I want to pack a lunch and go watch. This thing is massive!
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Yes, I’ve encountered one of these before. Surprisingly they were roughly horse shaped, with a horn on their nose. Also, pink. 
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For a swiss, the first odd thing about this is… How do you have the bonus of having access to the attic from your flat, and are not using it for additional storage? Not even for your moving boxes? 
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Went to visit family out of town yesterday. Saw them prepping the spot for tonight. They were laying down pallets and clearing trees. This thing has such an entourage of support crews. We don’t get much excitement in Arkansas.
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… Since I recently spent part of a free afternoon watching a Techne Kirow descend on an old train track, taking the old rails out, and then casually lifting itself back onto remaining tracks to leave, I can only comment positively on the entertainment value of passing heavy machines. 
I don’t know why that is? Maybe it makes us happy seeing difficult tasks getting done successfully, or the feeling that we control giants? Hopping around in the NMS Minotaur has a similar effect. 
Currently I’m playing another game where teams salvage wrecks and transport the good parts over uneven terrain using trucks and cranes (which are also built out of wreck parts), to build a junk spaceship, also fun.
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That is so cool! Maybe part of the appeal is also partly because of the amazing things we invent and the ways we implement them…I am having fun with this concept in Zelda Tears of the Kingdom.
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The part of my navy career that I recall fondly is that they had the very coolest toys. Every kid should get a nuclear submarine to play with.
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I am in position at the railroad tracks. Power crews are lowering the power lines. I should get a good view of the hydraulics lifting the furnace up to go over the tracks.
The excitement
Everyone in this tiny town is here
They had a little sign drama. Did not have the right wrench to take it down so a group of guys pulled on it until the load cleared (the biggest mystery of the day, why is there a 1 way sign there? There is no 1 way street…)
96 tires and they brought only 9 spares. According to one of the power crewmen.
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… because there is only one way to turn?
I’m often befuddled about the thinking process (or lack of) behind some highway signage.
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Yes. Left lane must go left but they could use a left turn arrow on the pavement or on a sign. It is just not the correct sign. Maybe 1 way signs are cheaper.
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I had to fight a fire on board a nuclear submarine, back in the 1970s. Very worrying.
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Respect. The real aspect of fighting a fire in a submarine that most people don’t think about is that a submarine is effectively a fairly small steel box, and when you put a fire inside it you have a pretty good simulation of an oven. Chances are the fire really had nothing to do with the nuclear part of the boat, but just climbing down in there and recognizing how hard it would be to get out in a hurry must have been pretty harrowing.
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No, it was in some diesel kit - but we didn’t know that at the time. If you’ve only seen them on the movies, you don’t have any real impression of how small and cramped they really are.
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I toured a submarine one time. I could touch stuff on both sides of me at once. The woman in front of me had an attack of claustrophobia. They had to carry her out. If we had actually been underwater, they would likely have to surface and throw me overboard. I would rather be adrift at sea than underwater in a tin can.
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Sorry. No way we surface and risk giving away our position to throw you overboard. You’ll just have to tough it out.
I dunno if they still have it, but the Science and Industry Museum in Chicago had an excellent submarine on exhibit. It was an old diesel boat that was even tinier than a nuc boat, but certainly had the atmosphere.
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Ummm…someone has been making changes on the forum and I can’t find my way around… 
On the positive side, it is finally back
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That’s an odd looking lava lamp!
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