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Control room of the Armenian Nuclear Power Plant in Metsamor, Armenia.
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Previously:
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...099#post145301
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...458#post142767
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...978#post137684
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...960#post144803
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...371#post104108
Why are they dressed like short-order cooks?
Neil
Not only that, now Homer Simpson's control room appears less sophisticated...Quote:
Originally Posted by sossol
For the nosy ones: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armeni...ar_Power_Plant
The first thing that sprang to my mind was the Simpsons. Toolmaker51 beat me to it.
I have but a few favorite references; yet those cover a wide range of topics. My recall and imagination do the rest.Quote:
Originally Posted by MeJasonT
Uhhh, because only half the room is shown?Quote:
Originally Posted by sossol
There they are; Pete, Nico and George of the Olympia Café........
Apparently radiation does not go through white cotton fabric lol. that and lead underpants.
Seems to be a nuclear thing to wear white for everything, on the subs (maintenance) we had to wear white overalls, a white jacket, white overshoes and white cotton gloves. we looked like albino umperlumpers. I did find out that Rolls Royce dont have a sense of humour, they guy i was working with took a mouthful of welding purge gas and did the full Donald Duck thing. not even a flicker - me i was dying with laughter. Best job in the world, i never had so many bacon rolls in all my life. Before i offend the vegans i had better mention that they also do vegan bacon. Why anyone who hates the idea of meat in its entirity would want a substitute, beats me. The slice of bacon comes from cutting a slice off a lump of pork - the animal cruility bit. So then the sustitute would look like a butchered piece of meat, just saying.
The picture looks like it came from the set of the very first Star Trek, it must have been stored in area 51 with the stage set from the moon landing.
re: thread hack.
Think of it as a commercial, interactive TV.
The new-age concept humans are supposed to not consume meat, is partially an act of shaming, that others are less humane or sensitive. Not really any different than revisionists of history etc. Never has a good case for such thinking, like obliterating physical objects alters history, been presented. Or an argument forgetting history keeps events from recurring. Everyone can think of something that should never happen again.
Vegans.
When it comes up, I ask what type of teeth certain creatures have. A lion (carnivore) for example versus a hippo, or cow (herbivore). Lions are pointed and a few molars, the others are nearly all molars. So, what humans have; a combination, just like any omnivore.
At same time, one theory holds our varied blood types are based on diets consumed over the eons. So, for example central Africa was heavily game animals and little farming, much like native southwest America, where far northern latitudes had pellagic sources. Some how migration appears to have added particulars. A good part of DNA ancestry results seems to support that.
Now, back to our regular programming..........
Love it. ... keeping me on topic will be nearly as hard as converting me into a vegan. So The Simpsons, where was I.
Just to put the last few comments well and truely to bed, I find it interesting how on archaeological digs they always find signs of us eating animals - for like thousands of years.
Doh
Im trying to find the panel that looks somthing like this
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vitally important apparently.
There have been a few Scifi films showing a Submarine jumping out of the water. not somthing that is encouraged. Bit of an issue with buoyancy, you can capsise a submarine when its ballast tanks are out of the water. The precurser to this action is usually a SCRAM - shutting down the reactor and putting the sub on the roof as they call it. I only have knowledge of one submarine ever doing this and that was HMS Revenge (UK RN) which hit and underwater mountain. Interesting to see it in so many films when its an action of last resort. My interest in nuclear is from two angles really, you would never guess i was in the Navy and the other is the fact i only live about 35 miles from BNFL Sellafield or as we like to call it Springfield.
Its a weird environment to work in, you are getting low doses (obviously planned) when your working in that environment but there is no obvious ill effect or indication that its there. Electricity is more obvious, high voltage buzzes like a bitch. If we thought of covid as being a nuclear incident would the public's behaviour towards it be any different? Ie. if your were not on deaths door from radiation sickness would one consider it safe to go out night clubbing or rioting. Its hard to understand a silent killer, most of us have experienced a tickle from electricity and would very sensibly and with some care and logic avoid it like the plague. Even putting a PP3 battery on your tounge is not advised and yet some people live in Granite houses with quite high levels of radiation emitting from the stone.
I think i was about 10 when i went to a presentation from BNFL about mini reactors, the thought was at some point in the future it would be possible to have somthing the size of a matchbox power a home. The fuel required would be no more than the size of a pencil dot. Roll on some 40 years and they are now talking about mini reactors constructed to provide power for small towns and districts with the reactor and machinary fitting into somthing the size of a shipping container. from a safety angle that would seriously concern me. if it suffered a thermal runaway the outcome would be like the fuel explosion in Bopal which took out 10 villages.
Obligatory Simpsons clip.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3x_W-6k77Gk
Ooops. late night SNAFU*.
Obligatory, lol. I've probably put in 10 on my own...Quote:
Originally Posted by Jon
I can't find one of Homer on or referring to any nuke aircraft carriers....so allow me interject yours truly.
I spent 3 years on USS Enterprise CVAN [later CVA] 65. As ultimate front line inter-ocean deployable, the equivalent first responders to all manner of events. That created morale boosters and reducers at nearly same rate. But as a ship, she astounds me more than 40 years later. The 4 reactors did everything, smoothly, dependably, at instant required. Unlimited power under watchful eyes of nuclear-trained engineering officers and men. I'd warrant, there were no Homer Simpsons.
Over time, I'd been assigned to 5 additional carriers; all were fine, but none performed like Enterprise.