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FuturePastNow posted:Apparently some more of that hotel collapsed. The crane on the left is looking precarious. We need less Big Government so that the invisible hand of the free market can stop this kind of thing from happening in the richest country in the world. Oh wait this isn't China?
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That's just a capsized Uisko. 
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Oct 14, 2019 13:10
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Why would racers make roll cages out of painted PVC pipe? Lancia used to make hollowed rollcages(if not plastic or cardboard) to save weight in GrpB with results anyone could easily guess.... SlowBloke fucked around with this message at 14:11 on Oct 14, 2019 |
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Oct 14, 2019 13:52
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Why would racers make roll cages out of painted PVC pipe? Relax man I filled the PVC full of cement
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Oct 14, 2019 14:01
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Willfrey posted:Relax man I filled the PVC full of cement Andy Ngo's racecar.
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Oct 14, 2019 14:02
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 Edit: It's not often that I see brain dead incompetence on this level. I'm honestly stunned
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Oct 14, 2019 14:42
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In the 90s, there was a fire at the McCrory's in a local mall that killed 2 people and destroyed the store. My aunt's boyfriend declared somberly that it was because of all the polyester. He was half right - it was a store detective who threw a cigarette into the artificial flowers so he could put out the resulting fire and make himself look good. Which apparently he had done twice before at the same store without serious damage. If I recall, that was in the basement level, which I'm sure did not help.
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Oct 14, 2019 14:46
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null_pointer posted:
Are those pics before or after they turned them on? The comment son the tweet seem like before, but it looks clumpy like everything melted when they turned them on. Or else whoever put them on just sucks at decorating.
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Oct 14, 2019 14:48
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Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:Are those pics before or after they turned them on? The comment son the tweet seem like before, but it looks clumpy like everything melted when they turned them on. Or else whoever put them on just sucks at decorating. Definitely before. Clumpy != melted/charred.
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Oct 14, 2019 15:24
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Most of the current NASCAR rules are because of teams finding new ways to cheat. Smokey Yunick used a wooden roll cage at one point and a roll cage full of fuel another time.
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Thumposaurus posted:Most of the current NASCAR rules are because of teams finding new ways to cheat. I remember reading about one guy (Petty?) who, when they placed limits on fuel tank sizes, ran a big coil of fuel line under his seat in order to increase capacity because there was no limit to how long your fuel line could be.
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Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:I remember reading about one guy (Petty?) who, when they placed limits on fuel tank sizes, ran a big coil of fuel line under his seat in order to increase capacity because there was no limit to how long your fuel line could be. That was also Smokey Yunick. quote:As with most successful racers, Yunick was a master of the grey area straddling the rules. Perhaps his most famous exploit was his #13 1966 Chevrolet Chevelle, driven by Curtis Turner. The car was so much faster than the competition during testing that they were certain that cheating was involved; some sort of aerodynamic enhancement was strongly suspected, but the car's profile seemed to be entirely stock, as the rules required. It was eventually discovered that Yunick had lowered and modified the roof and windows and raised the floor (to lower the body) of the production car. Since then, NASCAR required each race car's roof, hood, and trunk to fit templates representing the production car's exact profile.
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Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:I remember reading about one guy (Petty?) who, when they placed limits on fuel tank sizes, ran a big coil of fuel line under his seat in order to increase capacity because there was no limit to how long your fuel line could be. Yunick as well. He also once stuck a basketball in the fuel tank. Inflate the basketball to pass tech inspection, when they the capacity of the tank, then deflate it to fit in more fuel. Probably the most brilliant racing cheat ever was this one: https://crasstalk.com/2011/03/cheatins-still-winnin-the-story-of-toyota-racings-best-cheat-ever/ To limit speeds the rules mandated a restrictor plate to limit air intake to the turbo. The Toyota team designed everything so that when you installed the turbo in the car, the end of the intake hose pressed on springs within the turbo housing and moved the restrictor plate slightly (5mm) forward to ease the restriction. Remove the parts to inspect them, and everything looks and measures right. But installed, you get 50 more horsepower.
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Phanatic posted:Yunick as well. Another article, with technical details.
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There is a legend(which is somehow grounded in how nasty the accident that killed Toivonen was) that the Delta S4 had a roll cage filled with nitrous to provide more boost, and the same vehicle had a next generation upgrade (ECV) in the works that replaced a good chunk of the metal parts with carbon fiber (while keeping the 700-1000hp engine), which would have been scary as gently caress to drive.
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Why would racers make roll cages out of painted PVC pipe? They should be using ABS instead because it'll just warp and deform instead of shattering into many sharp splinters on impact 
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Oct 14, 2019 19:17
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Khizan posted:It was still switched on, so as soon as it was plugged in the blade started up and bounced it off of the table. My Makita has a detent to lock the angle grinder "on." It was running at full clip when he put it down, it vibrated over until the wheel caught the table surface.
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Oct 14, 2019 19:28
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Galaxy brain: raise the bridge Senator Warren brain: raise the road
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Oct 15, 2019 04:53
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I was watching a video about a Chinese match manufacturer and saw this gem: https://i.imgur.com/DRAy62R.gifv
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Oct 15, 2019 05:19
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Is the iron just there to weigh down the paper?
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Oct 15, 2019 05:24
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It's supposed to get the moisture out of the paper. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGroROlv34s&t=31s
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Oct 15, 2019 05:27
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It's plugged in, so probably preheating for the next stage.
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 It started as just another day on the job for Brisbane factory worker Lawrence "Lorry" Cooper. But in a spilt second, while operating a meat slicer, the 23-year-old's life changed dramatically when his hand was severed below his thumb. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-10-15/queensland-man-has-severed-hand-reattached-in-marathon-surgery/11599994
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I was about to ask "lol why did they x-ray his hand-gib" but the title in the link answered that question the fact that you can reattach poo poo after something like that happens is 
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Synthbuttrange posted:
I though for a second there that the computer hadn't loaded in the rest of the hand. 
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Oct 15, 2019 08:18
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Same on thinking the image was not loading. I'm curious as to their choice of words "Below the thumb". Why not across the palm?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MawV8zWaOzc&t=218s Amateurs going down a mineshaft. Younger guy recording is like "so you trust your life with that knot?" First of all you should always-always have a partner double check your figure 8 knot regardless of grade. Secondly, jesus gently caress that tie-in point is just a random piece of ancient rebar jutting out from a wall in an abandoned mineshaft? They all definitely went down on that one rope too. How do you even get to an abandoned mineshaft in mexico - sneaking past guards - and not know how to use ropes? They will do far stupider and dangerous stuff. Point here being what I'm pointing out is fundamental, required safety for the activity they are doing and every single one of them could have died. By 4:30 they are "one rope's length" (one shared rope  ) down a mineshaft and old guy is teaching the younger guy how to thread rope through his carabiner just in case he needs to know how to do that "You should always test this, eh? If you put it in backwards it won't work" "Should I have them throw down my harness?" "Oh? You brought a harness?"Hose or dynamite??  In the previous part the guy found a stick of dynamite and brought it back with him on his helmet. I'm serious.
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Synthbuttrange posted:
I'd hazard a guess the meat slicer was probably a bandsaw that they use in butchers shops. They're pretty much the same as the woodworking variety but use a different blade to cut meat. A deli slicer wouldn't have done the same job and wouldn't have cleanly gone through the bone in the way it did. I put a knife in my hand 10 years ago now and the nerve I severed in the process still hasn't fully recovered so one side of my index finger is kinda numb and does odd poo poo when it gets cold in winter.
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Dr. Garbanzo posted:
I dated a girl who broke a glass while washing dishes and cut her thumb on it. It was completely numb between the base and the knuckle. I even bit it as hard as I dared once to test, and she didn't flinch a bit. It's gotta be weird to have a part of your skin that you just can't feel.
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Nocheez posted:It's gotta be weird to have a part of your skin that you just can't feel. I stuck a knife in my thumb hard enough that someone had to hold my hand down so I could wiggle it out. That thumb still hurts when it gets cold 20 years later.
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Nocheez posted:I dated a girl who broke a glass while washing dishes and cut her thumb on it. It was completely numb between the base and the knuckle. I even bit it as hard as I dared once to test, and she didn't flinch a bit. It's gotta be weird to have a part of your skin that you just can't feel. Oh, oh! I get to trot this one out again: I worked at a restaurant with a man who was ejected from a vehicle and slid to a stop on his hands/wrists. Totally numb hands while maintaining normal dexterity. I thought he was bullshitting about the lack of feeling until I saw him casually lay down some food into a fryer and drag his fingernails through the 375° grease. He wasn't allowed on the line after that.
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my buddy worked with a guy that heard if your hand is wet, you can dip it in a fryer unscathed. so the guy tried it at work. when he was able to return, the guy found that his new nickname was "Einstein".
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I guess you can do it with lead if the conditions are perfect. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leidenfrost_effect The water turns into a protective layer of steam. Seeing as I recently burned the poo poo out of my hand by steam when making a cup of tea, I'm not about to put my trust into that.
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Oct 15, 2019 20:16
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Uthor posted:I guess you can do it with lead if the conditions are perfect.
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Hugh Malone posted:my buddy worked with a guy that heard if your hand is wet, you can dip it in a fryer unscathed. Beautiful! I worked with a guy called Fire Marshall Bill who had a nice trick: clean a fryer and dump a bucket of warm water in it. Get to talking with a new server and "slip" into the water. Never the same reaction twice!
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Uthor posted:I guess you can do it with lead if the conditions are perfect. Ddi you know you can gargle liquid nitrogen? It's safe, as long as you remember to spit it out. Don't swallow it. Bad things happened to someone who did.
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Shut up Meg posted:Ddi you know you can gargle liquid nitrogen? You can swallow it as long as it is not too much. Friend of mine swallowed a bit and was burping all night. Another friend swallowed too much and spent a couple of days in the hospital with an almost ruptured stomach. Liquid nitrogen gets a lot bigger when it returns to the gas state.
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