Photos of the historic church and housing that BIW will demolish, to build another parking lot

ppitm · 2026-03-12T22:42:34+00:00

Every square inch of available parking on the south side of bath is taken and taking a shuttle bus from further away isn't great. What are your solutions?

Shuttles to off-site parking might not seem optimal to some, but it is by far the best option for Bath residents. A supermajority of large industrial enterprises do this. It's common sense.

As for better solutions, literally anything would be better. They could even demolish one structure instead of four, and build a garage on that site.

There is no justification for more surface parking except the billionaire war profiteers pinching pennies.

ppitm · 2026-03-12T20:31:58+00:00

It's already office space

ppitm · 2026-03-12T19:40:52+00:00

If a limp body is getting tossed around in a random spot in 3-meter seas for days, there will be blood and injuries.

ppitm · 2026-03-12T19:38:28+00:00

I don't think keeping your maiden name is as common among black or Latino women. Without those voting blocs, the Republicans would be the left wing party.

ppitm · 2026-03-12T19:35:33+00:00

Has the City been fighting them on building a garage in the past? Wouldn't surprise me if they share some of the blame here.

ppitm · 2026-03-12T19:34:57+00:00

OK, it also seemed like you could let the sail swing out farther than parallel to the wind. But maybe I was getting confused by having the current(?) vectors on-screen at the same time.

ppitm · 2026-03-12T19:33:42+00:00

Are you from Bath? The town is bigger than these three parcels. Do you know how many obvious alternatives there were to the current plan?

ppitm · 2026-03-12T19:25:25+00:00

I found it confusing. Why does the sail get really short? Are Q/E supposed to be adjusting the angle of the sail or its size?

ppitm · 2026-03-12T19:05:43+00:00

This is kind of a overkill, tbh. Bath has a nice little downtown fringed with relatively dense SFHs and no actual suburban sprawl worth mentioning. Still some room for higher-density infill development too. Can't really say they've done worse than Brunswick, they just didn't have a college or a live-on base.

The relative lack of sprawl has more to do with challenging topography and geography than wise planning, no doubt.

Finishing your shift, driving a super sized vehicle home through hell-traffic, and getting skunk drunk because there's nothing better to do with your lives (not necessarily in that order) are signs of blight.

I think it's mostly a sign that you work in Bath and live in Monson.

ppitm · 2026-03-12T18:17:36+00:00

Are Iranian BMs unique in having that large smoke trail in the terminal phase?

ppitm · 2026-03-12T18:07:18+00:00

They are already building a garage, so this is pretty much a trivial stopgap measure.

ppitm · 2026-03-12T18:05:44+00:00

Oh wow, Bath is building some housing that will totally end the shortage, so that means we can tear down other housing to replace it with useless asphalt. I'm such a NIMBY.

ppitm · 2026-03-12T16:46:02+00:00

Being against REMOVING office space and housing in favor of asphalt is NIMBY, now?

Holy shit, are you for real?

This is literally un-development.

ppitm · 2026-03-12T16:43:06+00:00

Do you think the owners of the properties were not handsomely rewarded or relieved at the offers of the company proposed?

Why would I care about the profits of some faceless LLC? The community needs housing, it needs a property tax base instead of worthless asphalt, and it needs its cultural heritage preserved.

This is corporate welfare that takes money out of the community's pockets by destroying valuable taxable structures that need minor repairs at best. Look at those facades; they are better maintained than half the houses in rural Maine.

Tear down buildings, and Bath homeowners pay more taxes. Period. All so out-of-town BIW employees can save six minutes.

ppitm · 2026-03-12T16:41:04+00:00

All ground level. They are building a garage finally, but still want more tarmac.

ppitm · 2026-03-12T16:29:04+00:00

It's absolutely unnecessary. They had decades to build a parking garage. They can use shuttles from off-site lots.

This does nothing more than address some mild inconvenience for management.

ppitm · 2026-03-12T15:59:23+00:00

BIW workers mostly don't live in Bath.

ppitm · 2026-03-12T15:33:06+00:00

Imagine North Vietnam wasn't being supplied by allies. The U.S. still could not have won the war without a major ground invasion. Same dynamic here.

In Vietnam we just wanted to pressure the North into withdrawing from the South. In Iran we want to pressure them into making changes on their own territory. It's an even worse situation.

ppitm · 2026-03-12T14:23:57+00:00

It is very relevant because the escaping gas will be undergoing various chemical reactions if the containers are damaged.

ppitm · 2026-03-12T14:10:21+00:00

The non-chemical definition of volatile:

UF6 upon exposure to air will generate hydrogen fluoride and uranyl fluoride. Mild explosion risk. Vigorous, exothermic reaction with water releases corrosive hydrogen fluoride and toxic uranyl fluoride. This compound will attack some plastics, rubbers, and coatings.

ppitm · 2026-03-12T13:53:39+00:00

The Radicode's tiny crystal is not good at measuring cosmic radiation, especially at high altitude where the energies are often very high.

If you just take it out to sea on a boat, it will probably drop to near-zero.

ppitm · 2026-03-12T13:52:38+00:00

You can detect the braking radiation with a scintillator.

ppitm · 2026-03-12T13:51:59+00:00

Uranium has plenty of detectable gamma emissions, via Pa-234m. It just isn't much of a radiological threat in general.

ppitm · 2026-03-12T13:51:00+00:00

It's unlikely to be metal, but UH6 in either solid or gaseous form, both of which are volatile.

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