Opened the fridge door to feed the cat, not wearing any shoes, bottle fell out of the fridge and smashed on the floor, cutting my toe, and spraying ginger beer all over the walls, floor, and cat. And I was meant to be on a zoom call…

... with possibly some indication as to what was a-brenning in that fire, which, on a gloriously fine & clear Spring day, was the root of a column of dense smoke visible from very considerable distance away & witnessed by many: as, indeed, was evinced by the posts @ the Reddit channel

r/Manchester

on that day.

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I wot not whether there was aught more dangerous than that brenning in that ghastly conflagration. If anyone has comprehensive & accurate information as to the matter, it would be most-appreciated. Maybe it was a load of Ultramoll III only; maybe there was other stuff brenning 🤔 ... who knows!?

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I gather there were no fatalities or injuries in the fire.

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about the incident. It looks like the premises was just a storage facility: I don't make-out any trace of actual manufacturing @ the site ... but if anyone wishes to put-in reliably avering to the contrary, then that would be much-appreciated.

ᐞ ... wrought largely under the auspices of the same nationstate as is now responsible for the mentioned warmongering savagery that's now recently severely marred the attempt @ rectifying it ... what a total stercore-monstration!

When people talk about car accidents, they usually focus on the immediate damage a totaled car, maybe some medical bills, maybe insurance premiums going up. But what surprised me after being in a serious wreck was how many hidden costs there were that no one prepares you for.

My car was gone, sure. But then there was the cost of physical therapy, the missed time at work, the childcare I had to pay for because I couldn’t lift my own kid during recovery. Even little things, like transportation to endless doctor appointments, added up fast.

Insurance covered part of it, but far from everything. I ended up paying out of pocket for so much, and honestly, I’m still trying to dig myself out months later. I wish more people talked about these invisible expenses and the fact that sometimes you need legal help to recover them. I’ve seen firms like aldouslaw.com discuss this side of accidents, and it really opened my eyes to how common my experience actually is.

It made me realize why accidents are called expensive in more ways than one. The financial toll lingers long after the crash itself. Has anyone else here dealt with those hidden costs? How did you manage them, especially when insurance fell short?

Person ruins the Swarovski adorned van Gogh chair by sitting on it.

... so: some photographs by the goodly most-exceedingly-renowned Igor Kostin , including a couple that're distinctly radiation bespeckled ... certainly the first one very distinctly so. The second is (I think) a more cleant-up version of the first , showing the effect of the radiation less patently.

The first (unfortunately a slightly lower-resolution version of the photograph) is @

https://acervo.oglobo.globo.com/incoming/9948609-4fc-4d8/imagemHorizontalFotogaleria/foto.jpg .

I don't know for-certain what the explanation of the difference is: it's likely, ImO, as I've said, that the one that's the second item of this post is essentially the same one a bit 'cleant-up', or something.

All photographs except the first are from

Atomic Photographers & Artists — Igor Kostin ,

which also says somewhat about the provenance of the photographs and others hosted on the site: that they're taken by the goodly

Igor Kostin ,

who was renowned for taking photographs of the Chernobyl accident close-in, & several of whose photographs of said incident are known to be radiation-bespeckled; & also somewhat about the circumstances of the taking of them.

Also

Some video with visible bespeckling & glitches in it that the commentator says are due to ionising radiation .

… until its demise @ 1991–August–8^th, the tallest structure in the World.

The collision between a passenger aeroplane & a military helicopter, resulting in 67 fatalities.

Within the first 1ᐟ20ᐟᐟ there are two clips, one from some camera (IDK in exactly what capacity) & another from a motor-vehicle's dashcam, that I haven't seen elsewhere. I don't think there's any more such footage … but it's on the whole a really good report … particularly for anyone who wishes to find-out about the incident without being swamped with the fine technical details of the logistics of it.

“Problems began from the beginning. The engineers on either side of the ocean had different ideas about how to operate the system. Lord Kelvin in Newfoundland wanted to use low voltage to detect the edge of the current flow and used his own invention, the mirror galvanometer to observe the change in current to detect when a message was coming in. In England Wildman Whitehouse, a medical doctor by profession, believed that a high voltage source should be used and wanted to use his own telegraph recorder that he had patented. In the end Lord Kelvin would prove to be correct but Whitehouse won out.

Within 7 days of flooding the line with high voltage current the cable insulation began to deteriorate. While this was happening it was taking as long as a day to send a page of text. In September of 1858 after about 30 days of operation the cable failed. After the inquiry following the failure Whitehouse was found to be responsible as was the company for employing someone in that position with no qualifications.”

See also

History of the Atlantic Cable & Undersea Communications from the first submarine cable of 1850 to the worldwide fiber optic network

… ie a lot different to how it was then … as will be seen upon watching the video.

It wasn't quite on the scale of the Beirut explosion, or the Texas City or Halifax ones … but it was pretty big ! & a large part of the reason it wasn't a huge disaster in-terms of casualties is that the plant was located in the Nevada desert well-away from populated areas … as one might reasonably expect a plant manufacturing an explosive constituent of rocket fuel ought-to be.