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I was looking up the spelling of "Geisterfahrer" this evening and this video popped up. How does it end? The answer may surprise you! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mg9oeK9kxiA
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MisterOblivious posted:
Few pages ago, but in the UK they can apparently detect 1 litre of red in 1000 litres of derv. The fuel distributor I work for basically say either do not deliver red diesel before derv, or if you really can't avoid doing it flush the delivery hose with derv when delivering red. It is better to lose £25 worth of derv and sell that as red than risk a contamination. If there is even a chance that we may have contaminated a derv tank, we have to go and pump all the fuel out, test it and possibly replace it. I think the biggest contamination I heard about was one of the supplier terminals where we bulk buy our fuel from. They had a delivery of fuel from a barge and somehow managed to contaminate almost a million litres of derv with red.
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Jul 18, 2018 09:01
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wolrah posted:My radar detector and bluetooth OBD dongle have combined to drain the batteries of a few of my cars to the point of not starting if I go a couple of days without using them, especially in the winter. I drive a lot (~28,000 miles/year) but since I work from home I can go a few days without needing to go anywhere. Platystemon posted:If I had this problem I would get a low‐voltage disconnect switch. Don't even need to flip a switch. It's automagic. wolrah go buy one of these: https://www.amazon.com/PriorityStart-12-Volt-Pro-SP-Automatic-Battery-Protector/dp/B0030A10V0 Powerful Two-Hander posted:Do you think the unquantified additional exposure he states ("I wasn't allowed to see the radiation film badges as they were classified") or perhaps this: dis astranagant posted:really more quoting your quote but I think he just said he flew Castle Bravo Sounds like it: Castle Bravo shot. 3x the predicted yield. It left a crater over a mile wide. "Oops, we accidentally detonated the largest nuclear explosion ever, destroyed the recording stations, and irradiated the natives." Castle Bravo, jesus christ  Whipstickagostop posted:Few pages ago, but in the UK they can apparently detect 1 litre of red in 1000 litres of derv. Yah, like I said, you can't dilute it out. Any tinge of dye will get you nailed. Folks online suggest taking the tank off and steam cleaning it to get rid of the dye.
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Sagebrush posted:every so often i wonder why i have phanatic on ignore and then he goes and posts something like "the cancer that killed that air force test pilot was probably unrelated to his job of flying into atomic bomb fallout clouds" and i go oh right. It didn't kill him and he's still alive at the age of 93. But good job. Phanatic fucked around with this message at 12:38 on Jul 18, 2018 |
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Jul 18, 2018 11:59
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Tangentially related to the thread: I just recently read an on-line article about really weird pricing shenanigans on Amazon (third-party sellers) for books - possibly posted somewhere on the forums? Anyway I was inspired by this thread to buy Command and Control and added it to my amazon.co.uk shopping cart yesterday. The first hit for a hard-cover copy was a 10.04£ second-hand copy. Today I went and checked and the first hit is a 370£ new copy. I refuse to believe it's a coincidence. e: Ayup it's the same loving seller that miraculously found an unused copy worth 370£ after I'd expressed interest in a 10£ second-hand copy. I think I'll order it from adlibris.com instead. 3D Megadoodoo fucked around with this message at 12:06 on Jul 18, 2018 |
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Jul 18, 2018 12:03
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https://i.imgur.com/iluRItZ.mp4 that strap
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Jul 18, 2018 13:46
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Why were the trucks driving into the flow of traffic?
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Jul 18, 2018 13:55
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MisterOblivious posted:Don't even need to flip a switch. It's automagic. quote:AUTOMATICALLY reconnects with small load change (0.2Mv) I.E. OPERATE HEADLIGHT SWITCH, STEP ON BRAKE PEDAL, POWER SEAT, ETC. That’s clever. I was thinking “tap the ignition switch” but not all cars these days have one of those. With power cut to the electronics, essentially the only way the load will change is if a person throws a switch.
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Proteus Jones posted:link? whoops sorry for forgetting to link it
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RandomPauI posted:Why were the trucks driving into the flow of traffic? My guess would be a sign saying something like "all over height trucks must turn left because there's a 11'8" bridge ahead", meaning the little side road that the yellow truck eventually backs down, but because of poor placement it's leading them onto the highway. But that's purely speculation.
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Wingnut Ninja posted:My guess would be a sign saying something like "all over height trucks must turn left because there's a 11'8" bridge ahead", meaning the little side road that the yellow truck eventually backs down, but because of poor placement it's leading them onto the highway. But that's purely speculation. Couldn't they just lower the bridge?
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Son of Thunderbeast posted:Couldn't they just lower the bridge? They tried that in Florida, it didn't work so well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ucflj-MsJBI&t=6s
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Jul 18, 2018 15:25
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the people sliding down the bridge look a bit like insects
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Jul 18, 2018 15:26
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I am convinced that that Volvo outbraked a Porsche 911, even though it was full-loaded. I'd love to see real-world numbers because I bet it is impressively close.
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spog posted:I am convinced that that Volvo outbraked a Porsche 911, even though it was full-loaded. There's no way that truck was loaded, right? That stopping distance was incredibly short. I don't know how even an empty truck could do it.
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Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:There's no way that truck was loaded, right? That stopping distance was incredibly short. I don't know how even an empty truck could do it. This is a test loaded to 40 tons. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ridS396W2BY Trucks are heavy, but they've also got loving powerful brakes. 18 wheels means loads of available traction. E: Ok the one in the video is 14 wheels but you know what I mean.
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MisterOblivious posted:Don't even need to flip a switch. It's automagic. Oh yea, those things... I remember seeing those in a police equipment catalog many years ago. Not a terrible idea. I've determined the larger load is definitely the radar detector, so really I should just need to stop being lazy and pull the hardwire kit out of my nonrunning car and move it over, using a switched power source.
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Phanatic posted:It didn't kill him and he's still alive at the age of 93. But good job.
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its because usually someone comes in later that actually knows what they're talking about and then it turns out he was just confidently talking about poo poo he doesn't know about.   
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Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:There's no way that truck was loaded, right? That stopping distance was incredibly short. I don't know how even an empty truck could do it. The weight is nearly irrelevant as friction force is proportional to load. So like say a truck tire has a coefficient of friction of 0.8. Put 1000lb load on it, it can generate 800lb of braking force. With a 10000lb load, it will generate 8000lb. What that means is it should be able to decelerate at the same rate (0.8g) regardless of load, but with more weight more heat is going into the brakes and tires. That's not completely accurate as the reality of how tires work is that the cf is a curve that reaches a peak and then decreases with additional load, and also a sliding tire has less grip than a rolling tire. The change in cf with load is possibly not even that important here as truck tires and suspension and brakes are designed to work when loaded, not empty, so the cf of the tire is probably in the optimum region when there's stuff in the truck. The more important thing is preventing the tires from locking up, as your cf drops off by like 20-30% when that happens and of course you are also sliding out of control. Air-powered drums are not very easy to control near the limit of traction. That volvo probably has disc brakes with abs which lets the truck brake basically right at the limit of what is physically possible whereas an older setup would have it lock up some or all of the tires, slide for an extra 100ft or so, and probably jackknife into the ditch. jamal fucked around with this message at 23:41 on Jul 18, 2018 |
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Cythereal posted:From the "There were no good decisions leading up to this" files. Ah yes, brexit.mp4
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https://i.imgur.com/lBOlok9.mp4 I like how the box gets crushed so hard and so fast that it gets blackened by the friction as it tries to catch on fire.
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Kith posted:https://i.imgur.com/lBOlok9.mp4 I'm pretty sure the press is just dirty as hell
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Piell posted:I'm pretty sure the press is just dirty as hell But enough about the corporate media, we're talking about a triphammer
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Piell posted:I'm pretty sure the press is just dirty as hell If that was the case, the top of the box would have gotten smudged up as it got tapped down.
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Kith posted:If that was the case, the top of the box would have gotten smudged up as it got tapped down. The amount of pressure applied may have something to do with the transfer of filth.
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You can almost hear him saying "... uh-huh, yep, gently caress my life."
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Subjunctive posted:What the gently caress? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IiWik49vQQ
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Subjunctive posted:What the gently caress? 
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Holy poo poo.
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Chase ended by crashing into an elementary school.
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fortunately the kids were all armed and were able to take out the bad guy
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That channel has helped me understand a lot about policing in the USA. Not all the encounters are 'gently caress yeah, police rah rah!' and the more you watch, the more you realise how quickly things can turn very bad. (They also include cops making mistakes and also being bad cops - it's not one sided) You also see how they often try very hard not to cap a guy when I personally would be mag dumping in the general direction of the bad guy waving a gun and threatening to kill me, whilst crying and making GBS threads my pants.
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so is there a reason that cop had to pull up behind the car and dump two magazines into the general vicinity of the driver's seat while driving with one hand instead of, say, hanging back and following from a safe distance while some other cops set up a roadblock
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Watch the cop when he gets out, you can see that hes panicked and you can hear it in his voice through the whole chase. Guy was planning to keep going till he crashed or got away come hell or high water.
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