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Deteriorata
Feb 6, 2005

Tunicate posted:

was it supposed to be captured? It said " One of the displays was of ammunition used in the war with Russia." which I didn't assume was captured russian stuff

It was reportedly a display by the Territorial Defense Forces, showing off some of the weapons they were using to fight the Russians. The story is that while they were showing them off to the civilians, they accidentally put the grenade launcher into combat mode.

More details here: https://suspilne-media.translate.go...&_x_tr_pto=wapp

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PookBear
Nov 1, 2008

"is this rocket launcher loaded?"

Karate Bastard
Jul 31, 2007

Soiled Meat
Maybe the kid brought his own grenade?

Scratch Monkey
Oct 25, 2010

👰Proč bychom se netěšili🥰když nám Pán Bůh🙌🏻zdraví dá💪?

Harry_Potato posted:

The Lady of the Lowes, her arm clad in the purest shimmering tattoos, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the tool aisle, signifying by divine providence that I, Arthur, was to shoplift Excalibur. That is why I'm your king.

Well I didn’t ring the assistance bell for you.

Ornamental Dingbat
Feb 26, 2007

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crBg_PJKr_U

Highlights:
silicosis
glass shards in the eyes
burning lead, cadmium, and mercury
zero PPE or automation

ilmucche
Mar 16, 2016

What did you say the strategy was?

Nenonen posted:

All of this sounds like unfounded speculation. Why would there be training ammo among captured Russian weapons? Blast injuries depend on how far people are from a blast, so there is no reason to think that deaths would automatically follow.

And we can actually hear two distinct blasts in the video, the first a loud one at 00:01 mark and the second, a more muffled one, at 00:07. My take is that the first one is the firing of the RPG, which as a recoilless weapon creates a hefty backblast. The munition flies for some six seconds (probably less, the sound from where it lands travels at only 343 m/s so there is some delay). It seems very much possible that the backblast of the weapon sent whatever junk was on its way at people in its danger cone. This could very easily kill you if you stood next to it right behind, but a little bit of distance will "only" beat you up really bad. It's also possible that debris could have flown from the final explosion to people within some range. We don't know how the injuries happened. But the two separete bangs tell us that the grenade did arm itself.

It was just a pipe bursting mate

Kibayasu
Mar 28, 2010

Don’t you dare speculate about things in the OSHA thread.

Kith
Sep 17, 2009

You never learn anything
by doing it right.


https://i.imgur.com/ImtkYKJ.mp4

gbut
Mar 28, 2008

😤I put the UN🇺🇳 in 🎊FUN🎉


That's a harrowing experience.

Pigsfeet on Rye
Oct 22, 2008

I'm meat on the hoof

Rock beats hammer

Unperson_47
Oct 14, 2007




Not being able to hear the obscenities is a crime.

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS

Manzoon posted:

Thankfully he uses an insect repellent lotion and only got stung a couple of times.

He puts insect repellant lotion on every time he goes to work?

What other insect problems does your workplace have?

dokmo
Aug 27, 2006

:stat:man
Every leisurely country drive in russia has the potential to turn into an action movie.

https://imgur.com/PDOjYzJ.mp4

Captain Hygiene
Sep 17, 2007

You mess with the crabbo...



dokmo posted:

Every leisurely country drive in russia has the potential to turn into an action movie.

https://imgur.com/PDOjYzJ.mp4

Not sure what I expected from the thumbnail, but it wasn't that :stare:

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS
https://twitter.com/MSEMA/status/1566219565167775744

How are people noticing a glow from that low energy flame?

Atticus_1354
Dec 10, 2006

barkbarkbarkbarkbarkbarkbarkbarkbarkbarkbarkbarkbarkbarkbarkbarkbarkbarkbarkbarkbarkbarkbarkbarkbarkbarkbarkbarkbarkbarkbarkbarkbarkbarkbarkbarkbarkbarkbarkbarkbarkbarkbarkbarkbarkbarkbarkbarkbarkbarkbarkbarkbarkbarkbarkbarkbarkbarkbarkbarkbarkbarkbarkbarkbarkbarkbarkbarkbarkbarkbarkbarkbarkbark

That's what he gets for not doing it the really osha way. Wrap a chain around the rock and the rear tire so it winches the rock out as you drive over the chain. It's recommended not to stand nearby while the driver does this.

Devor
Nov 30, 2004
Lurking more.

Platystemon posted:

How are people noticing a glow from that low energy flame?

Cause it's dark at night, making the flame more visible

And presumably folks aren't used to seeing flames coming out of the water treatment plant

Jasper Tin Neck
Nov 14, 2008


"Scientifically proven, rich and creamy."

Devor posted:

Cause it's dark at night, making the flame more visible

And presumably folks aren't used to seeing flames coming out of the water treatment plant

They should be, ours torches off excess methane all the time.

Cartoon Man
Jan 31, 2004


https://i.imgur.com/tON9VQa.mp4

Silius
Apr 24, 2010
I'm in loving tears.

monolithburger
Sep 7, 2011
https://twitter.com/peek_pdx/status/1566202609975033856

https://twitter.com/peek_pdx/status/1566203069784014848

Mr. Fix It
Oct 26, 2000

💀ayyy💀


this just popped up on facebook

caption: "An ironworker posing on an upright at the construction site of the Seattle Columbia Tower (1984). I guess my main question is how could he climb that high with such large balls?"

Cable Guy
Jul 18, 2005

I don't expect any trouble, but we'll be handing these out later...




Slippery Tilde

Silius posted:

I'm in loving tears.
Someone posted it earlier with sound (though I'm pretty sure it's dubbed)...

https://i.imgur.com/U2qs1Oc.mp4

Hobnob
Feb 23, 2006

Ursa Adorandum

There was a small chain of tex-mex restaurants in London (and possibly elsewhere in the UK?) called Texas Lone Star. My friends and I would celebrate the end of each college year by going to one, and a traditional part of the process was admiring the "ingenious system of pulleys" that drove the ceiling fans.

In retrospect, the food quality was pretty awful, I've no idea if the chain still exists.

Fat Dan
Jul 10, 2022

HELLO

Captain Hygiene posted:

And yet, you continue to post on here

:iceburn:

Fat Dan
Jul 10, 2022

HELLO

You can buy mini ones of these on ebay for like AU$40



size 9 shoe for scale. Really dangerous.

Scholtz
Aug 24, 2007

Zorchin' some Flemoids

Fat Dan posted:

You can buy mini ones of these on ebay for like AU$40



size 9 shoe for scale. Really dangerous.

Only if your DEX skill is too low. The first one is for a STR build, of course.

Mistle
Oct 11, 2005

Eckot's comic relief cousin from out of town
Grimey Drawer

Platystemon posted:

He puts insect repellant lotion on every time he goes to work?

What other insect problems does your workplace have?

Depending on the hours one goes to work, one might be caught in twilight hours, when mosquitoes love to swarm.

Whole host of other bugs to consider as well, but "a swarm of ants" is probably not the intended purpose of insect repellent lotion.

Rigged Death Trap
Feb 13, 2012

BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP


The belt speed is a lot slower than i expected.

LimaBiker
Dec 9, 2020





Update on the short circuited and sagging power lines: the 150kV AC lines indeed heated up and sagged far enough to get in direct contact with the 1,5-1,8kV DC train power lines




Feeder for the train's 1,5kV DC powerline completely hosed. The foamers ITT might recognize that those isolators are pretty big for 1,5kV - that's correct. They're specced for 25kV because eventually we want to take the leap from the inefficient old 1,5kV DC system to the 25kV AC system. Eventually. Sometime. Please?

It will take at least 10 days for the railways to fix all the damage, but that's a very optimist estimate. They themselves admit that they have to inspect and replace a LOT.

As of yet, the story is that the section of power line that goes to a regional substation was deenergized for maintenance. It was, however, switched online for unknown reasons, despite being worked on. It seems the workers got lucky. No one got vaporized. The government ordered this to be researched on an national level, if the workers would've been around they would have been made non-existant in seconds and there should have been no way that they power was sent onto the line that was being worked on.

A command to switch off was sent, but the interruptor up the line failed to respond to the command. After several minutes, somewhere even further upstream the power was cut manually.

LimaBiker fucked around with this message at 10:35 on Sep 4, 2022

Karate Bastard
Jul 31, 2007

Soiled Meat
Putin's at it again huh

By popular demand
Jul 17, 2007

IT *BZZT* WASP ME--
IT WASP ME ALL *BZZT* ALONG!


To what are you referring K.Bastard?

Wistful of Dollars
Aug 25, 2009

Harry_Potato posted:

The Lady of the Lowes, her arm clad in the purest shimmering tattoos, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the tool aisle, signifying by divine providence that I, Arthur, was to shoplift Excalibur. That is why I'm your king.

Strange women in Lowes distributing chainswords is no basis for a system of government.

Empty Sandwich
Apr 22, 2008

goatse mugs

harrowing

Karate Bastard
Jul 31, 2007

Soiled Meat

By popular demand posted:

To what are you referring K.Bastard?

They hacked Ukraine's power grid to poo poo days before they went in last time. The Ukrainians we're able to get it up p quick again, but by then they had other problems

Not funny nor a joke :(

By popular demand
Jul 17, 2007

IT *BZZT* WASP ME--
IT WASP ME ALL *BZZT* ALONG!


Oh. :(

Humphreys
Jan 26, 2013

We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule


LimaBiker posted:

Update on the short circuited and sagging power lines: the 150kV AC lines indeed heated up and sagged far enough to get in direct contact with the 1,5-1,8kV DC train power lines




Feeder for the train's 1,5kV DC powerline completely hosed. The foamers ITT might recognize that those isolators are pretty big for 1,5kV - that's correct. They're specced for 25kV because eventually we want to take the leap from the inefficient old 1,5kV DC system to the 25kV AC system. Eventually. Sometime. Please?

It will take at least 10 days for the railways to fix all the damage, but that's a very optimist estimate. They themselves admit that they have to inspect and replace a LOT.

As of yet, the story is that the section of power line that goes to a regional substation was deenergized for maintenance. It was, however, switched online for unknown reasons, despite being worked on. It seems the workers got lucky. No one got vaporized. The government ordered this to be researched on an national level, if the workers would've been around they would have been made non-existant in seconds and there should have been no way that they power was sent onto the line that was being worked on.

A command to switch off was sent, but the interruptor up the line failed to respond to the command. After several minutes, somewhere even further upstream the power was cut manually.

As someone who worked in the rail and in industrial electrics... this is TERRIFYING and so lucky no one was hurt

VictualSquid
Feb 29, 2012

Gently enveloping the target with indiscriminate love.
No idea where to post this. But, I suppose a knife made out of chicken meat would kill most americans by just being the in the same room as them.
Without even going into the crazy stuff going into the construction.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1VWUL0G0uU

Mozi
Apr 4, 2004

Forms change so fast
Time is moving past
Memory is smoke
Gonna get wider when I die
Nap Ghost

LimaBiker posted:

As of yet, the story is that the section of power line that goes to a regional substation was deenergized for maintenance. It was, however, switched online for unknown reasons, despite being worked on. It seems the workers got lucky. No one got vaporized. The government ordered this to be researched on an national level, if the workers would've been around they would have been made non-existant in seconds and there should have been no way that they power was sent onto the line that was being worked on.

Seems a little late to introduce lock-out tag-out practices but there's no better time than the present.

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Wasabi the J
Jan 23, 2008

MOM WAS RIGHT

LimaBiker posted:

Update on the short circuited and sagging power lines: the 150kV AC lines indeed heated up and sagged far enough to get in direct contact with the 1,5-1,8kV DC train power lines

Karate Bastard posted:

Putin's at it again huh

Karate Bastard posted:

They hacked Ukraine's power grid to poo poo days before they went in last time. The Ukrainians we're able to get it up p quick again, but by then they had other problems

Not funny nor a joke :(

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalf_sniper_attack?wprov=sfla1

Makes u think 🤔

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