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To the optimist, this tank is half-full. To the pessimist, it’s upside down.

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Wordsploded by Mark

November 20th, 2008 at 5:31 pm

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  1. Perhaps it’s filled with a lighter than air gas of some sort.

    fracai

    20 Nov 08 at 6:05 pm

  2. Looks like a “gasometer” storage tank for natural gas distribution, which has an internal bag that fills from the bottom up. So, as the bag fills, the weight drops down, hence the inverted reading. Still weird, though.

    brian t

    20 Nov 08 at 6:40 pm

  3. Yes, when I was a kid our water-tank had a similar setup: a float inside the tank, on a rope to a weight on the outside. When the float gets to the top, the tank’s empty. Looks normal to me!

    EvilBob

    20 Nov 08 at 9:10 pm

  4. Edit: When the weight gets to the top, I mean…

    EvilBob

    20 Nov 08 at 9:10 pm

  5. Geez, suck the funny right out of it! :)

    Juju

    20 Nov 08 at 9:16 pm

  6. brian beat me to it. You can see the cables going up from the gauge line.

    mandydax

    21 Nov 08 at 11:01 pm

  7. or maybe it’s a helium tank.

    Drew

    21 Nov 08 at 11:52 pm

  8. There’s a water tower here that works the same way. As it fills, the meter goes down towards F.

    MKR

    22 Nov 08 at 9:25 am

  9. Same here, water tank.

    ht

    24 Nov 08 at 1:41 am

  10. Maybe “E” and “F” are some kind of code for that particular tank, like “East Tank F.” It may not have anything to do with “empty” or “full.”

    John Hoff

    28 Nov 08 at 8:53 pm

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