KoRMaK posted:

https://i.imgur.com/UHuZfMT.mp4

KoRMaK posted:

https://i.imgur.com/UHuZfMT.mp4

sharkytm posted:

Why did the panda kill the bartender after having a sandwich, then flee the scene?

He Eats, Shoots, and Leaves

NoWake posted:

What's a panda bear got in common with a male escort?

NoWake posted:

What's a panda bear got in common with a male escort?

KoRMaK posted:

https://i.imgur.com/UHuZfMT.mp4

KoRMaK posted:

https://i.imgur.com/UHuZfMT.mp4

KoRMaK posted:

https://i.imgur.com/UHuZfMT.mp4

Shifty Nipples posted:

The first thought that gave me was that it would suck if the solution was to throw the pigs in the ocean.

jamal posted:

Part two where he goes to shoot it really gives the full picture of how terrible that thing is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3fd4goVs-4

NoWake posted:

What's a panda bear got in common with a male escort?

Bad Munki posted:

Trailer dumps a bunch of used needles, scalpels, etc.

Bad Munki posted:

Trailer dumps a bunch of used needles, scalpels, etc.

Platystemon posted:

The results of the car’s blood work is in.

It’s positively tired.

d3lness posted:

Please stop before we try to collectively exhaust every car pun we can think of.

Bad Munki posted:

Trailer dumps a bunch of used needles, scalpels, etc.

Slanderer posted:

No

d3lness posted:

Please stop before we try to collectively exhaust every car pun we can think of.

CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK posted:

https://i.imgur.com/CPtoAOU.mp4

Memento posted:

Wheeling back around to that dam collapse in Brazil the other week, in what to me is an incredibly surprising move, they're actually changing the legislation around them and enforcing it on Vale to the tune of $3 billion in reworking costs.

https://twitter.com/BaseMetals/status/1093773665542590464

As you can see in this handy diagram, upstream tailings dams are inherently less stable than downstream.

Whooping Crabs posted:

That's just the langoliers, chewin up the past as the plane escapes to the future

quote:

The basics are as follows - At approximately 2000 hours on 18 June, 1950, Ansett Airways' DC-3 taxied into empty coal wagons (which were part of a train consisting of a D50 locomotive, 53 empty coal-wagons & 1 brake-van) on Runway 22 at Kingsford Smith Airport, Sydney.

Cable Guy posted:

Shifty Nipples posted:

The first thought that gave me was that it would suck if the solution was to throw the pigs in the ocean.

jamal posted:

Part two where he goes to shoot it really gives the full picture of how terrible that thing is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3fd4goVs-4

Rad-daddio posted:

That would be dumb. They're not car batteries.

Dr. Despair posted:

Looks like that driver is making a real sharps turn there.

Platystemon posted:

I’d rather have fingerguns.

On the Radar posted:

The SPS-67 had another problem: radars must be tuned to obtain the clearest images. On the Fitzgerald, technicians had covered a button to tune the radar with masking tape because it was broken. From his post, Stawecki could not tune the radar. So the only other thing he saw were false returns — so-called clutter that could result from the radar hitting waves, flocks of birds or any other obstacle at sea. Stawecki would later testify that he saw no ships threatening the Fitzgerald in the crucial half-hour before the collision.

[. . .]

A third radar, used for warfare, was slow to acquire targets, but technicians had installed a temporary fix that became permanent. “Problem known since 2012. Declared hopeless,” read notes attached to the repair report.

On Personnel posted:

Sarah Coppock, lieutenant junior grade, was the officer of the deck, responsible for the safety and navigation of the ship while [Captain] Benson slept.

She’d started her day almost 22 hours before and had managed to rest for one hour before taking over on the bridge. She had navigated this route out of Tokyo only once, in daylight. Despite that, Benson, before going to bed, had ordered her to steam ahead at 20 knots.

On Watch posted:

But nobody, it turned out, was standing watch on the starboard side of the ship.

In years past, commanders traditionally posted lookouts on the port and starboard sides of the bridge. The lookouts had one job: search the sea for hazards. But Navy cutbacks in personnel prompted Benson and other captains to combine the duties into a single job. “We just don’t have enough bodies, qualified bodies, to have a port and starboard lookout,” said Samuel Williams, a boatswain’s mate first class.

Parker, Coppock’s No. 2 that night, was supposed to walk back and forth between the two sides during the watch, with the rest of the bridge team helping her keep an eye out.

But Parker had walked out onto a small metal deck located off the bridge on the port side of the Fitzgerald just after 1 a.m. She was there with Womack, trying to fit in some training by helping him develop his seaman’s eye, the ability to estimate distance and bearing by sight. Parker had not received a promotion on a previous ship, after its commanding officer thought she had trouble assessing the risk posed by ships in the surrounding ocean.

Memento posted:

https://twitter.com/BaseMetals/status/1093773665542590464

quote:

Vale was elected as the corporation with the most "contempt for the environment and human rights" in the world during a January 2012 vote organized by the Public Eye. The choice was made by public vote and Vale received 25,000 votes.

Rebel Blob posted:

ProPublica has a really good read on the USS Fitzgerald crash in 2017: Death and Valor on an American Warship Doomed by its Own Navy. There is quite a litany of bad decisions, both from above and on the ship lead to the crash. Here are a few of the shorter highlights: