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priznat posted:My fav Nurburgring video is the one where ex F1 driver Riccardo Patrese takes his wife on a hot lap and she freaks out while he just drives calmly with a little smile. Man there's lots of videos like this and they always creep me out "Heh, women can't handle car like calm, rational man  "
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Necrosaro posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STg0zMPnXFs "luckily, no one was injured" gently caress me that's insanely lucky Also, how's this for a great idea, we put metal bars on the inside of the concrete so it doesn't just collapse like that. We could call it "reinforcement bar", not sure if you could make a shorter word out of it.
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gently caress SNEEP posted:Man there's lots of videos like this and they always creep me out Annoying one's spouse is a time honored pastime, nerd.
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gently caress SNEEP posted:Man there's lots of videos like this and they always creep me out Naw I guarantee you any non pro car racing dude would be crapping their pants when driven around the ‘ring by a pro. They’d just hide the reaction because it wasn’t their husband messing with them (and to look more macho)
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gently caress SNEEP posted:Man there's lots of videos like this and they always creep me out lol I read that more as the driver having icewater in his veins, with a side of intentionally freaking out his spouse, which is just good old-fashioned fun
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Necrosaro posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STg0zMPnXFs It took a proactive approach to limiting height.
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Good day to be a replacement hip salesman.
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Azathoth posted:lol I read that more as the driver having icewater in his veins, with a side of intentionally freaking out his spouse, which is just good old-fashioned fun Plus at the end of the video she spots the camera and immediately starts laughing her rear end off, so ya, all in good fun. edit: But that video is definitely not from the Nurburgring. stratdax fucked around with this message at 02:48 on Nov 12, 2020 |
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mobby_6kl posted:My favorite are the crash videos from the 60s and 70s, now that's some proper OSHA stuff with none of this crumple zone and seatbelt rubbish So many ejections and half-ejections  Although this one is just funny:  vintage osha violations: https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_qc7z7uYH6t1sgr76q.mp4
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ekuNNN posted:vintage osha violations: I've seen so many pictures of people on skyscrapers-in-construction without ropes from back in the day, how often did people actually fall off and get splattered? These guys almost make the people jumping around on rooftops and ledges look like nothing
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Yellow Yoshi posted:I've seen so many pictures of people on skyscrapers-in-construction without ropes from back in the day, how often did people actually fall off and get splattered? These guys almost make the people jumping around on rooftops and ledges look like nothing How about an example from the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge? wikipedia posted:Strauss remained head of the project, overseeing day-to-day construction and making some groundbreaking contributions. A graduate of the University of Cincinnati, he placed a brick from his alma mater's demolished McMicken Hall in the south anchorage before the concrete was poured. He innovated the use of movable safety netting beneath the construction site, which saved the lives of many otherwise-unprotected ironworkers. Of eleven men killed from falls during construction, ten were killed on February 17, 1937, when the bridge was near completion and the net failed under the stress of a scaffold that had fallen.[34] The workers' platform that was attached to a rolling hanger on a track collapsed when the bolts that were connected to the track were too small and the amount of weight was too great to bear. The platform fell into the safety net, but was too heavy and the net gave way. Two out of the twelve workers survived the 200-foot (61 m) fall into the icy waters, including the 37-year-old foreman, Slim Lambert. Nineteen others who were saved by the net over the course of construction became members of the Half Way to Hell Club.[35]
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Yellow Yoshi posted:I've seen so many pictures of people on skyscrapers-in-construction without ropes from back in the day, how often did people actually fall off and get splattered? These guys almost make the people jumping around on rooftops and ledges look like nothing Not as often as you'd think given how just suicidally reckless it looks, but still, y'know, a lot. It is still within living memory that any massive construction project was just sorta expected to have a body count. Folks dying on the job was just sorta like how we treat people dying in a car accident today. Everyone just kinda shrugs their shoulders, says how much it sucks, while thinking it's just something that happens sometimes.
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everydayfalls posted:https://i.imgur.com/0K5BvgS.mp4 thats a slagball, slag has been a byproduct of smelting since the bronze age, that collection area is just their slagheap e: (sorry, copper age) BasicLich fucked around with this message at 04:04 on Nov 12, 2020 |
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Yellow Yoshi posted:I've seen so many pictures of people on skyscrapers-in-construction without ropes from back in the day, how often did people actually fall off and get splattered? These guys almost make the people jumping around on rooftops and ledges look like nothing according to a random redditor, about one death per story
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Oh, he was dead when they poured the concrete in. Mob needed a favour.
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No one died building the Chrysler Building.
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LordSaturn posted:imagine being the guy that dies on the first story on the hoover dam? that's basically everyone it's just a slurry
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everydayfalls posted:https://i.imgur.com/0K5BvgS.mp4 Anyone else hear the Terminator theme? Ak Gara fucked around with this message at 16:09 on Nov 12, 2020 |
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Ak Gara posted:Anyone else here the Terminator theme? Well I'm certainly not
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CommieGIR posted:Combine harvester demolition derby. Combine Demolition Derbies got added to Wreckfest a while back as a free addition https://store.steampowered.com/app/228380/Wreckfest/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrkdtJzLv2s&t=126s the fart question posted:omg my 4 yr old will love this Well worth a buy.
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CommieGIR posted:Combine harvester demolition derby. I'm "hot karl's haus of horsepower" loving hot karl gets around
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priznat posted:My fav Nurburgring video is the one where ex F1 driver Riccardo Patrese takes his wife on a hot lap and she freaks out while he just drives calmly with a little smile. That's my parents on a sunday drive, except mums Irish and Stepdad was a rally driver back in Italy during the 80s.
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The German woman who is sometimes on Top Gear has redressed the gender balance a bit at least. I've seen her terrify men by careening round the 'Ring in high powered cars, and more hilariously, Transit vans and the like
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Kitfox88 posted:Accidents in racing always make me think of the 1977 South African Grand Prix where a track attendant carrying a fire extinguisher got hit by another driver, was mangled so bad they only figured out who he was after the fact by seeing who was missing, and the driver who hit him got killed by the extinguisher slamming into his head. Roger Williamson's death was pretty hosed up too. I remember seeing a video of it one time years ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Williamson On his eighth lap, a suspected tyre failure caused his car to flip upside down and catch fire. Williamson had not been seriously injured by the impact, but was trapped under the car which was swiftly engulfed in flame. The track marshals were both poorly trained and badly equipped, and did not assist him. Another driver, David Purley, upon witnessing the crash of his friend, abandoned his own race and pulled over in a desperate and valiant attempt to rescue Williamson. He ran across the track to Williamson's car and tried to turn it upright, before grabbing a fire extinguisher from a marshal and returning to the engulfed car. He emptied it on the car and signalled for others to help. Purley's efforts to turn the car upright and extinguish the flames were in vain, and the marshals were unable to handle the vehicle without flame retardant overalls. Purley later stated he could hear Williamson's screams from underneath the car, but by the time the first fire engine arrived and the fire was extinguished, Williamson had died of asphyxiation. As most racers mistakenly identified Purley as the driver of the crashed car, and therefore thought the burning car to be empty, none of them stopped to help and the race continued, even as Purley stood on the circuit and gestured with his hands for them to stop
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There's a bit in Terkel's oral history of the great depression (Hard Times) about country and city boys getting into tussles on construction sites and shoving one another into the concrete on a dam project and that they'd leave the bodies in there. He purposely didn't fact check the stories since his goal was just to collect as large and diverse a sample of them as possible so it may be made up.
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aphid_licker posted:There's a bit in Terkel's oral history of the great depression (Hard Times) about country and city boys getting into tussles on construction sites and shoving one another into the concrete on a dam project and that they'd leave the bodies in there. He purposely didn't fact check the stories since his goal was just to collect as large and diverse a sample of them as possible so it may be made up. Very apocryphal. If they left a dead body in the concrete, it'd eventually rot and leave a void which would likely cause the dam to collapse. They probably got horrible concrete burns and died later or something, but they didn't leave them in there.
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aphid_licker posted:There's a bit in Terkel's oral history of the great depression (Hard Times) about country and city boys getting into tussles on construction sites and shoving one another into the concrete on a dam project and that they'd leave the bodies in there. He purposely didn't fact check the stories since his goal was just to collect as large and diverse a sample of them as possible so it may be made up. At least for the Hoover Dam, they only poured the concrete in lifts a few inches thick, so it would take a long while to bury a body that way. On top of that, concrete's much denser than a human body.
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By popular demand posted:wouldn't a decaying body inside a giant hunk of concrete also lead to noticeable structural faults? Yup, concrete is vibrated when it's poured to ensure there are no big voids as they would provide a big weak spot. It would possibly be detectable with just a hammer tapping on the surface if it were close enough to the exterior. Concrete also has a fuckbunch of rebar that would be pretty tough for a human-sized object to slip through, though with the lax seismic standards back in the day, the bar spacing was probably a bit wider than what we would use now.
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Adolf Glitter posted:The German woman who is sometimes on Top Gear has redressed the gender balance a bit at least. When I moved to Charlotte, I went to the speedway for the tour with my parents. You haven't lived until an old woman careens with 15 souls in her van around the track at nearly 100mph. She's like, "and here's the groove" as the van goes faster and faster. It was amazing!
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Uh, Boeing, what https://twitter.com/GazEtc/status/1326893455243698178
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Pacra posted:Uh, Boeing, what Next in the long line of "Train but worse!" comes "Plane that's tethered to powerlines!"
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Pacra posted:Uh, Boeing, what https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjiK3-wt4oQ
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