How tank car implosions work – The Blogs at HowStuffWorks

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… the immediate thought might be, “that would never happen in real life.” Yet is does, as you can see in this article…
How tank car implosions work – The Blogs at HowStuffWorks.
Why does the can implode? When water turns to steam, it expands by a factor of about 1,600. When the steam cools, it turns back into water, reducing by a factor of 1,600. So as the steam cools, a partial vacuum is formed… Nature Abhors a vacuum, and the external air pressure quickly causes the car to collapse…

Reboot Season 1 Episode Guide

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Reboot, the TV Series, could be described as \”What happens behind your Monitor\”… The world of reboot occurs inside the inner world of a computer system known by its inhabitants as Mainframe. Especially in the first two seasons this was a decision that was deliberately chosen due to technological constraints at the time, as the fictional computer world allowed for blocky looking models and mechanical animation.
The first season (1994-1995) of ReBoot was highly episodic, with each installment being a self-contained episode. Most of the episodes established characters, locations, and story elements, such as the gigantic game cubes. The typical formal for an episode is that the User loads a game, which causes a game cube drops on a random location in Mainframe, sealing it off from the rest of the system and turning it into a gamescape. Bob frequently enters the games, reboots to become a game character, and fights the User\’s character to save the sector. The conflict arises because if the User wins a game, the sector the cube fell in is destroyed, and the sprites and binomes who were caught within are turned into energy-draining, worm-like parasites called nulls. Within the series it is never clear if there is a \”cure\” or reversal for degrading to a \”null\”.
This formula changes in the last half of Season two, where the last 5 episodes establishes the setup for Season 3. The last half of Season two helps establish the darker setting for Season 3, and introduces us to the epic storyline that is the Web Wars.
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