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bitcoin bastard posted:Plugs in this shape make me irrationally mad. If you're going to do this, make the cord stick out to the side, not the bottom. Same here - makes me happy for those plugs that sit flush and can be rotated so the cord doesn't block other outlets. I had an extension cord that sat flush with the outlet but didn't twist so the wire dangled right in front of the outlet below it, effectively blocking use. Wanna strangle the jerk that made that design.
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Ozz81 posted:Same here - makes me happy for those plugs that sit flush and can be rotated so the cord doesn't block other outlets. I had an extension cord that sat flush with the outlet but didn't twist so the wire dangled right in front of the outlet below it, effectively blocking use. Wanna strangle the jerk that made that design. I've heard secondhand it's a cynical way to reduce the risk of being sued if an electrical fire burns down your house.
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Aug 28, 2015 20:21
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Drone_Fragger posted:My guess: the side of the bottle next to the steel melts, so thats where the steam escapes from, which basically injects it straight into the steel.
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Aug 28, 2015 20:28
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This image wasn't edited, the guy's first plan was cutting with the board on his forehead.
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Aug 28, 2015 20:33
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Why? Why would you anger the gods like this? Don't they realize that they have to throw in a virgin now?
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Aug 28, 2015 20:57
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bitcoin bastard posted:Plugs in this shape make me irrationally mad. If you're going to do this, make the cord stick out to the side, not the bottom. Your anger is completely rational.
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Aug 28, 2015 21:30
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 This freaks me out mostly because there's two dudes working in that little area.
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Aug 28, 2015 22:17
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Tunicate posted:I've heard secondhand it's a cynical way to reduce the risk of being sued if an electrical fire burns down your house. Yeah that's bullshit.
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AnnoyBot posted:Lots of old cylinders around, some are a bit older and have interesting markings. Threads on them seem to think it's not actually Nazi related, since a lot of them are pre-1930. Incidentally, I remember the starting pistols we had lying around in the army* had little eagles sitting on swastikas. Presumably they were left behind by the Germans and there's never been a reason to replace them. I guess my "US AMES 1945" field shovel somehow balanced it out. * I was across the hall from the sports and recreation office of the Norwegian King's guards, ca 2003.
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 saw this today. Is it as dumb as I think it is? (i was at a stoplight, not driving)
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Aug 28, 2015 23:12
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VendaGoat posted:If being a volcanologist meant I got to just chuck random poo poo into lava and record the results, I would be back to school in a fart beat. Propane tank vs volcano https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1R5Qm2A0bO8 Tank of water vs volcano https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9f6oaiQ5gA Also this in general: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DceHEBGVfj4
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I'm no volcanologist so can someone explain why such a seemingly tiny thing causes a volcano to flip out?surebet posted:Also this in general: must be pretty hard to climb that crater when you have gigantic solid iron balls
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Mak0rz posted:I'm no volcanologist so can someone explain why such a seemingly tiny thing causes a volcano to flip out? Neither am I, but I'll take a stab. It has to do with the very nature of heat and the substance that it is contained within. 1200C lava, transfers heat quickly to whatever item is tossed into it. Let's say a jerry can of water. The initial force Oh gently caress it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depth_charge#Underwater_explosions Read that.
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surebet posted:Propane tank vs volcano "What the gently caress have you done?" is never something you should hear after throwing something in a volcano.
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Worker at a Bacardi plant crushed by a one-ton pallet of alcohol. Video showing the accident. (No gore but still highly  )https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNcsTRQNZLE
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Kind of neat how it was the can of water that got a more immediate and violent reaction than the propane tank.
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chitoryu12 posted:"What the gently caress have you done?" is never something you should hear after throwing something in a volcano.
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5er posted:Kind of neat how it was the can of water that got a more immediate and violent reaction than the propane tank. Propane still needs oxygen to ignite. A Gas is also a better insulator than a liquid. It's an explosion in reverse. That's the best way I can put it. Instead of a small object achieving high temperatures in a short time, it's a hugely hot enviroment adjusting to a massive temperature differential with a much colder object. Throwing ice into a deep fryer is the same thing. Quick temperature differentials are loving sick.
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surebet posted:Propane tank vs volcano this poo poo is part of why vulcanologists die all the time but drat i'd probably be dumb enough to do the same
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Three-Phase posted:Worker at a Bacardi plant crushed by a one-ton pallet of alcohol. Video showing the accident. (No gore but still highly So he has to clean up the conveyors because it's commonplace for bottles to break and leak everywhere during packing, resulting in further crashes that stop production....for several years. You'd think they'd have figured out a less messy and costly way to pack rum. chitoryu12 fucked around with this message at 00:10 on Aug 29, 2015 |
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chitoryu12 posted:So he has to clean up the conveyors because it's commonplace for bottles to break and leak everywhere during packing, resulting in further crashes that stop production....for several years. You'd think they'd have a catch tray beneath the machine to allow for easy removal of any broken bottles/debries without risking putting a person in harm's way. Also basic lockout/tagout was seriously lacking.
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Three-Phase posted:Worker at a Bacardi plant crushed by a one-ton pallet of alcohol. Video showing the accident. (No gore but still highly Ironically, his high visibility vest was the only one working since they painted all the railings the same color as the vest everyone else was wearing.
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Why don't volcanoes just cool down slowly over time like every other hot thing ever does?
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Nierbo posted:Why don't volcanoes just cool down slowly over time like every other hot thing ever does? Wizard magic. We'd like to be rid of them, but they're wizards... You just can't deal with that.
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Nierbo posted:Why don't volcanoes just cool down slowly over time like every other hot thing ever does? Because they have a heat source.
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But why doesnt that heat source ever cool down? If it never cools down that means its a source of perpetual energy?
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Nierbo posted:But why doesnt that heat source ever cool down? If it never cools down that means its a source of perpetual energy?
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Nierbo posted:But why doesnt that heat source ever cool down? If it never cools down that means its a source of perpetual energy? the heat is from radioactive decay so it's gonna be a long rear end time before that wraps up
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Three-Phase posted:Worker at a Bacardi plant crushed by a one-ton pallet of alcohol. Video showing the accident. (No gore but still highly Oh god the flashbacks from that summer internship I had at a distillery/bottling plant, I had a palletizer on my way to a printer and the stupid thing chucked a case wrong every couple hours. I had to hit the e-stop big red button a couple times per week and I was just passing through, can't imagine how many times people actually on the floor had to do it. Related OSHA: We had anywhere between 1 and 3 million bottles (mostly 750mLs) case'd up on pallets in the warehouse waiting to be shipped. Keep in mind that a significant amount of them were 40%+ alcohol by content. Except for some basic fire suppression gear the entire emergency management plan consisted of "keep the exit doors clear" and "rally point is half a mile that way".
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Nierbo posted:Why don't volcanoes just cool down slowly over time like every other hot thing ever does? Some of them do. Most of the volcanoes we're familiar with (the ones on the surface, as opposed to deep sea-floor spreading volcanoes) are powered by a magma chamber, which itself may be actively fed by activity below the earth's crust. However, eventually the magma chamber gets cut off, and slowly cools and solidifies. When a stratovolcano erupts, it empties out much or all of its magma chamber, and is then quiescent until the chamber refills. Nierbo posted:But why doesnt that heat source ever cool down? If it never cools down that means its a source of perpetual energy? The earth is in fact slowly cooling down. However, there are a number of things going on: the earth is slightly flexed by both its moon and the sun (this is tidal flexing); the earth is spinning at not exactly the same speed as its iron core (which acts like a generator to create our magnetosphere) but friction slowly lowers spin while adding heat; and there are a lot of radioactive elements in the interior of the earth that are effectively converting atomic decay into heat. If the earth were to survive for many billions of years more, it would eventually cool enough to solidify. But that probably won't happen because it'll be engulfed by the Sun when the Sun goes into its red giant phase long before it has time to fully cool down. If this all seems unlikely, just remember: space is a vacuum, and a vacuum is a pretty good insulator. The earth's crust is also a pretty good insulator. It takes a loooooong time for heat to escape.
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The gently caress is going on here?
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VendaGoat posted:Throwing ice into a deep fryer is the same thing. Hah! That was my first though on watching the volcano's reaction to the water jug. After a few single-cube experiments, I once chucked an entire fountain drink cup of ice into a restaurant fat fryer. For fifteen or thirty seconds, there was nothing but a few pops and burbles. Then, the fryer lost its loving mind. There was a massive bubbling up from the fryer, and grease was flying everywhere. Everyone had to flee the cooking area, and the spectacle went on for a long time. I've never run it past anyone who might know what they were talking about, but I've always suspected the delay had something to do with the ice solidifying the fat around it as a protective layer.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=If5h3CMzdrw A truck carrying liquid aluminium overturned on the highway.
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ekuNNN posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=If5h3CMzdrw Not overturned, "spilled its hot load everywhere". this is a phrase that the newscaster used.
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spud posted:The gently caress is going on here? Dry ice bomb, probably. You put some water in a bottle, put in some dry ice, and close the lid tight. Gaseous CO2 builds up from the reaction until the bottle bursts. They're not just a toy, either. Sufficiently large dry ice bombs can cause fatal injuries and even that small bottle probably hosed up the guy's hand (unless he was really lucky and all the pressure escaped out the bottom or something). Probably sprayed him and the cameraman with shrapnel, too.
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chitoryu12 posted:Dry ice bomb, probably. You put some water in a bottle, put in some dry ice, and close the lid tight. Gaseous CO2 builds up from the reaction until the bottle bursts. Holding on to one is pretty dumb.   Even dropping dry ice on water is pretty spectacular. 
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