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chitoryu12 posted:Also humans in general aren't particularly stupid? Nobody in the past was dumber than us, they just didn't have our millennia of institutional knowledge and science. Most people understood that if you set up your village on a good source of drinking water, you shouldn't poo poo in it and drop all your garbage in. Especially not upriver of the people taking it. Drinking water purity started becoming an issue more in the Early Modern period and Industrial Revolution when cities began exploding in population that they weren't capable of handling. Even then, London had built an elaborate water piping system delivering from the countryside in medieval times and its problems were more related to population growth overtaxing it (and eventually a little tiny fire) than the water purity. A huge amount of the "people in the past must've been dumbos" comes from the industrial/Victorian Era where people tried to reconcile "we're the peak of human existence rule britannia god save the queen" with "our cities are drowning in human poo poo and poo poo-related disease".
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I can barely swing a hammer while 10,000 years ago my ancestors had to know how to build a house, source materials and build the tools to build a house, what plants around the house were edible, migration patterns of local fauna, and local seasonal events by the time they were middle aged at 15.
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Ornamental Dingbat posted:by the time they were middle aged at 15. Speaking of myths..
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Xakura posted:Speaking of myths.. 
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Just listened to a podcast on that gooniest of all the ceasars, Nero. What I learned about survival in the ancient world is that you should be very good in getting young men to die for you. Or be exceedingly rich but uninterested in politics.
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Ornamental Dingbat posted:I can barely swing a hammer while 10,000 years ago my ancestors had to know how to build a house, source materials and build the tools to build a house, what plants around the house were edible, migration patterns of local fauna, and local seasonal events by the time they were middle aged at 15. Life expectancy in ancient times is shorter not because people were middle aged at 15 but because child mortality rates were huuuuuuge. People generally lived til their 60s if they survived to adulthood. Also, learning how to do all of those things in your local area isn't that hard to do especially if that's all you ever really have to learn.
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https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_rivdrqZw2W1qigfjt.mp4 https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_rgtl2rdk5g1w5pr9j.mp4
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Pretty sure this guy needs a red oversize load flag for his penis.
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mobby_6kl posted:https://i.imgur.com/j2mM5kI.mp4 This scrolled into view halfway and for a second I thought they were cleaning out extremely old and dirty air filters
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https://twitter.com/ohshidt/status/1574822770764046338
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Was he trying to drill a hole into the gas tank to drain it? He deserved exactly what happened.
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tactlessbastard posted:why. Just why Gotta get the fire out of the car somehow.
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Trying to drill a hole in the gas tank but accidentally hit the fire tank
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Imma do a crime get me on camera
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Is the person who drives away the truck wearing a shirt or topless?
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OSHA? More like OSHIT.
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Antigravitas posted:The forces involved in pretty much anything nautic turn the "finding out" phase of loving around generally into something you experience only once in your life. ...going over board from any large ship being a death sentence... I want to know more about this one. What precludes you from being rescued? Is the ship so big that nobody notices when you go overboard, or are you gonna get chewed up by the big props?
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Welp, that's his skin now. Time to put on a mask and taunt Batman about your crime spree
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Mister Speaker posted:Is the ship so big that nobody notices when you go overboard, or are you gonna get chewed up by the big props? It's that first one. Even if you're wearing bright day-glo colors and they sea you go over the sea is large and has waves and a single person at sea is very difficult to spot. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQ4ddAgykfk
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Phanatic posted:they sea you go over
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Conscious and breathing for now, but almost certainly not very much longer....
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DandyLion posted:Conscious and breathing for now, but almost certainly not very much longer.... Yeah I was going to say that is not survivable...
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Methylethylaldehyde posted:Now I'm wondering if it would be possible to get a methylmercury silane, and what possible reason you would have to make it, other than 'because it won me the bet'.
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Phanatic posted:It's that first one. Even if you're wearing bright day-glo colors and they sea you go over the sea is large and has waves and a single person at sea is very difficult to spot. And depending on the region your survival time in the water without a drysuit may be measured in minutes.
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Phanatic posted:It's that first one. Even if you're wearing bright day-glo colors and they sea you go over the sea is large and has waves and a single person at sea is very difficult to spot. lake superior is also large and has waves, don't take the lake for granted
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Another great alphastructural post https://images-ext-2.discordapp.net/external/JibFRUckadwCAkXLxFpmIuhlzsb24YZnMpZB52ieI1E/https/i.imgur.com/VnkWhZB.mp4 I mean it's a bad post but you get it Here are the rest Things seen this week during structural assessments! https://imgur.com/gallery/lGst442
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LifeSunDeath posted:https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/803465486053670982/1023243845934260234/803b984b0f51de2f1f0616a28930c23d_22.9.2022_33-48-401.mp4 For anyone who deosnt know hes trolling, hes the person who has done some wierd things to his pianos, like tuning all keys top the same note, replacing the normal hammers with actual hammers and tuning forks, putting the strings in water to mute them, etc.
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TjyvTompa posted:There are many of these kind of videos on youtube where they make everything from car batteries to gearboxes but this is easily the most insane one I've seen so far. This has nothing to do with "3rd world ingenuity" etc. they just do everything as cheap as possible. I am not a metallurgist, but I take it that this is not rebar you would really want to use, due to the cheap methods used to manufacture it? I can't imagine that this is pure iron.
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Toupee Groupie posted:I am not a metallurgist, but I take it that this is not rebar you would really want to use, due to the cheap methods used to manufacture it? I can't imagine that this is pure iron. At the end they put labels on them that say "G-40-60", which I believe means they tested the tensile strength yield to be between Grade 40ksi and 60ksi. I think if they mix all of it in a big enough vat and use a testing machine to yank on bars of the finished product they should be able to get in that range enough. But I'm not a pro either, just a guess. To slap them into rebar in whatever county they're in is probably "good enough", it's not like they're claiming aerospace grade or something.
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Mister Speaker posted:I want to know more about this one. What precludes you from being rescued? Is the ship so big that nobody notices when you go overboard, or are you gonna get chewed up by the big props? 1: It is an extremely long drop into the water. You are definitely going to be at least injured when you hit. 2: A large ship isn't able to stop and simply go back to get you. Once you're in the water you are going to be left behind simply because a ship has that much momentum. 3: Even if they do manage to come around, it'll be almost impossible to spot a person in the water especially since it'll take a while to get there. Basically: If you fall off a large ship, you are probably going to die very quickly and help is going to get there very slowly, if at all. My advice is to not get on big ships and stay on land.
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Zero VGS posted:At the end they put labels on them that say "G-40-60", which I believe means they tested the tensile strength yield to be between Grade 40ksi and 60ksi. I think if they mix all of it in a big enough vat and use a testing machine to yank on bars of the finished product they should be able to get in that range enough. But I'm not a pro either, just a guess. To slap them into rebar in whatever county they're in is probably "good enough", it's not like they're claiming aerospace grade or something. Alternatively they slapped the labels on them because the customer wants to buy rebar with that label, and it has absolutely nothing to do with the actual strength of the bar.
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urzaserra256 posted:For anyone who deosnt know hes trolling, hes the person who has done some wierd things to his pianos, like tuning all keys top the same note, replacing the normal hammers with actual hammers and tuning forks, putting the strings in water to mute them, etc. That is the one where he replaced the normal hammers with actual hammers though, right? Because that's actual hammers not normal hammers?
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Jabor posted:Alternatively they slapped the labels on them because the customer wants to buy rebar with that label, and it has absolutely nothing to do with the actual strength of the bar. Many suppliers on AliBaba helpfully say on their product page that the product you are buying -- steel, electronics, playground equipment -- can be stamped with any certification label you request. "Wow, you can meet any certification standard?" "That's not what we said."
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