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So yeah, about that blast shield on the hydraulic press channel... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05WgurzejZk
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Car vs level crossing on my commute last night.   Witnesses reported the car driving around the lowered barriers, flashing lights and ringing bells. Driver is in a serious condition. Why do people continue to think its worth the risk of racing a train at a level crossing? dmnz fucked around with this message at 21:14 on Oct 6, 2016 |
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dmnz posted:Car vs level crossing on my commute last night. Probably had to pee real bad. Now he can go whenever cause of the catheter!
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Jesus Christ posted:Hong Kong ~1950, but OSHA didn't exist then so it's coolies
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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dmnz posted:Why do people continue to think its worth the risk of racing a train at a level crossing? They're driving a Mitsubishi Mirage, how are you sure they wanted to beat the train?
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Jerry Cotton posted:Speaking of materials I know Al/Fe bar exists and whenever I've asked old farts how it's made they say "EXPLODING" but no-one has actually been able to tell me what, in practical terms, exploding Fe and Al together to create a solid piece means. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2u51tJdRDK0
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Jerry Cotton posted:Speaking of materials I know Al/Fe bar exists and whenever I've asked old farts how it's made they say "EXPLODING" but no-one has actually been able to tell me what, in practical terms, exploding Fe and Al together to create a solid piece means. It’s just called “explosion welding”. You crash the pieces together so hard that their atoms intermingle at the boundary. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2u51tJdRDK0
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Prosthetic_Mind posted:So yeah, about that blast shield on the hydraulic press channel... What the gently caress? this is finest ashtray ever!
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Well gently caress. I never thought it was that simple. Thanks!
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dmnz posted:Car vs level crossing on my commute last night. When people just rush through level crossings like that, I just have to ask myself... "Why don't they look?"
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I almost sort of understand why people sometimes try to gun it when there's like a 2km long slow moving freight train coming, but some little short rear end suburban train that will be gone in 3 seconds??
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Phanatic posted:What's going on is that the surface fibers are breaking apart and tangling together, and the heat buildup melts the lignin. As it cools the lignin resolidifies so you've basically got an adhesive matrix surrounding a tangle of fibers. It's apparently good enough for interior fittings but can't really handle environmental exposure. So no bamboo version of the Spruce Goose? What about smaller things like tanks?
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dmnz posted:Car vs level crossing on my commute last night. http://youtu.be/IJNR2EpS0jw Dumb ways to die... Think about perspective - it's probably hard to judge how fast a train is moving until it gets dangerously close.
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Three-Phase posted:http://youtu.be/IJNR2EpS0jw If you go under/around the crossing arms, you might as well be yelling " I no longer wish to be alive". No sympathy at all. They put their fate in their own hands.
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Johnny Aztec posted:If you go under/around the crossing arms, you might as well be yelling " I no longer wish to be alive". ...And you never know if that long slow moving train is blocking your view of a fast moving one on the other tracks.
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Three-Phase posted:http://youtu.be/IJNR2EpS0jw It's worth knowing that that YouTube video was funded by the rail interests in Australia in lieu of making road/rail crossings safer. I forget the cost tradeoff between making the video and putting in modern crossing equipment, but it was substantial.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:It's worth knowing that that YouTube video was funded by the rail interests in Australia in lieu of making road/rail crossings safer. I forget the cost tradeoff between making the video and putting in modern crossing equipment, but it was substantial. The Victorian state government are currently spending several billion dollars on removing the 50 worst level crossings in the state. I've gone past some of the crossing and they're MASSIVE projects, creating gigantic underpasses so traffic can move underneath the rail lines.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:It's worth knowing that that YouTube video was funded by the rail interests in Australia in lieu of making road/rail crossings safer. I forget the cost tradeoff between making the video and putting in modern crossing equipment, but it was substantial. I've never understood this argument when it's been put to me. It is essentially "Some people run red lights or stop signs, therefor every intersection needs to be rebuilt as a cloverleaf". Put red light cameras on level crossings, issue offenders (or their estates) fines and points. It's pretty well established that people won't drive safely because it'll save their lives, but they will modify their driving behavior to avoid fines.
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quote:"Some people run red lights or stop signs, therefor every intersection needs to be rebuilt as a cloverleaf". This would be a fine statement if you said roundabouts.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:The Victorian state government are currently spending several billion dollars on removing the 50 worst level crossings in the state. I've gone past some of the crossing and they're MASSIVE projects, creating gigantic underpasses so traffic can move underneath the rail lines. The crossing removal down the road from me removed enough dirt in 17 days to fill an 80000 person stadium. Which they should have done just for shits and giggles. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49TjGxa80Iw
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Fasdar posted:This would be a fine statement if you said roundabouts. Roundabouts can gently caress themselves
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Slanderer posted:Roundabouts can gently caress themselves Theyre pretty fun on motorcycles. Just go into it and keep going round and round and round...
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Slanderer posted:Roundabouts can gently caress themselves Roundabouts are the loving best.
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dmnz posted:Car vs level crossing on my commute last night.  Hey had one of those last month. See if you can spot the car.
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Slanderer posted:Roundabouts can gently caress themselves Me American lowbrow, and me still want MORE ROUNDIES
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As an idiot from New England, I can say that roundabouts are cool and good, except for multi-lane roundabouts. That poo poo is just asking for trouble.
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Multi-lane roundabouts are fine except when there's that one idiot who doesn't know how to use it and stays in the rightmost lane even when he's going left. Also roundabouts with traffic lights at the exits, gently caress those.
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Roundabouts are amazing and are safer even when people use them incorrectly. When used well they are a marvel of cultural development. Fight me.
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Synthbuttrange posted:
When I was a Rail Network Controller there was ONE specific level crossing that would always make me nervous. It was a lovely country crossing that a lot of B-Doubles/Triples would cross regularly. The access off the highway wasn't long enough for the trucks to be 100% off the highway and park at the crossing. So there was always that risk there would be a risky trucker trying to sneak through. I had no video coverage (I had NONE actually) so when ever one of my trains entered the section that had that crossing I would pucker up with one hand on the emergency phone, and my foot on the radio key to get live updates/make sure the driver of the train was awake. It wasn't a videogame and this was all I saw of my trains: 
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Chard posted:Me American lowbrow, and me still want MORE ROUNDIES I'll be the roundabout
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Three-Phase posted:I'll be the roundabout Road safety, not OSHA. Also, a guy might've died 3 seconds after the video ends. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpwFL8ffwMo
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My fellow Americans: roundabouts are not that hard. I encountered dozens of them in Berlin and Munich, I only screwed up the first one.
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DiHK posted:My fellow Americans: roundabouts are not that hard. I encountered dozens of them in Berlin and Munich, I only screwed up the first one. This is true, and yet I still have a problem with roundabouts as we've had them here for the better part of a decade and local drivers still don't know how to use them. As someone who often rides a bicycle, there is definitely a greater sense of danger with roundabouts than 4 way stops.
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My problem with round abouts is my GPS calls them traffic circles.
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i live in loving missouri the land of the toothless and hungry and even we have roundabouts and manage them fine 
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The problem is that 90% of the roundabouts I've driven through in the US are seemingly designed to look pretty, and not to be effective as a traffic flow device. There are a LOT of US traffic designers that just don't "get" roundabouts.
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IPCRESS posted:I've never understood this argument when it's been put to me. It is essentially "Some people run red lights or stop signs, therefor every intersection needs to be rebuilt as a cloverleaf". It's not just about the idiot running the crossing. It's also about the massive traffic backup that a freight train can cause. Disrupting traffic leads to accidents that endanger perfectly sensible people. We have one at grade crossing near my work about 1/10 of a mile from an interchange between a major highway and interstate and a freight train at rush hour is guaranteed to cause a massive traffic jam and several accidents. Commuter trains on the other hand aren't there long enough to matter.
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MrYenko posted:The problem is that 90% of the roundabouts I've driven through in the US are seemingly designed to look pretty, and not to be effective as a traffic flow device. There are a LOT of US traffic designers that just don't "get" roundabouts. well a big issue is that they don't want to fully commit to putting a roundabout in a location where they need to improve traffic flow because they've never even seen one before, so they just plop one down somewhere that really didn't need it to prove that it will not be the end of the world. but at that point you've already blown your budget so you gotta wait until next year and then next year some schmuck who lives nearby and drives a hummer shows up to your city hall meeting to try and get it torn down because he can't bear the discomfort of trying to go through a roundabout in a hummer
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IPCRESS posted:Put red light cameras on level crossings, issue offenders (or their estates) fines and points. It's pretty well established that people won't drive safely because it'll save their lives, but they will modify their driving behavior to avoid fines. red light cameras are an oppressive enforcer though. they are pretty deeply flawed. without changing the system there's no way to prove that the person driving the car was the person issued the license for the car, not only that but false positives are pretty common at least in my experience. like they might appear to be useful to stop dickheads but in reality those people just put 'anti-glare' covers on their license plates and run red lights anyways leaving you to get hosed because your car was sitting at the white line as they run it. and of course its the police department so you want to fight it? get hosed! its only a $70 ticket 
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