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ilmucche posted:I hate videos like this. Ahhhhhhhh
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Videos like that gently caress with me so hard sweet gently caress 
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Gomez Chamberlain posted:Videos like that gently caress with me so hard sweet gently caress Part of it's that the camera's mounted at a spot that, if it were your actual eyeball mounted in your head, it would put your head far enough in front of your feet that your body would naturally start to keel over. While watching the video, your limbic system is screaming "You're going to fall! You're going to fall!"
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Jun 18, 2023 07:06
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lol right at the end Wait I thought this was the Burj-FUCKKKK
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Jun 18, 2023 07:32
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Sagebrush posted:what argument could they possibly be making for this?? state level republicans hate cities for being generally blueish and non-horrible so this was a very sweeping bill trying to strip a lot of their local governance powers it didn't afaik specifically have a "also we would like to kill construction workers" stipulation, that's just a happy accident for the gop
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Phanatic posted:Bringing ekranoplans back! there's a moderate amount of use of basically-ekranoplans these days actually, plus a couple
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 Edit: Found some more coverage. One guy suffered broken ribs when he fell through another roof. No other injuries according to this source. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGRWsJHVKe4 quote:A video filmed in #China’s #Hubei province shows several people holding onto pillars of a restaurant tent on June 11 to protect it from powerful #winds, but despite their efforts the structure and one person were swept away. #Insidechina #CGTNAmerica Cable Guy fucked around with this message at 08:43 on Jun 18, 2023 |
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Jun 18, 2023 08:36
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So that man just disappeared huh. Wow. Hmm
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Propaganda Hour posted:So that man just disappeared huh. Wow. Hmm https://i.imgur.com/xQZiNbc.mp4
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Propaganda Hour posted:So that man just disappeared huh. Wow. Hmm
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I’m not a wind expert or anything, but wouldn’t it be better to just lay flat on the ground?
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Kith posted:a shameful snipe, redeemed I'm the mysterious "MTV" fuse.
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Are you a member of the Union too?
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RatHat posted:I’m not a wind expert or anything, but wouldn’t it be better to just lay flat on the ground? They were trying to hold the roof in place, it seems. But physics had other plans.
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RatHat posted:I’m not a wind expert or anything, but wouldn’t it be better to just lay flat on the ground? They figured that using their bodies to add maybe 10% more weight to the structure would save it. It was dumb as hell but I’m glad there weren’t more injuries
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RatHat posted:So how does he get down? He just has to find the eagle nest.
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Harry_Potato posted:Dude needs some proper footwear if he wants to log OSHA style. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29iC6RlbL7s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcjgrB9vTec Duct Tape Engineer fucked around with this message at 13:32 on Jun 18, 2023 |
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iroc.dis posted:Question for the random goon who works in the wind turbine industry. Do these things have any kind of fire suppression system in them? Considering their usual location in the middle of nowhere, running water out to them would be a bitch. But maybe some sort of waterless system using gas suppressants? On the other hand, maybe fires just aren't that much of a problem. I dunno. I'm not a wind turbinologist, but I looked at some stats and there are about 4-5 fires per year in Germany that I could find. Surprising, actually, because of the energies involved. There doesn't seem to be anything special in terms of fire suppression equipment in them. They do let them just burn because trying to fight a fire in the nacelle is basically impossible anyway. So all the fires I could find totalled the turbine.
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McGavin posted:Are you a member of the Union too? United Nude Local 142, here.
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Antigravitas posted:I'm not a wind turbinologist, but I looked at some stats and there are about 4-5 fires per year in Germany that I could find. There was a fairly high profile accident where mechanics were in one, a fire started between them and the ladder, and they died. The solution they came up with to avoid that happening again was an amateur's rappelling set up instead of fire suppression. Which, you need multiple egress points for fire safety anyway.
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Drink driving in Brisbane has it's unique challenges:
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Nenonen posted:This sounds absolutely nuts - apparently there was a "European sex championships" event in Sweden organized by "Swedish Sex Federation". Sex workers across the continent were invited to participate. Despite the claims that it would make sex into a sport, it really was more of a Big Brother type reality show where viewers voted for their favourite contestants. In the end none of it worked and the organizer didn't even pay the participnts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqxxJe5mQeM
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Humphreys posted:Drink driving in Brisbane has it's unique challenges: Looking at this is giving me a headache.
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it looks like the after shot of a big earthquake
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zedprime posted:I forget the reasoning but there's something specific. Maybe that there's no suppression tech that would be human compatible while putting out the fires of that magnitude? My guess is that there’s no good way to fight the fire while the turbine is still bringing energy into the system, and no good way to make it immediately stop when an emergency is detected, so you may as well save a few bucks and put those toward rebuilding it later
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zedprime posted:I forget the reasoning but there's something specific. Maybe that there's no suppression tech that would be human compatible while putting out the fires of that magnitude? It's probably that a wind turbine fire is unlikely to spread and cause damage to things other than the wind turbine, and the cost of including a fire-suppression system in every turbine being greater than the cost of the occasional wind turbine loss to fire.
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Humphreys posted:Drink driving in Brisbane has it's unique challenges: this is what robotrippin' feels like (I'm guessing).
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Kit Walker posted:They figured that using their bodies to add maybe 10% more weight to the structure would save it. It was dumb as hell but I’m glad there weren’t more injuries I've watched a canopy fling a 4000lb krail like a sling shot into a harbor before. If you've got high winds and a canopy you need to just bail. Edit: Also there were no other weights on that thing, so their bodies probably doubled the mass. CainFortea fucked around with this message at 15:34 on Jun 18, 2023 |
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wind turbine fires should be easy to deal with. just use the big fan to blow it out
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Luneshot posted:wind turbine fires should be easy to deal with. just use the big fan to blow it out they should use one of these to blow it out 
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LifeSunDeath posted:they should use one of these to blow it out BattleTanx reboot looking good
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LifeSunDeath posted:they should use one of these to blow it out These are cool and all, but they’re available too late in the tech tree and are only really effective against ground units. I always went with the Mammoth Tanks inspite of the longer construction time.
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zedprime posted:I forget the reasoning but there's something specific. Maybe that there's no suppression tech that would be human compatible while putting out the fires of that magnitude? Tom Scott has a video on one of those emergency rappel systems. Realistically, nobody will be close to the turbine when it catches fire. They run remote controlled and if they run into issues, they shut down and page engineers. If something goes wrong beyond what an automated shutdown can handle, the forces involved will discourage anyone from coming close. Anyway, I took this picture a few years ago. Wind turbines are rad as gently caress. 
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haveblue posted:Can’t wait until someone passes out while operating heavy machinery and costs 100x as much in damages as a water break would have insurance pays for that, not lost productivity from water breaks though
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as someone who just took basic sailing lessons the relationship between large surface areas of light materials and the wind is pretty drat respectable!!
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I just went kayaking on a small lake yesterday and if the wind's blowing and you sit still even your body is enough area to start pushing you around on the water.
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Antigravitas posted:Tom Scott has a video on one of those emergency rappel systems.
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