Sirotan posted:

For even more methylmercury fun, there's always Minamata! Also pretty .

EKDS5k posted:

Use a radio, and turn it up loud enough to hear it from the breaker room.

SLOSifl posted:

Okay but what is a 'radio' grandpa?

nozh posted:

"Pollution was so heavy at the mouth of the wastewater canal, a figure of 2 kg of mercury per ton of sediment was measured: a level that would be economically viable to mine. Indeed, Chisso did later set up a subsidiary to reclaim and sell the mercury recovered from the sludge."

goddamnedtwisto posted:

Yeah assuming it's not a catastrophic pressure-main failure (and you loving know when those happen, it's biblical) it's just finding its way out through the existing cracks.

It will eventually undermine the road but it'll get fixed before that's likely to be an issue. The bigger problem is when they fix it in a hurry and don't let the substrate dry before relaying the road so the ground settles under the (new/well-repaired) pipe and causes it to crack further on. Then they fix that in a hurry, rinse, repeat, and find out why there's been at least one lane closed of the road outside my house for the last loving year.

Sirotan posted:

For even more methylmercury fun, there's always Minamata! Also pretty .

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Chisso ... withheld information on its industrial processes, leaving researchers to speculate what products the factory was producing and by what methods. The Chisso factory's hospital director, Hajime Hosokawa, established a laboratory in the research division of the plant to carry out his own experiments into Minamata disease in July 1959. Food to which factory wastewater had been added was fed to healthy cats. Seventy-eight days into the experiment, cat 400 exhibited symptoms of Minamata disease and pathological examinations confirmed a diagnosis of organic mercury poisoning. The company did not reveal these significant results to the investigators and ordered Hosokawa to stop his research. In an attempt to undermine Kumamoto University researchers' organic mercury theory, Chisso and other parties with a vested interest that the factory remain open (including the Ministry of International Trade and Industry and the Japan Chemical Industry Association) funded research into alternative causes of the disease, other than its own waste.

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Chisso installed a Cyclator purification system on December 19, 1959, and opened it with a special ceremony. Chisso's president Kiichi Yoshioka drank a glass of water supposedly treated through the Cyclator to demonstrate that it was safe. In fact, the wastewater from the acetaldehyde plant, which the company knew still contained mercury and led to Minamata disease when fed to cats, was not treated through the Cyclator at the time. Testimony at a later Niigata Minamata disease trial proved that Chisso knew the Cyclator to be completely ineffective: "The purification tank was installed as a social solution and did nothing to remove organic mercury."

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on 26 September 1968 — 12 years after the discovery of the disease (and four months after Chisso had stopped production of acetaldehyde using its mercury catalyst) — the government issued an official conclusion as to the cause of Minamata disease:

"Minamata disease is a disease of the central nervous system, a poisoning caused by long-term consumption, in large amounts, of fish and shellfish from Minamata Bay. The causative agent is methylmercury. Methylmercury produced in the acetaldehyde acetic acid facility of Shin Nihon Chisso's Minamata factory was discharged in factory wastewater... Minamata disease patients last appeared in 1960, and the outbreak has ended. This is presumed to be because consumption of fish and shellfish from Minamata Bay was banned in the fall of 1957, and the fact that the factory had waste-treatment facilities in place from January 1960."

The conclusion contained many factual errors: eating fish and shellfish from other areas of the Shiranui Sea, not just Minamata Bay, could cause the disease; eating small amounts, as well as large amounts of contaminated fish over a long time also produced symptoms; the outbreak had not, in fact, ended in 1960 nor had mercury-removing wastewater facilities been installed in January 1960.

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Those who decided to sue the company came under fierce pressure to drop their lawsuits. One woman was visited personally by a Chisso executive and harassed by her neighbours. She was ignored, her family's fishing boat used without permission, their fishing nets were cut, and human faeces were thrown at her in the street.

mostlygray posted:

In Cook MN the water tower broke one winter at 40 below or more. It dumped all its water at once. Every street beneath was coated in about 6" of ice. Cars were frozen to the ground.

/CSB

jetz0r posted:

There's a good chance that device could damage the outlets, or break the breakers. It depends on age and type, but some percentage of breakers will fail to reset after being popped. And ya know, a hand held thing that blows a 15 amp circuit might be dangerous to hold.

Two people with radios or cell phones and a light bulb is safer, even though it sucks.

Say Nothing posted:

Nissin Cup Nudist posted:

Was this dude peeing or something? What is he doing?

Nissin Cup Nudist posted:

Was this dude peeing or something? What is he doing?

zedprime posted:

In a previous incarnation of this thread it was accompanied by some yard worker explaining a lot of that still happens because not slamming cars together and hooking them before the rebound just takes too long.

Nissin Cup Nudist posted:

Was this dude peeing or something? What is he doing?

Zopotantor posted:

Connecting the cars by placing a shackle between two fixed hooks on the cars. Afterwards he would have to connect the brake lines. He doesn't show off because he has no control over the speed of the car (somebody else probably screwed up there).
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffers_and_chain_coupler

zedprime posted:

I don't know, a risk analysis would probably say he could have control over the speed of the car by not standing in the line of fire of a moving car.

Say Nothing posted:

Jonny 290 posted:

Honestly there's nothing really wrong with this other than the goofy stupidity. Polarization is maintained and most cheap power strips just have all the lines paralleled behind there anyways.

Jerry Cotton posted:

I have the flu so I might be completely missing the point but isn't it pretty darn dangerous to have an outlet where the receptacles aren't recessed so as to make it impossible to touch live prongs?

EoRaptor posted:

Welcome to america, or any country that has american style outlets.

EoRaptor posted:

Welcome to america, or any country that has american style outlets.

Jerry Cotton posted:

So... the US and ???

PittTheElder posted:

EoRaptor posted:

Welcome to america, or any country that has american style outlets.

Though, bridging contact issues mostly lead to fires, it's pretty rare for a human to bridge them and the 120v shock when it does happen isn't usually high enough to kill. The major concern is people (kids) sticking foreign objects in the sockets, and recessed doesn't make any difference to that.

Jerry Cotton posted:

So... the US and ???

Wasabi the J posted:

Abyssal Squid posted:

I'm willing to bet the dude walked into a stick and said "whoa sick, look at all this blood I'll tell the internet it was an animal attack."

Collateral Damage posted:

He's surprisingly calm for just having been mauled by a bear. Adrenaline is a hell of a drug.

Wasabi the J posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tK609rbSBLs