DandyLion posted:

FTFY

Kitfox88 posted:

Who the gently caress would grill a donkey?

aniviron posted:

So majestic in flight

Ornamental Dingbat posted:

First time SpaceX Starship has launched twice.

Ornamental Dingbat posted:

Also they updated that status:

BraveUlysses posted:

when u nutt and she keeps truckin

Platystemon posted:

Rapid unplanned safeing

Wasabi the J posted:

Space Kablooey posted:

As long as it's a Ford it should be alright

Sagebrush posted:

don't mind me, just mixing up some loving nazi rocket fuel in a plastic jug in my garage without even wearing goggles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpg4g47ssFY

kinda long so skip around but don't miss his demo around 3:00

Dumb Sex-Parrot posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Rx57jVGfso

chitoryu12 posted:

https://twitter.com/USCPSC/status/1367295610123149315?s=20

ekuNNN posted:

https://twitter.com/archer_rs/status/1367130535852662792

By popular demand posted:

So it's my turn to not get it.

LimaBiker posted:

I sadly haven't been able to track down any pictures from it, but here's a good one from the Netherlands.

The Netherlands is wet. Very wet. You got some soggy ground you walk on, below that a layer of sand, and under the sand you got millions of years old ocean water from before the tens of thousands year old sand layer got deposited there.

This holds true for Amsterdam and surrounding areas too. But that doesn't stop people from building there! So they built a beautiful Central Post Office with a big basement and stuff.


But here's the thing. That million year old ocean water contains ocean creatures and algae. Those things turn into natural gas. And when you put stuff onto that sand layer and drive piles into them, the gas may decide to flow to the surface. Mostly, it doesn't. But in the case of the Amsterdam Post Office, it did.

Not a whole lot, but still. In the lowest point of the basement, a tiny flame was found. Now, there was a bit of a dilemma.
- Random gas flame in the basement, coming from the floor. Kinda sketchy to let burn unattended.
- Put it out, seal off the crack where the flame came out off and hope the gas doesn't find another crack and cause an explosion.

In the end, they decided to just let the flame burn, and as a funny oddity, put a tea kettle on it to show to visitors getting a tour of the building.
Some years later, they did eventually extinguish it. No one exactly knows where the gas now goes to.

Source: http://www.brongas.nl/anekdotes.html

In the polders, the reclamed land that formerly was water, this actually used to be a 'normal' way of getting gas to cook on. Pump up the ocean water with the dissolved gas in it, and capture the gas in a big kind of kettle or gas holder. About 500 farms used to have such a private gas well.

Remulak posted:

I love this guy, purely and unironically.
He isn’t an old-school stuntman that did this over the weekend, he’s an actual no-poo poo-railroad-head that took real falls and damned near got CUT IN HALF. I’ve watched this at least 8 times and the only mat is the one he calls out- he takes the other hits!

ekuNNN posted:

https://twitter.com/archer_rs/status/1367130535852662792

Remulak posted:

I love this guy, purely and unironically.

He isn’t an old-school stuntman that did this over the weekend, he’s an actual no-poo poo-railroad-head that took real falls and damned near got CUT IN HALF. I’ve watched this at least 8 times and the only mat is the one he calls out- he takes the other hits!

I barely remember Archie Bunker, but if this was his day-to-day work then Christ that guy deserved a break instead of a sanctimonious son-in-law.

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The man in this film Is Mr. Glen Roper. He worked on the Union Pacific railroad in many capacities over the years. He had done some stunt work in movies (I don't know which ones) and had also on occasion performed as a professional wrestler as the "Masked Marvel". I met Mr. Roper in Los Angeles when I went to inquire about employment on the U.P. and he was in the personnel office at that time (Oct.1973) and I hired out as a laborer in Maintenance of Way. In 1974 I went into engine service and Mr. Roper was giving the rules classes to us. He had worked in train service for many years. He was very knowledgeable of many aspects of railroading. Those old heads from that generation were a bunch of tough , hard working people. They were an interesting bunch and I was glad to have had the opportunity to learn from them.

Cartoon Man posted:

https://i.imgur.com/5Li3XIK.mp4

Humphreys posted:

And we got in trouble for wearing black soles on the basketball court

Cojawfee posted:

My school had two gyms. One was the gym with the nice floor that you played basketball on, the other was the whatever gym that we played hockey on.

Ornamental Dingbat posted:

First time SpaceX Starship has launched twice.

Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:

Have they said yet if they did something to ignite all the leaking fuel or if it was a spontaneous accident/eventuality?

Monkey Fracas posted:

when will they feel comfortable putting like a dog or pig on one of those SpaceX tests

low key sex master posted:

I think I read it was a methane leak

Dumb Sex-Parrot posted:

This is one of the few youtubes where I've found reading the comments section to be informative:


And welcome to the wonderful world of watching old work safety films!
To help the youtube algorithm inveigle you even further, may I suggest a short film about safely working on electrified rail tracks.

My own idea for how to safely work on electrified rails is don't work on electrified rails holy poo poo!! , but people obviously had other ideas back then.

Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:

Well the part that keeps blowing up isn't designed to have people on it when it lands anyway I don't think, so it would be odd for them to put animals on there just to watch em blow up.