also published nuclear winter papers, the Toba eruption did not precipitate the last glacial period. However, assuming an emission of six billion tons of sulphur dioxide, his computer simulations concluded that a maximum global cooling of approximately 15 °C occurred for three years after the eruption, and that this cooling would last for decades, devastating life.[16] Because the saturated adiabatic lapse rate is 4.9 °C/1,000 m for temperatures above freezing,[17] the tree line and the snow line were around 3,000 m (9,900 ft) lower at this time. The climate recovered over a few decades, and Robock found no evidence that the 1,000-year cold period seen in Greenland ice core records had resulted from the Toba eruption. In contrast, Oppenheimer believes that estimates of a drop in surface temperature by 3–5 °C are probably too high, and he suggests that temperatures dropped only by 1 °C.[18] Robock has criticized Oppenheimer's analysis, arguing that it is based on simplistic T-forcing relationships.[19]

Budgie posted:

"Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem. All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get them going again. I trust you are not in too much distress."

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hobbesmaster posted:

The most British man alive.

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It was, in Moody's words, "a bit like negotiating one's way up a badger's arse."

Relentless posted:

https://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/msh/impact.html

So, from a natural environmental standpoint, it's mild to moderately bad in the short term, but then has a bunch of long term benefits. Some crops are going to be totally destroyed, others are going to benefit.

For the humans that live on this planet, it jacks up, oh, pretty much everything. Internal combustion engines, turbines, most anything with mechanical movement, water & sewage treatment, lungs, the whole 9 yards.

Bird in a Blender posted:

The entire US grain belt will likely be wiped out. I don't really know for how long though. Plus we would see massive planetary cooling, and huge crop failures from the lack of sun. I don't know what the estimates are for deaths if that explodes, but I would assume multiple millions of people dying from a variety of reasons.

wolrah posted:

Pick up a "RTL-SDR" dongle and you can listen to basically any unencrypted radio in your area.

There are literally hundreds of vendors selling these things so they're dirt cheap and they can tune across the majority of the spectrum you'll hear audio on. I like the kit these guys sell as a beginner package: https://www.rtl-sdr.com/buy-rtl-sdr-dvb-t-dongles/

There are applications that'll act as a scanner, there are applications that can receive ADS-B transmissions from aircraft, AIS from ships, weather satellites, all sorts of things. There's not a dedicated SDR thread here AFAIK but if you're interested they get discussed a lot in the amateur radio and shortwave threads.

Budgie posted:

"Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem. All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get them going again. I trust you are not in too much distress."

...

Johnny Aztec posted:

Well, I was just thinking how my local area would be.

I mean. Yeah when it happens , we are all hosed for a long time.


Also, 10 MM is 0.39 inches, in case anyone else was curious.

Johnny Aztec posted:

How many hogshead is that?

Pablo Bluth posted:

Actually it all seems to be positive. It seems dung beetles are specialist enough that they stick to eating the target dung and they've actually helped reduce both dung and the fly problem.

Say Nothing posted:

starkebn posted:

Are beetles more prone to genetic mutation or something? Or have they just been around for a long time?

starkebn posted:

Are beetles more prone to genetic mutation or something? Or have they just been around for a long time?

veiled boner fuel posted:

Can’t you just buy one online for like $6.95?

quote:

Air Transat Flight 236 was a transatlantic flight bound for Lisbon, Portugal, from Toronto, Canada, that lost all engine power while flying over the Atlantic Ocean on August 24, 2001. The Airbus A330 had run out of fuel due to a fuel leak caused by improper maintenance.

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The co-pilot of a Chinese passenger jet that was forced to make an emergency landing was "sucked halfway" out of the plane after a cockpit windshield blew out, local media has reported.

Captain Liu Chuanjian, hailed a hero on social media after having to land the Airbus A319 manually, told the Chengdu Economic Daily his aircraft had just reached a cruising altitude of 32,000 feet when a deafening sound tore through the cockpit.

The cockpit experienced a sudden loss of pressure and drop in temperature and when he looked over, the cockpit's right windshield was gone.

"There was no warning sign. Suddenly, the windshield just cracked and made a loud bang," he was quoted as saying.

"The next thing I know, my co-pilot had been sucked halfway out of the window."

Bombadilillo posted:

Are these people wearing seatbelts?

JPrime posted:

British Airways 9 led me to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Airways_Flight_9

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Following the accident, the crew and passengers formed the Galunggung Gliding Club as a means to keep in contact

Bombadilillo posted:

Are these people wearing seatbelts?

Volcott posted:

Make sure your dads are safe.

https://www.fox25boston.com/news/recalls/harbor-freight-tools-recalling-1-million-chainsaws-due-to-injury-hazard/749710851

PainterofCrap posted:

The gently caress would buy any high- RPM tool from them?

Let alone one with a blade on it

zedprime posted:

If you're going to be a pedant do it right. 10MM is 10,000,000 unitless. 10Mm is 6200 mi.

Memento posted:

They've been around for quarter of a billion years, they don't have a lot of time between generations, and they're insanely adapted to their individual niches.

Platystemon posted:

Eating vegetables is good for you.

PainterofCrap posted:

The gently caress would buy any high- RPM tool from them?

Let alone one with a blade on it

Control Volume posted:

Memento posted:

I assume that's what it looks like when you mechanically remove your fingernail. The two magnets were around 50cm apart when they decided they needed to be together.

Internet Archive link here.
NOT WORK SAFE - THE PICTURES ARE STILL INTACT IN THAT LINK, AS OPPOSED TO THE GUY'S FINGER

Pablo Bluth posted:

Australia was slowly disappearing under a pile of cow dung. They ended up importing lots of species of dung beetle to fill the ecological niche created by tje large number of non native mammals (cow excrement being sufficiently different to marsupial excrement)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Dung_Beetle_Project

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However, the mite-infested beetles were not destroyed and were instead used to breed new generations of beetles under sterile conditions. Dung beetle eggs were dipped in 3% formalin for 3 minutes to sterilise them, then packed into hand-rolled dung balls for incubation.