OT: The News Thread

[zeke]

 

[zeke]

 

[LeafGm]

Pretty sure that's space junk or a rocket stage deorbiting and breaking/burning up in the atmosphere, not a meteor shower.

 

[axlsalinger]

 

[zeke]

Yeah it's elon's rocket like my first tweet there said.

 

[Volcanologist]

I'm surprised that doesn't happen more often, all kinds of stuff we've launched up there is still floating around

 

[axlsalinger]

 

[axlsalinger]

 

[axlsalinger]

Not a canal joke ... #FloridaBoat

 

[anne25]

Ever Given is finally free.

Traffic in Suez Canal resumes after stranded ship refloated — Reuters Canada

Shipping was on the move again late on Monday in Egypt's Suez Canal after tugs refloated a giant container ship which had been blocking the channel for almost a week, causing a huge build-up of vessels around the waterway.

apple.news

 

[zeke]

How a Supermoon Helped Free the Giant Container Ship From the Suez Canal

The stronger tidal effect made it easier to partially float the Ever Given but also gave engineers a hard deadline.

www.wsj.com

 

[MindzEye]

How a Supermoon Helped Free the Giant Container Ship From the Suez Canal

The stronger tidal effect made it easier to partially float the Ever Given but also gave engineers a hard deadline.

www.wsj.com

Praise jesus?

 

[zeke]

Allahu Akbar

 

[Volcanologist]

I like how they keep calling it something different than the giant capital letters printed on the side

 

[zeke]

Evergreen is the company.

Boat name is Ever Given printed on the stern.

 

[axlsalinger]

That's the same bullshit people say about Mark trucks.

 

[Leafyblue]

Florida emergency as phosphate plant pond leak threatens radioactive flood

‘No longer safe to be anywhere near Piney Point’, says official of former plant where millions of gallons of wastewater could leak

www.theguardian.com

 

[Bleedsblue&white]

Geez, "Florida Man..."reports are going to be even stranger in the coming months.

 

[zeke]

this is just about perfect.

 

[axlsalinger]