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The only helicopter I hear with any regularity is CareFlight, a helicopter ambulance service. We live on the approach path to our hospital.
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Gary Wheeler wrote: hear with any regularity is CareFlight, a helicopter ambulance service
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I'm glad we have it available. My local hospital is small, and while our emergency center is good, it can't handle complicated cases. CareFlight can move a patient to one of the more comprehensive facilities in Dayton in only a few minutes.
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I worked for a defense contractor when Top Gun came out, and all of our work was for the USAF. The day the movie premiered locally, they closed the office and everyone went to the movies.
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I was just out by NAS Fallon (where they have the TOPGUN school) a few weeks ago. It was on a weekend, so pretty quiet, but on weekdays, it can be quite noisy with jets flying over all day.
In Fallon, there is a Top Gun Drag Strip, Top Gun Restaurant, Top Gun Car Wash...there is also a Maverick Gas Station, but I'm not sure if it is a movie reference or something else.
The most impressive military jet flybys I have seen were actually in Death Valley, where I was parked on top of a ridge, and the jet was flying down the valley at an altitude several hundred feet below me. I have seen this several times.
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Gary Wheeler wrote: Today's xkcd: xkcd: Air Force Museum[^]
I live about ten miles from this: National Museum of the USAF[^]
 
Bullshit! You live in the museum. I have it on good authority that in middle age you helped Orville and Wilbur with their early experiments.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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I remember it like it was yesterday... 
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It is a well known problem with polystyrene clad tower blocks. Here is one in France burning: Fire Engulfs the Entire side of a High Rise building - YouTube[^]
It is very common these days; take an old, ugly concrete tower block, clad it in polystyrene and a skim of render.
In Germany they have had to add fire breaks at every floor, not sure these will help that much, but, like sofas and other soft furnishings in houses, why isnt it done with flame retardant materials?
This is an absoloute no brainer, it is obvious polystyrene is unsafe, how the hell, in Europe, did this ever get allowed?
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*in before thread gets hijacked by 9/11 conspiracy nuts*
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We do no fear conspiracy nuts. We have plenty of government squirrels and hamsters.
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What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Munchies_Matt wrote: how the hell, in Europe, did this ever get allowed?
Because money talks and it's not as though the builders live in the monstrosities they erect.
This space for rent
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One word. Building regs. Site inspection, building regs should have picked this up.
Look, even dot and dab plaster boarding in the UK requires a solid line of the mortar-glue across the board to stop a flue, and fire progress, up the back of the board and into a intentional ceiling-floor cavity. This is how tight rules are in the UK. Every hole through block work must have a lintel, even a 100mm one for a toilet pipe.
And they can look at acres of polystyrene going up and not think, 'hmm, fire?'
It staggers belief.
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Munchies_Matt wrote: One word. Building regs. Site inspection, building regs should have picked this up.
The building occupants in fact reported the impending dangers to the regulatory authorities, but as Pete said, Money Talks. As in, the authorities took a nice bribe and they kept quiet about it.
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>the authorities took a nice bribe and they kept quiet about it.
Not so, the building met the regs. Thats the problem, the building regs dont cover this. That is about to change though...
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Munchies_Matt wrote:
This is an absoloute no brainer, it is obvious polystyrene is unsafe, how the hell, in Europe, did this ever get allowed?
Money - or how to bring insulation up to C21 standards at lowest possible cost.
(Beyond this I'd have to go to the soapbox)
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The company that installed the stuff in London has subsequently ceased trading, they didn't install fire breaks and the product was more of a decorative cladding to modernise the look of the towerblock than an insulation.
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Looks like there is speculation in the media that it was caused by a faulty fridge. Horrible.
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A 30 watt installation, takes down an entire building, and kills what, 50?
All because of using polystyrene.....
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Whilst we should learn from and act upon all of the failures and lapses, perhaps now is the time to rally round and help those that are made homeless and to grieve for the dead. I'm sure blame will get assigned at the appropriate time. It's horrendous.
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Amen !
p.s. however, imho, a discussion of the causes with the 'moral intention' of trying to correct the cause, or to organize to effect a remedy, in order to save others, is praiseworthy. and, imho, expressions of outrage are understandable: their danger is, perhaps, that one can feel a sense of 'closure' with the issue psychologically after the catharsis without having any real effect beyond oneself.
but, who is fit/capable of judging intention in themselves, let alone in others ? i know i am not: yet i do, and most often my unreliable compass seems to be "gut instinct."
«Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.» Miss Piggy
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Its time to strip every tower block of polystyrene, right now, to make sure this cant happen again.
If the landlords object, make it law for the tenants to withhold rent until it is done. You could get that bill through parliament in no time.
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