DrBouvenstein posted:

You know, it might not be a bad idea to schedule an EKG with your doctor. There could be some underlying damage to your heart you don't know about, better to get on it now before it potentially becomes a problem later.

Platystemon posted:

Serious answer: they’re not fail‐safe. There’s nothing stopping one broken sensor from jamming the machine in “full forward” or some other state you don’t want.

Phanatic posted:

Guy I knew did his metallurgy thesis on what happens to a batch of steel in a Chicago steel mill if someone falls in and burns to death floating on the surface.

frozenpussy posted:

from reddit

House had no proper ground, Electricity grounds out through Gas line

Phanatic posted:

And then the report raised the issue: is 'surefire' even something we should be going for?

quote:

We have all become very marker-prone, but shouldn't we nevertheless admit that, in the end, despite all we try to do, the most effective "marker" for any intruders will be a relatively limited amount of sickness and death caused by the radioactive waste? In other words, it is largely a self-correcting process if anyone intrudes without appropriate precautions, and it seems unlikely that intrusion on such buried waste would lead to large-scale disasters. An analysis of the likely number of deaths over 10,000 years due to inadvertent intrusion should be conducted. This cost should be weighted against that of the marker system.

nomad2020 posted:

Also learned that frozen turkeys bounce pretty high when dropped from 40 ft.

Kilo147 posted:

Goddamn, I've been exposed to a fair bit of radiation, haven't I?

chitoryu12 posted:

I'm more concerned that someone got the idea "You know what's probably really good drain cleaner? Sulfuric acid with a tiny bit of dilution. Why has nobody ever tried this before?"

Carbon dioxide posted:

"I'm just gonna make some napalm for these wasps"

chitoryu12 posted:

I really love that I've found out now that Arnold Schwarzenegger has a really active Reddit account.

Elsa posted:

heavy truck brakes are usually designed to apply when the air pressure drops. You sure that's what's going on? Or is it some type of airport safety design that trucks have a brakes-off resting state.

EKDS5k posted:

On trucks there is no difference. They run off the same air supply, and are the same brake pads. If the system loses main pressure for whatever reason then the brakes apply automatically, via a massive spring in the actuator. You need system pressure to release them.

Platystemon posted:

Bloody Hedgehog posted:

BOOYAH! Start queuing up ladies, I can hear your panties dropping as I speak.

Phanatic posted:

There are, however, a number of people who have experienced visual sensitivity to ultraviolet wavelengths following cataract surgery which removes the natural lens, and it apparently looks like a deep, saturated purple. Which is neat, but it's not a new color.

http://www.komar.org/faq/colorado-cataract-surgery-crystalens/ultra-violet-color-glow/

Say Nothing posted:

Mithaldu posted:

From the familiarity of the tape i'd actually guess germany, but well... pixels.

McGavin posted:

Jesus Christ, what do you need 6 kg of one of the strongest known neurotoxins with almost no applications for?

John D. Clark posted:

Phil Pomerantz, of BuWeps, wanted me to try dimethyl mercury, Hg(CH₃)₂, as a fuel. I suggested that it might be somewhat toxic and a bit dangerous to synthesize and handle, but he assured me that it was (a) very easy to put together, and (b) as harmless as mother's milk.
[...]
So I phoned Rochester, and asked my contact man at Eastman Kodak if they would make a hundred pounds of dimethyl mercury and ship it to NARTS.
I heard a horrified gasp, and then a tightly controlled voice (I could hear the grinding of teeth beneath the words) informed me that if they were silly enough to synthesize that much dimethyl mercury, they would, in the process fog every square inch of photographic film in Rochester, and that, thank you just the same, Eastman was not interested. The receiver came down with a crash, and I sat back to consider the matter. An agonizing reappraisal seemed to be indicated.

John D. Clark posted:

At NOTS, Dean Couch and D. G. Nyberg took over the job, and by March 1960 had completed their experiments. They used a 250- pound thrust RFNA-UDMH motor, and injected mercury through a tap in the chamber wall. And the thing did work. They used up to 31 volume percent of mercury in their runs, and found that at 20 percent they got a 40 percent increase in density impulse. (I had calculated 43.) As they were firing in the middle of the desert, they didn't bother with the scrubber. And they didn't poison a single rattlesnake. Technically, the system was a complete success. Practically—that was something else again.

Nissin Cup Nudist posted:

Was this dude peeing or something? What is he doing?

zedprime posted:

I don't know, a risk analysis would probably say he could have control over the speed of the car by not standing in the line of fire of a moving car.

Rockin Orthodontist posted:

It's fine, the Nine Gods are handling it.

http://www.vice.com/en_us/read/photos-from-thailands-brutal-tesagan-gin-je

Arsenic Lupin posted:

(Back to OSHA) You do not put warning signs on steel presses. You install lockout devices.

VectorSigma posted:

they were literally cutting corners

Rascar Capac posted:

More fun with nuclear weapons:

Baronjutter posted:

I don't know why they didn't some how protect the windows, or just pre-remove all the glass if they knew they'd have to re-glaze. Or maybe they're tearing down the whole facility over stages so don't give a poo poo.

CJacobs posted:

That sounds like a mind boggling waste of time and resources

Greatest Living Man posted:

Ahh right. So I bet using a coke bottle with compressed air would be extra fun.

Volcott posted:

Can you hitrun without knowing that you've hit someone?

Volcott posted:

Not knowing leaving the scene after you've hit someone is illegal and not knowing you've hit someone, thus having no reason to do anything other than drive normally seem like two different things.

Platystemon posted:

I have to say, poo poo lagoons are pretty high on the list of places I don’t want my plane to land in.

Say Nothing posted:

Grease fire + water.

Goreld posted:

A hurricane and electric cars you say?

http://jalopnik.com/5958523/fisker-lost-30-million-worth-of-cars-in-hurricane-sandy

shame on an IGA posted:

"Zinc Fume Fever? Must be pretty obscure, I've never heard of them."

Say Nothing posted:

Say Nothing posted:

It's one of those new high-tech segmented tires.

Platystemon posted:

https://giant.gfycat.com/ActiveFormalAlbatross.mp4

Synthbuttrange posted: