Question of the Day - 07 October 2022

I haven’t been to Las Vegas in a while. Is Cleopatra's Barge still at Caesars?

Yes it is, but it's "temporarily closed." That's all the information we could come up with about it from numerous sites and source requests. When/if we hear anything more, we'll post it in Vegas News.

I'm reading Vegas News about the Las Vegas Aces winning the WNBA Finals and "bringing home the city's first championship" and wondering, isn't winning the Stanley Cup by a pro hockey team considered winning a pro sports championship?  

Yes, winning the NHL's Stanley Cup is definitely a pros-sports championship. Some experts say it's the hardest of them all to win. 

But the Vegas Golden Knights didn't win the Cup. They lost in the Finals in 2017, their inaugural season as an expansion team, to the Washington Capitals (with the incomparable Alex Ovechkin), 4 games to 1. The Caps took home the Cup (and it's been downhill for the VGK ever since). 

Has the D removed the Sigma Derby machine for good? I was there a couple of weeks ago and couldn't find it.

Nope. It's still there. It's just been moved to the far west side of the upper floor, in front of Bar Canada. It's kind of hidden behind tall slot machines in front of the sportsbook, so keep looking. Sigma Derby lives!

What happens to all the rubble from imploded casinos?

We couldn't find that much information on implosions specifically, but after both demolition types -- explosive and mechanical -- most of the debris tends to be concrete, which can be recycled into aggregate or new concrete products. Then there's steel, which is the most recycled material in the world; only 2% of structural steel winds up in landfills. Wood is often recycled into engineered-wood products, mulch, even compost. And the metals are salvaged as much as possible; they're valuable commodities, especially copper, brass, and aluminum. A lot of drywall ends up in landfills, but consisting mostly of gypsum and paper, it breaks down quickly, relatively speaking. Dust is the main fallout, so to speak, from implosions, but certain mitigating methods are put into place and it settles fairly quickly, so it becomes part of the overall clean-up process.