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mostlygray posted:Here's Richard Feynman's Minority Report on the Challenger disaster. It's a good read. What Do You Care What Other People Think? by Feynman is a must read. The last third of it goes in depth for his time on the Challenger investigation. It's a fascinating read.
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GotLag posted:8 million pounds of thrust and as many posts about it You joke, but the rocket test stands out in the desert are massive, enormous, and concrete. I was at Huntsville taking the tour, and the guide was talking about the F-1. Being inquisitive, I asked how they tested 1.5million pounds-of-thrust engines, and he said "we bolted it to 3 million pounds of concrete."
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Pad lock.....no crash bar.....nice.
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One of the houses in my neighborhood is getting renovated. They got halfway through putting up new vinyl siding and then stopped for a couple of months, who knows why. The siding already has cracks and a few holes punched in it, presumably from errant tools while they were working on other bits of it. ...kind of glad I decided to use fiber cement instead of vinyl for my own siding needs, now.
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Mar 22, 2016 04:53
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Hardi is the new vinyl, for sure. Vinyl makes the people in my neighborhood actively angry.
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Mar 22, 2016 07:53
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How the gently caress...
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packetmantis posted:How the gently caress... I'm guessing someone ordered the wrong-length handrail for the ramp on the right, and rather than, you know, get the right length or mayve try to cut and weld that one to fit better, they said "gently caress it." Fake edit: Actually, now that I look closer, that's not even part of the handrail for the ramp. You can see the blue handrail for the ramp there on the right and it doesn't look like it connects in any way to that...thing. I really want a picture from the other angle to see what's going on there.
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Mar 22, 2016 14:06
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I'm thinking an inspector came along and said "a wheelchair could go right down those stairs! Add a handrail"
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Mar 22, 2016 14:09
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The handrails are supposed to extend beyond... but not like that. Probably exactly like DrBouvenstein said, too lazy to cut and weld it correctly or order a new one.
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Mar 22, 2016 14:14
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Looks like a gate that swings open
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:One of the houses in my neighborhood is getting renovated. They got halfway through putting up new vinyl siding and then stopped for a couple of months, who knows why. The siding already has cracks and a few holes punched in it, presumably from errant tools while they were working on other bits of it. This is like bizzaro world for me. I've put vinyl up on quite a few houses, and never had any problems like that, but I've handled fiber cement siding now that I'm working in a lumber yard, and that stuff is just miserable to work with. Fragile, heavy, dusty. As long as it isn't around freezing I can throw vinyl around, bend it in a circle, whatever. You just have to avoid the thinner, cheaper lines.
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One Legged Ninja posted:This is like bizzaro world for me. I've put vinyl up on quite a few houses, and never had any problems like that, but I've handled fiber cement siding now that I'm working in a lumber yard, and that stuff is just miserable to work with. Fragile, heavy, dusty. As long as it isn't around freezing I can throw vinyl around, bend it in a circle, whatever. You just have to avoid the thinner, cheaper lines. Maybe they just used lovely vinyl. Or maybe they get really angry at hammers, I don't know. It certainly doesn't get down to anywhere near freezing around here. And yeah, fiber cement's a pain to move around, but once it's on the wall it's not really in any danger of cracking.
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Mar 22, 2016 16:08
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Like... Why the gently caress would you think it's ok to have your kids roughhousing right the gently caress next to windows? Its like those damned stairs all over again
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30 Goddamned Dicks posted:Like... Why the gently caress would you think it's ok to have your kids roughhousing right the gently caress next to windows? I was going to say that I didn't think there was glass in the "windows" the guy built, but then I realized that there's plenty of actual, normal windows along the outside wall right next to that rope bridge and "loft".
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:I was going to say that I didn't think there was glass in the "windows" the guy built, but then I realized that there's plenty of actual, normal windows along the outside wall right next to that rope bridge and "loft". Plenty is an understatement, there is more window than wall. Never seen that, as normally people just go for the ultra modern 10ft wide picture window instead.
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wooger posted:Plenty is an understatement, there is more window than wall. Never seen that, as normally people just go for the ultra modern 10ft wide picture window instead. Looks like a "sun room" or "florida room" that was enclosed later. In college I lived in a room like this. Hot in the summer and cold in the winter. I had more room than anyone else in the house though...
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30 Goddamned Dicks posted:Like... Why the gently caress would you think it's ok to have your kids roughhousing right the gently caress next to windows? Some people have kids that aren't complete idiots.
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I doubt those eyebolts holding the rope bridge are properly designed for live loads and machine threaded with proper backing on the other side of the lumber. Let alone is the lumber adequate to hold say 3-6 kids jumping and running while on the bridge. The loving upper rope on the bridge should be heavier to hold the kids. There are multiple places where the rope looping through down through the boards on the bridge form an "X" shape, where a child could fall and slip their head into the top of the "X" shape and strangle. The loft looks like it is attached with screws with no jack stud or other method supporting the weight. The entrance on to the rope bridge needs jack studs to fully support weight. He wired in electrical work under the loft which is probably as half assed as the rest of the job. Finally, the slide area should have fall protection surrounding the slide. E:The finish work looks nice though A++ The Gardenator fucked around with this message at 18:34 on Mar 22, 2016 |
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Mar 22, 2016 18:31
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30 Goddamned Dicks posted:Like... Why the gently caress would you think it's ok to have your kids roughhousing right the gently caress next to windows? good heavens, i couldn't have my precious son Skyler playing next to WINDOWS!!!
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Dude, kid trips over a toy, falls through the window. Kids chase each other over the drawbridge and misjudge the turn, falls through the window. Kids get in a shoving match over who goes down the slide first, falls through the window. Kids have their friends over and decide to do some goofy rear end "ride on my shoulders in the playhouse" poo poo, kid is going through the window. Have you ever seen kids playing? The last drat thing they're thinking about is being careful. Also lol, goons: it's not about being next to a window, it's the fact that if a kid trips and falls sideways they've got noting in between them and a pane of goddamned glass except a 6" gap to build up speed. I mean poo poo, I sliced the gently caress out of my wrist when I was younger shutting a door with my hand on the glass instead of on the doorframe. Glass breaks. 30 Goddamned Dicks fucked around with this message at 18:37 on Mar 22, 2016 |
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Mar 22, 2016 18:34
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What if we secured the children to a sufficiently solid object to prevent them falling out the window?
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Ashcans posted:What if we secured the children to a sufficiently solid object to prevent them falling out the window? Sounds good. Might still be some close shaves though.
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30 Goddamned Dicks posted:Dude, kid trips over a toy, falls through the window. Kids chase each other over the drawbridge and misjudge the turn, falls through the window. Kids get in a shoving match over who goes down the slide first, falls through the window. Kids have their friends over and decide to do some goofy rear end "ride on my shoulders in the playhouse" poo poo, kid is going through the window. There are floor to ceiling windows on the opposite wall of the room for fucks sake. Better board those up so the little ones don't run through them!!!!! edit: how dare these parents have MURDERWINDOWS!!!! 
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Back in MY day we just left our children to do whatever the gently caress they wanted, and look how I turned out! I'm posting badly on Something Awful just like mama would have dreamed if she hadn't fallen through a third-story window.
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Sylink posted:Some people have kids that aren't complete idiots.  The point of safe playground equipment is so when kids are clumsy or exercising poor judgement (as they often do, because their brains are developing) that an accident results in a bonk or bruise, rather than being shredded to ribbons by a broken window. The guy here is taking no reasonable precautions, and either doesn't understand or doesn't care. It's about the same as saying "you can disable the safety stop on your table saw as long as you don't hire complete idiots" 
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The caption on that imgur album is "pretty good for a guy that works at a bank" and I feel like that's all I needed to read to understand it.
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canyoneer posted:
Its called Darwinism 
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Nitrox posted:Looks like a gate that swings open Look closer. It's welded to the handrail in the foreground.
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We need to get playhouse guy to hire handrail guy to secure the site against injury
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Mar 22, 2016 21:49
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Something something concrete in the windows.
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Quoting these just to make them not be gigantic table-breaking picturesSlanderer posted:There are floor to ceiling windows on the opposite wall of the room for fucks sake. Better board those up so the little ones don't run through them!!!!! get off your phones  e. also now that I can see it: I believe what we see here is a pre-existing staircase (center) with a later, added wheelchair ramp (top right). They extended the bar for the wheelchair ramp so that wheelchair users do not have to navigate sidways right next to the stairs. E.g., a sensible safety feature that has the minor drawback of inconveniencing staircase users.
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Mar 22, 2016 23:04
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Structurally, there is nothing wrong with this one, but it's still pretty bad...
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30 Goddamned Dicks posted:Dude, kid trips over a toy, falls through the window. Kids chase each other over the drawbridge and misjudge the turn, falls through the window. Kids get in a shoving match over who goes down the slide first, falls through the window. Kids have their friends over and decide to do some goofy rear end "ride on my shoulders in the playhouse" poo poo, kid is going through the window. There's also the Venetian blinds. http://www.nbcnews.com/business/consumer/feds-move-protect-kids-window-blind-cord-strangulation-n222411 quote:Almost every month, on average, another child dies from window cord strangulation, according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC). These cords are on the commission’s list of the top five “hidden hazards” in the home.
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kid sinister posted:Structurally, there is nothing wrong with this one, but it's still pretty bad... best excuse for deliberate pissing on the floor I've ever seen.. Even a drain..
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I kind of like this actually, because gently caress those slots in the back.
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Hey it's safe, those screws are grounded.
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Let me tell you about bus bars
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