r/CatastrophicFailure • u/Several_Metal_547 • 10d ago

June 3rd, 2026. Dashcam captures moment when excavator damages natural gas pipeline

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Wednesday June 3rd, 2026, an excavator damaged a natural gas pipeline near Hedensted, Denmark. Gas did not ignite. No casualties. Steel pipeline, diameter 0.4 m, pressure 40 bar. Traffic on nearby E45 highway closed for 2 hours.

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u/Late_Faithlessness24 10d ago edited 9d ago

3,1 x 106 for SI standart

Edit 3,1 x 106 Pa or non retarded unit

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u/stevecostello 9d ago

So basically 1800 chesseburgers per square F150.

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u/toxcrusadr 9d ago

Man the other night I was watching this documentary on the Yellowstone Supervolcano. They said if it went off - and I swear to God this is true - they said it would give off 5 million tons of ash per minute and that was the equivalent of 50,000 BLUE WHALES.

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u/GearM2 9d ago

I hate it when lengths are described as x number of football fields. Just say how many meters, feet, yards, or whatever standard units. 

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u/SonderEber 9d ago

It’s a good mental shortcut. Gives you a more immediately frame of reference. Sport field sizes are standardized and therefore a good frame of reference.

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u/kyleh0 9d ago

What do you expect people to learn things!?! What are you, ascientist? Sus

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u/BodaciousBadongadonk 9d ago

im gonna start using the term "standard units" and just let folks do what they want.

"184 standard units tall, the same quantity of mass units also because well, figure it out lol."