I still have no idea what it was, but it added some excitement to a very mundane April that year. I have to imagine it was a very opportunistic move, since most traffic was stopped for covid already.
https://www.tdtnews.com/news/business/article_c49e80c8-124b-....
At some point if you're getting behind the wheel of a vehicle on the road, you have some responsibility yourself. If you're not looking where you're going at all and drive into the path of a heavily-escorted million-plus-pound load and it ends up crushing you because of the sheer physics of the situation, that's on you. There's a hundred other more likely ways to kill yourself on the road if you're not looking where you're going, that don't involve such unusual cargo.
And also, from looking at the photos of the scene, it looks like the driver may have turned quickly to attempt to avoid the crash, and the load continued on of its own inertia and overturned the entire rig, which is an issue caused by top-heavy torque that doesn't care how tightly the load is tied down at all.
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GDPR is just a pain in the ass to implement properly, for some US websites it's just much easier to ban people from the EU from accessing it then risk the potentially massive fines
What happens btw if an American company just ignores GDPR but still welcomes European visitors? Why would they care about EU law?
EU claims EU law applies to US sites if a EU citizen visits it. This has yet to be tested in court though. I'm incredibly skeptical that it can be enforced.
They just don't want to bother with the PITA that the GDPR is and just give that failing continent that my EU is the middle finger.
I think it's totally justified.
Several deliveries are usually staged one after the other, so you get to see a variety of loads if you are unlucky enough to have to wait for 30-40 minutes. Most of the time, it’s pre-fab buildings and nothing too exciting.
And if you're going to need 4 trucks to get it out of the port anyway, might as well just drive it there.
Sorry, no idea why I'm debating some random person on the internet about an issue which has absolutely no impact on me whatsoever. Sport, I guess.
Searching for when they moved Endeavor from LAX to the museum years ago is worthwhile. That was a tight fit on LA streets.
This was probably in the 2009-2013 timeframe, IIRC.
It was a very intimate encounter with the shuttle. It's big enough to be amazing, small enough to be comprehensible in human scale. I was really quite awestruck being in its presence.
(Did you know all of the heat tiles has serial numbers? In hindsight, "of course the did", they were probably all unique in their shape. But it was one of those things you discover when your nose is 4 feet away from the bottom of the craft.)
That said, I can hardly wait for the new display, with the shuttle in launch form, mounted on the external tank with the SRBs. Seeing the designs they have, you'll actually still have a "close encounter" with this craft, despite its size. The rear of the shuttle will be quite close to the ground. It's going to be, I think, a very exciting exhibit.
I used to do a number of those odd tasks (jackhammering down bank safes in preparation for the new tenants, ordinary pizza delivery, engineering a track for people to ramp/jump their mid-90s shit-mobiles, ...). I'm in tech as an ML engineer or something now, but one of these years I think it'd be a ton of fun to sit down and intentionally experience a hundred or so jobs and get a feel for what other people do for their livelihoods -- ideally in many distinct locales (e.g., where I grew up it was common for people to rent/(buy-with-intent-to-resell) a gas-powered bandsaw mill and produce most of the raw materials for their house, partly because land was cheap, partly because wages were piss-poor, and partly because there was a strong "make-do" attitude where people were willing to work hard to make a nice life with whatever hand they were given -- the sorts of jobs you'll have access to there are very different than those even a few hours away, much less a few states or countries).
That was a bit of a minor rant. I'm in strong agreement though; that sounds like a super interesting job.
* there are oversized load spotters like those folks with a hobby of keeping track of aircraft or trains?
* there is economic intelligence value in extracting and surfacing data from oversize load permits?0. https://medium.com/planet-stories/a-beginners-guide-to-calcu...
Then again, the need for permitting should mean that state DOT's are already aware.
I do hope Radia gets their WindRunner plane off the ground. It's designed for onshore wind renewable energy, to be a plane with colossal internal volume. But it's also designed to work on landing strips that are much shorter & crucially primitive iirc or at least much more basic, to radically expand access to where we might setup wind power.
I have high confidence such a plane would most likely end up being used for other tasks too, if created. Maybe it's not as absurdly expensive as I imagine, planning & coordinating these intense logistics routes, but being able to airship things to interesting destinations seems super compelling to me, seems like it could enable a lot of infrastructure development that's simplify infeasible right now.
Marching into fancifulness here, but with something as big as a fab, I could definitely picture an initial construction phase where a sizable fraction of the land is dedicated as runway to start, isn't developed, while big items are flown in. Sounds wild, but could be possible! The model Radia has is off-site construction, and it's not too too hard to imagine perhaps more than wind turbines might benefit from this model: maybe not just coolers and fabs, but perhaps even prefab building walls could benefit from this.
https://www.wsj.com/business/energy-oil/how-the-worlds-bigge... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39690182
Maybe it's infeasible, but I could imagine something as large as a fab being able to