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Sagebrush posted:that's the same system they use for sorting and aligning hot dogs Goddamn that is some good music for a hot dog machine video.
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Fine music for any vider dealing in floppy tubes of meat.
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Sagebrush posted:that's the same system they use for sorting and aligning hot dogs Give me the SAUSAGE LOADER
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Give this person the Nobel Prize in engineering.
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coldpudding posted:It's funny when you think about how it takes a factory to build the parts for another factory to build the parts for another factory and so on, basically factories all the way to down to some dude digging dirt out of the ground. It is now impossible to reach our current level of technology starting again from scratch, because we've already consumed all of the easily accessible deposits of raw materials. When people first started using copper, you just built a fire next to some rocks and the copper would melt and run out onto the ground. You could pick up gold nuggets the size of marbles from streambeds in California. All those metals are now used up. You can't have a bronze age if there's no copper or tin on the surface of the planet anymore. You could not have the industrial revolution again today, simply because we've used up all of the coal that can be mined with pre-industrial technology. Without an easily accessible source of dense energy, nothing happens. Oh, and coal isn't coming back, either -- not even in 500 million years. Coal is a product of the Carboniferous period, when trees had evolved lignin but bacteria hadn't evolved a way of decomposing it, so dead trees just piled up like rocks for millions of years. This pulled massive amounts of carbon out of the atmosphere, and eventually the geological processes turned the trees into coal. Contemporary bacteria and fungi decompose dead trees and return their carbon to the cycle too quickly for that process to happen. Our industrial revolution was a one-time thing 
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Oct 5, 2022 17:48
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Sagebrush posted:you just built a fire next to some
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Old prospector jumping up and down hooting and hollering after hitting a rich microplastics vein.
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There's a fairly compelling argument well be mining old landfill sites for rate earth metals in the next couple of decades.
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crosspost from schadenfreude thread, with sound
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Sagebrush posted:It is now impossible to reach our current level of technology starting again from scratch, because we've already consumed all of the easily accessible deposits of raw materials. I think even in the worst case scenario where everything that has ever been mined is gone somehow without leaving any trace it ever existed, you'd still be able to cobble together enough conductive metal (doesn't even need to be copper) to build a big but lovely electric generator and lovely arc furnace to help bootstrap the rest of the process and skip coal entirely.
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Cat Hatter posted:I think even in the worst case scenario where everything that has ever been mined is gone somehow without leaving any trace it ever existed, you'd still be able to cobble together enough conductive metal (doesn't even need to be copper) to build a big but lovely electric generator and lovely arc furnace to help bootstrap the rest of the process and skip coal entirely. A couple million years of asteroid bombardment will replenish us with everything we need.
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mobby_6kl posted:This looks like the bogosort of industrial processes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3bcvCUILOI guess what happens when it doesn't run right and people keep putting stoppers in it or better yet when they don't use silicone because it damages the product so all the stoppers stick together
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AzureSkys posted:A truly terrifying Lawnmower Man clip for this October season. Zero Turn mowers are really good at many things, but keep them away from hills. If a single wheel loses traction, its going to turn downhill. All the weight is in the back to the point that you can usually pick the front up with one hand, so mowing uphill can flip the whole thing over. "But what if I put ballast in the front to balance it?" Well, now it wants to turn downhill even more and if you point it uphill its less likely to flip but now you're going uphill in a heavier vehicle. Mowing downhill is safe enough, I guess? Tractors are also dangerous on hills, but they at least work a little better. Should probably just cut hills like that with a walk-behind or a string trimmer to be honest.
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Sammus posted:That ration looks dope as gently caress. Chocolate, instant noodles, and booze. It’s just like college! I just wish the radioactive heater was real, I would absolutely buy one of those.
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MrQwerty posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3bcvCUILOI I'm sure they're just testing/demonstrating the machine here, but the thought of getting all the stoppers lined up just to dump them in a box is funny to me. I was already thinking the pipe staircase would be perfect for the middle of a cartoon from the 40s showing a pipe getting cut into sections that are then shipped to another factory to be sorted and then welded back into a continuous pipe.
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Cat Hatter posted:I think even in the worst case scenario where everything that has ever been mined is gone somehow without leaving any trace it ever existed, you'd still be able to cobble together enough conductive metal (doesn't even need to be copper) to build a big but lovely electric generator and lovely arc furnace to help bootstrap the rest of the process and skip coal entirely. What are you using the spin the generator?
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Cat Hatter posted:I'm sure they're just testing/demonstrating the machine here, but the thought of getting all the stoppers lined up just to dump them in a box is funny to me. they run onto a chain head, at least the ones I worked on, and then cork the vial. Unless it's set up wrong, then the lip of the vial is too high for the stopperhead and it chips it, then the inspector starts seeing chips an hour into the fill and all the chemo drugs you filled are sus
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Phanatic posted:What are you using the spin the generator? There will presumably still be wind and flowing water
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Why are you all making me not look forward to the upcoming apocalypse?
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Drone_Fragger posted:There's a fairly compelling argument well be mining old landfill sites for rate earth metals in the next couple of decades. I'm kind of surprised it's not already a thing; there's got to be some metal where the minimum economical ore enrichment and the levels in average garbage are approaching each other.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Suburbs as we know them were largely invented by rail and streetcar companies. Automobile ownership continued a preexisting trend. FTFY
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Computer viking posted:I'm kind of surprised it's not already a thing; there's got to be some metal where the minimum economical ore enrichment and the levels in average garbage are approaching each other. You know what they say: "If you can think of it,
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Huh, seems like this is the typical method of aligning various widgets. https://i.imgur.com/QvzncP1.mp4 I've never been in any sort of mass production environment so this poo poo is fascinating
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Computer viking posted:I'm kind of surprised it's not already a thing; there's got to be some metal where the minimum economical ore enrichment and the levels in average garbage are approaching each other. That’s why other countries purchase the good poo poo (e waste) and break it down for us. Gold, silver, maybe platinum I donno. If you live in the poorer parts of the world it’s totally economically advantageous to burn America’s garbage in big open air pits then pick out the shinny parts.
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mobby_6kl posted:Huh, seems like this is the typical method of aligning various widgets. But enough about your mom. mobby_6kl posted:I've never been in any sort of mass production environment so this poo poo is fascinating But enough about your okay okay jeeze
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Sammus posted:That’s why other countries purchase the good poo poo (e waste) and break it down for us. Gold, silver, maybe platinum I donno. If you live in the poorer parts of the world it’s totally economically advantageous to burn America’s garbage in big open air pits then pick out the shinny parts. Ok, yeah, that's a fair point. It's kind of the "you can make a living panning for gold" level of garbage mining, though; I guess we'll get to the strip mining stage later. 
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mobby_6kl posted:Huh, seems like this is the typical method of aligning various widgets. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBdKtvPtG4g This is pretty similar to the line I worked on, except mine was much more... low budget, floor-model lemon Bosch and way more intimate, a machine surrounded by RABS in a room rather than a room built around a machine. The stoppers are shaped big and weird and only go in halfway because they are going into a lyo, and that was how the plant I worked at did most of their volume, cuz freeze drying injectable drugs is the way to go if you can.
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Ornamental Dingbat posted:A couple million years of asteroid bombardment will replenish us with everything we need. What you're saying is we need another heavy bombardment period to refill the stocks
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ilmucche posted:What you're saying is we need another heavy bombardment period to refill the stocks Crust could use a good freshen-up
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Phanatic posted:What are you using the spin the generator? Whatever you want. In addition to the waterwheels, windmills, and slaves* already mentioned you could build a lovely steam engine powered by wood or whatever else you can find that burns. Bonus is that you now have distilled water too. None of this needs to work super efficiently, just good enough to start building better tools and machines so we can start mining again. You know, assuming the wizard who erased all evidence of human existence was also enough of a dick to fill in all the open pit mines. *I only just considered that the Citadel in Fury Road probably gets a lot of wind across the top of the plateaus, but Immortan Joe powered his pumps and pulleys with a bunch of kids on a treadmill. I'm starting to think this warlord is a bit of a jerk!
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Sagebrush posted:Coal is a product of the Carboniferous period, when trees had evolved lignin but bacteria hadn't evolved a way of decomposing it, so dead trees just piled up like rocks for millions of years.
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Spatial posted:That must have been an amazing sight. It's hard to imagine the sheer amount of buildup. 35% of the atmosphere was Oxygen back then, compared to 21% today, so there were lots of fires to get rid of the dead wood.
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Ornamental Dingbat posted:https://twitter.com/canneo2103145/status/1577159976266584066?t=g_8yw2XVSWorH1jboiN_5Q&s=19  
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Sagebrush posted:It is now impossible to reach our current level of technology starting again from scratch, because we've already consumed all of the easily accessible deposits of raw materials. Coal isn't coming back. What about oil? It's mostly made from dead algae and plankton is it not? Is there poo poo that breaks it down before it can be buried at the bottom of the sea and turn into oil in a billion years? I know of a few places that use methane collected from old landfills to power stuff/ generate electricity but if we start mining landfills, that's going to release a while shitload of that poo poo unless we can can contain it.
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Computer viking posted:What does peat turn into if you leave a bog alone for a million years? "Old peat"? Old peat definitely spends a lot of time in the bog but I mean give him a break, those prunes do a number.
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Computer viking posted:What does peat turn into if you leave a bog alone for a million years? "Old peat"?
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It's hard to draw conclusions about what you need for an industrial revolution because unlike the development of agriculture, it's only happened once in the entirety of human history. But you can kinda make some guesses, based on comparing it to all the other places in history that didn't start industrialising. In order to really kick off, you need a way for the worst, shittiest possible mechanical engine, built by someone who knows absolutely nothing about engine-building, to still be economically viable. In our history, this happened because the British clearcut the forests on their entire island and had to start using coal for heat, and then they mined all the surface coal and had to start digging it out of the ground, and then they needed some way to deal with pumping water out of an underground mine at exactly the same place coal was the cheapest (because you were right at the coal mine, it didn't have to be transported anywhere). If a lovely engine is economically viable somewhere, then it can get used, and people can figure out how to make it better and more profitable (in terms of energy output for fuel input). Eventually they improve it to the point where it's worthwhile building an engine elsewhere for some other industry and transporting coal in to fuel it, and then your whole industrialization process is well under way.
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