Consider this puzzle: how can you make a staircase out of a single sheet of plywood and have as little wood left over as possible? That was the task of Instructables user Pilgrim55. It looks like he has only four pieces of scrap.
Well Sid, it's obviously made to be a big huge non-moving target so that the owner of the trampoline has a shot at making it into the next Jackass movie.
Nothing splinters like a big fat guy smashing into plywood.
Neat! When I was a kid, we lived next to a lake whose dam broke in the middle of the night. It took about a week for the lake bed to be dry enough to walk on but it was great fun after that. We found all kinds of interesting things that had been lost in the lake over the years, including watches and old LPs. Much to our parents regret, we had epic mud wars. Much more fun than the lake ever had been.
Eventually it dryed up and started to look like the surface of Mars. The soil was incredible for growing crops. It's been over thirty years and last time I looked, you couldn't tell there was ever a lake there. It's filled with trees and bushes. A stream flowing through the middle is all that is left of the old lake.
Look how silted up that lake was. Reservoirs need to be drained regularly for that reason and others. If they are not their capacity is reduced over time.
@Jon A. since it clearly wasn't a disaster why would you say that?
Bill, the Wikipedia page about the dam, and the restoration project, says that there was debate about gradual vs. quick draining, and the conclusion was that quick draining would have less overall impact.
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Nothing splinters like a big fat guy smashing into plywood.
Eventually it dryed up and started to look like the surface of Mars. The soil was incredible for growing crops. It's been over thirty years and last time I looked, you couldn't tell there was ever a lake there. It's filled with trees and bushes. A stream flowing through the middle is all that is left of the old lake.
@Jon A. since it clearly wasn't a disaster why would you say that?
Please explain why you feel that it's a tragedy, though, and you may convince others.