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Hot Karl Marx posted:he's also a job creator cause now people have to fix that bridge I remember reading about that when it happened. That bridge had to be removed and replaced, it was not repairable.
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Improbable Lobster posted:Spiders are our friends and are happy to ignore you if you don't try to murder them *not valid in Australia
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ExecuDork posted:That 1-year sentence is lame. I don't normally have an opinion about criminal sentencing, but if he'd straight-up murdered those workers - like, just shot them - the prosecutor would have filed 29 separate charges of murder. Is there some reason the prosecutor in this case didn't file 29 separate charges? The judge gave him the maximum possible sentence for the crime he was actually convicted of. He was found innocent by a jury of the 3 more serious crimes he was charged with that could have seen him spending most or all of the rest of his life in prison.
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Apr 7, 2016 02:28
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Mistle posted:I've seen lines like this that run close to train lines(within the 15' on either side, not literally next to the tracks) and they don't go up and down extremely sharply, which probably explains it. Are the nearby poles the same height? Are they near somewhere that has low-flying aircraft or demands low clearance? Fairly certain that the top level is the only power, and all those glass insulators on the lower level are old-school telegraph lines that used to be all over the place alongside railroad tracks. I think they run something like 70 volts, at fairly low amperage. They'll give you a good tingle, but unless you put them across a pace-maker, unlikely to cause any real harm.
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Apr 12, 2016 06:01
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Mozi posted:Nuclear plants would top the list, I suppose. Chemical plants as well, probably. Pretty sure that most nuclear plants would eventually just go into automatic shutdown, so unless there was some sort of external catastrophe affecting them (like a giant earthquake and tidal wave for example), they would just become giant concrete structures enclosing the reactor vessels. Eventually stuff would decay to the point of radioactive hazard I'm sure, but it should be a really long time given the way they are constructed (speaking only in regards to US design/build plants, not sure about other places that use different types of reactors and construction).
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Apr 21, 2016 21:20
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Platystemon posted:I think the Glen Canyon Dam takes the lion’s share of that, but of course when it fails catastrophically, Hoover will follow. That would take a really long time, since Glen Canyon's spillway's would prevent over-topping except for some really amazing flood levels. In theory the spillways could erode out and collapse, which would then cause the dam to become a giant waterfall. No idea how long it would last after that, but if it lasted long enough to be over-topped because of sediment fill, then there would be no catastrophic wave of water into Lake Mead, because there wouldn't be all that much water in Lake Powell due to the sediment fill, right? It would be a hell of a sight to see though if Glen Canyon did collapse, as the river reclaimed the canyons by carving ridiculous canyons into the sediment in a super-accelerated version of the original erosion process.
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Apr 22, 2016 04:26
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Doctor Bombadil posted:Just found a couple of pictures on my old cellphone: This one is really pretty common in farming country, but they are typically just local farm trucks and stick to the local roads to move that stuff between the field and where the cows are.
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Apr 27, 2016 16:34
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Carbon dioxide posted:So, the newspaper had a piece today about it being the International Day of Occupational Health and Safety. Fire them when they refuse. It's not rocket science.
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Apr 28, 2016 19:39
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Today's safety lesson - you should actually maintain your bicycle periodically, including checking tension on critical fasteners. 
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Apr 28, 2016 23:30
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Crazy Ted posted:What kind of egg? Farm egg? Ostrich egg? Elephant Bird
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May 3, 2016 06:33
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axolotl farmer posted:This is from my workplace. The building is 100 years old, the kitchen sink installation is from the early 90s. The fusebox and stuff was already there when someone decided it was a good idea to cram in stuff for making coffee and heating lunches in the closet/electric room. I could be wrong, but from what I can see in that picture, that's all telecom gear, not a fusebox/electrical.
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May 11, 2016 19:20
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haveblue posted:Alternate solution: Summon giant robot Rescues fish, turns fish loose... fish swims directly back into trap. 
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Jun 12, 2016 00:30
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mostlygray posted:An uncle of a friend of mine blew himself up trying to weld a fitting to an old gas tank to make a pressure tank for an air compressor. He was killed instantly. I think the actual approved method is to fill it with a heavier than air inert gas. The reason rinsing doesn't work is that it doesn't remove the film of gas/fuel on the surface of the tank interior which is enough to cause vapors. It's the air/vapor mix that's explosive as hell.
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Landing a bit off balance, but totally stuck it. 8.7
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Jun 22, 2016 22:03
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His Divine Shadow posted:It's a boaardvark, commonly found down by the sea. 
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Jun 25, 2016 22:14
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zedprime posted:Its a valve handle. He's closing some giant rear end pipe, with what is probably hilarious effects Based on the color and some of the fittings visible... My guess is high pressure gas line. Of course since it's in a strange land where that creature lives, they may use completely different colors for things so who knows.
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Jul 7, 2016 20:36
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Cthulu Carl posted:Most helicopters don't have ejection seats, as far as I know. Don't know why, shooting the pilots up through the spinning rotor seems like an awesome idea!
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Jul 10, 2016 01:40
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Elsa posted:The skinny guy receiving the cutting tools looks like a rookie, and he has his ear plugs in. He also doesn't look very strong, so I doubt he's been there for very long. He's making the effort to use ear pro but that will probably subside if he lasts. The guy at the head doing the actual replacement looks like he is wearing custom fit ear inserts of some kind. Maybe electronic noise cancelling doo-dads, or hell, maybe just hearing aids since his job made him go deaf probably.
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Jul 15, 2016 00:33
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Humphreys posted:Fresh from Facebook! Looks like a fairly typical 'emergency patch' type of thing after the line was cut by a trencher who probably didn't have the lines properly located before digging. Depending on what's in that line, they may dig out a larger pit and do a permanent repair later, or if it's just water or something they'll probably just leave it like that. If it's gas, they'll come back and replace an entire section of line since they'll want to get rid of the whole section that got stressed by the hit, but that becomes a non-emergency repair so it's typically done by scheduled crews instead of the emergency response guys on a small line like that. Of course, this is only true in the area I used to work, who knows wherever this is.
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Jul 21, 2016 22:09
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Sammus posted:I can't be the only one here super impressed by the tensile strength of that wire right? 1/2" utility grade galvanized strand guy wire has a minimum breaking strength of 25,000 lbs.
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It probably says something terrible about me as a person, but I always chuckle when I read the occasional story about someone that was doing this sort of thing making a mistake, or a ledge giving way, and they get to go find out if their religion of choice is real or not.
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Rah! posted:
That one wasn't a gas pipeline explosion per se, rather there was a propene (yes, it's spelled like that - also known as propylene or methyl ethylene) leak into the sewer system. The leaking 4" pipe was shut down approximately 16 minutes before the first explosion (but almost 4 hours after the leak started apparently). In the first hour of the leak, 3.77 tons of propene were lost from the pipe. That particular gas has managed to kill pretty spectacularly before the disaster in Korea too - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Alfaques_disaster quote:The Los Alfaques disaster was a road accident and tanker explosion which occurred on 11 July 1978 in Alcanar, near Tarragona, in Spain. The tanker truck was loaded with 23 tons of highly flammable liquefied propylene. 217 people (including the driver) were killed and 200 more severely burned. The OSHA part is pretty severe: quote:The tank container was manufactured at 13 December 1973 by a workshop from Bilbao,[11] and at that time it did not meet the requirements for carrying flammable liquids, since it lacked emergency pressure release valves. Therefore, the tank had been used to carry other substances, some of which were highly corrosive. Tests on the remnants of the steel tank revealed microscopic stress cracks consistent with corrosion caused by previous loads of improperly overpressurized anhydrous ammonia. Combined with whether the tanker suffered an impact that caused additional structural damage, these factors likely led to the almost instantaneous rupture of the tank when the flames flashed back into the tanker. Even without safety valves, a structurally sound and properly filled tanker should have been able to maintain structural integrity in a fire long enough to at least allow nearby people to escape. The tanker was also severely overloaded, which was apparently common practice. quote:The Tarragona facility lacked either a meter to measure the amount of gas dispensed or an automatic shut-off device to prevent overfilling, and consequently most tanks were consistently overloaded. You probably don't want to do much Google image searching on this one, it's all aftermath photo's and lots of them are of the bodies.
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Mr. Apollo posted:I thought the shrapnel got her? Passengers were saying there was "blood everywhere". Passengers were also saying that the landing was more like a 'crash', but in the video taken inside the aircraft that includes the landing you can't even tell for sure when the flight transitioned to being on the ground except from the noise rapidly dropping as they decelerate. I saw another quote that said one of the other passengers who was tending to the lady 'had blood all over his hands', which is easier to believe than 'everywhere' when a picture of the seat she was in shows pretty much no blood at all inside the plane.
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Messadiah posted:gonna need an explanation for this Flying saucer lost control, clipped the power lines and crashed in front of that car.
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Securing your load is for chumps who don't believe in the power of gravity and believe that something called 'inertia' exists.
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Have a link to the story on this? Seems like the three people walking into that hallway almost had to get run down.
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glynnenstein posted:"Prosecutors said that Johnson became enraged when police told him to turn down his car music in January 2008 and said he would crash into City Hall." Hahaha... quote:WICHITA, Kansas (AP) -- A man has been sentenced to more than 10 years in prison for driving his car through Wichita's City Hall. Marcus Johnson, 33, also was ordered Wednesday to pay $142,000 in restitution. I wonder when our justice system is going to start paying inmates a reasonable wage so they can start paying their restitution orders after we toss them in the pokey for a decade over property damage...
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Quite a bummer if you built a house there betting that it wouldn't happen in your lifetime.Memento posted:Oh and while we're at it, there's an island in Vanuatu with a population of ~10,000 that is considering a total, permanent evacuation. Volcanic ash is killing their crops and poisoning their water supply. The total population of Vanuatu in 2016 was 270,000. 10k is a considerable portion of their population to have to relocate. Looks like a pretty awesome place to retire (well, except for volcano death island).
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Just guessing, but based on the design of the grate, I expect that is an underground utility vault of some sort, not a storm drain.
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Mr. Apollo posted:Ventilation? You are correct. Underground transformers for example, generate a lot of heat, so they can't really stick them in a small space without ventilation. The vault would have some sort of drainage built in. If it was a telecom/cable type vault it would likely have a solid cover, but they aren't waterproof either and in heavy rain would fill with water anyway, so the type of cover doesn't really matter except for keeping people from dropping stupid crap into it like it's a trash can. Based purely upon that picture, that cover is a split cover with hinges on either side (meaning it's designed to allow regular access), whereas a storm drain would have a solid cover that was bolted down with no hinges.
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LostCosmonaut posted:Posted without comment At least a little comment might be nice... like... thickness of... what?
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Memento posted:Anyway, to more contemporary matters, the fissure zone in Hawai'i is moving both northeast and southwest. Fissures 16 and 17 are new in the past ~18 hours, and the steaming zone in the southwest is increasing in output. Best case scenario for the steaming zone is interaction between lava heading north and groundwater, and will only express as steam, but generally if there's superheated steam forcing its way out, magma will follow it up because, like everything else in the physical sciences (electricity, water, etc) magma is above all lazy. I got to listen to my father (who unfortunately is at that age where clear signs of dementia are beginning to be observed) explain at length that the reason the lava keeps showing up in different rifts, is because the island (plate) is moving across a hot-spot which doesn't move. Um... I don't think the plates move that fast dad. I saw that an 18th rift had appeared today, but I can't seem to find it on any official maps, it's just in news reports and on YT videos without maps.
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Platystemon posted:There is a kernel of truth to what your father is saying. Oh I'm perfectly aware of the long term growth of the chain as the plates moved, but that he thinks it's the plate movement causing the eastward march of the rifts in this eruption that shocked me. I guess one of the side effects of a much longer life span than those several generations ago had is that we get to see the effects of old age more. Hell, I'm way over the average lifespan of a human in 1950 myself, let alone my father. Edit: ^^^ That was an expensive drive-by. Why in the world was the Quantas Airbus backed out so far from the gate?
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:That was a Turkish Airlines A321, not Qantas. Ah, thanks. We get neither of them here and I thought it sort of looked like the pictures of Qantas I've seen. Thanks. According to that report, the Turkish A321 had just arrived, but it looks like the ground crew were not in place so they must have been waiting for them to show up to guide them in that last little bit. Just seemed weird that it was so far away from the gate just sitting there.
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May 14, 2018 14:40
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Memento posted:let me know if you're sick of Kilauea posts and I'll cut it out but here's one that people might not have seen. Definitely keep posting stuff, it's really interesting. That's a great shot, I knew it was big, but it's great to see something to scale like that.
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May 21, 2018 06:14
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boner confessor posted:yeah i keep watching this and i'm pretty sure the guy with his hands near the gators mouth is a gator man, notice how he doesn't have any emblems or patches on his shirt sleeves like the cops. he's also not wearing a tool belt He apparently missed the memo where gator's hate sunglasses worn on the top of your head.
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Mistle posted:Any way to artificially speed up the weathering process? Or is it a matter of environmental biology just as much as geological weathering? Step 1 - Turn off the active volcano so it stops adding new layers.
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Jun 8, 2018 06:54
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Ak Gara posted:So can I like, buy up a load of brand new beach front land? My great grandkids will love me for it! By the time your great grandkids inherit it will be 3 miles inland from later flows!
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Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:I've seen that train post before, and it's pretty enlightening, but what's the value in making an illegal immigrant the cause of all of that in his hypothetical? If I remember correctly, that was posted shortly after a train hit a truck stuck on the tracks like that and the driver who left the scene ended up being an illegal. I could be making a connection that doesn't exist though.
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Zil posted:Usually called a straight line wind, downburst or microburst Pretty sure that's just a strong dust devil (that's what we call them in the desert anyway) as there is a pronounced rotation visible at times.
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