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That's even worse than Slow Children Playing. I wouldn't want some city calling my kids slow
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I started a new job recently and went to do a monthly inspection of a piece of aircraft fueling equipment in service. The re-fueler was fueling an A380 (the biggest plane.) As soon as I got there I saw the fully raised lift deck with no one on it and three fuelers on the ground and had to ask them how the gently caress they actually got up/down with this lift 40' off ground. The only lift controls are on the lift itself. So I asked the fuelers and one told me "climb, like a monkey" which I took for a joke and asked the next who told me to "shoot webs like spiderman" and it went on from there. My trainer and I get to the point where we need to test the e-stop on the lift deck, and I look at him and shrug. I've read up on this equipment, it's from the 1970's and there is no emergency lift deck lower switch. The only way to lower the lift deck is from the lift deck, which is currently way the gently caress up. My trainer tells me to "climb, like a monkey." So I do. It's not hard if you've ever been a kid at a park. Balance yourself standing on the highest point of the guardrail and jump to to grab the lowest rung of the ladder. To get down you can't really land on the guard rail so much as fall onto it and then transition your fall onto the platform. All really dumb as gently caress because one slip and you die. I want to say these safety inspectors have lost sight of the literal purpose of safety, to prevent injury & damage. But here's the thing, this equipment was made back when a 747 was the biggest plane in the world. What the manuals didn't tell me was that the lift deck can't be lowered on an A380 without tearing the nozzles out of the wing. To fulfill FAA required safety tests on this equipment, it needs to be tested in operation so, well, gently caress. 
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Mar 31, 2018 07:03
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It's about drat time someone found Kane's loving sled.
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Sanctum posted:I want to say these safety inspectors have lost sight of the literal purpose of safety, to prevent injury & damage. But here's the thing, this equipment was made back when a 747 was the biggest plane in the world. What the manuals didn't tell me was that the lift deck can't be lowered on an A380 without tearing the nozzles out of the wing. To fulfill FAA required safety tests on this equipment, it needs to be tested in operation so, well, gently caress. Does it have to be tested on an A380?
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Mar 31, 2018 07:34
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Think outside the box. Borrow the airport's fire ladder to climb into and out of the lift dick.
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Mar 31, 2018 07:42
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For bizarre nuances of operations, the most senior fuelers use the oldest equipment on the biggest airplanes. Old men like their old equipment more than some newfangled stuff I guess? And they hate being rushed. During the day there are no 747s, 747s only do cargo since last november. I used to run fueling operations for the busiest gates, these big planes and the people that fuel them are all very foreign to me.
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Mar 31, 2018 07:53
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LanceHunter posted:There was the infamous 2000 Fort Worth tornado, where an F3 tore through downtown and damaged a lot of the skyscrapers. A lot of damage but ultimately the structures stood and things got rebuilt shockingly quickly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hpeIGmbJxE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjbVp6HSWR8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goR9F-OuBkM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-dDfRIAzYs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPxqqQdRVQU
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Mar 31, 2018 08:38
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Tornado chat! One of the worst events for my in laws, a tornado touched down in northern Illinois on April 9th 2015, and traveled about 45 miles, the storm also spawned 4-5 other tornadoes in the same region, and basically wiped a small town off the map at the end of it. The path of the tornado relative to Chicago:  The coded path with its intensity (note, Fairdale is the town that was hit where it's listed as an E-3 orange triangle between Kirkland and Monroe):  Video of the Tornado at start: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPRHvOEgumI Video of someone chasing it for a few miles (and another tornado forms): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiiBEpabzc8 Video from the town where the tornado hit (personally terrifying): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grO8Px5J6TQ Aftermath of the tornado: https://youtu.be/SfcF5mHmL4c Image for those who don't feel comfortable watching the videos:  Overall pretty horrible and frightening, this was one in a million chance, and something this big doesn't usually hit that area, and even if it did it's a pretty rural area. Multiple places listed this as a F-4. OSHA related, Fairdale did not have tornado sirens at the time of the strike.
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Mar 31, 2018 09:25
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https://gfycat.com/WarlikeDenseEidolonhelvum
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Mar 31, 2018 09:37
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There’s a street where people were continuously speeding right in front of s school so the town installed the most brutal speed bump I’ve ever seen. It’s looks just like a steel plate about half a meter long going across each lane, but if the radar catches you above the limit the plates drop a good 2 inches. Having heard a van go over them at 40kph I’m positive he broke half a dozen important pieces.
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Mar 31, 2018 09:59
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Memento posted:I've seen artisanal mining operations like that on three continents. That one is pretty high-tech, normally they use a bucket chain to do that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoOdhKYj8Bc
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Mar 31, 2018 10:06
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evil_bunnY posted:There’s a street where people were continuously speeding right in front of s school so the town installed the most brutal speed bump I’ve ever seen. It’s looks just like a steel plate about half a meter long going across each lane, but if the radar catches you above the limit the plates drop a good 2 inches. Having heard a van go over them at 40kph I’m positive he broke half a dozen important pieces. This piqued my curiosity, so I looked them up and they're pretty neat: https://properties.curtin.edu.au/news/171124-actibumps.cfm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xNqr6TzZuw
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Mar 31, 2018 11:48
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxpvwKiOpag
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Mar 31, 2018 11:58
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Reminds me: These things have a couple of purposes: - They are used to block access roads to pedestrian shopping centers during opening hours. The barriers sink into the road during delivery hours. - They are used as a barrier for roads that are only meant for specific kinds of traffic, for instance bus-only lanes. In that case they lower when a bus transponder signals them. - Finally, they're used on small roads where people frequently speed in order to avoid a traffic jam on a parallel highway. In this setting, they lower for one car once a minute or so. This is what happens to your car if you think you'll make it if you just follow the car in front of you closely enough: 
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Mar 31, 2018 12:35
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Banana Man posted:Tornado chat! One of the worst events for my in laws, a tornado touched down in northern Illinois on April 9th 2015, and traveled about 45 miles, the storm also spawned 4-5 other tornadoes in the same region, and basically wiped a small town off the map at the end of it. Also, it says right there in the video that the videographer was seriously injured, that his wife and a neighbour died, and these fucks at "Break Clips" list it under "Comedy"   gently caress these guys... ! They've even got a license enquiries link, so they're trying to make something off it. Sorry dude, Can you alter your post to include this copy from a news site (DixieAlleyMedia - it's the exact same clip) then report these fucks at BreakClips... Let me know when it's done and I'll join in the report binge gently caress these slimy little cretins. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMN4N90KpjI (Edit: tried to find if Clem had posted it himself anywhere, DixieAllyMedia was the best I could find) Cable Guy fucked around with this message at 13:15 on Mar 31, 2018 |
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Mar 31, 2018 13:02
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My friend had an avenue. Then one day he went into the basement, and when came back out he no longer did.
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Mar 31, 2018 13:11
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I just watched the aftermath video.... after that and Clem's video, I'm sitting on the couch hugging my pillow. I live in Melbourne Australia, we've had a couple of storms they've called tornadoes... I mean I can remember two in my forty-seven years. They probably wouldn't even register as blips to you guys... Just... unbelievable. Cable Guy fucked around with this message at 13:32 on Mar 31, 2018 |
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Mar 31, 2018 13:30
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Not saying you should drive in a tornado, but a few years ago I saw some funnel clouds forming and there had been a tornado sighting not far from me, so I bolted. Drove through bad rain but ended up on otherside of town and suddenly it was sunny and glorious and far from danger. To me it was a far better solution than trying to "hunker down" in a third floor apartment.
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Mar 31, 2018 14:23
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Fun fact: the speed bump was invented by Arthur Compton. He was asked to use his physics knowledge to do something about speeding traffic near Washington University. He did some calculations based on the average wheelbase and spring rates of cars, and designed a series of mounds for the road that would just be a series of small hills if driven at or below the speed limit, but would shake the car to pieces if driven over any faster. 
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Mar 31, 2018 14:56
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Oh, I never realized that this is what the song 'Straight Outta Compton' was about.
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Deteriorata posted:Fun fact: the speed bump was invented by Arthur Compton. He was asked to use his physics knowledge to do something about speeding traffic near Washington University. He did some calculations based on the average wheelbase and spring rates of cars, and designed a series of mounds for the road that would just be a series of small hills if driven at or below the speed limit, but would shake the car to pieces if driven over any faster. There's a stretch of road I occasionally drive on which is so buckled it actually does this, too. It's fun as hell to find just the right speed and have the car gently rock like it's one of those coin operated cars outside a store. 
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https://i.imgur.com/uSl67vT.gifv
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Deteriorata posted:Fun fact: the speed bump was invented by Arthur Compton. He was asked to use his physics knowledge to do something about speeding traffic near Washington University. He did some calculations based on the average wheelbase and spring rates of cars, and designed a series of mounds for the road that would just be a series of small hills if driven at or below the speed limit, but would shake the car to pieces if driven over any faster. There's a great scene in Wages of Fear where they're transporting nitroglycerin to cap a well fire without any safety equipment. They come across a road that's buckled like this, and need to decide whether they're going to take it slow as hell and just roll through it, or gun it and sail over the bumps. They talk it over and after a lot of deliberation, decide that they're going to take it nice and slow. As they're nearing the end, they look in the rear-view, and see that the second truck with nitroglycerin has decided to race through it and is bearing down on them  e: That movie is OSHA as hell and super good
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Mar 31, 2018 17:42
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Even the remake (Sorcerer) is pretty good.
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Banana Man posted:Tornado chat! One of the worst events for my in laws, a tornado touched down in northern Illinois on April 9th 2015, and traveled about 45 miles, the storm also spawned 4-5 other tornadoes in the same region, and basically wiped a small town off the map at the end of it. Theres a couple of storm chasers in the weather thread and after this video gave one very important bit of advice: if you can see a tornado and it’s not very clearly moving left or right at a good clip it’s coming right at you. If it was heading away from you it’d be obscured by the storm.
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hobbesmaster posted:Theres a couple of storm chasers in the weather thread and after this video gave one very important bit of advice: if you can see a tornado and it’s not very clearly moving left or right at a good clip it’s coming right at you. If it was heading away from you it’d be obscured by the storm. I wonder if tornados chase people that run away like the smoke from a campfire
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Mar 31, 2018 19:18
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I got tornadoed, can confirm it sucks a lot.
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"and two-wheeled vehicles can easily avoid actibump." ...by riding way the hell over in the gutter where a bicyclist generally shouldn't be. I hope there are all kinds of warning signs and flashing lights to warn bikers that there's a "safety" device spanning most of the road up ahead, which could easily kill them if they go over it.
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Mar 31, 2018 19:51
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Lol you easily killed malailsed osteoporotic nincompoop learn how to ride
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Mar 31, 2018 20:11
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Powered Descent posted:I hope there are all kinds of warning signs and flashing lights to warn bikers that there's a "safety" device spanning most of the road up ahead, which could easily kill them if they go over it. At least that way they'll never speed again.
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Mar 31, 2018 20:17
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Out of curiosity I looked up how at-risk my area is for tornados, and the answer is 'very'. I live in a second story apartment, so I'm pretty sure my shelter response to a tornado is supposed to be 'curl up and die'.
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Mar 31, 2018 20:23
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How many bicyclists go fast enough to trigger the speed limit radar, on flat city streets? (without paying attention to surroundings, etc.) I'd guess that sentence refers to motorcyclists, who have engines and gears and such.
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Mar 31, 2018 20:26
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Powered Descent posted:"and two-wheeled vehicles can easily avoid actibump." Why not just split the loving thing so most cars can't avoid it, but bikes have a nice smooth patch in the center of the lane? I know the answer is "gently caress bikers and it would cost 1 cent extra per unit" but like, come on.
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silentsnack posted:How many bicyclists go fast enough to trigger the speed limit radar, on flat city streets? (without paying attention to surroundings, etc.) I'd guess that sentence refers to motorcyclists, who have engines and gears and such. A big metal plate is pretty bad for traction, something of a concern for two wheeled vehicles, regardless of whether or not it has turned itself into a speedbump. Also, I wouldn't bet on the thing working correctly for more than a few months before it becomes a permanent bump or a permanent flat spot.
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Mar 31, 2018 20:51
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wait those things gently caress up bicyclists? who do i petition to get them installed everywhere
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E4C85D38 posted:Out of curiosity I looked up how at-risk my area is for tornados, and the answer is 'very'. Do you have a closet that's not on an exterior wall ? That's your shelter.
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silentsnack posted:How many bicyclists go fast enough to trigger the speed limit radar, on flat city streets? (without paying attention to surroundings, etc.) I'd guess that sentence refers to motorcyclists, who have engines and gears and such. The motorcycle at the end of the video seems to do just fine, though.
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Mar 31, 2018 21:25
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Powered Descent posted:"and two-wheeled vehicles can easily avoid actibump." Don't worry, field tests have shown that neither lidar nor radar can detect bikes at all.
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That vid is something else. Cute lil ball of wind just puttering along. Then in like .5 secs you go from trees lightly swaying to a utility pole getting snapped jesus
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:Don't worry, field tests have shown that neither lidar nor radar can detect bikes at all. The next high tech - low tech war will not be against Toyota Hiluxes. Our electronic sensors will be blind to the stealth bikes, we will fight cold steel on carbon fibre.
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