[QUOTE=download;46546603]There is only one place asbestos is still legal to use in Australia and that is in building fireproofing. It has to be bonded inside doors or with other compounds however to stop the dust.[/QUOTE]
why not just use glass or stone wool? who in the right mind would still use that shit
Because glass wool can only withstand about 250C and stone wool about 600C, while Asbestos is rated to around 1000C.
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I seem to be having trouble finding a source for it still being legal in fire doors.
[QUOTE=Pilotguy97;46546262]Brain surgery folks!
[URL=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ji7fohBEPnM]Linked because of open skull in thumbnail, though.[/URL][/QUOTE]
It disturbs me immensely to think that the part where every aspect of a person, memories, personality and all is stored can be cut open and operated on. It just seems so infinitely valuable and vital that crude scissors and knifes should have no business cutting around there. Kinda like trying to fix a running HDD. You can only hope that the surgeon does his job extremely well
[QUOTE=H4ngman;46547565]It disturbs me immensely to think that the part where every aspect of a person, memories, personality and all is stored can be cut open and operated on. It just seems so infinitely valuable and vital that crude scissors and knifes should have no business cutting around there. Kinda like trying to fix a running HDD. You can only hope that the surgeon does his job extremely well[/QUOTE]
How about I make that more disturbing? There's more than a few operations on the brain where you have to stay awake while they're working so that they instantly know when they're touching the wrong things. So while the guy is talking etc, his skull is open and they're operating on his brain.
[QUOTE=Pilotguy97;46546262]Brain surgery folks!
[URL=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ji7fohBEPnM]Linked because of open skull in thumbnail, though.[/URL][/QUOTE]
The classical music both fits and totally doesn't.
[QUOTE=download;46547542]Because glass wool can only withstand about 250C and stone wool about 600C, while Asbestos is rated to around 1000C.
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I seem to be having trouble finding a source for it still being legal in fire doors.[/QUOTE]
250-600 is what they're regulated to withstand. but they can actually withstand much more. it also depends on what you need it for. from little to middle fire resitance you can safely use mineral wool. higher fireproofing could be ceramic wool or just slates.
[QUOTE=BuffaloBill;46547620]How about I make that more disturbing? There's more than a few operations on the brain where you have to stay awake while they're working so that they instantly know when they're touching the wrong things. So while the guy is talking etc, his skull is open and they're operating on his brain.[/QUOTE]
I guess what baffles me the most is that we only have a relatively rudimentary understanding of the structure of the brain, compared to its complexity and importance. Sure, we can tell where blood vessels are located, where information from sensory receptors is received and where basic functions such as vital systems or motor functions are controlled, but as far as the architectural distribution of abstract things such as personality and individual memory by relevance is concerned, scientific knowledge is completely vague. Even the elementary school rule about the roles of the left and the right half of the brain is heavily debated. For a brain surgeon there's pretty much just big 'DONT FUCK WITH THAT BIT OR BAD' zones you have to avoid when trying to reach areas relevant to surgery.
I became interested in the whole thing after a very close friend of mine had a stroke. He is a very inteligent, well read man in retirement who has always been interested in human life, from society, history and politics all the way down to the psychology of the individual person.
He can't even describe what has happened, only comparing it to a forest fire going off inside his head. It's hard to put a finger on it, sure, he has lost motor control and other 'mechanical' functions but his personality was also not unaffected and that's what disturbs me the most. For all the time we spend with the unique experience of our life, all the things we understand and learn, every memory and emotion and the person that is shaped by all this gathered and processed information, this most intimate and valuable thing that is the person we are - it is still contained in a physical storage medium that is not immune to data corruption. Your own body can feel like a prison sometimes, I have recently had to have a brain scan due to a suspected anomaly. Just the thought that everything that I am could become twisted and corrupted by physical damage is just scary beyond belief. Even the mere concept that my every thought, the very perspective I view all life from is constrained to a physical thing is a real mind-bender. Its abstract questions that can neither be answered by science, nor by spirituality. Maybe we will find a new perspective on the subject some day, maybe there's unimaginable truths we have yet to learn but in the meantime, I guess I'll just try to make the best of this one life, being a positive influence to the people around me and myself. Death will come soon enough and if there's answers in death I'll learn them as sure as death itself
[QUOTE=kaine123;46544836]That is some damn nice recoloring, you really oughtta do another one.[/QUOTE]
Made another one. Didn't turn out as well as the previous one, but that one was just a modern-day photo that had been made black and white.
[t]http://i.cubeupload.com/yzfqpg.jpg[/t]
Edited it slightly, the M4/M4A3 didn't fit the image very well, but now it does (imo at least)
[img]https://33.media.tumblr.com/a8971b88f79bdde2155d3d3fad73239c/tumblr_nb8uom5HSZ1qivon6o1_1280.jpg[/img]
A medic gives mouth to mouth to a wounded comrade while waiting for helicopter extraction. Vietnam, 1967.
Its so weird to see their young faces in such horrible situations. Many of those lads were younger than me now and I sure as hell don't want any mouth to mouth on a dying friend experience in my life
[img]http://giant.gfycat.com/VioletJauntyHorseshoecrab.gif[/img]
[url=https://gfycat.com/VioletJauntyHorseshoecrab#]With more FPS[/url]
Wonder how many trucks they wrecked trying to get a good shot on that, doesn't look like the truck can do that twice.
[img]http://i.imgur.com/1FwzOP0.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=H4ngman;46554796]Its so weird to see their young faces in such horrible situations. Many of those lads were younger than me now and I sure as hell don't want any mouth to mouth on a dying friend experience in my life[/QUOTE]
Picture always sticks in my mind when I think about young people and war
[IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c0/Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-1977-143-25%2C_Frankreich%2C_SS-Grenadier.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://timelifeblog.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/02_00588189.jpg?w=619[/IMG]
U.S. troops reading an article about the Detroit Race Riots
Newly processed photo of Europa, taken almost 20 years ago
[t]http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA19048.jpg[/t]
[QUOTE=Scot;46569258]Newly processed photo of Europa, taken almost 20 years ago
[t]http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA19048.jpg[/t][/QUOTE]
What are those brown veiny things on its surface?
[QUOTE=Scot;46569258]Newly processed photo of Europa, taken almost 20 years ago
[t]http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA19048.jpg[/t][/QUOTE]
Funny. I just finished reading 2061 a few hours ago.
[QUOTE=arbio22;46569529]What are those brown veiny things on its surface?[/QUOTE]
Taken from Wikipedia for this image
[img_thumb]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/54/Europa-moon.jpg[/img_thumb]
[quote] Europa's trailing hemisphere in approximate natural color. The prominent crater in the lower right is Pwyll and the darker regions are areas where Europa's primarily water ice surface has a higher mineral content [/quote]
[QUOTE=arbio22;46569529]What are those brown veiny things on its surface?[/QUOTE]
It's actually a giant eyeball, it's just facing away from the camera.
The idea of a giant planet-organism is so cool.
a letter enclosed in lego sets from the 1970's telling parents it's okay if boys want to play with dollhouses or if girls want to play with spaceships
[IMG]http://geekologie.com/2014/11/25/70s-lego-note.jpg[/IMG]
[QUOTE=Scot;46569258]Newly processed photo of Europa, taken almost 20 years ago
[t]http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA19048.jpg[/t][/QUOTE]
Don't let MenteR see this, he apparently has a horrible irrational fear of planets.
[quote] horrible irrational fear of planets. [/quote]
I don't even want to know what caused that fear.
[t]http://i.imgur.com/hBTNeKU.jpg[/t]
Shell-shocked US Marine, Vietnam, Hue, 1968
[t]http://media.npr.org/assets/img/2014/11/25/ap762329691737_wide-522ee5c5101b76561979fe5ca0ed782a1330d6ee.jpg[/t]
Police gather on the street as protesters react after the announcement of the grand jury decision in Ferguson, Mo.
[t]http://i.imgur.com/b08jXjh.jpg[/t]
Alexandra enjoys her new hair after receiving a wig after an operation to remove a brain tumour
[t]http://i.imgur.com/D1dcL7u.jpg[/t]
Dutchman Guido Verbeck surrounded by Samurai in the year 1868
[t]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/67/NEW_JERSEY_FLATS_NEAR_HOBOKEN,_WITH_THE_STATUE_OF_LIBERTY_IN_BACKGROUND_(LEFT)_-_NARA_-_554350.jpg[/t]
The Statue of Liberty as seen from Jersey City in 1973
[t]http://i.imgur.com/xuqJjRj.jpg[/t]
Roof Koreans | Two Korean men stand on the roof of a grocery store with rifles to prevent looters from entering the store. LA riots, April 30th, 1992.
[B]NSFW[/B] [url]http://i.imgur.com/IWNhSXu.jpg[/url] [B]NSFW[/B]
7-year-old Nermin Divovic lies mortally wounded in a pool of blood as U.N. firefighters arrive to assist after he was shot in the head along Sarajevo's notorious Sniper Alley. The boy died outright. November 18, 1994
[QUOTE=PC_Paul;46576464]
[B]NSFW[/B] [url]http://i.imgur.com/IWNhSXu.jpg[/url] [B]NSFW[/B]
7-year-old Nermin Divovic lies mortally wounded in a pool of blood as U.N. firefighters arrive to assist after he was shot in the head along Sarajevo's notorious Sniper Alley. The boy died outright. November 18, 1994[/QUOTE]
This one is just too fucked up, especially since I know a girl who's family had to flee Bosnia because of this shit. Fucking Serbians.
Those UN guys are either balls as hell or moronically stupid to go up against a sniper with a revolver.
I always loved the term "Roof Koreans".
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