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Which stands out because it is now uncommon. I'd expect warehouse tragedies to be more common in the past?
by robocat 3mo ago
Which stands out because it is now uncommon. I'd expect warehouse tragedies to be more common in the past?
- lazide 3mo agoThey have been quite common - they just aren’t typically in the middle of a major metro with 1000 cameras on them, because most governments aren’t that dysfunctional. Notably, metallic sodium at scale would be way worse than this [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_City_disaster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_City_disaster]. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Fertilizer_Company_explosion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Fertilizer_Company_explos...]. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PEPCON_disaster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PEPCON_disaster] I’m not aware of anyone crazy enough to stockpile pure metallic sodium to anything like this scale. Here is the gov’t dumping a barrel of it in a lake though [https://youtu.be/HY7mTCMvpEM?si=aSJ2dPLrXsUuGOOJ https://youtu.be/HY7mTCMvpEM?si=aSJ2dPLrXsUuGOOJ].
- robocat 3mo agoLove that disposal - lucky the lake has no fish. Here's the link without the tracking (ShareInsights &si) "The Disposal of Sodium, 1947 Washington" 20000 lbs of Sodium https://youtu.be/HY7mTCMvpEM https://youtu.be/HY7mTCMvpEM