boner confessor posted:

also how the real real killer isn't the fire or smoke necessarily, it's inadequate ability to escape. two of the deadliest fires in the united states - the iroquois theater fire (600ish dead) and the cocoanut grove fire (500ish dead) were because once the fire happened, people panicked and couldn't find their way out. hundreds of panicking people in a confined space makes for a horrible traffic jam, as many people end up crushed or smothered in the stampede as do die from smoke inhalation, suffocation, and somewhat rarely burns. when a panic situation happens, people tend to try to leave the same way they came in - even if that's like six rooms and hundreds of feet away, through smoke and freaking out humans - which is why well lit exit signs leading to fire doors are a huge lifesaver in situations like this. you can see this in the station fire video, as the cameraman too slooooly is sort of pushed out by a flow of humans, and not even 45 seconds later people are bursting through walls and windows in a big tide trying to get the hell out

people are heavy too, heavier than you think. one of the big causes of people dying in a stampede is those who fall to the floor beneath the crowd and are trampled to death, or even worse people who are pushed up against an immobile object and are crushed by the crowd of folks behind you pushing their way out. it only takes at most like 1400 pounds of pressure to stop you from breathing. that's like 9-10 average sized people pushing against your abdomen, or 6-7 americans

spog posted:

Stay in bed.

MF_James posted:

Wait, is that gasoline she's cleaning her windshield with?

I had to watch it a few times, I thought it was a water hose.

FrozenVent posted:

Sometime the ship catches fire real good and you need to GTFO before it even starts sinking.

The life rafts are set up to self deploy if the ship sinks and no one launches them first though. Same thing with free fall lifeboats.

Free fall lifeboat classic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_keBUBKmCU

Bum the Sad posted:

Your dentist was retarded, the local anesthetics they're using in your mouth are the same ones they've been using for years, Lidocaine has been around since the 40's.

It's an adjunct anesthetic gas. You'd need to breath 104% Nitrous Oxide to be reliably knocked out for surgery. That doesn't leave much room for oxygen. In the OR your anesthesia provider might mix it in with more powerful anesthetic gas(Sevoflurane, Isoflurane or Desflurane) in order to use less of them. They'll do this in order to help wake you up quicker at the end of the surgery as the stronger anesthesia gasses are fairly fat soluble and take a while to exit your brain/blood into your lungs where you can breath them out. It's also used to help get children off to sleep as typically an IV isn't started on them until after they are asleep so what we do is just crank the nitrous and the strong gas to the max and pin the mask to their face, the more they scream the quicker they fall asleep! In that case it's just being used as a helpful additive to speed things up.

On it's own though it's a great pain reliever and makes you feel good. For exampled it's used all over the world for pain during labor and well in dentistry.

Uncle Enzo posted:

I read recently about people exploring this hyper-radioactive ex-military site that was purposefully contaminated, making it vastly more dangerous than a nuke test site. Apparently every few years some urbex people go in there and are like "yup, still hideously dangerous". But even those people have the loving presence of mind to carry some meters with them so they know when to turn back, jesus.

OSI bean dip posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfhxIp5oQpc

I'm the exposed hands and open flame.

LUBE UP YOUR BUTT posted:

Am I the only one who can't tell what that is

looks like a giant popcorn or something

KoRMaK posted:

Oh hey, I now where kazan is! I worked with some remote developers out that way

KoRMaK posted:

"All of our stuff is in that" lol fuuuuck Sounded like an american tourist

quote:

No-one was inside at the time, but a group of backpackers on their way to the island for New Year's Eve lost their mobile phones, bank cards, passports and other valuables when the rented vehicle rolled out between Inskip Point and Fraser Island, north of Brisbane, about 10:00am.

Backpacker Chloe Swift

Farmdizzle posted:

The frame is the loving common ground and you don't "dissipate" current.

Warm und Fuzzy posted:

You guys are telling me american tourist Cloe Swift left her cell phone in the car?

Synthbuttrange posted:

http://i.imgur.com/hTisecC.mp4

Happy new year!

chitoryu12 posted:

He carried with the safety on, and part of the draw is flicking the safety off as you draw the gun. It's muscle memory, so he flicked the safety down as he pulled up and thus the gun was already ready to fire when it came out and his finger slipped.

RyokoTK posted:

Close guess, it's actually St. Petersburg, Florida.

Say Nothing posted:

The Sausages posted:

Reminds me of the first ever chainsaw, the Ostetome.

For speedy amputations, legs off within 5 minutes guaranteed!

Johnny Aztec posted:

I thought I had mono for a year, turns out I was just really bored.

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

The etymology of rucksack is from the German alpine dialect rücken (the back) + sack. I guess a rugsack would be rügen ( to reprimand or reprehend) + sack which would be this:



Or a bag you keep your rugs in idk

Pigsfeet on Rye posted:

This morning it's OSHA-3, Florida Man-0. Same scenario that we read about all the time: person A goes into an unventilated manhole and collapses. Person B goes for the rescue and collapses. Person C goes to help and collapses. Turns out that it was a cocktail of hydrogen sulphide and methane that got them. Ventilate your confined spaces, people.
http://miami.cbslocal.com/2017/01/16/crews-work-to-free-workers-in-key-largo/?e=uLXN0pHsbQKGPQ

Say Nothing posted:

Mythbusters did it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVup80IabHU

Lime Tonics posted:

Speaking of steel, it should not do this,



No traffic on Delaware River Bridge while fracture is assessed, fixed

Officials said it would take two weeks before engineers have a full grasp of the extent of the damage, what kinds of repairs would be needed, and how long the bridge would remain closed.

But they made clear that the damage was significant.

"Due to the significant fracture, stresses have been redistributed to other parts of the bridge," said Brad Heigel, Pennsylvania Turnpike chief engineer.

The bridge on I-276 was last inspected in 2014 and no problems were identified at that time. It handles about 42,000 vehicles a day.

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20170122_No_traffic_on_Delaware_River_Bridge_while_fracture_is_assessed__fixed.html

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

Apparently he's Russian, no surprises there. He reportedly broke his ankle in the fall: http://usa.onlinenigeria.com/news/165086-moscow-roofer-knocks-over-a-stack-of-beams-before-falling-off-his-ladder.html

evil_bunnY posted:

Wait DRLs don't have the tail lights on in the US? What kind of retardation is this?

Platystemon posted:

Isn’t it literally impossible to turn off the lights in most of those countries, though?

Platystemon posted:

Yes.

Powershift posted:

Asehujiko posted:

I'm in the Netherlands so American laws against deceptive slogans sadly won't help much. This is the same reason why you won't find the phrase on google, it's paraphrased from Dutch.

And yes you're technically correct about the difference between allergies and intolerances but I don't know the word for intolerance-safe food so I went with hypo-allergenic because everybody knows what that is.

Mycroft Holmes posted:

you want something dead simple and reliable for important applications like nuclear power plants.

BattleMaster posted:

Aint' broke/don't fix and all that.

Synthbuttrange posted:

Pretty sure that's korean. Or at least the text says so.

Doesnt mean you cant have elevator shenannigans in China:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLjYbISpRbk

goddamnedtwisto posted:

The approach to the old Hong Kong airport was pretty much that, but done with 747s:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G251YEUWxR4

Klaus Kinski posted:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aNEYwYqJ7Fc

Paging three-phase to explain why rus is not dead.