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« Reply #4605 on: November 12, 2008, 02:50:23 PM »

How about this machine Red!
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« Reply #4606 on: November 12, 2008, 02:53:29 PM »

Surely there must be some sort of substance that algae hates that they can coat the concrete in?

When does the timer run out so we can post something else?
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« Reply #4607 on: November 12, 2008, 03:22:50 PM »

they appear to have built their sea defence wall in the shape of a set of stairs. surely a wall would have been better to stop the sea rather than what is effectively a gently graded slope
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« Reply #4608 on: November 12, 2008, 03:26:23 PM »

Where are the donkeys ?

tikay was in the casino.
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« Reply #4609 on: November 12, 2008, 03:37:40 PM »

they appear to have built their sea defence wall in the shape of a set of stairs. surely a wall would have been better to stop the sea rather than what is effectively a gently graded slope

I'd have thought a graded slope wouldn't have to have the same structural strength as there wouldn't be the same impact from waves as a vertical wall.
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« Reply #4610 on: November 12, 2008, 03:38:21 PM »

they appear to have built their sea defence wall in the shape of a set of stairs. surely a wall would have been better to stop the sea rather than what is effectively a gently graded slope

I think that the reason a gradient is used rather than a vertical wall is that it's more resistant to erosion by the sea.

(sorry Red, commented again)

(and what Rod said)
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« Reply #4611 on: November 12, 2008, 07:57:22 PM »

How about this machine Red!

Wow! Any details? It looks like a cutter for open cast mining.
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« Reply #4612 on: November 12, 2008, 07:59:05 PM »

And can someone explain this cafe's tag line to me please?




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« Reply #4613 on: November 12, 2008, 08:26:43 PM »

And can someone explain this cafe's tag line to me please?




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« Reply #4614 on: November 12, 2008, 09:01:48 PM »

Is it a bird, is it a plane?


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« Reply #4615 on: November 12, 2008, 09:59:36 PM »

And can someone explain this cafe's tag line to me please?

No one in Blackpool can read, so the locals don't know it's a cafe.

It would also appear that the signwriter doesn't know about apostrophes.
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« Reply #4616 on: November 12, 2008, 10:25:56 PM »

I feel like I want to write something about the little boy who was tortured and beaten to death, but I can't do it.

I can't even watch the news reports.
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« Reply #4617 on: November 13, 2008, 11:04:40 AM »

I feel like I want to write something about the little boy who was tortured and beaten to death, but I can't do it.

I can't even watch the news reports.

It's a dreadful story Tom and to think that social services visted more than 60 times, and the GP missed broken ribs and back. He was let down by so many so called professionals. Makes me feel so sad for the toddlers short life.
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« Reply #4618 on: November 13, 2008, 11:20:11 AM »

How about this machine Red!

Wow! Any details? It looks like a cutter for open cast mining.

Bagger 288
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The Bagger 288 (Excavator 288), built by the German company Krupp for the energy and mining firm Rheinbraun, is a bucket-wheel excavator.

More specifically, it is a mobile strip mining machine. When its construction was completed in 1978, Bagger 288 superseded NASA's Crawler-Transporter, used to carry the Space Shuttle and Apollo missions, as the largest tracked vehicle in the world at 13,500 tons. It is the heaviest land vehicle. However, Bagger is powered from an external source and is more correctly described as a mining machine which can be moved, while the crawler-transporter was built as a self-powered, load-carrying vehicle.


The Bagger 288 was built for the job of removing overburden prior to coal mining in Tagebau Hambach (stripmine Hambach), Germany. It can excavate 240,000 tons of coal or 240,000 cubic metres of overburden daily — the equivalent of a football field dug to 30 meters (98.4 ft) deep. The coal produced in one day fills 2400 coal wagons. The excavator is approximately 240 m long and 96 m high. The Bagger's operation requires 16.56 megawatts of externally supplied electricity.[1] It can travel 2 to 10 m (6.6 to 32.8 ft) per minute (0.1 to 0.6 km/h). The chassis of the main section is 46 meters (151 ft) wide and sits on 3 rows of 4 caterpillar track assemblies, each 3.8 m (12.5 ft) wide. The large surface area of the tracks means the ground pressure of the Bagger 288 is very small (17.1 N/cm2 or 24.8 psi); this allows the excavator to travel over gravel, earth and even grass without leaving a significant track. It has a minimum turning radius of approximately 100 meters, and can climb a maximum gradient of 1:18. The excavating head itself is 21.6 m in diameter and has 18 buckets each holding 6.6 cubic meters (7.9 yd³) of overburden.

By February 2001, the excavator had completely exposed the coal source at the Tagebau Hambach mine and was no longer needed there. In three weeks it made a 22 kilometer (14 mile) trip to the Garzweiler mine, traveling across Autobahn 61, the Erft, a railroad line, and several roads. The move cost nearly 15 million German marks and required a team of seventy workers. Rivers were crossed by placing large steel pipes for the water to flow through and providing a smooth surface over the pipes with rocks and gravel. Special grass was seeded to smooth its passage over valuable terrain. Moving Bagger 288 in one piece was more economical than disassembling the excavator and moving it piece by piece. The Bagger 288 has a near-identical sister vehicle, the Bagger 259.


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« Reply #4619 on: November 13, 2008, 11:36:56 AM »

I feel like I want to write something about the little boy who was tortured and beaten to death, but I can't do it.

I can't even watch the news reports.

It's too distressing to put into words that do it justice I think.

Look at the photo on this report http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7726103.stm and weep.
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