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MF_James posted:I feel like this guy is doing it wrong With that style of entombment it only emits gamma radiation. Unless you have a comically huge slab of lead somewhere in your front pocket it does not matter how you dress up for that. EDIT: If you really need to be that close to it. EDITEDIT: OK I would probably wear shoe protectors to not carry away any hot contamination with me. Der Kyhe fucked around with this message at 19:01 on Apr 10, 2020 |
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Cojawfee posted:Didn't someone post info in this thread a while ago about "ionic" bracelets and pendants or something that were actually radioactive? If it is literally "ionic" giving "ionic radiation", then yes, that particle is radioactive.
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zedprime posted:If they were leaking you would notice the fuckoff cloud of HF before you'd need to worry about things like heavy metal contamination of your shoes. Ah, OK. I didn't get that you actually want to open those at some point and that they contain relatively inactive stuff to start with. I used to work in a nuclear power plant and anything leaking from the fuel movement vessels or bio shielding was a bad day to stop sniffing glue, but going to the underground deposit to switch air filters from the entombment vessel and waste barrel burial caves and such was "extra shoe protectors gig". Obviously at the end of the day you had to take the full body measurement to get home.
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GotLag posted:Nicholas Alkemade... I wonder if he had to do it again after the war to get re-certified in the British system.
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Cat Hatter posted:Also that NASA bothers to train people to operate their vehicles before letting a teenager drive one. Also, touch screens in any moving platform or vehicle are very, very, poor choice for primary control mechanisms because they lack almost all tactile feedback and poorly support muscle memory -bound intuitive reactions. There is a reason why airplanes have differently shaped knobs on all control sticks.
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Moo the cow posted:... rather than what the corporate purchaser thinks is Fixed that for you.
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drgitlin posted:Sure, but an Atom is light and has way more power than grip. An F1 car has slick tires and aero, and well-set up, it shouldn’t be on the verge of binning it every time you use the left pedal. But remember, F1 drivers are a LOT better than you are at trail-braking. Plus they can tweak things like brake bias which can help solve problems like that. Current F1 cars still have twice the amount of power (875–1,000 + 160 hp (652–746 + 119 kW, torque approx. 400–500 Nm) compared to the most powerful Ariel Atoms ever built and they have more extensive aero package since Atom basically has no rear spoiler even though they weight the same. The F1 cars have so high deceleration and acceleration potential that if you have an eye infection you are medically disqualified from driving the car. Because the G-force driven pressure changes would rip the cornea right off from that infected eye if it is in any way swollen or compromised. Der Kyhe fucked around with this message at 15:25 on Aug 1, 2020 |
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Son of Thunderbeast posted:Gas tanks don't spontaneously explode when punctured, damaged, or old and corroded. Yes, because punctured, damaged, old or corroded gas tanks are known for not ever setting the car on fire, especially on crash sites where the said car has been tipped over. There are real issues to which base hate on the electric cars, or Tesla or Elon Musk in particular, but this is grasping at straws. In a near future all cars will have at least some hybrid aspects in them and all major manufacturers are already doing full-electric cars. And most of them have not exploded.
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Azathoth posted:Yeah, here's how I'm imagining the actual conversation went: Shitbird: gently caress off with your clipboard you paper pushing pancy *slaps the checklist from Safety's hands* *High Fives his "da crew"* ...fucks up the work, is fired for physical assault, complains in Facebook how demonrats are loving killing US of A.
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HelloIAmYourHeart posted:
They are pretty much standard issue stuff here for office or indoors work at manufacturing or power plants.
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Platystemon posted:I’m not so sure that such people care if it’s illegal. Its also other way around, it would be comically easy to claim that the poached animal was a roadkill if you do not need to report it, or if the local law enforcement wasn't the one deciding what to do with it.
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Platystemon posted:O.K., now explain the states where you can’t salvage your own roadkill, but you can salvage anyone else’s roadkill. Those places do not care about wild animal populations and/or have very relaxed hunting laws to begin with?
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Kith posted:
How can anyone with eyes think that this is sane, let alone safe, way to do that?
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Its never the nice things that leak through the ceiling.
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Audi is the one that's broken down on the emergency vehicle lane on highway and BMW is the one tailgating you at all speeds, all conditions, highway, town, everywhere. Estate Volvo is the one who overtakes you on a low-visibility 100 km/h road when there is a theoretical space between you and the lumber truck coming at you. Der Kyhe fucked around with this message at 19:13 on Sep 24, 2020 |
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Wattsamatta posted:A lot of this rear end in a top hat drive = x car chat is very regionally dependent in my opinion. BMW driver being the reckless shithead and/or tailgater (with Ford Transit van) is pretty much universal but otherwise yes.
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Only you can prevent the workplace accidents, indeed.
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LifeSunDeath posted:Dude is a legend. I almost said the "didn't he get milkshake ducked couple of years ago", but it was Wendell Pierce from The Wire who assaulted a woman, not Whitlock jr.
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Xakura posted:This is a myth. Production car engines are tested at 100% for hundreds of hours. Its more likely that the engines where redlining them also killed them are 10+ year old 200000km+ clunkers with more than several missed or half-assed maintenances driven by students or soccer moms who did not bother; I've seen several cases where long-term redlining the engine for revving in the parking lot more or less kills them, causing more damage than the car is worth.
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Most glaring evidence of how lovely the housing in UK used to be (and still is on some smaller places) that at one time people actually wanted to move into those god-awful council apartment towers willingly.
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I still find it amazing that how much Internet in general and this forum hates the Mythbusters, a show that tried to make engineering, mechanics and science a sort-of cool idea with the general population. EDIT: I am fully aware that this more or less starts the countdown to that fake Adam Savage butt-hole picture since the "they shoot an apartment with a cannon and aren't real science because statistical significance requires that......" is already covered Der Kyhe fucked around with this message at 20:10 on Feb 26, 2021 |
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Traxis posted:Fake picture or fake butthole? There is a set of pictures where amateur posterior enthusiast is showing his goods, and on one angle and in one picture he sort-of looks a bit like Adam Savage so obviously you can guess which picture was put into meme-circulation.
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mobby_6kl posted:I don't think the net or SA hates mythbusters though? There's always someone who complans about anything of course, but it's been pretty popular among nerd communities like here or /. back in the day. And yet, almost always when a discussion about the show surfaces its the cannon thing, "this is not science because....." or that butt-hole picture. EDIT: Or that the walrus man and Adam actually weren't friends off-camera, or that Hyneman on American standards is a bit weird and isn't a likeable character in real life or that one time when... EDITEDIT: Stupid double negatives. I wish I had not not licked those toads before posting. Der Kyhe fucked around with this message at 20:32 on Feb 26, 2021 |
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Cojawfee posted:According to things Adam has said in his various Q&A sessions, they weren't really friends. They were cordial but weren't looking to spend time with each other when they didn't have to. Yeah, my bad, "they never were friends" was what I meant. They most of the time did not like each other that much but being professionals in their job kept it cordial.
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gently caress SNEEP posted:Adam has said that he wouldn't work with Jamie outside of Mythbusters. Their workstyles are too unalike and they butted heads constantly. I can only imagine why Because while originally in the same business, they are the exact opposites of how to approach a problem and create something? Its worth to notice that Hyneman originally told that his method is too boring for a TV show, so the producers found another guy in the same business to be the "interesting guy". And they knew each other beforehand and both agreed that this is the way. Rest is "doing a professional gig that pays well".
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Cojawfee posted:I don't know if that's how the show started or not, but Adam worked for Jamie for a while making commercials and whatnot. So they did not need to look that far. Hyneman is the guy who designs, and designs, and designs a prototype with the least amount of moving parts that most likely produces the results, then makes a prototype and adjusts it, an approach with the brutal Occam's razor. Adam is the guy who makes a prototype based on the first intuition, and adds stuff and then stuff, and then stuff until something works well enough to not break down. And that is also why Hyneman was usually the one to win competitive myths, but his approach is, for a TV show, boring as gently caress.
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FCKGW posted:I'm not very patriotic but man, bald eagles are some awesome looking birds. America really picked a winner there. It truly is a gorgeous bird, and its habit of eating itself immobile if enabled to do so is spot on.
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 My point being that this is what happens when Mythbusters is brought up. Not any of the ~400 tests or things they built, interesting stuff they tested, nor the elaborate scenarios they built up, but always this or something related to the ones they hosed up. Der Kyhe fucked around with this message at 23:06 on Feb 26, 2021 |
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Bad Munki posted:I have a vague impression of getting to do this once or twice back in the very early 80s, or maybe I’m just remembering remembering doing it. ...And its much less dangerous with cars from that era since your baby isn't hugging a stun granade inside a pillowcase.
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ultrafilter posted:I don't know how software-controlled the big boats are, but if they are to any significant degree, that presents a big attack surface that's hard to monitor. All of it is done with software. Like, literally all of it. And this is actually one of the front line security problems, especially when the only Internet connection via satellite is shared between the crew who watches porn and keeps opening email attachments, and the system which steers the ship and manages all of the subsystems. Near the shore you can set up a fully separated system for the crew, but otherwise its shared network running through the same hardware.
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Nope. Having "some issues" with heights my balls retreat into my stomach cavity just by looking at that.
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Wrr posted:OSHA content was just generated by the forums being down: I was almost forced to engage with my actual workplace and job. That's where the OSHA danger lives! I got three different messages over the four hours, one saying that the maintenance break in 4th of April should end soon. One was "unavailable", other one was "Go away" and the final one said that "we are doing some quick maintenance". So you have the breaker locks or you don't, hotswapping live poo poo and making changes on the "production" version is OSHA as poo poo, as far as software engineering discipline is considered.
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EvenWorseOpinions posted:You're the guy that wants to watch the handyman do your wiring aren't you? Go away, it'll be all fixed in an hour you don't need to see how it's done I'm the guy who wants to see "Under maintenance go away" from the minute it starts to the moment it ends.
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`Nemesis posted:they were trying to fix problems with archives (which had some changes needed to main forums) and in traditional SA fashion, something went terribly wrong. Jeffrey said there will be a post-mortem post about it. Yes, and while I know that I am being a pedantic rear end in a top hat about this, their redirects and "Go aways" did not work or gave wrong ideas so that was done improperly from the viewpoint of software engineering OSHA. So loving probate me on this if I am incorrect.
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:I want my body on the hydraulic press channel. Put it in a big container, then press it with one those plates with all the holes in it, so my entrails erupt out like bloody play-dough. PERKELE also translates "By the Satan/Chief God" so this checks out. It depends if you believe the Swedish crusaders with their god nailed to a cross, or the locals from the 12th century.
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Cthulu Carl posted:There's an Air Disasters episode about an airliner and Cessna having their own Tenerife Disaster in Milan and they were talking about how the cops wouldn't let the investigators onto the scene to do their jobs and one of the experts being interviewed nwas like "Italy is a terrible place... (Three second pause, blatantly glances at producer off-camera)... To do an accident investigation." There is also one air disaster where a propeller plane flying between Morocco and Italy goes out of gas and plummets into the Mediterranean Sea. The plane had wrong type of fuel gauge installed, so it did not show correct amount but that there were still some left, that was a mistake by the Moroccan service crew. However: -The captain ordered fuel to his plane at the airport in Italy when he landed, the ground crew did not bother doing their job and refueling the plane as was asked. -The captain asked about missing refueling slip from the control tower, they lied and said that "yes it was done no get gone we fax you the missing receipt to your home field". -The Italian investigators showed that had the captain known that his plane had run out of fuel and the engines weren't misfiring, he could have theoretically made it back to Italy (just barely,). The verdict that stuck was that all was the captains faults, since he took off without a paper receipt for refueling. And especially, no-one in Italy was to blame for any of this. Not the ground crew who didn't bother to do their job nor tell anyone about it, or the control tower which blatantly lied to the captain just to get rid of him. So yeah. He did manage controlled landing to the sea and not everyone died, and he actually lived to get the blame for the some tens of passangers that didn't make it. Because he trusted the Italian airport services and officials overseeing the procedures.
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Weembles posted:There are a few videos of them on YouTube, at least. Someone should send this to the Gun Jesus to investigate.
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shame on an IGA posted:What the hell is a pickaroon it sounds like some kinda 19th century racism Well, taken the slur words I know, it could be either parsed as dark skinned australian, or dark skinned italian from the short-lived African colonies.
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mobby_6kl posted:But they had a cool retro fire truck I do not think that in this scenario that truck is what we in the Western countries would qualify as "retro". Because is it really retro if it never left the service to begin with?
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Scratch Monkey posted:I used to do WW2 reenacting and before every "battle" there would be a blanks inspection where you had to show the blanks you were using to make sure they weren't sketchy or otherwise obviously unsafe, and before the start everyone would line up and they'd have a safety talk about how dangerous blanks can be and how you needed to be at least 20 or so feet away from someone before you should consider firing rather than just shouting "BANG". One event I went to even took the extra step of shooting a gallon of water from a few feet away to demonstrate that blanks will easily rupture the bottle. Yeah, in my experience from the armed service with training conscripts we do not give blanks (woodies or even waxheads) unless there is a reason for them. And if we do, the recoil adapter which also ensures that the pressure dissipates relatively safely and blocks the line of fire, goes to the top of the assault rifle before we dish out the ammo, and we test each and every one of them that they are secured properly. And that adapter does not leave the end of the barrel before the gun is disassembled for the end-of-exercise maintenance, well after all is said and done, and the leftovers are collected back. And if it does, well let's say that 'you dear private, are now properly hosed".
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