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Olothreutes posted:That is a surprisingly low death toll for a four or five story fall to a factory floor, molten glass furnace or not. I'm amazed that more people didn't die. But they were "more or less hurt"
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Olothreutes posted:That is a surprisingly low death toll for a four or five story fall to a factory floor, molten glass furnace or not. I'm amazed that more people didn't die. People were hardier back then. It took more than a 40 foot fall to die. Kids these days can't even fall down the stairs without breaking their necks.
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^^- oh, goddamnit. People were tougher back then. A lot of them had a natural resistance to molten glass. Same reason the old guys on site don't have time for PPE.
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Nov 18, 2016 01:41
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Most of those kids were even back at work digging asbestos the next day, and at least half of them of them lived well into their twenties.
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Olothreutes posted:That is a surprisingly low death toll for a four or five story fall to a factory floor, molten glass furnace or not. I'm amazed that more people didn't die.
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Nov 18, 2016 02:36
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zedprime posted:From the artist recreation it looks like maybe 15-20ft from the roof to the access floor at the top of the furnace. It might have been a factory crewed by oompa-loompas so each floor was only about 4' tall. drat, the math works out eerily well, what evil have we unearthed after all these years?
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Nov 18, 2016 02:43
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What's the LD50 fall height for adult males
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BattleMaster posted:What's the LD50 fall height for adult males E: ', not " I'm thinking major injury. It's like 4 stories so like 45-50 feet. Cocaine Bear fucked around with this message at 02:53 on Nov 18, 2016 |
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BattleMaster posted:What's the LD50 fall height for adult males LD90 for fall=7 stories The median lethal dose (LD50) for falls is 4 stories, or 48 ft, and the lethal does for 90% (LD90) of test subjects is 7 stories, or 84 ft. Reference: Rosen P, ed. Emergency Medicine: Concepts and Clinical Practice. 4th ed. Mosby-Year Book, Inc; 1998:352.
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48' e: oh ffs really
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Platystemon posted:“test subjects” "This is very useful data THAT WE CAN'T REPLICATE EVER BECAUSE IT'S MURDER."
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So we’re clear on this: Nazis had terrible methodology and didn’t keep honest notebooks. Nearly all of the data they obtained via human experimentation is worthless.
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Platystemon posted:So we’re clear on this: Nazis had terrible methodology and didn’t keep honest notebooks. Nearly all of the data they obtained via human experimentation data is worthless. Maybe but the Japanese data was really good. Good enough to forgive war crimes for!
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Platystemon posted:So we’re clear on this: Nazis had terrible methodology and didn’t keep honest notebooks. Nearly all of the data they obtained via human experimentation data is worthless. I thought it was their aeronautical engineers were the ones everyone wanted after the war
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Nov 18, 2016 03:24
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they probably didn't fall four stories. the building itself was five stories high, not that there was a five story gap between the roof and the factory floor. factories back in the day tended to be very tall with multiple stories because it was easier to transmit mechanical power via belts and pulleys through a vertical factory - factories were able to become horizontal (much more efficient) when electrical power became commonplace. otherwise, we have to imagine why the glass factory had a ~45ft air gap between the roof and the floor. also if you think about an old timey glass factory, the top floor is the best place to create molten glass which can then flow downwards into various molding rooms
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and remember that they weren't falling into the furnace, they were basically falling onto a brick skillet
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boner confessor posted:they probably didn't fall four stories. the building itself was five stories high, not that there was a five story gap between the roof and the factory floor. factories back in the day tended to be very tall with multiple stories because it was easier to transmit mechanical power via belts and pulleys through a vertical factory - factories were able to become horizontal (much more efficient) when electrical power became commonplace. otherwise, we have to imagine why the glass factory had a ~45ft air gap between the roof and the floor. also if you think about an old timey glass factory, the top floor is the best place to create molten glass which can then flow downwards into various molding rooms Picture this, but with stairs.
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Nov 18, 2016 03:29
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Platystemon posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIoBbQQs_p4 Time works the same way.
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Platystemon posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIoBbQQs_p4 yeah exactly. when you're using leather belts to drive machines adding a second, third, fourth, or fifth floor is as efficient as building 2x, 3x, 4x, or 5x the horizontal distance from your main drive shaft
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Nov 18, 2016 03:35
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Who am I kidding? Stairs were a bougie luxury. It was ladders all the way down.
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Just a small palette cleanser of sorts (nobody gets hurt but still impressive): Equipment upgrade time-lapse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4dFcOTxVKU
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BattleMaster posted:It was more the descriptions of writhing masses of burning people that made me think that a lot more people were affected
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Three-Phase posted:Just a small palette cleanser of sorts (nobody gets hurt but still impressive): Old, bald gently caress too cool for a hard hat.
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Nov 18, 2016 03:57
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Three-Phase posted:Just a small palette cleanser of sorts (nobody gets hurt but still impressive): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikGSD2TyUhE Here's a time lapse of the construction of a crane to handle the replacement of the steam generators at a nuclear power plant (Sequoyah).
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Three-Phase posted:Just a small palette cleanser of sorts (nobody gets hurt but still impressive): I've spent most of this week shuffling 15 ton centerless grinders, trigger warning this plz
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Olothreutes posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikGSD2TyUhE I didn't read your description carefully and I thought it was the construction if a steam generator. I was actually kind of impressed with the enormity of that crane.
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DiHK posted:I didn't read your description carefully and I thought it was the construction if a steam generator. I was actually kind of impressed with the enormity of that crane. It's really amazing. First time I've seen someone use several (clearly very large) cranes to assemble another crane. Also the steam generators for Sequoyah weigh 345 tons a piece, so the crane has to be able to handle that sort of load. Do not stand under it.
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Olothreutes posted:It's really amazing. First time I've seen someone use several (clearly very large) cranes to assemble another crane. And if that super-crane is capable of the same feat, then the Bootstrap is underway and humanity is doomed. The Singularity is here... but only for the cranes.
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Platystemon posted:Who am I kidding? Stairs were a bougie luxury. A lot of multi story factories had (and some facilities still have, especially grain elevators) the even more OSHA belt manlift: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUdL_st3FFw
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DiHK posted:I was actually kind of impressed with the enormity of that crane.
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Kinda impressed with that reactor, that video of the crane was a replacement done in Jan. 2013 and they got the operating license and turned on less than 1 month ago. After replacing the worst part (I would assume) there was almost 4 years of the other replacements and testing to be licensed. That thing must be so far beyond "safe." Does the fact that it is brand new compared to the 50 year old reactors actually show in it's output or performance or is that something that will takes years to show up that it is more efficient? One of the very few places I don't really mind seeing a huge american flag hung up. Good poo poo.
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NoneMoreNegative posted:What's so bad about it? I mean bad like "bad to the bone".
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From the bitcoin thread:Tokamak posted:someone uploaded an imgur album of a rural chinese bitcoin farm.
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Theris posted:A lot of multi story factories had (and some facilities still have, especially grain elevators) the even more OSHA belt manlift: I remember as a young child I would go downtown with my mom to visit her home office about once a month, and the parking garage had this for it's valet attendants. Always though they were super cool, and probably dangerous.
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I hope bitcoins are the environmental disaster that finally does humanity in, it'd be too perfect
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Theris posted:A lot of multi story factories had (and some facilities still have, especially grain elevators) the even more OSHA belt manlift: Belt Manlift sounds like it could have been one the names from that MST3K episode https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFHlJ2voJHY
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JUST MAKING CHILI posted:I remember as a young child I would go downtown with my mom to visit her home office about once a month, and the parking garage had this for it's valet attendants. Always though they were super cool, and probably dangerous. I illegally rode a manlift once in a parking garage once talk about a rush I live life on the loving edge
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Ak Gara posted:What happens if a really fat person tries to ride it and they're too big for the hole They still go through the hole, they just come out in a different shape on the other side http://i.imgur.com/O9ZriYf.gifv
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