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CZroe

CZroe

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Fanatical Meat said:
I learned yesterday the reason to not use an elevator during a fire isn’t due to it getting stuck, modern elevators are designed to not get stuck in an area you can’t get out of. Modern buildings (I think it was buildings built 70s and beyond) use the elevator shaft as a smoke stack to vent the building and make escape easier.
If you are in an elevator you basically are in a chimney.
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Another obvious reason is because it could lower you kicking and screaming into a swirling vortex of hellfire with no ability to simply stop and turn around.
 
KMFJD

KMFJD

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sdifox

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OccamsToothbrush said:
Today is a palindrome date, 02/02/2020. It's the first one since 11/11/1111 which was 909 years ago.

Next one will be 12/12/2121.
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I don't plan to be around for the next one

Actually, wouldn't 12022021 be the next one? I plan to be around for that one.
 
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lxskllr

lxskllr

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There's a fish that lives in a single cavern, in a single hole in the desert

The Plan to Save the Rarest Fish in the World
The Devils Hole pupfish (Cyprinodon diabolis) is the rarest fish in the world. Found only in a single, tiny limestone cavern in the Devils Hole geothermal pool about 100 km east of Nevada’s Death Valley National Park, these fish have the smallest known geographic range of any vertebrate in the wild.
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blogs.scientificamerican.com

The plan to save the rarest fish in the world – that happens to be named after puppies

The Devils Hole pupfish (Cyprinodon diabolis) is the rarest fish in the world. Found only in a single, tiny limestone cavern in the Devils Hole geothermal pool about 100 km east of Nevada’s Death Valley National Park, these fish have the smallest known geographic range of any vertebrate in the wild.
blogs.scientificamerican.com blogs.scientificamerican.com

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IronWing

IronWing

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Yep, and three buttheads got prison time for vandalizing the hole.
www.nationalparkstraveler.org

Third Nevada Man Sentenced For Vandalism At Devils Hole

More than two years after three men broke into Devils Hole at Death Valley National Park and vandalized the site and jeopardize the health of an extremely rare population of pupfish, the last of the three has been sentenced to prison.
www.nationalparkstraveler.org www.nationalparkstraveler.org

The pupfish also spawned one of the most important water rights cases in history.

Winters v. United States - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
 
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OccamsToothbrush

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sdifox said:
I don't plan to be around for the next one

Actually, wouldn't 12022021 be the next one? I plan to be around for that one.
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JujuFish said:
01/02/2010? Or 11/02/2011?
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My fault, didn't make it clear. 02/02/2020 is a GLOBAL palindrome date which means it works in both the MM/DD/YYYY format we use and the DD/MM/YYYY format that most of the rest of the world uses. The dates you suggest are only palindromes in MM/DD
 
JujuFish

JujuFish

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OccamsToothbrush said:
My fault, didn't make it clear. 02/02/2020 is a GLOBAL palindrome date which means it works in both the MM/DD/YYYY format we use and the DD/MM/YYYY format that most of the rest of the world uses. The dates you suggest are only palindromes in MM/DD
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The dates I suggest are palindromes whether you read them as MM/DD or DD/MM. January 2nd and February 1st, November 2nd and February 11th.
 
lxskllr

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That's a really cool thing. I wonder how long it takes per minute of film? I'd like to see other historic films cleaned up also.
 
lxskllr

lxskllr

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Earthworms aren't native to North America. Here's a somewhat lengthy article saying why worms are bad...

Until about 10,000 years ago, a vast ice sheet covered the northern third of the North American continent. Its belly rose over what is now Hudson Bay, and its toes dangled down into Iowa and Ohio. Scientists think it killed off the earthworms that may have inhabited the area before the last glaciation. And worms—with their limited powers of dispersal—weren’t able to recolonize on their own.
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www.theatlantic.com

Cancel Earthworms

The “crazy worms” remaking forests aren’t your friendly neighborhood garden worms. Then again, those aren’t so great either.
www.theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com
 
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lxskllr

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Heard the name Fido tonight in reference to a generic dog in a news story. That's one of *the* generic dog names. I looked it up to see where it came from, and found wikipedia. There was a famous historical Fido that was honored for his loyalty, and I'm guessing that's how it got genericized...

This was during the Second World War, and on December 30, 1943, Borgo San Lorenzo was subjected to a violent allied bombardment: many factories were hit, and many workers, including Soriani, perished. That evening, Fido showed up as usual at the bus stop, but did not see his beloved master disembark. Fido later returned home, but for fourteen years thereafter (more than 5,000 times)[2] until the day of his death, he went daily to the stop, watching and sniffing the air, waiting in vain for Soriani to get off the bus.

Media interest in Fido grew during his lifetime. Italian magazines Gente and Grand Hotel published the story of the dog, which also appeared in several newsreels of the Istituto Luce.[3][4][5] Many readers were struck by the extraordinary faithfulness of Fido, including the mayor of Borgo San Lorenzo, who, on November 9, 1957, awarded him a gold medal in the presence of many citizens including Soriani's moved widow. Time magazine wrote an article about Fido in April 1957.[1]
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en.wikipedia.org

Fido (dog) - Wikipedia

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shortylickens

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Harrison Ford deliberately muddled his Blade Runner voice-over in the hopes they would not use it because he thought a voice-over for that particular film wasnt a good idea.
They used it anyway in the theatrical cut but the later special editions removed it.
 
shortylickens

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I've seen a number of documentaries on Housing Projects and this is the first one to tell me something genuinely new:


The original federal projects were intended for middle class whites to get back on their feet and eventually move out. They were a short term solution for a select group of people.
They were later filled up and even expanded for inner-city minorities. The government didn't give a crap (at the time) if they ever moved up and out, they stopped monitoring them, and so the projects quickly went to hell.

Its weird all the other documentaries skip that point completely.
 
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nutxo

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shortylickens said:
Harrison Ford deliberately muddled his Blade Runner voice-over in the hopes they would not use it because he thought a voice-over for that particular film wasnt a good idea.
They used it anyway in the theatrical cut but the later special editions removed it.
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I watched the final cut last week. Great movie.
 
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