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cain071546 t1_j0928f4 wrote

Reply to Feds file lawsuit against Arizona over border wall made of shipping containers by AudibleNod

This is so dumb, most people don't even cross way out in the desert where these walls are, they cross where there are towns on both sides of the border, where there are little to no fences/walls.

This shit is just a giant waste of time and money, 100% the funds used to create this wall helped line a local politicians pockets.

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cain071546 t1_ixxs9es wrote

Reply to comment by Salt_MasterX in TIL In 1930, to make way for a new building, the Indiana Bell Building, weighing 11,000 tons, was moved 16 meters and rotated 90°. The work took a month to finish and did not disrupt the building's essential services, nor its gas, water, and electricity supply. No one inside felt the building move. by LPercepts

Yep, I lived in a house that had a 1911 furnace that had been converted from coal to sawdust to gas, it was plumbed with steel pipes that were only for "structural tubing" use, they weren't even legal for plumbing/water much less gas!

The look on the face of the HVAC guy who installed the new gas/electric furnace in ~2009 was hilarious, he was like "I have never seen this kind of pipe, it's not legally rated for water or gas...."

I loved that old house, lathe and plaster walls with knob and tube wiring, no grounds, The oven was from the 1950's and if you touched certain parts it would shock you.

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cain071546 t1_ixxrt2u wrote

Reply to comment by jeffderek in TIL In 1930, to make way for a new building, the Indiana Bell Building, weighing 11,000 tons, was moved 16 meters and rotated 90°. The work took a month to finish and did not disrupt the building's essential services, nor its gas, water, and electricity supply. No one inside felt the building move. by LPercepts

I have seen it before, but not for a few years now.

And I browse this sub every.single.day.

Reposting is fine IMO, only basement dwellers complain about reposting on reddit.

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cain071546 t1_iu87ci6 wrote

Reply to comment by Minnewildsota in TIL that in 1968 the US Navy proposed turning 2/5ths of Wisconsin into a giant underground radio antenna so orders could still be sent to submarines following a nuclear attack on America by DeadForDecember

It's Nuclear, Nuculear is not a word. >Nuclear power is the use of nuclear reactions to produce electricity. Nuclear power can be obtained from nuclear fission, nuclear decay and nuclear fusion reactions. Presently, the vast majority of electricity from nuclear power is produced by nuclear fission of uranium and plutonium in nuclear power plants. Nuclear decay processes are used in niche applications such as radioisotope thermoelectric generators in some space probes such as Voyager 2. Generating electricity from fusion power remains the focus of international research.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power

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