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[Tracker001]

Meanwhile: The competition is becoming fierce as this years "Darwin Award" contest reaches its mid-year mark .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_dropwUDew

[burger1]

good news
http://bgr.com/2015/07/31/x15-flamethro ... 0-dollars/

In addition to selling the flamethrower itself, the company also sells its own napalm mixture that you can use as a gelling agent for your fuel that will cost you $139 a pop. Don’t worry, though: Together, each pack of the napalm mixture will last you for around 55 gallons’ worth of fuel so you won’t be constantly ordering pricey refills.

[pjknibbs]

George Cole, aka Arthur Daley, has died:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-33803144

[clakclak]

Hitchbot is dead.

[A5PECT]

Hitchbot is dead.

This is why we can't have nice things.

[Cpt.Jericho]

Wrestling stars don't live long.

R.I.P. Rowdy Roddy Piper

[Terre]

George Cole, aka Arthur Daley, has died:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-33803144

R.I.P Flash Harry

[clakclak]

Yet another sensless act of violence.

This time in my State (NRW, germany).

A man apperently under the heavy influence of drugs attacked a group that was having a BBQ with a knife and CS-gas yesterday evening. He injured 20 people, two of them severely. Guests of the party manged to overpower him and take him down. Nobody died, but the attack left the small city in state of shock.

I would like to give an english link, but so far I was not able to find one.

Watch out the news coverage contains images of the crime scene.

http://www.aachener-zeitung.de/lokales/ ... -1.1152321

[amtct]

Yet another sensless act of violence.

This time in my State (NRW, germany).

A man apperently under the heavy influence of drugs attacked a group that was having a BBQ with a knife and CS-gas yesterday evening. He injured 20 people, two of them severely. Guests of the party manged to overpower him and take him down. Nobody died, but the attack left the small city in state of shock.

I would like to give an english link, but so far I was not able to find one.

Watch out the news coverage contains images of the crime scene.
http://www.aachener-zeitung.de/lokales/ ... -1.1152321

going to get my knives to police because if they keep it that way chances are by 2016 knives will be illegal in Europe so I want to be a model citizen.

Just wait till people figure out how to kill with their pillows

[clakclak]

going to get my knives to police because if they keep it that way chances are by 2016 knives will be illegal in Europe so I want to be a model citizen.

Just wait till people figure out how to kill with their pillows

Are you really going to turn this into another gun control debatte, even tough guns played absolutely no part in it?

Also you might want to read it again. Nobody got killed. If the attacker is not able to kill anyone with a knife than I doubt that he will be able to kill someone with a pillow.

[amtct]

Are you really going to turn this into another gun control debatte, even tough guns played absolutely no part in it?

Also you might want to read it again. Nobody got killed. If the attacker is not able to kill anyone with a knife than I doubt that he will be able to kill someone with a pillow.

gun control? I was talking about knife control.Calm down your salami or you will have to slice it with lasers

[clakclak]

Are you really going to turn this into another gun control debatte, even tough guns played absolutely no part in it?

Also you might want to read it again. Nobody got killed. If the attacker is not able to kill anyone with a knife than I doubt that he will be able to kill someone with a pillow.

gun control? I was talking about knife control.Calm down your salami or you will have to slice it with lasers

Well it was simply the exactly same rhetoric that comes up again and again and again whenever the topic of gun control pops up, so you might see why I got the idea.

[Antilogic]

Do you two need a room?

[amtct]

Well it was simply the exactly same rhetoric that comes up again and again and again whenever the topic of gun control pops up, so you might see why I got the idea.

don't you dare tell me I can't kill with a pillow.If the pillow is heavy enough and has enough speed it can break a neck...physics ftw
my physics teacher should be proud of me

Do you two need a room?

Please....and a pillow if possible

[clakclak]

Do you two need a room?

Probably yes.

[Tracker001]

This should work out as planned

Published on Aug 12, 2015
With no apparent relief to California's record-breaking drought, Los Angeles has turned to more unusual methods to protect the city's water.
https://youtu.be/JYQbFhhQ2GE?t=5s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tmfu5anMSA

There is something about dark colors and inferred . Just can't seem to remember what it is .

[X2-Illuminatus]

There is something about dark colors and inferred . Just can't seem to remember what it is .

It is a bit more complex than that.

The balls are coated in carbon black, a food-safe pigment with an albedo near zero. Both these characteristics are vital for explaining why the balls are designed to be a dull light-absorbing black instead of a shiny light-reflecting white, and are a lot more important than a bit of heat.

The purpose of shade balls is to provide shade, not to prevent evaporation. The primary purpose of the shade balls is to block sunlight so the ultraviolet light doesn’t catalyze nasty chemical reactions.

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Carbon black is nearly-pure elemental carbon produced by burning hydrocarbons in an air-poor environment. [...] It is used worldwide in food packaging, and meets the NSF/ANSI 61 standards for materials that come in contact with drinking water. This means the balls won’t do anything nasty to the water supply they are protecting.

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Carbon black has an albedo near zero, which means it is incredibly dark and reflects almost no light. That in turn means that any sunlight is absorbed by the ball, not reflected or refracted. For thin plastics, black is opaque while white is translucent. Cheap, thin-walled black balls still provide actual shade while lighter colours permit sunlight to penetrate into the water. Blocking as much sunlight as possible is the name of the game for shade balls, so black is the better colour.

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Black will also help the balls survive longer. Ultraviolet light, the component of sunlight that gives us sunburns, is very effective at breaking down plastics. [...] Carbon black will prevent the plastic from breaking down in UV light, giving them a multi-decade lifespan.

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As a final bonus, while black heats up faster than white, it also cools down faster. Anything that absorbs light readily emits it equally-readily, so when the sun sets a reservoir coated in black balls is going to cool down rapidly as heat is radiated into the night.

In addition these balls have been tested for years.

The balls cost 36 cents each, for a total of $34.5 million. The utility has been testing the concept since 2008, reporting that shade balls reduce evaporation by 85 to 90 percent. That should equate to saving nearly 300 million gallons a year, enough to provide drinking water for 8,100 people, said Los Angeles City Councilmember Mitchell Englander.

The balls also inhibit microorganism growth, reducing the treatment the water must undergo through other means. That could save the city $250 million over time, said Garcetti.

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Engineering Flow Chart

[Rnett]

Sydney (AFP) - Police were investigating claims on Monday that controversial Hollywood star Mel Gibson allegedly shoved and verbally abused an Australian photographer during an angry altercation.

Kristi Miller, a news photographer with Sydney's Daily Telegraph, said she had taken two pictures of Gibson leaving a cinema in the city with Rosalind Ross, 24, on Sunday evening when the actor aggressively confronted her.

"I took two frames and then I ran to get in front of them," she told the newspaper.

"I turned around with my back to them and ran forward and the next thing I knew he had shoved me in the back from behind."

Miller described the actor as "out of control" as he charged after her, spitting in her face and calling her a "dog".

"I was just shocked that I was being pushed, shoved in the back," she claimed.

New South Wales police said they were investigating the incident but did not specify what, if any, charges were being pursued.

"Police were told a man became involved in an altercation with a photographer. He allegedly pushed the photographer," they said in statement to AFP.

"We would urge anyone who might have witnessed the incident and is yet to speak to police to come forward."

Gibson's management in the United States denied any physical contact between the star of "Braveheart" and "Lethal Weapon" and the photographer.

"There was no physical contact whatsoever with this photographer, who was harassing my client and his friend," the actor's representative, Alan Nierob, told the Telegraph in an email.

Miller alleged Gibson, 59 continued to lash out at her until he was led away by an apologetic Ross.

"I thought he was going to punch me in the face," Miller said, adding that Gibson was using offensive language.

The Oscar winner, who is in Australia to direct World War II drama "Hacksaw Ridge", has not been without controversy in recent years.

In a high-profile case, he was caught on tape in 2006 making an anti-Semitic rant at a US sheriff's deputy who had arrested him for drunken driving.

http://news.yahoo.com/police-probe-mel- ... 30644.html

[muppetts]

Pap are scum, why can't she get a real job rather than using someone else's exposure to parasite a buck off, if he punched her lights out frankly I would clap.