You Might Very Well Have An Expectation
Concerning Armoured Fighting Vehicles, and BOVINGTON TANK MUSEUM , which we have not finished with, not by a long way, and the recent recounting from 'Charley's War',
No idea what this is, except it looks pretty TANK'-y
and their images of 'Mother' and her hideous mechanical offspring.
You would be wrong. Wrong, WRONG, WRONG.
Wrong. Just to be correct. Art!
For Lo! we are back in the realms of 'Discover Tech US' and their annals of things going BANG, as will be shortly explained about the above.
You can plainly see the large pressure tanks visible at mid- and distant venture, can't you? Good, because pay VERY CLOSE ATTENTION. There are no puny humans for scale, but judge how large those tanks are by the walkway hard to port. Art!
TANK GO BOOM! TANKS GO BOOM!
Miguel, who posted this originally, seems to be a Spanish specialist in ATEX, which is the portmanteau version of 'Atmospheres Explosibles' and is an EU-wide convention about dealing with potentially explosive products and their processing. You'll notice that the two tanks that ruptured explosively did so up into the air, where there are no workers, rather than splitting apart and flying across the factory floor, which is where you tend to find workers. It's hard to see but there is a reflection of a horrified worker, complete with hard hat, in what must be an observation and/or control booth. Conrad still thinks you'd need to be paying staff danger money to walk back in there the next day, mind. Art!
A 'drop zone' with no paratroopers
You can probably guess where this one is going. A rather grim statistic is that 40% of all crane accidents involve an 'uncontrolled load'. 45% of crane accidents involve electrocution, where the crane comes into contact with power lines - which doesn't happen here. Art!
The cable fails, either through physical damage or it wasn't rated sufficiently to carry a load as heavy as this one. or possibly both. Art!
The panel falls flat, on top of nothing. The workers handling the giant panel were safety-conscious enough to keep to the sides, thus not getting squashed flat. Not exactly a happy ending, but not a tragic one either. Art!
In a contest between man and giant steel beam, steel beam comes out the winner every time. Another lesson in how not to risk your tender epidermis by avoiding the drop zone. Matey is chancing things by being marginally under that girder. Art!
Chancing it even more. Art!
If he had a spider sense, it would be tingling at this point. He randomly decides to move over a little, which is good for him, because - Art!
One of the straps hauling the beam gives way, the other cannot hold it alone and it descends at a rate of knots, precisely where Mister No Common Sense had been standing, busily watching an operation he had no involvement in. Art!
A need for new underwear moment. Art!"O"
I know what you're thinking here: which pile of stock is going to get knocked over or down or collapse when a forklift hits it?
Wrong emphasis. Keep your eye instead on the chap atop the ladder. Art!
The surface it was placed against is smooth, and so is the floor it's placed upon, meaning it starts to slip as soon as he makes his way downwards. Once this starts there's no stopping it. Art!
His fall is broken by a pile of something, which scatters apart as he hits it, so you do get the satisfaction of things falling over. A painful lesson in why you need to brace a ladder if working at height and I bet he got chaffed about it later on. "What's that song by Hall and Oates? O yes - 'Falling'." Art!
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More fun with molten metal. Art!
You can tell by the chap wearing a tinfoil suit that this job involves working with hot stuff. Said stuff looks like molten aluminium, as if it were steel it would be glowing white or red hot. Not to be taken lightly, anyway. Has it cooled in the moulds sufficiently to be handled?
No. In fact it is positively leaping from the moulds, causing both workers to scurry in the general direction of away. No wonder that control booth is completely enclosed and well away from the molten metal. A bad case of being mouldy?
Enough metallic mayhem for one Intro!
Slow News Day?
Conrad, as we all know by now, is a terrible person, and here's proof of it. I was idly clicking through the items on my news feed, and came across another celebritute. Art!
Who? Never heard of her before and don't feel any poorer for that absence. Being malicious, I did a little Snipping and came up with this. Art!
Tee hee. To make it worse, I didn't even click on the link. Conrad: terrible person.
A Whole Lot Of Quaking Going On
Also quacking, from the Wizard Lizard Gizzard party's pundits over The Pond. You see, there have been a few political upsets of late. There was a special election in Texas, where the Trump-approved candidate won, but with their margin cut from 20% to 9%. Then there were a couple of more recent elections, one for the position of Mayor of Miami. Art!
Florida is indeed florid, in that it is a very 'red' state, being verrrrry pro Wizard Lizard Gizzard indeed. Which makes it rather surprising that an Ice Cream Bandit member won the mayoral race, and by 20%, really hammering the pro-BOOH candidate. Using these nicknames means I can pretend this item isn't about Politics.
This result may have come about from a combination of WLG voters not bothering to turn out and ICB voters coming out in very large numbers, and the gloss seems to have worn off BOOH's endorsements. O dear. Art!
Big Orange Oaf Himself
It gets worse in Georgia, where the WLGs had been doing a bit of gerrymandering; that is, re-drawing districts to give them an advantage, which utterly failed. Another ICB candidate got in, overturning a 20% lead from the WLGs. This does not bode well for the mid-term elections in 2026, because if the ICBs win the House they will stonewall everything BOOH tries to do. Tantrums ahoy! Art?
A taste of things to come
Still A Slow News Day
Given the plethora of awful things happening around the globe, such as the brand-new war sparking between Cambodia and Thailand, it's a wonder that media editors have to resort to Nothingburger News. Art!
We can all rest easier in our beds tonight, aware that Anne has dared to have her hair done in a particular way, the absolute legend. Or something.
Another Gentle Shoeing
'Tank Encyclopedia' can consider itself lucky I didn't put my Toe-Tectors on. Art!
I have no idea what strange Teutonic over-engineered (and probably hugely over-sized too) piece of ordnance they are referring to, as the original item has vanished and I didn't bother clicking on the link when it was still available. Googling didn't enlighten me any further. Hang on and let me try the URL -
HA! Art?
So, it's a contemporary CEV - Combat Engineering Vehicle, not an old bit of Second Unpleasantness kit as they implied.
Digging up mines
Finally -
I already mentioned how horrid a person I am, so this rather malicious ending fits in perfectly. Can I copy and paste from Twitter?
That's Bricktop, equally as horrid as I am, with a picture of what the pilots look like now. Thanks for the maths work, Bricky!
How on earth they managed to both eject at the same time and indoors I do not know, unless vodka was involved.
And on that mordant note we will finish.
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