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How do you explain that to your auto insurance?Report
“The whale exploded much more vigorously than we were told it would.”Report
Act of Whale.
Or given when this happened just say you were so drunk you don’t remember.Report
That we were literally having a whale of a good time.Report
Truly a deep allegory for the times we live in.Report
Fun fact – orcas that wash up dead in Puget Sound are still so contaminated with PCBs that they are disposed of as hazardous waste in approved toxic waste landfills.Report
I’m just sad that current news reporters wouldn’t dare utter, “The blast blasted blubber beyond all believable bounds.”Report
You know that reporter kept that one on tape for later enjoyment and to show his friends.Report
I have trouble believing that Dept of Transportation “engineers”, who surely knew that 1,000 pounds of high explosive would reduce a steel and reinforced concrete bridge to pieces, didn’t expect exactly what happened: bits of whale everywhere within 400 yards.Report
Transportation engineers are not demolition engineers. Even I would have to crack open a book and run some numbers to be able to even get a rough SWAG on how much to use.
No, the question is not, why did he use 20 cases; the question is, why did ODOT not have demolition engineers on speed dial for a consult?Report
Maybe: “This stuff is gettin close to its expiration date and I get to blow up a fishin whale!!”Report
Strictly speaking the whale was no longer fishing.
Which causes me to wonder is “krilling” a word.Report
Sperm whale, is squiding a term?Report
It appears your marine biology-fu has exceeded mine.Report
This is so awesome!Report
I blame the Discovery Channel, was watching a show where they attached a camera to a sperm whale and got something like 8 or 12 hours of video of the thing hunting squid like a boss.Report
Perhaps a simple answer is that the transport engineers were on the payroll and any demolition engineers would want to get paid.Report
Those greedy demolition engineers! They should do it for the exposure, like artists and gig software developers.Report
“Hey, wanna blow up a whale?” would be a good way to begin a phone call.Report
“Do you want to blow a whale up?” To the tune of “Do you want to build a snowman?”Report
Clearly they *under* calculated as the bits of whale hadn’t reached the “disintegration” status they were hoping to achieve.
I blame slide rules.Report
I’d like to note that his comment on “no respectable seagull” had me laugh so loudly my husband came to investigate and made me replay it again.Report