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Who wants to take bets on the construction company being run by the mob and using sandy concrete or something?
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spankmeister posted:Who wants to take bets on the construction company being run by the mob and using sandy concrete or something? The bridge is almost 60 years old. poo poo like this is gonna happen. Remember that the next time you're on a bridge.
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Aug 14, 2018 17:23
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Up to 35 now.
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Aug 14, 2018 17:24
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schmug posted:The bridge is almost 60 years old. poo poo like this is gonna happen. Remember that the next time you're on a bridge. I'll worry about that in a country that has a poor track record of maintaining infrastructure. Like Italy, or the US.
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Aug 14, 2018 17:26
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spankmeister posted:I'll worry about that in a country that has a poor track record of maintaining infrastructure. Like Italy, or the US. yeah those drat Italians need to get with the picture. 
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Aug 14, 2018 17:38
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schmug posted:yeah those drat Italians need to get with the picture. You know the ones that are left are just the ones that didn't collapse right?
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Aug 14, 2018 17:41
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spankmeister posted:You know the ones that are left are just the ones that didn't collapse right? 
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Aug 14, 2018 17:44
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Look, the mob is a professional outfit and would never cut corners to the extent that the bridge collapses after only 60 years. They're good for 62, 63 at least.
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Aug 14, 2018 17:49
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spankmeister posted:You know the ones that are left are just the ones that didn't collapse right? Yet
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Preoptopus posted:A version of this poo poo happened for real in this long but amazing article about the open sea recovery of a car transport ship. That article is incredible.
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Aug 14, 2018 18:01
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Mozi posted:Look, the mob is a professional outfit and would never cut corners to the extent that the bridge collapses after only 60 years. Listen, when dealing with the mob you better know a thing or two about life expectancy.
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Aug 14, 2018 18:09
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Zipperelli. posted:I really don't remember a lot of it, but I do remember sliding on the box's right side because we were hit from the left. We were running code with a STEMI alert, and the idiot who hit us just wasn't paying attention. Speeding and careless. poo poo dude thats crazy. I'm always noting how bad of a job we do at strapping patients in. 2-3 belts across the body tops. Nobody ever uses the shoulder straps.
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Aug 14, 2018 18:27
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MillennialVulcan posted:Looks like this video was taken while the collapse was already in progress, but certainly looks like there was lightning in the area. "The collapse is probably due to a structural failure of the bridge." I love when people confuse "synonymous with" and "because of."
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Aug 14, 2018 18:43
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'After many months of investigation by top experts, this panel concludes that the cause of the bridge collapse is that it fell down.'
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Aug 14, 2018 18:48
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Safety is job 2.
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Aug 14, 2018 18:49
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The bridge had problems that were incompatible with standing.
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Aug 14, 2018 18:52
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The boat sank because it became filled with water.
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Aug 14, 2018 18:53
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Phanatic posted:The boat sank because it became filled with water. It lost buoyancy.
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Aug 14, 2018 18:57
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Shifty Nipples posted:It lost buoyancy. its buoyancy was reduced by external hydration
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Aug 14, 2018 19:13
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Back in the 60s Italy built a dam that caused a tsunami to destroy a mountain town. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vajont_Dam
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Aug 14, 2018 19:14
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The bottom fell off.
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C.M. Kruger posted:Back in the 60s Italy built a dam that caused a tsunami to destroy a mountain town. But the dam held, damnit!  Wikipedia posted:The Vajont Dam as seen from the village of Longarone in 2005, showing approximately the top 60–70 metres of concrete. The wall of water that overtopped the dam by 250 metres would have obscured virtually all of the blue sky in this photo.[1] drat! schmug fucked around with this message at 19:33 on Aug 14, 2018 |
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Aug 14, 2018 19:30
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schmug posted:The bridge had problems that were incompatible with standing. An aerially-suspended roadwork was involved in a collapse-inducing incident
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Aug 14, 2018 19:31
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AFewBricksShy posted:That article is incredible. Yes it was!
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C.M. Kruger posted:Back in the 60s Italy built a dam that caused a tsunami to destroy a mountain town. It resulted in an 820 foot tall wave that basically wiped out the valley below. Then investigation was a huge shitshow: Causes and responsibility Immediately after the disaster, the government (which at the time owned the dam), politicians and public authorities insisted on attributing the tragedy to an unexpected and unavoidable natural event.[citation needed] The debate in the newspapers was heavily influenced by politics. The paper l'Unità, the mouthpiece of the Partito Comunista Italiano (PCI), was the first to denounce the actions of the management and government, as it had previously carried a number of articles by Tina Merlin (it) addressing the behaviour of the SADE management in the Vajont project and elsewhere. Indro Montanelli, then the most influential Italian journalist and a vocal anti-communist, attacked l'Unità and denied any human responsibility; l'Unità and the PCI were dubbed "jackals, speculating on pain and on the dead" in many articles by the Domenica del Corriere and a national campaign poster paid for by Democrazia Cristiana (DC). The catastrophe was attributed only to natural causes and "God's will".[13]
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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:It resulted in an 820 foot tall wave that basically wiped out the valley below. Then investigation was a huge shitshow: Man, it really sucks the one or two times a century when it turns out the commies had one right
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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:It resulted in an 820 foot tall wave that basically wiped out the valley below. Then investigation was a huge shitshow: quote:After the initial worldwide reporting, the tragedy became regarded as part of the price of economic growth in the 1950s and 1960s. 
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Aug 14, 2018 19:40
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35 dead in gravity involved bridge collapse
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God hates dams
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Preoptopus posted:A version of this poo poo happened for real in this long but amazing article about the open sea recovery of a car transport ship. Seriously, everyone should read this, it's bonkers.
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Aug 14, 2018 20:01
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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Mr. Apollo posted:¯\_(ツ)_/¯  buddy
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Aug 14, 2018 20:03
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glynnenstein posted:Well, did the earthquakes stop? Only after they started using sheeps bladders.
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Aug 14, 2018 20:12
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Kibayasu posted:The bottom fell off. Not enough recognition for this one 
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^ because it wasn't clever or funny 
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mobby_6kl posted:I've got bad news for you about isotope-sealing bread dough. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreev_Bay_nuclear_accident quote:The repository was constructed in the early 1960s by construction brigade soldiers from central Asian and Caucasian republics. Many did not have professional construction training, and some could not speak the Russian language. quote:The right-hand pool in building #5 started leaking in February 1982. Finding cracks in the metal coating required diving into the pool, which was out of the question due to the gamma radiation levels in the vicinity of the nuclear waste drums reaching 17,000 R/h. An attempt to eliminate the leak was made by pouring in with 20 sacks of flour, thus filling the cracks with dough. However, the leak continued, and the service personnel discovered icing on the right side of the building. The method was clearly ineffective. quote:When building #5's repository was designed, it was assumed that the water would be kept at a constant temperature by heat from the nuclear assemblies suspended under the surface. A separate water heating system was thus deemed unnecessary. But the designers were wrong, the harsh Arctic climate covered the pool's surface with a 20 cm (7.9 in) layer of ice in winter. In order to solve this problem, the ice was melted using steam from the boiler, in blatant violation of radiation safety protocol. This was accomplished in the following manner: a hole was drilled in the ice cover, a pipe was inserted into the hole, and steam was pumped through the pipe under the ice, melting it. Radioactive aerosols spread through the whole building, leaking into the air outside. quote:After the left-hand pool was covered with protective lids, cleanup workers cut windows inside them with torches in order to feed in a capturing device that lifted drums from the bottom. The windows were covered with iron sheets to protect the workers from radiation and prevent them from falling in. During this work, one of the workers, a starshina 1st stage, inadvertently stepped onto an iron sheet covering one of the windows. The sheet failed to support his weight, and they both fell into the pool's radioactive water. As the worker fell, his legs got caught under some nuclear waste drums, and the water splashed onto the others, who also did not have radiation protection equipment.
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C.M. Kruger posted:isotope-sealing bread dough. holy poo poo they lived?
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PittTheElder posted:Seriously, everyone should read this, it's bonkers. It's unrelated to OSHA stuff, but the same writer also wrote this: https://www.wired.com/2009/03/ff-diamonds-2/?currentPage=all He's a really good writer, and apparently both articles were optioned for movies but I can't find anything further so I guess they aren't being made.
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spankmeister posted:You know the ones that are left are just the ones that didn't collapse right? We'll just have to see how much of the poo poo we build today is still around in 2000 years
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That bridge was a piece of poo poo since the beginning. It cost several times more in repairings than if it was demolished right after being built. The problem is it was ALL made in concrete, suspenders cables and all. Not soon after being built it was agreed that it was a wonderful feat of static masturbation, but ultimately concrete suspenders cables are responsible for the huge maintenance costs and ultimately what hosed it over.
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Preoptopus posted:A version of this poo poo happened for real in this long but amazing article about the open sea recovery of a car transport ship.  I would not go aboard that ship, even if it had 4703 new Mazdas on it.
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