AnEngineer2018
AnEngineer2018 t1_jch0gwl wrote
Reply to comment by 3226 in Open-source tool from MIT’s Senseable City Lab lets people check air quality, cheaply. by chrisdh79
Burning any chemical with chlorine would be an incredibly ineffective way to produce phosgene gas. Past 200C it’s just going to form chlorine and carbon monoxide, which elemental chlorine in the air is probably going to find some nitrogen to team up with, hence the widely reported pool smell.
Just leaving any chemical with chlorine on the ground is likely to just deep through the ground until it finds a source of sodium and the sodium and chlorine do what they do best.
Between the pool smell, rashes and burns, and dead things in ditch water, and ignoring god know what other chemicals are just in ditch water from field run off, most likely explanation is that some people, and animals, were just exposed to elemental chlorine dissolved in water.
AnEngineer2018 t1_jb64qjy wrote
Reply to comment by BizzyM in Boeing employee bought lottery ticket because it was at $747M, a nod to the aircraft. She won the jackpot. by ChickenXing
I think if you’re in your 20s you could absolutely retire for life if you win $10m.
The government is going to take half of it back in taxes which leaves you with $5m. Even if you don’t invest any of it in anything, if you live to 80, that would be like $83k/yr not including social security that you would be able to collect past 65
Heck maybe you go out and buy a $400k house in cash saving a bunch in interest payments. That would still leave you ~77k/yr for life.
AnEngineer2018 t1_j3r1laj wrote
I call it the IGangbang
AnEngineer2018 t1_j1s8f8d wrote
Reply to LPT: If driving in a snowstorm and your GPS suggests taking a faster route, don’t do it if it takes you off the Highway. Backroads are usually last to be cleared of snow and you could get stuck! by Bradiator34
As I learned during the last Buffalo blizzard it will also direct you back onto a closed highway, and it’s not like the DOT really does that good of a job letting you know when a highway is open or closed now that toll booths aren’t a thing anymore.
Edit: Just checked despite the roads still being closed, Google Maps has me drive right into the thick of things.
AnEngineer2018 t1_jclpg3f wrote
Reply to comment by HanseaticHamburglar in Open-source tool from MIT’s Senseable City Lab lets people check air quality, cheaply. by chrisdh79
Fewer assumptions than what it would take to produce any meaningful quantities of phosgene gas.