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Blistex posted:I imagine all of the judgment calls you had to make were a nice little headache. "Do I cut 3' up or 5' up". Luckily all the calls I had to make were, "this has to be done or else I will have a bathtub in my dog's bedroom". The lab I work in has some pretty heavy duty wood used in a few spots. You can see it going by in this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bjl7YKUzujA#t=307 It was built in the early 1940's, and that shaft goes down a little over 4850'. Pretty smooth ride all things considered, although there is a lot of work involved in refurbishing everything to make sure it's holding up.
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Parallel Paraplegic posted:Where the hell do you work, a neutrino detector? Dark matter actually, but yeah, it's the Sanford Underground Research Facility. The neutrino detectors haven't been built yet. On a more thread related note, this is what happens when your roof starts to sag underground.  PB260217.jpg by MrDespair, on Flickr
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I think the average starting salary in South Dakota is around 30k a year, if you still want to make that point. 
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My dad and uncles installed a drop ceiling for my grandma, and well, one of those uncles hasn't talked to the rest of the family since. It was a pretty bad experience all around. e. to be clear they seriously had a fight over the drop ceiling and haven't talked for years because of it. 
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There are lots of places that don't even have reliable PHONE service, so you can imagine how bad it can be trying to run DSL across those same lines.
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kastein posted:NOT THIS loving poo poo AGAIN Lol.
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I washed my cat when it was younger when it got poop on it's butt of paws. And by wash I mean dip it in water and leave it locked in the bathroom to take care of the rest so that I didn't get cut or stabbed, and before it spent 10 or 15 minutes wandering around deciding where it should start cleaning.
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Bad Munki posted:
Don't tell elon musk that
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kid sinister posted:You idiots need to get back to posting pictures of dangerous, horrible death traps.    
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eh, soyuz-11 accidentally vented the atmosphere shortly before reentry because 2 rockets fired at the same time instead of sequentially, and soyuz-1's parachutes failed on reentry. Pretty darn good record otherwise though, it's really come a long way. Was just trying to be impartial. e. Buran's final resting place might be more fitting for this thread though: 
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Enourmo posted:I never realized it was a full stack in that hangar, thought it was just the orbiter. The Energia stack was just a mock up, at least.
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They built a new chemistry building on my campus recently, and are in the process of renovating the old one (which is connected in many ways). One of these ways were in the water lines... so a few months ago the contractors apparently hosed something up and wound up bursting a line in the new building, flooding the basement labs with a few feet of water. Feel really bad for all the grad students who lost their experiments (or at least lost all the labels on their experiments/chemicals/whatever).
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Bad Munki posted:poo poo. Wouldn't they have to call in some special cleanup for that? I mean, who knows what might have been added to the water that is now making a nice pool throughout the labs. Granted, it would be super dilute and probably pretty benign, but some poo poo you just don't wanna mess with, and I imagine that disposal of that water would potentially need to be tightly controlled. Sounds spendy beyond the obvious water damage. As far as I know none of the chemicals were spilled in the process, so the worse they probably had to deal with is mold or something in the aftermath. Figuring out how to dispose of the chemicals that were suddenly unlabled was probably a pain though.
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Should be painted hi via safety yellow
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I'm involved with some fairly clean physics experiments and we use a lot of guns for cleaning. The ion gun was ok, but the dry ice gun is pretty dope, although really they're just fancy compressed air blowers with fun names. Although actually I wouldn't want to get shot with the dry ice gun come to think of it.  That said if you're taking an ion gun through a TSA checkpoint in your carry on luggage, you should really let them know before it goes through the x-ray machine, it apparently triggers a lot of red flags.
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there wolf posted:There was a thing that went around a few years back about scientists using "explain it to the TSA" as a model for explaining their work to laymen because how often they travel with odd stuff from their work. My method was "I don't have room in my carry-on, you take it". Also no laser gun, but a lot of what we're cleaning is poo poo like Teflon, dunno how a high powered laser would work with that. Probably too melty.
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Brute Squad posted:https://twitter.com/scarytoilet/status/1030833546859044869 Not a very work safe Twitter account, but p. Good still
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wesleywillis posted:Bonus: radiation shield!! terrible for neutrons tho
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Just wear gloves if you're shoving your hands in the spiders domain, they were there first.
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Azza Bamboo posted:Before the most recent ice age there was a swan that stood as tall as a human. I'd like to have seen that. You know the extinction of giant (presumably rear end in a top hat) swans makes me think that once upon a time god didn't hate us all.
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