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John McCallum  Send message Joined: 5 Dec 04 Posts: 879 Credit: 599,458 RAC: 8 
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How could he miss seeing the truck in front of him? Having seen the youtube channel of Dashcam owners of Austrailia this is about average for the antics some are funny some are downright insane. Old enough to know better(but)still young enough not to care |
Dr Who Fan  Send message Joined: 8 Jan 01 Posts: 3352 Credit: 715,342 RAC: 4 
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Amtrak train derails in Montana, leaving at least 3 dead: Images show train cars toppled as passengers remain temporarily stranded " At approximately 4 p.m. MT, Empire Builder train 7/27 derailed five cars near Joplin, Montana. There are approximately 147 passengers and 13 crew members on board with injuries reported. Amtrak is working with the local authorities to transport injured passengers and safely evacuate all other passengers. Additional details will be provided as available." |
W-K 666  Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 19417 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67
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 Wiggo  Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36982 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 
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Footage captures car careering across eight lanes in Australia - BBC NewsShe saw that no one was in the Macca's drive thru and went for the break in the traffic to make sure that no one got in front of her. ;-) Cheers. |
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Dr Who Fan Send message Joined: 8 Jan 01 Posts: 3352 Credit: 715,342 RAC: 4
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Driver’s skeleton passenger gets him a ticket on the ‘Bony Express,’ Texas cops say Those carpool lanes are meant for vehicles with two or more people, according to the Texas Department of Transportation. And as this driver learned, skeletons don’t count as a person. |
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W-K 666 Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 19417 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67
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Driver’s skeleton passenger gets him a ticket on the ‘Bony Express,’ Texas cops say Seeing how it is Texas. Does a pregnant woman count as two people? |
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Dr Who Fan Send message Joined: 8 Jan 01 Posts: 3352 Credit: 715,342 RAC: 4
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... Seeing how it is Texas. If she is carrying TWINS it would count as three??? :- ... most native born Texas woman drivers are generally smarter than the men and would not try to press their luck with such gimmicks. |
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W-K 666 Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 19417 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67
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Wrong type of leaves on track could be a thing of the past. Thanks to a technique which uses dry ice which freezes the leaves, making them brittle, developed by University of Sheffield engineers. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58783589 |
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Richard Haselgrove Send message Joined: 4 Jul 99 Posts: 14680 Credit: 200,643,578 RAC: 874
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I hope they source their CO2 responsibly, and don't let it leak into the atmosphere - otherwise, they'll need even more cooling power to freeze the leaves next year. |
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Grant (SSSF) Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 13861 Credit: 208,696,464 RAC: 304
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Wrong type of leaves on track could be a thing of the past.21st century substitute for sand. Grant Darwin NT |
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W-K 666 Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 19417 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67
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rob smith    Send message Joined: 7 Mar 03 Posts: 22555 Credit: 416,307,556 RAC: 380
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Or..... BMW driver misunderstood house holder's enquiry to get an extra radiator in the front room. Bob Smith Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society) Somewhere in the (un)known Universe? |
Sirius B  Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24920 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 
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You really couldn't make it up I'm so glad I don't use the road for a living anymore. :-) |
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Grant (SSSF) Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 13861 Credit: 208,696,464 RAC: 304
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You really couldn't make it upFar out. Two people with way too much money and not nearly enough sense. Grant Darwin NT |
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W-K 666 Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 19417 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67
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Richard Haselgrove Send message Joined: 4 Jul 99 Posts: 14680 Credit: 200,643,578 RAC: 874
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Presumably nuclear submarines normally run without sonar operating - i.e., blind. How up to date are their underwater maps? What happened to Rule No 5? Look-out. Every vessel shall at all times maintain a proper look-out by sight and hearing as well as by all available means appropriate in the prevailing circumstances and conditions so as to make a full appraisal of the situation and of the risk of collision. |
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W-K 666 Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 19417 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67
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They normally run with huge arrays of hydrophones, including towed arrays, connected to massive amounts of processing power to calculate the direction and distance of any object that makes a sound, by analysing the difference in time that the sounds reach each individual hydrophone. So must assume the object that the submarine collided with wasn't moving. So maybe their underwater maps are not up to date or precise enough. |
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Richard Haselgrove Send message Joined: 4 Jul 99 Posts: 14680 Credit: 200,643,578 RAC: 874
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And whatever they hit didn't make an echo. |
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Grant (SSSF) Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 13861 Credit: 208,696,464 RAC: 304
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And whatever they hit didn't make an echo.No active sonar, no echo. The major drawback with passive detection- if the object hasn't been mapped previously & isn't making any noise (or other objects in the area aren't making enough noise to reflect from that object), then you don't know it's there (unless it runs in to you, or you in to it). Grant Darwin NT |
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W-K 666 Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 19417 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67
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