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Don Gato posted:Oh man let me tell you about living in an asbestos lined dorm for 8 months when I was at DLI. One of the buildings was getting the asbestos removed when I finally moved out to one of the other dorms. Hopefully I don't end up with mesothelioma but all the warnings printed out and pasted around the dorm don't give me confidence. Asbestos filled buildings are perfectly safe to live in... as long as you don't damage the walls. Expose the lining to the air and the risk goes up dramatically, but there's a reason asbestos filled buildings worldwide aren't torn down and that's because they are safer standing.
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Sounds like what you're really saying is "it's too expensive to safely remediate them all"
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LatwPIAT posted:The book answer is five magazines, according to a professional Soviet military consultant I know. Cool. Thanks. Does your source have book that covers the subject a bit in depth? Because I'd love to learn more. Now only 384 more pages to catch up on in this thread I just discovered! bulletsponge13 fucked around with this message at 04:05 on Jun 9, 2019 |
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Phanatic posted:Cherenkov from betas flying through the water in their eyes Yikes.
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Cosmic rays do the same thing to costronauts, although there's also a theory that it's due to direct interaction with the retina and optic nerves instead/as well.
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Apparently there's a rough test to see if you are currently being irradiated. Close and cover your eyes. Are there tiny flashes of light showing up anyway? If yes, find somewhere else to be.
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bulletsponge13 posted:Cool. Thanks. Don't forget about the previous versions in the goldmine!
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Nothingtoseehere posted:Asbestos filled buildings are perfectly safe to live in... as long as you don't damage the walls. Expose the lining to the air and the risk goes up dramatically, but there's a reason asbestos filled buildings worldwide aren't torn down and that's because they are safer standing. It’s double plus ungood on ships because one of the things that can disturb asbestos fires is vibrations. Like, asbestos lined air ducts or pipes that cavitate and rattle is bad. Ships kind of move and jostle and rattle a lot.
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Cyrano4747 posted:Naval vessels aren’t exactly OSHA compliant. The cancer that killed Steve McQueen he likely got via asbestos exposure in the USN Also, that seems bad. I know "change" and "USN" don't exactly go together, but how hard would it be to bring navy ships up to international standard?
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GotLag posted:Sounds like what you're really saying is "it's too expensive to safely remediate them all" Not neccessarily expensive, but dangerous. If it's inert and safely being held in the walls then it's fine, if cracks start showing or in the event of a fire/collapse then yeah, you gotta do something about it.
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Nebakenezzer posted:The cancer that killed Steve McQueen he likely got via asbestos exposure in the USN Money money money. Let's design another F-35.
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All this talk about criticality accidents reminded me of that Soviet guy took a particle accelerator beam through his face and lived
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MikeCrotch posted:All this talk about criticality accidents reminded me of that Soviet guy took a particle accelerator beam through his face and lived Lol what?
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TK-42-1 posted:Lol what? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoli_Bugorski
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Nothingtoseehere posted:Asbestos filled buildings are perfectly safe to live in... as long as you don't damage the walls. Expose the lining to the air and the risk goes up dramatically, but there's a reason asbestos filled buildings worldwide aren't torn down and that's because they are safer standing. The netherlands started to remove all the asbestos roofs over something like 10 years. A study just finished in Denmark tracking schoolkids near an asbestos roof factory. The rate of cancer increased the closer their school was to the factory.
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Cyrano4747 posted:It’s double plus ungood on ships because one of the things that can disturb asbestos fires is vibrations. Like, asbestos lined air ducts or pipes that cavitate and rattle is bad. So what I learned here is the time I spent as a volunteer at the Midway Museum will probably give me cancer like I always suspected. Nice to know.
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MikeCrotch posted:All this talk about criticality accidents reminded me of that Soviet guy took a particle accelerator beam through his face and lived Here's what an RBMK reactor looks like when nobody's playing silly buggers with the power. http://englishrussia.com/2009/04/29/at-the-nuclear-power-plant/ The little blocks in that big round lid in the floor each weigh 700 pounds. Right before the reactor in Chernobyl exploded a guy named Valery Perevozchenko was standing on the balcony above that big room, looked down, and saw the blocks dancing up and down like the needles in that blunt needle frame toy when someone pushes their hand against them
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MikeCrotch posted:All this talk about criticality accidents reminded me of that Soviet guy took a particle accelerator beam through his face and lived Or what about the reactor manager at Windscale who ended up looking through an inspection hatch in the roof of the pile...straight down onto the face of a graphite reactor core where 80 tons of uranium had been merrily burning away, and he lived to the age of 90 with no health effects? Radiation is weird...
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BalloonFish posted:Or what about the reactor manager at Windscale who ended up looking through an inspection hatch in the roof of the pile...straight down onto the face of a graphite reactor core where 80 tons of uranium had been merrily burning away, and he lived to the age of 90 with no health effects? Radiation is weird...
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So I am running out of space, outside Kindle what is the best place to seek out legit e-books?
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You should be able to get some at your local library. Apple also has its own ebook store.
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SeanBeansShako posted:So I am running out of space, outside Kindle what is the best place to seek out legit e-books? While you're there, see if your library subscribes to lynda.com and its giant collection of training videos (mostly focused on IT, programming, design, and business skills).
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HEY GUNS posted:windscale is the most british poo poo, instead of paeans to sacrifice and the russian spirit you get a dude on a roof closing the vents to deny oxygen to the fire and walking away And the key safety system only existed because one scientist would not shut up about it in committee so they added it to the plans and gave it an insulting nickname.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:And the key safety system only existed because one scientist would not shut up about it in committee so they added it to the plans and gave it an insulting nickname. And of course his name was Cockcroft
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HEY GUNS posted:windscale is the most british poo poo, instead of paeans to sacrifice and the russian spirit you get a dude on a roof closing the vents to deny oxygen to the fire and walking away Maybe this is the hitherto-unknown radiation protection properties of a Harris tweed three-piece and a nice set of brogues?
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Siivola posted:You should be able to get some at your local library. Apple also has its own ebook store. Sadly I don't have a local library but thanks for the suggestions will look them up.
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BalloonFish posted:Maybe this is the hitherto-unknown radiation protection properties of a Harris tweed three-piece and a nice set of brogues?
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"Oh I say!"
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Radical 90s Wizard posted:"Oh I say!" Excellent post/av combo
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T-34 applique armour projects Queue: Challenger I, military use of scale models, PzIV Ausf.F-G, Schmeisser's work in the USSR, Kalashnikov's debut works, Kalashnikov-Petrov self-loading carbine, Medium Tank M4A4, Hellcat, Heavy Tank T29, Hotchkiss H 35 and H 39, Experimental Polish tanks of the 1930s, Medium Tank M3 use in the USSR, HMC T82, HMC M37, GMC M41, Archer, T-29-5, Avenger I, FIAT 3000, FIAT L6-40, [M13/40, M14/41, M15/42], Carro Armato P40 and prospective Italian heavy tanks, Grosstraktor, Panzer IV/70, SU-85, KV-85, Tank sleds, Proposed Soviet heavy tank destroyers, IS-2 mod. 1944, Airborne tanks, Soviet WWII pistol and rifle suppressors, SU-100, DS-39 tank machinegun, Flakpanzers on the PzIV chassis, Sentinel, Comet, Faustpatrone, [Puppchen, Panzerschreck, and other anti-tank rocket launchers], Heavy Tank T32, Heavy Tanks T30 and T34, T-80 (the light tank), MS-1 production, Churchill Mk.VII, Alecto, Assault Tank T14, S-51, SU-76I, T-26 with mine detection equipment, T-34M/T-44 (1941), T-43 (1942), T-43 (1943), Maus development in 1943-44, Trials of the LT vz. 35 in the USSR, Development of Slovakian tank forces 1939-1941, T-46, SU-76M (SU-15M) production, Object 237 (IS-1 prototype), ISU-122, Object 704, Jagdpanzer IV, VK 30.02 DB and other predecessors of the Panther, RSO tank destroyer, Sd.Kfz. 10/4, Czech anti-tank rifles in German service, Hotchkiss H 39/Pz.Kpfw.38H(f) in German service, Flakpanzer 38(t), Grille series, Jagdpanther Available for request:     German anti-tank rifles 15 cm sFH 13/1 (Sf) Oerlikon and Solothurn anti-tank rifles  Lahti L-39    
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Here's a question, I know that back in the day the US served as a dumping ground for errant well-off Europeans that were inconvenient to keep around Europe, like non-inheriting sons. I also know from the Revolutions podcast that there was a weird community of revolutionaries floating around, roaming everywhere but the homelands they have pledged to liberate, as well as the occasional refugee from liberated homelands like Louis Philippe. So is there anything significant all these foreigners did when the civil war kicked off? (aside from the Irish, I know about the Fenians) Did any errant nobles sign up for the war, or revolutionaries coming out to literally fight for freedom? Or alternatively fighting for the right of a bunch of richos to persist independently from greater moral responsibility? Or did they mostly escape the country after it started getting dangerous?
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SlothfulCobra posted:Here's a question, I know that back in the day the US served as a dumping ground for errant well-off Europeans that were inconvenient to keep around Europe, like non-inheriting sons. I also know from the Revolutions podcast that there was a weird community of revolutionaries floating around, roaming everywhere but the homelands they have pledged to liberate, as well as the occasional refugee from liberated homelands like Louis Philippe.
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Heavy Tank T32, Heavy Tanks T30 and T34, T-80 (the light tank), MS-1 production, Churchill Mk.VII, Alecto, Assault Tank T14, S-51, SU-76I, T-26 with mine detection equipment, T-34M/T-44 (1941), T-43 (1942), T-43 (1943), Maus development in 1943-44, Trials of the LT vz. 35 in the USSR, Development of Slovakian tank forces 1939-1941, T-46, SU-76M (SU-15M) production, Object 237 (IS-1 prototype), ISU-122, Object 704, Jagdpanzer IV, VK 30.02 DB and other predecessors of the Panther, RSO tank destroyer, Sd.Kfz. 10/4, Czech anti-tank rifles in German service, Hotchkiss H 39/Pz.Kpfw.38H(f) in German service, Flakpanzer 38(t), Grille series, Jagdpanther.
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You're distinguishing them from emigres, right? Because, for instance, a lot of Germans came to the US in the aftermath of '48, and a bunch of them ended up enlisting in the Army when the Civil War started (Or, in the South, trying to get out of there (see the Nueces Massacre),
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Epicurius posted:You're distinguishing them from emigres, right? Because, for instance, a lot of Germans came to the US in the aftermath of '48, and a bunch of them ended up enlisting in the Army when the Civil War started (Or, in the South, trying to get out of there (see the Nueces Massacre),
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Yeah, all those good for nothings like Peter Osterhaus and August Willich and Carl Schurz.
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Franz Sigel never 4get :CryingBadenianFlag: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8M6qGvCevY
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So I just discovered my province celebrates orangeman's day How...bad is this
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Nebakenezzer posted:So I just discovered my province celebrates orangeman's day What's your take on William of Orange/Jacobitism/Catholicism/Presbytarianism? But the Orange Order has always been big in Canada/Newfoundland, and the Orange Order was a big part of making Newfoundland part of Canada (a lot of Catholics supported independence)
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