• tal@lemmy.today
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      11 days ago

      If you assume that other oil tanks might act like that and that oil tanks are likely to continue to be hit, it might be worth setting up a high-res webcam aimed at one. In all honesty, it is a pretty wild bit of video, to see something like that lazily drifting through the air.

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        9 days ago

        if that’s a floating roof storage tank, then it’s not something that should happen because there’s very little air in headspace, and if it’s not, sometimes it’s filled with nitrogen. several things have to go wrong for this to be possible

        update: it was not