Man: Ok, so, there’s absolutely no room for my suitcases in this car, the trunk has just enough room for a small woman’s purse, there’s no back seats and the engine takes up half the length of the car… oh and the phone only works when I’m standing outside the car.
Man continues: “So if you could send a taxi to pick me up, that would be terrific. No, I guess I didn’t need to tell you all of that, but this car phone is pretty neat, don’t you think? Yes. I’ll be waiting at the curb, I’m standing there now!”
A spark arrester (sometimes spark arrestor) is any devices which prevents the emission of flammable debris from combustion sources, such as internal combustion engines, fireplaces, and wood burning stoves.
Spark arresters play a critical role in the prevention of wildland fire and ignition of explosive atmospheres. Consequently, their use is required by law in many jurisdictions worldwide.
Still, the idea of Dalai lama is ingenious. Panchen Lama searches for Dalai Lama, Dalai Lama searches for Panchem lama.
Panchem Lama can only ever appoint a Boy as the Dalai Lama, once the previous one died. The next Panchem Lama can only ever be appointed once the current one dies. There is not much room for rampant nepotism and generationally growing corruption or power shift.
Also, I find it a totally valid theory for consciousness to be continual. Although not in an “exactly this guy comes next” way.
Assuming they are either nailed down in few places or at least has some slits or something similar, they should be pretty stable. That is until the logs themselves are in good condition.
Early timber bridges had their drawbacks. Untreated lumber only lasted about 20 years and locomotives could easily cause the wood to catch fire. Collapses - rare today - were a regular occurrence on logging railroads and there are numerous accounts of train crews that regularly hopped off their slow moving locomotive as it approached a high, untrustworthy trestle, allowing it to cross before they would then run across the bridge and jump back on.
So, you’re telling me that conductors would ghost ride their own train as a safety precaution? What a wild time!
I can only imagine the instances where the track dipped downhill a little after a bridge, picking up unsuspected speed, and leaving the crew frantically sprinting after the caboose.
Or that one bad day, when it’s late into your shift, and you’re feeling kind of sick and tired, and just don’t have it in you to jog after your train over the upteinth bridge tonight, so you decide to risk it, relax a little, and ride it out. But then your luck also runs out, and you fall down the ravine in a burning metal cage only to then drown in the river, like some big budget action shot in a 1926 silent-film.
There’s an engineering saying: “Any idiot can build a bridge that holds a load. An engineer can build a bridge that barely carries a load.” It looks like they overbuilt the bridge to compensate for lack of solid engineering.
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