▲ 92 ▼ Giant underground pipe mysteriously rises over 30 feet, bursting through road in Japan: "I can't believe this" (www.cbsnews.com) submitted 6 months ago by e0qdk@reddthat.com to c/offbeat@lemmy.ca 22 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 11 points 6 months ago (3 children) It's not a pipe at all. Crap article. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 months ago (2 children) Sounds like the pipe was used to great an underground work space for the connection the workers were doing below. The steel walls kept the giant hole’s dirt from falling in. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca -1 points 6 months ago (1 child) It was a support jack. It's not a pipe, nothing gets piped in it. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) Pipe just means tube, not that you have to use it as a fluid vehicle. There is structural Pipe. And they said they pumped the water out of it, which then let it float up on a presumes rising water table below, meaning it was hollow inside. From JapanTimea article: The pipe was being used as a retaining structure to prevent excavated soil from collapsing. Workers had been pumping groundwater out of the pipe until early Wednesday morning, but no abnormalities had been detected before the incident. Support pipe use, like when you dig a hole and shore it up on the sides. Rathen than a pile driven in to stop layered geology from aliding off a slope. The articles mentioned they were using it to get to the bottom and do their connection work...not connect too this pipe, but it can still be called a pipe by definition of what piping is. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 months ago (2 children) Sounds like the pipe was used to great an underground work space for the connection the workers were doing below. The steel walls kept the giant hole’s dirt from falling in. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca -1 points 6 months ago (1 child) It was a support jack. It's not a pipe, nothing gets piped in it. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) Pipe just means tube, not that you have to use it as a fluid vehicle. There is structural Pipe. And they said they pumped the water out of it, which then let it float up on a presumes rising water table below, meaning it was hollow inside. From JapanTimea article: The pipe was being used as a retaining structure to prevent excavated soil from collapsing. Workers had been pumping groundwater out of the pipe until early Wednesday morning, but no abnormalities had been detected before the incident. Support pipe use, like when you dig a hole and shore it up on the sides. Rathen than a pile driven in to stop layered geology from aliding off a slope. The articles mentioned they were using it to get to the bottom and do their connection work...not connect too this pipe, but it can still be called a pipe by definition of what piping is. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca -1 points 6 months ago (1 child) It was a support jack. It's not a pipe, nothing gets piped in it. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) Pipe just means tube, not that you have to use it as a fluid vehicle. There is structural Pipe. And they said they pumped the water out of it, which then let it float up on a presumes rising water table below, meaning it was hollow inside. From JapanTimea article: The pipe was being used as a retaining structure to prevent excavated soil from collapsing. Workers had been pumping groundwater out of the pipe until early Wednesday morning, but no abnormalities had been detected before the incident. Support pipe use, like when you dig a hole and shore it up on the sides. Rathen than a pile driven in to stop layered geology from aliding off a slope. The articles mentioned they were using it to get to the bottom and do their connection work...not connect too this pipe, but it can still be called a pipe by definition of what piping is. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) Pipe just means tube, not that you have to use it as a fluid vehicle. There is structural Pipe. And they said they pumped the water out of it, which then let it float up on a presumes rising water table below, meaning it was hollow inside. From JapanTimea article: The pipe was being used as a retaining structure to prevent excavated soil from collapsing. Workers had been pumping groundwater out of the pipe until early Wednesday morning, but no abnormalities had been detected before the incident. Support pipe use, like when you dig a hole and shore it up on the sides. Rathen than a pile driven in to stop layered geology from aliding off a slope. The articles mentioned they were using it to get to the bottom and do their connection work...not connect too this pipe, but it can still be called a pipe by definition of what piping is. permalink fedilink source parent