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Malakriss

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Going south around Africa adds more than 20 days to the trip, but since they expect it to take more than 20 days to fix people will accept it for the near future.

I heard they had 2 canal pilots on board for the traversal when things literally went sideways, so you can't even blame the crew and captain.
 
dizzie

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Yeah I read someplace that this was probably pilot error rather than wind.

There's no way this boats moving without being unloaded, if you look at this video at 10 seconds in you can see how aground the ship is. You can walk up to the bow of this ship and it's stuck fast in sand. Maybe someone more knowledgeable can chip in but from where I'm sitting this thing looks totally fucked.

If it was in the US or Europe or something maybe they could sort it, but this is Egypt so they'll probably resort to using shovels at some point.

 
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Borzak

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Borzak

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Got a job offer not long ago at a pretty new Chinese refinery in Brunei that was having problems. Mostly muslim country, what could go wrong? Besides the normal stuff that goes wrong on an hourly basis at a refinery.
 
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Unsuspecting parents of 5 crushed by falling giant Redwood during road trip

As they drove through the redwood-lined highway on Thursday, one of the enormous trees fell on top of their car, crushing them.
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Last Thursday, husband and wife Jake and Jessica Woodruff were celebrating Jessica's 45th birthday with a road trip along the coast. They set out from Yreka, California, headed to Oregon. As they drove through the redwood-lined Highway 199 in a 2016 Honda Accord on Thursday, one of the enormous trees fell on top of their car, crushing them.

"This is a very forested area," officer and California Highway Patrol spokesperson Brandy Gonzalez said, according to SF Gate. "We have trees everywhere. It's in the middle of the redwoods. It’s just old growth and we have no idea why the tree fell. It was Mother Nature. The timing of everything was very, very unusual. I’ve been on the department for 19 years and I’ve been in this area 12 to 13 years and it’s very unusual. We've had trees fall down and cars make contact, but this kind of incident is very unusual."

The couple leaves behind five children -- Megan, Evan, Casey, Allie and Chelsea -- according to a GoFundMe page set up for them.
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spronk

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Ancient coins may solve mystery of murderous 1600s pirate

WARWICK, R.I. (AP) — A handful of coins unearthed from a pick-your-own-fruit orchard in rural Rhode Island and other random corners of New England may help solve one of the planet's oldest cold cases.
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Story about what may have really happened to Henry Avery, who was one of the first and most successful pirates. His story is referenced heavily in Uncharted 4.
 
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First results from Fermilab's Muon g-2 experiment strengthen evidence of new physics

The first results from the Muon g-2 experiment hosted at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory show fundamental particles called muons behaving in a way not predicted by the Standard Model of particle physics. These results confirm an earlier experiment of the same name performed at Brookhaven...
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muons aren't behaving the way the standard model predicts, suggests that a 5th force exists we don't really know much about
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Muons: 'Strong' evidence found for a new force of nature

Physicists may have just made a major breakthrough in our understanding of the Universe.
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Erronius

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So how long before they're hacked by China for that technology, assuming they haven't already?
 
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First results from Fermilab's Muon g-2 experiment strengthen evidence of new physics

The first results from the Muon g-2 experiment hosted at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory show fundamental particles called muons behaving in a way not predicted by the Standard Model of particle physics. These results confirm an earlier experiment of the same name performed at Brookhaven...
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muons aren't behaving the way the standard model predicts, suggests that a 5th force exists we don't really know much about
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Muons: 'Strong' evidence found for a new force of nature

Physicists may have just made a major breakthrough in our understanding of the Universe.
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‘Last Hope’ Experiment Finds Evidence for Unknown Particles

Today's long-anticipated announcement by Fermilab's Muon g-2 team appears to solidify a tantalizing conflict between nature and theory. But a separate calculation, published at the same time
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Going to be interesting which turns out correct and potentially 20 years wasted, doh
 
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Sterling

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Yeah, this Fermilab Muon G-2 thing is legit exciting. The Higgs Boson thing was big and that was a predicted particle that fits the standard model. This could require some rework which is always a pretty big deal.
 
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Hateyou

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Yeah, this Fermilab Muon G-2 thing is legit exciting. The Higgs Boson thing was big and that was a predicted particle that fits the standard model. This could require some rework which is always a pretty big deal.
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It was cool we proved some theories and all, I just wish we would have seen some useful practical applications from those discoveries. It’s like oh fucking neat...but so what? Even something simple like better batteries, faster CPUs, kickass new Microwaves, weapons...something cool. If they did do something with the discovery I haven’t read about it.
 
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Sterling

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Hateyou said:
It was cool we proved some theories and all, I just wish we would have seen some useful practical applications from those discoveries. It’s like oh fucking neat...but so what? Even something simple like better batteries, faster CPUs, kickass new Microwaves, weapons...something cool. If they did do something with the discovery I haven’t read about it.
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That stuff all takes time. Discovering the electron and modern electronics wasn't exactly a simultaneous.
 
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