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big old crane fell over in copenhagen and smashed some parked cars. nobody got hurt, including the operator  
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Sample: Haha, pretty bad, that's funny... "Load remaining 50 pictures" Oh dear Lord it just keeps going 
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Ak Gara posted:Someone never played OpenTTD. Don't know about openTTD but in the original transport tycoon trains were invincible vs any other land based transport so to win franchises on routes you could run train lines through your competitors roads and then use the shoddy pathing to trap their vehicles on the crossing so your trains would just blast throught and destroy them. Hundreds may have died but by God it was worth it to secure that minor passenger route for 1 year. Capitalism 1, passengers 0.
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Summer tree cutting is the gift that keeps on giving https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ogy-srBg9ko
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I love the sad little tires just slowly rolling into the frame.
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Jose posted:https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/12/several-killed-as-two-trains-collide-in-southern-italy-puglia I used to be a Rail Network Controller and that baffles me. Surely a European country has better rail infrastructure than Australia. It was my job to route trains over large remote distances, and I never had an accident anywhere like that. The closest was known as a SPAD (Stopping Past A Danger), which meant that the train driver was lovely on the brakes and crept over into the next section which triggers a line wide alarm and shuts everything down. If that was on my line the incident would have had to have been a combination of: 1. Me directly putting trains into the same section (not possible without many overrides above my level, requiring a LOT of predetirmination, faking maintenance work authorisations, every road crew within 200km on board with my plan, and sneaking it past the supervisors at start of shift brief) 2. Both Drivers asleep 3. Both Deadman Switches disabled (fun fact! It's known that a lot of career drivers will even make the same arm movement IN THEIR SLEEP as if they were continuously pushing the button.) 4. The remote section occupation system failing and not alerting my supervisors and the whole system that there are two trains on the section. And I dealt mostly with non-commuter trains. The official stance here on safety in order of importance: 2 legs, 4 legs, no legs (people, cattle then freight/minerals).
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I'm always on the lookout for decent zombie apocalypse fortresses. Where is this? It's a little old but maybe I can get a discount
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Subtle OSHA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkoR2HZ0apU Workers swapping cutting heads on a tunnel boring machine in Seattle. Tame for this thread but it looks hot/loud as hell, not too many earplugs seen.
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One of these days, I will get over my fear of driving next to tractor trailers. Maybe.
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SpacePig posted:One of these days, I will get over my fear of driving next to tractor trailers. Maybe. Never not fear the literal Death Trucks.
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I could probably do that, no problem.
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Mozi posted:I could probably do that, no problem. Once at least.
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Humphreys posted:I used to be a Rail Network Controller and that baffles me. Surely a European country has better rail infrastructure than Australia. It was my job to route trains over large remote distances, and I never had an accident anywhere like that. The closest was known as a SPAD (Stopping Past A Danger), which meant that the train driver was lovely on the brakes and crept over into the next section which triggers a line wide alarm and shuts everything down. It sounds like no automated signalling or remote occupation detection systems were installed on that line, an old single track branch line. Just manual systems where signalmen at each end coordinated to allow trains into the section of track, and someone hosed up, sadly.
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Wall Balls posted:big old crane fell over in copenhagen and smashed some parked cars. nobody got hurt, including the operator I hope he gets a parking ticket.
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Pseudohog posted:It sounds like no automated signalling or remote occupation detection systems were installed on that line, an old single track branch line. Just manual systems where signalmen at each end coordinated to allow trains into the section of track, and someone hosed up, sadly. I had no idea these things were still around. From what I'm gathering on the news it appears that 1% of our railways have a safety net that consists of a senile dude yelling GO HOG WILD all the time.
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Rust high rez graphics patch lookin' good.
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Humphreys posted:I used to be a Rail Network Controller and that baffles me. Surely a European country has better rail infrastructure than Australia. It was my job to route trains over large remote distances, and I never had an accident anywhere like that. The closest was known as a SPAD (Stopping Past A Danger), which meant that the train driver was lovely on the brakes and crept over into the next section which triggers a line wide alarm and shuts everything down. This is a country that brought us (and can't seem to prosecute) Berlusconi, and where the cosa nostra and camorra continue to operate with significant strength today. Something tells me regulation and enforcement isn't Italy's strong suit 
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LUBE UP YOUR BUTT posted:This is a country that brought us (and can't seem to prosecute) Berlusconi, and where the cosa nostra and camorra continue to operate with significant strength today. Something tells me regulation and enforcement isn't Italy's strong suit And yet they blamed some seismologists for that earthquake a while back, and successfully prosecuted them. I think their convictions were later vacated or reduced though.
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JB50 posted:And yet they blamed some seismologists for that earthquake a while back, and successfully prosecuted them. I think their convictions were later vacated or reduced though. Incredible.
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maybe now people will think twice before deciding to become quack seismologists
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Elsa posted:maybe now people will think twice before deciding to become quack seismologists No, it was the quack seismologist who caused the prosecution because the quake happened the one time out of a thousand he was right while the real ones said, "Shut the gently caress you, you can't predict earthquakes."
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I want to believe.
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Random Stranger posted:No, it was the quack seismologist who caused the prosecution because the quake happened the one time out of a thousand he was right while the real ones said, "Shut the gently caress you, you can't predict earthquakes." maybe they're all quacks who look for cracks in the earth's crust who we trust must know just when the ground will bust
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Elsa posted:maybe they're all quacks who look for cracks in the earth's crust who we trust must know just when the ground will bust Did you just channel Tim Minchin?
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Karma Monkey posted:Did you just channel Tim Minchin? it was not my intention to resemble this Tim Minchin person whom you mention man this gimmick is kinda fun too bad it's played out already
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Gullous posted:Subtle OSHA Hyperbaric conditions -- they're working in a compressed air environment in order to keep the bentonite sealer clay in place. (Complete with needing to spend time in a decompression chamber after work.) Not a situation where you want to be wearing earplugs.
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Is there something you do not know about? I'm not sarcastic, i am seriously impressed by your knowledge on the variety of subjects.
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Following the link in the comments brings you to this news page http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/Projects/Viaduct/ and http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/Projects/Vi...nneling-machine which explains the hyperbaric conditions. I assumed it was just so wet and tight (lol) that keeping ear protection on is just futile. The skinny guy receiving the cutting tools looks like a rookie, and he has his ear plugs in. He also doesn't look very strong, so I doubt he's been there for very long. He's making the effort to use ear pro but that will probably subside if he lasts.
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ullerrm posted:Hyperbaric conditions -- they're working in a compressed air environment in order to keep the bentonite sealer clay in place. (Complete with needing to spend time in a decompression chamber after work.) Not a situation where you want to be wearing earplugs. Earpro shouldn't be a problem if you don't wear them when the pressure changes quickly? They probably have man syndrome.
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Couldn't you just put in the earplugs after entering the high-pressure area and take them out before leaving?
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haveblue posted:Couldn't you just put in the earplugs after entering the high-pressure area and take them out before leaving? Technically yes but the one time you forget you'll puncture your eardrums. And that's probably going to happen eventually.
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Humphreys posted:I used to be a Rail Network Controller and that baffles me. Surely a European country has better rail infrastructure than Australia. Nope. The prevailing opinion in many western European countries during the 70s and 80s was that trains are an obsolete technology, so many lines never got any new safety technology, even if it existed. E.g Finland needed two major accidents, a derailment in 1996 and a crash in 1998 before automatic train control was rolled out on all main lines. Once the decision to install ATC was made, it was deployed on pretty much every line with passenger traffic, which meant the coverage was exceptional by European standards. But then again, Finland had a fairly sparse network to upgrade in the first place.
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Elsa posted:The skinny guy receiving the cutting tools looks like a rookie, and he has his ear plugs in. He also doesn't look very strong, so I doubt he's been there for very long. He's making the effort to use ear pro but that will probably subside if he lasts. The guy at the head doing the actual replacement looks like he is wearing custom fit ear inserts of some kind. Maybe electronic noise cancelling doo-dads, or hell, maybe just hearing aids since his job made him go deaf probably.
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ullerrm posted:Hyperbaric conditions -- they're working in a compressed air environment in order to keep the bentonite sealer clay in place. (Complete with needing to spend time in a decompression chamber after work.) Not a situation where you want to be wearing earplugs. Serious question: are they on the clock while in the decompression chamber? I mean the obvious humane answer is “yes”, but then there was that Amazon case… Then again, Amazon pickers didn’t have a union. Platystemon fucked around with this message at 06:45 on Jul 15, 2016 |
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