Comment by h335ian
20 hours ago
By the miraculous grace of God, a crack allowed pressure to bleed & enabled our engine company to prevent thermal runaway. A BLEVE was the projected outcome, a firefighters worst nightmare - see the Kingman BLEVE - https://www.cityofkingman.gov/government/departments-a-h/fir...
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That's the cool thing about the God Theory: any events can be explained by it.
Or He felt we needed a small reminder of what we're capable of if not careful!
He never gave us a fucking manual in the first place, so who knows what He is thinking.
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It's ok to just treat it like a thing people say. When people say 'bless you' I don't explain to them that sneezing doesn't actually expel my soul from my body.
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That is an unhealthy level of contempt you have there.
> I always love how religious fruitcakes think that their 'god' both is completely omnipotent and infallible but also somehow gives a shit about them, and listens to them.
Such a miserable existence looking down on people for their own beliefs. Please get a hobby.
This comment is what real bigotry looks like.
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You don't believe in anything, good for you. But it's not healthy for you to harbor so much hatred and anger for those with different opinions. You're free to worship your golden calf, but why not be civil?
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BLEVE = Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion
My parents are retired fire-fighters. They had an American pygmy goat named Bleve. Those goats commonly have very rotund stomachs[1] that look like they are about to explode.
[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:American_Pygmy_G...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGWmONHipVo
MythBusters have a good BLEVE episode. Apparently Adam Savage's favourite explosion.
Typically BLEVE is used in a petrochemical context, where the hot "boiling liquid, expanding vapor" ignites on contact with oxygen.
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> A leak was detected in one of the fittings and an attempt was made to correct it by striking the fitting with a large wrench.
https://darwinawards.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_Awards
Why bring God into the discussion? Do you think he’s monitoring our lives actively? Why is he a he? Does God have male genitalia?
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Not only that, but "there's a gas leak, let's strike it with a wrench" is one of the more interesting attempts I've heard of to win a Darwin award.
It worked