play terraria

Minecraft?

there's the classic digging a hole in your back yard.

>>3955

my friend was died for doing this

>>3955

By Randy Dotinga
HealthDay Reporter
Mar. 23
WEDNESDAY, June 20 (HealthDay News) -- Digging that hole to China on a sandy beach is a summertime rite of passage for many kids.

But a new report reveals that those holes -- even fairly shallow ones -- can collapse and kill.

By sifting through news reports and other sources, researchers found 52 cases of sand-hole collapses in the United States and three other countries -- Australia, Great Britain and New Zealand. Sixty percent of the victims -- 31 people -- died, while many of the others needed rescuing and CPR.

There may be many more cases that weren't reported, said report co-author Dr. Bradley Maron, an internal medicine resident at Boston University Medical Center. "We're trying to increase awareness of something that's generally not associated with a life-threatening event," he said. When people are on the beach, "their concern for safety is directed toward the water," he noted.

Maron became interested in sand-hole dangers in 1995, when he was a lifeguard on the Massachusetts island of Martha's Vineyard. One day, a hole dug in beach sand collapsed around a little girl. Emergency crews were able to locate the girl and provide her with an air pocket while they extricated her, Maron said. She survived.

Maron and his father, Dr. Barry Maron, first wrote about sand-hole collapses in 2001. In a new report published in a letter in the June 21 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, they now follow up on their previous research by tracking down individual cases, most occurring over the past 10 years.

Of the 52 fatal and non-fatal cases reported, victims ranged from 3 to 21 years of age, with an average age of 12. Most victims (87 percent) were boys.

Sand collapses occur in ordinary holes that people dig -- some only a few feet deep -- and in tunnels that collapse. In some cases, people fall into existing holes and the sand collapses around them.

In many cases, parents and others have a hard time figuring out where the victims are because the sand collapses and leaves no sign of them, the younger Maron said. "That makes serious rescue efforts difficult. It's not clear where you should dig, and you can't use heavy equipment," he said.

Sand collapses occur most often at beaches, but they can happen at other places like lakes or even backyards, Maron said.

Not every beach is susceptible to sand collapse, however, said Chris Brewster, president of the United States Life Saving Association, an organization of beach and open water lifeguards.

Southern California beaches, for example, typically have sand that's too dense to allow deep digging, he said.

"Where this tends to happen is where the sand is quite granular, large-grain sand that's easier to dig," he said.

What to do? Common sense is the answer, Maron said: Don't dig holes that are deeper than your knees when you're standing up in them; this rule goes for kids as well as adults. And if you dig a big hole, cover it up when you leave.

And beaches aren't the only sand-hole danger zone. There have been prior reports of children dying after being buried in sand at construction sites, and even in sandboxes, experts warn.

>>3955

Hitting an electric line can shock or kill you and cause power outages. Hitting an underground gas pipe can create a fire or explosion hazard. These lines can be just a foot under the ground. So whether you want to plant a tree or dig a trench, call the local one-call utility locator service. They will arrange to mark the location and depth of any buried lines.

Before using power-digging tools, hand dig.

The locator service will tell you the location of underground utilities, but not their depth. Before using any power tools, hand dig to verify exact utility depth. Any time you suspect unmarked hazards, hand dig the area carefully to test your suspicions. Backfill the soil gently to avoid damaging any utilities.

If you contact an underground utility:

Leave the area immediately and tell others to stay away.

Call 911 and the local utility company as quickly as possible.

Report even minor damage; what looks harmless can cause big trouble.

Learn where all underground utility lines are located before beginning any digging project.

The popular Utah cave where a 26-year-old medical student died earlier in the week will be closed permanently and his body will not be removed, state and county officials said Friday.

Any effort to recover John Jones' body from the cramped underground chute where he became stuck with his head at an angle below his feet Tuesday night would simply be too dangerous, they said.

"If we put other people in that same location, they could get stuck or get hurt," said Lt. John Valentine with Utah County search and rescue.

Jones, of Stansbury Park, died just before midnight Wednesday - about 28 hours after getting wedged into a tight, unmapped passage of Nutty Putty Cave. Workers had tried feverishly to free him from the underground chute about 100 feet below the surface and about 400 feet from the cave's entrance.

Jones was trapped headfirst in a vertical shaft about 18 inches wide and 10 inches high. The 1,500-foot Nutty Putty cave is south of Salt Lake City.

Utah County Sheriff Jim Tracy said Jones' exact cause of death will probably never be known but contributing factors likely included his inverted position for a prolonged period of time and the cave's cold temperatures.

Those who met Friday morning - state officials from the agency that owns the land, the cave's operators, Jones' family and law enforcement officials - said they decided unanimously to close the cave as quickly as possible.

"We've suffered a tragedy in this cave that we hope to prevent from happening again," said Sgt. Tom Hodgson, coordinator for Utah County's search and rescue operations.

A "Herculean effort" to free him was limited by the cramped space, leaving one rescuer chipping away rock with a ball-peen hammer just six inches to swing, said Sgt. Tom Hodgson, coordinator for Utah County's search and rescue operations.

"We feel like it would be John's will to protect the safety of future cavers," his younger brother, Josh, said at a news conference Friday.

For the past two years, the St. George native was attending medical school at the University of Virginia, hoping to pursue a career as a pediatric cardiologist. Jones, his wife Emily and their 13-month-old daughter had come home to Utah for the Thanksgiving holiday and to share the news that another baby is expected in June.

Family said they knew Jones fought to survive throughout the rescue effort and was commended by rescue crews for "his remarkable good spirits and resilience to the end."

Although Jones' death is the first known fatality since cavers began exploring Nutty Putty's narrow passageways in the 1960s, rescuers have been called to the cave five times in the last 10 years.

The last time was in 2004 when a teenage boy had to be pulled out of an area not far from where Jones got stuck.

The cave hosted 5,000 to 10,000 visitors per year until 2006, when it was temporarily closed while managers implemented a stricter system of access that included a permit system, requirement that cavers be with someone experienced and a locked gate. It reopened in May and had once again become popular, especially among amateur cavers, said Mike Leavitt, who managed access to the cave.

Although the cave was popular, it had never been fully mapped. Jones found himself in one of the areas off the cave's main passage during an outing with 11 friends and family Tuesday night and was unable to get out.

"This particular area is very, very difficult ... where the cave peters out to virtually nothing," said Valentine, who said he'd been in Nutty Putty some 25 times over the years.

The rescue took its toll on crews working at the cave, many of whom were grieving and struggling with their inability to free Jones.

"It's a very difficult experience to just be that close and still not be able to pull it off," Valentine said.

A uniformed deputy will remain at the cave's entrance until it can be properly sealed, the sheriff said. The family will also be allowed to place a memorial marker at the site.Funeral services for Jones are planned for Saturday.

June 20, 2007 -- Digging sand holes may sound like innocent fun at the beach, but it can be risky and even deadly, according to a new report.

In the past decade, there have been reports of 31 fatalities and 21 nonfatal cases of people submerged in sand when the sand holes they were digging for fun collapsed in on them.

Those cases are noted in The New England Journal of Medicine by Bradley Maron, MD, and colleagues. Maron works at Harvard Medical School in Boston.

Maron's team reports that the victims of collapsed sand holes were 3 to 21 years old (average age: 12). Most cases occurred at public beaches, near the shoreline.

The holes were dug from dry sand by victims, friends, or relatives. The sand holes were generally 2 feet to 15 feet in diameter and 2 feet to 12 feet deep, note Maron and colleagues.

"Typically, victims become completely submerged in the sand when the walls of the hole unexpectedly collapsed, leaving virtually no evidence of the hole or the location of the victim," write the researchers.

"Collapses were inadvertently triggered by a variety of circumstances, including digging, tunneling, jumping, or falling into the hole," they write.

Many of the people who were rescued from sand holes required CPR from bystanders, note Maron and colleagues.

They write that being trapped in a collapsed sand hole "is uncommon," but such cases "probably are more common than this report suggests."

In a previous interview with WebMD, Maron said that in 1997, he saw rescuers save the life of an 8-year-old girl who was trapped in a sand hole at Martha's Vineyard.

Maron's team has written about the sand hole hazard in the past and continues to highlight the issue in the hopes of saving lives, especially as people head to the beach on summer vacation.

>>3940
Creepers still bulling you Steve?

>>3957 - >>3960
If digging deep holes is such a perilous endeavor why aren't more people dead?

I really do love the British term "Nanny state" more and more,everything single thing we do is to some extent dangerous it's the risk of living in our universe of random occurrences.Most health and safety bullshit is in place to protect from lawsuit not injury (not there to take away liberyies and freedumbs) the real safety comes form common sense..."do not place hand in fire".

Bitcoin was my favorite mining game.

>>4136

OK, how about a relevant post.

http://minetest.net

This is like an open-source Minecraft type game developed in C++ instead of Java.

>>4155

Working OK so far. No major glitches and its at a playable framerate. Seems much more responsive than Minecraft.

>>4156

Starting to mine. No idea what I'm going to make (or can make) but so far the crafting recipes seem the same as Minecraft. You don't need to build a crafting table because your inventory has a 3x3 grid instead of the usual 2x2.

>>4157

This will work for now. Found a few iron lumps after quite a bit of digging, smelted it and discovered the furnace is a little glitchy but it still worked. It also tells you it is out of fuel when you look at it, which is kind of nice. Stacks capping at 99 instead of 64 is also nice.

Additional notes: leaves decay faster and saplings seem to plant themselves when they drop from the tree.

Um... mining games? Trying to celebrate The Cheat's Cheatday again?

>Ctrl f "dig n rig"
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That game is pretty legit.

This one was good, however as a kid I did not get past world 2 and as adult the game did not work on my PC.
Russian version seems to work on modern computers, but I failed to find torrent.

well there is this sort of mining macro management game called Dwarfs?! on steam i played it mainly for the achievement so i can use the dwarfs?! axe on Killing Floor from the 2012 christmas update. man is that axe fun to use