it is a $65 children's bow.

https://www.cabelas.com/product/hunting/archery/youth-small-frame-archery/youth-small-frame-compound-bows/pc/104791680/c/104693580/sc/472681980/i/472682880/bear-archery-brave-flo-orange-compound-bow-package/1937263.uts?slotId=14

edit - $49 on amazon.

https://edition.cnn.com/2017/08/06/us/ohio-state-fair-ride-collapse/index.html

> The manufacturer of an amusement park ride that malfunctioned at the Ohio State Fair in July said on Sunday that the deadly incident was caused by "excessive corrosion."

> Albert Kroon, product manager for the Dutch manufacturer, said in a statement that an investigation at the scene in Columbus determined that "excessive corrosion on the interior of the gondola support beam dangerously reduced the beam's wall thickness over the years." The ride was 18 years old.

Internal corrosion sounds like something that might go unnoticed for some time.

Not the only time this exact accident has happened.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/11/17/watch-hot-air-balloon-loaded-fireworks-explodes-onto-crowd-hundreds/

Edit: and this one

https://weather.com/news/trending/video/watch-as-hot-air-balloon-explodes-300-feet-above-crowd/

Theres a book- "Curse of the narrows"

Its the story of a ship detonation very much like this at harbor in Nova Scotia. 10/10

I very much recommend reading Allan McDonald's Truth, Lies and O-Rings if you're interested in the sequence of events that led up to the Challenger disaster.

Pretty sure truckers have truck-specific sat navs that have height and weight limits programmed into them.

This unit for example lets you input the dimensions and weight of your vehicle and it will route you accordingly.

It's expensive but IMO it'd be worth the money to have a stress-free drive.

"A few drops of food coloring?" It's pretty obviously opaque. If it was green "because of lights," then why is it bright green against the table?

It's almost certainly a coolant, not just distilled water with food coloring. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01AZC34WS/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_y44wBb6236664

It's kind of sad that the person who found this exploit burned it for $52k (and counting).

Seems like such a small payoff for immediate access to the most influential people's twitter accounts.

https://blockchair.com/bitcoin/address/bc1qxy2kgdygjrsqtzq2n0yrf2493p83kkfjhx0wlh

Yeah, that's one of the worst things I'd ever heard. Here's the full quote by T. Bradley in "The Mons Star:"

> A boy to my side was hit in the arm and cried out for help. I crawled over to him, ripped the sleeves of his coat and shirt open and started to bind the bleeding part. The gas was so thick now I could hardly discern what I was doing. My eyes began to water and I felt as if I would choke. I reached for my gas mask, pulled it out of its container - then noticed to my horror that a splinter had gone through it leaving a large hole.

>I had seen death thousands of times, stared it in the face, but never experienced the fear I felt then. Immediately I reverted to the primitive. I felt like an animal cornered by hunters. With the instinct of self-preservation uppermost, my eyes fell on the boy whose arm I had bandaged. Somehow he had managed to put the gas mask on his face with his one good arm. I leapt at him and in the next moment had ripped the gas mask from his face. With a feeble gesture he tried to wrench it from my grasp; then fell back exhausted. The last thing I saw before putting on the mask were his pleading eyes.

So before Reddit you had Digg and before Digg you had mainly scattered forums and very few news aggregator websites that let you leave comments. One of the first was slashdot.org and a few years ago I dug through some of their archives and found the posts made on 9/11 and it was an interesting ride to read through the comments so many years later.

It also reminds me of someone digging through the old BBS archives and finding user comments about Return of the Jedi when it came out and basically seeing people complain about the ewoks.

Here is the slashdot post in question:

https://slashdot.org/story/20235

If you dig around you can find other posts made the same day and a few the next.

When Sullenberger landed that plane on the Hudson river, he had this book in his luggage, which dealt heavily with the question of how to respond to human error in safety critical environments.

Apparently, they use bluetooth to get the data out, and they all use the same cheap bt chips.
There's an app that will scan the area for certain bt signatures and tell You if any are potentially bad.

Edit: this is the android version.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=skimmerscammer.skimmerscammer

> What’s terrifying about rogue waves is that until satellites existed their very existence was seriously in doubt.

Recent research indicates that rogue waves aren't even uncommon.

Wave: In Pursuit of the Oceans' Greatest Furies

There's also "The Black Box: All-New Cockpit Voice Recorder Accounts Of In-flight Accidents Paperback" by Malcolm Macpherson

The "All new" book is from 1998, so while it does have the 1996 ValuJet crash in the Everglades, it doesn't have, say, 9/11, or Cactus 1549 hitting the Hudson in 2009.

I recall it does have UA 232, the DC-10 that landed at full speed with no hydraulics at Sioux City IA in 1989, which is a riveting read. 185 people survived that fireball.

Chef Paul Prudhomme's restaurant was a recent victim of Covid. Paul died in 2015, and his restaurant and spices were the only thing still being sold. Now it's just the spices.

His blackened redfish magic is still a highly popular staple and one of the best spice mixes created in the last 100 years by far. He almost killed off the entire redfish population due to overfishing because of how popular it was. Even though he published the recipe for it in 1984 in his book, people still buy the spice mix to this day. The top review here has the spice mix ingredients measured out

One of the source materials was a collection of stories from Chernobyl, 'Voices of Chernobyl' https://www.amazon.com/Voices-Chernobyl-History-Nuclear-Disaster/dp/0312425848 which contained this as well as other stories. The point I think was to show just how much work was required to clean this up and how much of it was difficult for the people who had to do it.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.popreach.dumbways

They made dumb ways to die into a mobile game. It's actually kind of fun.

Edit : also why was Klaus allowed to continue operating a forklift after the first incident? That's just bad management.

x-post from r/vessels

This really hits close to home. I lost a friend and two acquaintances on the El Faro. I've also had a family member serve on her back in the '90s. And I sailed on the ship that took over her run in the Caribbean. It's amazing how few people have even heard of this event.

There's a book coming out soon that you can pre-order on Amazon all about the disaster.

Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of El Faro

Internal corrosion in the gondola support beam according to KMG, the manufacturer. The beam wall became dangerously brittle and snapped.

https://edition.cnn.com/2017/08/06/us/ohio-state-fair-ride-collapse/index.html

Might I followup with the original technical JPRS report, the Chernobyl Notebook, also written by Medvedev prior to writing the "truth about chernobyl".

Reading it made it clear how many levels of idiocy were involved in the disaster.

> I heard or read somewhere that a lot of falls on stairs are thanks to pets. As a dog and cat owner I can personally testify to this. I think that my cat may be trying to kill me.

JOKE: Cat Vs. Dog — War Of The Diaries

A high O2 environment will find any excuse to go boom. It could have just as easily been a tiny piezoelectric spark caused by her shoe sliding over some grains of sand. Or some static discharge from her hair brushing over her shirt. Just about anything. If you see O2 leaking this is what you do: https://yarn.co/yarn-clip/d6e87bd5-3b00-466d-9e13-676b140c6d72

There is a great book by Stewart O’Nan regarding this as well called The Circus Fire

Stewart did excellent research through hundreds of interviews with survivors, firefighters, police, and other towns folk of Hartford and put together a really gripping story.

Highly recommended.

Read 'Condominium' by John D MacDonald. This is a result of the corruption during the 70-80s development boom in FL

You can tell it to ignore formatting by placing a backslash before the symbol.

Example:

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appears as:

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It's only a problem in this case because you used two asterisks, which normally italicizes text. One lonely asterisk is fine without the backslash. I strongly recommend installing RES on whatever browser you use so you can experiment using the handy live preview function!

Hijacking top comment to add gallery of 48 images "You won't BELIEVE #21!"

At least 26 dead.

edit: 35 dead, 3 missing

To any of who have not seen the town, here's an openstreetmaps map of it

I can't imagine actually patrolling such a place - 10 minutes and you've done a full circuit of the town.

I still use Imgur. Most of the time I'm on my desktop so I use sharex, but if I need to upload something on my phone I use http://imgur.com/upload and request the desktop link.

The book is particularly good - it's full of detail and compelling reading.

The only caveat is that it was first published in 1951, so unless the 2nd edition has substantially updated it, there's some detail and historical context that wasn't really known until later. Still recommended even with that caveat.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dam-Busters-Pan-Grand-Strategy/dp/0330376446

Sadly, I dont think so :( The amazon store might have a Kindle version with a translation

fyi this is the Luna park in France. Apparently there's more than one amusement park named Luna Park.

http://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g196602-d7032369-Reviews-Luna_Park-Cap_d_Agde_Agde_Herault_Languedoc_Roussillon.html

OOOOOOHHHHH! This is an amusement park in France that's also named Luna Park. I thought this was the Luna Park in Coney Island and I couldn't believe that I wouldn't have heard about this accident in the news.

http://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g196602-d7032369-Reviews-Luna_Park-Cap_d_Agde_Agde_Herault_Languedoc_Roussillon.html

Here's a podcast about it, a good listen for anyone interested in this accident.

History of the 90's

The Swindled podcast did a great episode on this as well.

No, literally forest fires are part of the natural life cycle with some plants even depending on them to reproduce. Humans like you make them worse by pretending they aren't part of a natural cycle and should be prevented at all costs leading to worse problems down the line when decades of overgrowth catches fire. Your analogy is bad.

> Unless I’m misinterpreting what OP meant by “goose” the collective.

I usually take it to mean a pinch. I have no idea whether this would translate into pushing or pulling a lever... A thesaurus generally says it means to increase power, which seems to agree with what OP was saying.

> that really changed my understanding of this structure and it's failure.

This shouldn't be a contraction. "That really changed my understanding and it is failure." Makes no sense.

Since wdgiles is a name ending with an s, their failure can be called "wdgiles' failure", unlike Bob and Bob's failure. However, the possessive form of it is its, without an apostrophe.

Who's failure? The structure's. Correct way to say it would therefore be "that really changed my understanding of this structure and its failure."

That's why I pointed out their failure by saying "you're failure" rather than "your failure" ... Was trying to be funny.

ISBN. A standard inclusion in source citation.

That is of course unless you don't know how to actually cite a legitimate record. Or if your sources are just, yaknow, made up.

So how is the book inaccurate again?

5.2 sec = 132m = 183km/h

https://www.omnicalculator.com/physics/free-fall

For an object like that a terminal velocity is probably somewhere near the Mach 1.

You can, it's just you're both inept and biased.

If you are in the know, it is pretty easy. This is the book every fire chief and fire truck in my area carries: ERG 2020 (it is updated every 3 years if I recall correctly.) You just need to know how to to read it.

Regardless, I completely agree that as soon as they jumped the tracks, they should have gotten as far away as possible. Why risk it?

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=gov.nih.nlm.erg2012

Kinda related: there are a series of books about the US national parks that loosely take the name of "Death in [Park Name]," like this one about Yosemite.

Some of them go into the demographics of who's dying or getting injured. It's like 99% male, and of those, a majority tend to skew towards the 16-35ish range.

In a nutshell, having balls leads to doing stupid shit, and if the owner of said balls is in a certain age range the likelihood goes way up.

Do you have any recommendations for good books on Cockpit Resource Management or how it was developed? I bet the lessons there apply to walks of life outside the aircraft... How to avoid misunderstandings and reach clarity.

I found this book on Amazon... Any others you'd suggest?

Cockpit Resource Management https://www.amazon.com/dp/012750026X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_uEflAb7Q6H0FX

OH GOD ANOTHER SHOW? Holy shit, thanks, I just assumed there was only one of them. Whelp, I know what I'm binging on for awhile lol.

Edit. Nevermind, it's the same show. They just called it "MayDay: Air Disaster Investigations" on the early seasons. That being said, I had no idea they had an additional season going on, can't wait, thanks.

Here's what I was talking about on Amazon Prime.

https://www.amazon.com/Unlocking-Disaster/dp/B07JDJNSBJ/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=Air+Disasters&qid=1602098517&s=instant-video&sr=1-3

Is it possible for you to sign up with a paid VPN service? Some of them are quite affordable. I've personally used IPVanish. When I was using IPVanish, I suffered a vvery small loss of available bandwidth. Youtube and other streaming services worked just fine.

Btw, I'm using this keyboard for my phone which allows me to copy and pin things (like ‽) to my clipboard so I can easily access it later without have to go copy and paste each time.

For future reference, the ERG is a great tool for identifying hazardous materials. When you see the little Diamond placards on the side of tankers or trailers, it’s telling you what chemical it is. Always interesting to find out you’re driving next to a huge tank of sulfuric acid.

Here’s a nice read about the Jarrell tornado, it talks a little about factors that contribute to why it was so bad

https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/twenty-years-look-back-jarrell-tornado-catastrophe

https://weather.com/news/news/2020-04-04-florida-brush-fire-destroys-cars-at-airport

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Brush fire burns cars. Not other way around.

Here is an 1986 article from the post detailing the pressures: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1986/06/10/challenger-disaster-blamed-on-o-rings-pressure-to-launch/6b331ca1-f544-4147-8e4e-941b7a7e47ae/

Also a book written on how the administration and its pushing were to blame written by Richard C. Cook - Its free if you have Audible: https://www.amazon.com/Challenger-Revealed-Insiders-Administration-Greatest/dp/1560259809/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1663573368&sr=8-1

Too much evidence pointed to it. Reagan was asleep at the wheel during most of his administration while people under him were responsible for horrible things.

When I think of Ghostboat I immediately think of this one. It's a great read. Written in 1978, but really well done. Author also wrote a book called Thin Air, which was also awesome.

So, you have no response? You don't need to take my word for it, I highly recommend you read Lori Garver's book escaping gravity, she details how congress continually worked against presidential directives to lower cost to orbit in favor of pursing more pork projects for their district.

Also check out "Halsey's Typhoon". Same era and theatre, and another engrossing tale.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Halseys-Typhoon-Fighting-Admiral-Untold/dp/0802143377

Good to hear, yea I really liked it as well.

If you ever get the chance, I would recommend Isaac's Storm which tells the story of the 1900 Galveston Hurricane which effectively wiped the city off the face of the map.

It’s got that same gripping account storytelling of the Circus fire.

LOL I love and hate this post so much.

I'm currently reading Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else by Jordan Ellenberg... and currently in the section about topology.

"How many holes does a straw have?"

you're dumb.

what that quote actually dumbs down to is "heating steel up makes a corrosive liquid".

yes, it has "liquefied the steel" in it, but it's not being used in the connotation you believe it to have been. much like burning wood is a chemical reaction, so is this mixture (https://www.slideshare.net/mobile/RakeshSingh125/fe-cdiagram). the point of what everyone is saying is this mixture caused from the steel heating up weakened what parts of the steel weren't turned into the mixture itself.

> One person in this picture is not running. I bet they have a story to tell

You may enjoy Richard Fenymann's memoirs. One that is particularly relevant is his account of watching, eyes naked, the Trinity nuclear test.

https://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2016/04/what_its_like_to_actually_see_an_atomic_explosion.html

> "They gave out dark glasses that you could watch it with. Dark glasses! Twenty miles away, you couldn't see a damn thing through dark glasses. So I figured the only thing that could really hurt your eyes (bright light can never hurt your eyes) is ultraviolet light. I got behind a truck windshield, because the ultraviolet can't go through glass, so that would be safe, and so I could see the damn thing. "

See https://smile.amazon.co.uk/Surely-Youre-Joking-Feynman-Adventures-ebook/dp/B00MPMWQ8U/ for more.

Actually the book "The Worst Journey in the World" depicts what could be one's worst nightmare: the author's harrowing journey during Antarctic winter to collect penguin's eggs, enduring -54°C (-130°F) temperatures.

Many many good books on Shackleton, but I was transfixed by one about a an explorer from a couple decades earlier - George DeLong, who attempted to find the northern passage and encountered a very similar, unbelievable, expedition in the arctic.

Book is called In the Kingdom of Ice. https://www.amazon.com/Kingdom-Ice-Terrible-Voyage-Jeannette/dp/0307946916

I going to translate and read it. Thank you.

It may be difficult to read for non-Japanese speakers, but I also recommend the following books and data.

https://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/product/B07MQY6BF5/

https://www.huffingtonpost.jp/2014/09/11/yoshida-full-text_n_5802450.html

If you’re wondering how that much rain could possibly fall in five minutes:

There are documented cases of rain falling as much as 1.25 inches in less than one minute.

https://weather.com/news/weather/news/extreme-rainfall-records-united-states

I was thinking like you, "the weld should have been stronger" but alas, no, https://www.slideshare.net/alifaizanwattoo/part12collapse-of-the-hyatt-regency-walkways-1981 has a detailed analysis on the failure and they calculated the weld was the failure point. It would have been interested to see the same analysis done using regular steel box material or what could have been done to reinforce the weld area.

If you are still interested after reading Horatio Hornblower, this book is amazing. Admiral Horatio Nelson (inspiration for Hornblower) is featured heavily.

Broadsides: The age of fighting sail.

Truth Lies and O Rings is a book written, as I recall, by the SRB manufacturer's chief rep at the launch site. It should be required reading for corp execs, engineers and politicians. So many times what we dismiss as engineering failures are really management failures or a combination of the two. In the civilian world it often travels as "value engineering"

https://www.amazon.com/Truth-Lies-and-O-Rings-audiobook/dp/B07FPRC9ML

the amazon audible version is great .

Also highly recommended is Richard Feynman's addendum to the Challenger Accident Report, https://calteches.library.caltech.edu/3570/1/Feynman.pdf

Berkeley Sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild wrote a book about just this topic from this specific town because she found it so fascinating.

It’s called “Strangers In Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right” and it really is interesting.

They form environmental groups and stuff but love them some Trump. The book was written before the 2016 election, but she went back and added a chapter afterwards.

She also interviews some folks at the plants and talks about explosions, sinkholes, drilling accidents, etc, and how they balance the destruction of their wetlands and deteriorating health with high paying jobs.

It was really good.

https://smile.amazon.com/dp/1620973499/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_i_SG93KXXJS52G5SP46J02

I LOVED that book!

Ghost Wave by Chris Dixon is even more focused on surfing but similar. If you liked the wave you might like it.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1511396423/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_glt_i_CKYJQC3MHWPJJKZMESFE

the SR71 is an absolutely incredible piece of engineering for its time. If you read any book on Skunk works (this one being a typical example) you get to appreciate how mind boggingly advanced it was and the crazy stuff that was required to make it happen.

The rocks that the Costa Concordia hit were big enough to create a giant gash in the hull which lead to the inevitable capsizing/sinking.

Not just the wing, at such a large scale of a truck bed what appears to be extremely stiff steel has a decent amount of springiness. for instance flat bed are arched when unloaded https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/rear-side-view-empty-flatbed-semi-511665067 so they dont sag when loaded up. Essentially the front and rear axles were on completely different angles, with the front being more tilting to the right and the rear more flat thus essentially making the truck bed a stiff spring around its axis. Once you hit enough force in this system, the rear begins to tip up with the force being transferred from the front which then flips the center of mass over the edge of the trucks stability. This then seems to break (or disconnect) the rigging up front, tossing the entire load onto the ground. This incident may have been exacerbated by wind or the rigging of the wing itself.

The final resting position of the pilot's seat is shown in this photo. This is somewhat macabre so I didn't post it before.

https://www.shutterstock.com/editorial/image-editorial/plane-crash-little-rock-usa-6501279a

My husband (a railroad worker) and I did a podcast on this disaster. It was horrific. The link to it is below. Our podcasts is called The Cornfield Meet: Transportation Disasters. Also, look for The Day of the Roses on YouTube. It was a made for TV movie covering the accident and investigation. It's really good (but very long, like 4 hours).

https://castbox.fm/vb/224731248

I highly recommend that book!

The guy who wrote the excellent book on Chernobyl, Chernobyl 01:23:40 has another book coming out soon on Fukushima that I am looking forward to called "Melting Sun". If you are interested in learning more about the history of Nuclear Power in Japan and details on the Fukushima event itself, I expect it will be very informative.

I hate to disappoint you, but the corium has not been hot or molten for decades now. Even when the corium was hot, it did not melt through any concrete, except the lower plate of the reactor itself. It flowed through pipes and cracks, or along hallways.

Here is the only corium that is located on the lowest floor of the building. The picture is at least 25 years old and even back then it was just a loose pile of ceramic turds:

https://www.hwinfo.com/Chernobyl/inside%20sarcophagus/65813_cropped.jpg

Much of the corium down here was actually a form of pumice that was light enough to float on water. There is more corium on the upper floors, which was the pretty black glass or ceramic, but it is now crumbling to dust.

Most "information" about Chernobyl basically comes from tabloid magazines and the worlds stupidest (or most gullible) journalists.

If you want to brush up on your norwegian-skills, you can listen to a podcast about it here

Actually, as crazy as it sounds. The numbers seem to show that fair rides tend to be more safe because they are inspected more often by numerous inspectors in different counties/states.

Meanwhile amusement parks have their own set of mechanics on staff with little to no outside inspectors to check the equipment. There is essentially less regulation on amusement park rides than fair rides.

https://lifehacker.com/are-fair-rides-more-dangerous-than-amusement-park-rides-1797436102

Resulted in a three day blackout for Manhattan. They were warned: https://getpocket.com/explore/item/nobody-knows-what-lies-beneath-new-york-city

Now they are spending $1.2 billion. https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20130528/stuy-town/con-ed-station-gets-flood-protection-after-east-village-sandy-explosion

Resulted in a three day blackout for Manhattan. They were warned: https://getpocket.com/explore/item/nobody-knows-what-lies-beneath-new-york-city

Now they are spending $1.2 billion. https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20130528/stuy-town/con-ed-station-gets-flood-protection-after-east-village-sandy-explosion

I totally thought you were posting The Outlaw Ocean haha. Another great book on the same topic.

I have just the book for you!

https://www.amazon.com/Outlaw-Sea-World-Freedom-Chaos/dp/0865477221

Talks about all the crazy and illegal things that happen out in the deep ocean and it's really well written. I really enjoyed every page.

It's not about this incident, and it's written only from the perspective of the US sub service, but the book Blind Man's Bluff is really good to learn about submarines in general.

Here is some more info about this tornado.

Here too.

This was an EF3 tornado that damaged 500+ homes, injured over a dozen, and unfortunately killed one woman—the first tornado death of 2019. There is still serious flooding near the river.

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I live here, so I thought I'd post this.

The ride fault was caused by internal corrosion of a support beam. Might not have been an easy thing to see if there wasn't external rust.

https://edition.cnn.com/2017/08/06/us/ohio-state-fair-ride-collapse/index.html

> Albert Kroon, product manager for the Dutch manufacturer, said in a statement that an investigation at the scene in Columbus determined that "excessive corrosion on the interior of the gondola support beam dangerously reduced the beam's wall thickness over the years." The ride was 18 years old. > > "This finally led to the catastrophic failure of the ride during operation," Kroon said.

If you're in the UK, iPlayer has a 1 hour documentary about this. https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0007mxm/when-bridges-collapse-the-genoa-disaster

I've heard the term "One Point Safe" to refer to there being a very low (literally thought to be 1 in a million chance) likelihood of accidental nuclear detonation by inducing some of the explosives inside the bomb. The nukes are built to be sensitive to the symmetry of the explosion-- if the explosives don't fire in perfect unison, it blows the core apart before it can be compressed enough to ignite a nuclear chain reaction. Also, they use special explosives that're comparatively hard to detonate by fire or heat.

If you want to, here it a a link where you will find a term called Linar Expansion. That's a simplified way to look at what happens to rails. https://brilliant.org/wiki/thermal-expansion/

Must remember that we are talking about one single rail, whem you take a sequence of 100 rails, (let's assume a ∆T of 30°C, 10°C to 40°C) you must remember that the linear expansion is multiplied by 100. So assuming a ∆T of 30°C let's say that a rails (length of 25 meters and usend the equation from the link above) will expand 0,24 meters. Now multiplied by 100, we get 24.0 meters of dilatation for 2500 meters of rail, that more than enough to create this waves.

Not particularly. You definitely won't get as much work done as people with modern computers, but it should be able to work on very basic computers. https://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/List_of_projects_by_system_requirements As you can see, these projects (Except climatepredictions.com) have absolutely tiny requirements.

The system I used is called Rosetta@Home, which runs on top of BOINC, which is the program you download to your computer, then you link BOINC to the R@H project. There is also Folding@Home, which does not run on BOINC. It has a similar goal to R@H but goes about it using a different technique.

There was an article about this I read a month or so ago

Balloon frame wooden apartment buildings are by far cheaper and quicker to build in the US than steel. There's almost no reason to use steel if you're aiming for fairly high density but still low-rise urban housing, except for, you know, quality.

Oh, and fire. Quote from the article:

>Of the 13 U.S. blazes that resulted in damages of $20 million or more in 2017, according to the National Fire Protection Association, six were at wood-frame apartment buildings under construction.

So, uh, about half of the most damaging building fires in the country are due to these things while they're under construction. As a result some areas are trying to crack down on the building code for them, but few have actually done so yet.

The prepper part was facetious lol, though /r/preppers does have some great info. For a family your size I think the food in cans would be a better deal than the buckets.

I'd normally recommend actual MREs in addition (just for the sake of variety and no fire or water required unless you use the FRH) but they're super expensive now thanks to all the crazies buying them up to stock for doomsday, which is a shame because I'd totally shank someone for a pouch of chili mac right now

You've got that right. This is an awesome book by an awesome author about the 1900 Category 4 hurricane that almost scraped Galveston off the map.

Maybe someone read this book.

Not according to this book.

I don’t recall any specifics about the Clinton Foundation, but The Red Cross is terrible at disaster relief. They failed miserably during 9/11 and Katrina as well.

Yes I used to think climate change was going to be out of control then seemingly none of Al Gore's predictions came true. Climate gate emails? The resolution we can see, only as far back as maybe a couple hundred years.. our models have huge holes, Pacific Ocean measurements with huge ranges of error...

Confessions of a climate scientist The global warming hypothesis is an unproven hypothesis https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B07FKHF7T2/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_glt_XMAEG3T87H9SEQP2W12D

This Japanese scientist goes into great detail about his doubts. I encourage you to try even for a second to doubt that climate change is going to be catastrophic...

But yeah I'm the religious one. Most people have looked into this about 1% as much as I have and take catastrophic climate change as a fact, in the face of clear evidence that we're in a remarkably stable period!

lol the pile of racist dogshit being taught to kids is literally called Critical Race Theory.

https://www.amazon.com/Critical-Race-Theory-Third-Introduction/dp/147980276X

Once again, marxists scramble like cockroaches when the lights go on.

There’s a guy on the Chernobyl sub who wrote his own book. Here’s an Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/Chernobyl-01-Incredible-Nuclear-Disaster/dp/0993597505/ref=mp_s_a_1_6?dchild=1&keywords=chernobyl+book&qid=1619444552&sprefix=chernobyl+&sr=8-6

It’s not perfectly edited because I think he used his friend as the editor not a publishing house, but anyways he put an immense amount of effort Into it and is a very good account of the entire accident from a native English writer

I highly recommend Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy because it goes into the historical, political, and economic shitstorm that led to Chernobyl; it wasn’t just one factor.

The HBO series is based on Voices from Chernobyl which has eyewitness accounts.

“What crime and poverty have created is a slow motion riot.” - John V. Lindsay

Highly recommend this book, which takes place in NYC in the late 1980s.

Me, too! That cover was about the only thing I liked about that course.

Introduction to Error Analysis

The book about this is titled "Moby Duck".

NPR story (32 min audio)
https://www.npr.org/2011/03/29/134923863/moby-duck-when-28-800-bath-toys-are-lost-at-sea

Read Moby Duck if you're interested in the details along with all sorts of other interesting information.