SCIENCE! 1946 style
The commentator could teach me anything with that voice and I'd believe him. From now on I'm going to pronounce 'power' like he does.
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TheSundaeLunch I'm a fucking shrub, alright?, Sun 21 Dec 2014, 12:35,
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Too much info!
They should have broken it down to six episodes, each an hour long, with enough time for long shots of a presenter in the middle of a vast desert or next to the biggest steam punk contraption in the US of A. Otherwise it's really hard to follow, especially without orchestral music.
4K ultra HD phar!
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Mudface The web isn't callipygian, Sun 21 Dec 2014, 13:56,
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Lovly stuff
my next door neighbor used to build sturbines and fit them all around the world in power stations.
told me about some of the injurys that he has seen from high pressure steam, not nice stuff
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fluffybunnykiller Is feasting on the clitoris of life, Sun 21 Dec 2014, 16:54,
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We had that in class...
To paraphrase the teacher:
"...Super heated steam is a bitch: a leak less than 1mm can be highly
dangerous and invisible. You know you found a leak when some of your
fingers, or your hand, drops on your foot.
The cut is so perfect that you body part will hit the ground before
you register pain.
Bigger leaks, 1cm maybe, can cut people in two when they walk past them.
That's why, when you have a leak on on superheated part of your
boiler system, first shut down, then cool down and open the valves
before looking for the leak..."
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I've met old engineers who worked on steam ships.
The practice was to carry a rag on a stick in front of you, when that got cut in half you knew where the leak was.
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