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Mao Zedong Thot
Oct 16, 2008


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G43rIx0d5aY

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Beccara
Feb 3, 2005

That guys video's are all OSHA as hell

Humbug Scoolbus
Apr 25, 2008

The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers, stern and wild ones, and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.
Clapping Larry
Ukrainians and magnetrons.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGDOE-zDVZc

ACES CURE PLANES
Oct 21, 2010




Oh hey, is it time for the monthly repost of all the Kreosan kids' videos? Okay.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKvE5CXlcaI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQTRHQRDIos

They're gonna blow themselves up on camera someday, but they'll go out brilliantly.

Edit: Oh god, they're branching out of electricity now:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFzeRZP7oto

ACES CURE PLANES fucked around with this message at 16:51 on Sep 14, 2015

cyberbug
Sep 30, 2004

The name is Carl Seltz...
insurance inspector.
This robot stuff reminds me of something I read in a book about designing safety-critical systems. It was an industrial robot loading large sheets of steel into a big press at a car factory. This, happening at a fast rate, is obviously pretty "Staplerfahrer Klaus" to anyone walking into the work area while the robot is running, so they designed infrared barriers around the area to stop the robot immediately if anyone tries to enter while it's operational.

Well, the first time they tested it, everything worked as planned. The barrier detected the entry, the robot executed a crash stop, and... the metal sheet ripped off the robot's grip and went flying into the next work station. Oops.

dr_rat
Jun 4, 2001

ACES CURE PLANES posted:

Oh hey, is it time for the monthly repost of all the Kreosan kids' videos? Okay.

This one is just straight up witchcraft right?:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tavPaYLlR6I

Any sufficiently advanced Russian redneck technology is indistinguishable from magic

dr_rat fucked around with this message at 17:37 on Sep 14, 2015

Nth Doctor
Sep 7, 2010

Darkrai used Dream Eater!
It's super effective!


dr_rat posted:

This one is just straight up witchcraft right?:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tavPaYLlR6I

Any sufficiently advanced Russian redneck technology is indistinguishable from magic

Physics ruins everything.

Proteus Jones
Feb 28, 2013



dr_rat posted:

This one is just straight up witchcraft right?:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tavPaYLlR6I

Any sufficiently advanced Russian redneck technology is indistinguishable from magic

It's a Jacobs Ladder. High voltage plasma arcs. They travel upward as the air surrounding the plasma is heated. As the conductors diverge it becomes more unstable and the arc can't maintain itself, allowing the voltage to build up again across the conductors starting all over. It starts at the bottom because of the "V" configuration the conductors are in (arc forms at the shortest path).

dr_rat
Jun 4, 2001

I wanted to believe :(

zedprime
Jun 9, 2007

yospos

cyberbug posted:

This robot stuff reminds me of something I read in a book about designing safety-critical systems. It was an industrial robot loading large sheets of steel into a big press at a car factory. This, happening at a fast rate, is obviously pretty "Staplerfahrer Klaus" to anyone walking into the work area while the robot is running, so they designed infrared barriers around the area to stop the robot immediately if anyone tries to enter while it's operational.

Well, the first time they tested it, everything worked as planned. The barrier detected the entry, the robot executed a crash stop, and... the metal sheet ripped off the robot's grip and went flying into the next work station. Oops.
The biggest obstacle to robotic automation in the factory and day to day life, is keeping them from murdering indiscriminately. Automatons want your blood. It isn't anything personal, they just have a job to do.

Humbug Scoolbus
Apr 25, 2008

The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers, stern and wild ones, and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.
Clapping Larry

flosofl posted:

It's a Jacobs Ladder. High voltage plasma arcs. They travel upward as the air surrounding the plasma is heated. As the conductors diverge it becomes more unstable and the arc can't maintain itself, allowing the voltage to build up again across the conductors starting all over. It starts at the bottom because of the "V" configuration the conductors are in (arc forms at the shortest path).

The green is from vaporized copper from the initial heat of the arc on the heavy leads.

the fart question
Mar 21, 2007

College Slice

ACES CURE PLANES posted:

Oh hey, is it time for the monthly repost of all the Kreosan kids' videos? Okay.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKvE5CXlcaI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQTRHQRDIos

They're gonna blow themselves up on camera someday, but they'll go out brilliantly.

Edit: Oh god, they're branching out of electricity now:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFzeRZP7oto

I bet these guys are actually learning something

Paper Diamonds
Sep 2, 2011

gender illusionist posted:

I bet these guys are actually learning something
Maybe they'll even get a chance to learn first aid

Sam Hall
Jun 29, 2003

dr_rat posted:


Any sufficiently advanced Russian redneck technology is indistinguishable from magic

I like this one; some guys loving around with an abandoned brainscorcher figured out how to make it act as a crude plasma loudspeaker.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Scm-tKTHls

ACES CURE PLANES
Oct 21, 2010



gender illusionist posted:

I bet these guys are actually learning something

Well, for starting out with an abandoned microwave they salvaged from a shelled home, they've come out pretty well. So long as they avoid poking unexploded shells again.

Three-Phase
Aug 5, 2006

by zen death robot
I am imagining a day when some kind of existential thread faces earth and the only three people who can team up to save the planet are PhotonicInduction, Rodalco, and Kreosan.

Remember awhile back the page showing the bolt that was burned and glowing on a busbar? Here's a high-octane (and voltage) variant:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdGcxu84IHw

Three-Phase fucked around with this message at 22:09 on Sep 14, 2015

jetz0r
May 10, 2003

Tomorrow, our nation will sit on the throne of the world. This is not a figment of the imagination, but a fact. Tomorrow we will lead the world, Allah willing.



ACES CURE PLANES posted:

Well, for starting out with an abandoned microwave they salvaged from a shelled home, they've come out pretty well. So long as they avoid poking unexploded shells again.

They poke unexploded ordinance in a video?

And they don't hook it up to a microwave transformer?

Proteus Jones
Feb 28, 2013



Maxwells Demon
Jan 15, 2007



Give the guy a break, he's using all the correct PPE of Heavy Duty Sandals, Cheap T-shirt, and friend looking out for him.

Just noticed that the line between the two guys is NOT a makeshift harness of any sort.

Bethamphetamine
Oct 29, 2012


What is that guy even doing? Painting? spackling the crack at the building corner? He's got no equipment or tools to do anything.

Waffle!
Aug 6, 2004

I Feel Pretty!


zedprime posted:

The biggest obstacle to robotic automation in the factory and day to day life, is keeping them from murdering indiscriminately. Automatons want your blood. It isn't anything personal, they just have a job to do.
Worse yet, they can use swords now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cR-YlZ9NdIA

This one shows actual cuts. Way to betray humanity to the machines, swordmaster.

Say Nothing
Mar 5, 2013

by FactsAreUseless

Hot Karl Marx
Mar 16, 2009

Politburo regulations about social distancing require to downgrade your Karlmarxing to cold, and sorry about the dnc primaries, please enjoy!

I hope that sign was erected because someone actually tried to dive in the ditch

C.M. Kruger
Oct 28, 2013

Sam Hall posted:

I like this one; some guys loving around with an abandoned brainscorcher figured out how to make it act as a crude plasma loudspeaker.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Scm-tKTHls

It's not abandoned, otherwise they wouldn't be getting burned by it. Probably around 50 to 100kW going through it depending on if it's FM/AM or Shortwave.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHnHncbUDoA

Courtesy of the OSHA reddit:

Megillah Gorilla
Sep 22, 2003

If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.



Bread Liar

C.M. Kruger posted:

It's not abandoned, otherwise they wouldn't be getting burned by it. Probably around 50 to 100kW going through it depending on if it's FM/AM or Shortwave.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHnHncbUDoA

Wow, that's incredible. I was going to say I'd never seen or heard anything like that happening before, but then I realised that I had, right here on SA. I even screen capped it for posterity.

theres a will theres moe
Jan 10, 2007


Hair Elf

Gorilla Salad posted:

Wow, that's incredible. I was going to say I'd never seen or heard anything like that happening before, but then I realised that I had, right here on SA. I even screen capped it for posterity.



Have you ever heard of singing tesla coils?

Possibly warrants a volume warning.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDejvryAFN0

VectorSigma
Jan 20, 2004

Transform
and
Freak Out



Gorilla Salad posted:

Wow, that's incredible. I was going to say I'd never seen or heard anything like that happening before, but then I realised that I had, right here on SA. I even screen capped it for posterity.



I had an old analog TV about 10 years ago that faintly played the local Christian radio station when turned off and connected to a coaxial of sufficient length. That thing would have been a schizophrenic's worst nightmare.

Ursine Catastrophe
Nov 9, 2009

It's a lovely morning in the void and you are a horrible lady-in-waiting.



don't ask how i know

Dinosaur Gum

Gorilla Salad posted:

Wow, that's incredible. I was going to say I'd never seen or heard anything like that happening before, but then I realised that I had, right here on SA. I even screen capped it for posterity.



Yeech. I was sleeping over at a friends house one day, years ago. Out in the boonies, known for being pretty close to a "hills-have-eyes" sort of area, no streetlights to speak of. So picture this: Long hallway, middle of the night, nearly pitch black, I get up to go to the bathroom...and hear whispering from the end of the hallway, near the front door.

Since I'm the person who dies in horror movies, I went to check it out; it was coming from the speaker box connected to the front gate. I'm this close to calling the cops before I actually made out what was being said-- turns out there was some signal leakage resulting in Sesame Street being broadcast very faintly over the line.

Howard Beale
Feb 22, 2001

It's like this, Peanut

Gorilla Salad posted:

Wow, that's incredible. I was going to say I'd never seen or heard anything like that happening before, but then I realised that I had, right here on SA. I even screen capped it for posterity.



Did a tech load-in for a stage show and had a horrible problem picking up a right-wing AM station on the amps. Nobody could figure out where the interference was coming from until the new guy helpfully pointed out he'd coiled most of a drop mic line around one of the metal light bars, essentially turning the theater into a giant AM receiver. Bled across the entire system. Good times.

INCHI DICKARI
Aug 23, 2006

by FactsAreUseless


Terminix truck came in for an oil change leaking an upsettingly sweet smelling semi oily clear liquid from the locked rear cargo bed that was neither gas, water, brake fluid, washer fluid, oil, or coolant. Proper clean up and handling as per management: finish the oil change then throw some rags on the puddle and wipe it up.

Carbon dioxide
Oct 9, 2012

Don't try this at home.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBYC8ZJg_XI

I actually don't know how OSHA regulations work for stunt pilots.

CollegeCop
Jul 11, 2005

You're right. I'm not a real cop. Those are imaginary handcuffs. And in a minute, we'll be going to the make-believe jail.

Gorilla Salad posted:

Wow, that's incredible. I was going to say I'd never seen or heard anything like that happening before, but then I realised that I had, right here on SA. I even screen capped it for posterity.



There was an AM transmission tower right next to my freshman dorm in college that constantly bled over onto our electronics.

Our answering machine had a "silence detection" feature that was supposed to keep the machine from recording dead air if someone called and then hung up without leaving a message. The bleedover from the tower was just above the noise threshold, so we would come home to several three minute messages (the cutoff time for incoming messages) of ghostly music.

tactlessbastard
Feb 4, 2001

Godspeed, post
Fun Shoe

CollegeCop posted:

There was an AM transmission tower right next to my freshman dorm in college that constantly bled over onto our electronics.

Our answering machine had a "silence detection" feature that was supposed to keep the machine from recording dead air if someone called and then hung up without leaving a message. The bleedover from the tower was just above the noise threshold, so we would come home to several three minute messages (the cutoff time for incoming messages) of ghostly music.

My.parents had a baby monitor that was picking up air traffic control.

Megillah Gorilla
Sep 22, 2003

If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.



Bread Liar
Wow, I never knew there were so many cool overpowered AM radio transmitter stories.

And I think the world is a more magical place because of it.

Tunicate
May 15, 2012

The MiG 25 would kill rabbits along the runway when it fired up its radar.'

CampingCarl
Apr 28, 2008




Tunicate posted:

The MiG 25 would kill rabbits along the runway when it fired up its radar.'
How would it do that? How would it kill rabbits but not people?

Trabisnikof
Dec 24, 2005

CampingCarl posted:

How would it do that? How would it kill rabbits but not people?

People knew not to stand there.

Azhais
Feb 5, 2007
Switchblade Switcharoo

CampingCarl posted:

How would it do that? How would it kill rabbits but not people?

I don't know where you live, but around here rabbits are a lot smaller

Wasabi the J
Jan 23, 2008

MOM WAS RIGHT

CampingCarl posted:

How would it do that? How would it kill rabbits but not people?

People are generally not in the path of taxiing planes and are much larger.

Heating a slice of hotdog in a microwave to super heated temps would take much less time than getting a whole roast to the same temp.

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VendaGoat
Nov 1, 2005

Azhais posted:

I don't know where you live, but around here rabbits are a lot smaller

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