#liquifaction

[workersolidarity]

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MASSIVE EARTHQUAKE ROCKS TAIWAN KILLING SEVEN AND WOUNDING DOZENS

📹 Scenes from a massive 7.4 magnitude earthquake that rocked Taiwan on Tuesday night, killing at least seven people, or as many as nine according to other reports, and wounding as many as 800 others.

According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), the earthquake, which struck shortly before midnight on Tuesday, caused extensive landslides and liquifaction of the ground, destroyed several buildings, and prompted Japan, Taiwan and the Philippines to issue tsunami warnings, which were later lifted.

The earthquake was felt from the Taiwanese capital of Taipei, to southern Japan, to as far away as eastern China and the Philippines.

The earthquake was among the strongest of its kind to hit Taiwan in over 25 years, with the worst damage being reported in the eastern city of Hualien, as well as the surrounding mountain countryside.

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[uncle-mojave]

The most beautiful part od Dune 2021 is the sabdworm scenes where the sand goes into liquifaction because of the vibration. The detail is so on point.

[deusvervewrites]

Hero a Hero AU: Would Akira bring up Taroimo? How would Izuku react to that knowledge? Is liquifaction still known in Izuku's time, or has it been lost to the sands of time?

I think liquifaction was phased out after what I personally refer to as the Human Soup Incident.

He might bring up Taroimo if they were talking about where they're from and their friends/family or something

[forgottenthreads]

Environmental idea

One of the big issues for the grid is that it's really hard to spin up extra generation on the quick and really inefficient too, big powerplants running cold wastes a huge amount of energy while they heat up and spin up. We're adding a bunch of renewable sources to the grid which is great but it's also making meeting demands really hard cause we double the number of times a classic power station cycles on and off.

One of the biggest demands on the grid is AC. It's as much as 10% of the energy demand, and while it is fairly efficient it's also for many time sensitive. I know Tech Connections has suggested AC as a battery, turn on the AC when there's low demand or high supply and over cool so it's needed less when there's high demand or low supply. But I think we can take it a couple of steps forward after all the AC is dumping the unwanted heat into the atmosphere doing no work with it, if we can supply cooling and use the heat that'd ultimately be more efficient.

So we have a bunch of high pressure pipes that are soon going to be obsolete I suggest repurposing them to carry compressed (or liquified) air. We generate the compressed air by keeping nuclear power stations running even when they're "not needed" and to meet peak demands rather than spinning up coal we turn off the compression.

The compression (or liquifaction) of air produces waste heat which can be used to preheat the water for the reactors or something like utility hot water, and the compressed air when it decompresses would cool the environment it's decompressed into.

There would be the side effects that the compressed air could improve air quality wherever it is released, the air can be fractionated to remove CO2 if it's liquified even without separation of all the other useful fractions like neon, argon, helium, etc... even if these are relatively small fractions doing this at scale could generate significant quantities anyway. Regardless of composition the air may be contaminant free, with no dust or live viruses/bacteria due to filtering or the compression process, and the compressed air will be less able to hold moisture so would provide air conditioning to a degree.

Once stored compressed air as a battery is near lossless, hot salt batteries shed heat over time even if not being discharged, chemical batteries self discharge over time, while 1kg of compressed air in a tank will remain 1kg of compressed air in a tank almost indefinitely providing the tank is well designed and leak free.

And there are many ways to used compressed air other than cooling, there are many tools that are already designed for use with compressed air. From workshop tools like pneumatic saws, drills, files and so on to pressure washers or medical equipment there are many uses for compressed air as a power source separate from its use as AC.

And I would assume that running a few larger processes could be made considerably more efficient than millions of smaller ones. A bigger system may be able to leverage multiple phase change stages in ways that are more effective than a single refrigerant loop, industrial machinery may be designed for higher pressure capacity, higher heat extraction levels, colder cold side than is necessary or safe for a residential or commercial environment.

I believe it could be a very valuable and worth while endeavour however I do appreciate I do not know all the nuances and I am well aware that effectively bottling atmosphere in one location and releasing it at another consistently could make the urban microclimate problem worse. Not only are urban environments more likely to hold onto heat this have a side effect of driving up atmospheric pressure in those same environments making them less likely to have cloud cover or rain while the compression locations my lower air pressure and lead to their own microclimates and may result in significant environmental impacts like permanent winds between cities and the compression stations.

I want to see some real studies into the feasibelity and long term effects of this plan even if it's a bad idea I believe it's worth exploring

[spots-lights]

s3e6 - 2Shy

Blegh. ucky episode and not because of the liquifaction.

Sister says victim was in a “Big and beautiful chatroom” and had a “weight problem” Her “problem”: she was 165

???? Im getting that cannibalism is the driver of the monster of the the week. But “lonely “””big””” girl” trope is such lousy writing, probably because they didn’t want to actually hire a larger actress.

[posttexasstressdisorder]

Not gonna link, it’s paywalled, but it looks like they knew this building was trouble 20 years ago.  Building 12 stories on probably nothing but fill is gonna eventually lose all integrity and start falling apart.  Like this one.

[auraeseer]

As opposed to the solid and vapor factions . . .

[working-with-rocks]

Why seismic design is important, a three decade remembrance. 

These images are of the formerly two-deck Cypress Structure on the route of Interstate 880, the Nimitz Freeway in Oakland, California after the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake.  When we arrived in the SF Bay Area in the early 1960s, the highway was known as State Route 17 and there was some amount of scandal over alleged shortcuts taken in the construction.  Not enough rebar, not enough portland cement in the concrete and more.  It didn’t help that the pilings were set into bay mud that wasn’t particularly stable.  Even with normal traffic, the structure shook and vibrated badly and I hated driving on it. 

So with just 15 seconds of shaking, down it came. 

[johnvpinto]

NATURAL HAZARD DISCLOSURES LIQUEFACTION AND LANDSLIDE ZONES

[iamthekaijuking]

An (outdated) cladogram of “True” elder dragons I created (newer version can be found here). Given the fact that there seems to be many gaps in terms of elder dragon relations, and that many existing “true” elder dragons are quite different from each other, this is the best I could do. I included frontier dragons for a larger sample size, which makes things easier.

In this cladogram, elder dragons have a common ancestry with piscine wyverns. The hypothetical ancestor of elder dragons, piscine wyverns, and “piscine leviathans” (somna) was probably a quadrupedal Actinistian equivalent to tetrapods with very large paired dorsal fins. The ones that lead to piscine leviathans and elder dragons might have modified these paired dorsal fins into jointed limbs to be used used for movement like their other limbs, but then they became vestigial in some piscine leviathans (somna). Or maybe only the elder dragon line ones modified their dorsal fins in such a way.

One of the defining features of elder dragons are their horns, which often serve as some sort of modulator for their powers. Many elders also go through drastic changes throughout their life. Coupled with the hypothetical fish ancestry, I purpose that many elder dragons might have “tadpole” stages like amphibians, or go through several drastically different stages in their life cycle.

If creatures like somnacanth are the closest relatives, then Shantien might be the most basal existing elder dragon. I think it might have descended from elder dragons that hadn’t quite evolved their fins into wings yet. It’s “wing” arms are reduced into fins once again though.

From here I split elder dragons into two main groups. Winged elder dragons, which continued to develop their paired dorsal fins into powerful limbs that could be useful for flight, and Drakes, which lost their paired dorsal fins. I’ll start with drakes first since it’s the smaller group.

Eruzerion, Kulve, and Lao I felt seemed to be a sort of natural progression from a semi-sprawling almost fanged wyvern-like bauplan to a more erect posture. Eruzerion and Kulve also have sprawled forearms, massive curled horns, and powerful heat/fire abilities. Lao is the most derived of the three existing members of the group, and Kulve is likely closer to Eruzerion than it is to Lao. Kulve’s golden mantle supports my theory that the world of monster hunter is incredibly mineral rich, as its mantle and the habitat it’s initially found in likely has more gold than our entire earth does alone. The world of monster hunter would have to have such massive amounts of minerals if there’s many geovorous organisms and dragons like Kulve running around with mantles made of several hundred thousand pounds of gold just for display. I know Lao is canonically close to Zorah, but I’m obviously not following canon and I can’t really see many similarities between them aside from them being “the big omnipedal kaiju dragons”. There’s some subtle differences in their anatomy, and Lao lacks wings while Zorah has vestigial ones.

Inagami is interesting as it could work in many places in the drake family, and might even be a distant Kirin relative. It could work as a distant Lao relative, but I put it as a sister group to ocean drakes (although I’m starting to second guess this decision).

Tartaronis is the last remaining member of a sister group to all existing ocean drakes, and is incredibly derived. Several million years ago when the sea levels were higher they might have lived in shallow seas. As the sea levels dropped they might have switched to swimming in the sand.

Ceadeus is probably a textbook ocean drake and the only existing one that’s still aquatic. I have it as a sister group to the Mohrans. I used goldbeard’s icon since goldbeards are implied to be adults.

There’s not much to say about the Mohrans other than the fact they too live in the sand like Tartaronis, quite likely for similar reasons. They probably use sonic frequencies to liquifact the sand so they can swim through it.

Amatsu and the sky serpents Narwa and Ibushi are sister genre, although they’re still probably quite distant. The sky serpents seem to lack tongues, although I think their pharyngeal jaws might be derived from their tongues. Given the fact that Amatsu makes whale-like calls, the serpents communicate via ultrasound, and the Mohrans might use sound to make sand easy to swim through, sonic communication might have been ancestral to ocean drakes. It’s become lost in Amatsu and repurposed in the Mohrans and Tartaronis.

Over on the other side of the tree, I placed Rukodiora and Harudomerugu as the most basal winged dragons. Their wings seem to still be relatively simple in anatomy, although whether or not this is a basal or derived trait, I could not tell you. What makes them really stand out though, is that they have multiple paired dorsal fins. Their ancestors likely acquired a series of mutations that allowed this trait to manifest. Somnacanth also has several paired dorsal fins too, so something similar could have happened.

Nergigante, the Jiivas, and the black dragons I’ve grouped together as a very unique group due to their power and regeneration. The ancestral dragon of this group was likely a dragon that specialized in hunting other elder dragons. Access to such nutritious prey and bountiful amounts of bioenergy would allow for the evolution of incredibly fast and extensive regeneration as well as powerful elemental abilities. Eventually some members switched to subsisting off of bioenergy alone (such as the Jiivas) and might have searched for habits rich in bioenergy. The black dragons are the culmination of this increasing trend of absurdly powerful predatory dragons that subsist mostly off of bioenergy and go to the most remote locations in search of this resource. They likely don’t have very high population densities, and might be so rare that they might have opted out of reproducing sexually and instead switched to several asexual methods. Given that Alatreon and Merphistophelin have access to all elements and are representatives of the two major black dragon families, the ancestral black dragon might have been the same. With only later black dragons like fatalis specializing for a single element. I know fatalis is canonically the ancestor of all dragons, and while I don’t agree with this statement, I can see why people would think so. Its lizard-y look, mysterious nature, incredible power, and long lifespan would give the impression of a sort of ancestral god.

The rest of the dragons are in a group with each other largely because I can’t find a good place to put them. It’s a largely wastebasket taxon, but there are some groupings within it.

The Magalas and Gog share obvious ancestry.

I placed Shara with Valstrax as a relative because you can see something come out of shara’s fingers and something is lighting up in shara’s triceps. Shara also has holes in its chest that could lead to a massive respiratory system like valstrax. So both might be united under a branching respiratory system that opens up in their chest and fingers. Valstrax adapted it for combustion and Shara for burrowing.

Kushala is well… Kushala. There’s not any other existing elder dragon with an exoskeleton. Interestingly, some Kushala Daora mutate and become Garuba Daora.

Guanzoroumu I have placed with Egyurasu because there’s an interesting theory that @eightleggedfiend suggests, and said theory is why I omitted Egyurasu from my flying wyvern cladogram. There is good reason to believe that Egyurasu are actually juvenile Guanzoroumu. They share way too many anatomical similarities for their similar appearance to be convergent evolution, and there’s not many good reasons why a powerful elder dragon would allow smaller less powerful monsters to constantly encircle it. Some elders have been known to go through drastic life changes, so maybe Guanzoroumu and Egyurasu are another example of that.

Initially I grouped Chameleos with Zorah since they both have a single large nasal horn, fat tails and lizard like hands (I know the only limbs with lizard hands on Zorah are it’s wings, but the other ones could have lost their lizard-ness as an adaptation for weight bearing). But eightleggedfiend changed my mind. They backed up the canon idea of namielle being related to chameleos by mentioning both of them are EDs with bioluminescence, color changing abilities, and control over electricity.

The Stras are a sister species to Toa Tesukatora in this tree (canonically they’re the direct descendant of Toa but given their wildly different elemental powers I doubt it). The Stras have the fastest land speed of any elder dragon for their size.

Vaal and Velkhana form a group in the cladogram. I put the Vs together due to their similar torso and limb build, tapering tails, and hoods on their neck. Vaal actually has a small hood if you look close, and so does Velk too (in fact that’s where most of its ice crown sits). Vaal is obviously more derived though.

[robhorninginternalexile]

Speculative audiences

I wanted to store these quotes from Susan Stewart’s Crimes of Writing (1994) somewhere, though I am not sure what their implications might be yet. They seem to harmonize with (1) the interest in the financialization of subjectivity, (2) the adoption of a ”speculative” approach to identity and community, and (3) how algorithmic recommendation conjures identity and audiences based in probabilities and speculation.

In this passage, Stewart is writing about George Psalmanazar, an early 18th century impostor who pretended to be from Formosa (a.k.a.Taiwan) but was really from France. He wrote a book about Formosan customs and language that was entirely made up. 

This kind of imposture was made possible — or was even made inevitable — by the “speculative” relation between books and the audience. I take “speculation” here to refer to both the publishers (who were in the process of discovering what sorts of publishing and what sorts of print objects would be profitable) and audiences (who were in the process of discovering what kinds of stories were possible, plausible, engaging, distracting, etc. and what sorts of new pleasures were enjoined by print).  

“During this period, the ‘responsibilities’ of authorship were undergoing a great upheaval: conventions of originality, genius, authenticity, documentation, and even genre itself remained sub­jects of speculation and interest rather than of either natural ‘rights’ or formulated law.” Stewart writes. In other words, profit opportunity was going to partly dictate what would eventually be ideologically naturalized or legally enshrined with respect to what authors and publishers could do and what they could write about and how. 

If those speculations were made possible by the transition to print culture, similar forms of speculation are being engendered by the move to “post-print culture” or internet culture or network culture, or however you want to describe our current condition. The new forms of speculation, however, are paradoxically driven by a surfeit of data, by new forms of measurement and outcome assessment that prompt new moments for gambling and for determining winners and losers and so on. Authors speculate on audiences not in terms of who they are or what they want, but in terms of how well they will allow themselves to be defined, to be packaged as a particular audience commodity or engage in forms of productive “interactivity” that can be exploited.   

And of course the “conventions of authenticity” are continually being renegotiated by the new forms of mediation available — new “social” apps drive new standards of authentic practice, also inflected by opportunity for profit for users and platforms and various third parties. 

I guess what strikes me about this is how much speculative opportunity drives the development of new forms of mediation and representation: These necessarily appear as “destabilizing reality” — enacting a “creative destruction” or liquifaction of “all that is solid.” The speculative opportunities aren’t grafted on later; they are intrinsic to the development of new media forms. 

[exitwound]

double shifts are so soul killing i think my atoms are liquefying. omg do you think they’d accept atomic liquifaction as a work-related injury and pay me for it

[haikkun]

Cal(l)m (e Out)

Your wife wrote me an email...

(One month and a half ago)

And although I’ve obsessively

Checked my spam folder

Every day this whole past year

For that same exact liquifacting fear

I still cried so hard I broke

All of

The blood vessels above my lip.

And I’ve heard that snakes and possums

Who play dead

Get the added benefit

Of pathological interment:

As reels of flashbeforeyoureyes moments reveal

A fate’s acceptance.

Might as well just lie right here.

And I feel calm in a way

That’s led me to believe that I’m

Already dead

Since last

You spoke

To me.

_____________________________

Maureen Armstrong @haikkun

[disastergis]

If you’ve ever taken a class at the California Specialized Training Institute, you’re very familiar with the fictitious city of Santa Luisa Del Mar... Sludmar! 

Recently I had the opportunity to take their Emergency Management Concepts course, which covers G191 (Emergency Operations Center/Incident Command System Interface), G775 (EOC Management and Operations), and a G611 area over a week long course culminating in a big exercise. 

I, of course, was assigned as the GIS specialist! 

They handed me some pdfs of maps, all different shapes, all different grids, some with different names for the areas! Nothing that could be easily used or combined or anything. 

So, knowing how these exercises go and what would be needed of me, I set out to digitize all of the major aspects of the maps. This involved georeferencing the different pdfs to the main basemap which has no real-world geolocation. But if I could get them all lined up, I could make points, lines, and polygons of the data! 

I would also output them as geotiffs, which I could open in GIMP and extract certain things, make other parts transparent, and readd it to QGIS as a raster layer. 

In the end, I ended up with thousands of points, lines and polygons, and even digitized all of the police beats just by reading the descriptions and drawing the polygons. 

I then set up a system using pre-made symbols so that any time an incident/call came in, I just had to plop the point down, add the calltype, and it’d do the rest automatically. 

It took hours, and days to do this, but it was worth it and it was really effective! You can see the results above of the different maps. There were utility grids, liquifaction zones, tsunamis, and dam bursts/flooding! There were hundreds of calls, and shelters set up, and incident command posts for this’s and that’s. And it all came in at a rush, and I was still able to produce a map every 10 mins with the latest info, post it up on a slideshow for everyone to see, and keep at it. 

GIS for the win baby! 

[globalworship]

Prayer for Haiti

Rev. Maren C. Tirabassi is a United Church of Christ pastor who serves churches in New Hampshire and Massachusetts. She is the author of 20 books (I have several) and is a former poet laureate of Portsmouth, NH.

She blogs at ‘Gifts in Open Hands’ https://giftsinopenhands.wordpress.com/ and frequently writes prayers about current events such as this one.

Prayer for Haiti by Rev. Maren C. Tirabassi God, for Haiti we pray, in the midst of earthquake, the deep and fatal line of brokenness along the memory of eleven years ago, and also shadows of newer memories, the devastation of covid, and aftermath of distrust and fear from the assassination. We pray for those who grieve loved ones who have died, for those who search, because it is their job or their desperation, the lost, hoping they are alive. We pray for those whose homes are gone, whose roads travel nowhere, whose work, food, schools have all disappeared. We pray in anticipation of aftershock and liquifaction, and in the expectation of winds and rain from Tropical Storm Grace, we pray for the simpler grace of support and rescue from all the world. Bondye gen pitye, Kris la gen pitye, Bondye gen pitye. Amèn

https://giftsinopenhands.wordpress.com/2021/08/14/prayer-for-haiti-2/

Follow Maren’s frequent prayers at https://www.facebook.com/maren.tirabassi

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[boethiah]

idk if you've discussed anything related to this before, but how realistic would you say is the scale on which red mountain's eruption destroyed morrowind (i'm not sure how closely volcanology relates to what ur studying but i figure your estimate is better than mine LOL)

oh!!! okay this is a fun question

i think the destruction part is realistic. from what we can gather from ‘the red year’, vvardenfell was overwhelmed by pyroclastic flows, while seismic effects were felt further out-- tear, in south morrowind, seems to have undergone liquifaction and sunk, which was a cool detail. this level of destruction is comparable to the krakatoa or mt. pinatubo eruptions. the scale is very realistic, imho-- volcanic eruptions can be catastrophic. 

i think the only ‘unrealistic’ thing is that we don’t hear more about how it affected the rest of tamriel. an eruption of that scale would definitely drop global temperatures for a few years. it also would’ve displaced the ocean as pyroclastic flows entered the water-- i wouldn’t be surprised if akavir got hit with tsumanis after the eruption, and i imagine that ebonheart and any inner coast cities were hit likewise