JamesV70R

No, they're real cars and a giant chimp!

Looks like mining equipment - a bit of research suggests its a mine hoist, something like the below ... definitely not on a ship though because of the warehouse walls and how it's embedded in the floor. https://www.siemag-tecberg.de/en/products-solutions/products-detail/products/Product/show/double-drum-blair/

https://eu.beauregarddailynews.net/story/news/2021/05/12/alabama-storms-montgomery-man-survives-tree-crushing-car/4969684001/

It had only recently returned to flight after a rebuild! At least the team have had a "practice run" with the rebuild now and it'll still be fresh in their minds! Hoping theres not too much saltwater damage from only being in the water for a few hours, but I have a feeling it'll be a few years before it's flying again.

Its quite a slow deceleration compared to what you're used to with cars - 35mph - 0mph in ~30 seconds. If you did the same in the car you'd barely notice yourself stopping. It's not going to generate any noticeable g-force. What's most impressive is that it is thousands of tonnes stopping in the same time - imagine the forces on the reverse buckets on the jets. There's a lot of energy being stopped!

I'd like to think the maintenance guys have those wheels mounted on a wall in the workshop somewhere - makes for a great almost unbeleivable story!

I don't think that pic can be from JetBlue 292 as this picture is of the main gear, not the nose gear, and the JetBlue aircraft is blue on the bottom where this is white? I can't find what flight it IS from though .. !

100% photoshopped. See the blurring at the top of the shoulder on his tshirt as well as to the left of the glass in his hand, and around his belly, the weird lighting around under his arm, his chest if you follow it down for where he's standing would be inside the worktop. Lots more too! There appears to be an elbow there in totally the wrong place ... https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/weakest-man-in-bulgaria

Through the door, probably behind the camera. Its only an aquarium walk-though tunnel with a wall at each end - nothing special. Set of stairs up to surface level, then walk to the beach on a pontoon.

Looked out the window this morning and saw the frost - then was very glad my commute was to the office via the kitchen, in my slippers! Working from home does have its benefits - that normally would have been a 25 minute walk along tree/hedge-lined pavements - super slippery!

Looks like heat - either someone put a red-hot pot/pan on the paint, or a rotary was held in one place for an age. Maybe they put a portable stove up there? The way the paint is blistered all round the edge evenly is odd, as is the smaller burn mark to it's left.

With Admiral my renewal went down by about £20, and was only about £3 more expensive than the cheapest offerings through ComparetheMarket etc, so I let the auto-renew run.

Now this is the kind of "Go Get'um" thinking that would have had HS2 built by now!

I dunno, looks like it's supported on a peice of wood and the body seems pretty level - guessing they've done the same the other side. It's only a few inches up, and its a big 4x4/pickup - slim chance it'll drop far enough (with the wheels on) to cause him any major harm?

Politics and beaurocracy! They weren't allowed to sell it, and it couldn't be moved from where it was unloaded to when originally confiscated. It had likely been a ticking time bomb since the original unloading, but paperwork got in the way again and again, eventually leading to the explosion. I don't imagine we'll see a full impartial investigation, but at most someone will lose their job - that won't help the 300k+ people who were affected in some way.

Time yes, but no ability to travel! Someone gets pulled over on their non-essential journey to have their geo done, the police will slap a £60 fine on them right away. Have you not noticed how few cars there are on the roads now?

Have you used the furlough scheme yet? Are you going to put staff on/off as the workload rises? (3 weeks minimum on furlough, 24 hours notice to come off it again after that if the workload increases and they are needed back. )

Tony: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/guidance-to-employers-and-businesses-about-covid-19/covid-19-guidance-for-employees Specifically:

I'm not overly active here, but know enough that you have some pretty serious underlying health concerns. The lockdown is happening to prevent the spread of people in high risk categories - eg - those with underlying health concerns. Millions of people are staying home and practicing serious social distancing to stop you and others around the country, from getting this virus, and dying. Respect that, and STAY AT HOME. There are government stimulus packages to tide the company over while it is closed - get researching how to sign up to those, and you can continue paying your staff at least 80% of their normal wage as a grant from the government. You're free to top that up if you wish. It means your staff can stay home, still be earning the majority of their paycheck, without risk of catching or spreading the virus.

2-part Epoxy?

The shoes do nothing other than spread the weight? Take a long ruler or plank of wood, put a brick under it at one end (rear wheels) and then about 30% in from the other end (legs). Then, stand on the short end. The whole plank will rotate around the front "legs". The fuel baffles work to stop the liquid sloshing in transit. Here it is stationary, so they won't do anything. The full fuel tanks in the trailer were at the front. As the cab pulls out the weight is too far forward, so the trailer rotates.

A bit like a lever, the legs were the point of rotation, the weight was all above the legs and ahead of it, and overcame the weight of the axles and the rest of the trailer. Fuel is heavier than the air in the back half of the trailer, gravity has no mercy, and that happens.

They didn't fail though, look at them, they're out?

I think its only white because it's silver and the camera hasn't picked it up very well. Plus ... well ... the welds give away it's not fibreglass?