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chitoryu12 posted:The average freight train moving at 55 miles per hour or a passenger train at 80 miles per hour takes about a mile to stop. Trains have an insane amount of momentum and train operators have to be thinking miles ahead to effectively control their speed. B4Ctom1 posted:Pretty much this. It is hard to explain not just the physics, but the amounts of forces involved.
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Devor posted:After exactly one accident of this type, the city/county, and railroad should have been demanding that the traffic stuck where that guy was, get cleared by the signal every time a train came through there I know how we can prevent this! Make it illegal to stop on tracks! Nobody ever does illegal things!
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# ? Jun 13, 2018 17:15 |
If you make it illegal to stop on tracks, only criminals will stop on tracks.
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# ? Jun 13, 2018 17:29 |
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If you outlaw tracks, only tracks will have outlaws.
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# ? Jun 13, 2018 17:30 |
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I've seen that train post before, and it's pretty enlightening, but what's the value in making an illegal immigrant the cause of all of that in his hypothetical?
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# ? Jun 13, 2018 17:34 |
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My Summer Car 2 looking good!
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# ? Jun 13, 2018 17:42 |
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Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:I've seen that train post before, and it's pretty enlightening, but what's the value in making an illegal immigrant the cause of all of that in his hypothetical? The person responsible for the entire disaster is untraceable and not held accountable, I guess.
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# ? Jun 13, 2018 18:01 |
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Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:I've seen that train post before, and it's pretty enlightening, but what's the value in making an illegal immigrant the cause of all of that in his hypothetical? If I remember correctly, that was posted shortly after a train hit a truck stuck on the tracks like that and the driver who left the scene ended up being an illegal. I could be making a connection that doesn't exist though.
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# ? Jun 13, 2018 18:03 |
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Space Jam posted:lost another at the plant today. had a foreman playing hacky sack with another floor worker above the iron smelter and lost his balance and fell over the rail. he landed next to the pot luckily but the weight of him falling off shook the walkway (suspended with wire ties to the connecting joints to save money) and the other guy dropped his slurpee into the molten iron and the foreman took a splash of liquid metal to the face. goddamn hippie. I think you're working in that gun factory from American Gods.
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# ? Jun 13, 2018 18:36 |
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More fun rail crossing facts: In most states, it's not illegal to shut off power to a crossing guard or switch for late payment. It does, however, make the utility partially liable if an accident occurs. Also, in at least two cases that I worked they couldn't find any utility workers willing to actually turn the power off. Policy be damned, they apparently have a problem with manslaughter.
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Sagebrush posted:Riveting That's what I want in a Thomas the train episode.
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# ? Jun 13, 2018 19:10 |
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DiHK posted:That's what I want in a Thomas the train episode. Now I'm imagining that post as narrated by Ringo Starr.
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# ? Jun 13, 2018 19:29 |
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George Carlin was the superior Mr. Conductor on Shining Time Station.
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# ? Jun 13, 2018 20:01 |
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Mr. Apollo posted:I like the guy at the end walking up and putting out the caution sign. Did is all this stuff directly behind a A380 at max thrust, or is this a class one tornado or what
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# ? Jun 13, 2018 20:23 |
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Usually called a straight line wind, downburst or microburstquote:A downburst is created by a column of sinking air that after hitting ground level, spreads out in all directions and is capable of producing damaging straight-line winds of over 240 km/h (150 mph), often producing damage similar to, but distinguishable from, that caused by tornadoes. This is because the physical properties of a downburst are completely different from those of a tornado. Downburst damage will radiate from a central point as the descending column spreads out when hitting the surface, whereas tornado damage tends towards convergent damage consistent with rotating winds.
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# ? Jun 13, 2018 20:40 |
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Bad Munki posted:The video source with all the scraping and whatnot is so great. Did anyone else notice how it's hitched to the van? This is even more mind boggling to me. Edit: It has wheels Croatoan fucked around with this message at 21:14 on Jun 13, 2018 |
# ? Jun 13, 2018 21:02 |
The safety chains are holding on like champs, but I would not have pulled into the lane behind those idiots like the guy driving the video taking vehicle did.
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# ? Jun 13, 2018 21:12 |
It's flipped on its side, the axle is vertical on the far side of the trailer during the video. The hitch has popped off and it's being dragged by the chains. Which, apparently, were properly secured, so I guess it's OSHA approved!
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# ? Jun 13, 2018 21:12 |
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Croatoan posted:There's no wheels on what was the bottom Sorry if this is some sort of language-barrier issue, but... :
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# ? Jun 13, 2018 21:13 |
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Bought the extra insurance so I'm 100% covered gently caress IT
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# ? Jun 13, 2018 21:14 |
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Mammal Sauce posted:Sorry if this is some sort of language-barrier issue, but... : Sorry they weren't apparent except for a fraction of a second and I am unfamiliar with the advanced techniques of moving things via gently caress-it, my bad.
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# ? Jun 13, 2018 21:17 |
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The Bloop posted:Bought the extra insurance so I'm 100% covered I wouldn't be surprised at all if this was a "gently caress uhaul" situation.
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# ? Jun 13, 2018 21:20 |
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Kibayasu posted:I wouldn't be surprised at all if this was a "gently caress uhaul" situation. I had a Uhaul truck blow a tire twice on a 5 hour cross-state move. Waiting for an emergency road crew to show up to replace the tire sucks. Having it happen twice in a day is infuriating. I can totally understand this guy if it was a "gently caress Uhaul" situation.
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# ? Jun 13, 2018 21:36 |
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I made the mistake of having a slightly insane friend drive my U-haul from Montana to Portland. It wasn't a small U-haul, either. 17-19', something like that? Anyway, it usually takes me 8-10 hours to make the trip in a road car (if I'm not in a hurry and take lots of breaks). Somehow Tim managed to do it in 6 hours. Everything I owned was piled up against the back door like a goddamn cartoon.
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# ? Jun 13, 2018 21:53 |
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Mammal Sauce posted:Sorry if this is some sort of language-barrier issue, but... : I think that's actually a picture of slenderman
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# ? Jun 13, 2018 21:57 |
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You can see on the back of the minivan it looks like they’ve either already stopped with it in that position, or the hitch broke and rammed the tongue into the lift back, possibly leading to the current gently caress uhual situation
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# ? Jun 13, 2018 22:05 |
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Honestly, it wouldn't surprise me if the driver had all the weight in the trailer at the back, or didn't have it correctly locked down on the ball, so that it jumped off the ball when stopping and caused that huge dent in the hatch on the back of the tow vehicle. Probably what put them in such a "gently caress it" mood.
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# ? Jun 13, 2018 22:22 |
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Mr. Apollo posted:I like the guy at the end walking up and putting out the caution sign. When/where is this from?
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# ? Jun 13, 2018 22:25 |
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the windy city, i expect
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# ? Jun 13, 2018 22:28 |
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Reddit thread says it was in Commerce City, Colorado, but I can't find anything about it on google at all.
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# ? Jun 13, 2018 22:36 |
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Taking cover next to the porta potties was a mistake
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# ? Jun 13, 2018 22:39 |
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https://i.imgur.com/uB362vR.mp4 put your dick in it
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# ? Jun 13, 2018 22:50 |
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That's an oddly specialised attachment
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# ? Jun 13, 2018 22:54 |
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GotLag posted:That's an oddly specialised attachment Half of the population has one.
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# ? Jun 13, 2018 22:57 |
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Colorado is no stranger to microbursts or literally any other weather-related phenomenon, and Commerce City is basically just northeast Denver. Here's a smattering from the past two months alone: https://twitter.com/GatheringWool/status/986344736523825152 https://twitter.com/TheWxMeister/status/1006867355903782912 https://twitter.com/mikeseidel/status/1005548063430234117 https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1005208766504210433 f#a# fucked around with this message at 23:01 on Jun 13, 2018 |
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I just came to post this lol The best "beware of dog" sign
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https://i.imgur.com/D2eFeyH.mp4
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