I hope they do a good job with ventilation. Twenty years ago I drove my kids to Penn’s Cave, a completely flooded cavern you tour in a boat.
I thought it sounded cool, but it turns out the boats were powered by little gasoline powered motors that were on their last legs, burning equal amounts of gas and oil.
By the end of the tour we were craving fresh air. Headaches all around. I’m sure they’ve switched to electric motors.
Yeah, it’s a disaster waiting to happen. Those Scandinavians know nothing about boats and seafaring.
If you’re in France, it’s March 24 now…the anniversary of this tunnel fire.
The fire burned for 53 hours and reached temperatures of 1,000 °C (1,830 °F), mainly because of the margarine load in the trailer, equivalent to a 23,000-litre (5,100 imp gal; 6,100 US gal) oil tanker, which spread to other cargo vehicles nearby that also carried combustible loads. The fire trapped around 40 vehicles in dense and poisonous smoke (containing carbon monoxide and cyanide). Due to weather conditions at the time, airflow through the tunnel was from the Italian side to the French side.[3] Authorities compounded the effect by pumping in further fresh air from the Italian side, feeding the fire and forcing poisonous black smoke through the length of the tunnel.
Dudley Canal Tunnels - YouTube
They do use electric boats for the tours.
I just noticed - someone already started another thread on this subject.
A 200,000 ton cargo ship has run aground in the Suez canal - ending up perpendicular to the relatively narrow channel at that point - completely blocking it. The backlog is building up - and even causing oil prices to move upwards. Suez Canal blocked after massive container ship runs aground | Shipping News | Al Jazeera
That explains this video I saw years ago:
For those interested, that thread is:
You can see that clearing the ship in the Suez just needs bulldozers. It is just a big trench in the ground.
Police find real firearm disguised as a Nerf gun in North Carolina raid
They matched the colors pretty well, and even added a very real-looking Nerf logo.
You gotta wonder why they went to all this trouble. Was it to smuggle the gun in somewhere (but wouldn’t the unpainted endstock give it away? Or were the counting on people not looking at that?) Was this an attempt to absolutely dominate the next round of Nerf War?
I didn’t realise you could get drum magazines for pistols (outside of the “Borderlands” series of games).
Totally unrelated to the last item, Sotheby’s in New York is auctioning off 200 early photographs next month
Contrary to their headline, though, they do not appear to all by by William Henry Fox Talbot, the inventor of the “Calotype” method that produces a negative, from which a positive is struck (as opposed to the daguerreotype method). If you go to their site and look at the collection, there are a lot of early photographers represented.
Purely by chance, I had sent off an article I wrote about Talbot just last night. In 1851 he took what appears to be the very first strobe photograph (and also the first “flash” photograph, requiring an exposure of well under a second at a time when photographs typically required a 30-90 second exposure, and not that long after exposures of half an hour were not uncommon).
Sometimes the opposite happens: drilling breaks through and stuff comes out uncontrollably.
They made them for some models of the Luger. Didn’t work very well, but they are out there.
It wasn’t in the picture, but from the article:
The Glock 19 pistol, along with a 50-round drum magazine, had been painted blue and orange and labeled with the Nerf logo to look like a toy, the Catawba County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release on Facebook
I had to google my own pictures of Glocks with drum magazines. 
I caught that when I went back to look. I didn’t know they made them for Glocks either. Idiotic invention for idiotic shooters.
Yeah. Like this only bigger:
http://www.armoton.com/farside/pic/111-mosquito.gif
I hate it when that happens! 
I did enjoy “The Far Side,” and when I mention to others my love of “Calvin and Hobbes,” this strip often comes up. IMO C&H is better because in the long run, repeating characters gives the audience a chance to learn about them, care about their development, something.
But let’s not disrespect Gary Larson either:
** Pointing at the rear end of a Stegosaurus diagram, he says “Now this end is called the thagomizer … after the late Thag Simmons.” Without meaning to, Larson’s strip plugged a gap in the scientific lexicon. Previously, nobody had ever given a name to the unique arrangement of tail spikes found on Stegosaurus and its relatives. But today, many paleontologists use the word “thagomizer” when describing this apparatus, even in scientific journals.**
The Chinese dictator Xi Jinpin spent two weeks living with an American family in Muscatine, Iowa in 1985. He was about 22 years old.
In Panama, cock-fighting to the death is legal, but is a crime to train a poodle to jump through a hoop.
From 2½ years ago but I just heard about this: deputy head of the SS in Denmark warned Jewish tailor of impending deportation.