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Applesnots posted:A few years ago my girlfriend had an injection of some kind of radioactive dye, I am guessing iodine 131. And man that poo poo was HOT. I have some uranium ore samples, some marbles, glass and some americurium from a smoke detector, but drat. she would set my giger counter to its overload when she was outside! Ten feet away! through a cinder block wall! Her spit would do the same thing. it was nuts. My giger counter has a little alarm that would beep when it was trying to say, Hey, this is not safe. does she have super powers?
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Speaking of radiation OSHA, I was the IT manager for a small civil engineering firm about a decade ago. My office, such as it was, also served as the filing room and the server room. And the "other duties as assigned (without telling the occupant ahead of time)" room. Usually, it wasn't anything egregiously annoying, but one morning, I came around the corner, and three strangers wearing radiation badges were huddled around a tangle of equipment on the floor next to my servers. "Uh...hi? Why are you wearing rad badges in my office?" "We're calibrating the source in the well tester." I believe it was a medium potency bit of Americium on a steel cable that could be dropped into wells to check for...stuff. I don't know, I was there to fix the bleeps and blinks, not fix infrastructure. "Cool. Um. That's great and all, but why here?" "It's the only place in the building without carpet." Oh. Makes perfect sense. "I'm guessing I'm not authorized to work in here with you." One guy laughed. "Nope!" The other two guys did not laugh. They did let me in long enough to collect my laptop, after which I wandered into the senior hydrogeologist/former IT guy's office to camp out, where he was playing a ukelele cover of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow," because my morning wasn't surreal enough as it was.
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DirtRoadJunglist posted:They did let me in long enough to collect my laptop, after which I wandered into the senior hydrogeologist/former IT guy's office to camp out, where he was playing a ukelele cover of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow," because my morning wasn't surreal enough as it was.
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DirtRoadJunglist posted:where he was playing a ukelele cover of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow," because my morning wasn't surreal enough as it was. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_DKWlrA24k IZ owns gently caress the haters Edit: I didn't pay enough attention and thought I was in a chat thread, I hope the IZ video makes up for the useless post. Alereon fucked around with this message at 21:23 on Feb 20, 2017 |
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Okay. I like this way way better than the old "scary buildings" idea that won't work.quote:How to send a message 10,000 Years into the future. Step 2 is already great: https://emperorx.bandcamp.com/album/10000-year-earworm-to-discourage-settlement-near-nuclear-waste-repositories Carbon dioxide fucked around with this message at 21:49 on Feb 20, 2017 |
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Feb 20, 2017 21:12
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DirtRoadJunglist posted:"It's the only place in the building without carpet." Oh. Makes perfect sense. What's the logic of this, exactly? Is there something in carpeting that would screw up their meters? Are they worried about static electricity buildup doing...something? Or is it about it being easier to find stuff/clean up on a hard floor, in case they somehow lose a piece of the source? If that's a risk, why the hell are they doing it indoors instead of in a lab? For that matter, why are they doing it indoors in a human-occupied space at all, instead of in the garage or something? So many questions.
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Gay Weed Dad posted:Somehow I missed that bit, in that case all went as expected. Little late but yea, it was bad. On-site medics probably earned their pay that day. The most serious injury we've had on my site occurred before I started. From what I've heard, a welder sparked a cloud of flammable gas that he was standing in and the flash burnt a good portion of his body that wasn't covered by PPE/FRC. They landed a helicopter in the center of the site and flew him to a burn center.
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iroc.dis posted:Little late but yea, it was bad. On-site medics probably earned their pay that day. Our training school has had few injuries, but there was one incident where an instructor decided to let a student (unsupervised) climb up a ladder to fix a light bulb that blew. He promptly fell off and broke his back. The same instructor did almost crush my head like an eggshell with a crane once. He's no longer allowed onto any equipment.
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The truck was full up, you see.
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Ugh exposed rebar always makes my bootyhole cinch up
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I'm surprised it's not Colin Furze.
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Carecat posted:I'm surprised it's not Colin Furze. Is it Finns? The equipment is too nice to be Russians.
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Anta posted:Is it Finns? The equipment is too nice to be Russians. Yeah, the Dudesons are Finnish.
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From the spaceflight thread:
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Sagebrush posted:What's the logic of this, exactly? Is there something in carpeting that would screw up their meters? Are they worried about static electricity buildup doing...something? Or is it about it being easier to find stuff/clean up on a hard floor, in case they somehow lose a piece of the source? If that's a risk, why the hell are they doing it indoors instead of in a lab? For that matter, why are they doing it indoors in a human-occupied space at all, instead of in the garage or something? In the event that any of the source material escapes containment, a non-porous hard floor without seams means you can get almost all of it back.
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Alereon posted:Edit: I didn't pay enough attention and thought I was in a chat thread, I hope the IZ video makes up for the useless post. All IZ forgiven. Carecat posted:I'm surprised it's not Colin Furze. Nah, Furze doesn't include safety harnesses in any of his stuff. Including the 360 degree swing. Even though he knows he gets disoriented easily. And eTven when he threw a loving motor and propeller on it.
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Powered Descent posted:From the spaceflight thread: Haha, you can FEEL how much the two uniformed guys looking at him want to say something about it.
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PostNouveau posted:Haha, you can FEEL how much the two uniformed guys looking at him want to say something about it. “He might kill us all, but if I say something, he’ll definitely kill me.”
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Phanatic posted:Jeff Porcaro, the drummer for Toto, literally died in a bizarre gardening accident. Yeah, nah. quote:Steve Lukather: I spoke to him the day he passed... he said, 'yeah, man I'll see you this weekend and we'll have a BBQ at the house and we'll go clean up the yard'... and that's when he got poison on himself and it turns out he had a bad heart anyway. He had two uncles that died when they were 40 years old from heart disease so it was genetic... this whole drug thing that came out, it's so insidious, and I hate the loving fact cause he was never the bad drug guy... he'd be the guy going "what are you guys doing staying up all night, you idiots"... in the late '70s and early '80s it was crazy man, we're not gonna deny any of it, but by the time he passed it was never, I don't know, people just love to roam the dirty laundry as Henley wrote you know... and you read this Wikipedia poo poo, that's right there, it's like does anybody ever do homework on these facts... he just had a genetic predisposition... this whole thing with his arms hurting and all this, he was always, 'my arms, my muscles', it wasn't his muscles, it was the fact that the blood was not getting to the extremities, he had hardening of the arteries at 38 years old. This is pretty hosed up.
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Applesnots posted:A few years ago my girlfriend had an injection of some kind of radioactive dye, I am guessing iodine 131. And man that poo poo was HOT. I have some uranium ore samples, some marbles, glass and some americurium from a smoke detector, but drat. she would set my giger counter to its overload when she was outside! Ten feet away! through a cinder block wall! Her spit would do the same thing. it was nuts. My giger counter has a little alarm that would beep when it was trying to say, Hey, this is not safe. My MIL had a thyroid ablation procedure done last year that involved some sort of radioactive iodine superdose. The specialists recommended she and her husband sleep in different beds and told her not to prolong bodily contact with others. Worked like a charm though now she's notably less crazy and we can drive places with her during winter without having the AC maxed.
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Measly Twerp posted:Yeah, nah. This is way, way worse. Jeepers...
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RyokoTK posted:That kid looks like he's the site supervisor, the way he's walking over like that. The kid is the best part. I'm imagining him saying something like "you dumb motherfucker we better not get a citation over this."
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Three-Phase posted:Man that's a pretty solid deadbolt. Or the guy there is just super weak as hell. Probably just a uPVC door and frame - they're really pretty strong but more importantly they bounce really loving well, makes them almost impossible to smash open. Does make them really easy to open with a wedge though, but that doesn't look anywhere near as cool.
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The approach to the old Hong Kong airport was pretty much that, but done with 747s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G251YEUWxR4
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I almost didn't notice that truck subtly tilting 45 degrees. Thank god for that red circle
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goddamnedtwisto posted:The approach to the old Hong Kong airport was pretty much that, but done with 747s: Wasn't Kai Tak the one where there was a checkerboard pattern on some mountain which signalled where pilots needed to start some blind turn?
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Powered Descent posted:From the spaceflight thread: This could simplify power politics in east Asia.
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LifeSunDeath posted:http://i.imgur.com/6wmDgG7.mp4 I'm the car that decided the best course of action was to accelerate and pass under the truck
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dragon enthusiast posted:I'm the car that decided the best course of action was to accelerate and pass under the truck They've seen enough action movies to know that's the safest place to be.
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LifeSunDeath posted:http://i.imgur.com/6wmDgG7.mp4 So that's what it looks like when a driver uses scissors maneuver to change lanes. 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gycYtSVqs1I keep your hard hat on at all times
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spankmeister posted:Wasn't Kai Tak the one where there was a checkerboard pattern on some mountain which signalled where pilots needed to start some blind turn? Yes.
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 This appeared in my office this morning. Attached to a 4'x8' piece of glass 8 stories up in the air. There's a ladder nearby, maybe they're fixing it? No hard hats though, and it's business as usual around the office.
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Frozen Pizza Party posted:
My office is on the 12th floor of a building with floor-to-ceiling windows. There's only a 3 inch lip at the base of the window to keep me pushing away from my desk and out the window. And at least one window blows out randomly each quarter. I'm a little paranoid, to say the least.
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