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quote:When bombs rained down on London during the Blitz, they fell on houses, on churches, and, less famously, on embankments along the River Thames. The damaged embankments could have sent devastating floods through London, but they didn't—thanks to a group of engineers who worked secretly and at night. quote:Each time the river defenses were hit, Frank's teams were sent in, often while bombs were still falling and with little protective equipment. https://gizmodo.com/how-a-secret-squad-saved-london-from-devastating-floodi-1654112217 https://www.deseretnews.com/article/765661923/Honor-for-hero-who-saved-London-from-WWII-flooding.html https://www.culture24.org.uk/histor...n-from-drowning The Nazis deliberately timed bombing raids to arrive at low tide. The intention was to make it harder to fight fires, and it did, but the silver lining is that it gave time to fix dykes along the Thames. Platystemon fucked around with this message at 11:47 on Jan 30, 2019 |
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Jerry Cotton posted:The connectors were altogether of a different shape as far as I know, if not a different type (locking mechanism). Acetylene welding lines are supposed to have their threading reversed to make them impossible to screw into the wrong line. The nuts are marked with cuts to show which are acetylene lines. 
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Wasabi the J posted:Man I really hope we never fight another way like this. As opposed to drone bombing weddings and killing hundreds of civilians like the US does right now?
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Megillah Gorilla posted:As opposed to drone bombing weddings and killing hundreds of civilians like the US does right now? Nah, they mean "against another first world nation."
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I knew it was going to get Super loving Cold™ here in Corn Hell, Ohio, but I didn't realize that my pipes would freeze even after we ran water through them all night. Christ.
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spiny posted:Immeadiatly reminded of this Rodney Matthews piece: I really want to see the cows that cowcatcher is supposed to catch.
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Megillah Gorilla posted:As opposed to drone bombing weddings and killing hundreds of civilians like the US does right now? I'd rather hundreds of civilians die than hundreds of thousands if not millions, if that is the question. Not that I am favor of the former either.
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Dienes posted:I really want to see the cows that cowcatcher is supposed to catch. i was gonna say those are some tiny rear end drivers on that train but when you said this i noticed the person for scale loving the attention to detail, wonder if I can get a higher resolution of that
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goering posted:In 1940 I could at least fly as far as Glasgow in most of my aircraft, but not now! It makes me furious when I see the Mosquito. I turn green and yellow with envy. The British, who can afford aluminium better than we can, knock together a beautiful wooden aircraft that every piano factory over there is building, and they give it a speed which they have now increased yet again. What do you make of that? There is nothing the British do not have. They have the geniuses and we have the nincompoops. After the war is over I'm going to buy a British radio set - then at least I'll own something that has always worked. Reliable British...electronics?
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tactlessbastard posted:Reliable British...electronics? Sinclair, Amstrad, Cambridge Audio, Arcam... uhh I guess that's it.
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Jerry Cotton posted:Sinclair, Amstrad, Cambridge Audio, Arcam... uhh I guess that's it. you forgot the Greener Grass co. 
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Truga posted:you forgot the Greener Grass co. Yeah and Matsui only I don't think they ever manufactured in GB. (Possibly neither did Amstrad.)
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Mozi posted:I'd rather hundreds of civilians die than hundreds of thousands if not millions, if that is the question. Not that I am favor of the former either. i mean, how many civilians do you think died in iraq and afghanistan and syria and yemen and
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Jerry Cotton posted:Sinclair, Amstrad, Cambridge Audio, Arcam... uhh I guess that's it. Tektronics
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I was thinking Lucas
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sandoz posted:i mean, how many civilians do you think died in iraq and afghanistan and syria and yemen and too many?
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tactlessbastard posted:Reliable British...electronics? It’s not a real Göring quote. ReelBigLizard posted:Tektronics That’s an American company, though?
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Jerry Cotton posted:Sinclair, Amstrad, Cambridge Audio, Arcam... uhh I guess that's it. they used to make IBM PCs and peripherals in Scotland if that counts, it's probably the closest thing to a British computer you'd encounter in 80s US, and only if you were rich/dorky enough to not just get a PC clone (or an NES, if you just wanted a game system) I remember wanting a ZX Spectrum back in the day, having read about it in anglosphere magazines what had the price listed in USD/CND/GBP, when our home computer was a Commodore VIC-20, but the 286 my dad bought used in '88 was vastly cheaper and you could play Gold Box AD&D games on it (very very slowly) OSHA relevance: when my dad got that Epson Equity II PC clone, my mom had an extremely cool midcentury stainless steel desk that became the computer desk, right up until the day that the CGA CRT loudly fried itself. Happened while mom was in the middle of making a banner in PrintShop- she was fine but honestly thought she was gonna die for a minute there really the fact that the desk always gave a nasty static shock when you sat down at it should have been a clue but in my parents defense, it was an extremely cool desk and the first time either of them had a dedicated CRT just for computer
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There's also ARM these days, they are very British.
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sandoz posted:i mean, how many civilians do you think died in iraq and afghanistan and syria and yemen and Most of the civilian deaths in e.g. Afghanistan have been caused by AQ/Daesh and Taliban bomb and complex attacks and ground fighting between factions. In the first nine months of 2018 UN reported 2798 civilians to have died, of which 313 were caused by air attacks. That's bad already, but WW2 (and Korea, Vietnam...) air bombing was way less accurate and bombers would hit wrong cities or even wrong countries because they were simply lost.
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war is not osha
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iospace posted:The train ones are automatic! The crews themselves don't do it, the switches have built in heaters. It's also common in the mountains and areas where heavy snow is a problem Fun fact from my place of employment, power companies HATE switch heaters. First, they can't use the automated smart meters because a lot of times there's no phone lines or cell service out there. So they have to send some meter reader up the side of a mountain to get a reading. Most of them get a bill in the spring when they thaw and MAYBE one other read in late summer. If the one dude who knows where they all are quits it might go years before it gets read. If they can hook it up for automatic reads it's almost worse because if something goes wrong they have no clue where it physically is because the last guy who was up there working on it is retired or dead or both. For added fun, it's rarely big companies that provide service to the unpopulated side of a mountain, it's little regional electric coops or county owned or stuff like that. So when a heater dies in October it's a poo poo ton of work for everyone.
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interwhat posted:I mean it turned red hot like in that video. I didn't stand by to watch because I was busy banging walls, but it's definitely ash in the fire pit now. Well, as a mechanic you're in one of the professions that's still regularly exposed to asbestos anyway. It's in brakes, clutches, and heat seals, and regular wear and use will create asbestos dust, so replacing old ones or working around old ones is going to definitely expose you. Here's a link with a lot of additional information, including particular techniques that are more or less dangerous so you can see whether your particular workplace is using best practices: https://www.asbestos.com/occupations/auto-mechanics/ Summary about "auto mechanic:" quote:Previously Exposed: Yes
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Nckdictator posted:Sorry for popping in with nothing to contribute but can anyone recommend any decent books on ship wrecks, sinkings, or maritime disasters? This was a few days ago, but I've been greatly enjoying Marine Salvage: The Unforgiving Business of No Cure, No Pay by Joseph N. Gores. It's ostensibly a history of the marine salvage industry and the technology used, but in large part it's an excuse to tell stories about a wide variety of shipwrecks and the often ill-fated attempts to salvage them, complete with thread-appropriate total lack of attention to basic safety concerns. Unfortunately it's only available in hardcopy; the only extant digital version is the one scanned by Google Books (  ).I should write up some of the stories for the thread, I've been reading it on and off and I'm about halfway through. ToxicFrog fucked around with this message at 16:44 on Jan 30, 2019 |
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sneakyfrog posted:war is not osha From another view it is possibly the most OSHA thing that could ever exist. But yes, probably better to keep this thread away from that.
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Truga posted:i was gonna say those are some tiny rear end drivers on that train but when you said this i noticed the person for scale It's called 'heavy metal hero' (or something like that) by Rodney Matthews if you want to search. You'll probably recognise a lot of his other work, he's done tons of album covers and quite a lot of game box artwork (edit: not the Psygnosis logo, that was Roger Dean I think) spiny fucked around with this message at 16:57 on Jan 30, 2019 |
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spiny posted:It's called 'heavy metal hero' (or something like that) by Rodney Matthews if you want to search. You'll probably recognise a lot of his other work, he's done tons of album covers and quite a lot of game box artwork (edit: not the Psygnosis logo, that was Roger Dean I think) Yeah I googled it and found out he sells a .8x1.1m wall picture of this for 200gbp and I want one now lmao
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Platystemon posted:It’s not a real Göring quote. Boy is my face red! ToxicFrog posted:This was a few days ago, but I've been greatly enjoying Marine Salvage: The Unforgiving Business of No Cure, No Pay by Joseph N. Gores. It's ostensibly a history of the marine salvage industry and the technology used, but in large part it's an excuse to tell stories about a wide variety of shipwrecks and the often ill-fated attempts to salvage them, complete with thread-appropriate total lack of attention to basic safety concerns. here i go off to the ILL page!
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https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1090402748808421376
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Speaking of trains... "Chicago train tracks have to be literally set on fire to keep the trains running amid record-breaking cold https://theweek.com/speedreads/820665/chicago-train-tracks-have-literally-set-fire-keep-trains-running-amid-recordbreaking-cold E: gently caress. literally 2 minutes ahead of me.
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tactlessbastard posted:Boy is my face red! Just like Goering after walking up a slight incline!
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As a Chicago commuter, seeing the switches on fire on cold/snowy days is just SOP (and metal as all hell  ).https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPBX0bcCrO4&t=195s
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BlankIsBeautiful posted:E: gently caress. literally 2 minutes ahead of me. you might want to check the previous page, too
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This happened near me. The tiles are not rated for vehicles and are part of a future water-feature and were well blocked off but someone decided to remove all the barriers so their friend could park his van to unload here... It's still an active construction site so they used the site crane to get it out. 
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Platystemon posted:That’s an American company, though? They made a bunch of stuff in Britain, they had a factory up the road from me including R&D and production.
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I feel like there's a little extra altitude on that van "just because."
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Baronjutter posted:It's still an active construction site so they used the site crane to get it out. And then I assume it "accidentally" slipped out of the harness before they got it back to ground level?
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