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  1. HorsieJuice

    Remember the "Fixed" Can Opener Bridge?

    That sign is terrible. I didn't even notice it at first. Why the hell would you put a danger sign like that in between two green traffic lights and not have them sync'ed together?
  2. HorsieJuice

    Pikesville MD Explosion

    Welcome to Baltimore. If I had to guess, I'd say that well over 90% of the housing stock is rowhouses; their curb appeals cover a rather wide range, with the median being on the lower side. It's a poor city that's long been plagued by a lot of problems. That said, in the little bit of real...
  3. HorsieJuice

    North Carolina school roof collapse - Micro-burst

    The masonry work in the unpainted block wall visible at 00:13 in the second video looks incredibly sloppy. Is that damage, shoddy workmanship, or both?
  4. HorsieJuice

    Ukraine airline crash Tehran

    NYT has what's purported to be video of the missile strike: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/09/video/iran-plane-missile.html
  5. HorsieJuice

    Infamous 'can opener' bridge in Durham, NC, is finally being 'fixed'...

    This saddens me a bit. My wife and her siblings all did their undergrad degrees in NC, so a couple years ago we all went down for homecoming and to visit her brothers at Duke. They're a big sports family and *really* into school spirit, some of which they were hoping would rub off on me during...
  6. HorsieJuice

    Hard Rock Hotel under construction in New Orleans collapses...

    If you're trying to drop the tower in a specific spot, I'd think the forces applied by the falling boom & tail would prove to be significant factors that you'd want to control. The attachment to the boom is what kept the one tower upright and the attachment to the tail is what appears to have...
  7. HorsieJuice

    Hard Rock Hotel under construction in New Orleans collapses...

    I have zero blasting experience. Why would they only sever the support cables at the top of the crane and not the connections where the tower meets the boom and the tail?

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