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Eason the Fifth posted:Automobile fuel can't melt American infrastructure not with that attitude
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Jun 12, 2023 16:46
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Pretty suspicious that someone needed all that gasoline in the first place if you ask me
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Jun 12, 2023 16:49
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It's been said before, but if gasoline wasn't grandfathered in to our society at such a fundamental level as it is, general public health codes would preclude the public from interacting with it.
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Jun 12, 2023 16:58
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Electric vehicles also burn, those lithium batteries are pretty nasty. Maybe they burn at a lower rate compared to gas vehicles, but a hypothetical 18 wheeler full of batteries on fire under the highway is also going to melt that bridge.
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Jun 12, 2023 17:10
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Phanatic posted:The bridge is just a few years old, and that whole stretch of 95 has been entirely redone in an enormous project over the past several years. It didn’t fall because it was decrepit, it fell because a guy crashed a truck and set 8500 gallons of gasoline burning underneath it. How is this an example of bad infrastructure? if we consider "trucks are also infrastructure" does a truck crash/fire not count as an infrastructure failure just because they're too frequent to bother counting?
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Jun 12, 2023 17:26
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silentsnack posted:if we consider "trucks are also infrastructure" does a truck crash/fire not count as an infrastructure failure just because they're too frequent to bother counting? Trucks are transportation, which use infrastructure. They are not infrastructure themselves.
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Jun 12, 2023 17:29
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Chemmy posted:Electric vehicles also burn, those lithium batteries are pretty nasty. Maybe they burn at a lower rate compared to gas vehicles, but a hypothetical 18 wheeler full of batteries on fire under the highway is also going to melt that bridge. Anything that packs a lot of energy into a handy portable form from which it can be withdrawn with high power at will is going to have exciting failure modes.
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Jun 12, 2023 17:30
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silentsnack posted:if we consider "trucks are also infrastructure" does a truck crash/fire not count as an infrastructure failure just because they're too frequent to bother counting? People usually use the phrase to describe avoidable failures. Like a bridge that collapses because nobody has maintained it for 40 years or a train that derails because the railroad won't invest in modern signals.
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Jun 12, 2023 17:35
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Bad Munki posted:Well for starters it’s a terrible place to store your tanker fires.
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Jun 12, 2023 17:41
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Deserves an empty quote not least because it’s  and also in the anti-snipe position (post immediately before new page)
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Jun 12, 2023 17:54
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mobby_6kl posted:Vine leak in Villamalea, Spain Holy poo poo that's a lotta Jesus. He must have been gigantic.
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Jun 12, 2023 18:26
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Least headache inducing Maurer ride.Jen heir rick posted:Somebody just needs to go up there and give it a little shove. If the holdup is severe, Skyloops have a mechanism to do a controlled reversal of the chain and lower the train back down to the station, which normally happens after the train comes to a stop on the brakes halfway up the lift hill.
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Jun 12, 2023 18:42
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I put this in a few other food threads, but I kinda feel like it should go here too. https://i.imgur.com/GB3mVwf.mp4 Tetanus flavored ice cream.
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Jun 12, 2023 18:55
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Well they wore gloves, what else do you want???
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Jun 12, 2023 19:00
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Chemmy posted:Electric vehicles also burn, those lithium batteries are pretty nasty. Maybe they burn at a lower rate compared to gas vehicles, but a hypothetical 18 wheeler full of batteries on fire under the highway is also going to melt that bridge. I think we need to burn a real 18 wheeler under a real bridge to see if you are correct.
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Jun 12, 2023 19:16
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Asehujiko posted:Least headache inducing Maurer ride. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVyXf_-O56I This dude has a pov walkthrough of how they got people off millenium force when it got stuck on the hill, not as dicey as like top thrill or the 'push over the top' launch coasters
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Jun 12, 2023 19:18
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I was working at Top Thril Dragster one day and a train we launched got perfectly balanced at the top (420 feet up). A maintenance guy going up and pushing it was exactly what we did to fix it.
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Jun 12, 2023 19:33
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Sounds like all it needs is a tiny remote-controlled rocket engine stuck on the back
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Jun 12, 2023 19:47
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Bad Munki posted:Well for starters it’s a terrible place to store your tanker fires. Seems to me like a missed opportunity for that to have been a nuclear-powered train.
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Jun 12, 2023 19:50
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https://i.imgur.com/r936dum.mp4
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Jun 12, 2023 20:45
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Zero One posted:I was working at Top Thril Dragster one day and a train we launched got perfectly balanced at the top (420 feet up). Nice. Spent like 20 minutes stuck on a stand up ride at Six Flags. I thought standing there with a bar pressing between my legs sucked, but being upside down would have been worse.
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Jun 12, 2023 20:46
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DelphiAegis posted:It's been said before, but if gasoline wasn't grandfathered in to our society at such a fundamental level as it is, general public health codes would preclude the public from interacting with it. There was a time when I found this line of argument persuasive, but today I must disagree. There was a time when people said that we’d never allow autonomous vehicles on the roadway, because even if they were safe there’s just too much liability, but well, gestures
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Jun 12, 2023 20:55
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https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_rw5gdpsOYM1r0uzl6.mp4 https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_rw3jecRvF31r0uzl6.mp4 I hope this guy has good workboots  https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_rw34vjC5Pf1r0uzl6.mp4
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Jun 12, 2023 21:45
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Lobsterboy posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVyXf_-O56I That's a bit of a different situation, Millenium Force has track-mounted anti-rollback systems(as do most coasters) rather than gearbox ones so it can't reverse the Here's a video that shows the backwards lift pretty well. Zero One posted:I was working at Top Thril Dragster one day and a train we launched got perfectly balanced at the top (420 feet up). Nu-Dragster might be getting one too after it's reconstruction.
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Jun 12, 2023 21:46
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What a cool steering wheel! Borat voice KNOT!
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Jun 12, 2023 21:49
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Not going to lie, the juxtaposition of this thread’s opinions about autonomous vehicles:Platystemon posted:There was a time when people said that we’d never allow autonomous vehicles on the roadway, because even if they were safe there’s just too much liability, but well, And the examples of how human beings drive vehicles: ekuNNN posted:https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_rw5gdpsOYM1r0uzl6.mp4 Continues to delight me.
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Jun 12, 2023 22:03
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ekuNNN posted:
Looks like that machine has the industrial equivalent of the beer shits. Once you break the seal you better run for it.
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Jun 12, 2023 22:10
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Cartoon Man posted:I put this in a few other food threads, but I kinda feel like it should go here too. Music has a fun beat though
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Jun 12, 2023 22:55
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I need to know how much this cost
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Jun 12, 2023 23:21
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Unperson_47 posted:I need to know how much this cost Probably like $1000. When you get into really expensive cameras (even like a handheld DSLR) you get basically sacrificial lenses to put on the front that don't actually do anything, they just block impacts from hitting the actual expensive poo poo. There's no way you would set up a camera in the line of fire like that without a guard to cover it. Delay the game five minutes, unscrew the front, screw a new front on, write off the old piece for your taxes.
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Jun 12, 2023 23:24
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Cartoon Man posted:I put this in a few other food threads, but I kinda feel like it should go here too. Did they use.. dough?.. as a gasket?
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Jun 12, 2023 23:58
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Entropic posted:"Did they use.. dough?.. as a gasket?" - Ferrucio Lamborghini while servicing his Ferrari, late 1950s
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Jun 13, 2023 00:10
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Entropic posted:Did they use.. dough?.. as a gasket? If that's what you have, and it works, why not?
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Jun 13, 2023 00:16
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I feel like I really don't get the Tetanus Cream Roller. It seems like a super elaborate way of getting yourself sick when you could have made the same thing and not made yourself sick in some simpler way.
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Jun 13, 2023 00:26
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so have you heard of indian street food before
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Jun 13, 2023 00:39
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Maybe the rust imparts a certain something to the flavor profile.
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Jun 13, 2023 00:49
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Entropic posted:Did they use.. dough?.. as a gasket? redgubbinz posted:- Ferrucio Lamborghini while servicing his Ferrari, late 1950s lmao
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Jun 13, 2023 00:58
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Entropic posted:Did they use.. dough?.. as a gasket? Hey If it works it works, coopers have been using dough probably as long as the trade has existed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wyf0IEQ7ZD4
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redgubbinz posted:- Ferrucio Lamborghini while servicing his Ferrari, late 1950s I totally read this in the voice of a Tamarian.
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