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I know The Sun is not often the most reliable but they’re reporting that there could be “thousands dead”. Between earthquakes, hurricanes, and corruption in the government…Haiti is hosed. https://www.the-sun.com/news/3473432/haiti-earthquake-huge-magnitude-7-quake-strikes/  
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But they had all that relief money from Trump to spend! EDIT: seriously this is so hosed up for Haiti, a country still hurting so badly from multiple natural disasters. Now this.
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Aug 14, 2021 15:35
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Ouch, not again! At least the epicenter wasn't as close to Port-au-Prince but in the less populated cape to the west, near the city of Petit Trou de Nippes which is only 2.5% the size of Port-au-Prince. Obviously getting help to tens of thousands of people who have lost their homes, sanitation etc. is difficult but still easy compared to getting the same to over a million people.
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https://twitter.com/LeoFeldmanNEWS/status/1426543177813659649
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other people posted:what is wrong with you most of them suck or are visually annoying 
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Azathoth posted:most of them suck or are visually annoying turn on your monitor 
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Aug 14, 2021 17:11
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Do these diggers just come with the RC version or something?
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Aug 14, 2021 17:13
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I don't think this has been posted yet. Lead pour for boat keel gone wrong: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrTWP-du9Mk&t=1842s Turns out molten lead is hot enough to melt lead. Who knew
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Diggus Bickus posted:I don't think this has been posted yet. Lead pour for boat keel gone wrong: Yeah, I called that one at the very start of the video, when I saw that their wooden frame wasn't a full trough.
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Megillah Gorilla posted:EDIT: seriously this is so hosed up for Haiti, a country still hurting so badly from multiple natural disasters. Now this. Hey, at least there’s a tropical storm bearing down on them! 
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Aug 14, 2021 18:03
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It's like those little birds that pick the meat out of a Crocodile's teeth. A symbiotic relationship...
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Aug 14, 2021 18:48
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MrYenko posted:Hey, at least there’s a tropical storm bearing down on them! I still support Matenwa, the school in Haiti that was a GBS Christmas thing some years ago - they haven't posted any updates yet, but I'll mention it when there is anything. They're up in the hills of Gonave island, so at a guess the earthquake didn't hit them too hard; we'll see how the storm goes.
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The paper mill we work out of in Syracuse has a resident bird population that is maintained by eating the bugs off of the front of trucks. It's good to see that nature is healing.
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Aug 14, 2021 18:53
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Oddly satisfying smoothness
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Aug 14, 2021 19:01
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Ornamental Dingbat posted:The paper mill we work out of in Syracuse has a resident bird population that is maintained by eating the bugs off of the front of trucks. It's good to see that nature is healing. If I were a SciFi author, I'd be tempted to write a short story set far into the future, where we managed to make something like our current lifestyle indefinitely sustainable - and make it all about how nature would eventually adapt. After all, cities and suburbia are massive opportunities for any species that can make use of them; something we're already seeing small sparks of in the animals that are behaviorally and physiologically flexible enough to be able to fit in without notable genetic changes. I'm imagining butterflies that swarm forgotten snacks, moths that can only pupate on road lights, bats that preferably nest under solar cells, insects that have evolved to match common paint or roadsign colors, birds that navigate by the motorway system, how bio-mimicry of lawn grass is incredibly valuable for plants, and so forth - there should be enough in there for a short and silly ten-page story.
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Computer viking posted:If I were a SciFi author, I'd be tempted to write a short story set far into the future, where we managed to make something like our current lifestyle indefinitely sustainable - and make it all about how nature would eventually adapt. After all, cities and suburbia are massive opportunities for any species that can make use of them; something we're already seeing small sparks of in the animals that are behaviorally and physiologically flexible enough to be able to fit in without notable genetic changes. I'm imagining butterflies that swarm forgotten snacks, moths that can only pupate on road lights, bats that preferably nest under solar cells, insects that have evolved to match common paint or roadsign colors, birds that navigate by the motorway system, how bio-mimicry of lawn grass is incredibly valuable for plants, and so forth - there should be enough in there for a short and silly ten-page story. The moment any species figures out how to metabolize plastic it's fuckin over.
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Aug 14, 2021 19:42
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Plebian Parasite posted:The moment any species figures out how to metabolize plastic it's fuckin over. There was a time when nothing on Earth knew how to decompose lignin and trees would just die and fall over, and just sit there forever. Then something figured it out and now trees rot just like anything else. Eventually something will learn to eat plastic, and it might be fuckin over. If all our plastic poo poo just starts rotting, that would suck.
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My driving instructor told us to always look both ways before you cross tracks, and now I don't think I'm ever going to forget to do that.
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Diggus Bickus posted:I don't think this has been posted yet. Lead pour for boat keel gone wrong: molten lead the size of a solid lead.
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Plebian Parasite posted:The moment any species figures out how to metabolize plastic it's fuckin over. Back in 2016, they actually found a bacterium living off plastic in a dump in Osaka. It might actually be a good thing, assuming they can find a way to use it without actually releasing it into the wild.
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Tobermory posted:Back in 2016, they actually found a bacterium living off plastic in a dump in Osaka. It might actually be a good thing, assuming they can find a way to use it without actually releasing it into the wild. Looking forward to the real life version of that scene from Andromeda Strain where all the rubber seals and masks start dissolving around you.
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Cat Hatter posted:Looking forward to the real life version of that scene from Andromeda Strain where all the rubber seals and masks start dissolving around you. Luckily we’ve had bacteria that eat latex rubber polymers for far longer and that hasn’t happened yet!
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Cojawfee posted:There was a time when nothing on Earth knew how to decompose lignin and trees would just die and fall over, and just sit there forever. Then something figured it out and now trees rot just like anything else. Eventually something will learn to eat plastic, and it might be fuckin over. If all our plastic poo poo just starts rotting, that would suck. I mean, it's not like wood is now completely useless as a material. Treat it and protect it appropriately and it'll last for centuries. I don't see why plastic would be any different.
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corgski posted:Luckily we’ve had bacteria that eat latex rubber polymers for far longer and that hasn’t happened yet! Yeah, joking aside, wood rots and stuff still needs a certain amount of neglect before it starts falling apart. I'd expect plastic eating bacteria would still be slower than UV degradation on plastic that just gets left outside.
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Wingnut Ninja posted:I mean, it's not like wood is now completely useless as a material. Treat it and protect it appropriately and it'll last for centuries. I don't see why plastic would be any different. Cat Hatter posted:Yeah, joking aside, wood rots and stuff still needs a certain amount of neglect before it starts falling apart. I'd expect plastic eating bacteria would still be slower than UV degradation on plastic that just gets left outside. And even with decomposition of organic stuff they can survive forever in certain conditions, like in oxygen-poor swamps. Microbes are not omnipotent by any means.  http://www.goldschp.net/SIG/onfim/onfim.html Nenonen fucked around with this message at 22:26 on Aug 14, 2021 |
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things are only doomed when some nano sci nerds makes the gray goo event happens.
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Cartoon Man posted:https://i.imgur.com/B0MomNR.gifv Why didn't they just lower the windspeed 
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Cartoon Man posted:https://i.imgur.com/B0MomNR.gifv What aircraft is this? I find its long thinnyness ~pleasing~
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It’s a DHC-8. I think it’s a Q400, but I’m not very good as differentiating Dash Eights. They’re all equally miserable airplanes.
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MrYenko posted:It’s a DHC-8. I think it’s a Q400, but I’m not very good as differentiating Dash Eights. They’re all equally miserable airplanes. Oh yes I think I flew in one from DEN to Santa Fe or maybe ABQ. Wasn't joyous.
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I liked 'em. They do "short" hops around here, and yeah they're tiny but taking these turboprop planes to smaller terminals was a nice change of pace.
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mom and dad fight a lot posted:I liked 'em. They do "short" hops around here, and yeah they're tiny but taking these turboprop planes to smaller terminals was a nice change of pace. Used to fly in some planes that size before the regional airline that ran them went out of business. I think about half the flights I took in them had some moments where you'd start to nervously glace at other passengers. Best one I can remember is coming back to Missoula from Boise, we got near a large forest fire that was in the area. All of a sudden, the plane just plummeted for a bit after hitting turbulence. Thankfully, everyone was buckled in, as that would have really bounced someone around. Also, the pilot would move be people around the cabin as he eyeballed the weight of passengers.
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That's part of their charm!  The ones I flew in had a weird seat configuration: 2 seats on the left, one on the right. Never really had any excitement. Maybe I'm looking through rose-tinted glasses; they bring back pretty good memories for me.
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Ten year old kid drowned in the wave pool at Six Flags for “several minutes.” They brought him back with CPR, he’s expected to fully recover. https://wtop.com/prince-georges-county/2021/08/boy-in-stable-condition-after-receiving-cpr-at-six-flags-america/
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CitizenKain posted:Used to fly in some planes that size before the regional airline that ran them went out of business. I think about half the flights I took in them had some moments where you'd start to nervously glace at other passengers. Last flight I took before the you-know-what we had a rough landing into Amsterdam. My colleague is a terrible flier at best and was really panicking but I pointed out the stewardesses were still relaxed which means it's just normal turbulence and she chilled out. On the way back into the UK it was even worse. I looked back at the stewardess and she was white-knuckling the jump seat. I kept my mouth shut. No issues but we definitely came in sideways for a while and I deleted my phone history just in case...
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