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Atticus_1354 posted:I just found the most unexpected warehouse and forklift in a random video. oh my god 
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Atticus_1354 posted:I just found the most unexpected warehouse and forklift in a random video. The world needs more people like this man.
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Sep 28, 2016 17:07
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Cliff Stoll is a treasure, and in all videos he is so energetic and enthusiastic. I always feel tired after watching them but in a good way.
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Sep 28, 2016 17:08
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NoneMoreNegative posted:If you feel like going Oh man, this alerted me to the fact that somebody made a Command and Control documentary, set to air this fall. Should be horrifying.
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Sep 28, 2016 17:16
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
pick up a copy of Schlosser's 'Command and Control' which details a lot of nuclear safety accidents around a central discussion of the Damascus Silo Incident in 1980
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Atticus_1354 posted:I just found the most unexpected warehouse and forklift in a random video. I wish my crawlspace was paved like that.
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Sep 28, 2016 20:45
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mom and dad fight a lot posted:I wish my crawlspace was paved like that. It's called a basement, scrub. 
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Sep 28, 2016 20:53
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Atticus_1354 posted:I just found the most unexpected warehouse and forklift in a random video. I bought a bottle from this guy once, but it was so long ago that the receipt isn’t in my GMail account—and I was in the beta.
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Sep 28, 2016 20:55
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If he tidied up the loose batt insulation it would look way better.
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Sep 28, 2016 21:12
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvVaaZ21C44
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Sep 28, 2016 22:27
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haha "Do my hands have any scratches?" *plunges in*
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Sep 28, 2016 22:46
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How expensive is mercury? Because 250 lbs sounds pretty drat costly.
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Sep 28, 2016 22:57
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chitoryu12 posted:How expensive is mercury? Because 250 lbs sounds pretty drat costly. 76 pounds to a flask, $1,850 per flask, so almost $6 k if he paid market rates.
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Sep 28, 2016 23:08
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Platystemon posted:76 pounds to a flask, $1,850 per flask, so almost $6 k if he paid market rates. Literally flushed down the toilet.
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Sep 28, 2016 23:11
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Gorilla Salad posted:The world needs more people like this man. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3ZlhxaT_Ko
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Sep 28, 2016 23:14
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chitoryu12 posted:How expensive is mercury? Because 250 lbs sounds pretty drat costly. If this is the same guy I'm thinking of, he mines and smelts his own
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Sep 28, 2016 23:14
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It's also a fake toilet build of some sort, so he's probably going to re-collect all the mercury. Some in his bloodstream.
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Sep 28, 2016 23:16
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That Rube Goldberg saw.
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Sep 28, 2016 23:24
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Ema Nymton posted:It's also a fake toilet build of some sort, so he's probably going to re-collect all the mercury. Some in his bloodstream. Both mentioned and shown in the video.
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Sep 28, 2016 23:42
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Raskolnikov38 posted:If this is the same guy I'm thinking of, he mines and smelts his own You are correct. He's got mineral rights to land that's got a bunch of cinnabar, but not enough to bother mining commercially. Relevant video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtvVzh-zfyo
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Sep 28, 2016 23:44
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Ema Nymton posted:It's also a fake toilet build of some sort, so he's probably going to re-collect all the mercury. Some in his bloodstream.
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Sep 28, 2016 23:46
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Sep 28, 2016 23:53
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Isn't that the same guy that did the 'mining' for platinum along the highway with a dust pan (because of the microscopic amount everybody's cat converter puts out adding up over time)
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Sep 28, 2016 23:54
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How many times do we have to rehash the fact that elemental Mercury isn't that loving dangerous unless your drinking it?
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Sep 28, 2016 23:56
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John Denver Hoxha posted:Isn't that the same guy that did the 'mining' for platinum along the highway with a dust pan (because of the microscopic amount everybody's cat converter puts out adding up over time)
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Sep 28, 2016 23:57
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I doubt a significant portion of that mercury came from his mine. There’s a reason mercury costs $54∕kg. I expect he got it as salvage. Sometimes people just come across tens of pounds of it in old industrial facilities. Wasabi the J posted:How many times do we have to rehash the fact that elemental Mercury isn't that loving dangerous unless your drinking it? Drinking it isn’t that bad as long as you don’t get any in your lungs. Platystemon fucked around with this message at 00:28 on Sep 29, 2016 |
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Sep 29, 2016 00:17
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The conspiracy crowd have taken to drinking high concentration H2O2 (I think they think oxygen is nitrogen) so I wouldn't put it past some wacko blogger to extol the health benefits of drinking quick silver. Content:  I'm no battery engineer, but I don't think a puddle on the shop floor is the best place to store dead batteries.
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Sep 29, 2016 00:42
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JoelJoel posted:The conspiracy crowd have taken to drinking high concentration H2O2 (I think they think oxygen is nitrogen) so I wouldn't put it past some wacko blogger to extol the health benefits of drinking quick silver. IIRC ingestion of liquid mercury has a bunch of random uses in traditional Chinese medicine. It goes straight through you without really doing much and can be reclaimed on the other side. And it comes up with some regularity among people thinking it'll make them live forever.
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Sep 29, 2016 00:47
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Metallic mercury will react with a number of different acids (e.g. hydrochloric acid in your stomach) to produce small amounts of organic mercury compounds that are handily absorbed into your bloodstream.
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Sep 29, 2016 00:54
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Sagebrush posted:Metallic mercury will react with a number of different acids (e.g. hydrochloric acid in your stomach) to produce small amounts of organic mercury compounds that are handily absorbed into your bloodstream. Yeah, forgot a "supposedly" in there somewhere.
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Sep 29, 2016 00:57
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HardDisk posted:Cliff Stoll is a treasure, and in all videos he is so energetic and enthusiastic. I always feel tired after watching them but in a good way. Clifford Stoll from The Cuckoo's Egg? The guy who accidentally discovered an international spy ring hacking US government computers way back before the Internet was a thing?
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Sep 29, 2016 01:16
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PhotoKirk posted:Clifford Stoll from The Cuckoo's Egg? The guy who accidentally discovered an international spy ring hacking US government computers way back before the Internet was a thing? The very same
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Sep 29, 2016 01:17
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I need this guy to be my BFF.
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Sep 29, 2016 02:13
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dis astranagant posted:IIRC ingestion of liquid mercury has a bunch of random uses in traditional Chinese medicine. It goes straight through you without really doing much and can be reclaimed on the other side. And it comes up with some regularity among people thinking it'll make them live forever. If there is one thing I'd absolutely trust as a source of scientifically accurate information, its Traditional Chinese Medicine.
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Sep 29, 2016 04:13
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Dienes posted:If there is one thing I'd absolutely trust as a source of scientifically accurate information, its Traditional Chinese Medicine. In this case it is accurate, because elemental mercury is not absorbed very efficiently, if at all, and passes through you fast enough that you don't get much of a dose from it. The main avenue of absorption of elemental mercury is through inhaling its vapor. Mercury compounds, particularly organomercury, are a different matter.
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Sep 29, 2016 04:27
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dis astranagant posted:IIRC ingestion of liquid mercury has a bunch of random uses in traditional Chinese medicine. It goes straight through you without really doing much and can be reclaimed on the other side. And it comes up with some regularity among people thinking it'll make them live forever. It of course, doesn't work, which is why Qin Shi Huang Di, First Emperor of China is dead now, rather than Lo Pan'ing us all to this day.
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Sep 29, 2016 04:44
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JoelJoel posted:Content: It really doesn't make a difference, since you'd need a wire going from each terminal to the puddle to make an issue or the battery to be in around a foot of water. And that is a battery that would be found in a semi or something similar, so they likely didn't want to heft it onto the rack due to weight. The biggest risk there is stubbing your toe on it. Fuckers are like kicking bricks.
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Sep 29, 2016 04:48
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Cop Porn Popper posted:It really doesn't make a difference, since you'd need a wire going from each terminal to the puddle to make an issue or the battery to be in around a foot of water. And that is a battery that would be found in a semi or something similar, so they likely didn't want to heft it onto the rack due to weight. The biggest risk there is stubbing your toe on it. Fuckers are like kicking bricks. That shelf will shatter if anyone puts one of those batteries on it. And that battery would wreck any foot it fell on.
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Sep 29, 2016 05:20
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Cop Porn Popper posted:It really doesn't make a difference, since you'd need a wire going from each terminal to the puddle to make an issue or the battery to be in around a foot of water. And that is a battery that would be found in a semi or something similar, so they likely didn't want to heft it onto the rack due to weight. The biggest risk there is stubbing your toe on it. Fuckers are like kicking bricks. Plus it's 12 volts. It would have to be pretty salty water for it to even be able to conduct. I've seen batteries like that sit out in the rain for days and be fine. That being said, it's still OSHA because on the floor in front of a shelf like that, it's a tripping hazard. Or someone could hit it, and crack the casing, spilling sulfuric acid everywhere. jetz0r posted:That shelf will shatter if anyone puts one of those batteries on it. And that battery would wreck any foot it fell on. Also this.
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Sep 29, 2016 05:27
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there's a pretty persistent myth that storing car batteries on concrete will destroy its ability to hold a charge.
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VectorSigma posted:there's a pretty persistent myth that storing car batteries on concrete will destroy its ability to hold a charge. I cannot even begin to comprehend where a myth like that would even start to come from. 
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