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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. This happened to me twice when hiking the AT. There had been a pretty bad storm the night before and trees and branches were falling all around us. Didn’t help that the next day was windy as well. When we stopped for the night i picked out a spot but just happen to see a arbitrarily better spot 10 ft away on the other side of the trail. About an hour later we are sitting in our tent and hear a massive crack and thud. Look outside and it’s the old spot I had chosen with a massive widow maker of a branch sitting on the ground. That was a night of unease. The second time we stopped and sat for lunch when a smallish arm sized branch fell and smashed into my girlfriends outstretched arm as she was about to take a drink. An inch closer and it’d have surely knocked her out cold. Hiking is just constantly narrowly avoiding injury and death.
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Okay, you've got my attention. More info please? Seriously. That's an insane amount of water.
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Okay, you've got my attention. More info please? ChesterJT posted:Seriously. That's an insane amount of water. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiuDsCmja4U
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Looks like this is the Hidroituango Dam in Colombia. This is an incomplete dam (10 meters left to build) but the heavy rains put so much debris into the diversion channels that they were all blocked. Efforts to unplug the diversion channels (tunnels) have failed, and they chose to open up the pipes into the incomplete turbine buildings to help release water as the level behind the dam was rising at very fast rates. I am not sure of what the video is actually from, the water from the turbine buildings or something else. Thousands of people downstream were under evacuation orders. News out of Colombia isn't great, and the latest update I was able to find was from June 18th that seemed to indicate that the workers had successfully raised the dam to a point where the spillways could be used to prevent an overtopping, but the translation is not great, and that is from a company spokesman for the company in charge of building the dam, so who knows how truthful it is.
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Zil posted:The site says this is, but I'm guessing the military has something bigger. So...what would happen...if......a guy.......put his dick....... inside one of those? Asking for a friend.
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Hell Stink posted:So...what would happen...if......a guy.......put his dick....... inside one of those? Asking for a friend. 
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Hell Stink posted:So...what would happen...if......a guy.......put his dick....... inside one of those? Asking for a friend. 
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This kills the crab. Edit: for anyone curious and to be useful, here's the relevant video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEtbFm_CjE0&t=171s When it's got ya, it's got ya. 
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shame on an IGA posted:New Orleans has one that can push 9,000,000 GPM I'm sure this can suck off the cave to the point it has an orgasm.
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Can you sedate the navy SEALS and have someone drag them through the tunnels
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what do you think that blade was originally? I can't quite tell if they snapped the tang off a scythe and then ground down the wrong edge like assholes.
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Generic bar stock would be my guess.
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whys it curved then? I mean the endpoint is too chiseled to be a scythe probably, and it seems like it's too heavy to be one anyway, but it's a weird as gently caress shape. My bet is it was a piece of some other thing they randomly repurposed. That center of gravity looks fucky as hell.
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Gluten Freeman posted:Not sure if you're joking but the cave was relatively dry when they went in and then monsoon rains began, flooding it. Edit: Btw, there's a thread in GBS about it. Missing Thai soccer kids found alive in cave after nine days It's in GBS so of course it's full of jokes about.......well, never mind, let's keep discussing it here. RabbitWizard fucked around with this message at 09:25 on Jul 6, 2018 |
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Psst. Guess where this thread is.
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This is one of the more civilized threads in GBS so I can imagine the confusion.
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spankmeister posted:This is one of the more civilized threads in GBS so I can imagine the confusion.
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What are the cave walls composed of? Can the divers even see underwater?
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Limestone, and poorly. The freshly flooded nature of the cave means there's still going to be a major silt load in the water and that stuff can take weeks to settle out completely. Add to that the fact that there's divers going in and out and the visibility in the water would be dreadful. Less than a meter.
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also theres a body in there too now.
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Synthbuttrange posted:also theres a body in there too now. He got dragged out by another diver after he lost consciousness and declared dead outside.
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also theres a ghost in there too now
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Synthbuttrange posted:also theres a body in there too now. Are you suggesting that their plan is to keep sending in divers to die, until their bodies block all the incoming water so that the kids can walk out safely? This isn't Russia.
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spog posted:Are you suggesting that their plan is to keep sending in divers to die, until their bodies block all the incoming water so that the kids can walk out safely? You're right, in Russia they would have pumped sedative gas in there and dragged the kids out to safety, only for all of them to die because they weren't put into the recovery position and they choked to death. 
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Don't you mean because they won't tell the treating doctors what the sedative was?
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/05/thai-soccer-boys-missed-cave-trip-wild-boars?CMP=fb_gu Apparently they were going to have a picnic inside? also OL MUSKY quote:Elon Musk offers to help save trapped boys RADAR DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY
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Synthbuttrange posted:RADAR DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY
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Think about "technology that could create an air tunnel." What the gently caress does that mean? Is he going to drill down to them? Is he going to run a long tube through the cave? My personal belief is that be wants to use air pressure to push the water out of the way, but forgets that the water would then drown the kids and be impossible to traverse. "Well good news...our hyperloop air tunnel works."
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What if... we made a tunnel... but in water?!?!
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Elon is just like all the other internet warriors who want to provide "helpful" advice, only he has a couple of companies.
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I want a tunnel from that thai-cave to san fran now
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Hot Dog Day #91 posted:Think about "technology that could create an air tunnel." What the gently caress does that mean? Is he going to drill down to them? Is he going to run a long tube through the cave? He wants to sell them 300 hair dryers to blow the water away.
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GotLag posted:Don't you mean because they won't tell the treating doctors what the sedative was? No, because they dragged out all the kids and propped them up against walls while they were dragging out the rest of the kids, as opposed to laying them down on their sides. There were no treating doctors, getting the terrorists was priority #1, with the kids' well-being a distant second.
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Memento posted:No, because they dragged out all the kids and propped them up against walls while they were dragging out the rest of the kids, as opposed to laying them down on their sides. You know what's worse? Before trying to google this, I had to ask the question 'Which Russian hostage rescue that resulted in the deaths of hundreds of hostages are we talking about?'
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Synthbuttrange posted:RADAR DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY
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Synthbuttrange posted:https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/05/thai-soccer-boys-missed-cave-trip-wild-boars?CMP=fb_gu
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Elon Musk is going to kill a dozen children.
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