In 2008, Los Angeles Dept of Water and Power workers released about 400k black plastic 4-inch balls to form a floating cover over of the Ivanhoe reservoir to protect the water from sunlight. When sunlight mixes with the bromide and chlorine in Ivanhoe's water, the carcinogen bromate can form.3yr ⋅ RampChurch ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
Using retroreflective shadowgraphy and high-speed videography, you can see the acoustic difference between the firing of a .45-caliber pistol (left) and the firing of the same pistol with a suppressor, or silencer, attached (right)2yr ⋅ RampChurch ⋅ r/Damnthatsinteresting
Past & present: The Fallen Monarch Tree in the Mariposa Big Tree Grove, Yosemite National Park. Those are horses in the top photo.4yr ⋅ RampChurch ⋅ r/Damnthatsinteresting
Backdrafts are terrifying and can be deadly (video credit: The Slo Mo Guys - link in comments)3yr ⋅ RampChurch ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
Horizontal and vertical motion of an object is independent (assuming horizontal velocity is constant)3yr ⋅ RampChurch ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
Golf boards instead of golf carts. This doesn’t look like a good idea based on who I see at my local course3yr ⋅ RampChurch ⋅ r/golf
LEGO supercar: Life-size drivable LEGO Technic Bugatti Chiron with over 1,000,000 pieces and powered by Lego Power Function motors3yr ⋅ RampChurch ⋅ r/nextfuckinglevel
I guess they don’t demolish old buildings anymore, they just overwrite them.5yr ⋅ RampChurch ⋅ r/gifs
How much water has the largest reservoir in the United States lost? This much. (Lake Mead in AZ & NV; largest in terms of water capacity; photo credit Mark Henle 5/10/21)2yr ⋅ RampChurch ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
Excellent use of a drone for getting an epic shot. Nice catch, too!4yr ⋅ RampChurch ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
Life-size drivable LEGO Technic Bugatti Chiron with over 1,000,000 pieces and powered by Lego Power Function motors3yr ⋅ RampChurch ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
Schlieren image of the discharge of a .30-06 caliber rifle captures the bullet as it emerges at about Mach 2.5, and the spherical shock wave of the muzzle blast and the sweptback shock waves behind the bullet that are normally invisible.3yr ⋅ RampChurch ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
In 1930 engineers rotated the Indiana Bell building 90 degrees. It was moved 15 inches an hour while all 600 employees worked inside2yr ⋅ RampChurch ⋅ r/nextfuckinglevel
Vacuum implosion of a train car: decrease the pressure inside the car by enough and the outside air pressure causes macroscopic implosion.4yr ⋅ RampChurch ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
The USS Gerald R. Ford: At 337 m (1,106 ft) and 100,000 tons it is the largest aircraft carrier in the world3yr ⋅ RampChurch ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
Going into the shop tomorrow for lift and wheels & tires. Can’t wait!!1yr ⋅ RampChurch ⋅ r/BroncoSport
Inside IBM’s quantum computer: The quantum processor (top photo) and dilution refrigerator. The processor is mounted at the bottom of the dilution refrigerator where temperatures are the coldest (around 10 to 15 milli-Kelvin, which is roughly –460 degrees F)1yr ⋅ RampChurch ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
Pure carnage: The hill climb race in Andler-Schonberg, Belgium is mental3yr ⋅ RampChurch ⋅ r/nextfuckinglevel
Just installed a full Primitive Racing armor kit (front w/lip, mid, rear) 2020 Onyx XT3yr ⋅ RampChurch ⋅ r/Subaru_Outback
Called AppleCare to tell them iOS 4 made my Series 0 SS SB slow and practically unusable. They delivered a Series 2 SS SB at no cost to me!7yr ⋅ RampChurch ⋅ r/AppleWatch
This powder can make stagnant, dirty water drinkable in ~5 minutes3yr ⋅ RampChurch ⋅ r/nextfuckinglevel
This shipyard in Aliaga, Turkey is where cruise ships go to die2yr ⋅ RampChurch ⋅ r/Damnthatsinteresting
This spherical astrolabe (circa 1480-1481) is made of brass with the inscriptions, hour-lines, meridians and circles of altitude in silver; the rotating star map is made of brass, laminated with silver on the ecliptic and equatorial circles3yr ⋅ RampChurch ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
Watch how many high rises go up in the time it takes to build the new Amazon HQ in Seattle.5yr ⋅ RampChurch ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
Macroscopic implosion: decrease the pressure inside the car by enough and the outside air pressure crushes it.4yr ⋅ RampChurch ⋅ r/Damnthatsinteresting
40 years ago: Photo of a hiker watching the eruption of Mt. St. Helens from Mt. Adams3yr ⋅ RampChurch ⋅ r/pics
The Lockheed C-5 Galaxy is a large military transport aircraft2yr ⋅ RampChurch ⋅ r/Damnthatsinteresting
Brandon Semenuk is the smoothest rider the sport of mountain biking has ever seen3yr ⋅ RampChurch ⋅ r/nextfuckinglevel
Frisbee golfer slips and falls but still manages to make a hole in one3yr ⋅ RampChurch ⋅ r/nextfuckinglevel
HuraCam - World’s fastest camera car. $200k car with $600k of camera gear attached to the hood4yr ⋅ RampChurch ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
Before automated pin setting machines were invented, “pin boys” manually reset the bowling pins (photo from early 1900s)2yr ⋅ RampChurch ⋅ r/Damnthatsinteresting
Machinist creates clever hidden compartment to stash small items4yr ⋅ RampChurch ⋅ r/Damnthatsinteresting
If you’re running an external spare mount (roof or tailgate), what’s in your spare tire we’ll? Added a Rigd UltraSwing spare tire mount to my 2020 Outback Onyx XT.4yr ⋅ RampChurch ⋅ r/Subaru_Outback
2020 Onyx XT with Flat out Suspension GR40s installed (top - after). LP 2” lift installed (bottom - before). Lift was removed but kept the rear subframe spacers. GR40s set at +2” ride height, which seems to be the agreed upon sweet spot for compression vs droop, rebound set at midrange all around.2yr ⋅ RampChurch ⋅ r/Subaru_Outback
Kerby Brown rides a huge wave in an undisclosed location southwest of Western Australia3yr ⋅ RampChurch ⋅ r/nextfuckinglevel
This belt has 7 different tools built in (besides holding up your pants)2yr ⋅ RampChurch ⋅ r/Damnthatsinteresting
Since it opened in 1994, Kansai Airport in Japan’s Osaka Bay has sunk more than 38 feet2yr ⋅ RampChurch ⋅ r/Damnthatsinteresting
“We will buy a second train.” India’s Minister of Transportation outlines plan to increase rail commuter capacity by 45 million passengers a day4yr ⋅ RampChurch ⋅ r/funny
One slip and you’re dead. I’ve always wondered why Parkour guys don’t wear helmets3yr ⋅ RampChurch ⋅ r/nextfuckinglevel
Any object placed into water displaces water. If the weight of the object is LESS THAN the weight of this displaced quantity of fluid, the object floats. The USS Gerald R. Ford: At 337 m (1,106 ft) and 100,000 tons it is the largest aircraft carrier in the world3yr ⋅ RampChurch ⋅ r/Damnthatsinteresting
The A-10’s seven-barrel 30 mm Gatling gun compared to VW Bug. I knew it was big, but didn’t realize it was THAT big.4yr ⋅ RampChurch ⋅ r/aviation
Fierljeppen is the Netherlands oldest extreme sport: sprint towards the pole, climb up as high as you can, then try to jump off & land on the sand island on the other side of a waterway4yr ⋅ RampChurch ⋅ r/sports
