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Pile Of Garbage posted:Hank Hill did it first: yes that's the joke
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Perestroika posted:This actually made me wonder: Are Geiger counters still built in a way where detecting radiation directly leads to them making that particular sound? Or are they just fully digital now and there's just a sound chip inside translating the readings into the familiar sound? The detection of a particle still leads to an electrical pulse, so you can just amplify that pulse to get audio for free in addition to counting pulses per second or whatever else you're doing to arrive at your displayed value.
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Barry Bluejeans posted:I'm stillllllll in a dreaaaaaam Metal gear solid: snake yeeter
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Perestroika posted:This actually made me wonder: Are Geiger counters still built in a way where detecting radiation directly leads to them making that particular sound? Or are they just fully digital now and there's just a sound chip inside translating the readings into the familiar sound? Geiger muller tubes all create short voltage pulses as a matter of function so it's pretty trivial to hook those pulses up to a speaker for audio feedback, It's a nice feature to have if you are just frisking around so you don't have to look at the meter till you find some activity. The other kind of detectors are Scintillators basically a big chunk of crystal that fluoresces when exposed to radiation hooked up to a photo sensor of one kind or another, they can be hooked up to a beeper but a far more useful thing to do with them is to hook them into spectrum analyzer so you can figure out not just how much radiation it is detecting but also exactly what Isotopes are emitting it neat stuff imo. I was looking into getting this one until the loving russians decided to invade Ukraine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5RFMfkIbnU
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Neat https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1666400285059629063?t=_stO6jRQCSgArCxZbRk8_w&s=19
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Platystemon posted:The emissions are all alpha particles. They can’t penetrate the nitrile gloves or for that matter bare skin. It’s only a danger if you eat or inhale the dust. Also the activity of depleted uranium s extremely low. A kilogram of DU is roughly as radioactive as an adult human. You've got far more to be concerned about because it's a toxic heavy metal, like lead, but again: gloves. You can make a geiger counter click like that for almost anything, it depends on what it's scaled for.
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Jun 7, 2023 14:44
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The best way to detect radiation is by building a bubble chamber and making "pew pew" sounds yourself. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlvK5OlGF2A
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the sun is a real dick with the radiation really it's the perfect thing to worship. it's the source of all life, but it also gives you cancer just to remind you that you ain't poo poo
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Platystemon posted:The emissions are all alpha particles. They can’t penetrate the nitrile gloves or for that matter bare skin. It’s only a danger if you eat or inhale the dust.
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I know they're doing a King of the Hill joke, but do they even still make WD40 with the old style lids any more? I've only seen the new design for years now. 
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RDM posted:A GM won't detect alpha at all for the exact reason that it doesn't penetrate anything, including the detector (it's also useless for low-energy beta for the same reason). Geiger counters will certainly detect alphas and low-energy betas, there's a very thin mica window in the detector probe for that reason. Yes, it's got to be right up near the source but they were invented to detect alphas in alpha-scattering experiments.
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Jun 7, 2023 17:22
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Unsafe working condition and inadequate training. https://imgur.com/a/UVbnWaP Trauma flashbacks to temping at Best Buy in the tube TV era. E: can't get that to embed nomad2020 fucked around with this message at 17:33 on Jun 7, 2023 |
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Jun 7, 2023 17:31
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Holy poo poo
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nomad2020 posted:Unsafe working condition and inadequate training. gently caress everyone who got that person into that lift. Jesus christ.
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Jun 7, 2023 17:47
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What was that? A washing machine or something?
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Jun 7, 2023 18:08
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Robobot posted:What was that? A washing machine or something? Nope! As much as Lowe’s employees may be presented as inanimate, expendable objects, that was in fact an actual human.
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Jun 7, 2023 18:14
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Looks like a patio chair
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Jun 7, 2023 18:18
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nomad2020 posted:Unsafe working condition and inadequate training. I wish I could be shocked, but in our warehouse people literally shimmy up the shelves like lizards to fetch things like that no matter what I loving tell them. I don't think anything less than the threat of firing would affect them.
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Perestroika posted:This actually made me wonder: Are Geiger counters still built in a way where detecting radiation directly leads to them making that particular sound? Or are they just fully digital now and there's just a sound chip inside translating the readings into the familiar sound? Kinda. The pulse from the actual detector is filtered/shaped to some extent by very basic circuitry that determines the sound when driven through a speaker. The waveform looks like a delta function but with decay on the trailing edge (with the decay time affecting the sound+volume when you have multiple pulses close together). The core of the sound is just from popping the speaker by driving it to it's limit, so in my tests I found that the type of speaker membrane had a huge effect on the tone generated (presumably because the speaker membrane would rattle/resonate slightly when it popped). I had a whole bunch of waveforms saved from inside my geiger counter and inside its speaker when I was trying to build a modernized speaker for it, but IDK where I put them. Also in the end I couldnt beat the great specs of the antique analog speaker unit, which was rated for 1000 hours on a small battery. http://www.civildefensemuseum.com/southrad/eberline-sk1.html
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Jun 7, 2023 18:24
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https://i.imgur.com/Mh5yIvs.mp4
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loving terrible launch from the lambo too.
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Sagebrush posted:loving terrible launch from the lambo too. Probably didn't want it to catch on fire
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Jun 7, 2023 18:40
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nomad2020 posted:Unsafe working condition and inadequate training. gently caress the guy recording that egging them on to do wildly unsafe poo poo
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Jun 7, 2023 18:42
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nomad2020 posted:Unsafe working condition and inadequate training. A friend of mine worked at a home depot in the LA area, and the safety violations and incidents he talked about were absolutely egregious. Customers nearly getting crushed by a falling pallet of 5 gallon paint buckets because they were left on an extended forklift with no cones, stuff like that.
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Jun 7, 2023 18:49
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Thats FarmTruck. Still around I think, was originally built for one of those horrible TLC reality racing shows. Still a loving awesome sleeper. There’s videos of it crushing just about any and every performance or super car you can think of at a drag race.
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MrYenko posted:Thats FarmTruck. Still around I think, was originally built for one of those horrible TLC reality racing shows. Still a loving awesome sleeper. There’s videos of it crushing just about any and every performance or super car you can think of at a drag race. Reminds me of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChZ_GvP_fkQ
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Absolutely would NOT https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_rtmrx2EQ7E1xoyw8p.mp4
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NoneMoreNegative posted:Absolutely would NOT For some reason my mind immediately thinks "put a WRC stage on that road and hope the road doesn't break up"
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NoneMoreNegative posted:Absolutely would NOT Where is this?
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The Wiggly Wizard posted:Looks like a patio chair I was about to say "looks like one of those plastic rattan chairs they aren't so bad weight wise" but I guess not??? PurpleXVI posted:I wish I could be shocked, but in our warehouse people literally shimmy up the shelves like lizards to fetch things like that no matter what I loving tell them. I don't think anything less than the threat of firing would affect them. When I worked part time in an electrical store stockroom one of the full time warehouse guys carried a 32 inch widescreen crt TV up two flights of stairs by himself, refusing all help.
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Shooting Blanks posted:Where is this? China, of course. Shiziguan specifically. https://www.dangerousroads.org/asia/china/11199-driving-on-water-surface-through-the-shiziguan-floating-bridge.html
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wowwww that poo poo needs a wheelie bar
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SmokaDustbowl posted:wowwww that poo poo needs a wheelie bar On some of the runs with a better camera angle that truck is very noticeably bending and only 3 wheels are on the ground for a significant length of time.
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SLOSifl posted:The best way to detect radiation is by building a bubble chamber and making "pew pew" sounds yourself.
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NoneMoreNegative posted:Absolutely would NOT Send a dump truck down it so I can surf the tidal bore.
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This is the automotive equivalent of the scene in a martial arts movie when the roided out meathead tries to threaten the smiling little bald guy. Just walk away dude, there's no way this ends well for you.
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nomad2020 posted:Unsafe working condition and inadequate training. TW the dude in the lift is in some clear distress and starts wailing out in pain halfway through JFC And put the dude behind the camera in the stockade
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