okay but why were you looking for rocks

A part of the Oroville Dam in California was (is?) in danger of breaking open and flooding out some towns, and the literal plan to stop it was (is?) “i bet what would make it less broken is if we load up some helicopters with rocks and drop those rocks on the broken part!“ and i wanted to see these magic rocks for myself

some rocks i found with a helicopter trying to sneak up on them

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a helicopter has caught a rocks and is carrying it away; life for the rest of the quarry continues as usual, for the moment. But with a flock of helicopters having recently migrated into the area, and few natural defenses against predation, the quarry’s future is in dire jeopardy.

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#this does not fill me with confidence

yeah the glass sucks but it’s still no match for our shitty weak bears

fail glass covering our cringe bears

I looked it up because I’m procrastinating, and it turns out the bears didn’t break it; a kid with a rock did.  By hammering on it several times. 

And those cracks don’t look two inches thick, because only the outside layer broke.

Anyway I think the real fail here is the parenting that cost the zoo $67,000.