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bunnielab posted:The idea of emptying a bong full of my carpet filth sounds like the worst thing ever. As was mentioned before, It's better to dump a can of dirty water out than to breathe in the dust from emptying a canister or even when changing a vacuum bag. Plus I can say for certain that a Rainbow vac smells much better when being used than a traditional vacuum. They can also be used as a wet vac in a pinch.
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This water vacuum business sounds awesome and I immediately went on Amazon to see how I could get one. The Rainbows all cost $2000 which is pretty steep for a vacuum cleaner. When I get a chance I might try out one of the cheaper varieties.
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Dust is terrible for water treatment plants. Contains a lot of heavy metals and other things. Body waste goes in the drain, dust goes in the garbage.
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Boiled Water posted:I don't think 1950s america put much thought into how their houses should be recycled. I don't know if it's something I saw in this thread or not, but I seem to think there was some magazine article or something from I want to say the 1950s about how we'd be expected to live around the year 2000. There was a belief that homes of the year 2000 would be more or less disposable. http://blog.modernmechanix.com/miracles-youll-see-in-the-next-fifty-years/1/#mmGal http://blog.modernmechanix.com/miracles-youll-see-in-the-next-fifty-years/3/#mmGal "It is built to last only about 25 years. Nobody in 2000 sees any sense in building a house that will last a century." http://blog.modernmechanix.com/miracles-youll-see-in-the-next-fifty-years/4/#mmGal No more will the impending 'razor blade wall' crisis be a concern to future man. He'll just slap some Nair on his face. Vacuum and sweeping? Nope. You'll hose every room down for a cleaning... Edit, from the same site: Pigeon Spy Camera. I mean, we've got our drones and micro flying bug bots, but remember good old days when our spy equipment used to crap all over the enemy, too? http://blog.modernmechanix.com/carrier-pigeons-take-aerial-photos-with-new-camera/ It's not all been progress. JediTalentAgent has a new favorite as of 09:29 on Mar 15, 2015 |
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axolotl farmer posted:Dust is terrible for water treatment plants. Contains a lot of heavy metals and other things. Most household dust is just skin scales, hair, textile fibers and mite poop. If there's a significant amount of heavy metals in yours, you probably want to move.
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JediTalentAgent posted:I don't know if it's something I saw in this thread or not, but I seem to think there was some magazine article or something from I want to say the 1950s about how we'd be expected to live around the year 2000. There was a belief that homes of the year 2000 would be more or less disposable. CONSUME Nearly every place I've ever lived has had a razor blade slot in the bathroom cabinet, and that includes a multi-story apartment building.
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Mar 15, 2015 09:51
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I like how they prevent inclement weather by setting fire to giant intentional oil spills off the coast of Africa.
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strangemusic posted:This is really close to it, yeah. Now I really need to ask my dad if he kept it.  this look familiar? there's a trend where people upcycle these for use as lamps now.
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Zopotantor posted:Most household dust is just skin scales, hair, textile fibers and mite poop. If there's a significant amount of heavy metals in yours, you probably want to move. Compared to poop, there's a lot of heavy metals in household dust. It's minimal amounts, but enough to make the waste unusable as fertilizer. There's actually been a campaign here from the water treatment authorities to vacuum and sweep instead of mopping to reduce the amount of dust in the household water waste. If people only flushed body and food waste, the sludge could be used for fertilizer instead of landfill. Phosphorous is a finite resource, and a lot of it is wasted instead of recycled because of contaminated waste water.
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axolotl farmer posted:Compared to poop, there's a lot of heavy metals in household dust. It's minimal amounts, but enough to make the waste unusable as fertilizer. I saw this post and wondered if you were Swedish. Are you refering to those ads that were on tv last year about not flushing dust? Weren't they from a vacuum cleaner company?
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I think I read it on dn.se.
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Throatwarbler posted:This water vacuum business sounds awesome and I immediately went on Amazon to see how I could get one. The Rainbows all cost $2000 which is pretty steep for a vacuum cleaner. When I get a chance I might try out one of the cheaper varieties. Looking it up there's even the combination of thread favorite central vacuums with water filters in a closed system.  Want that for my dream house.
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Tetanus is a bacteria that lives in the ground. Cutting yourself on rusty metal lying the ground might require a Tetanus shot but the razor blades in your wall wont have any on them.
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empty baggie posted:I remember back in the day there were razor blade slots in airplane bathrooms. I hope they were just like the house slots and that airplanes back then were dropping razor blades from the skies everywhere.
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Frobbe posted:
I'm currently using that very model.
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axolotl farmer posted:Dust is terrible for water treatment plants. Contains a lot of heavy metals and other things. I don't believe this is categorically true but I dump my dirty water (if I wash the floor or something) out in the yard not in the sink or toilet anyway. e: If you don't have a yard you can dump dirty water in what are you even doing with your life? Waste is meant to be thrown into nature not in the sewer!
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Nutsngum posted:Tetanus is a bacteria that lives in the ground. Cutting yourself on rusty metal lying the ground might require a Tetanus shot but the razor blades in your wall wont have any on them. I've heard that people used to get it from rusty nails, usually from horseshoes. The association persists with rusty metal, even though the origin was the contamination of the nails.
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Yes, tetanus is the only thing we were worried about. Now I feel safe to plunge my hands into a blade-filled wall cavity. Those slots are easy to miss after the label falls off or the manufacturer stops labeling them:
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Agricola Frigidus posted:I'm currently using that very model. Which one of them? :giggity:
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Frobbe posted:Which one of them? :giggity: The suction never let me down.
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Agricola Frigidus posted:The suction never let me down. Well, they don't make'em like they used to.
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Non Serviam posted:I've heard that people used to get it from rusty nails, usually from horseshoes. The association persists with rusty metal, even though the origin was the contamination of the nails. Also since C. tetani can't survive exposure to oxygen it usually needs to enter a deep puncture wound, like from a nail as opposed to whatever random rock/branch you would cut yourself on in nature. The rusty thing has more to do with conditions that would cause a nail to rust also wouldn't be surprising to find soil bacteria. I had to do a microbiology project about Clostridium tetani once and apparently the teacher's plan worked because I've been educating people against their will about tetanus ever since.
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Some pics from the Georgetown Steam Plant in Seattle, an electric generating plant built in 1906.    
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Base Emitter posted:Some pics from the Georgetown Steam Plant in Seattle, an electric generating plant built in 1906. Great photos, I can practically "hear" them. What's the hangy-dangy brown thing in this picture?
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sweeperbravo posted:Great photos, I can practically "hear" them. What's the hangy-dangy brown thing in this picture? You can see one going around a gear above the upside down U pipe. They're chains you pull on to run the gear either way, probably closing a valve or damper or some such.
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Kazinsal posted:It's not obsolete and failed if they're still making them. I might be incorrect, but I believe that might have been the original Surface, not the current line of Surface Pro. The original Surface, IIRC, ran that bastardized version of Windows 8 called Windows 8 RT an am ARM CPU instead of x86 But in what could be an entry in the "PYF Scummy Advertising Technique" thread, MS basically touted it as "Full Windows* on your tablet, for much cheaper than an iPad! Run real Windows applications!*" *Runs Windows 8 RT, and only runs Widows Metro apps from the Windows App Store. I believe Windows 8 RT is what still runs on smaller Windows tablets and Windows phones, where it belongs. It was very disingenuous of MS to put it on a larger tablet with keyboard, and then basically advertise it as a real WIndows PC.
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Speaking of Windows 8 and horrible outdated poo poo: COM. COM came out in 1993 and is still used under the hood for Store apps. HRESULT = E_FAIL? Thanks for the meaningful message, COM, I sure do prefer it to a stack trace.
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Arrath posted:You can see one going around a gear above the upside down U pipe. They're chains you pull on to run the gear either way, probably closing a valve or damper or some such. I think they mean this guy, not the chains: 
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Besesoth posted:I think they mean this guy, not the chains: I did, thanks. It looked to me like it was hanging, but now that i look at it again it seems actually attached to the wall behind it. That's what I get for asking questions that early in the morning. Still curious about its use either way.
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Besesoth posted:I think they mean this guy, not the chains: Doh.
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Besesoth posted:I think they mean this guy, not the chains: I'm not sure what that is. I kind of have a general idea of what each pile of machinery does, but not the individual bits. That's one side of one the boiler furnaces; the big machines in the other pictures are steam turbines. Unfortunately it's the only side of the boiler with good light, next to an outside window; the rest of the furnaces are pretty dark (and kind of spooky). All of those shots required fast ISO, slow shutters, and image stabilization. Next time I go back I'm definitely taking a tripod.
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DrBouvenstein posted:I might be incorrect, but I believe that might have been the original Surface, not the current line of Surface Pro. I think they are going to pull the same switcheroo bullshit with "The Raspberry Pi 2 will support Windows 10" Oh and anyone remember the QSound 'software solution to 3D sound' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtQ6jNjIONI Humphreys has a new favorite as of 06:02 on Mar 17, 2015 |
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Adobe's download estimates:
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mobby_6kl posted:Adobe's download estimates: Realtalk what is this garbage-rear end DSL that's a quarter the speed of a T1? I just ran a speedtest.net on mine and I'm getting 11.66 Mb per second which is like 6 or 7 times as fast as a T1. Edit: I mean I know the turtleass DSL is part of it being obsolete but I flat-out can't remember a time when DSL was that slow BattleMaster has a new favorite as of 09:16 on Mar 17, 2015 |
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BattleMaster posted:Realtalk what is this garbage-rear end DSL that's a quarter the speed of a T1? I just ran a speedtest.net on mine and I'm getting 11.66 Mb per second which is like 6 or 7 times as fast as a T1. The first ADSL connection I had at around year 2000 was at a blazing fast 512 kbps. It was very impressive at the time compared to 56k dial-up.
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BattleMaster posted:Realtalk what is this garbage-rear end DSL that's a quarter the speed of a T1? I just ran a speedtest.net on mine and I'm getting 11.66 Mb per second which is like 6 or 7 times as fast as a T1. Show off. Ive been stuck on 1.5 Mb dsl for years.
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Besesoth posted:I think they mean this guy, not the chains: Base Emitter posted:I'm not sure what that is. That looks like a boiler manhole cover, which is used to cover/seal an access point used to wash out and inspect a boiler. Definitely not in place in the picture. Edit: also looks to be missing parts. Varance has a new favorite as of 14:03 on Mar 17, 2015 |
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http://www.gizmag.com/mole-solutions-underground-deliveries/37009/ This isn't a new idea. London had an underground network running between its many post offices. It was eventually closed down. Something else, an article from 1985 on laptops: http://www.nytimes.com/1985/12/08/business/the-executive-computer.html
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The 1985 article about laptops really highlights some of the great non-forward thinking that could be seen in the past (though I will admit that I have never considered taking my laptop fishing). Here's a snippet from my all-time favourite letter that hits on such a thin which was originally published in Big Blue Disk #16 from either November or December 1987. Bob Talley from Nederland, TX posted:I think that mice are nice where they belong - in traps, not in computers.
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