Explosion at Pennsylvania Steel Plant Kills at Least One, Injures Dozens

Dozens of people are wounded and trapped under rubble after an explosion occurred Monday at a U.S. Steel plant in western Pennsylvania.
Emergency workers on site are trying to rescue those who are still trapped, according to the Associated Press.

Although the government hasn't confirmed any deaths, a reporter says at least one person has died.

BREAKING: 1 person has died after the explosion at the Clairton Coke Works, according to Senator John Fetterman. @KDKA https://t.co/VLQ61MPf7e
— Ricky Sayer (@RickyReports) August 11, 2025

Posted by: Ace at 02:32 PM

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1 Terrible

Posted by: It's me donna at August 11, 2025 02:32 PM (VE6XX)

2 FIRST WITH THE BLADE

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 11, 2025 02:32 PM (iFTx/)

3 Is it bad, or just telling, that my mind immediately went to "wonder if it was Antifa"?

Posted by: Dr. T at August 11, 2025 02:33 PM (13qJQ)

4 Sounds bad but I'll give it the 24 hour rule

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 11, 2025 02:33 PM (iFTx/)

5 Let's hope that these casualty numbers don't rise.

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at August 11, 2025 02:33 PM (nk4wn)

6 after the explosion at the Clairton Coke Works

*perks ears*

Posted by: Hunter Biden at August 11, 2025 02:33 PM (vhFJq)

7 Sounds like an accident... Dangerous place to work

Posted by: It's me donna at August 11, 2025 02:34 PM (VE6XX)

8 It wasn't us.

Posted by: CCP at August 11, 2025 02:34 PM (/U5Yz)

9 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 11, 2025 02:34 PM (Zz0t1)

10 Trump's fault. If he didn't impose tariffs, we wouldn't be forced to manufacture our own steel.

He's literally Hitler.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 11, 2025 02:35 PM (Zz0t1)

11 4 Sounds bad but I'll give it the 24 hour rule
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Yup, this is one of those stories I have no opinion or comment on other than I hope as few people as possible were hurt. I don't know enough to say much.

Posted by: the lower depths at August 11, 2025 02:35 PM (+b4rY)

12 Coke is cooked in retorts. There's lots of carbon monoxide. It's nasty.

Posted by: Rolling Donut Unharmed By gp's Flying Leap at August 11, 2025 02:35 PM (0I+GC)

13 I’ve been to Clairton Coke Works on business in the past. It’s quite the operation.

Posted by: Dirac_Delta at August 11, 2025 02:36 PM (wsZX5)

14 explosion at the Clairton Coke Works

—————

No Coke, Pepsi.

Posted by: Greek Diner at August 11, 2025 02:36 PM (u73oe)

15 Our hearts go out to the illegals who no longer work there.

Posted by: The Eight-Mile Human Chain at August 11, 2025 02:37 PM (vhFJq)

16 Prayers to the loved ones waiting for word.

That's got to be horrifying.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 11, 2025 02:37 PM (Zz0t1)

17 I’ve been to Clairton Coke Works on business in the past. It’s quite the operation.
Posted by: Dirac_Delta at August 11, 2025 02:36 PM (wsZX5)

Not anymore.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 11, 2025 02:38 PM (Zz0t1)

18 Damn. Prayers up.

There is probably other footage of what happened.
Cameras are everywhere now.

Posted by: Reforger at August 11, 2025 02:38 PM (h5TUr)

19 While it's extremely likely this is just an accident, given the political nature of steel in Trump's plans, I can't help but think about the 1% chance this was sabotage.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 11, 2025 02:39 PM (aPBRN)

20 Trump has gone too far now!

Jarvis@jarvis_best
Anonymous says that if we try to stop the cartels the Mexican army will defeat us and then Mexico and Canada will jointly invade us and take over.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 11, 2025 02:39 PM (L/fGl)

21 "Trump kills MOAR people! This is why we need to offshore all industry ..."

Posted by: ShainS -- Stop All The #WINNING ... I Gotta Get Off! at August 11, 2025 02:39 PM (mbH1K)

22 From the picture it doesn't look good.. Prayers...

Posted by: It's me donna at August 11, 2025 02:40 PM (VE6XX)

23 I once did litigation due diligence for a PE firm buying a steel company. Those steel plants are very dirty and dangerous. Lots of very hot metal, noxious gases, and high perches to fall off of. Lots of injuries.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 11, 2025 02:41 PM (iFTx/)

24
Jarvis@jarvis_best
Anonymous says that if we try to stop the cartels the Mexican army will defeat us and then Mexico and Canada will jointly invade us and take over.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 11, 2025 02:39 PM (L/fGl)

Anonymous says the US Military is a bunch of pussies? So much so, Mexican and Canadian troops could take us?

Interesting take, that.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 11, 2025 02:41 PM (Zz0t1)

25 Jarvis@jarvis_best
Anonymous says that if we try to stop the cartels the Mexican army will defeat us and then Mexico and Canada will jointly invade us and take over.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 11, 2025 02:39 PM (L/fGl)

Did they get that information from the Easter Bunny or the Tooth Fairy ?

Posted by: It's me donna at August 11, 2025 02:41 PM (VE6XX)

26 Is anyone here familiar with steel plants? What might cause one to explode?

Posted by: Bulg at August 11, 2025 02:42 PM (77rzZ)

27 Jarvis@jarvis_best
Anonymous says that if we try to stop the cartels the Mexican army will defeat us and then Mexico and Canada will jointly invade us and take over.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 11, 2025 02:39 PM (L/fGl)

----------------

Synchronized Nukes FTW!

I saw the B-52's open for the Synchronized Nukes ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Stop All The #WINNING ... I Gotta Get Off! at August 11, 2025 02:42 PM (mbH1K)

28 Anonymous says the US Military is a bunch of pussies? So much so, Mexican and Canadian troops could take us?

If they could, they would already have done so.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 11, 2025 02:42 PM (ExV1e)

29 Anonymous says that if we try to stop the cartels the Mexican army will defeat us and then Mexico and Canada will jointly invade us and take over.

Then: Fortress America the boardgame

Now: Fortress America in real life

Posted by: 18-1 at August 11, 2025 02:43 PM (t0Rmr)

30 A coke FACTORY!?

Posted by: Hunter at August 11, 2025 02:43 PM (/6GbT)

31 How do they melt steel? Fire?

Posted by: Boss Moss at August 11, 2025 02:43 PM (xsZ/U)

32 Yanno, today has just been crazy all day with glitches and non-operational hardware and software at work.

Magic 8 ball sez: the stars are not aligned for success

Posted by: kallisto at August 11, 2025 02:43 PM (dCxaZ)

33 26 Carbon monoxide is flammable. I don't know if it's explosive.

Posted by: Rolling Donut Unharmed By gp's Flying Leap at August 11, 2025 02:43 PM (0I+GC)

34 I wonder which planet went retrograde

Posted by: kallisto at August 11, 2025 02:43 PM (dCxaZ)

35
A video of the plant showed a series of massive steam releases, each followed by eruptions of black smoke. Looked like a chain reaction.

(The surveillance camera is operated by a local anti-pollution organization.)

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at August 11, 2025 02:43 PM (uz6ub)

36 WE CANNOT LET OUR STRATEGIC COKE RESERVES BE DEPLETED!!!

President Trump we have not always seen eye to eye but on this I hope we can agree we need action now!

Posted by: Sen Murcowski at August 11, 2025 02:45 PM (t0Rmr)

37 26 Is anyone here familiar with steel plants? What might cause one to explode?
Posted by: Bulg at August 11, 2025 02:42 PM (77rzZ

Lots of ingredients go into making steel. I'm guessing something off gassed and created a time bomb?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 11, 2025 02:45 PM (EvUVd)

38 It's interesting that we don't see a lot of catastrophic industrial accidents these days. Part of that is because of a greater emphasis on safety but partly because we transitioned from a manufacturing to a service economy. Not a lot of keyboard explosions. It's unfortunate to say, but when our manufacturing base returns, we can expect more of these occurrences. It's a tough price, but must be paid.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at August 11, 2025 02:45 PM (bNf8H)

39 19 While it's extremely likely this is just an accident, given the political nature of steel in Trump's plans, I can't help but think about the 1% chance this was sabotage.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian

See our comment at #8, round eye.

Posted by: CCP at August 11, 2025 02:45 PM (/U5Yz)

40 Is anyone here familiar with steel plants? What might cause one to explode?
Posted by: Bulg at August 11, 2025 02:42 PM (77rzZ)

You asked for it.......ish......

https://youtu.be/2myLjGeYOu0?t=69

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 11, 2025 02:46 PM (Zz0t1)

41 >>Jarvis@jarvis_best
Anonymous says that if we try to stop the cartels the Mexican army will defeat us and then Mexico and Canada will jointly invade us and take over.

LOL

The N Dakota Nat Guard could defeat them both.

Posted by: garrett at August 11, 2025 02:46 PM (z6okN)

42 It's interesting that we don't see a lot of catastrophic industrial accidents these days. Part of that is because of a greater emphasis on safety but partly because we transitioned from a manufacturing to a service economy.

Don't discount the tragic camera on accidents!

Posted by: Jeff Toobin at August 11, 2025 02:46 PM (t0Rmr)

43 Grok was stumped, but Leo AI sez: "Carbon monoxide can be explosive in the presence of oxygen and a spark or ignition source, especially in high concentrations. The exact concentration at which carbon monoxide becomes explosive in air is not well-defined, as it depends on various factors such as temperature, pressure, and the presence of other gases. However, it's generally considered to be a fire hazard in concentrations above 30% in air."

Posted by: Rolling Donut Unharmed By gp's Flying Leap at August 11, 2025 02:46 PM (0I+GC)

44 "22 From the picture it doesn't look good.. Prayers..."

Agreed and am with you on prayers for the miners and their families. Nothing worse then being trapped like that.

Posted by: Cwis Wallace at August 11, 2025 02:46 PM (Ea+Az)

45 I think this plant has had safety violations before.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 11, 2025 02:46 PM (EvUVd)

46 Massive prayers up.

Posted by: LizLem at August 11, 2025 02:47 PM (gWBY1)

47 The Deer Hunter

Posted by: front toward enemy at August 11, 2025 02:47 PM (TIizU)

48 Jarvis@jarvis_best
Anonymous says that if we try to stop the cartels the Mexican army will defeat us and then Mexico and Canada will jointly invade us and take over.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
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If you have never seen the map, "A Plan for a Preemptive Strike on the United States by the British Dominion of Canada, circa 1921" :

https://shorturl.at/GNThQ

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 11, 2025 02:47 PM (XeU6L)

49 Carbon monoxide is flammable. I don't know if it's explosive.
Posted by: Rolling Donut Unharmed By gp's Flying Leap

That's because everything is flammable.

Posted by: chlorine trifluoride at August 11, 2025 02:47 PM (fC55q)

50 Lots of very hot metal, noxious gases, and high perches to fall off of. Lots of injuries.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 11, 2025 02:41 PM (iFTx/)

Doesn't take much water to make the whole thing go boom.
I've never done steel smelting but did aluminium for about 7 years. Main cause is moisture.

Posted by: Reforger at August 11, 2025 02:47 PM (h5TUr)

51 Fortunately I only buy organic coke.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 11, 2025 02:48 PM (mlg/3)

52 This is a tragedy.

Posted by: Hunter B at August 11, 2025 02:48 PM (/U5Yz)

53 Not the coke you're thinking of, Hunter.

Posted by: Dave's not here, man at August 11, 2025 02:48 PM (raPis)

54 The Great Blantyre Explosion at a Scottish coal mine in 1877 killed 277 men. Songs were written about it.

Posted by: Dick Gaughan at August 11, 2025 02:48 PM (G5+As)

55 Grok says...

Industrial safety experts and reports point to the facility’s aging equipment and a history of operational issues, including a prior incident in February 2025 where a hydraulic failure in a battery led to a combustible material buildup and ignition. The Clairton plant, the largest coke manufacturing facility in North America, has faced repeated safety and environmental violations, with outdated systems increasing the risk of gas leaks or equipment malfunctions.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 11, 2025 02:48 PM (EvUVd)

56 >>I've never done steel smelting but did aluminium for about 7 years. Main cause is moisture.

I don't have that problem anymore.

Posted by: Nancy Pelosi at August 11, 2025 02:49 PM (z6okN)

57 Awful. Prayers up for minimal death and injuries. All I know about steel is it takes very high temps to make it, which I imagine makes any failure in the crucibles? that hold the molten steel very dangerous.

Posted by: PaleRider at August 11, 2025 02:49 PM (Cyxyd)

58 Will this affect Coke Zero,

Posted by: Boss Moss at August 11, 2025 02:49 PM (xsZ/U)

59 Is it a mine, or a coke plant, or both?

Posted by: Rolling Donut Unharmed By gp's Flying Leap at August 11, 2025 02:49 PM (0I+GC)

60 Carbon monoxide is flammable. I don't know if it's explosive.
Posted by: Rolling Donut Unharmed By gp's Flying Leap at August 11, 2025 02:43 PM (0I+GC)

CO is a component of "coal damp" an explosive gas responsible for hundreds of deaths in coal mine explosions. Any combustible gas can be explosive when mixed with the right amount of air.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 11, 2025 02:50 PM (1ogME)

61 It's interesting that we don't see a lot of catastrophic industrial accidents these days. Part of that is because of a greater emphasis on safety but partly because we transitioned from a manufacturing to a service economy.
____

Pretty sure there was a rash of fires at food processing plants a couple years back. Tucker Carlson did his 'just asking questions' thing when he was still employed at Fox.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 11, 2025 02:50 PM (Dv3i1)

62 Coke works, huh?

Better confirm Hunter's location.

Posted by: DudeAbiding at August 11, 2025 02:50 PM (setIA)

63 Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 11, 2025 02:48 PM (EvUVd

Looks like it's gone now.. Unfortunately it took people with it...

Posted by: It's me donna at August 11, 2025 02:50 PM (VE6XX)

64 If I had a hammer......

Posted by: Paul Pelosi at August 11, 2025 02:50 PM (Zz0t1)

65 Oh, so they weren't actually manufacturing steel itself at the plant, just coke?

Posted by: Bulg at August 11, 2025 02:51 PM (77rzZ)

66 . I'm guessing something off gassed and created a time bomb?
Posted by: AlaBAMA

The terrible thing, it can happen in seconds!

Posted by: Al Roker At The White House at August 11, 2025 02:52 PM (G5+As)

67 "It's interesting that we don't see a lot of catastrophic industrial accidents these days."

We complained about a spate of them during the Biden admin. Chicken farms burning, planes crashing into potato processors, East Palestine.

Posted by: Rolling Donut Unharmed By gp's Flying Leap at August 11, 2025 02:53 PM (0I+GC)

68 Wiki says carbon monoxide is one carbon and one oxygen with a triple bond. But my organic chemistry from 40 years ago tells me carbon has a valence of 4, and oxygen 2. So what's up with carbon's unpaired electron, and how does oxygen do a triple bond?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 11, 2025 02:53 PM (XvL8K)

69 68 That's one for Grok.

Posted by: Rolling Donut Unharmed By gp's Flying Leap at August 11, 2025 02:54 PM (0I+GC)

70 So what's up with carbon's unpaired electron, and how does oxygen do a triple bond?
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 11, 2025 02:53 PM (XvL8K)

Triple Lindy FTW.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 11, 2025 02:54 PM (Zz0t1)

71 The refractories in the slot ovens used to make coke are water cooled to extend their lives. A network of pipes carry the cooling water through the back face of the refractories.. Somehow water pooled under an oven and hot coke fell on top of the pool. The water instantaneously transforms to steam and an explosion ensues as the steam throws hot coke everywhere.

Water over hot coke or metal - OK

Water under hot coke or metal - Explosion

Posted by: 10x25mm at August 11, 2025 02:55 PM (XzYdr)

72 That's one for Grok.
Posted by: Rolling Donut Unharmed By gp's Flying Leap at August 11, 2025 02:54 PM (0I+GC)

Just don't ask Google's AI. It's suicidal.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 11, 2025 02:55 PM (Zz0t1)

73 I used to live about 2-3 blocks from a steel mill in Ashland, KY. Rented a garage apartment when I first got to the area. I forget what the by product of making steel is called, but they had taken some outside and it was raining. Boom. The explosion was so violent I thought somebody had driven their car into my garage below.

Posted by: Cwis Wallace at August 11, 2025 02:55 PM (Ea+Az)

74 Couldn't get a great perspective on whether it was in an open site, seemingly, or an enclosed one that has had all roofing blown off.

Posted by: From about That Time at August 11, 2025 02:55 PM (n4GiU)

75 Pretty sure there was a rash of fires at food processing plants a couple years back. Tucker Carlson did his 'just asking questions' thing when he was still employed at Fox.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 11, 2025 02:50 PM (Dv3i1)

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The Summer of Burning, Looting, Murdering, and Love ... with an encore of food processing plant Arsons.

Posted by: ShainS -- Stop All The #WINNING ... I Gotta Get Off! at August 11, 2025 02:55 PM (mbH1K)

76 Anonymous says that if we try to stop the cartels the Mexican army will defeat us and then Mexico and Canada will jointly invade us and take over.

LOL

The N Dakota Nat Guard could defeat them both.
Posted by: garrett

The Fargo militia/deer hunters would suffice.

Posted by: Joe Mama at August 11, 2025 02:56 PM (2sMLA)

77 'CO is a component of "coal damp"'

Coal damp is mostly methane. I'm still confused: is this a coke producer AND a coal mine?

Posted by: Rolling Donut Unharmed By gp's Flying Leap at August 11, 2025 02:56 PM (0I+GC)

78 CO is a component of "coal damp" an explosive gas responsible for hundreds of deaths in coal mine explosions. Any combustible gas can be explosive when mixed with the right amount of air.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 11, 2025 02:50 PM (1ogME)

There is one incident in N. VA (I think) where they essentially made a self replicating bomb. One part went off that shook a part then that went off and shook a part and that went off so on so on.

Posted by: Reforger at August 11, 2025 02:56 PM (h5TUr)

79 Op.

Posted by: Eromero at August 11, 2025 02:57 PM (LHPAg)

80 Fire can't melt steel!

Posted by: Rosie O'Dipshit at August 11, 2025 02:57 PM (qUkBO)

81 I’m going with accident on this one. Tragic but I doubt there’s anything more nefarious than aging equipment and complacent safety.

Posted by: Perfessor Sqiurrel at August 11, 2025 02:58 PM (QvMJ6)

82 Op.
Posted by: Eromero at August 11, 2025 02:57 PM (LHPAg)

Eep, Op, Ork, Ah-ah.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 11, 2025 02:58 PM (Zz0t1)

83 It's interesting that we don't see a lot of catastrophic industrial accidents these days.
——-

That’s in large part because all those dirty, icky industrial jobs were extirpated from the USA to Mexico or overseas, to places that don’t have EPA, OSHA, Workers Comp, child labor laws, minimum wage requirements, health care, Social Security & sex change surgeries for illegal aliens on death row.

I used to argue with brain dead liberals 30 years ago about this, when it was already 30 years of labor force carnage. I knew then, if a Republican would take up the mantle of job loss - careers -and simultaneously tell the “media” to Get Fucked in no uncertain terms, he’d win in a landslide. And here we are.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 11, 2025 02:58 PM (n+FG3)

84 So the graduations hang on the wall
But they never really helped us at all
No they never taught us what was real
Iron and coke, chromium steel

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 11, 2025 02:58 PM (iFTx/)

85 Is anyone here familiar with steel plants? What might cause one to explode?
Posted by: Bulg at August 11, 2025 02:42 PM (77rzZ)

It's a coke plant. Probably a natural gas explosion. They use natural gas to heat the coal into coke.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 11, 2025 02:58 PM (g8Ew8)

86 >>how does oxygen do a triple bond?

Biff, Organic Chemistry was a LONG time ago, but if I remember correctly, the explanation was that the carbon atom 'lends' an electron to the oxygen atom.

Posted by: Nazdar at August 11, 2025 02:59 PM (NcvvS)

87 Clairton is one of five or six remaining coke works in the USA. Coke is a key "ingredient" in the steelmaking process. The gas that is produced from the "baking" can be used for running other steel plant processes. I worked at Fairless Works as a contractor, and the Coke battery had been shutdown for awhile, but was going to be a major cost to clean up, along with all the coal tar at the facility. Good times.

Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, Ltd. at August 11, 2025 02:59 PM (PGK1w)

88 BRITISH STEEL (Full)

https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=CEBTrOKfZXc

Posted by: JUDAS PRIEST at August 11, 2025 03:00 PM (z6okN)

89 Jarvis@jarvis_best
Anonymous says that if we try to stop the cartels the Mexican army will defeat us and then Mexico and Canada will jointly invade us and take over.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 11, 2025 02:39 PM (L/fGl)

Maybe when I stop laughing I can actually drink my coffee thats been getting cold.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 11, 2025 03:00 PM (snZF9)

90 Do we trust the government records of numerous safety violations, or is that just a result of Lefty carbon-hating over-reaching regulatory rules designed to stymie the coal industry?

Posted by: Rolling Donut Unharmed By gp's Flying Leap at August 11, 2025 03:00 PM (0I+GC)

91 I was told there would be no organic bonding here!

Posted by: ShainS -- Stop All The #WINNING ... I Gotta Get Off! at August 11, 2025 03:01 PM (mbH1K)

92 Coal damp is mostly methane. I'm still confused: is this a coke producer AND a coal mine?
Posted by: Rolling Donut Unharmed By gp's Flying Leap at August 11, 2025 02:56 PM (0I+GC)

Sounds like the Clairton facility is a coke factory. They roast coal in ovens to drive off volatiles, and leave pure carbon for use in steel smelting. The coal gas is a byproduct that is itself useful. It contains, water vapor, CO, methane, and other hydrocarbons. And if water got into the red-hot coal, then you get the reaction between carbon and H2O, resulting in CO and elemental hydrogen. Which happily goes Kaboom!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 11, 2025 03:02 PM (MRBis)

93 "the Mexican army will defeat us and then Mexico and Canada will jointly invade us and take over."

They won't have to defeat us. It will just turn into another trillion dollar quagmire, accomplishing nothing good for us. We'll defeat ourselves with our short-attention-span willpower and empty purse.

Posted by: Rolling Donut Unharmed By gp's Flying Leap at August 11, 2025 03:02 PM (0I+GC)

94 Coal damp is mostly methane. I'm still confused: is this a coke producer AND a coal mine?
Posted by: Rolling Donut Unharmed By gp's Flying Leap at August 11, 2025 02:56 PM (0I+GC)

Oh DAMP!!!!

Posted by: That Kid from the Damp Rid Commercial at August 11, 2025 03:02 PM (Zz0t1)

95 This was a plant that produced coke, which is one of the ingredients in the steel making process. Think industrial charcoal, made from coal. They refer to one of these coke ovens (or a set of them) as a battery. This is what exploded. Andrew Carnegie, before he got into the steel making business, got his start in come production.
I grew up not far from Pittsburgh.

Posted by: NoLongerintheBellyoftheBeast at August 11, 2025 03:02 PM (OpLc2)

96 My guess is that someone tried to put something very wet in the furnace.

Posted by: Rusty Nail at August 11, 2025 03:03 PM (TdCYS)

97 Eep, Op, Ork, Ah-ah.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 11, 2025 02:58 PM (Zz0t1)
The media nor gumnint ain't exactly covered itselfs with glory lately.

Posted by: Eromero at August 11, 2025 03:03 PM (LHPAg)

98 It's interesting that we don't see a lot of catastrophic industrial accidents these days.

I watched a documentary a few yes ago where the African savages were harvesting fish from Lake Ugaabooga which were then loaded on Russian transport planes and flown to Russia. The harvester ladies hung thousands of fish out to dry and the ammonia over time blinded or would blind them all.

Posted by: Accidents Happen at August 11, 2025 03:03 PM (u5iGG)

99 The TX MoMee could beat Mehico and Canadia.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 11, 2025 03:03 PM (ULPxl)

100 >>Andrew Carnegie, before he got into the steel making business, got his start in come production.

He was my Hero.

Posted by: Peter North at August 11, 2025 03:03 PM (z6okN)

101 The media nor gumnint ain't exactly covered itselfs with glory lately.

Posted by: Eromero at August 11, 2025 03:03 PM (LHPAg)

Valid.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 11, 2025 03:04 PM (Zz0t1)

102 That's one for Grok.
Posted by: Rolling Donut
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Just don't ask about blueberries.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 11, 2025 03:04 PM (XeU6L)

103 "Andrew Carnegie, before he got into the steel making business, got his start in come production."

Peter North's first career.

Posted by: Rolling Donut Unharmed By gp's Flying Leap at August 11, 2025 03:04 PM (0I+GC)

104 The TX MoMee could beat Mehico and Canadia.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 11, 2025 03:03 PM (ULPxl)

This.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 11, 2025 03:04 PM (Zz0t1)

105 Which happily goes Kaboom!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Watch it. Ace might ban you for using "happily" and "Kaboom!" in the same sentence.

Posted by: Bulg at August 11, 2025 03:05 PM (77rzZ)

106 >>Ace might ban you for using "happily" and "Kaboom!" in the same sentence.

Never let Ace know you were an Apple Jacks Kid.

Posted by: garrett at August 11, 2025 03:06 PM (z6okN)

107 You mock our military prowess, but just you wait until we send our tank into battle!

Posted by: Canada at August 11, 2025 03:07 PM (zZSxi)

108 “Aging equipment”

Yes! Because .. Wait. Everything is “Aging” if you think about it. It’s the go-to phrase when the educratians want to float a bond issue for another Taj Mahal in your economically depressed school district. It will only be $140 million. The building is “aging”. Or the roof is leaking!

Posted by: Common Tater at August 11, 2025 03:07 PM (fjEsA)

109 The TX MoMee could beat Mehico and Canadia."

Cartels would hand them their heads. Literally.

Posted by: Rolling Donut Unharmed By gp's Flying Leap at August 11, 2025 03:07 PM (0I+GC)

110 Watch it. Ace might ban you for using "happily" and "Kaboom!" in the same sentence.
Posted by: Bulg at August 11, 2025 03:05 PM (77rzZ)

Hydrogen is a real joiner. It does not like to be alone. So it is happy to get it on with oxygen in a big luxurious Kaboom!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 11, 2025 03:07 PM (MRBis)

111 Eep, Op, Ork, Ah-ah.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 11, 2025 02:58 PM

Ting, tang, walla walla, bing bang!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 11, 2025 03:07 PM (dPfyF)

112 Never let Ace know you were an Apple Jacks Kid.
Posted by: garrett

Mom would never let me have that kind of stuff. Only Rice Crispies, Raisin Bran, and Cheerios.

I only got Froot Loops on my birthday.

Posted by: Bulg at August 11, 2025 03:08 PM (77rzZ)

113 >>Mom would never let me have that kind of stuff. Only Rice Crispies, Raisin Bran, and Cheerios.

One box of Sugar Cereal each month was all that was allowed for us.

Of course, I'd get up at 5 am that Saturday and eat the whole thing before my sisters woke up.

Posted by: garrett at August 11, 2025 03:09 PM (z6okN)

114 Peanut Butter Crinch.

Posted by: Boss Moss at August 11, 2025 03:09 PM (xsZ/U)

115 Hydrogen is a real joiner. It does not like to be alone. So it is happy to get it on with oxygen in a big luxurious Kaboom!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

So does the formation of water involve explosions?

Posted by: Bulg at August 11, 2025 03:09 PM (77rzZ)

116 115 Oh yeah!

Posted by: Rolling Donut Unharmed By gp's Flying Leap at August 11, 2025 03:10 PM (0I+GC)

117 96 My guess is that someone tried to put something very wet in the furnace.
Posted by: Rusty Nail at August 11, 2025 03:03 PM (TdCYS)
Agree. I saw a huge copper smelter blow up that way

Posted by: Eromero at August 11, 2025 03:10 PM (LHPAg)

118 I only got Froot Loops on my birthday.
Posted by: Bulg at August 11, 2025 03:08 PM (77rzZ)

—————

Must’ve been nice. Our birthday present was that the beatings would end an hour early.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 11, 2025 03:10 PM (u73oe)

119 Hmmm... a couple months ago Trump raised Tariffs on steel from 25% to 50%.

This plant is owned by US Steel.

We need to look, carefully at this.

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 11, 2025 03:10 PM (mP0Kj)

120 They won't have to defeat us. It will just turn into another trillion dollar quagmire, accomplishing nothing good for us. We'll defeat ourselves with our short-attention-span willpower and empty purse.
Posted by: Rolling Donut Unharmed By gp's Flying Leap at August 11, 2025 03:02 PM (0I+GC)

No way, this time will be different. General Lindsay Buttplug will lead us into battle himself.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 11, 2025 03:11 PM (dGCAG)

121
Carbon monoxide is likely not the cause of the explosion, but the coking process can yield hydrogen and methane gases, both of which can be explosive.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at August 11, 2025 03:11 PM (xG4kz)

122 Well, I see some others are here to help explain the steel jargon. I worked on projects in the Pittsburgh area and did often have to drive by a few of the shuttered steel plants, including the Clairton Works. Just skeletons now. They are still digging through the rubble looking for the missing workers.

Posted by: NoLongerintheBellyoftheBeast at August 11, 2025 03:12 PM (OpLc2)

123 So does the formation of water involve explosions?
Posted by: Bulg at August 11, 2025 03:09 PM (77rzZ)

It sure can.

Posted by: The Hindenberg at August 11, 2025 03:12 PM (MRBis)

124 So does the formation of water involve explosions?
Posted by: Bulg at August 11, 2025 03:09 PM

Ever mix hydrogen and oxygen and apply a spark? It's...energetic.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 11, 2025 03:12 PM (dPfyF)

125 It's interesting that we don't see a lot of catastrophic industrial accidents these days.

There's more than you think. There was a government agency, the US Chemical Safety Board (or something like that) that made interesting computer-animated YouTube videos explaining the causes of various plant accidents and explosions. They got shut down earlier this year by DOGE, which makes me a little sad, but anyway they were not lacking for accidents to explain, even during covid.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 11, 2025 03:13 PM (2ocoG)

126 When I was a kid, I filled test tubes with hydrogen and lit them. Sometimes it's a slow burn, with a slide-whistle noise. Sometimes, a brisk scary *POP*. Explosivity here depends on concentration.

Posted by: Rolling Donut Unharmed By gp's Flying Leap at August 11, 2025 03:13 PM (0I+GC)

127 You mock our military prowess, but just you wait until we send our tank into battle!

Posted by: Canada at August 11, 2025 03:07 PM (zZSxi)

----------------

Please tell me it's an EV.

Posted by: ShainS -- Stop All The #WINNING ... I Gotta Get Off! at August 11, 2025 03:13 PM (zV8MF)

128 Must’ve been nice. Our birthday present was that the beatings would end an hour early.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 11, 2025 03:10 PM (u73oe)

Oh, you got beatings.

Luxury!

Posted by: BurtTC at August 11, 2025 03:13 PM (dGCAG)

129 My brother and I didn’t beg for sugar cereal much. Our thing was wonder bread.

Mom always bout Roman Meal wheat bread. But every now and again she would get us a loaf of wonder. We would toast it, slather with margarine and the cinnamon and sugar.

We’d eat the whole loaf while
Watching Saturday morning cartoons.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 11, 2025 03:13 PM (W2Pud)

130 "US Chemical Safety Board (or something like that) that made interesting computer-animated YouTube videos"

I love those!

Posted by: Rolling Donut Unharmed By gp's Flying Leap at August 11, 2025 03:13 PM (0I+GC)

131 Hydrogen is easy to make: dump aluminum foil in lye-water solution, pipe it off.

Posted by: Rolling Donut Unharmed By gp's Flying Leap at August 11, 2025 03:14 PM (0I+GC)

132 Isn't there more energy in a drop of water than a drop of gasoline but getting it out is the problem?

Posted by: Reforger at August 11, 2025 03:14 PM (h5TUr)

133 Tim Walz just tweeted about the one year anniversary of being chosen as Harris VP...it seems like a fever dream from so long ago. He shouldn’t have listened to the consultants who told him to turn down the rhetoric.

I still don’t understand the logic in silencing Walz and putting Liz Cheney front and center of the campaign. Democrats hate Liz Cheney. Republicans hate Liz Cheney. Who were they appealing to?

The biggest problem for the Dems is being a big tent party. This makes having a message that makes everyone happy extremely difficult. The GOP generally has about 2 groups - Rich people and non-college educated white people.

After that video of the Nebraska townhall, if the democrats don't run on Universal Healthcare, we all deserve what comes next.

Tim was a good candidate guided by a horrible party. Tapping him as a running mate was the last smart decision that campaign ever made.

One of the thing about Tim Walz that I enjoy is how absolutely nuts he drives the maga shitbags. They lose their minds every time he's mentioned.

Walz derangement syndrome lmao

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 11, 2025 03:15 PM (JCZqz)

134
If you have never seen the map, "A Plan for a Preemptive Strike on the United States by the British Dominion of Canada, circa 1921" :

https://shorturl.at/GNThQ
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 11, 2025 02:47 PM (XeU6L)

Meh. There are file drawers at the Pentagon full of invasion plans for places like Ireland, Belgium, Italy, Botswana, Barbados, France etc. Any competent superpower is going to have invasion plans on file for every nation on earth, just in case.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 11, 2025 03:15 PM (y9nCu)

135 >>Tim was a good candidate guided by a horrible party. Tapping him as a running mate was the last smart decision that campaign ever made.

This is hard to believe. But, there you have it.

Posted by: garrett at August 11, 2025 03:16 PM (z6okN)

136 Really, didn't everyone get their start in come production?

Posted by: tsj017 at August 11, 2025 03:16 PM (xakWh)

137 When I was a kid, I filled test tubes with hydrogen and lit them. Sometimes it's a slow burn, with a slide-whistle noise. Sometimes, a brisk scary *POP*. Explosivity here depends on concentration.
Posted by: Rolling Donut Unharmed By gp's Flying Leap at August 11, 2025 03:13 PM (0I+GC)

And how intimately the gases are mixed. I contained huge bags of pure hydrogen, and somehow a leak ignited, and I was consumed in a huge rapid fire, not an earth-shattering Kaboom! I'm a movie star! You can find me on the internet.

Posted by: The Hindenberg at August 11, 2025 03:17 PM (MRBis)

138 You mock our military prowess, but just you wait until we send our tank into battle!
Posted by: Canada

Yah, sure. Us too.

Posted by: Canada Navy at August 11, 2025 03:17 PM (2sMLA)

139 https://x.com/johnkonrad/status/1885727359057219657

Posted by: Canada Navy at August 11, 2025 03:17 PM (2sMLA)

140 Lol at the War of the Worlds pitch meeting. The aliens ate Facebook.

Posted by: fd at August 11, 2025 03:18 PM (vFG9F)

141 Chocolate Frosted Suger Bombs

Posted by: Calvin at August 11, 2025 03:18 PM (XeU6L)

142 "As you listen to an unhinged Trump try to justify deploying the National Guard in DC, here's reality: Violent crime in DC is at a 30-year low."

Posted by: Hillary! 2028! 2032! at August 11, 2025 03:19 PM (0sNs1)

143 Meh. There are file drawers at the Pentagon full of invasion plans for places like Ireland, Belgium, Italy, Botswana, Barbados, France etc. Any competent superpower is going to have invasion plans on file for every nation on earth, just in case.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 11, 2025 03:15 PM (y9nCu)

Prior to WWII, the War Department had color coded plans for fighting just about everybody, including Canada and Great Britain.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 11, 2025 03:19 PM (zZSxi)

144 Really, didn't everyone get their start in come production?
Posted by: tsj017 a

*Golf clap*

Posted by: Bulg at August 11, 2025 03:20 PM (77rzZ)

145 Hydrogen is easy to make: dump aluminum foil in lye-water solution, pipe it off.
Posted by: Rolling Donut Unharmed By gp's Flying Leap at August 11, 2025 03:14 PM (0I+GC)

I did that, on a too-large scale, when I was about 12 years old. There was an earth-shattering Kaboom! Got lye water all over me. Had the presence of mind to run to the shower, and dive into it fully-clothed. No scars.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 11, 2025 03:20 PM (MRBis)

146 Chocolate Frosted Suger Bombs
Posted by: Calvin
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https://shorturl.at/1z4xS

Posted by: Calvin at August 11, 2025 03:20 PM (XeU6L)

147 Carbon monoxide is likely not the cause of the explosion, but the coking process can yield hydrogen and methane gases, both of which can be explosive.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at August 11, 2025 03:11 PM (xG4kz)

Making coke is heating coal to white hot temperatures in the absence of oxygen. When exposed to oxygen the heat increases when it actual burns in a reduction reaction. But that only happens when it's removed from the furnace. It doesn't explode.

That's why I think it's a natural gas explosion within the furnace.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 11, 2025 03:21 PM (g8Ew8)

148 Prior to WWII, the War Department had color coded plans for fighting just about everybody, including Canada and Great Britain.

War Plan Orange was for Japan. It was outdated at the start of the war, but it at least was a starting point.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 11, 2025 03:22 PM (zZSxi)

149 Prayers for the workers.
And thankful the most dangerous thing about my job is a sore butt.

Posted by: wth at August 11, 2025 03:22 PM (v0R5T)

150 I did that, on a too-large scale, when I was about 12 years old. There was an earth-shattering Kaboom! Got lye water all over me. Had the presence of mind to run to the shower, and dive into it fully-clothed. No scars.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

But how did the lutefisk turn out?

Posted by: Bulg at August 11, 2025 03:23 PM (77rzZ)

151 I did that, on a too-large scale, when I was about 12 years old. There was an earth-shattering Kaboom! Got lye water all over me. Had the presence of mind to run to the shower, and dive into it fully-clothed. No scars.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 11, 2025 03:20 PM

You're exactly the kind of lad who would wire a Model A coil to his bedroom door knob.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 11, 2025 03:23 PM (0sNs1)

152 And thankful the most dangerous thing about my job is a sore butt.
Posted by: wth

You'll get used to that.
-- Pete Buttigieg

Posted by: Bulg at August 11, 2025 03:23 PM (77rzZ)

153 But how did the lutefisk turn out?
Posted by: Bulg at August 11, 2025 03:23 PM (77rzZ)

Still in low-Earth orbit.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 11, 2025 03:24 PM (MRBis)

154 >>Tim was a good candidate guided by a horrible party. Tapping him as a running mate was the last smart decision that campaign ever made.

This is hard to believe. But, there you have it.
Posted by: garrett
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Delusion, brought about by inability for self-examination.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 11, 2025 03:25 PM (XeU6L)

155 I still don’t understand the logic in silencing Walz and putting Liz Cheney front and center of the campaign. Democrats hate Liz Cheney. Republicans hate Liz Cheney. Who were they appealing to?

Dick. Like me. Although they were appealing to the singular, while I appeal to the plural.

Posted by: Lena D. at August 11, 2025 03:26 PM (0sNs1)

156
But how did the lutefisk turn out?

Posted by: Bulg

No doubt it had a metallic off-taste to it.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at August 11, 2025 03:26 PM (xG4kz)

157
You're exactly the kind of lad who would wire a Model A coil to his bedroom door knob.
Posted by: Duncanthrax
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Model T coil. And, to my dad's easy chair. Once.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 11, 2025 03:26 PM (XeU6L)

158 But how did the lutefisk turn out?
Posted by: Bulg

No doubt it had a metallic off-taste to it.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at August 11, 2025 03:26 PM

You can tell?

Posted by: Thorvald, creator of Thorvald's Cream of Lutefisk Soup at August 11, 2025 03:27 PM (0sNs1)

159 The explosion looks rather small, just one little area. Hard to tell how many workers involved, but doesn't seem like it could have been more than ten, if that.

Unless there were other explosions ...

Posted by: illiniwek at August 11, 2025 03:27 PM (vbXSk)

160 The US Chemical Safety Board has videos about their investigations of various industrial accidents and they are interesting to see how they piece together what happened. I remember one was about an explosion at a sugar factory; I didn't even realize that sugar dust is very combustible.

Posted by: Frankie at August 11, 2025 03:27 PM (B+wnz)

161
Tim Walz was the living definition of Point & Laugh.

MAGA rage had nothing to do with it.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at August 11, 2025 03:28 PM (xG4kz)

162 Model T coil. And, to my dad's easy chair. Once.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 11, 2025 03:26 PM (XeU6L)

Heh. I never had a Model T coil as a kid. Deprived, I was. But I found other ways to make sparks.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 11, 2025 03:29 PM (MRBis)

163 One of the thing about Tim Walz that I enjoy is how absolutely nuts he drives the maga shitbags. They lose their minds every time he's mentioned.

Lose our minds? No.
Laugh out asses off? Yeah.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 11, 2025 03:29 PM (rqka2)

164 MAGA rage had nothing to do with it.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at August 11, 2025 03:28 PM

MAGA rage. It's what's for dinner.

Trump rage is for breakfast, lunch, and snacks.

Posted by: Denizens of Democratic Underground at August 11, 2025 03:30 PM (0sNs1)

165 The US Chemical Safety Board has videos about their investigations of various industrial accidents and they are interesting to see how they piece together what happened. I remember one was about an explosion at a sugar factory; I didn't even realize that sugar dust is very combustible.
Posted by: Frankie

Sugar. Flour. Whole grains. Corn. Wheat. Yeah. Silos go boom in farm country.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 11, 2025 03:30 PM (rqka2)

166 Sugar. Flour. Whole grains. Corn. Wheat. Yeah. Silos go boom in farm country.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 11, 2025 03:30 PM (rqka2)

Coffee whitener. Essentially vegetable oil processed into dust. Very combustible.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 11, 2025 03:32 PM (MRBis)

167 And I had better get on with my day.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 11, 2025 03:32 PM (MRBis)

168
Heh. I never had a Model T coil as a kid. Deprived, I was. But I found other ways to make sparks.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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I still have it. One of my favorite 'toys' as a kid. Lots of experiments.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 11, 2025 03:33 PM (XeU6L)

169 Amusing tidbit about Canada's Navy. Trump's been living in their head, rent free for a long time.

From Wiki...
In the 1980s, with the planned arrival of the Canadian Patrol Frigate Project, the Canadian Forces intended to convert the Iroquois class from primarily ASW ships to anti-air warfare (AAW) vessels as a core element of the modernisation of the fleet.[21] Named the Tribal Refit and Update Modernisation Program (TRUMP), the design contract was awarded to Litton Systems Canada Ltd. and required a total reconstruction of the superstructure, new cruise turbines, weaponry and electronics

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 11, 2025 03:33 PM (Q4IgG)

170 Coffee whitener. Essentially vegetable oil processed into dust. Very combustible.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 You can sprinkle that into a campfire and watch it sparkle off like a vampire.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 11, 2025 03:34 PM (rqka2)

171 You're exactly the kind of lad who would wire a Model A coil to his bedroom door knob.

DO NOT give the horde any more ideas.

Posted by: clarence at August 11, 2025 03:34 PM (MvskB)

172 Hmmm. He's creepy. He's a ponce. He's the embodiment of 'hello, fellow kids!'

I think Biden or Obama are the only ones to actually move us emotionally.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 11, 2025 03:35 PM (zZu0s)

173 One of the thing about Tim Walz that I enjoy is how absolutely nuts he drives the maga shitbags. They lose their minds every time he's mentioned.

Yes. Run with that. He's the best you have to offer. Make it so.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 11, 2025 03:36 PM (Zz0t1)

174 Coke is burned at the nearby steel plant. It's nasty stuff and smells like you would imagine the fire pits of he'll to smell like. The primary safety training concerns gas training where you are informed of all the nasty carcinogens that are distilled from coal.

Posted by: sTevo at August 11, 2025 03:36 PM (hXxQq)

175 One of the thing about Tim Walz that I enjoy is how absolutely nuts he drives the maga shitbags. They lose their minds every time he's mentioned.

They mostly confuse ridicule with "losing their minds". Sure there was a lot written about his CCP connections and the danger of him being VP, but I don't remember a bunch of wild-eyed crying rants in the front seats of cars or in front of TV cameras.

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at August 11, 2025 03:36 PM (8hxDK)

176 DO NOT give the horde any more ideas.
Posted by: clarence at August 11, 2025 03:34 PM

Moi?

http://www.madteddy.com/indcoils.htm

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 11, 2025 03:37 PM (0sNs1)

177 31 How do they melt steel? Fire?

With jet fuel, silly!

Posted by: Insider at August 11, 2025 03:39 PM (hXxQq)

178 I remember one was about an explosion at a sugar factory; I didn't even realize that sugar dust is very combustible.

Posted by: Frankie at August 11, 2025 03:27 PM

Flour dust is insanely combustible. Lots of flour mills went boom back in the day.

Posted by: Rusty Nail at August 11, 2025 03:41 PM (TdCYS)

179 Not a Model T coil.

You’re thinking of a condenser an old name for a capacitor. A serviceable capacitor will hold a high voltage charge for a day or two. “Here, catch!” Is a way to illustrate the amazing properties of alternating plates and insulators.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 11, 2025 03:44 PM (lyX7Q)

180
Flour dust is insanely combustible. Lots of flour mills went boom back in the day.
Posted by: Rusty Nail
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Grain silos

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 11, 2025 03:47 PM (XeU6L)

181 Walz has questionable bona fides

1. The whole China thing
2. Tampons for boys[/]
3. Bailing on his NG unit as a sergeant major as soon as deployment orders were cut.

Any of these singular should be an extinction level event for a politician. The fact they proffer this clown as “masculine” shows how far they have fallen.

McGovern was an asshat, but he flew plenty of combat missions in B-24 Liberators over Europe.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 11, 2025 03:49 PM (lyX7Q)

182

Posted by: Common Tater at August 11, 2025 03:50 PM (lyX7Q)

183 Not a Model T coil.

You’re thinking of a condenser an old name for a capacitor.
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Ah, yes. I've been mistaking this for a condenser:

https://cdn.modeltford.com/i/c/509l.jpg

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 11, 2025 03:50 PM (XeU6L)

184 Walz has questionable bona fides

1. The whole China thing
2. Tampons for boys[/]
3. Bailing on his NG unit as a sergeant major as soon as deployment orders were cut.
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Claiming Command sergeant major status, after it was withdrawn.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 11, 2025 03:52 PM (XeU6L)

185 Some will blame us for not scrapping our cars and riding Bicycles to work

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at August 11, 2025 04:55 PM (wGqjj)

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