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pigfarmer

pigfarmer

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Dejan Corovic said:
I have a friend in south London, who lives just under a flight path of passenger planes that land at Heathrow airport.
He told me that large rivets and bolt regularly fall onto his house and garden. I heard that same thing from many other people living in that area.
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Blue ice, in the context of aviation, is frozen sewage material that has leaked mid-flight from commercial aircraft lavatory waste systems. It is a mixture of human biowaste and liquid disinfectant that freezes at high altitude. The name comes from the blue color of the disinfectant. Airlines are not allowed to dump their waste tanks mid-flight, and pilots have no mechanism by which to do so;[1] however, leaks sometimes do occur from a plane's septic tank.
 
Dejan Corovic

Dejan Corovic

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Once I've seen a car with petrol engine explode on a Finchley Road.
Policeman stopped traffic on both sides of the street. Engine caught a fire, then exploded with a big fireball. And that was it.
These EVs had like 10 successive explosions as big as that single petrol engine explosion.
 
pigfarmer

pigfarmer

tall, thin, irritable
Dejan Corovic said:
Once I've seen a car with petrol engine explode on a Finchley Road.
Policeman stopped traffic on both sides of the street. Engine caught a fire, then exploded with a big fireball. And that was it.
These EVs had like 10 successive explosions as big as that single petrol engine explosion.
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I never saw one explode, period and I've spent half my life on the road and seen all sorts of horrific accidents.

On an old Jeep I had I once had to very quickly strip off my jacket and use it to smother a fire under the hood. Turned the key and heard an odd whooomp and realized I had maybe five seconds to pop the hood - and fortunately did. Fixed it & promptly sold it.
 
nivek

nivek

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Yesterday in Bayside, New York, Elias Bonaros saw a bright silvery crescent in the daytime sky. It wasn't the Moon. It was Venus!

Like the Moon, Venus has phases, and that is why it sometimes looks like a crescent. The next two weeks are a good time to observe this phenomenon. On Aug. 13th, Venus will pass almost directly between Earth and the sun--an event astronomers call "inferior conjunction." Between now and then, Venus will be turning its nightside toward us, transforming itself into a dark disk outlined by a curved sliver of the planet's sunlit cloudtops. At closest approach on Aug. 13th, Venus and the sun will be separated by a little more than 7 degrees. This means careful daytime shots of Venus will be possible. Keep your eyes to the sky.

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nivek

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nivek

nivek

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The Kansai International Airport, Osaka, Japan is located literally in the middle of the bay. It cost 20 billion dollars to build and is considered the civil engineering monument of the millennium. However, it has already sunk more than 8 meters and is still sinking.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Yh_dal5A-U


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Dejan Corovic

Dejan Corovic

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Google One, which is their online storage, now offers this interesting service with a catchy name Google One Dark Web.

What's the dark web? - Google One Help

The dark web is a part of the internet that lets people hide their identity and location from other people and from law enforcement. As a result, the dark web can be used to sell stolen personal info.
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What this free service does, it scans the web for all the data breaches with your:
- name
- email
- phone
- social security number

So, you can contact these companies and ask them to stop exposing your privacy or else . . .

Basically, I tried Google Dark Web and it did quite a good job pulling out all my exposed info on various sites.
 
nivek

nivek

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Adam Rainer: The only man to be a dwarf and a giant in a lifetime; at the age of 19 he measured approximately 4’8” and around 7’8” at the time of his death.



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wwkirk

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Sir Alexander Mackenzie (c. 1764 – 12 March 1820) was a Scottish explorer and fur trader known for accomplishing the first crossing of North America in 1793. The Mackenzie River and Mount Sir Alexander are named after him.

He had wanted to continue westward out of a desire to reach the open ocean, but was stopped by the hostility of the Heiltsuk people.[18] Hemmed in by Heiltsuk war canoes, he wrote a message on a rock near the water's edge of Dean Channel, using a reddish paint made of vermilion and bear grease, and turned back east. The inscription read: "Alex MacKenzie / from Canada / by land / 22d July 1793" (at the time the name Canada was an informal term for the former French territory in what is now southern Quebec and Ontario).  The words were later inscribed permanently by surveyors. The site is now Sir Alexander Mackenzie Provincial Park and is designated First Crossing of North America National Historic Site.

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nivek

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pigfarmer

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They had one in use every day on the old Tappan Zee Bridge to add a lane in one direction for the heavy commute periods.

The new one's still the TZB even though the plaque says something else, who remembers what exactly? Not important. Don't think it needs The Zipper.
 
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