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Gromit posted:Isn't there an old boat sunk up the Thames somewhere that is chock-full of explosives but it's too expensive to clear? Hell yes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Richard_Montgomery For more fun: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_CHASE
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So does anyone remember that guy who showed us the ultra-dangerous coffee cup heater? Then the ultra-dangerous bath water heater? Yeah... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASnLL6ebaco
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Three-Phase posted:So does anyone remember that guy who showed us the ultra-dangerous coffee cup heater? Then the ultra-dangerous bath water heater? Gotta love our good friend Hung Lo Charlie.
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Holy poo poo guy, just cut the bloody wires 
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Three-Phase posted:So does anyone remember that guy who showed us the ultra-dangerous coffee cup heater? Then the ultra-dangerous bath water heater? Holy poo poo 
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Phanatic posted:Hell yes. Tom Scott did a good video about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9u41aeItss
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don't try and help the management, they won't do the same to you! report it as a work injury and you might even be covered for hospital fees (if you live a third world country/USA)
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Convince the right people that TERRISTS could detonate it.
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zedprime posted:Dual drive controls are expensive. I used to be a warehouse manager, you drive backwards for visibility, but where you need accuracy is forward. Dual controls would be horrible. Honestly, it would slow you down. You never drive forward across the rows, but once the load is in the air you have good visibility forward. It seems unpleasant to look over your shoulder but it isn't that bad. You kind of twist your hips and it's almost like how you would lay on a chaise lounge sideways. You always use plugging so you don't have to worry about brakes and you never wear your belt. I should qualify that OSHA requires that you wear your belt but it's ridiculous. You couldn't get a thing done. When you get certified, you have to pretend to do it the OSHA way. The thing is, you can't put your arm outside the side guards per the rules so you have to crane your neck. It sucks. OSHA actually makes it worse to operate a forklift when it comes to backing.
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mostlygray posted:it's almost like how you would lay on a chaise lounge sideways lol
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Gorilla Salad posted:Holy poo poo guy, just cut the bloody wires He's clearly forgotten the parachute and is intent on gliding the detached tail to safety like a boss. All symptomatic of high as gently caress
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There's burritos inside the fuselage 
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SKIPPER, STOP! IT'S IMPOSSIBLE FOR YOU TO SAW THROUGH YOUR AEROPLANE! IF I DON'T, RED BLIZZARD, I'LL DIE!
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Surprise Giraffe posted:He's clearly forgotten the parachute and is intent on gliding the detached tail to safety like a boss. All symptomatic of high as gently caress Empennage  It's an awesome word and I recommend it to everyone. It's just so loving classy.
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Three-Phase posted:So does anyone remember that guy who showed us the ultra-dangerous coffee cup heater? Then the ultra-dangerous bath water heater? He was questioning the use of two different metals for the electrodes, and I believe the reason for this is to create that oxidization effect you see in the two glasses of water. Basically, using the dissimilar metals on those poles, in any kind of un-pure water would cause rapid oxidization of the iron/steel based rod, which is why he mentioned distilled water. So, to make a glass appear clear, you either have to somehow disable one set of electrodes or use purified water. Though I could be wrong, it's been ages since I took materials class and why metals rust.
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YF19pilot posted:He was questioning the use of two different metals for the electrodes, and I believe the reason for this is to create that oxidization effect you see in the two glasses of water. Basically, using the dissimilar metals on those poles, in any kind of un-pure water would cause rapid oxidization of the iron/steel based rod, which is why he mentioned distilled water. So, to make a glass appear clear, you either have to somehow disable one set of electrodes or use purified water. Though I could be wrong, it's been ages since I took materials class and why metals rust. No you got it, its also the exact same reason why the navy's newest boat dissolves in water.
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Raskolnikov38 posted:No you got it, its also the exact same reason why the navy's newest boat dissolves in water.
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Hot Karl Marx posted:don't try and help the management, they won't do the same to you! Yeah but then they drug test you and you get fired because you smoked weed a week ago. Riding sidesaddle. Shameful. Edmund Sparkler fucked around with this message at 16:37 on Apr 20, 2016 |
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Raskolnikov38 posted:No you got it, its also the exact same reason why the navy's newest boat dissolves in water. I thought we figured this out in the eighteenth century.
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Nitrox posted:Can you post a link? That sounds like some fine grade schadenfreude http://www.wired.com/2011/06/shipbuilder-blames-navy-as-brand-new-warship-disintegrates/
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Platystemon posted:Convince the right people that TERRISTS could detonate it. There was a big flap about that in the 90s (and someone actually wrote a pretty corny Clancy-esque book about them doing exactly that in the 70s) and the general consensus is that while that may happen, salvage works almost certainly *will* cause a detonation because of the level of decay of the hull. They keep a close eye on the state of the remaining detonators in there (the big thing they were worried about was the possibility of the salt water causing some of them to spontaneously go off) and once they're happy all of them have safely rotted away you'd need a pretty huge amount of explosives to set it off and at that point why not just use them somewhere more likely to cause a problem? All that would happen if it went off is it would cause several thousand pounds worth of improvements to Sheerness.
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genesplicer posted:they continued to let us run around back there, even with stuff like that lying just under the surface. When I was stationed in Korea, we went to one campsite on the DMZ where we set up our tents and they told us not to use tent stakes because it was an old minefield. Later that year, while in the field, a couple of soldiers went into the woods to dig a latrine and found one the hard way.
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I didn't know landmines were sensitive to a poo poo being dropped on one. That really is a war crime!
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That was amazing, thank you so, so much.
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Here's a thought experiment for this thread: Say the global population were to suddenly disappear - be it the rapture, neutron bombing, rapid onset plague, whatever. What types of infrastructure and facilities would become the trap filled dungeons of this post-apocalyptic world? That is, what types of facilities can you not walk away from without them becoming ever more dangerous over time?
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Nuclear plants would top the list, I suppose. Chemical plants as well, probably.
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Fasdar posted:Here's a thought experiment for this thread: Mining operations, without anyone monitoring the pit even a relatively safe aboveground mine will be a mess of landslides and mass wasting. Underground mines would fill with water, where they weren't huge drops into blackness.
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Fasdar posted:Here's a thought experiment for this thread: Maybe one of the nuclear powers has a failsafe thing where you have to keep pressing a button once a day or an armageddon device gets activated
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Fasdar posted:Here's a thought experiment for this thread: Someone eating a banana gets raptured but the banana does not so it becomes a slipping hazard
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My thought is: the entire gulf of Mexico. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-36101112 quote:The death toll in an explosion that struck a Mexican oil plant on Wednesday has reached 13 and could rise further.
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Mozi posted:Nuclear plants would top the list, I suppose. Chemical plants as well, probably. Pretty sure that most nuclear plants would eventually just go into automatic shutdown, so unless there was some sort of external catastrophe affecting them (like a giant earthquake and tidal wave for example), they would just become giant concrete structures enclosing the reactor vessels. Eventually stuff would decay to the point of radioactive hazard I'm sure, but it should be a really long time given the way they are constructed (speaking only in regards to US design/build plants, not sure about other places that use different types of reactors and construction).
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Mozi posted:Nuclear plants would top the list, I suppose. Chemical plants as well, probably. Most nuclear plants are pretty much self-running and fail safe by design. I suppose eventually things like coolant pipes will corrode away and you probably wouldn't want to be in the vicinity when that happens, although it would depend entirely on what the reactor was doing at the moment the humans got taken down to hell to be with our lord Satan. Chemical plants same thing applies but probably more so - if they were in a stable state then they'd just sort of fizzle out, but the natural state of a chemical plant is rapidly-expanding cloud of debris supported by very nasty chemicals, and all chemical plant activity is an attempt to stop that happening. After a few years I wouldn't want to be around any kind of earth dam, most of them need pretty much constant maintenance to stop them collapsing. Ditto tall buildings - it'll take a while for them to collapse altogether but poo poo will start falling off them after a few years, especially anywhere with high winds. Fasdar posted:My thought is: the entire gulf of Mexico. Petrochemical plants are just specialised chemical plants so same thing applies. Automated extaction and pumping probably means you wouldn't want to be near oil drilling equipment or pipelines either.
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Chemical plant activity is more about purposefully getting it into a dangerous state, if it was all crazy naturally there wouldn't be much useful work to do since nature could manage it. Everything would leak or freeze with little fanfare over probably half a century, leaving dangerous residue but hardly any dungeon trap gotchas. Dangerous in the days following apocalypse, but quickly self righting. I'd watch out for waste disposal, but not just limited to nuclear, chemical, or heavy industry. Waste disposal is a situation where you are actively doing work to keep something in place so you could envision tracts of dead land surrounding even municipal garbage dumps who's active mitigation have become neglected. Arms depots would be scary because aged explosives end up becoming shock sensitized and whatnot.
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http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/life-after-people/
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Any recently built glass curtain wall condo tower would have its windows falling out after a few years due to extremely lovely constructon and poor material choices. Hell this is happening anyways even with basic attempts at upkeep. Wandering around cities you'd be constantly hearing sheets of glass falling 20+ stories to the ground. The actual core concrete or steel structures would last a long time though.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Most nuclear plants are pretty much self-running and fail safe by design. A lot has to go wrong for really bad things to happen, but in the event of "everyone disappears" nuclear plants are going to be proper hosed pretty quickly. Remember what killed Fukushima: Power failure due to the quake cut off electrical power to the plant, and they couldn't restore power in time to prevent a meltdown because the tsunami flooded the backup generators. Everyone disappears, that mean the electrical grid feeding the nuclear plants external power to keep its systems operating are going to stop doing that. Plant will SCRAM automatically, but the backup systems need to keep it cool while the decay heat drops below dangerous levels. Probably not going to work in all cases. And there's also the used-fuel storage. The dry cask stuff will be okay for a long time, but the stuff in the spent fuel pool? Water's going to stop being added to the pool to make up for that lost through evaporation (and again, eventually the cooling system will stop working and rate of evaporation will go up a lot) and eventually those pools are going to empty.
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The problem with “nuclear plants will shut down automatically” is that they need active cooling for weeks afterwards as the short‐lived isotopes in the fuel decay. Normally this is no problem, they draw power from the grid, but the grid won’t stay stable for long in the absence of human intervention. Once the grid goes down, the back‐up generators kick on, but without humans keeping them supplied with fuel, they’ll fail, too. e: f;b
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