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Say Nothing posted:Meanwhile, in the Netherlands... i dunno what this is but its filling me with dread and also an urge to ride on it while its moving e: and also an urge to watch it fling a car like a giant trebuchet
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Why disable the alarms and sprinklers? 
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Cable Guy posted:Kids smoking in stairwells/toilets, bad plumbing, false alarms.... or uh... reasons. I get, in a horrible way, chaining the doors shut and disabling the fire alarms. But why the gently caress would you disable the fire suppression system that you spent so much money to....oh
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SelenicMartian posted:The news is the door were locked so that no one could sneak into the cinema. Good thing that security saved them a couple of dollars.
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quote:Uber‘s self-driving cars required a driver intervention every 13 miles, at best. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-27/uber-s-autonomous-cars-suspended-by-arizona-after-fatal-crash posted:A couple weeks before Uber’s fatal encounter, [Arizona Governor] Ducey approved the use of autonomous vehicles without safety drivers https://t.co/XJqfRQVeOq posted:Waymo is now testing cars in Chandler, Ariz., a Phoenix suburb, with no safety drivers.  Apparently these Google cars require a lot less intervention though.quote:On Monday, Uber halted autonomous car tests in Arizona, Pittsburgh, San Francisco and Toronto. It is not clear when the company will revive them. quote:When Uber moved to a single operator, some employees expressed safety concerns to managers, according to the two people familiar with Uber’s operations. They were worried that going solo would make it harder to remain alert during hours of monotonous driving. quote:Not all drivers followed Uber’s training. One was fired after falling asleep at the wheel and being spotted by a colleague.
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Julius CSAR posted:The best part of that story is that the Whiteshirt, the guy on the deck in charge of safety, had already told that dude like three times that night to stop walking so close to the intake. loving dumbass. Screaming jet air intakes terrify me and I've been around them most of my adult life. https://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/06/27/harrier-pilot-proves-marines-can-stick-a-crazy-landing-in-a-pinch
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Ak Gara posted:I thought trying to trigger traffic light road sensors into seeing me was hard enough now I'm gonna have to include some kinda RF signal emitter to let the cars of the future see me?
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Powershift posted:This is crazy. Capping a well after a blowout. If you need more sheet-metal sheds near a death-jet of fire, check this out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L77BSBKvMJk This is a documentary about fighting the oil well fires in Kuwait after Desert Storm. Includes usage of explosives as an extinguisher and jet engines mounted onto a tank!
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quite stretched out posted:i dunno what this is but its filling me with dread and also an urge to ride on it while its moving I want to modify it so the ballast works like a sipping bird desk toy just reeeeeaaal slow.
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goatsestretchgoals posted:I get, in a horrible way, chaining the doors shut and disabling the fire alarms. But why the gently caress would you disable the fire suppression system that you spent so much money to....oh Shoddily installed fire sprinkler systems tend to start leaking all over the place in short order. They are so easy to shut off and just leave off, well as long as you also disable the alarm system that monitors them being online. It's surprisingly common, even in the USA. Hell just this year in my area it there was an elementary school that was getting utility improvements done. One of the improvements was upgrading the fire service line. So during the summer they dug up the old service line and removed it back to the road. Then later in the summer they put in a new service line. Except for the fact that they only ran if 10' back onto the property so they could close the road back up, but never went back to finish running it into the school. So the project ends and the school year starts. The inspection company kept going in and checking the pressure gauges on the sprinkler system, but I guess never bothered to run the super critical water flow test, and so for an entire year never noticed that the sprinkler system didn't actually have a water supply.
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SpaceCadetBob posted:So the project ends and the school year starts. The inspection company kept going in and checking the pressure gauges on the sprinkler system, but I guess never bothered to run the super critical water flow test, and so for an entire year never noticed that the sprinkler system didn't actually have a water supply. It could also have been a dry system, which has no water (supposed to be filled with inert gasunder some pressure); these are used in a number of applications, particularly spaces where it can get below freezing, or where there's a lot of valuable contents/electronics that they don't want to risk on a failure or false alarm. It's possible they capped the intake side as well during the construction, in which case, when they pressure-tesed it at the manifolds, the system held pressure...and you'd never see water. With respect to the Mall of Siberia fire: remember the Sochi crappy construction hijinks? If the system worked at all, at any point, it may have also been a dry set-up...however, I suspect we're going to find out eventually that most of the safety systems never really ever worked properly to begin with. Russia is all of the cautionary tales about the reasons for regulation, and enforcement, the US should ever need.
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SpaceCadetBob posted:Shoddily installed fire sprinkler systems tend to start leaking all over the place in short order. They are so easy to shut off and just leave off, well as long as you also disable the alarm system that monitors them being online. Jesus Christ what loving state is this 
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Nth Doctor posted:Jesus Christ what loving state is this Connecticut  PainterofCrap posted:It could also have been a dry system, which has no water (supposed to be filled with inert gasunder some pressure); these are used in a number of applications, particularly spaces where it can get below freezing, or where there's a lot of valuable contents/electronics that they don't want to risk on a failure or false alarm. It's possible they capped the intake side as well during the construction, in which case, when they pressure-tesed it at the manifolds, the system held pressure...and you'd never see water. On all automatic sprinkler systems that are water based the most critical test is a valve status flow test which is supposed to be performed every 3 months. During this test a large diameter drain valve is opened and water from the source is allowed to flow for long enough to show that a steady supply is available at a certain residual pressure. Dry systems are water based systems where a valve keeps water out of the above ground piping until a sprinkler head activates which then opens the valve allowing water to enter the piping. However I can't even count how many times I've taken on a new client, and when I explain to them that they need to move cars or something for the flow test they complain how the previous inspector never needed to do that. Inert gas systems are used, however normally in relatively small spaces since the amount of inert gas needed is the limiting factor. Normally even if an inert gas system is installed, a full fledged water based system is installed as well to provide backup fire control in case the gas system fails.
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quite stretched out posted:e: and also an urge to watch it fling a car like a giant trebuchet Pull!
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PainterofCrap posted:Russia is all of the cautionary tales about the reasons for regulation, and enforcement, the US should ever need. this reminds me of the space shuttle design process which was so botched and compromised that when the russians cloned it they actually ended up adding safety features
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Jet chat: I've been way too close to the big end of an F/A-18 (alum of the local flight school brought his current ride to show the students, I lined up a nice profile shot as he taxied in, and then he turned into his parking spot in the direction I didn't expect). It's like God's own hair dryer, being maybe 50 feet behind a jet engine at ground idle. I got into all kinds of OSHA poo poo when I was a newspaper photographer. Was nearly killed by a hot-air balloon once. On getting sucked into intakes: I remember reading a story of a guy who miraculously walked through a spinning propellor, and upon realizing the massive fuckup he'd just comitted, turned around and ran back. He wasn't so lucky on the return trip. Protip: don't get anywhere near either end of a running airplane, no matter what powerplant it has. You think you're safe walking behind a Cessna, and then the pilot wiggles the yoke and you get bonked by an elevator.
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Delivery McGee posted:Protip: don't get anywhere near either end of a running airplane, no matter what powerplant it has. You think you're safe walking behind a Cessna, and then the pilot wiggles the yoke and you get bonked by an elevator.
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Delivery McGee posted:It's like God's own hair dryer, being maybe 50 feet behind a jet engine at ground idle. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEFx1qmW4ts
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quite stretched out posted:i dunno what this is but its filling me with dread and also an urge to ride on it while its moving https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bxh3S5Ov5nE
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Nenonen posted:This is absolutely terrifying. The place was built in 2013 and it looks like all the required alarm systems, sprinklers and fire exits et cetera were built as required by law, but then they were all disabled by the staff and fire inspectors ignored it. Necrosaro posted:An uncropped version was posted on liveleak too: https://www.liveleak.com/view?t=91ozX_1522074255 drat, it takes like 10 seconds for the place to go from nothing to completely filled with smoke. I weep for the people who got trapped in that.e: https://twitter.com/GwindorL/status/978646661902696448
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This is why I always bring my chainsaw to the cinema. Always have an out.
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DiHK posted:How many cross wakks must a woman walk down I've got to sperg for minute.... no Cessna pilot is wearing a parachute. Do people really think light plane pilots all have parachutes? Is that actually a thing? The only people wearing parachutes are those flying aerobatics.
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There is a long-running joke in this series of threads about airframe parachutes.
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Pablo Bluth posted:My favourite engine ingestion story is the one in this article... I'm not reading an article from the loving Blaze
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Julius CSAR posted:I'm not reading an article from the loving Blaze https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9tvdjDAr1U Landing at 2:00.
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evobatman posted:From my hometown. the water/road hitting at what appears to be a right angle makes it look like one of those rendered-in-nothing landscape slices jesus gently caress
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Delivery McGee posted:Jet chat: I've been way too close to the big end of an F/A-18 (alum of the local flight school brought his current ride to show the students, I lined up a nice profile shot as he taxied in, and then he turned into his parking spot in the direction I didn't expect). It's like God's own hair dryer, being maybe 50 feet behind a jet engine at ground idle. If you're not getting close to either business end of an aircraft, running or otherwise, you're not working on aircraft, sorry. Five feet from spinning props is all you need, and if you get bonked by a moving control surface you're a loving total idiot and should not be around aircraft ever holy poo poo. I tripped over a comm cable one night while I was on ground and fell underneath the APU exhaust outlet, which on a B-1 is between the two engines, one for each side of the jet. There's only about three feet of clearance down there and I got a nice look directly into the APU compressor chamber. Time compression kicked in, so It all happened in slow motion so I could see the fuel being combusted and actually saw the compressor blades spinning, just before the exhaust blew me out of the way. It was like looking into the loving Eye of Sauron. My buddies doing the ops check emergency shut the down after the heard me yelling on the intercom. I was shaking, and it wasn't till I was back on the truck and someone said it smelled like something was burning that I realized I'd singed most of eyebrows off. I was mad pissed at myself for such a complete fuckup. It still shakes me up to this day when I think about it. But that glowing ring of death is forever burned into my memory. Julius CSAR fucked around with this message at 21:58 on Mar 27, 2018 |
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goatsestretchgoals posted:scp worst_ideas/* uber.com reminder that uber is using the ride sharing service for advertising and wants to become a car company that will sell out to one of the big three
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Kibayasu posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9tvdjDAr1U I've seen the vid other places, and it's super dope. I'm just not going that website
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Blast of Confetti posted:reminder that uber is using the ride sharing service for advertising and wants to become a car company that will sell out to one of the big three https://twitter.com/kron4news/status/978380206825091072 their marketing is not so hot these days. not driver goes down stairs, not uber driver goes down stairs, just "uber goes down stairs"
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Julius CSAR posted:If you're not getting close to either business end of an aircraft, running or otherwise, you're not working on aircraft, sorry. Five feet from spinning props is all you need SelenicMartian posted:This is also true for horses. Helicopters usually have the intakes/exhausts up high enough to avoid the turbine dangers (but watch out for the tail rotor and if it's a low-slung bird, the main rotor), but ... horses are stupid, helicopters are actively trying to kill you. And the people who fly helicopters are sadists and also trying to kill you. When my father did his tour in Vietnam he jumped out of a Huey ten feet AGL going faster than he'd like to hit the ground running. "Can't land because there might be mines," the pilot said. "Can't slow to a hover or reasonable speed because somebody could put an RPG into us." Yknow, I think I'll concede that point to the chopper pilots. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3XftLR0MiU&t=31s And sometimes the wings just fall off, though that is a slightly less common thing that happens to airplanes too. Chillbro Baggins fucked around with this message at 22:43 on Mar 27, 2018 |
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Julius CSAR posted:I've got to sperg for minute.... no Cessna pilot is wearing a parachute. Do people really think light plane pilots all have parachutes? Is that actually a thing? The only people wearing parachutes are those flying aerobatics. Dude, airframe chute. Second line of that verse. Do you not read this thread?
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DiHK posted:Dude, airframe chute. Second line of that verse. Do you not read this thread? No, his first post in it was yesterday. Why do you think they were so keen to post about what sites they won’t visit?
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Julius CSAR posted:I've seen the vid other places, and it's super dope. I'm just not going that website
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