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Why Don’t They Immediately Remove Rubble When A Building Collapses?

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Excavators, bulldozers and other heavy machinery essentially do their job by pushing large amounts of material around.

Huge bulldozers shoving tons of rubble and crushing the gaps as they do so is not an effective way to save the people trapped in the pockets beneath.

You can’t just pile in and shift hundreds of tons of collapsed rubble without it moving underneath you, potentially killing anyone who’s surviving in a small pocket underneath.

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How Do Technicians Determine The Cause Of A Fire?

I was a fire investigator for 6 years. We go about finding what started a fire by A) looking at burn patterns and B) interviewing the people that were there if possible.

If the whole house has not burned down, I look for the that has the most burn damage.

In a urban area where the fire department is pretty responsive, you may only get smoke damage in most of the house.

This rules out the rest of the house from starting the fire. Let’s say the most burnt area is near the kitchen. You start asking yourself what can start a fire in that area.

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What Is The Difference Between Bodybuilding and Powerlifting?

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Bodybuilding

We’ve all seen crazy pictures of Arnold Schwarzenegger or Ronnie Colman competing for Mr. Olympia — one of the highest level of bodybuilding competition — but how did they get up to that point? Bodybuilding is a round-the-clock commitment where athletes use cardio and strength exercises in tandem with an emphasis on bulking and cutting: putting on as much muscle mass as possible, and eliminating as much fat as possible from the body in order to get the muscle definition. The goal is to develop a perfect form which meets judges’ criteria.

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Why Is China So Hellbent On Erasing The Tiananmen Square Massacre From History?

Everyone (at least in the West) seems to know about tank man, but there’s another story that’s not as widely known. It shines a whole new light on this and explains why the Chinese government is so heavy handed when it comes to this subject. It was more than just another autocratic crackdown on protestors, which while terrible are par for the course.

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Plastic In The Microwave, Is There Really Any Danger To It?

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The majority of plastics can withstand microwave radiation and won’t break down nor melt. If you are buying commercial products, you might be able to find “microwave safe” symbols on them, which I think look like three squigly lines. Essentially, if you’re buying plastics that look like they were designed for storing food, then they are microwave safe.

Generally, for a plastic to be safe in a microwave it can’t react with the food, leach out components in the food, or decompose. A lot of storage containers such as plastic butter containers, sour cream containers, etc., can either melt or decompose. This also includes water bottles- don’t reheat water bottles if you want to be safe. Also, plastic bags from the grocery store should not be placed in the microwave.

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How Do You Correctly Use An Equalizer

How Do You Correctly Use An Equalizer

Here’s what those levels are adjusting:

16Hz – 60Hz = SUB BASS This is the super low-end that can be felt physically by your body on a good subwoofer/sub-bass system. Sounds with these frequencies are the most powerful ones, and they will take up a lot of room in the mix. Use this range to fatten up your kick drums or sub-bass patches. Too much volume in this range makes your mix sound «muddy.»

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Who Was Martin Luther? What Were His Main Contributions?

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Martin Luther was a German monk and priest. He was a devout Christian. In 1507, he was ordained as a priest and in 1508 he began to teach theology.

During his lifetime, the Western Church was raising money to rebuild St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome. That in itself was a pretty well thought out plan. However, the methods by which they collected money were intolerable to Martin Luther.

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