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[mailric]

superman's plssed.

[TimberWolf]

I've just had a quick butchers at a turbine safety and amongst what's discussed are vibration sensors.

One of the classical, and most simple safety devices in a wind turbine is the vibration sensor in the image above, which was first installed in the Gedser wind turbine. It simply consists of a ball resting on a ring. The ball is connected to a switch through a chain. If the turbine starts shaking, the ball will fall off the ring and switch the turbine off.
http://www.windpower.org/en/tour/wtrb/safety.htm

It's just a ball sitting in a socket. Got to love that simplicity

[hyperD]

Someone threw a Ginster's pie at it

[Pickle2]

These things do break

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=c3FZtm...eature=related

Fook me, thats just like some of my code.

[Board Game Geek]

Something obviously hit the fan.

My guess is a Giant Flying Turd.

[ratewhore]

I bet the UFO supporters are the same people sending texts to 'Most Haunted Live'...

[KentPhilip]

These things do break

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=c3FZtm...eature=related

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=QL-cRu...eature=related

and catch fire

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=4N4HQv...eature=related

[DaveB]

That's one helluva bird.

Heard someone on R4 this morning speculating it was falling ice from a passenger jet, which struck the blade and subsequently melted, leaving no trace. Apparently this happens a lot in cold weather. Be careful out there.

Blue Ice

[DimPrawn]

I reckon Global Warming melted the blades.

[realityhack]

Birdstrike.

That's one helluva bird.

Heard someone on R4 this morning speculating it was falling ice from a passenger jet, which struck the blade and subsequently melted, leaving no trace. Apparently this happens a lot in cold weather. Be careful out there.

[Doggy Styles]

Nobody has considered that a ghost might have done it, using a blast of his supernatural ectoplasm energy.

[TimberWolf]

So the spacemen were distracted by the pyrotechnics and their path inadvertently took them into a windmill.

Either that or the people claiming to be holding a fireworks display are secret agents that have been monitoring and have been in communication with the dozy aliens for years. They also have a dead one that was obtained from another windmill collision.

[b0redom]

UFOs aren’t really the place to start when investigating failures.

Shhh... That's been my excuse for failures at ClientCo for months.....

[Purple Dalek]

The bangs and lights have already been identified as a firework display going on nearby.

So the spacemen were distracted by the pyrotechnics and their path inadvertently took them into a windmill.

[TimberWolf]

Well, 1st blade falls off because it wasn't bolted on correctly, the emergency brakes slam on to stop the thing falling completely to pieces (or vica versa), a remaining blade breaks and comes to rest with the broken blade pointing in the direction of travel because of momentum taking it there.

Lots of bangs and showers of sparks during the episode. If anyone had watched it, and it was dark enough, the blades will have glowed blue too.

The bangs and lights have already been identified as a firework display going on nearby.