Comments by "Asbestos Muffins" (@AsbestosMuffins) on "Plainly Difficult" channel.

  1. the audio editing on this one sounds a little wonkey but great as usual
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  2. you'd have thought since they were already using nuclear weapons they'd have considered using plutonium heaters like nasa later would use, guess it came a few years too early
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  3. not sure what's worse, that they did this, or that the powers that be seemed to have known about it almost immediately. Also why the hell was nuclear waste just sold off
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  4. these pictures look exactly like the mill I workes in, except unlike this place it was salt so the dust was actually a fire retardant but man everything looks the same. funny enough my quality manager told me that our site was one of the cleaner ones which only probably was that way because we had really good dust collectors and dedicated cleaning staff
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  5. these guys were absolutely lucky
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  6. Having read some books on this, the sad part about this is that it just took soooooo long for people to get in there and figure out what to do. there didn't seem to have been any consideration for what to do in case of a total tank rupture and nobody had a plan in place to deal with it though at that point I guess it would have been to prepare for a total vehicle explosion
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  7. not that its exactly their fault but you'd think the supplier would have put more thought into jams
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  8. 2 years to build a super carrier
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  9. its ok, union carbide got bought by dupont and they take safety seriously, except that time they released chemical weapons in WV, or those decades it took for them to poison all of the world with tefflon ....
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  10. "Oh shit we scrammed the reactor." "Great, so what do we do about not crashing?"
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  11. man had this thing been finished it would have collapsed the next time a hurricane hit florida
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  12.  @centurion1945  ya that's true, that probably explains why these are all in black and white, at least the newer times
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  13. then it all melted down because its LA and its 130 F there (54 C)
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  14. not quite chernobyl but it does seem like they could have found a better place to stick their giant cyanide pond besides next to one of romania's major rivers
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  15. the nrx seemed to have been responsibly dealt with.
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  16. I don't even understand why he didn't take the key with him, it didn't really save any time since he had to go around all these things
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  17. the east coast in the early 1900s was a breeding ground for this sort of movement to meld science to religious dogma, which took the world down a dark path for a while, got bombed to oblivion, then resurrected in the 1980s and we are increasingly mired in
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  18. then the combined trains went super critical and melted down
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  19. plus if you look on a map, they can do 100 mph to the facility if they wanted to, its completely empty
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  20. Moral of the story, don't use concrete as a cable just use a cable. 51 years on the University of Florida pedestrian bridge made the same mistake because we don't learn
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  21. god damn if it were possible all staffing on nuclear or irradiation facilities should be larger than day shift because that's always when these accidents happen
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  22. they wrote up a procedure to turn off all the safeties and turn off the cooling system, then left it for night shift to run...
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  23. Seems like they should have put a portcullis on the other side of the drawbridge
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  24. they didn't even need a dam there just something to delay a surge in the river
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  25. they just did not put radios on trains even in the 50s
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  26. Florida Man strikes again!
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  27. huh so the soviet equivalent of upshot grable.
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  28. man it was a crappy life in the navy back then "you 125 men stand on this rock and don't get shot, btw we'll get back to you in a few years."
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  29. Costs to rebuild the curve to accomidate the service: 200 million Costs to put up a sign: 100$ (probably)
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  30. ah yes, right next to the native american reservation is the perfect place to store large amounts of uranium waste. nobody (who lines the pockets of politicians) will be bothered if something goes wrong
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  31. USA: We're gonna have to test this to destruction to see what happens when it comes down USSR: WHAT'S THAT, I CAN'T HEAR YOU OVER THE SOUND OF THE ROCKET LAUNCH
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  32. Wow this is actually a very stupid mistake
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  33.  @Damien.D  its the pressure to keep running. Reactors as I understand it, once they become poisoned enough to shut down they require a lot of time to bring back up to power
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  34. shrapnel bags to kill you harder!
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  35. an interesting what-if because of this VW abandoned its diesel hybrid vehicle projects completely, something they were a couple of years or less from bringing to market with only a single small batch of prototype hypercars built around the technology. Another result of this was that they moved faster than they probably would have towards electric cars as a result, which in turn helped ford get their electric car program off the ground, so its legacy is huge
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  36. its always night shift, just about every nuclear facility accident is night shift
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  37.  @neuralmute  absolutely, I worked night shift at a place and had to do site walk throughs every night to keep people from fucking off and sleeping on the upper floors where there were many unwatched machine spaces. one night I caught a guy packing food products with a fucking pizza at his station like its no big deal and I swear one of these days they're gonna drop an airpod into one of the bags between the fill and close stations. that said there were nights when I had to calibrate machines in the upper floors and didn't see people for like 3 hours while I ran through my calibrations
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  38.  @OfftheWallTales  ya but you had piston powered airplanes crash and kill as many people, its just this crashed because of a design flaw, though I'd argue the super constellations loosing engines routinely was also a bad design flaw
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  39. Good thing their senators and most of their congressmen don't believe in nasty government regulations
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  40. I think they're usually unstable at low power levels which is a bit of a problem
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  41. and then the train suffered a catastrophic melt-down
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  42. seems like this could largely have been avoided by better spending or just not listening to people who build a mansion next to a tower and complain the tower needs to look pretty
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