OK, put the frozen turkeys in the refrigeration cars, smart, but why on earth did they move them around? Surely it would be cheaper to just park them somewhere, no?

Slow down on the we need to panic soon or we are even too late for panic. The IPCC estimates through to the year 2100 do not show unmanageable changes. We can adapt to the temperature and sea level changes expected. More over, that is based on today's technology. We are talking nearly a hundred years in the future. 100 years ago cars, planes, refrigerators, spaces ships and nuclear weapons were all yet to be discovered or known to the public. Problems like putting a man on the moon or travelling the globe in hours seemed insurmountable then. They are done and a matter of course to us today.

Apologies, but with all due respect panic hardly seems called for over a temperature and sea level increase we can handle currently pending on us in a hundred years. Something tells me it'll give the people then with hundred years of advances more if a laugh than a burden.

I've nightmares of this.

It works out ok though, turns out the classic car I'm running to save turns out to just be a little toy car which turns out to be a desk in my grade 3 class. That desk did a lot of damage to the refrigerator though.

awesome suit, but he should have built some kind of refrigeration unit into the backpack...

This method was invented in 1906, the refrigerator was invented in 1913... So this is really about preserving cake without a refrigerator.

How does he not know what a bad idea this is? Beer only keeps a few years when its refrigerated and as he says, he doesn't know where the can has been.

I once went camping with friends and one guy left our last 3 beers tied to a tree. We went to the same spot next year and he found the beer, drank one and spewed all over the forest. He was sick as a dog the next day.

Low refrigerant combined with high humidity would cause icing on the coil. That would blow into the cabin.

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I live in Japan and if I were to dive under my desk every time there was an earthquake, I'd be under there at least 3 times a day. Since the 2011 earthquake we've had constant aftershocks, some as strong as 5 and 6 on the Richter scale (which makes the panic seen over California's most recent quake somewhat amusing).

ChaosEngine is correct, you can gauge how bad the earthquake is by the amount of shaking. On March 3rd, 2011--the only time I have actually dived under a table during an earthquake--plates were flying off my kitchen shelves and shattering on the floor.

That said, Japan is a country that is truly prepared for quakes. Any big items you buy like refrigerators or big screen TVs usually come with fasteners to bolt them down so they don't fall over during a quake. The buildings here are incredibly well-engineered to survive a severe quake--very few people during the 3.11 quake were killed by collapsing structures.

Most other countries aren't that prepared. If I were vacationing in a developing country and a quake struck I would probably get the hell out of the building as soon as possible regardless of if it seemed small because I wouldn't trust the engineering to be as sound as it is here.

tldr:

You're both right. You need to use your experience and critical thinking to decide the best course of action in an emergency. And if you don't have any experience with that particular emergency, then you need to trust the people who do have experience to know what they are doing and follow them. For example, if I were ever in an airplane crash the first person I'd look for is the flight attendant to see what they were doing and follow their lead.

If Harrison Ford had goalie pads in The Crystal Skull, he wouldn't have needed that refrigerator.

A few years ago, my boyfriend used to spend a LOT of his time on VideoSift and it annoyed me. I didn't understand the need for a website to embed and rank videos that you could just watch on YouTube. Then there was a Doctor Who contest and, of course, I got interested. I registered and sifted my first video and I even won a t-shirt. I sifted more videos and had fun reading the comments of other sifters, sometimes even trying to take part in discussions while being completely ignored by all the other commenters. I'm glad I found out that there's more to this site than I initially thought. By now, my boyfriend has long moved on to Reddit, but I like it here and I plan on staying.

Happy Birthday!

I really liked the contests, especially the ones with the coffee and refrigerator videos. I hope there will be contests like this again.

Someone at work brought these chocolate chip cookies in today. I asked her to email me the recipe since they were really good. So here you go...

Chocolate Chip Cookies
(makes 6 dozen cookies)

4 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking soda
2 teaspoons baking powder
2 cups butter, softened
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 cups packed brown sugar
1/2 cup white sugar
2 (3.4 ounce) packages instant vanilla pudding mix
4 eggs
2 tablespoons vanilla extract
4 cups semisweet chocolate chips
2 cups chopped walnuts (optional)

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Sift together the flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt, then set aside.

2. In a large bowl, cream together the butter, brown sugar, and white sugar. Beat in the instant pudding mix powder until blended. Stir in the eggs and vanilla. Blend in the flour mixture. Finally, stir in the chocolate chips and nuts. Drop cookies by rounded spoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheets covered in parchment paper. Refrigerate dough between batches so the dough doesn't become too soft before baking.

3. Bake for approximately 10 to 12 minutes in the preheated oven. Could be more or less depending on your oven. Edges should be golden brown.

yeah i still want to know how present day batman survives a nuclear blast. maybe he got inside a refrigerator at the last second??

Poor little Squamata, be surprised if his fates' not a slow dessication behind the refrigerator.....

Also, if you eat a jar of peanut butter as slow as I do, refrigerating it keeps it from turning rancid before you kill it-

Never was an issue outside of southwest Texas (Malaysian summers), if you live where it's cold and dry nut oils stay fresh longer at room temp-