Blog Heap o'Transport Links 12 August 2011

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Blog-Heap links regarding transportation and related infrastructure,
also energy, because it takes energy to transport,
and virtuality, because telepresence saves on transpresence.

Fri 2011 Aug 12

Infrastructure Threat

No federal charges for explosive device yet
fox23.com Fri 2011 Aug 12, 6:03pm

When the FBI deactivated a ticking device on a gas line found around 11 Wednesday morning they got the gas line turned off and evacuated about 25 residents living a half mile from the danger zone. ... a crude explosive with batteries attached. The timer was set at 2. ... may have been waterlogged from the overnight storms....

More Information To Be Released On Possible Bomb Found In Okemah
newson6.com Fri 2011 Aug 12, 6:01pm

The FBI says more information will be released about a possible explosive found on a gas line in eastern Oklahoma. ... found Wednesday on a gas line in Okfuskee County by a county deputy sheriff who thought it might be a bomb because of a timer attached to it. ...

Digital Policing

London riots: Police use Flickr to help catch looters
digitaltrends.com Fri 2011 Aug 12, 5:47pm

London's Metropolitan Police have created a Flickr page, entitled "London Disorder — Operation Withern," which includes the "first of many" CCTV images of rioters suspected of looting, committing violence and other criminal acts. Police hope the public can help identify the alleged criminals and bring them into custody. ... Police also launched the Twitter hashtag #tweetalooter, which they urge citizens to use if they have information about rioters or criminal acts. ... Police aren't the only ones setting up websites to help catch looters. ...

Fundamentals
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Civilization and Transport Liberty

Video Playlists:
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Transport, infrastructure & tech from

@SJPFISH, Twitter — 2020-Sep-1

Wait one second! Those aren’t Dolphins 🐬 following my boat! Twitter video, 0:40

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Vince Gerasole | CBS Chicago — 2018-Nov-18

CHICAGO Hancock Tower …A broken hoist rope caused the express elevator to malfunction… they had careened from the 95th floor down to the 11th floor.… It took nearly three hours to rescue six people… The rescue crew had to hammer out a concrete wall in the garage area of the 11th floor.… I've been on that elevator, and contemplated this very scenario. Even knowing all the modern safeties, which properly kicked in here, it seems, kinda terrifying. Wheeee! Gulp!

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Shamil Zhumatov | OANN — 2018-Oct-11

…two-man U.S.-Russian crew of a Soyuz spacecraft en route to the International Space Station was forced to make a dramatic emergency landing in Kazakhstan on Thursday when their rocket failed in mid-air. U.S. astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Alexei Ovchinin landed safely without harm… made what NASA called a steep ballistic descent to Earth… Moscow immediately suspended all manned space launches… Footage from inside the Soyuz had shown the two men being shaken around at the moment the failure occurred, with their arms and legs flailing. Ovchinin, the Russian cosmonaut, can be heard saying: “That was a quick flight.”…

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Investors Business Daily — 2018-Oct-9

If you care about global warming, you must like wind power, right? But what if wind power itself ends up contributing to a warmer climate? That appears to be the case, according to a new study.…

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Robinson Meyer, the Atlantic — 2018-Jul-13

…Interstate 95, the country’s most used highway, will finally run as one continuous road between Miami and Maine by the late summer. The interstate’s infamous “gap” on the Pennsylvania and New Jersey border will be closed, turning I-95 into an unbroken river of concrete more than 1,900 miles long. In so doing, it will also mark a larger milestone, say transportation officials—the completion of the original United States interstate system.…

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James Delingpole, Breitbart — 2018-Jul-1

…Green recycling policy is killing the oceans with plastic pollution… Well, it's really that what is supposed to be being recycled just isn't.

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President Donald J. Trump, Twitter — 2018-Jun-30

Just spoke to King Salman of Saudi Arabia and explained to him that, because of the turmoil & disfunction in Iran and Venezuela, I am asking that Saudi Arabia increase oil production, maybe up to 2,000,000 barrels, to make up the difference...Prices to high! He has agreed! But, but, typo! Prices TOO high. What an idiot.

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