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rezrider

rezrider

CDA:
Naw, if he was the supervisor, he would have called out a couple more guys, so he could stand there and watch. His supervisor is probably at another job site or driving around looking important, so he left the vest off..:smirk:
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You're right... guy on the left has been with the company 20+ years, his boss is out "on the road" so he says "F" it, I aint wearing that shizzle, the newbie's in the costume because he's only been with the company for 6 months and hasn't learned the "ins-n'-outs yet... still tryingto keep his nose clean trying to impress the boss in the event he's spying on them all the while the other guys knows the boss man is at "the pussy cat club" having cocktails with the mayor.
 
James

James

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CDA:
Naw, if he was the supervisor, he would have called out a couple more guys, so he could stand there and watch. His supervisor is probably at another job site or driving around looking important, so he left the vest off..:smirk:
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True, then again this looks like a marketing piece, so I'm guessing that the supervisor stepped in for the last bolt. That way when the higher uppers see it the supervisor gets instant cred for stepping in and getting his hands a little dirty. :smirk:
 
Travace

Travace

:prof: GoPro hero 3's have a update and it adds new narrow modes for the black :rocker:


it is supposed to fix the freezing issues as well.... we will see.
 
Travace

Travace

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Travace

Travace

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"A meteoroid struck the surface of the moon recently, causing an explosion that was visible on Earth without the aid of a telescope, NASA reported Friday (5/17/2013). But don't be alarmed if you didn't see it; it was a very brief burst of light when seen from Earth.

"It exploded in a flash nearly 10 times as bright as anything we've ever seen before," said Bill Cooke, of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office. “An object about the size of a small boulder hit the lunar surface in Mare Imbrium. It exploded in a flash nearly 10 times as bright as anything we’ve ever seen before.”

NASA astronomers have been monitoring the moon for the past eight years, looking for explosions caused by meteoroids hitting the lunar surface. It's part of a program to find new fields of space debris that could hit Earth.
NASA says it sees hundreds of detectable lunar meteoroid impacts a year. So is it safe to go on a moonwalk, or not? In the middle of March, when the impacts are most likely, it might be a good time to stay inside."
http://www.allproudamericans.com/Explosion-on-the-Moon.html
 
James

James

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Travace:
"A meteoroid struck the surface of the moon recently, causing an explosion that was visible on Earth without the aid of a telescope, NASA reported Friday (5/17/2013). But don't be alarmed if you didn't see it; it was a very brief burst of light when seen from Earth.
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I'd read about that on Friday. :thumb:

I'd never really thought about how many times the Moon gets hit, makes you wonder how safe a Moon outpost will really be? The Moon doesn't rotate right? Maybe they'd build the outpost on the Earth facing side to somewhat shield it from the space side.
 
James

James

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Was reading an article that listed the most fatal jobs according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and a comment made me look something up. First here's the chart. I should note that this is a list of most fatal (deaths) and not most dangerous jobs. The danger level of a job is opinion, number of fatalities is not.

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What peaked my interest is a comment that wondered where the job of President would fit in...

We've had 44 presidents.
8 have died while in office.


Adjusted that would be 18,181 per 100,000. However that can't be plugged directly into the chart above as those figures are yearly (this being lifetime). So if we divide that by the number of years that we've had a president (224 years), it'd come out to ~.036 per year. Or adjusted it would be ~81 per 100,000 per year. Unless my thought process is way off. :lol:

Edit:
Ok that last part might be off. The .036 per year should be adjusted to 100,000 and not the 18,181 divided by 224 (years) correct? In which case it would be 3,600 per 100,000.

Coach aka Mathwise aka Nighthawk, help me out here!
 
bobkyle2

bobkyle2

The four Goldberg brothers, Lowell, Norman, Hiram, and Max, invented and developed the first automobile air-conditioner. On July 17, 1946, the temperature in Detroit was 97 degrees.

The four brothers walked into old man Henry Ford's office and sweet-talked his secretary into telling him that four gentlemen were there with the most exciting innovation in the auto industry since the electric starter.

Henry was curious and invited them into his office. They refused and instead asked that he come out to the parking lot to their car.

They persuaded him to get into the car, which was about 130 degrees, turned on the air conditioner, and cooled the car off immediately.

The old man got very excited and invited them back to the office, where he offered them $3 million for the patent.

The brothers refused, saying they would settle for $2 million, but they wanted the recognition by having a label, 'The Goldberg Air-Conditioner,' on the dashboard of each car in which it was installed.

Now old man Ford was more than just a little anti-Semitic, and there was no way he was going to put the Goldberg's name on two million Fords.

They haggled back and forth for about two hours and finally agreed on $4 million and that just their first names would be shown.

And so to this day, all Ford air conditioners show -- Low, Norm, Hi, and Max -- on the controls. And, that's the truth....
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