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ChesterJT posted:Does the technology not exists to sense an obstruction and stop the elevator? Almost all garage doors these days have magic eyes. Properly designed elevators generally don't move unless the doors are closed.
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Olothreutes posted:At least he falls out before being pinned by the oncoming floor and then sheared in half like a squishy blood balloon. I've seen a video where a guy doesn't get out, surprisingly he wasn't bifurcated because the elevator stopped, but I'm sure his ribs didn't appreciate the experience.
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ChesterJT posted:Does the technology not exists to sense an obstruction and stop the elevator? Almost all garage doors these days have magic eyes. poo poo breaks.
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ethanol posted:That burning pitch video led me to the Hillsborough disaster documentary Thanks for posting this. It is a really great documentary.
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Sagebrush posted:bunch of osha and schadenfreude stuff from an imgur dump. some we've seen before but w/e The guy with the bucket on his head on the scooter, I can never understand it as he has a perfectly good helmet on his handlebars.
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Doc Hawkins posted:We've all said it before, but I'm impressed at how few people seem to die in the attempt to be youtube famous. There's been a handful. Here's a lovely "10 people who died copying Jackass" video, most of them seemed to be filming it for youtube. Plus there's still the chance that LA Beast will die from brain parasites or something from one of his old food challenges where he ate raw offal. 
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i support death, in any form.
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Fanelien posted:The guy with the bucket on his head on the scooter, I can never understand it as he has a perfectly good helmet on his handlebars. All these years and I have never noticed that helmet. Wow.
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Maybe the helmet doesn’t fit.
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You guys shouldn't believe the governments lies about helmet safety standards. They're just trying to make you spend money.
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The pic with the oblivious (Russian?) guy about to take a sledgehammer to the face always makes me chuckle but all the 'working extremely unsafely at height' ones give me the heebie jeebies.
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Sagebrush posted:bunch of osha and schadenfreude stuff from an imgur dump. some we've seen before but w/e ah yeah thats the good stuff Also when I work I tend to move the ladder around by "walking" it, ie feet on the bar on one side and 3rd or 4th step down on step side. Is this dangerous? seems pretty normal to me and our supervisor at work does it all the time, but I always wondered if it was OSHA.
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du -hast posted:ah yeah thats the good stuff If 1000 people do a stupid thing it is still a stupid thing.
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du -hast posted:ah yeah thats the good stuff Danger = risk of an accident or hazardous event occurring * probable impact of the event. You can do the math as the situation fits. Just better hope nobody leaves a screw driver, spray paint can, paint can opener, gatorade bottle, thick extension cord, or any other "opportunistic friction reducers" in your way...
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fA52L0eabNo Dam update: the hillside is getting wrecked.
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Saw this on the drive in to work yesterday.  Maybe they should lower the road under that awning.
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Platystemon posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fA52L0eabNo The Lake Berryessa spillway (aka "the glory hole") is probably going to overflow sometime next week for the first time in a decade. It's currently 1 foot below the lip. I'm gonna ride up to see it if so.  that's 70 feet in diameter, and a 200-foot drop straight down before the spillway starts to turn under the dam
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More Oroville footage, looks like it's from the river below the dam. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnpezN_UU8I Not sure what that bulldozer thinks it's doing.
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Sagebrush posted:The Lake Berryessa spillway (aka "the glory hole") is probably going to overflow sometime next week for the first time in a decade. It's currently 1 foot below the lip. I'm gonna ride up to see it if so. I can't believe I've been goatse'd by civil engineers.
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Sagebrush posted:The Lake Berryessa spillway (aka "the glory hole") is probably going to overflow sometime next week for the first time in a decade. It's currently 1 foot below the lip. I'm gonna ride up to see it if so. They should convert that into the worlds greatest water slide.
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PittTheElder posted:They should convert that into the worlds greatest water slide. Between Action Park’s looping slide and that slide that decapitated a kid last year, there’s already stiff competition for that title.
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Space Crabs posted:More Oroville footage, looks like it's from the river below the dam. I saw a beach reclamation project once where they were sucking up off shore sand and pumping it up onto the shore. The next day I saw in the paper it was a 15m contract. The third day I saw them driving Cat D6s cab deep into the salt water to push the sand up on shore and realized where the 15m was going.
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https://twitter.com/CA_DWR/status/830898986403762176 Oh hey that sounds reasonable and like everythings fi........ https://twitter.com/CA_DWR/status/830940846283329536 https://twitter.com/CA_DWR/status/830940227908677633
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Space Crabs posted:https://twitter.com/CA_DWR/status/830898986403762176 Why is there no new video yet!?
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I would imagine they're just worried about the land sliding into the water and making a wicked rear end wave.
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Powershift posted:I would imagine they're just worried about the land sliding into the water and making a wicked rear end wave. Yeah, from the geological reports that someone pulled upthread, there is bedrock about 30 feet below the soil level, but 30 feet X Lake is still a huge volume of water if that dirt erodes away
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The Glumslinger posted:Yeah, from the geological reports that someone pulled upthread, there is bedrock about 30 feet below the soil level, but 30 feet X Lake is still a huge volume of water if that dirt erodes away Well, they wanted rain, they got rain, maybe next time don't use a monkey's paw.
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Powershift posted:Well, they wanted rain, they got rain, maybe next time don't use a monkey's paw. We would prefer rain a bit more spread out next time Also, colder storms so more of it sticks as snow Also, adding the fun is the next big wave of storms that is hitting early this week
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The Glumslinger posted:We would prefer rain a bit more spread out next time Well, maybe next time satan himself is elected leader of the world, you'll start building an arc and loading it with animals like a sane person. 
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Space Crabs posted:https://twitter.com/CA_DWR/status/830898986403762176 "The Auxiliary spillway looks strangely like the Emergency spillway before water started flowing over it an DWR decided it was a great time to rename it" Oh, and they're mad about all those sweet drone shots and issued a temporary flight restriction to make them illegal.
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The Glumslinger posted:Yeah, from the geological reports that someone pulled upthread, there is bedrock about 30 feet below the soil level, but 30 feet X Lake is still a huge volume of water if that dirt erodes away There was rock 30 feet below the original saddle height, but it might have been re‐graded when the dam was built. Soil may have been added or removed. If I had known the geology would be this relevant, I would have dug into it more on Thursday. Platystemon fucked around with this message at 02:25 on Feb 13, 2017 |
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MisterOblivious posted:"The Auxiliary spillway looks strangely like the Emergency spillway before water started flowing over it an DWR decided it was a great time to rename it" Yeah this confused me, I thought the auxillary one was the concrete with a sinkhole spillway, not the "just a hillside over there" one
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Powershift posted:I would imagine they're just worried about the land sliding into the water and making a wicked rear end wave. Live footage from California https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDohpjD1jvA&t=70s
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If you want real live video, a Sacramento news station has a chopper in the air. http://www.kcra.com/nowcast
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the yeti posted:Yeah this confused me, I thought the auxillary one was the concrete with a sinkhole spillway, not the "just a hillside over there" one There have been reports about all three, so it's quite confusing. At the live presser they're making it clear that this is all about the damaged auxiliary spillway. The dam itself and the emergency are fine.
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Platystemon posted:There was rock 30 feet below the original saddle height, but it might have been re‐graded when the dam was built. Soil may have been added or removed. I'm assuming there's still rock down there. Yeah, once the backfill is scoured away (which'll leave the grade seriously hosed up), the rock should do OK. The problem is that if the emergency spillway is built high off the bedrock, and it fails, at least that depth of the lake will just completely cut loose which would warrant evacuation. Also, not knowing the geology between the emergency spillway and the dam, I'd be worried about lateral scouring starting to affect the dam structure. If there's a spike of bedrock between the dam and the emergency spillway, that would be the saving grace. That said, hopefully bedrock underneath will hold back the vast majority of the volume of the lake. Nature, hydrodynamics, and local geology will stabilize the outflow. Folks downstream will be screwed, but as long as the main dam holds, the potential shitstorm might be avoided. The Glumslinger posted:We would prefer rain a bit more spread out next time Well... um, gently caress.
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