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Propaganda Hour posted:Speaking of Mecca, has anyone seen what it looks like right now? It makes Trump Tower look like a Motel 6. For added perspective on how huge that hotel is, here's the Kaaba inside the mosque in the middle. e: Oh, that's where the crane collapsed.  
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The phone charger adds a delightfully modern touch.
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New: domestic busbars!
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AFewBricksShy posted:At the University of Pittsburgh in Forbes Hall they have this sculpture hanging over the hallway: They're doing it wrong. It needs to be a fighter jet composed of suspended flowers and butterflies:   E: Goddammit, thought I was in the architecture thread. Zamboni Rodeo fucked around with this message at 01:33 on Sep 12, 2015 |
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And with a small movement you can potentially (pardon the pun) electrify the metal bedframe to 240V. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIa7S89EWEw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0jaJ8NMrBM "Let's try it again!"  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oi48r8kLtg0 That's definitely one way to determine what feeds the wire that you just cut into. 
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Hot Karl Marx posted:what the hell was she trying to even do? hug it? i had to run into the tunnel to yell at people to get their car out of gear more than a couple of times at my old job, never got caught in the brushes like that dumbass though
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fu4_j5RTDPw Is there anyone here who speaks Spanish who can translate what is being said?
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Leperflesh posted:I dunno if you're serious, but in case you are: what you do is you put out a call for proposals, and you hire a juror or two (there are a lot of experienced artists who do work as jurors for shows, exhibitions, etc.) and you go through the several hundred different entries you'll be sent, by artists ranging from no-namers, high school kids, and college art students, through experienced small-town artists, grad students, someone-better-known artists, right up to the top elite: and the jurors select the entry they feel best suits the site, theme, budget, etc.
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Propaganda Hour posted:Speaking of Mecca, has anyone seen what it looks like right now? It makes Trump Tower look like a Motel 6. They redesigned a lot of it because it was the human crush capital of the loving world.
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Propaganda Hour posted:Speaking of Mecca, has anyone seen what it looks like right now? It makes Trump Tower look like a Motel 6. Nice church tower though.
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Propaganda Hour posted:Speaking of Mecca, has anyone seen what it looks like right now? It makes Trump Tower look like a Motel 6. You see that big clock face near the top of the tower? The "small" columns to the side of it are the size of the tower housing Big Ben.
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https://youtu.be/vTrmXrc_iBM
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Zopotantor posted:You see that big clock face near the top of the tower? The "small" columns to the side of it are the size of the tower housing Big Ben. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/08/Comparison_four_face_clocks.jpg Holy gently caress! I knew Abraj Al Bait was huge but not that huge.
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/08/Comparison_four_face_clocks.jpg I wonder what machinery is used to drive that. Whatever it is, I’d bet it OSHA‐worthy.
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Zamboni_Rodeo posted:They're doing it wrong. It needs to be a fighter jet composed of suspended flowers and butterflies: Someone smells the flowers, dies of an allergy. Instant OSHA
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Platystemon posted:I wonder what machinery is used to drive that. Whatever it is, I’d bet it OSHA‐worthy. Yeah, all those images are in scale to each other. I'm imagining a locomotive scale diesel as the power plant.
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That ungodly clock monstrosity also cost $15 Billion to build.
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Jaramin posted:That ungodly clock monstrosity also cost $15 Billion to build.
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It's a windy day and you don't want your roof to blow away.
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Too bad you don't have a photographic memory. 
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The Mentalizer posted:Yeah, what usually happens is that the SPL of the initial transient is so high that the microphone diaphragm either can't respond fast enough or can't be displaced enough to accurately reproduce the sound. So it basically just gives up on the leading edge of the sound (depending on the construction the diaphragm will short out against either the backplate or the other diaphragm), clipping the signal and leaving you with whatever immediately follows, which is usually just the reverberance of the room (or whatever environment you're in). In the worst case you can actually damage the microphone itself, but these days most diaphragms are tough enough that if they're in good condition they'll come out ok as long as you're not using a ribbon microphone. I bet one of these would capture the "kick" of the gun: 
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Giblet Plus! posted:I bet one of these would capture the "kick" of the gun: smh if you can't make one of these yourself
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Would. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoA-m5iHG9s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxbjZiKAZP4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9af4YW_4t4Q
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surebet posted:Would. 1st thought: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9v1n7Jj-SFI
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I took this picture. This was in the middle of a random wall in a company restaurant. Looks like a power socket, a water tap, and another power socket just sitting there. When I was there some time before that, the plastic bag around the tap and the ducttape over one of the sockets weren't there yet.
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surebet posted:Would. The guys riding the robot arms never fails to make me cringe. At least in some of those the range-of-motion (except the floor) has been cleared away.
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KGB interrogation techniques are pretty elaborate
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surebet posted:Would. BAE systems had (or has) one of these set up to take about 4 people that they used to show off on open days or something. Of course, that was programmed specifically for it. Insert joke about reliability of BAE programming here.
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Three-Phase posted:The guys riding the robot arms never fails to make me cringe. At least in some of those the range-of-motion (except the floor) has been cleared away. Beyond getting smacked into the floor, some of those momentum transitions look pretty brutal and I'm getting sympathetic whiplash just looking at the videos.
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The robot arm flipping a pancake wasn't exactly a failure. It was teaching itself how to flip a pancake, and failure was expected as part of the learning process. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_gxLKSsSIE
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So, that's how Skynet starts.
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Craptacular posted:The robot arm flipping a pancake wasn't exactly a failure. It was teaching itself how to flip a pancake, and failure was expected as part of the learning process. ok now teach it to flip burgers and you have the dream of every republican facebook poster
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VectorSigma posted:ok now teach it to flip burgers and you have the dream of every republican facebook poster I don't know if they can flip burgers, but they can stack pancakes too... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9oeOYMRvuQ One of the big things in the future may be robots working directly alongside regular workers. But I can easily see a lot of manual labor going away very quickly within the next decades. (Replacing a fried foods station with a machine that makes the fries in small batches, minimizing waste, reducing employee risks, and ensuring fresh product to the customers.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KfXY2SvlmQ Three-Phase fucked around with this message at 00:51 on Sep 14, 2015 |
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