The Dirty Secrets of Your TradeSo, Television is a hot bed of lies, deceit and made up competitions. We can't say that we are that surprised... every job is full of this stuff. It's not like the newspapers currently kicking TV whilst it is down are all that innocent.
We'd like you to even things out a bit. Spill the beans on your own trade. Tell us the dirty secrets that the public need to know.
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chthonic, Thu 27 Sep 2007, 10:31)
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The highbrow world of academia?I've been in research in academia for a while now and I know most of the people I work with are supposed to be 'experts' in their field, but some of the stuff that goes on...
Like arming a laser from the control room when people are still moving pieces of equipment around and watching them sh*t themselves on CCTV. Doing this repeatedly until the warning lights and klaxons no longer hold the same threat. All funny until someone drops the trigger and they get a lethal radiation dose. THankfully nobody did though.
Or 10 tonne detectors... on fire. Not really 'on' fire but one of the inner layers of the (spherical) detector used a flammable gas and this got ignited. Same place, high power electron beam being steered into several tonne magnets. It melted some massive holes in them and turned them from magnets back into the huge pile of ex-battleship steel that they were.
And the usual stuff about things getting thrown around in high magnetic fields. Trash cans, floor buffers and gas cannisters of combustible gas.
Still, in just under 2 years time I'll be qualified to do it all myself.
Length, 7 years as a student, and still counting.
(, Thu 27 Sep 2007, 13:41, Reply)
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