All I Got Left is My THREAD BOMBS! - Page 356

OdoWanKenobi · November 27 2012, 09:54 PM

Yeah. I noticed that. I stepped away from my computer for a bit while I had this page up, and didn't realize I forgot to refresh.

trekkiedane · November 27 2012, 09:57 PM

^Yeah, sometimes there's a cup of coffee between posts here, sometimes only a sip of it

ETA: More bad of mine: Cooling towers and reactors #5 and #6, at Chernobyl, were under construction when 'the incident' happened on reactor #4... before that there were no cooling towers on the site.

M'Sharak · November 27 2012, 10:23 PM

trekkiedane wrote:

^Ah, ok. -Didn't know it was a nuclear plant, all I can see are cooling towers (which -just btw- neither Fukushima nor Chernobyl had).

ETA: That's wrong, my bad, they do use towers like that at Chernobyl...

As it turns out, those towers appear to have been part of a coal-fired power plant near Cape Town. I just associated that sort of tower with nuke plants because that's where I've most often seen them in use.

trekkiedane · November 27 2012, 10:38 PM

^Denmark is a small country surrounded by seawater which gives excellent cooling, to me cooling towers always were exotic objects scattered around the near-city countryside of foreign lands... Beautifully sculpted pieces of mysterious alien artifacts, in function only slightly less mysterious than the artifacts present in their bathrooms.

Rhubarbodendron · November 28 2012, 07:20 AM

M'Sharak wrote:

I just associated that sort of tower with nuke plants because that's where I've most often seen them in use.

Same here. Other than nuclear ones there are only water and wind power plants in my area and those need no cooling towers.

Deckerd · November 28 2012, 10:12 AM

We don't have cooling towers with nuclear generating stations in the UK. That was a reference lost on me too. Blown up loads of cooling towers in the past couple of decades though. Some just last week.

Starkers · November 28 2012, 11:35 AM

Is this a hobby or your job?

Bob The Skutter · November 28 2012, 11:54 AM

You know how it is. These family drinking sessions will get out of hand. Hey Deckerd there's 2 cooling towers not far from mine if you start running out of them up your way.

lurok · November 28 2012, 12:46 PM

I love the idea of Demolition Deckerd. I should apologise for cultural insensivity but as others have mentioned those types of cooling towers are mainly coal-power in UK and regularly demolished. I'll try to be more aware in future.

Rhubarbodendron · November 28 2012, 02:36 PM

it's interesting how the same thing can seem totally different, depeding on where you life. It's also the most common source for misunderstandings and quarrels.
I live about halfway between 2 nuclear power plants:

No time to run, should either blow up.

trekkiedane · November 28 2012, 02:48 PM

^I see a domed reactor enclosure-building in one of those pictures... that makes a small danger light flash inside me

I hate it when the reactor enclosure is camouflaged by a building of a different shape

ETA: But I still love the shapes of the cooling towers

Deckerd · November 28 2012, 02:52 PM

No matter what they are attached to, demolishing cooling towers is only dangerous if you're standing too close when they come down. As regards whatever the generating station uses as fuel it's as dangerous as if the local church has a jumble sale.

trekkiedane · November 28 2012, 04:29 PM

Deckerd wrote:

No matter what they are attached to, demolishing cooling towers is only dangerous if you're standing too close when they come down. As regards whatever the generating station uses as fuel it's as dangerous as if the local church has a jumble sale.

Right, but they can be scary places...

Mutenroshi · November 29 2012, 08:09 AM

Brazil!

trekkiedane · November 29 2012, 01:19 PM

Yes...and?

November 27 2012, 09:54 PM	#5326
OdoWanKenobi Shapeshifting Jedi Location: Gotham City	Re: All I Got Left is My THREAD BOMBS! Yeah. I noticed that. I stepped away from my computer for a bit while I had this page up, and didn't realize I forgot to refresh. __________________ I'm Commander Shepard, and this is my favorite thread on the TrekBBS.

November 27 2012, 09:57 PM	#5327
trekkiedane Admiral Location: I'll let you know when I get there.	Re: All I Got Left is My THREAD BOMBS! ^Yeah, sometimes there's a cup of coffee between posts here, sometimes only a sip of it ETA: More bad of mine: Cooling towers and reactors #5 and #6, at Chernobyl, were under construction when 'the incident' happened on reactor #4... before that there were no cooling towers on the site. __________________ You just assume condescension because I'm European and we're known for not taking Americans seriously. It's a curse. { Emilia }

November 27 2012, 10:38 PM	#5329
trekkiedane Admiral Location: I'll let you know when I get there.	Re: All I Got Left is My THREAD BOMBS! ^Denmark is a small country surrounded by seawater which gives excellent cooling, to me cooling towers always were exotic objects scattered around the near-city countryside of foreign lands... Beautifully sculpted pieces of mysterious alien artifacts, in function only slightly less mysterious than the artifacts present in their bathrooms. __________________ You just assume condescension because I'm European and we're known for not taking Americans seriously. It's a curse. { Emilia }

November 28 2012, 10:12 AM	#5331
Deckerd Fleet Arse Location: in the Frozen Wastes	Re: All I Got Left is My THREAD BOMBS! We don't have cooling towers with nuclear generating stations in the UK. That was a reference lost on me too. Blown up loads of cooling towers in the past couple of decades though. Some just last week. __________________ They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance.

November 28 2012, 11:35 AM	#5332
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November 28 2012, 11:54 AM	#5333
Bob The Skutter Admiral Location: Bob The Skutter	Re: All I Got Left is My THREAD BOMBS! You know how it is. These family drinking sessions will get out of hand. Hey Deckerd there's 2 cooling towers not far from mine if you start running out of them up your way. __________________ It's all right, children. Life is made up of meetings and partings. That is the way of it. I am sure that we shall never forget Tiny Tim, or this first parting that there was among us.

November 28 2012, 12:46 PM	#5334
lurok Commodore Location: Lost In The EU Expanse	Re: All I Got Left is My THREAD BOMBS! I love the idea of Demolition Deckerd. I should apologise for cultural insensivity but as others have mentioned those types of cooling towers are mainly coal-power in UK and regularly demolished. I'll try to be more aware in future. __________________ “Between ennui and ecstasy unwinds our whole experience of time.”

November 28 2012, 02:36 PM	#5335
Rhubarbodendron Fleet Captain Location: Milky Way, outer spiral arm, Sol 3	Re: All I Got Left is My THREAD BOMBS! it's interesting how the same thing can seem totally different, depeding on where you life. It's also the most common source for misunderstandings and quarrels. I live about halfway between 2 nuclear power plants: No time to run, should either blow up. __________________ Eve is the revised, improved and updated version of Adam [Helen Vita]

November 28 2012, 02:48 PM	#5336
trekkiedane Admiral Location: I'll let you know when I get there.	Re: All I Got Left is My THREAD BOMBS! ^I see a domed reactor enclosure-building in one of those pictures... that makes a small danger light flash inside me I hate it when the reactor enclosure is camouflaged by a building of a different shape ETA: But I still love the shapes of the cooling towers __________________ You just assume condescension because I'm European and we're known for not taking Americans seriously. It's a curse. { Emilia }

November 28 2012, 02:52 PM	#5337
Deckerd Fleet Arse Location: in the Frozen Wastes	Re: All I Got Left is My THREAD BOMBS! No matter what they are attached to, demolishing cooling towers is only dangerous if you're standing too close when they come down. As regards whatever the generating station uses as fuel it's as dangerous as if the local church has a jumble sale. __________________ They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance.

November 29 2012, 08:09 AM	#5339
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November 29 2012, 01:19 PM	#5340
trekkiedane Admiral Location: I'll let you know when I get there.	Re: All I Got Left is My THREAD BOMBS! Yes...and? __________________ You just assume condescension because I'm European and we're known for not taking Americans seriously. It's a curse. { Emilia }