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Dead_Parrot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-02-07 11:57 PM
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31. Coal plants fail safe?!
Edited on Fri Aug-03-07 12:10 AM by Dead_Parrot
Interesting way of looking at it. How about when they work?. Here, have a lung:



This isn't failing safe - this is very, very, unsafe when it doesn't fail. Here, have someone dying of emphysema:



2,999,999 other people looked as unhealthy last year. a similar number will look like that next year. Have another lung:



Now go to Beijing and take a deep breath.

"Fail Safe" my arse.
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