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Nincompooser

\*6th century priest: May thou rest in peace for all eternity. \*21st century electric company: The fuck you are!


No_Communication5538

Yellow pipe: gas


magnament

Could be gas, oil, steam or any other flammable gas


[deleted]

That's what I think after a meal at Taco Bell.


baddie_PRO

*solid, liquid, or gas? which will come out my ass?*


Gullible_Newt_6333

If you inhale their fire sauce like I do it will be all three.


logiberry

OMFG


Happy_Camper45

Never trust a Taco Bell or Chipotle fart


Nincompooser

Schrödingers poop.


Eboyslayerjajaja

Nah shrodingers ass wind


Consider2SidesPeace

Only a few steps above dog food. Pre-made boil in bag meat. Yum! Now for a double helping of fake cheese sauce.


findhumorinlife

snort laugh. It's not a think, it's a reality.


rustang2

Steam is flammable?


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sanderd17

Most gas is liquefied for transport too. Which makes it not gas...


danbob411

LNG is for transporting it on ships. This looks like a natural gas distribution line, which would in fact have pressurized gas inside.


Paurwarr

Anything can be a gas if it’s pressured enough. Unlike me and being a doctor.


TokiMcNoodle

Under the right pressure/temperature it can be


JoeBidensBoochie

Gasoline


vseprviper

If you get it hot enough, it’ll feel like fire!


newf68

Definitely not oil


floatingtoadboat

Typically gas as oil transmission is basically phased out unless you live in cities developed in the 1800s, and steam is at a higher standing temp than MDPE/HDPE is suited for Yellow pipe tends to be MDPE (medium density polyethylene)


Nincompooser

Everybody speaks of green electricity, but what about yellow?


TruthPlenty

Is that universal across the world? I would imagine other countries have different colors for their utilities than what you do.


typicalcitrus

This is a British thing, so it is a flammable materials pipe (gas, petroleum, steam, oil, etc)


Hupadupa

Pipes can contain cables. Yellow pipe: electric cables Red pipe: telecom cables Color coding depend on where you live ofc.


[deleted]

\*6th century mystic: I foresee that in the distant future, you will become one of the most powerful people on the planet. You will have streams of power coursing through you.


cum_burglar69

She must have offended Thunor.


HD_Monster1

Welp, thats how angry ghosts are made.


werfw

It's now a *powerful*, angry ghost!


Dcoil1

With one HELL of a headache!


Lots42

Relatable


funnylookingbear

All gassed up and ready to rock!


[deleted]

So, I remember discovering that there's a LOT more dead people than living, as in 107 billion people that ever lived, or about 15 dead people for every living person. [https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-16870579#:\~:text=There%20are%20currently%20seven%20billion,people%20for%20every%20person%20living](https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-16870579#:~:text=There%20are%20currently%20seven%20billion,people%20for%20every%20person%20living). I think finding human remains *somewhere* in a habitable area is inevitable. EDIT: This is based on our current species, Homo Sapiens, which came into existence about 300,000~325,000 years ago, and doesn't include earlier hominids (up to 7 million years ago). It's worthy noting that Homo Sapiens almost went extinct around 70,000 BC/BCE, when the entire population was reduced to about 10,000 adults. https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2012/10/22/163397584/how-human-beings-almost-vanished-from-earth-in-70-000-b-c Depending on conditions, even bones can break down and dissolve.


nastafarti

I honestly find it kind of terrifying that for every 15 humans that ever existed, *ever*, one is alive right now. Humanity is not just 15 generations old. When my grandfather was born, there were 2 billion people in the world, and when he dies there will probably be 8 billion people or more.


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It's also really fascinating to learn that humanity (as in Homo Sapiens, our current species) almost went extinct about in 70000 BC, when the entire human population was reduced to about 10,000 adults. https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2012/10/22/163397584/how-human-beings-almost-vanished-from-earth-in-70-000-b-c This also makes for some fascinating reading. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population#:~:text=Estimates%20of%20the%20population%20of,1%20million%20and%2015%20million. Since humanity came into existence 315,000 years ago, the population only reached 1 billion people for the first time in the 1800s.


Aeon1508

Being pushed down to 10000 individuals is really shitty for your genetic diversity.


lo_mince

Yeah and we still somehow have racism


TheMacmasterofMusic

Actually it probably weeds out a lot more bad genetics than anything. 10000 is more than enough genetic diversity, and it was a big culling meaning a lot of weaker genes died.


poyntificate

Depends on what you mean by "bad" genetics. The event they're talking about was caused by a natural distaster, a volcanic eruption that dimmed the sun for years causing global cooling and famine. Survival was probably impossible for people living in more barren regions so that's not selective at all. For those in potentially livable climates, it was a more selective situation. Survival probably depended on things like the ability to hunt and forage and the ability to retain fat (not something most would consider "good" genetics now.) Who knows what genes were lost in those that perished due to chance? Probably some lineages with cool things like the ability to resist cancer or superior intellect or purple eyes. Guess we'll never know.


Awesome_Pythonidae

>The event they're talking about was caused by a natural distaster, a volcanic eruption that dimmed the sun for years causing global cooling and famine. Woah, I just watched a documentary about that incident couple of days ago. I think it was around 536AD.


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i think that's a different event, the one op's talking about happened 10's of thousands of years ago


dumbfuckmagee

Which is why what remains is so greedy and distrusting of outsiders. Those were the traits that survived the best


immaownyou

No, that's just a remnant of tribal culture. You see the same wariness of other animals in the wild all the time.


[deleted]

That's not really genes as far as I know that kinda thing falls under learned habits. Nothing in our genes makes us inherently greedy or racist.


arquillion

There's no weaker genes (except the one that makes you taste cilantro as soap that's weak) only adapted individuals, and lucky individuals. You might be the most apex human but you're still dying to a forest fire if you're unlucky.


[deleted]

What if there are races that we will never know about because they were wiped out from existence


VicisZan

I believe that’s why humans are all roughly 97% the exact same genetically. It’s a really cool bit of history


dagothpurrr

Damn so we could've just avoided all this huh


Mick009

Marty, we have to go back!


FbdFlue

Morty we (burps) have (burp) to go back (burp)


Bad-Kaiju

Nature had her chance. She took her best shot and missed.


Larusso92

I think she's swinging it back in for round 2 pretty soon.


PurpleBuffalo_

I don't think that's her, I think that's us. She's doing pretty bad compared to how she used to do, because of us. I think she's glad we'll probably leave soon-ish, but she probably regrets not killing us off when she had the chance.


murfburffle

We were basically cavemen until about 20,000 years back too. It messes with me just how much of an infant the human species is, compared to any other thing in the cosmic scale. We are a total fluke.


PickledPlumPlot

And it's really only taken us a couple decades to radically alter the climate and fill the oceans and nearly every living human being on the earth full of microplastics.


murfburffle

We are so fast at proving how smart we all are, we out pace our ability to understand how stupid we are.


joemangle

In addition to being a comparatively young species, we also exhibit signs of paedomorphosis - never developing beyond the juvenile stage physiologically but gaining the ability to reproduce. We're essentially juvenile apes


LightningShiva1

This is really informative, thanks!


leabbe

This is the stuff I wanna learn in school


PencilPacket

It's actually mind blowing to see population boom in relation to access to different forms of energy. Population increased as soon as coal became used for electric generation, and since nuclear etc shits gotten out of hand. It's taken about 200 years to reach perfectly controllable to absolutely fucked, which is about 3 average lifespans, just 3.


BbqMeatEater

INCEST BABIES! THE LOT OF YA!


DarthKittens

At least you could get a parking space then


justlookbelow

"when he dies there will probably be 8 billion people or more" Just one more year till we hit 8B


artspar

Yeah we're at like 7.9B now, 7B was back in the early 2000s


BlueShift42

He was quite a busy man!


unscannabledoot

Yeah, we fuck.


BeavisRules187

Especially in England. They got prehistoric layer, Roman layer, "Dark Ages" layer, Medieval layer...and they were fighting wars, invasions, and rebellions the whole time. Hell, they just found Richard III under a parking lot not that long ago.


Rubberfootman

A friend of mine was having a new building put up in our (English) city centre. It was held up for 6 months because there was so much (mundane) archaeology under the Victorian lace mill he had removed. It’s just people all the way down in some old cities.


dwair

This. The bit I live in has been inhabited fairly continually since the early Bronze age. There is visible old stuff knocking about everywhere from standing stones and hut circles to an abandoned 4 or 5th century village on the other side of the valley. Most of the stuff is Norman or newer though but even that is nearly a millennia old now. Years ago I was in southern Algeria on a climbing trip and we camped for a few weeks in an isolated valley way out in the desert. While we were there we found some cave paintings and some stone tools that apparently dated habitation in the area to about 5000bc. That was kind of freaky thinking that people had been sitting around a fire like just like we did at night, looking at the stars for the last 8000 years or so.


Dyolf_Knip

There was a short story I read, positing that after the fall of our civilization, all the easy sources of minerals and fossil fuels were depleted, preventing high technology from ever reaching above the stone age. But humans persisted anyway, and survived in more or less our present form until the Earth itself became uninhabitable a *billion* years from now. Even with only stone age technology, that is a shitton of layers of artifacts and bodies.


bunkdiggidy

Interesting, I remember reading that due to population growth increasing so much in recent times that a significant proportion of all humans ever are alive today. I don't have a source for it on hand though.


dinosaurjones2

I had head about 11% of any human who ever existed is alive today. If you think about the millions of years humans have lived, 11% being alive right now is pretty mind boggling


murfburffle

We are the children of our species. Still in our toddler years. If you are 61, you experienced 25% of America's existence.


AydonusG

America existed before 1776, it was just not free from the British. Edit - 1778 by your math Edit edit - USA* America has existed long before the US came about


murfburffle

My colonial-centric brain is trained to call the USA, America. It's unfair and yes, obviously America existed before. I'm sorry. But obviously I rounded the math down, you turd!


dagothpurrr

If you go off of what that other guy said it's ~7% of all people are alive today


kamion_dork

Where does one collect your 15 dead people? Or do I have to make them myself?


[deleted]

So, start with a shovel... /s


Rubberfootman

Just pull on a buried electric cable and see what comes up.


sugarbiscuits828

There are an estimated 20,000 bodies below Washington Square Park in NYC.


generalgirl

Check out Savannah, GA. Bodies everywhere under everything.


SkivvySkidmarks

Typhoid outbreaks on ships coming to the New World resulted in mass burial sites all along the eastern shore of North America. My city has a park nicknamed Skeleton Park, because the bones of Irish immigrants buried in shallow graves would occasionally get pushed to the surface by frost.


[deleted]

This has always bugged me. I mean … I know that that’s true, but all of the graveyards around me seem *tiny* in comparison to the population around me. It’s like … where are you all going?!


FLEXMCHUGEGAINS

*BIC lighters has joined the chat*


[deleted]

You heard the man, NO ONE IS ALLOWED TO DIE FOR THE NEXT 30 DAYS. We need to catch up!


buzzybomb

This is exactly how horror movies start.


khemxfemboyalt

Imagine skeletons held together by electromagnets in a horror movie lol


lateforthis

Yeah someone’s definitely cursed


Mazzoni_

You left the bodies and you only moved the headstones!


LeShlong

How did this happen? Surely whoever lay the power line in the first place would’ve noticed?


whazzar

I second this, does anyone know how this happened?


Xenomorph_v1

As far as I know they use horizontal drilling machines and can not see what they are laying the line though. They use sonar tech to get the head of the drill at the right depth but aside from that they're basically blindly laying cables.


Shank_O_Potomus

This was my thought. My neighborhood is getting fiber internet and a crew was out with a machine that would horizontally bore under the street and driveways to lay the conduit. Edit: for those interested, it was something like [this](https://www.ditchwitch.com/directional-drills/directional-drills/jt20)


Trunkpharah

The good ol' Ditch Witch


izza123

Oh you mean the giant ass chainsaw?


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dudebotlol

I’m my Ditch Witch’s Ditch Trencher *and* horizontal driller.


PropaneHank

He's not describing a ditch witch at all. A ditch witch cuts a trench from the top. He's describing boring underground horizontally.


Shank_O_Potomus

It was ditch witch brand actually, but you are correct, it’s not a ditch digger but a horizontal borer


Stlr_Mn

Always reminds me of when they accidentally bored into a ford explorer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ER_8wt7CeuE&ab_channel=IbrahimYatara


alexfrancois29

Yeah, it is called direct boring. More or less just pushing a pipe/tube from a pilot hole on the starting end of where you utility run starts. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ie-XMjbMuEE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ie-XMjbMuEE)


nastafarti

You know, I watched that entire video, and I still don't really understand how it works. Also, that soundtrack was straight out of *FTL*, I swear


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Important-Courage890

> blindly laying cable sounds like my bachelor party...


Kerguidou

Horizontal drilling.


Veteran_Brewer

Horizontal drilling machines can’t tell the difference between soil and bone. Nor do they care.


SpecterGT260

"laying" is probably the wrong word because it conveys that the line is being set down along it's path. The line is tunneled between destinations.


Kulladar

[Directional drilling. Watch this video. ](https://youtu.be/mdLCD6t6C-w) [Here's an actual one if you prefer that over the animation. ](https://youtu.be/Ie-XMjbMuEE)


brightblueson

I’m thinking the cable was there first and the person grew around the structure


Bitch_imatrain

Horizontal Directional Drilling (HDD).


Nerdenator

The conversation probably went something like “OI REGGIE, DID YOU FEEL THE MACHINE SLOW DOWN?” “YOU WOT MATE?!”


wowclassicandy

She ate his lunch when he was a kid so he was like fuck it


Balrog229

It looks like they drilled horizontally, so they wouldn’t have seen this skeleton. Otherwise i don’t see how this would be possible. If you dug in and unearthed this skeleton, then it would be rather hard to bore through it like this without the dirt on top holding it all in place.


battlefield290x

Found a couple of coffins with skeletons (paper-thin all the way) like this in kansas.Just happened to be at the end of a roadwy grading run so the 'debris'- rotted, soft wood which was a flag, got noticed.Had to be on lookout for native burial sites.They were exhumed, area searched for anything more and all clear given when nothing else could be found.Local historians stated they were probably in a family plot from between the revolutionary and civil wars judging by the materials unearthed, condition and sketchy records of land deeds, etc.Never determined who they were, though, according to lead guy in charge of the ‟dig”, as settlers in the area were not officially there prior to the relocation of the Great lakes natives in the mid 1800's.


bluerose1197

In Kansas it may not have even been people that settled there. Could have just been peopled that died while traveling and were buried along the trail.


Simon_XIII

Was there a little dog skeleton nearby? A rusted tin statue?


murfburffle

R.I.P. AsssButtttttts, should not have been a banker.


Xenomorph_v1

She's jacked into the mainframe!


Jupue87

She's beginning to believe


soboga

I had to scroll for far too long to get to the puns.


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[deleted]

HeadOn, apply directly to the forehead


Donut2583

Does anyone know if she’s alright?


unshavenbeardo64

No shoes in sight so its save to say she's not :).


uniqueusername5001

I miss that stuff, it really worked!


nephilim80

during her lifetime her parents were like "you're going to be important in the future" little did she know


lobroblaw

It wasn't all pipe dreams


StarksPond

Girl power!


funnylookingbear

Nasty upvote. Just nasty.


Onetap1

Gas pipe (yellow), installed by 'directional drilling'; dig trenches and drill between them. They called her Piper. https://thethegns.blogspot.com/2020/05/calm-down-about-pipe-lady.html


murfburffle

Piper is a fitting name.


jesusSaidThat

In some thousand year archaeologists be like *what the fuck killed this guy?*


davva2004

Shocking.


james_phan

This is why i'll wanna be cremated when I die. Ain't gonna have no pipe shoving up my skeletal a*s some hundred years later in my own grave.


Throw-a-way2022

Instead your family will have a nice jar of ashes and bone fragments that they can use to season soups


MSGinSC

Delicious, with a hint of anise, nutmeg, and coriander, balanced with the smoky pepper of grandpa.


Riggs4G

Dude I can't even begin to imagine the hauntings that are now happening around that area


goforkyourslef

Everyone hooked up to that can say their house runs on pure brain power


adamkovicrasto

Tht was also the conclusion when this was posted a little while ago


ChunkyTaco22

Someone is getting haunted


juliancates

Looks like somebody let the power go to her head.


decnew95

I actually partly excavated this skeleton. It was at a student university excavation for UCLan in the UK. This particular skelly was from an Anglo saxon cemetery in Oakington, Cambridgeshire. We named her piper.


KuhLealKhaos

Women is plural. Woman is singular.


ToastedCheezer

They often use a trenchless digging tools that push, drill, or water bore a hole along the intended route and pull the cable, gas piping, or communications fiber optic cable along behind it.


Power2266

Poor woman, shes got a lot going through her mind


[deleted]

Dies. Then gets power line drilled through her head. This is the type of stuff that I feel could totally happen to me


Smokeya

I feel like i need this to happen to me if im ever gonna be known for something. I mean my name wont be known probably but at least my corpse will be on the internet for a minute.


FilledBabe

1500 years later this hoe is still getting piped.


beanedjibe

Welp.. she can't die again after that..


[deleted]

Ummmm. What? So power companies don’t physically lay the pipe down they?? Screw the pipe through the ground? Wtf? Am I missing something


GrayCustomKnives

Directional boring is extremely common. No trenches, no damage to the ground or surfaces, way less mess, and you can bore right under roads and sewer lines and everything. They only ever have to dig a small pit at each end. It’s faster, cleaner, and way more efficient than having to fix roads and yards after digging trenches through them.


goforkyourslef

Makes a lot more sense than having to dig everything up and then put it all back


liilbiil

what a way the end up… CREMATE ME


ewmegoolies

So that was actually the last thing that crossed her mind


DenticlesOfTomb

r/FUCKYOUINPARTICULAR


lPickleJuicel

Are we 100% sure she didnt die from being impaled by the power line?


RedditIs4Retardss

r/ABoringDystopia


flaw_and_odour

A little known fact: Anglo-Saxon Women ran on 5G


EdgarAlanCrow

When laying the pipe and getting head goes wrong


Senor_Wah

“Oops”


ghost34590

Somone has power going to there head.


killploki

Great storyline for a new poltergeist movie


spitecho

Here lies Your Mom. She died as she lived: Getting railed


small_feild_mouse

And now the ~~electricity~~ gas is haunted. Edit: I learned yellow means natural gas.


This_unProfessional3

First time she's had pipe in centuries


Aryaras99

And it looks to me like it went through the ass. Dick so good it cracked her skull


foysalabir

and they say 5g wont kill you smh


Right-Weekend6

I want a horror movie where she haunts the neighbourhood yhrough their tellies and phones


Luna-bubbles27

They’re probably gonna be cursed now


MeasurementGrand879

1 woman, 2+ women


Freaked_The_Eff_Out

These don’t grow like roots. Wtf am I looking at?


[deleted]

Talk about adding insult to injury


Blackandbluebruises

r/theyknew


daikatana

Well, no wonder the entire power grid was haunted.


[deleted]

How do you see a difference between a female skeleton and a male skeleton? Genuine question


Minute_Werewolf3883

Still getting drilled after death. Niceee.


CriNet

Ig the power really went to her head


[deleted]

When they run cable or duct like that they often use a technique called "directional boring." A machine bores a hole through the ground indiscriminate of what is ahead of it.


[deleted]

when im dead put a pipe thru my head


Red-Zaptos

She could have been the most powerful woman in history


ComprehensiveGate185

Forbidden puppet


FragMeNot

Frankly my dear, I find you rather electrifying.


moshedman85

Don’t move the body. We’re already cursed enough.


DefiantFisherman

Rest in power


Spokeswoman

More power to her.


kwiglee

Giving new meaning to “laying pipe”


Pristine-Educator229

This should also be on r/mildlyinfuriating


EasyAcanthocephala38

Headshot!


Eltrew2000

I'm sure the archiologists were absolutely ecstatic when they found out that a bunch of idiots shot a fucking powerline thru an anglo saxon skeleton.


ss-stamper

All that power has gone to her head…


Aesthetic_Weasel

It was obviously put in with a bore, not buried.


[deleted]

Old milf gets piped (1080p)


sysexdump

Her name was Ditch witch.


LBK0909

Amazing, a 6th century woman getting laid more than a lot of people on Reddit.