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Oh hey gbs! Actually your imagined insectopia is not that far off- using techniques similar to pavlov and his dogs scientists have been able to successfully train bees as biosensors. That is, they can be trained to seek out explosives, drugs, anything with a smell a bee can pick up. Plus their training takes hours compared to the months it takes for a dog to pick up similar skills. And they fly.
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Don't the ants at chernobyl collect radioactive particles cos they're warm?
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Free Cheese posted:Oh hey gbs! Actually your imagined insectopia is not that far off- using techniques similar to pavlov and his dogs scientists have been able to successfully train bees as biosensors. That is, they can be trained to seek out explosives, drugs, anything with a smell a bee can pick up. Plus their training takes hours compared to the months it takes for a dog to pick up similar skills. And they fly. Releasing clouds of bees in an airport to do security checks would probably be a great idea. 
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Mithaldu posted:Releasing clouds of bees in an airport to do security checks would probably be a great idea. While I unironically agree with you I think they've found most success with mine fields
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TotalLossBrain posted:The contamination problems at Hanford are usually tied to tumbleweeds (because they have very deep roots in an early part of their life cycle and suck a lot of nasty out of the ground), mice (because they eat everything), rabbits, and wasps. 
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DemeaninDemon posted:The idea is when something fucks up in a mine people don't get hurt. They die. Sure, but writing a citation because there was a snickers wrapper in a garbage can without a lid on it probably isn't going to prevent a lot of underground fires or roof collapses.
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I think if you find a snickers the you've found an unhealthy mofo
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MG2 posted:I think if you find a snickers the you've found an unhealthy mofo Maybe you're not aware, but the healthy peanut protein found in snickers really satisfies and can prevent Betty White from acting like a total bitch.
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Literal welfare queens!
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FrankieGoes posted:Sure, but writing a citation because there was a snickers wrapper in a garbage can without a lid on it probably isn't going to prevent a lot of underground fires or roof collapses. Yeah, probably not. It's probably a thing where they figure if things get sloppy anywhere on site, there is a chance that other workers who observe that standard being acceptable will spread the slackness until it does lead to something dangerous. This way every worker gets the "no sloppy trash baskets" message drilled into their heads.
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Hah, I didn't notice that when writing it. To be fair, the middle-aged white guys are really good at tracking contamination everywhere. In 2004, I watched Bill Nye being made to take off his pants because an HP (Health-Physics tech, deals with radiation & contamination) detected a speck of contamination on it after he tried exiting the refueling floor at the Columbia Generating Station nuclear power plant. He was doing recording for some future show.
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TotalLossBrain posted:Some kind of mud wasp? Wasps are cool and smart. They know what they want and how to get it.
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Here's a great read with regards to criticality accidents. The term refers to a situation in which the neutron balance in a nuclear material is severely out of whack, in a very bad way - more neutrons produced than neutron absorbed, leading to an uncontrolled chain reaction. Usually the reaction will fizzle out because the geometry gets blown out (literally) or some neutron poison is introduced. If the criticality is energetic enough, it will produce Cherenkov radiation. It's like a sonic boom, but for energetic particles. The particle in question will travel faster than the phase velocity for the medium it is traveling in. If you see it, you're likely going to die. This is what killed Harry Daghlian in 1944 and Louis Slotin in 1945, likely the very first radiation victims of nuclear weapons. Anyways, it's a great and ghastly read. E: I probably got Cherenkov details all wrong, as pointed out by helpful goons below. TotalLossBrain fucked around with this message at 01:35 on Mar 15, 2016 |
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TotalLossBrain posted:If the criticality is energetic enough, it will produce Cherenkov radiation. It's like a sonic boom, but for energetic particles. The particle in question will travel faster than the phase velocity for the medium it is traveling in. Cherenkov radiation doesn't have to do with how supercritical something is, it happens when charged particles travel faster than the speed of light in a medium. The blue flash during Slotin and Daghlian's accidents with that core weren't Cherenkov radiation, because the particles in question aren't traveling fast enough in air to do that. It was just straightforward ionization of the air in the room. Which is plenty bad enough.
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TotalLossBrain posted:If you see it, you're likely going to die. If nuclear materials are submerged in more than a few feet of water, you can stare at the cool blue glow all day with no problems.
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haveblue posted:If nuclear materials are submerged in more than a few feet of water, you can stare at the cool blue glow all day with no problems. I should have added "without a few feet of water shielding". But then again, I messed up the details about it anyhow. TotalLossBrain fucked around with this message at 01:36 on Mar 15, 2016 |
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https://i.imgur.com/6ODvJeG.gifv Stay safe st.patricks day!
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Lime Tonics posted:https://i.imgur.com/6ODvJeG.gifv I'm the drunk guy bouncing excitedly as the roof collapses.
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Cthulu Carl posted:I'm the drunk guy bouncing excitedly as the roof collapses. lol if this isn't your automatic reaction to watching a sickass tragedy unfold
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TheWhiteNightmare posted:lol if this isn't your automatic reaction to watching a sickass tragedy unfold I like to think the dude who walks out of frame right as the collapse starts just kept on walking. He seems like he's got important stuff on his mind.
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Cthulu Carl posted:I like to think the dude who walks out of frame right as the collapse starts just kept on walking. He seems like he's got important stuff on his mind. 'gotta get out of here before they find the sawn-through beams...'
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Lime Tonics posted:https://i.imgur.com/6ODvJeG.gifv Literally brought down the house
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Mozi posted:'gotta get out of here before they find the sawn-through beams...' It was an inside job.
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Nude posted:It was an inside job. Fat thighs cant break rafter beams!!
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Mozi posted:'gotta get out of here before they find the sawn-through beams...' Too late, the carpenter sold you out. 
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OSHA thread help: there was this one radiation incident that involved a worker bypassing a ridiculous number of safety procedures including an open pit and pressure plates in order to get deeper into a radioactive area, and he was eventually exposed to a rack of radioactive stuff that was supposed to be behind a sheet or grate or something. Does anyone remember the name of this incident?
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Eight-Six posted:OSHA thread help: there was this one radiation incident that involved a worker bypassing a ridiculous number of safety procedures including an open pit and pressure plates in order to get deeper into a radioactive area, and he was eventually exposed to a rack of radioactive stuff that was supposed to be behind a sheet or grate or something. Does anyone remember the name of this incident? Sounds like the incidents at Nesvizh, Belarus and Soreq, Israel, probably the first because it’s the one with the open pit. Platystemon fucked around with this message at 05:46 on Mar 15, 2016 |
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the Nedelin disaster https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVrapD9-K3g https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nedelin_catastrophe
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Platystemon posted:Sounds like the incidents at Nesvizh, Belarus and Soreq, Israel, probably the first because it’s the one with the open pit. First one's it, thanks, though I'll also be reading the latter because this poo poo is interesting.
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doodlebugs posted:the Nedelin disaster If this is the video I think it is, it contains a whole LOT of people being burned alive on camera. FYI.
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"Do you have stairs in your house?" "Yeah, but they're not protected."
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Gorilla Salad posted:Also this: 
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That does not look like he's wearing proper protection gear. 
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Pointing it over your head seems like a bad idea
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Taken from the train thread:MikeCrotch posted:
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calvus posted:Pointing it over your head seems like a bad idea It absolutely is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9DkciMTsLI&t=73s That feel when you have to blow on your flamethrower because it's on fire.
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Zero One posted:Taken from the train thread: Do you have any other plans for what to do with your piles of slag?
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chitoryu12 posted:It absolutely is: That's the most russian thing I have seen in a while
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