Ye Gods, I must be kinda thick today. What am I missing??

As mentioned elsewhere in replies, if a submarine sail breaches the Arctic ice in the half-year permanent winter season, it may easily encounter -40 °F (-40 °C) and colder. So, no, using a lower boundary of -100 °F is NOT far-fetched.

In the end, the Titanic sank because of, in a sense, hubris. By design it was considered unsinkable. No one considered two sections to be breached at the same time. It probably made its captain take a risk it would otherwise have avoided.

I agree with you in that people should be clear-headed enough *not* to pull shenanigans like this. And yet... it happens.

Have your star, damnit! That's why your have audits! (Well done sir, very well done!)

You’re missing the point.

But that’s not the point of testing at -100 ⁰F (-73 ⁰C). Depending on steel grade/type, steel might exhibit a ductile-to-brittle transition as temperatures drop. In order to ensure that your don’t get any brittle fracture, you specify a test temperature lower than you’ll ever encounter out at sea, while requiring a…

And that’s diesel, or B7. Euro 95, or E10, is going for close to €2/liter here.

I’m old enough to have watched that show on TV so... ok, grudgingly, I’ll allow white.

I know this is purely the underbelly speaking, but a Testarossa needs to be red. Sorry, can’t be otherwise! End of discussion. I mean, it’s even in the car’s name.

So you think that Juncker just gave up all his power and no longer does anything else than pigs out at Michelin star restaurants and luxury resorts?

I sincerely wonder what your source of information is. Really, because what you write here is not just a little wrong, its really really off base.

Looks like you’ve watched Tucker C. His take on the matter is, erhmmm... Let’s say his take is quite selective and colored.

Sorry, my point was not about being a monopoly or not, but about tayloring messaging to your base/what your audience likes. Or rather trying to prevent driving your faithful viewers away to another network by tuning what you say and how you say it. Ratings, after all, are the life blood of TV networks.

Both sides of the isle man, both sides.

Forgot to add another one: Depleted uranium!

Hey, now that’s an interesting take! The only difference is that substances like I mentioned are directly useful and toxic at the same time.

You might be right on the toluene/benzene. I had co-workers who worked at a film chemicals plant (Fujifilm) and they told me they’d wash their hands with some now-banned stuff, but I might have recalled that by the wrong name.

As we will see throughout this series, the business of adding known deadly toxins like lead to an already dangerous product like gasoline would take a special kind of amorality and disregard for human life and the environment.

Well, it has been widened, so less AF than it was before. We’ll learn how big of a difference that makes, if any, the coming weekend.