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Extreme Social Distancing At The Office
I found it on Earth 1.0, although it took longer than you might think.
Found it on Google Earth. Hancock Hill. Street View too.
Extreme Social Distancing At The Office
Reminds me of this:
The Most Popular Programming Languages - 1965/2020
Assembler (for TI DSPs, embedded, no OS)
Scheme (a lisp)
C
Awk
would like to learn a logic programming language (eg Prolog), but have yet to get over starting inertia
will do some Fortran shortly for access to numerical libraries
What are you guys using today if still programming?
Toots & the Maytals sing Take Me Home, Country Roads
*promote the memory of Toots Hibbert.
Pigeon Eating Catfish
A little ambiguity can be enticing.
Bro WTF. *Lies!
You need a freaking hyphen in that title!
Is Success Luck or Hard Work? | Veritasium
Luck, shmuck. I have an issue with the snatoms; how do you make a double or triple bond? It was simple with the old fashioned ball and spring things.
newtboy
(Member Profile)
thanks,
Time for everyone on the Miss Stacy to buy lottery tickets, this is definitely their lucky day.
*quality save
Al Franken Draws USA Freehand
Once you throw in Puerto Rico, you have to do Guam, and the US Virgin Islands, and American Samoa. I probably missed one; is Kwajalein a territory or just a 99 year lease?
Pencil me in for "Impressed" also.
That should be a requirement for any presidential candidate. He could have thrown in Puerto Rico for extra credit.
Insanely Big Explosion in Beirut, Lebanon (compilation)
Ammonimum nitrate does require a sensitizer in order to be explosive, however this stuff was intended for blasting, so it presumably already had something mixed in with it. The other requirement is a low explosive detonator, eg blasting caps. In this case it was probably a random accident, so not as efficient as a deliberate blasting setup.
The colour of the plume apparently indicates a lot of unexploded nitrates. Ammonium Nitrate needs to be mixed with other things for an efficient reaction. Once the explosion started the reaction couldn't continue efficiently and the excess was expelled into the plume.
Insanely Big Explosion in Beirut, Lebanon (compilation)
The large, windowless square structure is grain storage. It blocked some of the blast but represents a large fraction of Lebanon's grain supply.
More details from https://www.moonofalabama.org/2020/08/beirut-blast-wrap-up.html#more
-------------------------%<--------------------------------%<------------------------------ RFERL spoke with the captain of the ship that had unintentionally brought the ammonium nitrate to Lebanon. He confirms the ship's arrest. It also reports the cause of the incident:
Lebanon's LBCI-TV reported on August 5 that, according to preliminary information, the fire that set off the explosion was started accidentally by welders who were closing off a gap that allowed unauthorized entry into the warehouse.
LBCI said sparks from a welder's torch are thought to have ignited fireworks stored in a warehouse, which in turn detonated the nearby cargo of ammonium nitrate that had been unloaded from the MV Rhosus years earlier.
Independent experts say orange clouds that followed the massive blast on August 4 were likely from toxic nitrogen dioxide gas that is released after an explosion involving nitrates.
There is a short video of firefighters at the initial fire. Reportedly none survived when the fireworks fire set off the ammonium nitrate. Another video shows the initial fire caused by welding. It burns a while and then sets off fireworks in a first explosion. This takes the roof off the warehouse. A few minutes later the fireworks cause the huge explosion of the ammonium nitrate.
Reuters provides another detail:
The source said a fire had started at port warehouse 9 on Tuesday and spread to warehouse 12, where the ammonium nitrate was stored.
That the ammonium nitrate was stored for seven years was not the responsibility of the port management but was caused by some judicial quarrel:
The head of Beirut port and the head of customs both said on Wednesday that several letters were sent to the judiciary asking for the dangerous material be removed, but no action was taken.
Port General Manager Hassan Koraytem told OTV the material had been put in a warehouse on a court order, adding that they knew then the material was dangerous but “not to this degree”.
“We requested that it be re-exported but that did not happen. We leave it to the experts and those concerned to determine why,” Badri Daher, director general of Lebanese Customs, told broadcaster LBCI.
Two documents seen by Reuters showed Lebanese Customs had asked the judiciary in 2016 and 2017 to request that the “concerned maritime agency” re-export or approve the sale of the ammonium nitrate, which had been removed from cargo vessel Rhosus and deposited in warehouse 12, to ensure port safety.
Lawmaker to Barr: I'm starting to lose my temper
There doesn't seem to be any reason for Barr to actually be sitting there, she could have used a cardboard cutout. These hearings were a farce.
Solving the Mask Shortage in Huntington Beach
I have to admit, living in Massachusetts, where coronavirus is definitely a thing, that I only wear a mask indoors. I didn't wear one at the beach, nor do I normally wear one walking around outdoors (maybe if it's really crowded).
If I did accept a mask from some wierd dudes on the beach, I would have to disinfect if first.
Black Widow Infestation vs. the Praying Mantis Solution
*dead
Free Speech Considered Support for Nazism
I'm not sure what you think was "snide". I think all parties here were arguing in good faith. I'm sad that you seem incapable of civil disagreement, but I'll surely get over it.
Edit: The motives snidely ascribed are clearly not the actual motives, no matter what you believe the provable definitive facts about who is a Nazi or Nazi sympathizer may be.
I'm sad for you.
Bye.
Free Speech Considered Support for Nazism
Well, I plan to concede nothing.
Oops, misread your name, thought I was replying to @Buttle
My mistake, sorry.