Interesting Posts Today

This is a new one for me. VFT today.:thumbsup:
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That was the worst maritime disaster in US history. Can you imagine surviving the war, especially a POW, and going out like this? All because of greed. Sultana now rests under a cotton field in Arkansas.
 
That was the worst maritime disaster in US history. Can you imagine surviving the war, especially a POW, and going out like this? All because of greed. Sultana now rests under a cotton field in Arkansas.
I think it was partially excavated in the early 80's.
 
Many/most nuclear plant disasters (chernobyl and Fukishima) are steam boiler explosions
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I've worked on boiler systems controls and piping systems. They are nothing to trifle with. Plant I worked at had 3 900hp boilers each could deliver 32,000 lbs of steam a hour. These were what I call low pressure boilers less than 130psi. If we had a leak you could normally see where it was coming from by the vapor in the air. If needed use your hand to pin point it. It would scald you but not do a lot of harm. I never wanted to have anything to do with the high pressure systems. You had to look for leaks with 2x4s. A small leak at 800psi didn't form vapor for several feet from the leak. It would cut a 2x4 in half or if using your hand cut it off. I was told by more than a few guys that worked on high pressure systems.
Boiler explosions are a whole nother animal. They can and will level a building. Boilers are very dangerous. Feed water is critical. Most of the railroad and steamship explosions were caused from the feed water they had to use.
 
One has to be very arrogant to think that out of all this points of light to think that only the one that sheds light on our home planet is home to any form of life. Might actually be some intelligent form of life out there as I'm coming to the conclusion the chance of finding it on this planet we call earth is getting hard to believe!
 
One has to be very arrogant to think that out of all this points of light to think that only the one that sheds light on our home planet is home to any form of life. Might actually be some intelligent form of life out there as I'm coming to the conclusion the chance of finding it on this planet we call earth is getting hard to believe!
Bugger all down here
 
He could have had the decency of having the heart attack first
You reap what you sow
 
Put on your sun glasses
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Spitzer vs JWST in infrared The team behind NASA’s JWST mission has released a teaser image of just how powerful this new space telescope is. The two pictures shown here are of the same part of the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small satellite galaxy of the Milky Way with dense star fields. On the left, you see an infrared image taken by NASA’s now-retired Spitzer Space Telescope’s Infrared Array Camera. On the right, the dramatically crisper image taken by JWST’s Mid-Infrared Instrument. NASA/JPL-Caltech (left), NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI (right)
https://www.planetary.org/space-ima...tologin=true&s_src=downlink&s_subsrc=20220513
 
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