You're surprised that rats are skilled in the rat race?
No, being snarky about a percieved lack of skill in everyone else on the road
Why is it when somebody says he was just doing his job, he's usually just done something noteworthy? In this case, saved another man's life.
Video and details
Keep in mind that the only thing that prevents this sort of thing happening in the Netherlands is a vast and expensive network of water control systems. To no small extent because Venice is, strictly speaking, just above the water level, and vast sections of the Netherlands are not.
Fun Netherlands fact: There is a system of locks that could flood large parts of the country, which if you internalize the fact above is unsurprising. The surprising part is that large parts of the country knows how these systems work and are able to operate them in an emergency. The Netherlands determined that everyone at the time should how to prevent the country from flooding and added it to the curriculum.
Public education works if you let it.
Quantas Airlines has shattered the previous longest duration and longest distance with an experimental long-distance flight from London Heathrow to Sydney in an effort to convince regulators to permit ultra-long-haul flights.
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/qanta...index.html
Underground farming
"Underground" as in "take a disused bomb-shelter bunker and grow salad greens in it".
That's supposedly how the Lars farm worked in Star Wars, as I understand it.
What does
it take to stop a bad guy? Try a fire extinguisher ... and
a
narwhal tusk....
As Mako said in one Chuck Norris movie, "The warrior uses what is at hand!"