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all he had to do was draw a line between the two groups of words spog posted:But it did make me wonder: are there any stupidly powerful portable water pumps in existence? For some niche use that I haven't heard of. Real big fuckers, like they are powered by an engine from a 747 and used to empty an oil well or drain lakes. germany offered the us super duper portable pumps during katrina while dubya was thumbing his rear end
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If the Thai kids die I'm blaming ol' Musky, personally.
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spog posted:25 minutes to empty an Olympic sized swimming pool just won't cut the mustard for me. here is a fire boat that could empty an olympic-size swimming pool in ten minutes, that's pretty good https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Forty_Three i also have some reference materials on how to get the boat into the jungle
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PetraCore posted:I've heard they're doing things other than pumping, like creating a dam to divert water flow into the caves. That's been helping more than the pumping. They're not dumb. It's probably pourous limestone. It'll flow from everywhere.
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Raskolnikov38 posted:oh east bay MUD you are always such a delight Touring their sewage treatment plant is the only time on an industrial site tour that I had the guide say "if you can, *dont* use the hand rails on the stairs" because sometimes the room flooded full of raw sewage. So that's OSHA af. That plant once found a live puppy in the sewage intake and another time an entire 30 foot tree. One of the employees adopted the puppy.
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I'll admit, when I first heard of this story, I was thinking more Carlsbad Caverns and less unexplored hole in the ground. Because who in their right mind takes a bunch of teenagers to some random cave without checking basic things like "can we get back out and go home if everything goes wrong?" Basically I'm saying you take school trips to tourist attractions not legit caves, and yeah, if Carlsbad Caverns floods I expect cave divers to have everyone evacuated within twelve hours because everything that could have posed a trapping hazard should have been dynamited a century ago.
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it was probably "oh lets take a look just inside the entrance of this cave" and then something between them and the entrance flooded, and they had to continue further into the cave as the water continued rising
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Jul 6, 2018 01:52
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I don't know the particulars of this case but if it's anything like the American Southwest you can have monsoon rains 100 miles away that cause flooding and death in canyons while the weather is hot and clear.
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Jul 6, 2018 01:56
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There's a guy on Youtube who has a channel documenting those kinds of flash floods. It's pretty cool. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yCnQuILmsM&t=190s
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FCKGW posted:I don't know the particulars of this case but if it's anything like the American Southwest you can have monsoon rains 100 miles away that cause flooding and death in canyons while the weather is hot and clear. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5I9CEPOOI4&t=190s Also skip to 8:50 if you want to see something real cool (and scary)
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Jul 6, 2018 02:11
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Sagebrush posted:here is a fire boat that could empty an olympic-size swimming pool in ten minutes, that's pretty good So that's how this episode got its name. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jr50So-zu1M
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FCKGW posted:I don't know the particulars of this case but if it's anything like the American Southwest you can have monsoon rains 100 miles away that cause flooding and death in canyons while the weather is hot and clear. I know a guy who was working for a mineral exploration company where some of their contractors left around half a million worth of survey equipment in a dry creek bed. There had been torrential rains about 80km away that reached where they had left it as a flash flood about 2 hours later. Smashed the poo poo out of everything, nothing was recovered.
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Memento posted:I know a guy who was working for a mineral exploration company where some of their contractors left around half a million worth of survey equipment in a dry creek bed. There had been torrential rains about 80km away that reached where they had left it as a flash flood about 2 hours later. Smashed the poo poo out of everything, nothing was recovered. Yeah, this is why if you find a nice flat spot sheltered from the wind you don't camp in it. It's a dry riverbed that'll flash-flood during the night and kill you. Fake edit: also don't camp under the nice sheltering tree, it'll drop a limb during the night and kill you.
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The Lone Badger posted:Yeah, this is why if you find a nice flat spot sheltered from the wind you don't camp in it. It's a dry riverbed that'll flash-flood during the night and kill you. My favourite tenting memory was when the idiot in charge decided that the only bit of really flat and bare ground for miles around was the perfect spot to pitch our tent. It didn't take long for the ice to melt enough for him to realize it was a loving pond.
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Potrzebie posted:It's probably pourous limestone. It'll flow from everywhere.
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quite stretched out posted:it was probably "oh lets take a look just inside the entrance of this cave" and then something between them and the entrance flooded, and they had to continue further into the cave as the water continued rising I think it was more a case of "hey this neat thing is just around the corner, we will take a look at it and will be back in five minutes", and then rain happens. I wonder why drilling the walls or to just widen the passages into the caves aren't an option yet.
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HardDiskD posted:I think it was more a case of "hey this neat thing is just around the corner, we will take a look at it and will be back in five minutes", and then rain happens. They got doctors and nurses to the boys, so instead of the passage being difficult it is the logistic of dragging out 13 malnourished and exhausted people along a passage, that takes 6 hours for healthy people, posing a problem.
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The Lone Badger posted:Fake edit: also don't camp under the nice sheltering tree, it'll drop a limb during the night and kill you. This lesson gets learned pretty hard in Australia once or twice a year. Usually along the lines of "child killed when tree branch falls on their tent"  HardDiskD posted:I think it was more a case of "hey this neat thing is just around the corner, we will take a look at it and will be back in five minutes", and then rain happens. Getting the equipment there is probably something with a lead time of several weeks to months. They might not have that kind of time.
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We'll simply get the kids in a SCUBA and simply widen the passage and simply take the spoil to simply raise the bridge.
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HardDiskD posted:I wonder why drilling the walls or to just widen the passages into the caves aren't an option yet. How hard is it to use a jackhammer underwater anyways?
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FCKGW posted:How hard is it to use a jackhammer underwater anyways? Just give the kids some picks and tell them to start digging up, it's not like they have anything else to do So many simple solutions here, why can't these people see what is so clear to a bunch of internet nerds
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Jul 6, 2018 03:47
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Did any of those kids every play Dwarf Fortress?
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Tochiazuma posted:Just give the kids some picks and tell them to start digging up, it's not like they have anything else to do
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Three-Phase posted:Did any of those kids every play Dwarf Fortress? Obviously not, or they'd be pumping magma up and making sweet obsidian statues on their way out.
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Jul 6, 2018 03:57
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One of the rescuers has died
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It's hard to find an overview of this. News stories are all about rescuers moms and junk. Was the cave dry when the kids went in?
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fuuuuuuuuuuuck the other day I was wondering if/when a rescuer was gonna bite it, I'm really sad it happened. God this better not be a bad omen.
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Memento posted:This lesson gets learned pretty hard in Australia once or twice a year. Usually along the lines of "child killed when tree branch falls on their tent"
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Bombadilillo posted:It's hard to find an overview of this. News stories are all about rescuers moms and junk. Was the cave dry when the kids went in? No. The water was already in there.
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RabbitWizard posted:No. The water was already in there. Not sure if you're joking but the cave was relatively dry when they went in and then monsoon rains began, flooding it.
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Why don't they put the kids in sacks made of shark skin, the smoothest thing in the natural world, I bet they'd slide right through the passages
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Throw a bunch of glycerin and cellulose into the water, turning it into Astroglide. Then put the kids in shark-skin sacks. Then increase the air pressure inside the cave, and fire those kids kids down the tunnel at Mach 2.3
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:Throw a bunch of glycerin and cellulose into the water, turning it into Astroglide. Then put the kids in shark-skin sacks. Then increase the air pressure inside the cave, and fire those kids kids down the tunnel at Mach 2.3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShYsBiB7wlE
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:Throw a bunch of glycerin and cellulose into the water, turning it into Astroglide. Then put the kids in shark-skin sacks. Then increase the air pressure inside the cave, and fire those kids kids down the tunnel at Mach 2.3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCFvqbSfgqM
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Okay, you've got my attention. More info please?
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