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BattleMaster posted:More than "dangerous geometry"? "Dangerous geometry" could refer to anything in any number of contexts. "Favorable geometry" makes me wonder, what makes it favorable? How does one calculate favorable configurations? Are there several geometries that are favorable, or just one? It's like a weird shape puzzle waiting to be solved.
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Looks like a 40' high cube box there which means on a standard flatbed you will be over the legal height in the US. A regular 40' would have been fine, or a 40' high cube on a step deck trailer. In the end it comes down to the poor truck driver who said "yes I will drive this down the road" but I can't help but wonder how many links in the chain also hosed up (customer, shipper, freight broker) to make this a possibility.
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Oct 27, 2017 04:31
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I'm not saying doctors should kill the guy, but I think it would be merciful to put a small cup with an overdose of pain meds in the room and tell the guy "just take this if you need to tap out, friend." I sure as gently caress wouldn't want to go that way.
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tangy yet delightful posted:Looks like a 40' high cube box there which means on a standard flatbed you will be over the legal height in the US. A regular 40' would have been fine, or a 40' high cube on a step deck trailer. In the end it comes down to the poor truck driver who said "yes I will drive this down the road" but I can't help but wonder how many links in the chain also hosed up (customer, shipper, freight broker) to make this a possibility. Shipping companies are the dumbest when it comes to sending an appropriate truck. "Oh, you have two push around light carts to send to another province? Absolutely we'll dispatch a 40' low bed trailer for them!" Related OSHA content: One time the company I worked for had to send a 45 000 lb, 135' boom lift to Alberta. The truck showed up (at 4:30pm on a Friday, of course), and got positioned at the loading ramp. I got in the lift to drive it onto the trailer, and as it went over the deck I could hear the plywood (!) cracking under the weight. The driver assured me this was fine. The deck held, and it was all good until he asked me to unload it and turn it around, to better position the weight. As I drove it off I heard a much louder "CRACK!" as the aluminum frame rail sheared in two. I very carefully drove it the rest of the way off and kicked that trailer out of the yard, and earned 3 hours of overtime while I waited for the shipping company to arrange another truck.
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Oct 27, 2017 05:02
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ncumbered_by_idgits posted:It's Florida, just another day. So your saying it's loaded with meth or just on its way to repair an exploded lab?
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Oct 27, 2017 05:09
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Zil posted:So your saying it's loaded with meth or just on its way to repair an exploded lab? Yes.
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Oct 27, 2017 05:11
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Johnny Aztec posted:Yes. It's load-bearing meth.
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Oct 27, 2017 05:36
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Dirt Road Junglist posted:"Dangerous geometry" could refer to anything in any number of contexts. "Favorable geometry" makes me wonder, what makes it favorable? How does one calculate favorable configurations? Are there several geometries that are favorable, or just one? It's like a weird shape puzzle waiting to be solved. Oh that's like second year undergrad nuclear kinetics while dangerous geometry makes me think of slicing open your hand with a protractor while drawing a triangle
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General Specific posted:It's load-bearing meth. It's like that cheech and chong movie where they spray cocaine into forms like TV shells.
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Oct 27, 2017 05:44
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Dirt Road Junglist posted:"Dangerous geometry" could refer to anything in any number of contexts. "Favorable geometry" makes me wonder, what makes it favorable? How does one calculate favorable configurations? Are there several geometries that are favorable, or just one? It's like a weird shape puzzle waiting to be solved. You don't want fissile material to roll or to be able to gather in a sphere. So coin-shaped is the default these days. Edit: like this 
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Oct 27, 2017 05:51
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More chemical bunker adventures: we needed to retrieve this poo poo called "cytoseal" for a histology lab. It was in a closed Rubbermaid bin (iirc I was the idiot that did that). There were like 20 little bottles of the poo poo inside and I was hit by a waft of strong, acid-smelling fumes when I lifted the lid. This was about 12 hours ago now. My nasal passages still feel irritated. gently caress.
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Oct 27, 2017 06:03
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Maxwells Demon posted:You don't want fissile material to roll or to be able to gather in a sphere. So coin-shaped is the default these days.  https://nucleardiner.wordpress.com/2017/06/19/a-critical-problem/
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Oct 27, 2017 06:06
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That pic still gives me the heebie jeebies.
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Oct 27, 2017 06:14
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" Hey Bob! I bet you 20 bucks you can't fit these up your rear end!"
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Oct 27, 2017 06:35
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Johnny Aztec posted:" Hey Bob! I bet you 20 bucks you can't fit these up your rear end!" Bob sticks one in, removes it, and repeats until they've all had a turn. Bob explains, "You didn't say at the same time" Bob thinks he won.
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Oct 27, 2017 06:38
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I signed up for that IT job which is even better than I thought and is pretty bleeding edge stuff no one else has on market. Also I would like to thank the thread for giving me a healthy respect for forklifts as the first site I visited had these giant fork lifts that can reach multiple stories with half the thing being batteries. The dudes there were pretty professional as far as I can tell zipping at surprising speed with great precision. Got a hi vis vest, boots but no hard hat. But the big thing I notice was that they have crash barriers for foot traffic. I'm not sure how effective it would be against something that I guess weight 10 tons.
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Oct 27, 2017 06:42
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Mostly i think they're there to make noise so the driver knows to stop?
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Oct 27, 2017 07:02
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Power Bottom posted:https://i.imgur.com/23mA5XV.mp4 Isn't that from the Universal Studios tour ride? There's a part with a pseudo-SF BART station going crazy due to an earthquake.
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The Lone Badger posted:Mostly i think they're there to make noise so the driver knows to stop? Pretty much this: https://www.tatasteelconstruction.com/en_GB/Products/HighwayEngineering/Off-Road-Barriers It's not going to stop you getting forked or loss of cargo but it should stop potential pancaking by the forklift. Not sure how wide spread it is.
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oohhboy posted:I signed up for that IT job which is even better than I thought and is pretty bleeding edge stuff no one else has on market. Stand up reach trucks or the sit down fork lift kind?
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Oct 27, 2017 07:40
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JB50 posted:Stand up reach trucks or the sit down fork lift kind? ? The drivers were sitting and the fork only goes up and down with a giant bunch of extenders. I only saw glances of the storage area itsel so I didn't get to see them pick anything up. Videos don't really give a proper idea how beastly they while being so quiet.
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EVIL Gibson posted:Side topic: that url name made me think you were linking a Mr. Hands gif or something. Glad it wasn't just me!
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Oct 27, 2017 09:21
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Remember the Molasses disaster from 1919? There is now a one person reinterpretation for it from Russia. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5011457/Mother-dies-molten-caramel-gushes-tank.html (sorry for the dailymail link, didn't find a better English source)
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Oct 27, 2017 09:30
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Maxwells Demon posted:You don't want fissile material to roll or to be able to gather in a sphere. So coin-shaped is the default these days. I'm kind of fascinated by all of the accidents that end up being caused by radioactive fluids where someone cuts a corner and uses a random vessel (read: dangerous geometry) for causing some kind of brief criticality during transfer. Something about the shape of the bucket you use for a liquid having such disparate (and "interesting") consequences. Also "dangerous/safe geometry" is indeed a cool phrase.
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This just in! I advised our idiot facilities guy that a number of our trolleys had some issues with the strap mechanism and to check them out. Here are 3 of his creations, there are maybe 7 more scattered around I couldn't be arsed rounding up for display:  If you can see how he hosed up you win a cookie. Clue: It's not that the middle one looks different with the strap height. These are used to carry various types of flammable/explosive gas bottles starting at 45KG.
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Humphreys posted:This just in! I advised our idiot facilities guy that a number of our trolleys had some issues with the strap mechanism and to check them out. Cranks on the wrong side?
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JB50 posted:Cranks on the wrong side? Yup, he literally spent over an hour doing this on 10 of them. Even bitching that he can't find his tools. Not once did he look back and see how stupid his plan was. Instead of you know, tightening or adding some lock washers to prevent overloosening, NOPE lets reverse every loving one of them.
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Dirt Road Junglist posted:"Favorable geometry" makes me wonder, what makes it favorable? How does one calculate favorable configurations? Are there several geometries that are favorable, or just one? It's like a weird shape puzzle waiting to be solved.
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door.jar posted:I'm kind of fascinated by all of the accidents that end up being caused by radioactive fluids where someone cuts a corner and uses a random vessel (read: dangerous geometry) for causing some kind of brief criticality during transfer. Something about the shape of the bucket you use for a liquid having such disparate (and "interesting") consequences. Also "dangerous/safe geometry" is indeed a cool phrase. It gets really interesting if you grab the non-euclidean container by accident.
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Say Nothing posted:Another tire boob. This is a sexy tire boob
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Goreld posted:Isn't that from the Universal Studios tour ride? There's a part with a pseudo-SF BART station going crazy due to an earthquake. I don't think so. The train is just supposed to derail. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7GRuAWerVM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIl8PdZ-nII&t=1212s
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Collateral Damage posted:Basically the less surface area the shape has, the higher the risk of criticality. A sphere is the ideal shape. That the Demon Core was in the shape of a sphere was one of the reasons it was so dangerous, because it required very little neutron reflection to go critical. Oh, I know what it means. I just find it poetic 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbLwBM-JTd8&t=263s
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Didn't quite klaus himself.
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Helios Grime posted:Remember the Molasses disaster from 1919? There is now a one person reinterpretation for it from Russia. the article posted:Locals say it is the third death at the plant in this 'unlucky' year. I can't tell if this is just Russia being Russia, or if this is a uniquely bad plant. I don't think attrition rates like that are normal?
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door.jar posted:I'm kind of fascinated by all of the accidents that end up being caused by radioactive fluids where someone cuts a corner and uses a random vessel (read: dangerous geometry) for causing some kind of brief criticality during transfer. Something about the shape of the bucket you use for a liquid having such disparate (and "interesting") consequences. Also "dangerous/safe geometry" is indeed a cool phrase. Liquid solutions of fissionables are extra-dangerous for a number of reasons such as the ability to change shape, the potential to exceed design concentrations, and the fact that the water in the solution acts as a neutron moderator so it takes much less fissile material to go critical than it may otherwise.
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Started a new job this week as an HSE coordinator for a smallish subcontractor on a big job site. Thankfully my company has been good but overall the site has had something like 150 dropped objects this year alone. Everything from small bolts to a full sized grinder which only missed hitting a worker by a foot 
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Open, non skid-resistant footwear, and no Wet Floor signs spaced around the in-use mop bucket. Just asking for a lawsuit right there.
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