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[George K]

@brenda said in Mildly interesting:

Brilliant

Pro tip: If you can find a wider piece of yarn that's a bit flat, that works better.

[taiwan_girl]

Euthanasia Roller coaster

Link to video

"The concept design of the layout begins with a steep-angled lift to the 510-metre (1,670 ft) top, which would take two minutes for the train to reach. Any passengers that wished to get off could then do so.[3] From there, a 500-metre (1,600 ft) drop would take the train to 360 kilometres per hour (220 mph), close to its terminal velocity, before flattening out and speeding into the first of its seven slightly clothoid inversions.[3] Each inversion would have a smaller diameter than the one before in order to maintain the lethal 10 g to passengers while the train loses speed. After a sharp right-hand turn the train would enter a straight, where unloading of corpses and loading of new passengers could take place.[3]"

[Klaus]

@taiwan_girl I love this! Brilliant!

[Mik]

Putting the fun back into concentration camps.

[George K]

Click on the tweet to get a sense of this:

[taiwan_girl]

@george-k Wow!! That is impressive!!

[mark]

They don't make them like they used to! lol

Holy crap that is an excessively large door.

[Copper]

It makes me wonder what they intended to put through it.

[jon-nyc]

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[George K]

@jon-nyc it's called an "electrician's" or "underwriter's" knot:

https://www.thespruce.com/what-is-an-underwriters-knot-1152873

Used in lamps and things like that.

[Klaus]

That looks wrong. The two cables are supposed to be part of a bigger cable, and that bigger cable is supposed to be fixed by the two screws.

[George K]

@klaus a lamp cord has two wires, as you say, joined in a "cable." One has to split them apart to wire the lamp cord:

https://www.bplampsupply.com/help/22HowToULKnot.php

[Klaus]

I think such cords would be illegal over here.

Our power cables look like this.

[Copper]

It's not obvious in the picture, but I suspect the Blue and Red wires are joined.

Except where they are separated in order to tie the knot.

The 2 wires form a single strand that can be easily pulled apart. Outside of a fixture the covering between the 2 wires is joined.

[Doctor Phibes]

@klaus said in Mildly interesting:

That looks wrong. The two cables are supposed to be part of a bigger cable, and that bigger cable is supposed to be fixed by the two screws.

Klaus, you wouldn't believe the wiring over here. It's unbelievable. I feel like I'm taking my life in my hands every time I wire a plug or install a fixture. The first time I opened up a plug in Canada I thought it was a practical joke.

I'm guessing it's a function of having half the voltage, but still.....

[Klaus]

@doctor-phibes said in Mildly interesting:

I'm guessing it's a function of having half the voltage, but still.....

But half the voltage means twice the current, which makes proper cables and connectors even more important.

I’m always amazed when I visit the high tech country USA to then find all these utility roads with overland cables and wires that look like in a third world country.

[Doctor Phibes]

@klaus said in Mildly interesting:

@doctor-phibes said in Mildly interesting:

I'm guessing it's a function of having half the voltage, but still.....

But half the voltage means twice the current, which makes proper cables and connectors even more important.

I’m always amazed when I visit the high tech country USA to then find all these utility roads with overland cables and wires that look like in a third world country.

It's funny how the priorities differ. When we lived in Canada, the heating systems and protection against the cold were amazing - we were far warmer than we'd ever be in an English house, where they seem to build in the mistaken belief that the UK is a tropical country. But the electric systems were shocking, if you'll forgive the pun.

We live in a fairly built up area - a relatively busy suburb of Boston, but we still don't have a sewerage system, the house has a septic tank. The town tried to get people to vote for a sewer, but got voted down because nobody wanted to pay, despite the fact that the water table is in real danger of being corrupted.