Showtalk said:

What is a horizontal surface? Isn’t that known as “storage?”

Yes it is. Long term archival storage if I remember correctly :)

That is a better description and name.

I need another large aircraft hangar full of long term archival storage. Maybe about 250,000 square feet would be enough space to lay it out where it can all be found.

I can promise you won’t ever use that much stuff.

But I could actually find it.

Yes you can organize and catalog it.

Or if I can't finish it this lifetime, then others can actually benefit from it rather than just bulldoze everything off into a landfill.

So your equating corruption in modifying methane detection on underground mining equipment for extra profits with Texas's failure to tax the oil industry enough to fill the potholes that their trucks cause in the roads?

No but nearly every serious accident turns out to have been from cutting corners somewhere or other, and eventually it caught up to them.

I never did find out what caused the 18 wheeler fire. It could have been something like an axle bearing or even a transmission / drive shaft problem where the friction mile after mile caused lubricants to ignite, then that just spread to the fuel tanks. That stretch of road was actually smooth, and probably not the cause of the fire.

But it was spectacular and noisy.

Sometimes stuff happens.

Big accidents are usually both spectacular and noisy.