The Locator posted:

Ugh.. not only was it sulphuric acid, but it was sulphuric acid at 160+ degrees.

The Locator posted:

Ugh.. not only was it sulphuric acid, but it was sulphuric acid at 160+ degrees.

iospace posted:

Never before has this emote been more fitting:

iospace posted:

Never before has this emote been more fitting:

DryGoods posted:

https://i.imgur.com/To6xiPs.gifv

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYLGhVPp8lw

jobson groeth posted:

Stolen from the yiff thread

jobson groeth posted:

Stolen from the yiff thread

thatbastardken posted:

at that scale why not just build a small helicopter?

other than 'government regulations are strangling my innovative spirit, maaaaan!' of course.

BgRdMchne posted:

it takes skill to fly a helicopter and none to fly a quad-copter

of course, there's a chance to recover if something goes wrong in a heli and no computers that fail

oohhboy posted:

Found the video of the incident.

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

If he lives he is going to be a meat popsicle.

Sam Hall posted:

Heptacontahexacopter. Quadcopter's got four rotors, not seventy six.

Platystemon posted:

Multicopters are only easy to control because a computer is hooked up to a bunch of accelerometers and gyroscopes and damps instability before it gets too far.

Helicopters have more benign flight characteristics (I never thought I would say that) that require nothing more than human skill to reign in.

A helicopter could get a computer to make it less demanding of the reflexes but that doesn’t really make it safer. It just makes it easier to get in over one’s head.

Then we get more headlines like “Neighbors say it's no surprise Lincoln County man crashed helicopter”.

Flying a multicopter with an amateur‐built control system is the worst of both worlds.

Platystemon posted:

Multicopters are only easy to control because a computer is hooked up to a bunch of accelerometers and gyroscopes and damps instability before it gets too far.

Helicopters have more benign flight characteristics (I never thought I would say that) that require nothing more than human skill to reign in.

A helicopter could get a computer to make it less demanding of the reflexes but that doesn’t really make it safer. It just makes it easier to get in over one’s head.

Then we get more headlines like “Neighbors say it's no surprise Lincoln County man crashed helicopter”.

Flying a multicopter with an amateur‐built control system is the worst of both worlds.

Humphreys posted:

Was at another site today where yearly Test and Tagging of electrical appliances/tools is done internally. I overheard "we do it in Feb so we can put a 1 in front of the 2 to get an extra 10 months, then coast the Xmas period into year two for another legit test"

It takes loving 5 minutes if that per appliance. And risking the company over essentially the same amount of work (going to every device and writing a 1).

Platystemon posted:

"manned drone" videos

Humphreys posted:

Was at another site today where yearly Test and Tagging of electrical appliances/tools is done internally. I overheard "we do it in Feb so we can put a 1 in front of the 2 to get an extra 10 months, then coast the Xmas period into year two for another legit test"

It takes loving 5 minutes if that per appliance. And risking the company over essentially the same amount of work (going to every device and writing a 1).

Memento posted:

That word, it does not mean what they think it means.

Platystemon posted:

Let me tell you how “helicopter” is “helix” + “pter”, as in “pterodactyl”.

Everyone pronounces it and does horrible things to its roots.

It’s like if “screwflyer” became “fourewflyer”.

Platystemon posted:

Multicopters are only easy to control because a computer is hooked up to a bunch of accelerometers and gyroscopes and damps instability before it gets too far.

Helicopters have more benign flight characteristics (I never thought I would say that) that require nothing more than human skill to reign in.

A helicopter could get a computer to make it less demanding of the reflexes but that doesn’t really make it safer. It just makes it easier to get in over one’s head.

Then we get more headlines like “Neighbors say it's no surprise Lincoln County man crashed helicopter”.

Flying a multicopter with an amateur‐built control system is the worst of both worlds.

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I worked for a government program which provided certain home improvements at no cost to those income qualified (windows, doors, insulation, roofs). Because of the nature of the program, I often worked in bad areas and a lot of section 8 projects.

We have a generator on the back of our truck that we use daily (the power supply in most of these run down homes wasn’t enough to support our tools). As you can imagine, the generator is pretty loud. A lot of the time, you’d hear it sputter and kick on and off. This usually meant some debris/dirt got into the fuel filter. No problem. Clean it out and start it back up again. One morning, we fire up the generator and get to work. While I’m 12 ft up on a ladder, installing a bathroom fan vent, I hear the generator start to slowly quiet down. I roll my eyes because I know I’ll have to get down, go out front to the truck and clean the filter. But since at that particular moment I wasn’t using a tool (just a caulk gun) I figure “gently caress it, I’ll do it when I’m done here”. But then the generator makes a fainter noise. And gets fainter and fainter. I knew something was up.

I get down from the ladder and go out front. About 5 houses away on the sidewalk are two gentlemen, trying their best to run away with our generator while it was still on. The thing weighs about 300lbs and it awkward as gently caress to carry (even with two people). The strain and back crippling run they were doing was impressive. I really couldn’t even be mad. I caught up with them. Tried to stop them. One guy had a screw driver he was threatening me with. I backed off and called the cops. They caught up with them a block later. They weren’t hard to find.

They ended up getting charged with robbery and both went to the hospital. They both had severe burns on their arms and legs from the exhaust on the machine rubbing up against them as they made their great escape.

From there on out the machine was chained to the truck.

Evilreaver posted:

The victim was quoted as saying "Ahhh! This is the second worst acid trip I've ever been on!" shortly before he fell into the vat of sulfuric acid

BgRdMchne posted:

it takes skill to fly a helicopter and none to fly a quad-copter

of course, there's a chance to recover if something goes wrong in a heli and no computers that fail

Memento posted:

I meant manned "drones", where the definition of drone in the this sense is that it's unmanned.

iospace posted: