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Erghh posted:Another old stand-by, Lost Cosmonauts. 'sup On topic, I find the Lituya Bay Megatsunami page to be cool/unnerving. A 500+ meter wave completely fucks with my sense of scale.
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pookel posted:Dumb question: is "cyclone" just Australian for hurricane, or is it a different kind of storm? (I always thought cyclones were tornadoes, but obviously not, based on this writeup.) It's just the Australian term for a hurricane. (Technically, "cyclone" is a term for any low pressure system, with hurricanes being a type of tropical cyclone.)
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Somewhat but not entirely related is the megatsunami; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uCZjqoRLjc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yN6EgMMrhdI The caption of the picture on wiki for the Vajont Dam is also lovely;  quote: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 (820 ft)[1] and destroyed this village and all nearby villages on 9 October 1963 would have obscured virtually all of the blue sky in this photo.[2] LostCosmonaut has a new favorite as of 00:44 on Aug 10, 2016 |
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I agree, that concept is pretty cool, though it is definitely implausible. Also, Soyuz 1 was a colossal piece of poo poo that should never have flown. Voshkod was terrible too.
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Related; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UN3W4d-5RPo
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JacquelineDempsey posted:
freight train (warning: video is a first person perspective of a tornado hitting, I think somebody died in the house it was filmed from) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Szwd-0tatdo&t=100s
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aphid_licker posted:So, all things considered, is diluted across a couple dozen tons of structural steel a decent enough disposal for one of those Cobalt things? We actually have large scale data on that! A bunch of Cobalt-60 got recycled into steel that got used to construct a bunch of buildings in Taiwan, including apartments and schools; https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2477708/ Nobody noticed for about nine years. quote:An extraordinary incident occurred 22 years ago in Taiwan. Recycled steel, accidentally contaminated with discarded cobalt-60 sources (T1/2 = 5.3 y), was formed into construction steel for more than 180 buildings containing about 1700 apartments, and also public and private schools and small businesses, in Taipei City and nearby counties. About ten thousand people occupied these buildings for 9 to 22 years. While this construction occurred during 1982–84, most of the buildings were completed in 1983.[1, 2] In this preliminary assessment, we consider 1983 to be the first year of the incident. The radioactive state of the buildings was gradually discovered, beginning on July 31, 1992. The results were less bad than what most would expect; quote:Approximately 10,000 people occupied these buildings and received an average radiation dose of 0.4 Sv, unknowingly, during a 9–20 year period. They did not suffer a higher incidence of cancer mortality, as the LNT theory would predict. On the contrary, the incidence of cancer deaths in this population was greatly reduced—to about 3 per cent of the incidence of spontaneous cancer death in the general Taiwan public. In addition, the incidence of congenital malformations was also reduced—to about 7 per cent of the incidence in the general public.
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