NihilismNow posted:

We had a pretty OSHA new year in the Netherlands.
Turns out that it's not a good idea to build two 50 meter high wooden towers and set them on fire when the wind is blowing toward a city.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0Lrn_aBfvQ
It made pretty fire tornadoes (and set a bunch of wildfires and burnt a few cars and a house down).

Sagebrush posted:

Does an F-18 lose 7,000fpm in a 245kt glide?

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e. Flame Out/Simulated Flame out/High or Low Key Approaches

These approaches are amazing fun, but complicated. Phraseology wise, they are similar to the overhead break replacing
altitude with something MUCH higher, and the words "break” with “simulated flame out” or “flame out”.

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

Australia has not been having a normal one lately.

Cable Guy posted:

I don't know where the schad [OSHA] is, but it's here somewhere.

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Here's one for ya - two presumably extremely horny people have been caught mid-sex romp in the middle of one of the busiest streets in Melbourne.

That's right, two people have been caught on Melbourne's Bourke St bumping uglies - rather vigorously too - right out of the front of Myer.

Link possibly
https://www.triplem.com.au/story/tw...Jiz7_so39WWunSE

Icon Of Sin posted:

Did their cart explode when it hit the water? That looks like a comically oversized plume that almost reached up to claim the second guy as he rocketed away

Synthbuttrange posted:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-01-16/jason-challis-death-army-inquest-coroner-mount-bundey/10719132

A reconstruction of the shooting incident during Exercise Tigers Run

0:45 huh...oooooooh.

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Exercise Tiger, or Operation Tiger, was the code name for one in a series of large-scale rehearsals for the D-Day invasion of Normandy, which took place in April 1944 on Slapton Sands in Devon. Coordination and communication problems resulted in friendly fire deaths during the exercise, and an Allied convoy positioning itself for the landing was attacked by E-boats of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine, resulting in the deaths of at least 749 American servicemen.[1][2] Because of the impending invasion of Normandy, the incident was under the strictest secrecy at the time and was only nominally reported afterwards

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The first practice assault took place on the morning of 27 April[6][7] and was marred by an incident involving friendly fire. H-hour was set for 07:30, and was to include live ammunition to acclimatize the troops to the sights, sounds and even smells of a naval bombardment. During the landing itself, live rounds were to be fired over the heads of the incoming troops by forces on land, for the same reason. This followed an order made by General Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Supreme Allied Commander, who felt that the men must be hardened by exposure to real battle conditions.[8] The exercise was to include naval bombardment by ships of Force U Bombardment Group fifty minutes prior to the landing.[9]

Several of the landing ships for that morning were delayed, and the officer in charge, American Admiral Don P. Moon, decided to delay H-hour for 60 minutes, until 08:30.[8] Some of the landing craft did not receive word of the change. Landing on the beach at their original scheduled time, the second wave came under fire, suffering an unknown number of casualties. Rumours circulated along the fleet that as many as 450 men were killed

Autistic Edgy Guy posted:

slight OSHA, at least something interesting I encountered on the job site:

Here is a bee nest that scared the living gently caress out of a coworker, when he made the cut that revealed it:

ekuNNN posted:

Thomas, Son of Killdozer!
https://www.facebook.com/libcom.org/posts/10156728794271023

Bad Munki posted:

A friend’s response to that. Possibly I guess? No nudity, just some lewd dancing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eqn_0DQDuqI

Anyhow, seemed thread-appropriate.

Whooping Crabs posted:

That's just the langoliers, chewin up the past as the plane escapes to the future

xarph posted:

Two Ikea tablet stands in an M shape, a desk lamp, a "daylight" bulb from home depot, and my old Olympus E-PM2 with kit zoom lens. The only unusual bit was that after getting halfway through using some picture frame glass that wasn't sufficient to squish down the pages, I went to TAP plastics and had them put a 90 degree bend in an 11x17 sheet of 3/16" plexiglass. That worked great once I got the lamp and CPL filter on the camera arranged to remove reflections.

Postprocessing of the images was done in "Prizmo" for macOS.

If you don't have a decent camera, get a "Reticam" 1/4-20 mount to put a cell phone on a tripod. "Scanbot" is an excellent app if a bit slow for doing hundreds of pages.

Serephina posted:

I'm personally more impressed that he managed to get all that mounted so well on his ceiling.

ekuNNN posted:

A Toxic, Illegal Garbage Dump in Arkansas Has Been on Fire For 7 Straight Months
https://www.sciencealert.com/a-toxic-illegal-garbage-dump-in-arkansas-has-been-on-fire-for-7-straight-months

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Editor's note (8 March 2019): A former version of this article talked about the fire being toxic, which was not correct. The dumping site was also incorrectly described as a 'garbage dump'. The headline and article have been updated.

Boogalo posted:

11 foot 8 aint got poo poo on the 14th street bridge.

https://twitter.com/bosykes/status/1106155572817207296

PathAsc posted:

Lol excellent


Content: the classics never go out of style

Memento posted:

You need the direct link, that should work.

Turbines have systems to angle the blades such that they don't catch as much wind, and also braking systems. They don't always work, but three out of four turbines shown seem fine.

madeintaipei posted:

Is this why Mexican food night turns into the siege of Tenochtitlan next morning?

Cojawfee posted:

It sprays a fresh coat of paint all over the ship just before the Admiral shows up.

evil_bunnY posted:

That's 100% arson

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Stu, who works as a welder at a business next door, told the ABC he had been told an accident involving a forklift sparked the blaze.

"There was a forklift [which] accidentally pierced a drum which then fell, and obviously a steel drum on concrete, created a spark and with the fumes, one can only assume that it ignited," he said.

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In a statement, the Metropolitan Fire Brigade (MFB) said about 30 people were believed to have escaped the building at 16 Thornycroft Street before firefighters arrived.

Memento posted:

I assume when they catch this guy it will be at an airport as he tries to fly to Brazil or something.

Memento posted:

I'll play.

that the fire was deliberately started by the owner or their agent in an attempt to avoid prosecution. Let's not trade bans over it though, I'll put up $25 to the forums and $25 to your charity of choice as my stake.

starkebn posted:

quote:

Police say the SUV was racing away from a nearby intersection after clipping a car and pushing it off the road. That car hit a tree and split in half, critically injuring one person inside. Witnesses say the SUV narrowly missed two gas pumps before slamming into the one in the video.
Amazingly, the two people inside were not seriously hurt. Police arrested one and are investigating whether the driver was drunk or high.

FoxNews posted:

According to KomoNews, the driver of the SUV was a 60-year-old Uber driver who had a 40-year-old female passenger in the car. Witnesses on a nearby bus reported seeing the Xterra speed past them before clipping the Accord, which pushed the Accord off the road where it hit a tree and split in half.

The witnesses added that the SUV then lost control and, while it seemed that the driver was attempting to brake, the Xterra eventually went airborne over a curb, through a parking lot and then into the Shell gas station.

Sagebrush posted:

wah wah wah big baby millionaire baseball men won't even come out on the field when it's raining

Pasco posted:

A failed welding job, followed by a more expensive truckfuckling than usual:

https://twitter.com/SkySportsF1/status/1121714194385076224

https://twitter.com/SkySportsF1/status/1121721151150014465

F1 cars cost around $15 million though this is a Williams shitbox so maybe more like $5 million

Synthbuttrange posted:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-04-29/workers-expose-shocking-conditions-inside-melbourne-factory/11048346

About that factory that blew up in Melbourne.

Memento posted:

... Let's not trade bans over it though, I'll put up $25 to the forums and $25 to your charity of choice as my stake.

Cable Guy posted:

OK... I'll match instead of the ban.
$25 US to forums, plus $25 AU to charity of your choice. My choice if I win would be Lort Smith Animal Shelter

Synthbuttrange posted:

Ornamental Dingbat posted:

https://twitter.com/wurp/status/1148655341485342724?s=19

Tweet bc gently caress mobile imgur

Memento posted:

"The fifth floor in my office building has been supported with jacks for more than 20 years"

Cable Guy posted:

You know what.... I know it wasn't in the terms but I'm bookmarking this and saying I lost my because gently caress those guys.

Memento... name your charity, I'll pay up on Friday when I get paid.

Edit: link

Serephina posted:

I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not. It's clearly a tyre tread. Or is this one of those 'shrimp or small pastries' joke type things?

Synthbuttrange posted:

Now there's two threads with nuts in them.

Sigourney Cheevos posted:

How are you even seeing raised ridges? It's always been super obviously a tire.

- guy who worked in tire warehouse, 2019

Memento posted:

Wow I forgot completely about that. Lort Smith is 100% a super good charity.

guestimate posted:

I see bumps. Do you?

Memento posted:

Wow I forgot completely about that. Lort Smith is 100% a super good charity.

Cable Guy posted:

I'll get on it tomorrow when I get paid.

Sagebrush posted:

In 100 meters there will be a left turn that is 5/5 sharp and be careful not to cut the corner.

auto rally co-drivers constantly read directions like that to the driver, alerting them about upcoming turns and hazards.

Example:

Blindeye posted:

Why not vacuum it (gently with a brush head to not fail the filter)?

Icon Of Sin posted:

Reminds me of the video of how they make steel scuba tanks. There's a lot more fire than I would've expected for a scuba tank, but I don't mind it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzVogfVxXPc

Wingnut Ninja posted:

No no, it flies below the atmosphere.

You mean in a different layer of the atmosphere?

No, it's below it. There's nothing down there.

Nothing?

No. Just a few birds. And buildings, and air molecules.

And?

And about five tons of white hot supersonic cruise missile.

Dark Off posted:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/12/russia-honours-national-heroes-killed-in-mysterious-nuclear-rocket-blast
so i guess those 5 death scientists managed to avert much bigger disaster?

RoastBeef posted:

There seems to be fairly decent circumstantial evidence that it was the Burevestnik/Skyfall:

https://twitter.com/ArmsControlWonk/status/1160224334377414656?s=19

Bonus: NASA slide deck about testing nuclear rockets

Icon Of Sin posted:

That much is known, at least a fair bit of it. This man tried to troubleshoot a particle accelerator when all the safeties failed and he took the full beam straight to his face. He completed his PhD afterwards, just got mentally exhausted faster than he used to (along with a half-paralyzed face and hearing loss in one ear).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoli_Bugorski

Synthbuttrange posted:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-08-29/footage-of-man-fishing-from-drone-being-investigated-by-casa/

toplitzin posted:

Here's some full footage of the F3 event:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuvHv_VRUM8

Ted in the paddock posted:

Yep, the paddock here at Monza, the best of the season it has to be said...the beautiful people here passing around, all air kisses and...

quote:

'scuse me while I kiss the sky...

RandomFerret posted:

No, those are clearly cars

SelenicMartian posted:

loving hell, don't leave a bus parked on a rail crossing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgK8K6rr5Pc

Ornamental Dingbat posted:

Tough day at the sugar mines.

https://twitter.com/jonjones/status/1173420127473348611?s=20