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    #2702
    bear1
    Registered Users Posts: 12,812 ✭✭✭✭bear1


    weekaizer wrote: »
    I always found this hard to believe.
    I mean he completed a full lap of imola before the crash occurred. I honestly think the steering column broke as he turned in at the high speed tamburello corner. The column had previously been modified at drivers request due to being too long or too short (can't quite remember which) perhaps the modification was an inferior one...

    Williams f1 team kept the car in house for a long period post the crash before it could be examined. I also find it odd that the on board camera footage from sennas car disappears for the short 1-2 seconds between car leaving the road and hitting the wall. Could there have been some cover up and evidence hiding on the Williams f1 team??.

    I can't see a formula 1 team as big as them covering up the death of the world's most famous driver.
    Broadcast throughout the entire world live.


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    #2703
    kylith
    Registered Users Posts: 17,736 ✭✭✭✭kylith


    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    Oddly enough methane hydrates may not be as unstable as previously thought https://phys.org/news/2017-08-hydrate-gun-hypothesis.html

    then again https://phys.org/news/2017-06-domes-frozen-methane-blow-outs.html


    No methane hydrate don't explain all of the Bermuda incidents, but bad navigation has explained some of the others.
    I read a while back that the Bermuda Triangle is no more dangerous than any other area of ocean, it's just that losses there are reported more.


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    #2704
    ligerdub
    Registered Users Posts: 2,584 ✭✭✭ligerdub


    weekaizer wrote: »
    I always found this hard to believe.
    I mean he completed a full lap of imola before the crash occurred. I honestly think the steering column broke as he turned in at the high speed tamburello corner. The column had previously been modified at drivers request due to being too long or too short (can't quite remember which) perhaps the modification was an inferior one...

    Williams f1 team kept the car in house for a long period post the crash before it could be examined. I also find it odd that the on board camera footage from sennas car disappears for the short 1-2 seconds between car leaving the road and hitting the wall. Could there have been some cover up and evidence hiding on the Williams f1 team??.

    I guess it's possible. It's the first I've ever heard of it though in all the years since then, and I've never really considered it in any way suspicious. My personal opinion is that I'd be very surprised if anything other than the current version of events is true, but what you say is a possibility. However if you assume something else as possible you'd also have to assume driver error as a possibility. It is a dangerous sport after all.

    We probably don't see the footage because it could be deemed insensitive, not so much that there is no footage somewhere. You can see he lost control in the in-car footage shortly before he crashes.

    Remember that he had such a poor start to the year that he was extra pressured into winning that race. He himself had voiced concerns about safety at the race that weekend.

    Edit: is this what you mean?

    https://youtu.be/_64k44_pm_M

    Interesting video. I'll be honest and say it's a solid argument, and the guy has clearly put a good bit of work into it. I personally can't see what he refers to though in terms of the yellow light, and by that I mean I literally can't see it. I understand others can though so fair enough.


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    #2705
    cml387
    Registered Users Posts: 8,392 ✭✭✭cml387


    How do Jacobs get the figs... nah just joking.


    The Moorgate Tube disaster.

    A highly experienced tube driver fails to stop at a terminus station and continues into a dead end tunnel.


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    #2706
    Kauto0709
    Registered Users Posts: 1,723 ✭✭✭Kauto0709


    cml387 wrote: »
    How do Jacobs get the figs... nah just joking.


    The Moorgate Tube disaster.

    A highly experienced tube driver fails to stop at a terminus station and continues into a dead end tunnel.

    Sounds like a suicide? Possible mental illness? Similar to that crazy pilot who purposely crashed the Germanwings flight a year or 2 ago.


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    #2707
    Capt'n Midnight
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    Kauto0709 wrote: »
    Sounds like a suicide? Possible mental illness? Similar to that crazy pilot who purposely crashed the Germanwings flight a year or 2 ago.
    There were 643 suicide attempts on the tube in 2000-2010.

    Or maybe the Dead Man's Handle can't handle all eventualities.


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    #2708
    Paddy Cow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,576 ✭✭✭Paddy Cow


    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    There were 643 suicide attempts on the tube in 2000-2010.

    Or maybe the Dead Man's Handle can't handle all eventualities.
    That is a shocking statistic.


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    #2709
    bear1
    Registered Users Posts: 12,812 ✭✭✭✭bear1


    Could it be cause they are underground for so long every day? The lack of natural light can get to you.


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    #2710
    [Deleted User]
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    bear1 wrote: »
    Could it be cause they are underground for so long every day? The lack of natural light can get to you.

    Presume the stat meant everyone, not just Underground workers or drivers...I've been stopped on a train in London because of a "jumper" and everyone in the carriage just shrugged and said it happens...


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    #2711
    bear1
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    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Presume the stat meant everyone, not just Underground workers or drivers...I've been stopped on a train in London because of a "jumper" and everyone in the carriage just shrugged and said it happens...

    Empathy must be a luxury there then.


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    #2712
    [Deleted User]
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    bear1 wrote: »
    Empathy must be a luxury there then.

    Yeah, it seemed a bit cold...but I guess amongst commuters facing the grimness of London rush hour, empathy for some stranger who decides to screw up their day is in short supply.


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    #2713
    ligerdub
    Registered Users Posts: 2,584 ✭✭✭ligerdub


    Paddy Cow wrote:
    That is a shocking statistic.


    It works out at just over 1 a week in a city in a huge population. Relatively speaking it's not that much of a shocker.


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    #2714
    dubstarr
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    Raonaid Murray.Its coming up to her anniversary and still no closer to her killer being found.1999,nearly 20 years and that person is still walking around.

    What a horrible waste of a young girls life.


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    #2715
    cml387
    Registered Users Posts: 8,392 ✭✭✭cml387


    The Moorgate investigation did examine whether Driver Newsome committed suicide.
    He did have a largish sum of money with him that morning, apparently he was going to buy his daughter a car when he finished his shift.

    Since we are on the subject of mysterious railway accidents, you can also include the terrible crash at Harrow in 1952 where an experienced driver and fireman passed one signal at caution and two signals at danger.


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    #2716
    eviltwin
    Registered Users Posts: 17,495 ✭✭✭✭eviltwin


    cml387 wrote: »
    The Moorgate investigation did examine whether Driver Newsome committed suicide.
    He did have a largish sum of money with him that morning, apparently he was going to buy his daughter a car when he finished his shift.

    Since we are on the subject of mysterious railway accidents, you can also include the terrible crash at Harrow in 1952 where an experienced driver and fireman passed one signal at caution and two signals at danger.

    Possible heart attack or something similar ?


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    #2717
    Samaris
    Registered Users Posts: 6,544 ✭✭✭Samaris


    There was a post-mortem, but it was several days before the rescuers could get to the body and results were generally inconclusive due to decomposition. Another hypothesis made at the time was that he zoned out a moment or confused Moorgate for a through-station just long enough that when he did realise, it was far too late.

    One thing that it did introduce was a safety measure named after the station where if a train came into a dead-end tunnel over a certain speed, first various resistors on the track would flip to slow the train down through the station and then the emergency brakes would trip if the front of the train went past the entrance to the dead-end tunnel.


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    #2718
    Ash.J.Williams
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    bear1 wrote: »
    Empathy must be a luxury there then.

    Dara obrian did a routine on train suicides. To sum it up... There's a train fatality... Reaction is to look at your watch and wonder how long you'll be delayed


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    #2719
    SnakePlissken
    Registered Users Posts: 1,489 ✭✭✭SnakePlissken


    Ash.J.Williams wrote: »
    bear1 wrote: »
    Empathy must be a luxury there then.

    Dara obrian did a routine on train suicides. To sum it up... There's a train fatality... Reaction is to look at your watch and wonder how long you'll be delayed
    Suicidal impulses are of course a nental illness, but it is a particularly selfish way to do it by throwing oneself in front of a commuter train, my empathy is with the driver.


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    #2720
    branie2
    Registered Users Posts: 10,299 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    The name of the girl in the Rick Astley video, Whenever You Need Somebody, and why she put on the top of her bikini when she was on the beach, when any normal woman puts hers on before going out to the beach.


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    #2721
    Kenny Logins
    Registered Users Posts: 9,061 ✭✭✭Kenny Logins


    branie2 wrote: »
    The name of the girl in the Rick Astley video, Whenever You Need Somebody, and why she put on the top of her bikini when she was on the beach, when any normal woman puts hers on before going out to the beach.

    Lene Bausager

    Source: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056825159 :D


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    #2722
    branie2
    Registered Users Posts: 10,299 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    it hasn't really been confirmed if Lene Bausager was the girl


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    #2723
    branie2
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    And I'm still wondering (as I'm sure others are), about her dressing actions on the beach.


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    #2724
    PeterParker957
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,177 ✭✭✭PeterParker957


    The continuing mystery of how Ray D'Arcy has a career.


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    #2725
    branie2
    Registered Users Posts: 10,299 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    What happened to Podge and Rodge


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    #2726
    frag420
    Registered Users Posts: 6,158 ✭✭✭frag420


    D'arcy has them chained up in his basement...
    branie2 wrote: »
    What happened to Podge and Rodge


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    #2727
    fxotoole
    Registered Users Posts: 1,661 ✭✭✭fxotoole


    Today's mystery is why people feel the need to pollute such an awesome thread with nonsense posts like the last three/four posts


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    #2728
    branie2
    Registered Users Posts: 10,299 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    How Stonehenge was built


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    #2729
    frag420
    Registered Users Posts: 6,158 ✭✭✭frag420


    Good input...

    Irony thread that way
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    fxotoole wrote: »
    Today's mystery is why people feel the need to pollute such an awesome thread with nonsense posts like the last three/four posts


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    #2730
    Capt'n Midnight
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    PeterParker957 wrote: »
    The continuing mystery of how Ray D'Arcy has a career.
    branie2 wrote: »
    What happened to Podge and Rodge
    frag420 wrote: »
    D'arcy has them chained up in his basement...

    Join the dots people ...


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    #2731
    Capt'n Midnight
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    branie2 wrote: »
    How Stonehenge was built
    Wait until winter and slide the rocks over the snow / ice / frozen ground.

    Or walk them like the did with the Easter Island statues.


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