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Cartoon Man
Jan 31, 2004


https://i.imgur.com/pSrLMVP.gifv

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jetz0r
May 10, 2003

Tomorrow, our nation will sit on the throne of the world. This is not a figment of the imagination, but a fact. Tomorrow we will lead the world, Allah willing.



redgubbinz posted:

Some free range organic locally sourced truckfuckling sort of near me:



that must have made a noise
Oh cool, that's gonna be the next rental lift I have to use at work.

DoombatINC
Apr 20, 2003

Here's the thing, I'm a feminist.






The Real Excavators The T-Shirts Are Talking About Expo 2021

Deteriorata
Feb 6, 2005


The smell of concrete in the air induces a feeding frenzy.

Jusupov
May 24, 2007
only text

zedprime posted:

Robots belong in cages!

Fake edit: robotic overlords please don't misunderstand me. In 2021 we kept robots in cages to keep the humans out, not the robots in. Please do not send me to robot gulag.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaGuGxrTCqg&t=82s

If you cage your robots that are in the corner of your crowded shop how will you change tools for them?

Uthor
Jul 9, 2006

Gummy Bear Heaven ... It's where I go when the world is too mean.
:nws: train coupling.

https://twitter.com/MachinePix/status/1382417296405233675?s=20

Suspect A
Jan 1, 2015

Nap Ghost
why'd they put the bridge back at the end though??

Groda
Mar 17, 2005

Hair Elf

Genocide Tendency
Dec 24, 2009

I get mental health care from the medical equivalent of Skillcraft.


mobby_6kl posted:

Still, he had a pretty bad time

:hmmyes:

Cartoon Man posted:

https://i.imgur.com/BI0pUnW.mp4

Go ahead and try truck fuckling with me if you dare.

You know those vine/tiktok videos where someone wakes up their passenger while tailing a semi cab being towed backwards..

The Real Amethyst
Apr 20, 2018

When no one was looking, Serval took forty Japari buns. She took 40 buns. That's as many as four tens. And that's terrible.
A Seacor Power liftboat has capsized off the coast of Louisianna in bad weather. 1 dead and 12 missing.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/04/14/seacor-power-louisiana-capsized-storm/



Before image (left rig)

Elviscat
Jan 1, 2008

Well don't you know I'm caught in a trap?


These also have "DO NOT HUMP" stenciled all over them, and it always makes me giggle every time I drive by them.

Wrr
Aug 8, 2010


The Real Amethyst posted:

A Seacor Power liftboat has capsized off the coast of Louisianna in bad weather. 1 dead and 12 missing.

Wait, what exactly capsized? The entire left rig?

Phanatic
Mar 13, 2007

Please don't forget that I am an extremely racist idiot who also has terrible opinions about the Culture series.

Wrr posted:

Wait, what exactly capsized? The entire left rig?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liftboat

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal
:barf:



(Plumber fed compressed air into the wrong pipe and forcibly backflowed sewage throughout the building)

TotalLossBrain
Oct 20, 2010

Hier graben!

spent fuel cask?

LifeSunDeath
Jan 4, 2007

still gay rights and smoke weed every day

The Real Amethyst posted:

A Seacor Power liftboat has capsized off the coast of Louisianna in bad weather. 1 dead and 12 missing.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/04/14/seacor-power-louisiana-capsized-storm/



Before image (left rig)


The ocean, was a mistake

EasilyConfused
Nov 21, 2009


one strong toad

TotalLossBrain posted:

spent fuel cask?

New popemobile design actually.

Pigsfeet on Rye
Oct 22, 2008

I'm meat on the hoof

EasilyConfused posted:

New popemobile design actually.

The Pope of Yucca Mountain

mom and dad fight a lot
Sep 21, 2006
Probation
Can't post for 26 days!

That rigger lost track of time.

Cartoon Man
Jan 31, 2004


LifeSunDeath posted:

The ocean, was a mistake

Agreed

https://i.imgur.com/tYk9pEi.gifv

I could never live and work on one of these...

ShortyMR.CAT
Sep 25, 2008

:blastu::dogcited:
Lipstick Apathy
For the longest i thought oil rigs were stationary structures built ontop of oil deposits. Color me surprised when i found out that they are floating structures and moved by tuggy boats to oil deposits.

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

Some are fixed and others float. There are a lot of different kinds.

Elviscat
Jan 1, 2008

Well don't you know I'm caught in a trap?

TotalLossBrain posted:

spent fuel cask?

Yup.

ShortyMR.CAT
Sep 25, 2008

:blastu::dogcited:
Lipstick Apathy

Sagebrush posted:

Some are fixed and others float. There are a lot of different kinds.



Another surprise! 31 years on this earth and im still getting surprised by oil rigs.

Serephina
Nov 8, 2005

恐竜戦隊
ジュウレンジャー
I will never grasp how those things can stay even remotely in place enough for even the most flexible drill lines to work. When I see the designs they all look like they'd cheerfully float a km off to the side.

XTimmy
Nov 28, 2007
I am Jacks self hatred

Sagebrush posted:

Some are fixed and others float. There are a lot of different kinds.



Fascinating, so how do they compensate for the platform moving relative to the drill site on everything right of the compliant tower? After they struck oil is all good, it's a pipe, but during drilling?

EasilyConfused
Nov 21, 2009


one strong toad
I wonder how an oil rig got named complaint tower

Azhais
Feb 5, 2007
Switchblade Switcharoo

EasilyConfused posted:

I wonder how an oil rig got named complaint tower

it's actually "Compliant tower" if Google is to be believed, but Complaint is definitely better

Cartoon Man
Jan 31, 2004


https://i.imgur.com/jEKQJSt.mp4
Gonna take my horse to the old town road

Deteriorata
Feb 6, 2005

EasilyConfused posted:

I wonder how an oil rig got named complaint tower

A typing fialure.

DelphiAegis
Jun 21, 2010
https://i.imgur.com/cgcJbYc.mp4
I'm glad it shows it landing safely but holy gently caress I bet the pilot's rear end took a bite out of the seat for that one.

Blue On Blue
Nov 14, 2012

ShortyMR.CAT posted:

For the longest i thought oil rigs were stationary structures built ontop of oil deposits. Color me surprised when i found out that they are floating structures and moved by tuggy boats to oil deposits.

Same


ShortyMR.CAT posted:

Another surprise! 31 years on this earth and im still getting surprised by oil rigs.

Also same

Next someone will tell me that high-rise cranes don't just magically appear one day and disappear once the job is finished

Subjunctive
Sep 12, 2006

✨sparkle and shine✨

Blue On Blue posted:

Next someone will tell me that high-rise cranes don't just magically appear one day and disappear once the job is finished

There’s no magic about it. They’re grown from crystals overnight, and then dissolved with a special acid when they’re all done.

Azhais
Feb 5, 2007
Switchblade Switcharoo

Subjunctive posted:

There’s no magic about it. They’re grown from crystals overnight, and then dissolved with a special acid when they’re all done.

Ah, Tok'ra technology

ShortyMR.CAT
Sep 25, 2008

:blastu::dogcited:
Lipstick Apathy
I was actually confused for the longest how highrise cranes got places too lol

Im a very naive man

Cthulu Carl
Apr 16, 2006

ShortyMR.CAT posted:

I was actually confused for the longest how highrise cranes got places too lol

Im a very naive man

Spores.

Like the cordyceps, it has to get up high to release its spores to the winds.

The greatest advancement in skyscraper technology was not steel or other material science, but the domestication of crane fungus.

Vindolanda
Feb 13, 2012

It's just like him too, y'know?

Cthulu Carl posted:

Spores.

Like the cordyceps, it has to get up high to release its spores to the winds.

The greatest advancement in skyscraper technology was not steel or other material science, but the domestication of crane fungus.

All done by fungus-farming Crane Ants.


Crants

KoRMaK
Jul 31, 2012



Cartoon Man
Jan 31, 2004


https://i.imgur.com/IxVNYr5.gifv

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ShortyMR.CAT
Sep 25, 2008

:blastu::dogcited:
Lipstick Apathy

Cthulu Carl posted:

Spores.

Like the cordyceps, it has to get up high to release its spores to the winds.

The greatest advancement in skyscraper technology was not steel or other material science, but the domestication of crane fungus.

Makes sense now

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