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Kesper North: Nov 3, 2011; EMERGENCY POWER TO PARTY

I'll say, torching a boatload of cars in the middle of an ocean voyage is metal as gently caress

# ¿ Dec 27, 2019 02:40

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# ¿ Apr 24, 2024 12:37

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Source4Leko posted:

How did that even happen? Like cars just crashing into each other or like electrical shorts from all the salt water washing everywhere?

Some of both, with gas from leaking tanks from smashed cars providing the primary fuel source and the shorts providing ignition is my guess.

# ¿ Dec 27, 2019 02:48

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mycomancy posted:

Sorry?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaerobic_lagoon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_pig_farming
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/07/28/iowa-father-son-die-manure-pit-fumes/30811157/

# ¿ Dec 29, 2019 00:21

Kesper North: Nov 3, 2011; EMERGENCY POWER TO PARTY

Deader than a pig in poo poo

# ¿ Dec 29, 2019 00:32

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Can't wait for Seattle's first good road freeze. You ever seen an accordion bus play pinball off the sides of two rows of parked cars as it slides sideways down a 14% graded hill road? The city was built on seven great hills, like Rome...

# ¿ Dec 29, 2019 04:25

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Jack2142 posted:

I am very happy I can work from home so I can just go up to like my buildings roof and watch the chaos unfold.

High five. I do enjoy the sledding on (main city arterial) Denny Way.

# ¿ Dec 29, 2019 07:16

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HelloIAmYourHeart posted:

what is he shooting at?

Transformer on the telephone pole. Those are real pretty when they go up. There was a windstorm in Seattle one year where I got to watch them explode in every neighborhood on the far side of Lake Washington...

# ¿ Jan 4, 2020 05:59

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angryrobots posted:

Every once in a while, the top will come off one. It's pretty rare and it is usually accompanied by a lot of fire and sometimes the flying lid taking the power line with it (being still attached and all) and causing a larger outage and more fire. Usually a protective device will open before a transformer builds enough internal pressure to actually blow up even if there is an internal fault.

It's more likely that you saw/heard an expulsion fuse blow. They are very loud. Even louder when you close it from close range not expecting it to blow.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROpFHJPbg1Q

The windstorm I refer to was a major disaster event that left 1.8 million homes and businesses without power.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanukkah_Eve_windstorm_of_2006

I'm pretty sure, and please bear in mind that I am not totally uneducated, I saw some transformer explosions.

# ¿ Jan 4, 2020 23:51

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zedprime posted:

Did they glow eerie blue while buzzing or wailing until a sudden popbang? That's a normal fault and what they are more or less made to do when wrapped in live cables or there's a transient event cause something's going on just down the line.

Did they explode in a sooty orange fireball that gave instant cancer to anything downwind? That's an explosion and usually happens on direct lightning strike.

Both! The overwhelming majority were that lovely blue, and from a distance the popbangs looked like very distant camera flashes. The big orange fireballs were much fewer, and around here were probably tree falls or flying debris impacts. Most of Seattle's electrical infrastructure was well exposed due to the normally very mild weather, and since then a lot of those lines have been buried, substations enclosed, etc in an overall effort to harden against similar storms, which have been becoming more frequent. It's actually worked very well, the neighborhood I'm in now was without power for nearly three weeks after that storm, and outages are now brief and few even in severe weather.

# ¿ Jan 5, 2020 10:57

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temple posted:

I don't know what country that is but they are speaking the universal language of "gently caress this poo poo"

Probably Thai; they're wearing polos from the Thaiyarnyon auto dealership in Bangkok.

Also that is clearly a Transformer expulsion. Those men were lucky to survive.

# ¿ Jan 6, 2020 02:06

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I like how one guy kind of just casually reaches over and tugs on its tail like a lever and the goanna (Asian water monitor?) is released from its mounting brackets, then immediately pings over to the far corner of the shop where you'll spend an hour trying to get it out with a broom. Classic repair work!

# ¿ Jan 6, 2020 02:20

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Lucky Fokkers.

# ¿ Jan 10, 2020 23:33

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LifeSunDeath posted:

it's like some ballet move

Breakdancing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCYLEO9sIVQ

# ¿ Jan 13, 2020 09:03

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That is CLEARLY an episode of Farscape

# ¿ Jan 14, 2020 05:41

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Blue light special, coming up! BAM!

# ¿ Jan 14, 2020 21:28

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I hold the controversial opinion that letting someone's house burn down when you could do something about it is a dick move, and that you shouldn't be a dick.

Also I'd do it just to save the pets, who were innocent of this crime.

# ¿ Jan 17, 2020 08:34

Kesper North: Nov 3, 2011; EMERGENCY POWER TO PARTY

And you can injure yourself by training too hard! Always lift with a spotter!

# ¿ Jan 18, 2020 00:30

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Wasabi the J posted:

Do y'all think bond voted remain?

Bond is a gammon working for Tories; he most certainly would have.

# ¿ Apr 29, 2021 09:36

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bobmarleysghost posted:

She came real close to slicing her leg when she was pressing down on the hubcap with her foot.

The perils of hub bris

# ¿ Apr 30, 2021 02:35

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Wingnut Ninja posted:

No that would be using a hubcap to slice a... uh, different part.

She's removing the hubcap's foreskin!

# ¿ Apr 30, 2021 02:53

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Enos Shenk posted:

poo poo, the store I work at has cash pickup through Garda. There's been at least a couple times where they're so understaffed they pull up and one dude gets out. And it turns out he's the only guy and just leaves the armored car sitting at the curb while he picks up the deposits. There's no way in ever-living gently caress that's proper procedure for them.

Garda is pretty drat OSHA itself, there's been tons of accidents involving their trucks. And a lot of whistleblowers reporting almost absolute lack of maintenance. There's one report in here about a truck with no drivers seat, just a bucket to sit on. https://projects.tampabay.com/projects/2020/investigations/garda-world/armored-trucks/

I've heard most American "armored" trucks are basically stripped of armor, that true?

# ¿ May 3, 2021 02:55

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Lazyhound posted:

Someone posted aftermath images from that armoured car attack in the Discord:

https://twitter.com/Abramjee/status/1388195293565489156

Dude sounds just like Sharlto Copley

# ¿ May 3, 2021 05:59

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*honk honk* "YOU'RE LOSING YOUR poo poo!"

# ¿ May 5, 2021 02:27

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SubNat posted:

Glacial meltwaters, and other alpine lakes and rivers are often green/teal/blue like that.

As for why: glacial meltwaters tend to get a lot of ultrafine silt and clay from the glaciers as they melt, which colour them pretty strongly blue/green.
No weird toxic substances required, just rocks, water, and time.

Didn't someone say the video is from Singapore? No glaciers in Sinagapore.

Looks maybe like relatively clear water with a white sand bottom to me.

# ¿ Aug 21, 2021 03:39

Kesper North: Nov 3, 2011; EMERGENCY POWER TO PARTY

Pressure vacuum sounds nice. 15 seconds and you're out like a light with no drama.

# ¿ Aug 21, 2021 04:50

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RatHat posted:

Wouldn�t that be exactly the same as suffocating normally? Biggest difference being if you try to hold your breath in a vacuum it�s gonna pull that air out of you anyway.

As noted above, people have done it in controlled conditions and survived, then reported on the experience. For SCIENCE!

# ¿ Aug 21, 2021 08:01

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Megillah Gorilla posted:

That's loving huge for a blue ring. And you can see its already pissed off.

It's been dead for a while. This is also why the person holding it is alive

# ¿ Aug 22, 2021 10:07

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Pickled Tink posted:

The Cassowary begs to differ, on the brightly coloured front at least.

Once long ago I was walking through the Daintree and I met a cassowary. My first thought was "holy crap they're big." My second was "That's a loving velociraptor, it moves the same as they did in Jurassic Park".

They are brightly colored.

# ¿ Aug 23, 2021 00:26

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Megillah Gorilla posted:

There's a video of a lady on a beach, interacting with a curious cassowary and in one part in runs towards her because it's fascinated by her camera.

I have never seen anything more "moves like a loving velociraptor" in my life.

Should be queued up to the right time at 1:02:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mi5hp4gR_fg&t=62s

Yup, exactly. In my unprofessional opinion that's a fuckin' dinosaur.

# ¿ Aug 24, 2021 03:29

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Ola posted:

"Hmm, an earth shattering explosion destroying the exit area. Oh well, doesn't seem to affect the next three seconds of my life, the entry is open so I'll just carry on with my day."

Local dad asks "Watt happened here!!!!" :dadjoke: