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Phoenix_Rising
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Actually, this was a "news" two days ago:
On June 2 morning,Three-Gorge Dam restrained 60% waterflow of Yangze River in order to help the rescue operation.
According to the brief from Chen Guiya(陈桂亚), the Vice-Chief of the Anti-Disaster Office of Yangze River Water Conservancy Commission, the Three-Gorge Dam took action to limit the waterflow early in the morning on June 2.
The adjustment has already been finished after three stages.
Stage 1 began on 7:30, the flow was decreased from 17200 cubic metre per second to 10000m³/s;
Stage 2 made it dropped to 8000m³/s;
Stage 3 was finished on 12:00, after then, the flow was kept stable in 7000m³/s.
The experts estimatede that the 3-metre-fall of waterlevel in the accideng scene would start on tonight.
June 2,
June 2,
June 3, 21:00,
June 4, 8:00,
From these photos you can see the waterlevel dropped despite the continuous rainy weather.
Just imagine the economic losses and the aftermath:
The administration need to immediately re-designate shipping lanes. Ships with high waterlines have to re-plan their trip. Yangze River is one of the busiest waterways in the world, right?
Three-Gorge Dam hydropower station was the heart of the electricity grid in central China, after cut more than half of its drain, shortage of power supply is inevitable.
With rising waters in three-gorge reservoir, some upstream hydropower stations have to take collateral action to reduce their downflow.
It's June now, the rain season has already come. The pressure on entire water conservancy system is heavy. After the rescue they have to make a huge discharge to ensure the waterlevels in all upstream reservoir is low enough to absorb possible flood peak , that would be really tough to downstream dams. The complexity of these adjusments would be mindblowing, cause the have to make balence on the edge.
This news showed the importance of water conservancy facilities, the might of Chinese industry. However, what it really emphasized is that the state not only have the power to protect people, but also willing to use it, even with a huge price.
On June 2 morning,Three-Gorge Dam restrained 60% waterflow of Yangze River in order to help the rescue operation.
According to the brief from Chen Guiya(陈桂亚), the Vice-Chief of the Anti-Disaster Office of Yangze River Water Conservancy Commission, the Three-Gorge Dam took action to limit the waterflow early in the morning on June 2.
The adjustment has already been finished after three stages.
Stage 1 began on 7:30, the flow was decreased from 17200 cubic metre per second to 10000m³/s;
Stage 2 made it dropped to 8000m³/s;
Stage 3 was finished on 12:00, after then, the flow was kept stable in 7000m³/s.
The experts estimatede that the 3-metre-fall of waterlevel in the accideng scene would start on tonight.
From these photos you can see the waterlevel dropped despite the continuous rainy weather.
Just imagine the economic losses and the aftermath:
The administration need to immediately re-designate shipping lanes. Ships with high waterlines have to re-plan their trip. Yangze River is one of the busiest waterways in the world, right?
Three-Gorge Dam hydropower station was the heart of the electricity grid in central China, after cut more than half of its drain, shortage of power supply is inevitable.
With rising waters in three-gorge reservoir, some upstream hydropower stations have to take collateral action to reduce their downflow.
It's June now, the rain season has already come. The pressure on entire water conservancy system is heavy. After the rescue they have to make a huge discharge to ensure the waterlevels in all upstream reservoir is low enough to absorb possible flood peak , that would be really tough to downstream dams. The complexity of these adjusments would be mindblowing, cause the have to make balence on the edge.
This news showed the importance of water conservancy facilities, the might of Chinese industry. However, what it really emphasized is that the state not only have the power to protect people, but also willing to use it, even with a huge price.
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shen
Senior Member
Navigation on the Yangtze is safer overall since the construction of the Three Gorge Dam due to more predicable water level.
In other news, doesn't look good for the captain. He continued to sail upriver overnight despite weather report of heavy rain, while other ships anchored in safe water overnight. He failed to even send a SOS signal before leaving the ship. Authority wasn't noticed until the next morning.
In other news, doesn't look good for the captain. He continued to sail upriver overnight despite weather report of heavy rain, while other ships anchored in safe water overnight. He failed to even send a SOS signal before leaving the ship. Authority wasn't noticed until the next morning.
Phoenix_Rising
Junior Member
Weather conditions when the accident happened
June 1, 21:06, an instantaneous wind speed of 9.2m/s was detected in Jianli County. On 22:03, Chiba unmanned weather observe post (located at southeast in the county, byside Yangze River, 35km from the accident scene) recorded a maximum instantaneous wind speed at 16.4m/s.
Jianli County recieved 64.9mm of rain within an hour.
Conclusion after analysis
In the morning of June 2, a group of experts sent by China Meteorological Administration arrived. Their analysis suggested that: With the data from weather monitors, meteorological radar, and investigation on the scene, a TORNADO occured at the place, at the time. The wind speed was higher than 12 in Beaufort scale. (I remember the tornado is measured by Fujita scale in US? Asked by the poster.) The tornado landed on the river, its horizontal size was less than 1km and lasted about 15-20 minutes. It was a local, small size, sudden, severe convective disaster weather.
I watched the TV news about the press conference held by local meteorological bureau yesterday evenning. They said the frequent of tornado in the county is ONCE IN 5 YEARS.
plawolf
Lieutenant General
I see this line all the time in such articles, and its a massive circular reasoning logic fallacy which basically translates as, "we blamed China for something vaguely familiar in the past with zero evidence and proof, so we are just going to do that again this time".
The entire blame China argument is pretty much entirely one of the answer (blame China) looking for evidence to prove itself.
We are required to swallow the inherent and obvious contradiction that Chinese hackers are supposed to be cyber wizards able to penetrate the most heavily protected networks and bypass the best defences there are (something individual hackers very seldom if ever manage), but are somehow at the same time absolute script kiddies when it comes to covering their tracks so get traced every single time (something that is apparently next to impossible to do to track down individual hackers or "hackivist" groups like Anomalous when they carry out atatcks)?
Phoenix_Rising
Junior Member
Xinhua interviewed the captain and the chief engineer(both are in custody)
张顺文说，当时的风在3-4级左右，从南边往北边吹。他想走背风，往北偏行，想用速度抵住风，但风突然剧增，船身失去了控制，左满舵也抵不住风。
Captain Zhang Shunwen: "The wind was about 3-4 scale, from south to north. He wanted to sail leeward, turned the direction towards north, intending to offset the wind with the speed of ship. But the wind became fierce all ina sudden and the ship began to lose control, the final attempt, full-left rudder, failed."
杨忠权回忆说，当时他从甲板巡视回来就一两分钟，水就涌进了机舱，照明一下就没了，“这时感觉船已翻了”。
Chief Engineer Yang Zhongquan: "It was only one or two minute after I came back from the deck, the water flooded into the engine room. The light went out immediately. I felt the ship was capsized at that time."
张顺文说，当时的风在3-4级左右，从南边往北边吹。他想走背风，往北偏行，想用速度抵住风，但风突然剧增，船身失去了控制，左满舵也抵不住风。
Captain Zhang Shunwen: "The wind was about 3-4 scale, from south to north. He wanted to sail leeward, turned the direction towards north, intending to offset the wind with the speed of ship. But the wind became fierce all ina sudden and the ship began to lose control, the final attempt, full-left rudder, failed."
杨忠权回忆说，当时他从甲板巡视回来就一两分钟，水就涌进了机舱，照明一下就没了，“这时感觉船已翻了”。
Chief Engineer Yang Zhongquan: "It was only one or two minute after I came back from the deck, the water flooded into the engine room. The light went out immediately. I felt the ship was capsized at that time."
It sounds like to me that the Captain, at night, was trying his best to adjust for very much worsening conditions.
it almost sounds like the ship was hit by the tornado.
If that is shown to be the case...I am not sure that there was anything he could have done.
Once that happened, the ship capsized very rapidly. I think that the captain and others who survived simply found themselves in the water, or in a horrible circumstance all of a sudden where all they could do was to make for the surface.
it almost sounds like the ship was hit by the tornado.
If that is shown to be the case...I am not sure that there was anything he could have done.
Once that happened, the ship capsized very rapidly. I think that the captain and others who survived simply found themselves in the water, or in a horrible circumstance all of a sudden where all they could do was to make for the surface.
Miragedriver
Brigadier
New Dinosaur name for TerraN, as opposed to tyrant king
What a Face! 'Hellboy' Dino Sported Head Crown, Teeny Eye Horns
About 70 million years ago, a bizarre-looking relative of Triceratops with a crownlike frill, tall nose horn and tiny eye horns tread over the ancient landscape of southeastern Alberta, a new study finds.
A man named Peter Hews discovered the unusual dinosaur's skull about 10 years ago, after he noticed some bones poking out of a cliff by the Oldman River in Alberta. Researchers excavated and studied the fossil, learning it belonged to an entirely new genus and species of that was closely related to.
Researchers dubbed the unusual horned beast Regaliceratops peterhewsi, from the Latin "regalis," meaning royal, in honor of the dinosaur's unique crowned frill, as well as after Canada's Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology, the researchers said in the study. The Greek word "ceratops" means "horned face." []
But the dinosaur's nickname, "Hellboy," is far more popular, the researchers said.
Naming aside, the skull is the first evidence that horned dinosaurs lived in that particular geographic region of Alberta, said Caleb Brown, a paleobiologist at the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology.
"However, it was not until the specimen was being slowly prepared from the rocks in the laboratory that the full anatomy was uncovered, and the bizarre suite of characters revealed," Brown . "Once it was prepared, it was obviously a new species, and an unexpected one at that. Many horned-dinosaur researchers who visited the museum did a double take when they first saw it in the laboratory."
The specimen is so unique, a person standing a football field away could easily tell that it's a new species, Brown joked. He pointed out the distinctive size and shape of its facial horns and the shieldlike frill on the back of its skull.
In fact, Regaliceratops peterhewsi is fairly similar to Triceratops, except that its nose is tall and the two horns over its eyes are "almost comically small," Brown said. But the frill on its head is by far the most impressive feature, he said. It looks like a halo of large, pentagonal plates, and one central spike, radiating outward.
"The combined result looks like a crown," Brown said.
The newfound dinosaur also has an intriguing combination of short and long horns. Researchers usually categorize horned dinosaurs into one of two groups: the Chasmosaurines, which have a small horn over the nose, large horns over the eyes and a long frill; and the Centrosaurines, animals with a large nose horn, small eye horns and a short frill.
This new species is a Chasmosaurine, but it has ornamentation more similar to Centrosaurines," Brown said in the statement. "It also comes from a time period following the extinction of the Centrosaurines."
R. peterhewsi is the first example of a horned dinosaur showing , meaning that these two groups developed similar features independently of each other.
The researchers plan to look for more R. peterhewsi fossils. In the meantime, they're making digital reconstructions of the skull, which is deformed after spending 70 million years in the Rocky Mountain foothills.
"This discovery also suggests that there are likely more horned dinosaurs out there that we just have not found yet, so we will also be looking for other new species," Brown said.
The finding was published online June 4 in the .
Back to bottling my Grenache
What a Face! 'Hellboy' Dino Sported Head Crown, Teeny Eye Horns
About 70 million years ago, a bizarre-looking relative of Triceratops with a crownlike frill, tall nose horn and tiny eye horns tread over the ancient landscape of southeastern Alberta, a new study finds.
A man named Peter Hews discovered the unusual dinosaur's skull about 10 years ago, after he noticed some bones poking out of a cliff by the Oldman River in Alberta. Researchers excavated and studied the fossil, learning it belonged to an entirely new genus and species of that was closely related to.
Researchers dubbed the unusual horned beast Regaliceratops peterhewsi, from the Latin "regalis," meaning royal, in honor of the dinosaur's unique crowned frill, as well as after Canada's Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology, the researchers said in the study. The Greek word "ceratops" means "horned face." []
But the dinosaur's nickname, "Hellboy," is far more popular, the researchers said.
Naming aside, the skull is the first evidence that horned dinosaurs lived in that particular geographic region of Alberta, said Caleb Brown, a paleobiologist at the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology.
"However, it was not until the specimen was being slowly prepared from the rocks in the laboratory that the full anatomy was uncovered, and the bizarre suite of characters revealed," Brown . "Once it was prepared, it was obviously a new species, and an unexpected one at that. Many horned-dinosaur researchers who visited the museum did a double take when they first saw it in the laboratory."
The specimen is so unique, a person standing a football field away could easily tell that it's a new species, Brown joked. He pointed out the distinctive size and shape of its facial horns and the shieldlike frill on the back of its skull.
In fact, Regaliceratops peterhewsi is fairly similar to Triceratops, except that its nose is tall and the two horns over its eyes are "almost comically small," Brown said. But the frill on its head is by far the most impressive feature, he said. It looks like a halo of large, pentagonal plates, and one central spike, radiating outward.
"The combined result looks like a crown," Brown said.
The newfound dinosaur also has an intriguing combination of short and long horns. Researchers usually categorize horned dinosaurs into one of two groups: the Chasmosaurines, which have a small horn over the nose, large horns over the eyes and a long frill; and the Centrosaurines, animals with a large nose horn, small eye horns and a short frill.
This new species is a Chasmosaurine, but it has ornamentation more similar to Centrosaurines," Brown said in the statement. "It also comes from a time period following the extinction of the Centrosaurines."
R. peterhewsi is the first example of a horned dinosaur showing , meaning that these two groups developed similar features independently of each other.
The researchers plan to look for more R. peterhewsi fossils. In the meantime, they're making digital reconstructions of the skull, which is deformed after spending 70 million years in the Rocky Mountain foothills.
"This discovery also suggests that there are likely more horned dinosaurs out there that we just have not found yet, so we will also be looking for other new species," Brown said.
The finding was published online June 4 in the .
Back to bottling my Grenache