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Message 2085005 - Posted: 26 Sep 2021, 1:24:15 UTC - in response to Message 2084877.  

How could he miss seeing the truck in front of him?

Toyota Camry drives straight into stopped truck in peculiar dashcam footage.

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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
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Message 2085008 - Posted: 26 Sep 2021, 2:29:34 UTC
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Amtrak train derails in Montana, leaving at least 3 dead:
Images show train cars toppled as passengers remain temporarily stranded
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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."

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Message 2085189 - Posted: 28 Sep 2021, 23:49:00 UTC

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Message 2085197 - Posted: 29 Sep 2021, 1:18:58 UTC - in response to Message 2085189.  

Footage captures car careering across eight lanes in Australia - BBC News
She 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. ;-)

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Message 2085314 - Posted: 30 Sep 2021, 23:18:10 UTC

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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Message 2085328 - Posted: 1 Oct 2021, 4:12:06 UTC - in response to Message 2085314.  

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.

Seeing how it is Texas.
Does a pregnant woman count as two people?
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Message 2085334 - Posted: 1 Oct 2021, 5:55:58 UTC - in response to Message 2085328.  

... Seeing how it is Texas.
Does a pregnant woman count as two people?

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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Message 2085521 - Posted: 4 Oct 2021, 11:23:14 UTC
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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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Message 2085530 - Posted: 4 Oct 2021, 14:40:01 UTC - in response to Message 2085521.  

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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Message 2085569 - Posted: 5 Oct 2021, 7:15:27 UTC - in response to Message 2085521.  
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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
21st century substitute for sand.
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Message 2085581 - Posted: 5 Oct 2021, 11:27:49 UTC - in response to Message 2085576.  

Or.....
BMW driver misunderstood house holder's enquiry to get an extra radiator in the front room.
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Message 2085731 - Posted: 7 Oct 2021, 10:55:26 UTC

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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Message 2085796 - Posted: 8 Oct 2021, 5:08:07 UTC - in response to Message 2085731.  

You really couldn't make it up
I'm so glad I don't use the road for a living anymore. :-)
Far out.
Two people with way too much money and not nearly enough sense.
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Message 2085798 - Posted: 8 Oct 2021, 6:38:05 UTC

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Message 2085800 - Posted: 8 Oct 2021, 6:54:22 UTC - in response to Message 2085798.  

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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Message 2085801 - Posted: 8 Oct 2021, 7:33:07 UTC - in response to Message 2085800.  

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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Message 2085803 - Posted: 8 Oct 2021, 8:06:12 UTC - in response to Message 2085801.  

And whatever they hit didn't make an echo.
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Message 2085804 - Posted: 8 Oct 2021, 8:40:45 UTC - in response to Message 2085803.  

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).
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