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    Abandoned Silos to Be Converted Into Amazing Inside-and-Out Climbing Walls

    Building-Mounted Hammock is a Scary Space Saver

    Airplane Crashes Breaking In Three Pieces, Only Nine Dead

    80,000-Brick Lego Ferrari F1 Needs Giant Schumacher Minifig

    Craneway Office Building Makes Me Want to Move to Amsterdam

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    Image of frigg frigg
    05/07/09

    In reply to Abandoned Silos to Be Converted Into Amazing Inside-and-Out Climbing Walls
    You know they're using those for raves when no one's looking.
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    Image of bosskev bosskev
    05/07/09

    In reply to Abandoned Silos to Be Converted Into Amazing Inside-and-Out Climbing Walls
    Hey! Gosh darn it, you've posted the photo I was going to use for my Dream Home of the Future contest. Frak it, now I'll have to do something else...


    * searches for pics of nuclear cooling towers *

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    Image of tande04 tande04
    05/07/09

    In reply to Abandoned Silos to Be Converted Into Amazing Inside-and-Out Climbing Walls
    Dude needs to get some slack taken out of his line.


    That could hurt and/or be dangerous.

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    Image of Thud Thud
    05/07/09

    @tande04: Probably not. On lead with a couple bolts clipped, I'd rather have the slack than a belayer holding me tight. With dynamic ropes, the more rope out, the longer the fall, the more stretch, the softer the fall.


    There is, however, an obvious limit where slack+extension >= height above ground. None of those guys look like the are close to factor 1 falls tho'.

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    Image of weatherman weatherman
    05/07/09

    @Thud: there are some other factors to consider that might bring up other "limits" like zippering and lateral momentum, and the ability of a rope to absorb energy.
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    Image of Geisrud Geisrud
    03/12/09

    In reply to Building-Mounted Hammock is a Scary Space Saver
    I've had similar enough experience doing rope rescue work with a stokes basket. While I do find rope rescue work fun, and a stokes a great tool for packaging victims, I think I'll pass on this.
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    03/12/09

    In reply to Building-Mounted Hammock is a Scary Space Saver
    If I was a building owner and saw this, I would immediately have it removed - at the tenant's expense.


    Then, I'd evict the tenant.

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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    03/12/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: Not in NYC you wouldn't Mr. Lawyer Man.


    Once the breach was cured, you'd no longer have grounds to evict.

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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    03/12/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: Have them tarred and feathered instead.
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    Image of strider_mt2k strider_mt2k
    03/12/09

    In reply to Building-Mounted Hammock is a Scary Space Saver
    Must be the Hammock district...
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    03/12/09

    In reply to Building-Mounted Hammock is a Scary Space Saver
    This strikes me as a really good way to get shot while you're sleeping.


    Then again, that may be why these were designed for use in Amsterdam not NYC.

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    Image of ╠═CoolRiver45═╣ ╠═CoolRiver45═╣
    03/12/09

    In reply to Building-Mounted Hammock is a Scary Space Saver
    I've overshot a hammock more than once.
    Not for me, Thank you!
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    Image of fuchikoma fuchikoma
    03/12/09

    @CoolRiver45:

    As a kid I've also had a few nylon rope hammocks get old and weathered, and just snap when you lay in it.
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    02/25/09

    In reply to Airplane Crashes Breaking In Three Pieces, Only Nine Dead
    I'd like to propose to the Giz staff that commenters whining about what Giz chooses to cover, and trying to dictate to Giz the degree to which current events or politics must be tech-related to be posted, become a banhammer-worthy offense.
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    Image of digidandy digidandy
    02/25/09

    In reply to Airplane Crashes Breaking In Three Pieces, Only Nine Dead
    So, why are Gizmodo reporting on plane crashes?


    I just don't get it.


    Why not also helicopter crashes? Car crashes? Etc.

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    02/25/09

    @digidandy: second try, as my comment was somehow posted to a different sectiona bove: They only report plane crashes with unusual aspects to them. And they do report on other vehicular disasters when there's something unusual about it -- such as the Gizmondo exec (not Gizmodo) Ferrari crash.
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    02/25/09

    @ZLevee: Ah yes, the Gizmondo Ferrari. There isn't enough Gizbondo to put that thing back together...
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    Image of rolfo87 rolfo87
    02/25/09

    In reply to Airplane Crashes Breaking In Three Pieces, Only Nine Dead
    has the number of plane crashes risen or has gizmodo simply started to report on them all?
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    Image of greimel greimel
    02/25/09

    @rolfo87: maybe if everyone's afraid of flying, cars'll sell again...
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    02/25/09

    @greimel: Unless they're flying cars..
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    Image of e0ytk e0ytk
    02/25/09

    In reply to Airplane Crashes Breaking In Three Pieces, Only Nine Dead
    The TV Show LOST comes to mid, creepy.


    Amazingly lucky people though, too bad all couldn't have survived such a crash.

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    Image of edwardbuttersworth edwardbuttersworth
    02/25/09

    @e0ytk:


    Flight 815 also split into three pieces. I always thought that it was ridiculous that a modest percentage of people could survive any air crash. Maybe LOST isn't so fantastical after all.

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    Image of e0ytk e0ytk
    02/25/09

    @edwardbuttersworth: Well the writers of the show insist still that the show is not completely science-fiction or fantasy based and such, so I guess it's true :P
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    Image of Julian Jares Julian Jares
    02/25/09

    @e0ytk: Yes I know. Just last week I was time traveling when I made this comment.
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    02/25/09

    @Julian Jares: Did you use a Delorean or push the big wheel stuck in ice?? :P
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    02/25/09

    @e0ytk: I hear 4:20 is the best time of the day to start from when beginning a journey through time...
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    Image of TerryinSt.Paul TerryinSt.Paul
    02/25/09

    In reply to Airplane Crashes Breaking In Three Pieces, Only Nine Dead
    I hope they are allright. I saw captain " Sully " Sullivan on the news last night and he said he had to take a 40% pay cut to keep his job and had to find a second job to feed his family. Apparently the airlines are trying to get rid of the experienced ( read expensive ) pilots and replace them with inexperienced/cheaper noob pilots. I hope that is not what happened here. It would be like going to your family Doctor of forty years and finding out he was replaced by Dr. Nick.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_Isn'tFreshPerked GitEmSteveDave_Isn'tFreshPerked
    02/25/09

    @TerryinSt.Paul: Or anyone else who went to Hollywood Upstairs Medical School.
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    02/25/09

    In reply to Airplane Crashes Breaking In Three Pieces, Only Nine Dead
    Where's Sully? But seriously, if they find goose feathers, I think this shows that there is an organized terrorist ring of geese.


    Is an "air hole" something like a microburst?

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    Image of closhedbb closhedbb
    02/25/09

    @SitDownNancy_GitEmSteveDave: It's a pocket of low pressure. When a plane is on final approach, it is very "dirty" (flaps on landing, gear down) and going comparatively slow. When some large planes are on final, they are having to go slow enough such that they are somewhat close to stalling. If you hit a pocket of low pressure air, you can suddenly lose a good bit of lift, depending on the air pocket. If you're really close to the runway, as might have been the case here, you could lose control of the airplane.


    It's because they were going so slow the plane didn't explode on impact, only broke into three pieces, and no fuel caught fire.

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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_Isn'tFreshPerked GitEmSteveDave_Isn'tFreshPerked
    02/25/09

    @closhedbb: Well, the field they were in also looks like it was just turned over, so I'm sure the ground was nice a soft as well. I hope they had 4x4 ambulances.
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