The random thought thread

[sturmtrooper]

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The local truck eating bridge had lunch yesterday. Semi hits downtown Davenport train bridge - Story (Open the link at your own peril.) If that had happened on Harrison Street, the driver would be some sort of moronic imbecile, as there are a couple of flashing indicators that a person with eyesight should interpret as telling them "Your truck is too tall to fit under this bridge. Here is the way around that bridge." On the Brady street side of the bridge, there is no flashy blinky warnings as there is only four or so blocks between the foot of Brady street and the bridge. So this guy is only a big dummy, FOR NOT TAKING RIVER DRIVE OUT TO INTERSTATE 280. Sure, that route would have added actually a good deal of distance to the trip, but also that truck wouldn't be a useless pile of rubble if the driver would have done that. That truck had a reefer unit too, those things aren't cheap. We used reefer trailers to keep food refrigerated and frozen the times I probably went to Central America with the Reserves on humanitarian missions back in the day, so I may have some knowledge of that.

Our competitor had someone peel the lid off their box truck like a sardine tin on a local rail bridge. The clearance is like maybe nine feet. Which is clearly stated on the steel beam that makes up the bridge frame. Even better is that there is a road maybe 100ft away that goes to the same apartment complex but without the clearance issue.

[SwisSeV]

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I would rather pull my eyelids off with a sharpened spring hook than change a ccd unit in a dx-c311 again

[Iowatech]

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I have this as the ringtone on my phone.
(Open the link at your own peril.)

[fixthecopier]

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8 inches of rain last night. Dams breaking, schools closed, one customer called and said she had water up to the paper trays. Maybe 20 to 30 roads closed. Downtown flooded. Maybe 2 to 4 more inches tonight. Hurricane may hit next week. Good times, good times.

[ZOOTECH]

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8 inches of rain last night. Dams breaking, schools closed, one customer called and said she had water up to the paper trays. Maybe 20 to 30 roads closed. Downtown flooded. Maybe 2 to 4 more inches tonight. Hurricane may hit next week. Good times, good times.

Hang in there, things will dry out soon enough (except the reams of paper in the machine and storage).

[Iowatech]

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Cedar Rapids is going through the second worse flood ever. They are using Hesco barriers for temporary flood walls. I'm kind of dubious about how that will work as I've never seen a flood require an area to have protection from small arms fire.
It's my understanding that Hesco barriers aren't terribly watertight as well, but that's just me. I suppose they would be OK if supplemented with plastic sheeting and sandbags.

[fixthecopier]

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Hang in there, things will dry out soon enough (except the reams of paper in the machine and storage).

On the plus side, North Carolina is usually 95% to 100% humidity so it's not like it can get any more humid.

[mbcruzin]

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On the plus side, North Carolina is usually 95% to 100% humidity so it's not like it can get any more humid.

OH it can get more humid.

[fixthecopier]

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OH it can get more humid.

My biggest fear are my trees. I have about 40 on a half acre. 25 to 30 are tall white pines. The ground gets soft from all the rain, then the hurricane blows them over.

[slimslob]

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[Iowatech]

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Someone made an animated trailer for Indiana Jones:

(Sorry, I like the theme music.)

If that's not your thing, you might like something else from the same person, such as this:

[BLADE]

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We never had any bridge problems when I was with a tactical trans unit. There was one AT when we were hauling munitions from Umatilla Army Depot in northern Oregon to Herlong Sierra Ordinance Depot for disposal. We had M932 tractors which are designed power not for speed. One platoon was hauling 8" projos and were actually a bit overloaded, people at Umatilla were used to loading line haul units. Climbing the first grade out of Alturas, CA they said that there were points where the assistant driver could get out and walk faster than the vehicles were moving.

Projectile question - how is the range of a projectile controlled on a field howitzer / artillery / cannon thingy ?

[slimslob]

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Projectile question - how is the range of a projectile controlled on a field howitzer / artillery / cannon thingy ?

Powder charge and tube elevation.

[fixthecopier]

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Once again, People are stupid...





Apple's iPhone 7: People Are Drilling in Headphone Jacks

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/sep/26/video-

[NeoMatrix]

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Once again, People are stupid...

Apple's iPhone 7: People Are Drilling in Headphone Jacks

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/sep/26/video-

Re: Drilling headphone jack.
Wow,the fact that those people have a access to drilling machine is scary enough....
I wonder how many of those people went out an bought a drill machine just for the iPhone job.

Luv reading the part about my iPhone no longer works after drilling a hole.
That's because you let all the intelligent air escape when you drill the hole you dopes.
Don't you people know that intelligent air makes all cell phones work the way they do...




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