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Off-Topic / Re: Random Thoughts

Last post by TheHighwayMan3561 - Today at 04:07:48 AM

I was watching the sequence near the ending of Aliens where Ripley goes into the Xenomorph nest to rescue Newt.  Said sequence has a 15 minute warning countdown in the background indicating when the fusion power plant will explode.  The segment is actually 15 minutes in real time.

Not like Star Trek III, where Kirk, Chekov, and Scotty set the 60 second auto destruct, then:
-leave the bridge to take the turbolift to whatever deck the transporter room is on, then walk to the transporter room from wherever they got off
-go into the transporter room, Kirk gives a pep talk, they beam off and bring the Klingons on
-the Klingons then cautiously navigate the corridors not knowing where the Enterprise crew is
-they then take the turbolift to the bridge where the assault team leader gives a report to Christopher Lloyd back on the Klingon ship how no one is there, but "the computer is speaking"

...this sequence took 50 seconds of in-universe time before the "OH SHIT OMG GET OUT" and they all die.

#2

Off-Topic / Re: Minor things that please y...

Last post by kernals12 - Today at 02:36:20 AM

Reading my vintage issues of Consumer Reports.

#3

Off-Topic / Re: I just got fired

Last post by ZLoth - Today at 02:33:22 AM

Right now, I have a target on my back

Yup, as expected. I have thirty days to find a new position at the company I work for. At least I received the help of a recruiter and have a lead on a new position within the company.

[TSA Warns That You Shouldn't Try to Fly With a Call of Duty Zombies Monkey Bomb Figurine]

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Off-Topic / Re: Random Thoughts

Last post by ZLoth - Today at 02:23:58 AM

From IGN:

TSA Warns That You Shouldn't Try to Fly With a Call of Duty Zombies Monkey Bomb Figurine

If you're looking to pick up some video game-inspired replicas or figurines while traveling, you might want to think twice about bringing anything that looks like a Call of Duty weapon in your baggage.

FULL ARTICLE HERE

#5

Great Lakes and Ohio Valley / Re: Ohio

Last post by doglover44 - Today at 02:15:11 AM

Anyone know what's going on I-70 between New Carlisle and Huber Heights ?

#6

Welcome! / Re: Hey from Baja Illinois

Last post by doglover44 - Today at 02:08:23 AM

Welcome from Ohio you not interested in Highways ?

#7

Northeast / Re: Will I-95 in Canton, Massa...

Last post by DJStephens - Today at 01:26:31 AM

It should have been "fixed" with a T directional, in the mid seventies.  Following the cancellations.  But the department went on to ignore other thorns in the state system.  Route 2 in Lincoln and Concord remained a highway of death for an additional twenty years, before center barriers were finally installed.   Reformatory Circle was never torn out and replaced with an interchange, as it should, and needed to be.  US 6, on the Cape, was never double barrelled between Dennis and the Orleans Rotary.   Much of state route 9, was never modernized from it's early thirties state.  The state Route 25 extension to the Bourne Bridge was tied up for fifteen years.   The 95 final connection to 128 in Peabody also dragged out to close to fifteen years.   The 128 "add a lane" between Route 9, and 24, took close to FORTY years.  There was grading, and provisions made in the median, on 128 in the early seventies, in a few places S of 135 for an eventual fourth GP lane that wound up taking decades to finally complete.   And they haven't fixed the 93/128 cloverleaf, or added the extra needed GP lane on 128 in that area.    So the general ignorance of the Canton interchange, dovetails into the less than optimum outlook of the agency.   

#8

Northeast / Re: Interstate 81 in Syracuse

Last post by Rothman - Today at 01:22:31 AM

I see Salt City Construction is one of the contractors for the viaduct removal.  They are a New York based firm and started last year on their contracted work.

On their work details I see a roundabout will be installed at one of the new intersections.

The main viaduct removal hasn't been put out to bid yet.  Most recent contract let is for Contract 5 -- southern portion of I-81 leading up to the viaduct.

Salt City has won previous contracts' work...

#9

Northeast / Re: Interstate 81 in Syracuse

Last post by roadman65 - Today at 12:46:47 AM

I see Salt City Construction is one of the contractors for the viaduct removal.  They are a New York based firm and started last year on their contracted work.

On their work details I see a roundabout will be installed at one of the new intersections.

#10

Pacific Southwest / Re: Changes to the California ...

Last post by cahwyguy - Today at 12:37:15 AM

I can't believe that I missed that Ruth Hill Road alignment of 180 until this year.  The miss seems obvious now that I look at the 1935 DOH survey map for Fresno County with more knowledge about the Dunlap area.

Noted for the next round.